| Longings....................22 | |
| has ample material for self-search. Whoever has such longings should know that his or her unconscious emotional | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| I understand how the fallen spirits, through their longings, created for themselves the earth. But I do | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the origin of the difficulties, the sorrows, the longings, the unfulfillments of your life. And this you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| yourself the luxury of facing your desires, unfulfillments, longings, your complaints against life or fate or others | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you can express your real sorrows, needs, worries, longings, wishes? Very few, if any. To the degree | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| vague, general acknowledgement. The full intensity of partly-repressed longings and frustrations must be aired out. The third | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| when you first admit to yourself the unfulfilled longings, your discontent, your hurts and fears, your real | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| in the negative there are always conflicts, contrary longings and will directions that weaken the force. In | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| are in fact secretly unwilling to share, your longings must remain unfulfilled. People would be well advised | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| would be well advised to consider their unfulfilled longings from this point of view, rather than indulging | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| for. You dull your senses, your feelings, your longings. When we started our work together many years | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| life, your suffering, your frustration, and your unfulfilled longings. All levels must be dealt with by looking | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| an inner longing that goes deeper than the longings for emotional and creative fulfillment, although these are | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| you are also confused about your own desires, longings and goals. This confusion only adds to your | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| and repressed. It then becomes transformed into subsidiary longings, such as longing for health, for happiness, for | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| long as possible. Obviously, every one of these longings is most legitimate. Do not infer from my | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| eliminate them. Quite the contrary is true. These longings are most legitimate. However, there is an enormous | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| ways, such as the conscious, subsidiary but legitimate longings I mentioned before, or in displaced longings -- | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| legitimate longings I mentioned before, or in displaced longings -- longings for false, unreal fulfillments. The longing | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| I mentioned before, or in displaced longings -- longings for false, unreal fulfillments. The longing may also | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| or sound. Thinking of your desires and surface longings, your emphasis in prayer may be on outer | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| even though in themselves quite legitimate fears and longings. Have the courage and commitment to go deeply | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Longs.......................24 | |
| your spirit demands and which your higher self longs for. The rest will come by itself. But | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| and know what it is in you that longs for this experience and what is your true | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| still exists. On the one hand, the child longs for the love of the parent, on the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to enable her to express it herself. Everyone longs for true fusion and unity of souls; some | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| negation of the very thing for which one longs most deeply. Humanity longs for bliss and eternal | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| thing for which one longs most deeply. Humanity longs for bliss and eternal life, but many who | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| person cannot experience what his or her soul longs for. Nevertheless, this is not as negative a | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| omnipotence, pleasure supreme, and the ease the spirit longs for, a state where hardship does not exist | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| to be the effortless state that the soul longs for. Or movement seems so necessary because you | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| with the universe. The fact that humanity constantly longs for this oneness -- whether or not you | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| what one consciously desires, wishes, wants, wills, intends, longs for. The person is convinced that their lack | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| your actual state, that your whole inner being longs for something desperately. Therefore a third layer has | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| serene state of being which every soul unconsciously longs for is not cautious passivity which must avoid | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| order to have what a part of you longs for and another part of you negates. But | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and superficial representation of what the soul really longs for but is too blind to understand and | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| other person. The fulfillment and bliss your soul longs for can only be satisfied through fusion with | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| the fulfillment and bliss that every created being longs for is possible to the degree that a | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| countermovement in you. One movement embraces life and longs for the divine. But the countermovement denies all | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| what you long for, what every human being longs for and should indeed experience, you simultaneously speak | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| which you cannot experience the fulfillment your soul longs for. You are then caught in an involuntary | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| prevent the movement that another part of you longs for; you make it absolutely impossible. You do | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| that the personality first unconsciously, and finally consciously, longs for. When this longing is unfulfilled, the separation | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| self often opposes most vigorously, your inner self longs for most ardently. When the outer self succeeds | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| world because the soul deeply knows it and longs to return to it. Thus painters, musicians, poets | 254 SURRENDER |
| Long-term...................3 | |
| The perfection of the law is that the long-term remedy is an effect of these very violations | 38 IMAGES |
| consists of dieable matter, is a result of long-term errors of perception. Conversely, to the extent the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| sustained, can feelings expand and contact blossom in long-term relationships. So you can see, my friends, that | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| Looked......................35 | |
| them. For as long as one has not looked at these currents in the light of one's | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| and show you major problems that can be looked at and worked with. When you progress further | 36 PRAYER |
| any false security ever could. Whether you have looked for this false security in your relationships with | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| finding their meaning, facing all that you have looked away from. The more you learn self-honesty, the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| my friends, that both alternatives are to be looked for, even if one appears stronger to begin | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| a virtue out of something that should be looked into and considered a sickness. If a young | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| develops those qualities in him which are generally looked upon as being feminine, he will become more | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| develops those qualities in her which are generally looked upon as being masculine, she will become more | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| its significance, is not really new. You merely looked away but it was always there. It was | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| it is a combination. Certain aspects are unconsciously looked for and found and they are actually similar | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| longing for it. Then a shortcut substitute is looked for in such substances. QUESTION: We are surrounded | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| This has been discussed in previous lectures and looked at in our work. If the entirety of | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| standards, ignoring the fact that if only you looked at yourself as you really are, you would | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| I wish to discuss is something we have looked at only in a fleeting way so far | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| to link several points that we had previously looked at separately, because you then lacked the inner | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| life circumstances -- all this has to be looked at with a penetrating spirit of truthfulness. When | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| speak of on this path. If God is looked for as a substitute for mature self-responsibility and | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| awareness gained, so that the now can be looked for and seen, the soul movements can be | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| exist, it will remain tame, but if you looked at it, it would act up, forcing you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| of being inadequate, of being rejected, of being looked down upon or not taken seriously. Whether or | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| need. If only you stopped running and really looked at yourself, you would see that you are | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| feel good. If self-realization is arduously forced and looked for, it cannot come. It comes as a | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| Substitute pleasures are then -- often frantically -- looked for, which are hollow and leave you exhausted | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| possibility from which the good way can be looked for, seen, and undertaken. The marvel of the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| many ways. Hidden, easily glossed-over thoughts, when finally looked at, eventually reveal desire for illness, for death | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| power without any threat if these snares were looked at, discovered, and dissolved. It is of utmost | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| to find security -- the security you once looked for in the sustenance given you by others | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| your life, an unreal need has to be looked for. You must find your own insistence that | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| necessary, the many areas that have to be looked into, and the many angles where confusions might | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| feeling is again an illusion, as if you looked through the wrong end of a telescope. You | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| before tended to be lazy and self-indulgent and looked for the line of least resistance and therefore | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| belong to the Jewish community and faith. Jews looked down on pagans as inferior. They saw themselves | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| ends. Even worse, this pollution and displacement was looked upon as if it were morally desirable. Whenever | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| new-age marriage. Fleeting sexual encounters should not be looked upon as the final state of liberation. They | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| majority of humans have, for the longest time, looked for God up in heaven. When Jesus Christ | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |