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| pay this price rather than give up my negativity. It will be precisely through the inner work | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| with one's own faults; such preoccupation creates more negativity. It is enough to identify the negativity and | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| more negativity. It is enough to identify the negativity and leave it at that. You, however, taught | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| who tries to dissuade you from preoccupation with negativity means this kind of preoccupation. On the other | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| being pessimistic, my friends, nor negative. Pessimism and negativity would say: All I can expect is unhappiness | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| everyone concerned. QUESTION: But since there is some negativity in all the other people, would it not | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to accept death. Acceptance mixed with fear and negativity -- both of which lead to self-destructiveness -- | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| apparent opposites will become one whole, without any negativity. The two negatives will fall off. They have | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| you first learn to understand and evaluate your negativity and thus your bad times. Then you will | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| acknowledge and accept the existence of the persisting negativity. The more the childish, one-sided egocentricity is hidden | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Since this is no way to victory, the negativity increases and one begins to doubt one's self | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| to the extent that you remove doubt and negativity. Declare that its results must be beneficial for | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| complicated the problem, the more deep-rooted is the negativity and the conflict. Therefore the healing forces have | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| You, and so many people, are constantly in negativity because they do not dare to find out | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| mark, could have power. It is this: Mere negativity, as in a destructive attitude, has a much | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| words, when a positive force mingles with a negativity or a destructive attitude, this combination creates evil | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| fears the attachment of the pleasure principle to negativity often creates a deep hopelessness. This hopelessness can | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| To a certain degree, every human being has negativity, and this negativity is somehow activated, enforced, and | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| degree, every human being has negativity, and this negativity is somehow activated, enforced, and nourished by the | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| has happened to me in this marriage of negativity and the pleasure principle: I had to set | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| great decision not to be ruled by your negativity, regardless of what emotions, thoughts, and desires you | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| of allowing yourself to be controlled by your negativity and thereby compounding fear, guilt, and helplessness. When | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| allow yourself to be a victim of your negativity and destructiveness. Simply declaring your vigorous intent to | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| sun. My dearest friends, the fear of your negativity and destructiveness is so heavy only because you | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| once you choose for the positive alternative, whatever negativity exists in you no longer feels disastrous, because | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| has lived too long in a climate of negativity, limitation, and isolation because of your misguided fear | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| prevails in those thought processes that indulge in negativity, while the outer will fights, struggles and presses | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| and negative moods appear, you must halt the negativity that seems so easy to give in to | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| You make a tremendous effort to escape the negativity you have produced and chosen to submit to | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| is really there: in the first case, the negativity is overlooked; in the second approach, lack of | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| holding on to the self is necessary with negativity in the psyche. Otherwise the destructive aims not | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| be in the negative world, in a self-perpetuating negativity that you sow through your destructive wishes. You | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| high degree of awareness would protect them from negativity and the resulting tension between the positive and | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| misjudgment, and hurt, which, in turn, create further negativity. Let us imagine two people, A and B | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| Whatever you did, however you responded with your negativity and self-doubt, you were attached to the negatively | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| itself to your understanding of the other person's negativity. You begin to talk yourself into dwelling more | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| you aware that while you indulge in the negativity you enjoy doing it? QUESTION: Yes, I am | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| that I do not want to be in negativity or hang on to misconceptions, such as these | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| yourself. This vague fear makes people deliberately embrace negativity, and -- unconsciously, yet deliberately -- violate the | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| when you become truly willing to give up negativity and destructiveness. In the last few lectures we | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| when you let go of destructiveness, negation, denial, negativity? What is the fear? I cannot elaborate on | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| comes to the giving up of all the negativity that we have discussed here from so many | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| a positive field. As long as there is negativity and destructiveness within you, you must fear to | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| determine with your outer, volitional self what the negativity is, the way will open again and the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| and deep discussion. If you can discover the negativity without such outside assistance, you will know the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| which can only be done when my own negativity and destructiveness in this particular area becomes conscious | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| the attachment of the pleasure principle to the negativity. This is the way you can go about | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| entire structure, this entire field, consisting of my negativity and the pleasure attached to it, then there | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| your pleasure will be taken away when the negativity is given up. The fear must be countered | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| his or her negative trend, moralizing brings more negativity in its wake, even though it seems to | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| also where you are connected with a persisting negativity. There must be a corresponding character defect that | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| as long as it is not seen, the negativity must remain. This negativity excludes unfoldment, self-expression, and | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| is not seen, the negativity must remain. This negativity excludes unfoldment, self-expression, and fulfillment, as well as | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| concerned with uncovering your defects and illusions, your negativity or destructiveness, which you deny and negate. This | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| penetrate the illusion and at last see the negativity lodged in yourself, you are much nearer to | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| and create a specific emotional climate. Wherever such negativity exists - - hidden or overt -- one | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| a great deal of difference between facing the negativity, understanding that here I am negating rather than | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| Those who are face to face with their negativity, and see how they stop the life process | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| in an entirely new way. 148. POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT Greetings, my dearest friends. May | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| come to deal with your own destructiveness and negativity. There is one life force which energizes every | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| find yourself stymied in your attempt to overcome negativity, it is extremely important to sense deep within | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| deep within yourself the pleasurable aspect of this negativity, regardless of how much pain you feel in | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| do not constitute the deepest difficulty in dissolving negativity. It is necessary to sense intuitively, and then | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| then to feel very specifically, that in your negativity, paradoxically, both pleasure and unpleasure are simultaneously present | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| of the life current. This is precisely why negativity seems so difficult to shed. The pleasurable aspect | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| that the identical life current can reconvert itself, negativity can be left behind. When you have understood | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| be abandoned, while the pleasurable aspect grows stronger, negativity can transform itself. When you have understood that | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| again. This will enable you to dissolve the negativity, the destructiveness, and this of course is essential | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| annihilating when the personality is still geared to negativity and destructiveness. To put it differently, to the | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| a deep level and cannot help but create negativity and destructiveness. The way to eliminate the weakness | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| reason for your misconceptions, false fears and guilts, negativity and destructiveness. Deep within, you know that you | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| of pleasure is always threatened by the attached negativity. The individual thus becomes a helpless straw between | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| to some extent. You remain involved in painful negativity and split within yourself, until your further evolution | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| large part of humanity violently subscribes to hopelessness, negativity, to the view that the world is chaotic | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| self and others -- of life. All the negativity in the world stems from something one believes | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| different words: If you can meet your own negativity -- your fears, anger, rage, the traits you | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| self will eventually vanish as you express your negativity under the proper circumstances, and as this fear | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| frustrated. Your refusal to let go of the negativity and the refusal to give of yourself makes | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| be in peace, be in God. 161. UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES Greetings | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| must be because of a destructive attitude, a negativity you are as yet unwilling to relinquish. When | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| know is if certain areas are cleared of negativity, is it then automatic that you trust completely | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to such a transition. You cannot abandon a negativity you ignore you have. You cannot give up | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| spontaneous impulses. When this consciousness grows and the negativity of the feeling world becomes obvious, people do | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| positively to life. It is this kind of negativity that makes the courage to experience the destructive | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| the world into you. As long as this negativity exists, the courage to face, experience, and express | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| there will be no question of fearing bottomless negativity and destructiveness. This is possibly one of the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| -- not ever as a suffering one. Your negativity is a defense, my friends. It arises out | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| own fulfillment and joy. With that understanding all negativity must vanish -- even in the deepest regions | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| to protect your self-image, others will reflect this negativity. Your reaction to that reflection must also be | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| faulty, since you choose not to admit your negativity, which makes you feel unjustly treated. How then | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| you will want to get rid of the negativity and will seek the fruitful way that does | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| For as long as you fear the indwelling negativity, you must also fear the indwelling power for | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| near to an opening, pleasurable experience. Accepting the negativity of life makes the negativity eventually superfluous. Rejecting | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| experience. Accepting the negativity of life makes the negativity eventually superfluous. Rejecting the negative experience binds you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| When you no longer reject pain, fear, and negativity, when you deal with them in a relaxed | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| principle, because all activation would be based on negativity. This explains why so many people find themselves | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| experience your negative emotions without acting out the negativity, the recreating can begin. The courage and honesty | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| necessary to become conscious of the misconceptions and negativity -- and that will have increased with the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| And fear cannot exist if there is no negativity or limitation of concept. The more you develop | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| of giving up is so easily confused with negativity, resignation, and even masochistic self-denial. Religion's postulate that | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| feeling. Their closed state is responsible for unhappiness, negativity and lack of feelings. How closed the centers | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| you use for self-discovery or reorientation of your negativity. Breathe calmly but distinctly through your abdomen. Feel | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| feelings of uncertainty, fear, insecurity, guilt, weakness, doubt, negativity, inadequacy, and inferiority. To the degree these feelings | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| conditioned yourself to let it ruminate in habitual negativity, self-rejection, and needless limitation. But once you decide | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| structure to protect it from the chaos of negativity and destruction. When negativity is met and eliminated | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| from the chaos of negativity and destruction. When negativity is met and eliminated, unstructured, blissful consciousness is | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| but bliss, already now, within you. 176. OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY Greetings and blessings for everyone of my friends | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| more and more free from the snares of negativity. This is not easy, for the fascination with | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| find within yourselves the truth of your own negativity, and you can even acknowledge that your negativity | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| negativity, and you can even acknowledge that your negativity is deliberate and see how you hang on | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| much deplore. You do it precisely by your negativity which you still continue to express in your | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| as you remain unwilling to give up the negativity. If you will not give it up you | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| connections, is what makes wanting to give up negativity possible. It is not sufficient to be aware | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| you cannot really want to give up the negativity. You must see the heavy price you pay | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| need to recognize the unobstructed, unconcealed destructiveness and negativity behind facades of various kinds. For many years | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| because you still believe that by giving up negativity you create a positivity that is something completely | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| the moment you allow this to happen, abandoning negativity becomes a relief from a heavy burden that | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| right underneath where you are ill with your negativity, a new old life exists in which all | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| through two basic phases that deal with the negativity that humanity is still involved with. Most human | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| themselves still in the first basic phase of negativity. This phase is initiating negativity. The second phase | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| basic phase of negativity. This phase is initiating negativity. The second phase is responsive negativity. In the | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| is initiating negativity. The second phase is responsive negativity. In the first phase you automatically react to | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| are not only neurotic; they are also initiating negativity, quite regardless of whether the other people involved | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| first phase. The second phase deals with the negativity that is merely responsive. When individuals have freed | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| responsive. When individuals have freed themselves from initiating negativity and are clear in this respect, their reactions | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| do not react negatively toward them. But the negativity still flares up reactively, as a result of | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| as a result of their responding to the negativity of others. You may say this is perfectly | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| truth. To respond in that way to the negativity of others is still an action based on | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| someone acts destructively toward you. Therefore this responsive negativity must also be straightened out, but this can | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| this can be done only after the initiating negativity has been wiped out. The vast majority of | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| tend to bring in your original reactions of negativity. You even do this, in many instances, as | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| you might experience frustration, delay, criticism, or the negativity of others. I think most of you can | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| or no blocks and inhibitions, without distortions and negativity, is capable of a high degree of pleasure | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| it is impossible to overcome your destructiveness and negativity without knowing that you want to be negative | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| goes on within you. Just as with the negativity I discussed in the last lecture, you will | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of pleasure because your holding on to the negativity, your not wanting to give up negative and | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| you to be open to pleasure, for your negativity creates a state of soul and body that | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| body that is essentially incompatible with pleasure. Your negativity creates tension, separateness, contraction. It comes from an | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |