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emotional life. Frequently, you neglect physical and mental movement. But much more frequently, it is the emotional 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
But much more frequently, it is the emotional movement that you neglect. And even your neglect of 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
And even your neglect of physical and mental movement is only too often due to emotional stagnation 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
stagnation. The effort to increase consciousness is itself movement. On the other hand, movement without consciousness -- 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
consciousness is itself movement. On the other hand, movement without consciousness -- or a limited degree of 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
limited degree of consciousness -- hinders the harmonious movement of all personality levels. If, for example, movement 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
movement of all personality levels. If, for example, movement and consciousness are directed exclusively toward outer matters 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
when the emotional level is not infiltrated with movement and consciousness. Blind emotions of which one is 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
of consciousness on the emotional level. When the movement of searching, thinking, discriminating, evaluating is not directed 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
is not directed to hidden emotional areas, the movement of the emotions is off balance -- in 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
the more harmonious must be the interplay between movement and consciousness. Shallowness is lack of experience. When 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
to correct evaluation and realistic perception, and free-flowing movement unhampered by fears, inhibitions, and paralysis. In short 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
of bliss results from the harmonious blending of movement, consciousness, and experience. Experience contains the pleasure principle 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
because consciousness does not penetrate the hidden layers. Movement, which should direct the search for pleasure, is 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
it wrong or sinful -- because consciousness and movement are as yet hindered. Thus, in the child's 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
proceeds naturally, as I said before, the outreaching movement induces the entity to direct the pleasure drive 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
sex. As discussed in a previous lecture, this movement necessitates the integration of love, eros and sexuality 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
is a consequence of the equal development of movement, consciousness, and the ability to experience. The integration 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
to truly reach out. Fixation implies lack of movement, and therefore lack of growth. It implies lack 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
proper understanding could be applied, so that the movement of the life force could dissolve the fixation 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
for which the individual is potentially ready. Where movement, consciousness, and experience function harmoniously, the individual is 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
To begin establishing this benign cycle of interflowing movement between the masculine and the feminine principles, you 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
a harsh, disharmonious, rocky, shrinking or rejecting soul movement that leads to greater blindness, error, and half-truths 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
In this giving up lies the necessary soul movement for being in contact with the life force 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
in contact with the life force. The soul movement is of crucial importance. In it lies the 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
a byproduct of truth. In a disharmonious soul movement contact with the life force is impossible. Soul 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
and eventually lose it less often. The spiral movement experienced in other phases of the path happens 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
stagnation; calm prevails where frantic unrest created excessive movement. I should now like to give a simple 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
this path to comprehend the principle or soul movement which combines control and letting go. Where truth 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
already attained the realization that effort is bliss, movement is no chore but happiness itself; such people 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
this stage effort becomes effortless. It is joyful movement in beautiful rhythm. It spreads more joy, fulfillment 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
ceases to feel like effort. It becomes perfect movement, swinging on and on into constructive further unfoldment 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
case, you no longer feel effort, but feel movement and you enjoy it. Then you are truly 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
self-unfoldment and self-expression. Effortless effort should become the movement of this path itself. Now, are there any 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
diverted and temporarily appears as a destructive downward movement. This does not mean that another, evil power 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
way. From a spiritual viewpoint, time, space, and movement are all expressions of particular states of consciousness 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
as a free person. It is this soul movement that makes all the difference. The soul condition 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
intercourse between the volitional impressing and the soul movement that expresses from deep within, you will find 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
Activity and passivity blend as one harmonious cosmic movement. QUESTION: Where I am unable to let go 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
133. LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF Greetings, my dearest friends 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
a commandment. It is a free, spontaneous soul movement. The more people try to love as if 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
direction and find, again and again, the inner movement in you which flows naturally. It is your 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
you which flows naturally. It is your soul movement of love and truth which leads to all 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
the particular method and rhythm of this cosmic movement. If you truly understand this, you do indeed 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
have another key to your life. This cosmic movement, permeating everything that is, is a mixture of 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
that is stagnating passivity, as opposed to a movement that is a tense, anxious, grabbing, striving effort 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
primary misconception distorts the harmonious rhythm of cosmic movement. You will experience this truth even more dynamically 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
psychic forces, you will find this distortion of movement where you stagnate because non-movement seems so tempting 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
effortless state that the soul longs for. Or movement seems so necessary because you don't want to 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
guilt whips you into a striving, overly tense movement. You may not even be able to put 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
your relationship to life and to yourself, the movement begins to harmonize with the great cosmic flow 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
the soul forces. The expression of the cosmic movement within the psyche will then attach itself to 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
beautiful motion. When you establish the same cosmic movement within your own psyche, you are in harmony 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
the simple common denominator of this basic split movement. When you see this, you will find it 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
something must begin to happen. A great inner movement takes place which you have no reason to 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
the greater the danger that this false inner movement will become unbearable in its tightness until the 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
happiness, more inclusion. You do not stop this movement with your fearful mind, holding it in check 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
A again becomes convinced that the healthy soul movement toward union was risky and painful and so 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
and with that it sets up a positive movement, which then begets a positive self-perpetuating cycle. If 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
anxious holding on but through a harmonious, effortless movement which increases awareness of the power each individual 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
and relaxing its tight hold, the very soul movement that leads to the real self. This is 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
ensuing inner battle gives you the cramped inner movement that debilitates you. It paralyzes your free-flowing energies 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
means living. The moment you go through this movement of opening up and have the courage to 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
the growth process is very problematic. Growth is movement in time and space; therefore, growth on the 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
its opposite. In ever-changing rhythm, the cyclic, eternal movement of growth must inevitably approach its opposite. It 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
opposite. The status quo, stagnation, creates agitation, or movement in the distorted sense. As long as growth 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
can show how you stop the natural cosmic movement of which you are an integral part and 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
are entirely different. Dualistic growth is a cyclic movement, with an upward curve, a peak, and a 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
old state. Stemming against the organic and desirable movement, you prolong the painful, transitional period -- painful 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
reconciles construction with destruction and makes them one movement, instead of two warring opposites. Hence you will 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
responsive? The call of life is a dynamic movement that can be also felt as a stream 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
to change. Hence, moralizing is a tortured inner movement; recognizing the fault in question is unbearably painful 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
your personality is geared to a positive soul movement, there will be no obstruction to transforming a 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
every single individual. Try to perform this inner movement by letting yourself stream forth in complete affirmation 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
instead of the old negation. When this inner movement can take place, when you move toward the 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
be passive qualities. In healthy relaxation the outgoing movement of action is unstrained and has the rhythm 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
the state of being -- the action of movement exists in the rhythm of the universe, the 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
not invigorate; only life does. Life must be movement, as I have said so many times. In 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
times. In distortion and duality, activity appears as movement, passivity as nonmovement. Activity appears to exert strain 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
By this time you have little invigorating life movement and action left. Anyone who has tasted such 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
consolidate all difficulties into one simple unifying inner movement. Without your real self it is not possible 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
In your illusory vision of time, space, and movement, the life center seems to be located deep 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
defense must exclude all attitudes of openness, inclusion, movement toward the other -- that is, love. When 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
the other -- that is, love. When this movement is lacking, stagnation, stasis and nonlife ensue -- 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
nature, but another side shrinks back from this movement. Deprivation, emptiness, meaninglessness, and a sense of waste 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
by putting you in harmony with the cosmic movement within your psyche. Later, the thing you want 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
very cursory way. It is a specific soul movement, an emotional climate that I wish to describe 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
a result of a deliberate intensification of soul movement. This is a very subtle process that becomes 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
how frantic the artificial movements may be. The movement is an outer struggle. The intenseness of the 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
life and toward others. It is this outgoing movement people are so afraid of. You hold back 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
its deepest and highest sense. It is eternal movement and pleasure supreme. Since it is life, it 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
is eternally moving. When you find that the movement is safe because it carries you, you have 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
move. Therefore pulsation and breathing are interrelated. The movement of life is contained in both. The movement 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
movement of life is contained in both. The movement is involuntary and occurs in rhythmic intervals, provided 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
time. From the three-dimensionally oriented observation, the rhythmic movement is regular in intervals and the pulsebeat can 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
dimension, such may be a lawful, regular, harmonious movement. The rhythmic nature of consciousness is meaningful within 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
and those aspects of consciousness which each particular movement expresses and signifies. In other words, the pulsation 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
static principle mean in terms of the pulsating movement of consciousness. The movement of expansion expresses reaching 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
terms of the pulsating movement of consciousness. The movement of expansion expresses reaching out; the restricting movement 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
movement of expansion expresses reaching out; the restricting movement means bringing or gathering into the organism; the 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
bringing or gathering into the organism; the static movement means assimilation of both and the transition from 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the disturbed organism, distorted by misconceptions, the expanding movement appears fraught with danger. Misconception must always lead 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
it should pleasurably expand. When the natural contracting movement is supposed to set in, in rhythmic change 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
hardened, and so exaggeratedly contracted that pulsating life movement becomes impossible. All outer, or apparently outer, experience 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
from it. The organism cramps up in a movement of fear, away from that which seems alien 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
for example. I discussed the phenomenon of soul movement again and again. Unfortunately, most people are not 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
fill you with a wonderful, subtle, but distinct movement that is vibrant and pleasurable. You can feel 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
that way, the threat soon vanishes. The restricting movement does not cramp up and congest. It remains 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
and congest. It remains organic. During the inward movement the consciousness, on its deepest levels, corrects the 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
what appears at first as pain, the ingathering movement may briefly intensify the pain. But soon, if 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Observe the automatic reflex reaction in your soul movement, how it automatically tenses up. By remaining open 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
alive and growing. When the restricting, tense, congested movement pulls in automatically where it should remain vibrantly 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
you. Therefore, whenever you detect the shrinking back movement of your soul currents, you know that on 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
you notice the shrinking back of the restricting movement, try to remain open. Let the inner movements 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
restriction, and static movements uninterfered. The natural restricting movement will open up by itself. It will carry 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
you quite naturally into the next organic expanding movement. You will distinctly experience how what was painful 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
with peace, well-being, safety, and pleasure. Each outgoing movement will increase this positive condition. Let it happen 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
against fearful experience, but allow your innermost soul movement to continue to pulsate into the experience you 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
you do not stop the flow. The flowing movement is so beautiful that it cannot be adequately 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
because the immense pleasure of following the natural movement will fill your being. The pleasure of giving 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
and receiving, of the constant turnover, the constant movement that takes place in the life process. Now 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
yourself into inactivity, into holding back, into non- movement toward the world, toward girls, toward your own 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
trust and courage to surrender to an inner movement that is not responsive to the outer thinking 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
become tired. They become tired because every soul movement based on misconceptions is exhausting by its very 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
is growth, and growth is a continuum of movement that goes in a fluctuating line. Each down 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
go up again. There can be no upward movement unless there is first a downward one. Thus 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
as a result of illusory dualism. The down movement -- death -- represents one side of the 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
represents one side of the dualism, the upward movement -- life -- the other. Conciliation takes place 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
down curve. Struggle against the perpetual change in movement only worsens the subjective experience. However, the fight 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
The identical law applies to inner growth and movement. The new life, the new beginning of a 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
expansion can come unless it follows the downward movement of the spirit. Translated, this means dipping into 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
and must therefore be dug out. The identical movement exists in breathing, as I explained before. This 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
thus delay the coming through into the upper movement of your spiritual breathing and growing. You will 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
your movements are, the less strenuous moving is. Movement becomes effortless and self-perpetuating. A very secure and 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
yourself to float on other forces. The floating movement, the sensation of being carried by life, is 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
Thus they are both the same in soul movement. How is deep pleasure possible in such a 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
resilience that springs from the pulsation and rhythmic movement of tension and relaxation. This kind of tension 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
healthy version is full of life and inner movement, poised in the confidence that natural action comes 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
its life. For wherever life is, the rhythmic movement of the two forces must exist. Conversely, the 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY

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