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| You need to confront a problem instead of avoiding it like an ostrich that buries its head | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| least resistance. When people live their whole lives avoiding decisions, reactions and chain reactions will ensue. A | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| these words, should contemplate them well. Understand that avoiding decisions will cause great harm, not only in | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| about this when you are not entirely happy; avoiding a task with a person of lower development | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| know whether to do such and such, thus avoiding the work of self-knowledge on your part. There | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| understand because your unconscious is so convinced that avoiding certain actions and reactions will protect you against | 38 IMAGES |
| -- and this is the only healthy way, avoiding both masochism and cringing revolt -- will pain | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| reach that state. You cannot attain pleasure by avoiding pain, but you certainly can by going through | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| knowing at all times where one stands, and avoiding the emotions, which leave one at sea. The | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| makes one believe one can go through life avoiding its negative aspects. If you are so much | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| learning from my possible mistakes. In reality, by avoiding decisions I would only try to get out | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is often also sought with the aim of avoiding certain human difficulties that other, less privileged people | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unreality you may believe it does, simply by avoiding looking for what you feel guilty about. If | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| he face up to reality or is he avoiding it? ANSWER: In general, an ascetic tries to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| self-image is supposed to be a means of avoiding unhappiness. Since unhappiness automatically robs the child of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| truly become more objective. True serenity is not avoiding experience and emotions which may be painful at | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| same self-deception you want to uncover instead of avoiding. This should be one of the near goals | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| maintain and safeguard life. It is concerned with avoiding danger and securing safety. In a state of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| not accepting death with a wishful-thinking spirituality, by avoiding your fears and doubts; not by using religion | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| capacity for happiness and pleasure while not really avoiding the dreaded unhappiness in the long run. The | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| through error? You can never gain truth by avoiding error. It strengthens your mental faculties, your logic | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| next step will be the strict observation of avoiding unnecessary cruelty. This step cannot be skipped by | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a shortcut. They are not the result of avoiding life and still desiring development and progress. Many | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are truly in the midst of life, not avoiding its lessons even if they cannot, or will | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of love you are now capable of? By avoiding it, you do not grow out of it | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| relating and coping with certain types of people, avoiding them will not remove the problem, because the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| heed all discomforts as warning signals, rather than avoiding them. Avoiding discomfort proves that you are still | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| discomforts as warning signals, rather than avoiding them. Avoiding discomfort proves that you are still convinced that | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| from the infant's struggle between attaining pleasure and avoiding pain. The infant's fusing of pain and pleasure | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| at yourself, you would see that you are avoiding certain outer and inner situations and why you | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| that you want to continue deceiving yourself by avoiding these aspects. You may vaguely feel something like | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| you often find yourself in the position of avoiding activity out of the fear that you may | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| ways. One can generalize about the truth while avoiding specific truths about oneself. This is how a | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| hopes to avoid and refuse it -- thereby avoiding and refusing itself. This causes a hard, bitter | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| capacity to find genuine and meaningful ways of avoiding unnecessary feared events. Make a list of fears | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| from the cramped intensity in either grasping or avoiding. One grasps because one fears not getting, and | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| new spiritual life, so is the result of avoiding the feared area disastrous; it paralyzes your best | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| you, you will suddenly see different ways of avoiding abandonment. A new initiative will reveal itself to | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| the hopelessness could stop only by no longer avoiding the necessary change. Every negative experience, every pain | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| willing, ego-self. Resistance is partly an expression of avoiding the frustration of wanting something that cannot be | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| on harboring them because you delude yourself that avoiding the feelings will hurt you less than exposing | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the feelings you think you can go on avoiding without blocking your very life. Thus laziness is | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| this regard. It is better to go on avoiding the jump into the abyss and knowing that | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| by going through what you fear, never by avoiding it. When fear of your feelings induces you | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| over and over to the past you keep avoiding. Anyone of you who truly decides to go | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| that you can eliminate any undesirable feelings by avoiding them, and it creates the false hopelessness that | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| the degree the personality has a stake in avoiding aspects of the self. To the degree the | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| of forsaking will wipe out the guilt for avoiding purification of the soul. I would like to | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| your life. You delude yourself into believing that avoiding does not matter, that you will be unaffected | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| that are inconvenient. The price you pay for avoiding is literally insanity. However, if you confront what | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| second phase: rebellion against the group, resenting it, avoiding it. You find that part in you, too | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the easy way of not taking responsibility and avoiding the often necessary search that must precede true | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| wall that you fear and wish to avoid. Avoiding it prevents your ever-flowing movement of life from | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| longing for health, for happiness, for abundance, for avoiding physical death as long as possible. Obviously, every | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Is it not an excuse for staying inert, avoiding effort and risk? Only when you are very | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| these doors is exactly the problem of still avoiding full self-responsibility, autonomy, accountability. Your freedom is directly | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
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| life as it is. Positive thinking, when abused, avoids facing that which is now. It can be | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| be that much greater. Therefore the child unconsciously avoids happiness, thinking to atone in this way and | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you to avoid stagnation in your concepts. It avoids clinging to ready-made words which have by repetition | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life and pleasure, when one consciously or unconsciously avoids facing and meeting death and suffering, the escape | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| grasps because one fears not getting, and one avoids because one fears getting. Thus they are both | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| that when one no longer fights, struggles against, avoids and fears the pain, it becomes increasingly less | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| matter until it finds a breaking point. It avoids the many vicious circles within the human psyche | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| them into yourself in a self-devastating way, which avoids the issue just as much as when you | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| to face one day what the personality frantically avoids facing now. There is wishful thinking in believing | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| pride and dignity. By surrendering to God, one avoids one of the greatest pitfalls of humankind, which | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| country's economics. It is clear that the government avoids temporary exposure by frantically pretending, coasting along, trying | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| if the secret is disclosed. Keeping secrets also avoids the effort and responsibility of finding an equitable | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Await.......................6 | |
| and fate and unalterable circumstances. Then you helplessly await fate's favor, and if it fails to come | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| is necessary to entrust yourself to it and await what comes. It is not a giving up | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| take on a further task that would ordinarily await a new embodiment, after the person has spent | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| season. Much expansion, excitement, fulfillment and many challenges await you. Even the unavoidable hardships must ultimately become | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| begins, to temporarily abdicate full consciousness and to await it to slowly reawaken by stages. This seems | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| uncover layers of the soul that would ordinarily await a future embodiment. In this ever-increasing acceleration of | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Awaiting....................4 | |
| heal it. This wonderfully fulfilling task is still awaiting you. God directs it in such a marvelous | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| they may be worthy of the great fulfillment awaiting them. Some of you who think you come | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| quality extremely necessary for the leadership that is awaiting many of you is the ability to be | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| able to appreciate all the wonderful new experiences awaiting you. You are too cramped up in blindness | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |