| have also discussed at various times. The either/or attitude, gravely and falsely limits spiritual reality, the cosmic | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| necessary, and therefore should be sought, the either/or attitude has three important subdivisions, contained in all mass | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| one of the most common either/or concepts: the attitude toward life of winning versus losing. According to | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| to examine your winner/loser conflict as your general attitude toward life, as well as in specific areas | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| letting the motion happen automatically, allowing one's unconscious attitude to affect the creative life force, or one | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| compares to planting the seeds. Cultivating the proper attitude and patiently waiting until the seed has taken | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| beyond the confines of the self. Such an attitude enlarges the self and its powers, because it | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| thereby overcoming the dread of it. Such an attitude will open the door further. Because the human | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| means must make a great difference in your attitude to yourself, to life, and to the particular | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| yourself. Your view of the world -- your attitude to life, to happenings and to others -- | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| be a result of your view of, and attitude to yourself. If you understand yourself in relationship | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| self-deception, superimposition. It cannot create a genuine constructive attitude. Your psyche is like a vessel. If it | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| the question you unconsciously pose regarding a certain attitude toward life -- is based on an utterly | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| self-expression and fulfillment stubbornly remains unfulfilled, a denying attitude that does not want it, that holds back | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| back from it, is overlooked. There is an attitude that -- even without saying an outright no | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| self-realization, of creative living. Honest testing means an attitude of I give the possibility every chance. It | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| the healthy and the distorted versions of an attitude. An example would be demonstrating healthy assertion without | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| who are violently persecuted? What should be their attitude? ANSWER: The instinct of self-preservation will most certainly | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| oneself, inevitably spreads to others, just as every attitude toward the self is bound to expand toward | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| others. In this stage, it is a passive attitude of indifference that enables one to watch others | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| exist between one's numbness and one's approach or attitude toward the evil aspects of life. Some may | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| is this: Mere negativity, as in a destructive attitude, has a much less destructive effect than destructiveness | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| force mingles with a negativity or a destructive attitude, this combination creates evil. Real destructiveness is, therefore | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| comes to your choice of action or your attitude toward what you find in the hidden chamber | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| into truthful and constructive ones. I choose my attitude to meet these emotions. If I encounter an | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| you can embrace this possibility, even in an attitude of honest questioning, to that extent this truth | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| my friends have encountered exactly this kind of attitude deep within themselves. If all people were truly | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| in opposite directions. The moment you change your attitude in the way I just described, everything will | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| and with others, is to cultivate an overall attitude deep within compatible with the higher powers in | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| the kernel of your being. Such a compatible attitude means complete constructiveness in all endeavors, in all | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| and desires are, you will find what your attitude really is and how it could be more | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| and not by selfishness or any other destructive attitude. Isolation, and the attitude of me versus the | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| or any other destructive attitude. Isolation, and the attitude of me versus the other, will be replaced | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| later, fall away in exact proportion as this attitude is truly felt and lived. Use this key | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| really mean these words and initiate this new attitude. And life for you will then begin, truly | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| use this simple, beautiful formula as a general attitude toward life. As you first taste and test | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| a negative, destructive, or at least a denying attitude toward life. That is why you have the | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| have the problem, and as long as this attitude prevails, the particular problem must remain. You cannot | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| of the truth and have a positive, constructive attitude toward life in certain areas. Hence they are | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| importance. When you discover the difference in your attitude toward various aspects of life and see the | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| different, or even precisely different -- in an attitude of discontent and tense struggle, in a mood | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| let it go at that, in a vague attitude of perhaps it is not so, but to | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| negative without finality and with an objective, non-indulgent attitude. But on the spiritual plane, which comprises the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| are self-perpetuating. Take, for example, any healthy, positive attitude. When you are outgoing, constructive, open, inclusive, all | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| reactions, find the appropriate laws, and change your attitude and behavior regarding these laws. You will work | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| false belief is a product of your inner attitude. Therefore, we cannot say that a person's spiritual | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| you believe, what and how you believe, the attitude with which you decide to either believe or | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| destructiveness and turn to a constructive, inclusive, friendly attitude toward life and others. You still do not | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| them has to be expressed. This entirely new attitude and way of life has to be actively | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| of these is like a magnetic field. The attitude a person harbors about a certain area of | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| fundamental ones, applying to all human beings, are: attitude toward work, human relationships in general, material values | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| life, appearance and activity; there is also one's attitude to nature, art, pleasure and leisure, spiritual reality | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| to change it by creating a new positive attitude. No one is more superstitious and fatalistic than | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| utmost from everything and bring the most constructive attitude to what comes to pass. You also must | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| turn will increase your own security. With this attitude, you will not be in illusion or in | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| it. The call of life is universal. The attitude necessary to awaken the inner center follows universal | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| a fact. When this is so, your entire attitude is clear, free, and relaxed. You are deeply | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| you move toward the world with a relaxed attitude of being equally ready to give and receive | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| not permit you to abandon a self-destructive, self-denying attitude? State clearly that you wish to find it | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| not difficult either, if approached with the proper attitude. Once you are aware of your specific faults | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| invested in the fault into a new, constructive attitude that will replace the old, destructive one. This | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| know exists. It is impossible to transform an attitude when you do not know why you hold | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| to transform from a negative to a positive attitude, concept, or characteristic by the exclusive use of | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| With others, this is true as an overall attitude to life. Whatever the case may be, the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| you do not question yourself, with a relaxed attitude, Now, do I really feel what I think | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| conditions is also responsible for the endemic competitive attitude that afflicts humanity. This is manifest particularly strongly | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| desire to triumph over others, it marks an attitude of being against others. It implies that self- | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| attempts to solve such a problem in an attitude of finding either the one or the other | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| is right and good. You justify this irrational attitude by pointing to the most distorted manifestations of | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| it by committing to search with an open attitude for your deepest nature. Do not mistake the | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| this way he can learn the great, important attitude of inner relaxation. It is by no means | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| stemming from the same underlying problem. The wrong attitude about frustration is harmful for obvious reasons. It | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| When the psyche fails to mature, the same attitude continues, and an apparent contradiction ensues: the less | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| climate must prevail, producing a life-affirming, positive, inclusive attitude. The person who, inwardly or outwardly, rebels against | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| insistence and rigidity with a do or die attitude, are equally erroneous. Only when individuals learn to | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| tense and are unwilling to relax into an attitude of wise, positive reasonableness and humility, without ceasing | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| of the psychic processes, their inner climate and attitude, is totally different. When the natural law is | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| in positive ways equal to its destructiveness. Your attitude determines the direction this power takes. The human | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| No discovery can ever be made with this attitude. The attitude must truly be, Is it possible | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| can ever be made with this attitude. The attitude must truly be, Is it possible? Could it | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| to find it very difficult to adopt this attitude. Therefore, one of the hindrances to making the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| case, a person will instantly adopt an open attitude whenever the opportunity in life presents itself -- | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| cannot relax, it cannot adopt the flexible, unafraid attitude that is essential to be attuned to the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| each wrong conclusion, each erroneous opinion, each destructive attitude, each negative emotion stands directly in the way | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| realizable when the psyche is unintense. Every neurotic attitude is a result of -- and results in | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the life-stream. The reason for cultivating this destructive attitude is in part the dualistic misconception mentioned before | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| change my personality, or give up a destructive attitude I do not wish to shed -- for | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| plunging into despair and denying the defects. This attitude in itself removes the defects infinitely more effectively | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| discipline, alternating with a proper letting go. Neither attitude can ever be harmful if practiced in an | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Conversely, to the degree a person cultivates the attitude, I want to look the truth in the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| tense state of war and defense. This new attitude seems to require a great deal of trust | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| pulsation happen without interference by a fearful, distrusting attitude. Cooperate with this inner lawfulness by simply wanting | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| trust. True orgasm is not possible unless this attitude exists. Healthy death only occurs with love and | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| interrupted and prohibited by an overly watchful, denying attitude of the outer ego. The average human being | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| itself may not be important, but the underlying attitude is. The question may be whether to hold | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| or censorship, or to allow a new spontaneous attitude to come forth from the depth of the | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| can let go and give up the destructive attitude, whatever it may be, no matter how covertly | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| give up a self-centered, selfish, self-pitying, or self-destructive attitude, fear of self automatically decreases. Something new begins | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the negative condition has ceased to exist. The attitude one adopts to what one dislikes about the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in how one feels about oneself. A reasonable attitude to what seems unfaceable means a sense of | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| secret, even from myself, you also express the attitude that the world is horrible, everyone is bad | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and you grow up, you adopt the same attitude the parents had. You feel you cannot accept | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the basic fear of oneself, and also which attitude is sexualized. All these aspects, and many more | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| single human being in this world harbors an attitude of fear and weakness. Because this corner of | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| your shameful submission, often by an apparently opposite attitude of indifference, hostility, or compulsive and blind rebellion | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| accessible thinking processes and will force. With that attitude you shortchange yourself greatly. Such forgetfulness inevitably has | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| wholehearted support, its one-pointed effort, its most constructive attitude and undivided attention to the inner path. It | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| aside in a more passive, listening and learning attitude. The ego can be likened to hands and | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| but overly blame yourself in a very destructive attitude that does not find a way out, then | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| and blame of others. In this kind of attitude that does not permit the self to lift | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the causes within. If all goes well, this attitude diminishes as the person progresses. But the beginner | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| self-respect and self-like that come from such an attitude are more important than anything else. Everything depends | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| and ward off on the other. The courageous attitude of going through what is self-produced and inevitable | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| It is the beginning of unification. In this attitude any painful feeling loses its terror because it | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| insignificant that it doesn't seem hopeless if this attitude is lacking. If you are willing to face | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| into another being is precisely the kind of attitude compatible with the universal forces. This melting leads | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| individual makes these experiences possible through the right attitude, readiness and active interests. If this is the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| tries to force a change before the destructive attitude is quite conscious, nothing real can be accomplished | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the ego-self -- is attached to a destructive attitude, it is incompatible with the universal forces. Therefore | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Then they become quite distinct. Perhaps the destructive attitude is to secretly think, No one knows what | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| does not count. This is a very prevalent attitude toward one's undesirable tendencies. One glosses over them | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| such, it reflects one's most significant and telling attitude to life. It tells the story that one | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| The moment you approach yourself with a sincere attitude that says: I want to give my very | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| attention to it. With such a sincerely meant attitude something new is set in motion right at | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| -- it must be because of a destructive attitude, a negativity you are as yet unwilling to | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| in what way you cling to a negative attitude. This is precisely why you fear the involuntary | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| It is frightening to me how this separating attitude makes it impossible for me to appreciate people | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| most devastating one. You need to recognize this attitude in its full significance and desire to change | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| are interdependent. Tonight's lecture specifically examines what mental attitude is needed to unite the two apparently opposite | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| exactly when and how to switch from one attitude to the other, the way to do so | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| so as to recognize when and how each attitude is expressed, when one or the other is | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| know what is within you unless this inner attitude is cultivated. When people are too impatient, their | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| This means a waiting in a receptive, quiet attitude, and once the divine self unfolds through new | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| to what it reveals to you. The receptive attitude is violated by a punitive, anxious, and pressing | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| it all alone, by sheer outer will. This attitude negates not only the universal powers but also | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| On the one hand, you actively formulate your attitude, goal, and intents -- your attitude being that | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| formulate your attitude, goal, and intents -- your attitude being that you want to invest the best | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| approach to yourself. Such balance can change your attitude toward yourself and teach you to accept yourself | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| moment a person is governed by such an attitude, they become involved in errors leading to further | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| that to affirm an undesirable condition, a destructive attitude, is as undesirable as negating a positive, constructive | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| undesirable as negating a positive, constructive condition or attitude? To an individual geared only to affirm, any | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| to adopt the affirmative principle as an overall attitude for all contingencies and to negate the negating | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| what way you inadvertently deviate from such an attitude. The more you come to express this honest | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |