| wish to make this authority responsible for the negative things only. Many of my friends who are | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| are not necessarily famous. Whatever appears like a negative aspect, a disadvantage, indicating lack of progress, is | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The reason is that at certain times the negative aspects are stronger. At other times they recede | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| summon the strength not to succumb to the negative periods but to make the best of them | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so-called good times or favorable times, when the negative aspects fade into the background, you are much | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| many of my friends have already experienced, the negative occasions will prove to be the most productive | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| was said. Subjective coloring, due to positive or negative emotions, will cease; in its stead you will | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| strike some corresponding note in your own soul. Negative does not necessarily mean evil or wicked. It | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it can be guilt or fear. But the negative in you must exist, otherwise the negative in | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the negative in you must exist, otherwise the negative in all the other twelve people could not | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| out of the people in question, or the negative decision would turn out to be positive for | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| there within the child already these positive and negative forces which it projects and by which it | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the people's ignorance and the outcropping of their negative currents. To come out of this darkness unassisted | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| chain reactions, not only as far as the negative currents in the human soul are concerned, as | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| even anatomically. They can be seen as the negative of a photograph compared with the positive. What | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| them a secret, at least when they produce negative results. Misunderstandings are negative results, therefore they remind | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| least when they produce negative results. Misunderstandings are negative results, therefore they remind man of his wrong | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| motive exists to a stronger degree than the negative one mentioned here, but the negative one will | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| than the negative one mentioned here, but the negative one will suffice to affect the corresponding subconscious | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| searching in yourselves for that which attracts a negative response. On this path you have had such | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| be sick. True, you did not desire the negative consequences -- you received much more than you | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| there, in spite of the recognition of your negative motives, you are not fully aware of all | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you, often in a roundabout way, until these negative forces are exhausted. If you try to comprehend | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| commit acts of betrayal which have many further negative consequences in your inner and outer life. This | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of the absence of self-destructive tendencies or the negative functioning of the inner will. The more confidence | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| until now dealt mainly with facing the repressed negative aspects of the human personality. But this phase | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| maximum capacity. The human being suppresses not only negative aspects, but positive and creative tendencies in the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| sense to suppress positive aspects since only the negative is unpleasant to face and therefore only that | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| freeing yourself of your deviations with all their negative motives, you will be able to bring the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you have learned to do with the suppressed negative traits. Apart from these individual and very personal | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| that the connection between the suppression of the negative and the positive aspects is often quite strong | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| for personality disturbances as the suppression of the negative aspects. In the work ahead we will approach | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the right goal and having pure motives, your negative tendencies played a role in your not listening | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| do not mean a discipline that suppresses anything, negative or positive, in you. This concept is, unfortunately | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| It is fluid substance, but fluid in a negative sense. A kind of thick, hazy, stubborn mass | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| rigidity because a rigidity can be grasped. A negative fluidity is slippery like a gelatinous substance or | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| been right for you, it is still the negative aspect of your soul that stood in the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| suppress it so is, of course, due to negative motivations. However, you will experience a great joy | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| inner life. This includes the positive and the negative conditions. It is sometimes more difficult to assimilate | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of your inner life. The existence of the negative and erroneous side in you may prevent you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| its worst. The rhythmic change from positive to negative outer manifestation, and back again, alternating in cycles | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| different approach to both the positive and the negative manifestations. Only thus will the searcher gradually master | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| God. You will not distort his or her negative side due to your own hurts and resentments | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a result, you let that which is most negative in the other person justify your wrath. You | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| should look at your depressing moods and other negative aspects. Just observe the child in you working | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| recognized its existence. Concerning your dramatization of the negative side, I would say that you build up | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| this maturing process, and so lose all the negative aspects of the child, you gain in stature | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| these emanations contribute greatly to the other person's negative reaction. These insights will free you and further | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| any prohibition of creative faculties is due to negative aspects and deviations, images and misconceptions. We still | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| taught here, for example, that fear has a negative connotation and stands for a destructive emotion. And | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| those who tolerate the pain, but in a negative way, always expecting it to be remedied from | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| a love object who has exactly the same negative trends that one or the other parent had | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| upon your real reactions. These may be other negative emotions; if they are positive, you are deceiving | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| mixed with unconscious selfish motives that produce the negative result. Survey your life once again. See exactly | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| conclusions. Try to crystallize out of them any negative or confused motives and apply them to the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| Such indetermination is often more damaging than clear-cut negative motives and may apply to any area of | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| your own questions will be tremendous, regardless how negative the answers may prove to be. One of | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| so with any kind of emotion, positive or negative, good or bad. Your conflicts, your images, and | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| are increasingly less affected by the other person's negative influence on your unconscious. At the same time | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| in the true sense means to take every negative occurrence and see how you contributed to it | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| these feelings -- good or bad, positive or negative, joyful or painful -- have existed and people | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| help you to make constructive use of any negative finding within yourself. It will also heighten your | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| all their disturbances and contradictory feelings, tune into negative currents, which are just as much part of | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| state of mind is such that I attract negative forces. My question is: How do I go | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| think and visualize that there are positive and negative currents, it makes me think that I have | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| to be careful not to tune into these negative forces. If I find myself in that state | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| already exist, while the idea that you produced negative emotions yourself gave you a feeling of greater | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| different current. Your awareness and understanding of the negative is the essential part. All fears and other | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| is the essential part. All fears and other negative emotions are the result of confused and faulty | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| be conscious or unconscious. By deeply analyzing such negative emotions, you are finally bound to reevaluate your | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| is. In the transition time one automatically attracts negative currents. I am looking for help during this | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| the old state will attract to you new negative currents? You are mistaken in believing that the | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| that because they are more conscious of a negative condition, they are more endangered by it. It | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| of this or any other fear, the less negative will be the effect it has on you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| to adopt means which are so defeatist and negative that, again, you sabotage what you ordinarily could | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| or making them smaller than they are. The negative result is that you prohibit the growth of | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| outwardly. But since any ungenuine solution has a negative effect, so must this, too. One of the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| these words has a positive, rather than a negative implication. It does not mean: If you do | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| properly understood and assimilated the experience. This creates negative emotions which are bound to affect your environment | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you persevere. You will then see that the negative result is the only medicine, the only remedy | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and given a distorted meaning. It suggests a negative fear as though this is the rule by | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of not running away. Or it can be negative in the sense of a standstill, or stagnation | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| would be partly true. Without recognizing their own negative tendencies people would gain an acute perception of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| would gain an acute perception of other people's negative tendencies, on which they then can focus out | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such teaching of truth may just enhance the negative outlook toward others, if they themselves do not | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by finding at first the existence of their negative functioning within yourself. For instance, the desire for | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| deviations and conflicts and therefore be abused by negative motivations. Hence, it would lead to oversimplification to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you chose the word image to suggest a negative attribute within us, when in Scripture we read | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in Scripture this word is used in the negative sense. We read in the Ten Commandments, Thou | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| corresponds to the meaning of the Bible: something negative, imagined, frozen, petrified. And we do worship it | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the strength only by complete understanding of the negative emotions that still exist in you and of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| painstaking piecemeal work of daily analysis of one's negative reactions, emotions, impressions and moods. There is no | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| path. If you keep in mind that any negative feeling, be it lack of strength or whatever | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be loved and accepted, it also applies to negative emotions such as hate, resentment, and contempt. If | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that you superimpose not only positive but also negative emotions on your genuine feelings. You produce artificial | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| like this: Consciously one is often unaware of negative emotions, be they resentment, hate, or contempt. As | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| right direction, one finds the existence of such negative emotions, as well as the existence of additional | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You will shed the pretense of positive and negative attitudes, trends, desires and motivations. Instead you will | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I find that if we do shed some negative attitudes, it is so gradual that, even after | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a little help. In working, I discovered a negative emotion toward a brother of mine I had | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from it. I could let go of this negative emotion. I have the same negative emotion toward | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of this negative emotion. I have the same negative emotion toward my husband, but I'm not able | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| motivation for such withdrawal will be unconscious and negative. In the relatively healthy person, the response will | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| by tracing them to their roots. Behind all negative, disturbing, and disharmonious feelings must be some original | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| choose death out of cringing fear, in a negative spirit of weakness. It is an altogether different | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| merely physical death. I refer to all the negative aspects of life, everything that opposes your pleasure | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| in order to avoid death. This motivation is negative and negates the life force itself. But if | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| does not come from evasion, or from anything negative. You will know that death is an integral | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| to see that you fear not only the negative, but also change, because it is unknown to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| as well as of your fear of the negative. No, my friends, not one of you is | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| what you mean by saying our reality is negative for us, so that we cringe from it | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| my fear. This applies also to every other negative facet of life, and can be practiced every | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| any form -- physical death itself, or a negative occurrence -- you free the life force in | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| glorified, or idealized. It is true that these negative tendencies exist behind all idealized self-images. But they | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| fraud it is. The person who glorifies such negative tendencies, believing them to prove strength and independence | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| this era of destruction and cruelty. And a negative lesson could also be learned through it. By | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| same token, a positive as well as a negative lesson could be learned by not reviving it | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| not reviving it could also happen out of negative motives, such as cowardice, fear, indifference, opportunism, resignation | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| indifference, opportunism, resignation. This would then be a negative lesson. Not reviving it could as well come | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| A person who looks for proof of this negative view receives plenty of confirmation, and takes pride | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| they interplay with our different selves? ANSWER: The negative or distorted thought and feeling forms emanating from | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| more you understand the causes and effects of negative emotions, the weaker they will automatically become. Inner | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| insecurity, to name but a few of the negative emotions thus generated. The error is all the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| observing your reactions, you will weaken the defeat's negative impact. Beware of superimposing the ideal reaction that | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| it to fully reach surface awareness. Therefore the negative feeling has to be let out in its | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| is a typical example of how unrealistic all negative emotions are. In the last analysis, all negative | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| negative emotions are. In the last analysis, all negative emotions are compulsive. There comes a time on | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| still clings to the supposed safety of the negative reaction. This holds true particularly with people who | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| nature. At times, the intellect forbids hate and negative emotions. But whenever it can be rationalized and | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| Due to some instances in which you discovered negative instincts, you at one time made the mistake | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| of concluding that all instincts and emotions are negative. Therefore you do not give the chance for | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| relationships, as well as bring out lots of negative reactions. Could you talk to us about this | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| emotions, you may believe your lack of strong negative feelings is a sign of spiritual progress and | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| be judged whether lack of anger, or other negative emotions, is a sign of growth and harmony | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| ANSWER: No, that is not so, except for negative emotions. Make your goal the leveling off of | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| emotions. Make your goal the leveling off of negative emotions. Eventually true serenity will bring this about | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| to feeling and experiencing all your positive and negative emotions. I cannot emphasize this enough. As you | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| repressed emotions. Mostly, they are unaware of their negative emotions, which they keep in hiding and which | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| this way resentment, guilt, anxiety, animosity, and other negative emotions will rise to consciousness. These negative emotions | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| other negative emotions will rise to consciousness. These negative emotions account for the inhibition of spontaneity and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| that does not necessarily mean there is a negative effect on your life. In the case of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| if you focus on this goal. Take any negative emotion: envy, bitterness, fear, helplessness -- and most | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| not realistic. Whenever such currents exist, a mutually negative effect is established that worsens the inner problems | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |