| it and thereby reconvert it to its original nature of bliss. It always seems to require such | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| misconceptions. They determine the depth and scope and nature of your experiences in life, the degree of | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| begin with; these guards have become such second nature that you do not even realize that they | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| require an unguardedness that trusts the spontaneous inner nature. Love forces can remain alive only when the | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| living. Without the cooperation of the spontaneous inner nature life becomes impoverished. But the acceptance of this | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| -- as abundantly and generously as all of nature does! This applies on the most outer material | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| seek so ardently with one part of your nature but still deny yourself with another part. Perhaps | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| be that way, because this is natural. If nature is not squashed, if good behavior is not | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| consequently more frustrated and more angry -- then nature must manifest in its full beauty. The more | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| further you must alienate yourself from your true nature. As you learn to go through this process | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as long as you ignore that your fundamental nature is so much more wonderful than any ideal | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that you harbored feelings and thoughts of a nature that was less than saintly. If such impulses | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unacceptable impulses, desires and emotions are your true nature, that in these forbidden emotions your true personality | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of ignorance and fear, out of distrust of nature, not out of initial malice, though malice may | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| surrendering to the beneficial forces of your deep nature. Every single human being in this world harbors | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| soul forces toward health and restore their true nature, the following has to happen: let go of | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| is truly the main problem of life. The nature of all these fears is a misunderstanding of | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| of death. One feels and knows one's immortal nature, one is filled with its eternal quality; it | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| be a continuum, for this is its inherent nature. This cannot be explained by the logic the | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| based on misconceptions is exhausting by its very nature. It makes people cramp up in order to | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| standards of real morality, of a far deeper nature than the former kind. One must see where | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| misleading, for the two are not different in nature, essence, or origin. They are the same. As | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| pleasurable. Such pleasure is of an entirely different nature than the pleasure that is opposed to pain | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| ever hate anyone, or believe in the evil nature of certain human beings. You will then see | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| night and day as mutually complementary manifestations of nature, both having their value, beauty, and function. Only | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| come into your own, have realized your divine nature, to that degree you cease to experience life | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| you cannot comprehend the messages of your divine nature. You are disconnected from your vital life center | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| and happiness is not avoided, but its illusory nature is unmasked by going through it. Thus there | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| world is predominantly negative and destructive, its self-perpetuating nature creates highly damaging impulses and compulsions. This is | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| who really want to come into your divine nature, must not confuse spirituality with mere spiritual ideas | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| not wish to experience. It is not the nature of those feelings themselves that creates the heavy | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| while knowing, without self-justification, the irrational and destructive nature of what is flowing out. Do not go | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| of any kind of relationship and determines its nature. It is: perceiving, reacting, and expressing. When this | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| painkiller in itself. If you accept its real nature without denying or aggrandizing it, it will soon | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| brings into the organism the very essence and nature of the creative substance. As I said, it | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| beings long for the fulfillment of their inherent nature, which is this bliss. When the fulfillment seems | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| insistence and rigid upholding of unconscious attitudes whose nature is as yet unexplored. You have the power | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| up within itself. A strong desire of this nature is always behind fear. And when you experience | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| and untrusting. This attitude is incompatible with the nature of the divine center, so that the experience | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| ungenerous. And anything ungenerous is incompatible with the nature of the power you wish to activate. To | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| act expresses self-confidence and knowledge of one's divine nature. The going with the creative forces, the surrender | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| has settled its difficulty with its own destructive nature. People may have to go through a number | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| in your further efforts to find your true nature and thus your happiness as a co-creator in | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| lack with much less difficulty. For the very nature of unhappiness is frustration at not having what | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| who are not yet deeply acquainted with the nature of the human unconscious to comprehend and sense | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| this moment. Any truth of yourself and the nature of creation brings inner security, trust, fearlessness. Ignorance | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Someone who is in truth perceives the benign nature of the universe. He or she is open | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| limitation, which you then assume to be the nature of life -- at least as far as | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Your states of tension have become such second nature that you are no longer aware that your | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| that the outer brain has forgotten its true nature and has lost the contact with the inner | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| a harmonious mind attitude of the most positive nature, until gradually the volitional mind ceases to work | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| you are alive -- represents all life, all nature. One of the earmarks of life is its | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| are bound to change and then your true nature must finally emerge. The knowledge of one's true | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| must finally emerge. The knowledge of one's true nature having to emerge sooner or later changes everything | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| how petty you may now be. Look at nature, at any manifestation of life, and it is | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| artificially, laboriously, and through forcibly contorting your very nature. But since you will not believe this, you | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| my friends, the life that is inherent in nature is also in you. Bare will and intellect | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| of its instincts, the source of its own nature, deep inside the self? Only because you are | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| become indistinguishable in one movement. But if your nature is as yet incapable of allowing the feeling | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| is a kind of rebellion. To understand the nature of consciousness in still greater depth, you need | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| yourself. You become immediately aware of your eternal nature with its infinite power to expand. So you | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| than either your destructive willing or your divine nature with its endless power and wisdom. They are | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| to be hidden. The role becomes like second nature, but it has nothing to do with you | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| truthful reactions will come easily from your real nature, which needs no concealment. When you re-create, formulate | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| the negative that has become so much second nature to you is too great an effort. It | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| it exists. The personality does not know the nature of its own suffering. The self is bound | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| moment of unpleasure must turn into its ultimate nature: pleasure supreme. It is not easy to do | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| to naturalness when the skill suddenly becomes second nature. On the mental level, when you first deal | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| gifts come to the individual who understands the nature of life and acts accordingly. I recapitulate: your | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| unity expresses everything that is compatible with life's nature -- a relaxed, confident, trustful state. This attitude | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| in the negative chain reaction, the limited, bleak nature of life you experience seems the reality, and | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| long, long journey, to the truth of the nature of life; you must see the trick your | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the degree you recognize, accept, and understand the nature of the inner conflict. Exactly the same law | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| in that spirit will you discover the true nature of life, not its distorted manifestations, which come | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| instead. Cruelty, brutality, selfishness -- the truly criminal nature -- can find a certain distorted peace and | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| the truth in yourself and it becomes second nature to want and commit yourself to this truth | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| meaning of crisis? Crisis is an attempt of nature to effect change through the cosmic lawfulness of | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| with its own momentum, always based on the nature of the consciousness that nourishes and directs the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| are anxious, uncertain, and not clear about the nature of your involvement and interaction with them? At | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| story of human life. This is where human nature is caught. The lesson must then be repeated | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| momentary relief is illusion of the most serious nature. It is so because the crisis inevitably comes | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| totally integrating the evil is understanding its original nature and the indwelling possibility that it may manifest | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| realization again and again until it becomes second nature and is no longer forgotten. When you blindly | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you can transform it back to its original nature, thus incorporating it into your whole being. Are | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| human life; and the third deals with the nature and origin of those hindrances which disturb the | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| Only then are you in harmony with the nature of creation, which is all those things. Only | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| you an impractical abstract lecture. According to its nature, each aspect of consciousness has its own characteristics | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you dissolve them. Their basic energy and undistorted nature can become part of the consciousness that you | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that is evil, destructive, and negative in human nature is a result of defending against experiencing painful | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| believe. If you believe in humanity's ultimate spiritual nature, then you have nothing to fear. If you | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| of this underlying doubt and confront its real nature. Having your doubts in the open will, at | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| will, at least, protect you from the illusory nature of your faith in humanity and its spiritual | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| with the conviction that you really believe human nature is ultimately bad, destructive, fearsome, and chaotic, the | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| approach life in all its different facets: art, nature, science. You can do all things, learn everything | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| pain pass slowly or quickly, according to the nature of the experience, and the pain will dissolve | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| fully experienced. The pain dissolves into its original nature, the blissful, peaceful vibrancy of the river of | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| is never a bottomless abyss, for the true nature of life is not darkness -- it is | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| Your unwillingness, in turn, created false needs whose nature and meaning also became concealed. When all this | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| misunderstandings can easily occur. To really understand the nature of this path, it is important to know | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| is important to know to some degree the nature of the human entity you are. What are | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| unified and has not yet realized its ultimate nature expresses these different levels of consciousness and is | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| an intense longing to realize their inherent divine nature, and they forget, while in the body, that | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| experiencing the vital energy flow which is the nature of universal life. This inevitably leads to an | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| automatically deals with the dark side of human nature. This cannot be so. You cannot overcome what | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| self and disregards the dark side of human nature. As you know, meditation can be as varied | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| stake might be. Since it is basic human nature to love, not to hate; to be joyful | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| to despair, so it is also your inherent nature to know the benign presence of the cosmic | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| my birthright to experience absolute abundance, the intrinsic nature of the universe. If I am stuck along | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| only when you know that abundance is the nature of Creation and the will of God. In | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| willing to feel your feelings regardless of their nature, you will know who you are. If you | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the position you now maintain. In its flowing nature it will carry you into new and better | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| material is concerned. The eternal, ultimate, essentially benign nature of creation is most eloquently demonstrated in the | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| until it becomes part of the personality, second nature, so to speak. The ego's task is always | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| ego must adopt attitudes compatible with its original nature. All the tricks of the ego, all the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| to understand this evolutionary process of your feeling nature; it will explain why you are so often | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| so choose. You have to call the divine nature of your innermost nucleus to give you the | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| step of decency activates more of your divine nature. Be this divine nature! 203. INTERPENETRATION OF THE | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| more of your divine nature. Be this divine nature! 203. INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| moved ahead in a diminished form. All of nature, with its various life forms, is part of | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| into the vacuum, filling it with your real nature. When you meditate deeply, you will be able | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| personality levels must align with the spirit's innate nature: movement. You move your body so that the | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| peaceful, their energy must create according to their nature. Thoughts and opinions create feelings, and both of | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| may perceive what appears as chaos also in nature, for some natural phenomena are apparently destructive. Yet | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| the underlying attitude which, in turn, determines the nature of the soul currents. Creative receptivity arises out | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| of your selfishness. All these possibilities determine the nature of your movement, the nature of how you | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| possibilities determine the nature of your movement, the nature of how you desire, and the nature of | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| the nature of how you desire, and the nature of how you approach painful experience. Your approach | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| of your development, turn inward to detect the nature of your soul movements. Determine what they mean | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| all ways. You may experience pain, but the nature of the pain is very different from the | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| person. The absence of bliss indicates the illusory nature of the search, it reveals instead the willful | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| attitudes and all aspects of one's most hidden nature must manifest. Unfortunately, human beings are extremely blind | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| does it reveal to you about your non-sexual nature, about your person, your attitudes, and so on | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| where and how does it reveal your purified nature? When you and your partner are not fusing | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| then not only become severely restricted, but the nature of your sexual drive must, in one form | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| should be heeded, for it will reveal the nature of the obstruction so that you can eliminate | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| not imitate something that is foreign to your nature. Basic universal traits exist and are expressed in | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |