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and resilience you never knew existed. In the old way, you might have responded submissively to assuage 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
in the other you build up until the old negative pleasure principle has reappeared in a new 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
of how insidiously this can happen whenever the old roots still exist unobserved. Here, my friends, the 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
I couldn't face it -- and all the old negative, destructive emotions returned. I suffered and suffered 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
same time you continue to react in the old way, with fear, distrust, anxiety, despair, and tight 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
never threatened by darkness. You have constructed the old state on a foundation of errors, and this 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
come about only through the destruction of the old state. Stemming against the organic and desirable movement 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
gone. When you understand that crumbling of the old structure is desirable because the old way only 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
of the old structure is desirable because the old way only appeared to give you satisfaction, then 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
not a relapse, but rather destruction of the old, a process that actually is the very germ 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
a solution, then you may rest assured that old structures, based on the error of dualistic perception 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
stream forth in complete affirmation instead of the old negation. When this inner movement can take place 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
a new, constructive attitude that will replace the old, destructive one. This is how transformation must occur 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
may be whether to hold on to one's old grudges, one's old ways, which exclude others in 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
to hold on to one's old grudges, one's old ways, which exclude others in resentment or censorship 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
must make this choice: to stick with the old, excluding, restricting way, or to allow for a 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
way may appear to be risky, and the old, cold, separating way to be safe, although you 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
of the implications of both alternatives -- the old constricting way, with all its rigid formulations and 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
finally become capable of letting go of the old way that refuses life, love, feelings, happiness, unfoldment 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
receive as long as you remain in the old position of refusal and isolation. As long as 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
be made in one sweep. There is the old, childish, fearful self, geared to the old mechanisms 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the old, childish, fearful self, geared to the old mechanisms of false self-protection. When these mechanisms are 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
which are more realistic and constructive. Gradually the old, undeveloped side of the personality will gain confidence 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
individual does anything that is contrary to the old restrictions and measures, anxiety must arise. Whenever the 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
your soul substance makes you react in the old way of pulling back from unpleasant feelings. Do 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
yourself. The moment you become aware of this old habit pattern, you have a way out -- 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
free, unforced relationships. When you live in the old dependency pattern, you force others to make them 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
come to a crossroads where they see the old inner landscape, which is fear: fear of life 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
the new beginning after the end of the old phase, you nevertheless stem against it. How much 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
phase, can only follow the dying of the old, which is often painful. It means battling through 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
makes facing fear impossible. When you reverse the old habit pattern of blaming others and circumventing what 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
gradual transition in the course of which the old and new are experienced together, side by side 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
predominant until it takes over and replaces the old. The old hopeless feeling recurs as rarely now 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
it takes over and replaces the old. The old hopeless feeling recurs as rarely now as the 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
periods where you are thrown back into the old state without being in the new one. Each 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
pain at all. By the same token, the old, immature pleasures cease to be attractive and no 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
negative. The deep psyche, in which not all old obstructions are overcome, still harbors the division of 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
will react to it, but not with the old fear. For as long as you fear the 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
Your conditioned reflexes are too deeply ingrained. The old fear will come back -- perhaps not consciously 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
understanding why, you find yourself back in the old state of numbness. Here, too, indirect processes are 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
a relaxed activity that leads to fulfillment. The old way is freezing the life energies in order 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
from which there is no way out; the old way is wrong, can the other way be 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
you relaxed -- you let go of the old direction -- and, lo and behold, the desperation 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
by having reached the very limits of the old direction, when you were desperate, could you give 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
desperate, could you give up your stubborn insistence, old beliefs, and destructive patterns and find the way 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
struggles, are still often caught unconsciously in the old automatism. In many cases you have followed this 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
his or her own inner powers, but the old habit pattern of holding back is so firmly 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
certain degree of self-confrontation without clinging to the old patterns of self-delusion and illusion, and therefore have 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
a new situation and automatically fall into the old conditioned reflexes, your negative approach, without paying attention 174 SELF-ESTEEM
of your attempt to exaggerate and drag out old injuries, to quite deliberately punish others for what 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
harm you are doing while remaining in your old attitudes. These are the steps of purification in 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
you are ill with your negativity, a new old life exists in which all reactions to all 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
It may appear safer to remain in the old disunity than to venture forth into a new 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
must be recaptured again and again, for the old fascination with the negative belief is deeply ingrained 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
one who takes the initiative to dissolve an old tie. This will prevent him or her from 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
of dealing with life. It means breaking down old structures and establishing new ones. It means unifying 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
relinquished, or you will fall again into the old despair of being disconnected from inner reality. The 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
concept of life experience, as opposed to an old, limiting one. When the ego deals with both 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
Crisis in any form attempts to break down old structures based on false conclusions and therefore on 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
eruptions, breakdowns, crises, mean to tear down the old structure so as to reerect a new and 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
is such a time of the breakdown of old structures. Most human beings still fail to understand 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
eruption, breakdown, and crisis always aim at discontinuing old ways of operating and creating new ones, the 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
of crisis, not the giving up of the old structure itself. When necessary change is not accepted 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
resistance to change. When you project all your old negative experiences onto others, it is impossible for 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
full commitment keep you holding on to the old, distorted, cheating way of life, while still wanting 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
commit yourself, you will let go of the old accustomed shore and float momentarily in what seems 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
before, when you were holding on to the old shore, to the false structure that must be 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE Greetings, blessings to all my old and new friends here. And welcome to all 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
these fantasies. When a partner finally appears, the old fear is still rampant. The soul movements contract 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
a would-be existence, you remain stuck in the old rut of reacting from habit and easily justifying 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
will forget and become involved again in the old blindness and its conditioned reflexes. But this need 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
In the course of this journey toward experiencing old feelings which had not been fully experienced before 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
is possible to treat painful experience in the old ways of avoidance and prolong the cycle. But 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
you are truly ready to give up the old case, start to live in the now, and 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
your real needs now -- thereby perpetuating the old wounds of your childhood. Your present state can 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
demands making an effort to come out of old mindsets, and leave behind models which appear comfortable 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
prepared to make the sacrifice of giving up old destructive patterns of thinking and reacting, will discover 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
your disposal in ways other than your habitual old groove. Such new thoughts may take into consideration 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
from that. You who stay confined within your old possibilities must stay in an unsatisfactory condition no 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
impetus and motivation to want to feel the old, yet unexperienced feelings -- pain, longing, sadness, fear 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
to choose to fortify, justify, and increase the old defensive and negative pattern. I say all this 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
in its benign violence. New movements come forth, old movements change direction, color, hue, sound. If you 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
cannot fail to inactivate the power of the old negative force field, and create a new force 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
a new force field because you demagnetize the old one. This is the way now, my friends 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
is all one. Therefore, when you end the old pattern of blaming others in order to justify 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
change and persisted in holding on to the old, proven way, they would either fail in the 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
will come about, first, by knowing that your old response is a conditioned reflex created to fit 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
you will resort again and again to your old, destructive patterns that are in fact responsible for 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
happens when you are not dealing with the old mental and emotional accumulations that need to be 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
control over your life. You do not accumulate old waste, you deal at once with the necessary 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
create this new order and to clean up old disorder, and then sustain it. Deliberately meditate for 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
one of you here. Welcome to new and old friends searching for their inner path. I will 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
the outer self is still conditioned to the old functioning and automatically forges ahead on the top 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
are relatively free, but you still find your old obstinacy, distrust, and forgetfulness where problems persist. Only 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
forgets to establish the contact, when, perhaps, an old raw area might still flare up and push 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
laziness that forces you to succumb to the old habits of your separated self. You will thus 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
be gained -- although it is actually very old. This is parallel to purifying the feeling into 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
struggle ensues. That struggle may continue even into old age, because the outer personality uses its life 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
inner self may choose gradually to discontinue the old stage setting -- the old incarnation -- in 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
to discontinue the old stage setting -- the old incarnation -- in order to establish a new 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
or it will enforce, reaffirm and fasten an old one, depending on whether the thought or intent 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
is new or is a repetition of the old. Obviously, both alternatives can apply to either real 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
ladder. For example, you say: I recognize the old way of functioning as being destructive, negative, undesirable 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
in principle, and feeling ready to abandon an old and accustomed mode of operation, is already a 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
have then left the pseudo-firm ground of your old security which had seemed the only way possible 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
forget again and be hurled back into the old pseudo-security of your negativity. Again and again you 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
world. New values are seeking to push through old resistances. I will speak in this lecture about 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
being. The new modality does not shed the old, but transforms what is not compatible with the 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
influx. It incorporates the pure substance of the old self into a new, expanded version. You also 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
on helping you comprehend the difference between the old values and the new; the old consciousness and 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
between the old values and the new; the old consciousness and the new. You will come to 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
you do not trust it. You trust your old, destructive habitual defenses more. Then of course there 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
to come. We shall share these new and old truths. What I have just said is one 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
one of the most important differences between the old and the new value systems. I say new 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
the planet. This clashes, of course, with the old value system, which functions merely from the surface 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
widen one's perception and consider other possibilities. The old attitude clashes with the new in you, and 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
represent the new and those who represent the old consciousness. In this process it will become increasingly 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
the new while you continue acting in the old ways. You can say anything, but your actions 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
the new age that is opposed to the old stable laws according to which what is fixed 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
it will contain a new aliveness that the old artificial fullness of your mind made impossible. In 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
all brothers and sisters inhabiting the earth. The old consciousness still makes for separation. But humanity is 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
to a stage of development in which the old structure can no longer be maintained. It cannot 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
cannot bear the tensions and restrictions of the old limited consciousness. A new vision must be gained 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
between people who are still steeped in the old consciousness and those who share the new perception 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
find areas within where they still maintain the old, selfish, narrow vision. Those are the areas you 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
strict differentiation between those who are in the old and those who are in the new. There 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
frustration, crisis, and finally destruction, so that the old may crumble and you can begin to build 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
If you are willing to give up the old, obsolete attitude and adopt a new, more appropriate 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
it is not, in itself, destruction of the old. It is reformulation and change, a new organization 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
of eternal values which already existed in the old consciousness but which must be expressed in a 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
level of reality. It must therefore destroy the old order -- the old balance system and its 228 BALANCE
must therefore destroy the old order -- the old balance system and its obsolete measurements -- as 228 BALANCE
its obsolete measurements -- as it also destroys old, outworn attitudes, feelings, values and concepts. The destruction 228 BALANCE
similar attitudes exist in man. However, in the old relationships between man and woman, the woman victimized 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
a slave in order to avoid self-responsibility. The old fairy tale that a woman's career will make 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
the degree that you still cling to the old state, you have not gained your own self 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
To attempt such relating and fulfillment while the old attitude remains unchanged is sheer waste; it is 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
infant to child to adolescent to adult to old age, after which a further metamorphosis beyond human 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
new incarnation can be undertaken without leaving the old body behind and creating a new incarnation. Thus 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
continued in certain circumstances -- according to the old seedplan -- completely changes in feelings, expressions, experiences 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
environment, and task. New talents may manifest, and old ones maybe expressed differently. A path such as 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
a full life always means stepping beyond the old fences and making new territory your own familiar 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
you soon feel as comfortable as in the old. Realizing yourself means feeling comfortable in a new 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
this life? The process of giving up the old and moving on to the new? ANSWER: Yes 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
Change and movement mean constantly dying from an old state into a new one, but always taking 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
new one, but always taking aspects of the old along in new form. One who completely accepts 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
harmoniously flow. Thus, you no longer need the old outer structure in which what is right for 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
is pushing into the resistant matter of the old. The old, stagnant age does not want to 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
into the resistant matter of the old. The old, stagnant age does not want to yield easily 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
a new level of operation on which the old attitude of taking, wanting, demanding and not giving 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
heart's desire is God's will. At first, by old habitual standards, you will distrust that your desire 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
needs to be made, so as to shed old bad habits of thinking, feeling, reacting, willing and 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
My body is feeling the struggle between the old and the new. The old is stubborn and 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
struggle between the old and the new. The old is stubborn and hard to move, and the 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
to strengthen the new and to weaken the old. I want that baby to grow up into 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
conduct a dialogue, again and again, between the old and the new and learn to love that 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
is realized. The temptation to lean on the old superstitious negative beliefs is that you need not 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
you shrink back. This is not simply an old habit. It is the result of still being 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
feelings and thoughts. You reactivate, often unnecessarily, your old, already obsolete authority problem. Anyone who is a 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
yet you insist on holding on to your old habits and stay where you no longer belong 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
perhaps now make a different choice whenever the old negative reactions still recur? Now let us discuss 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
is of course a wonderful thing that the old taboos are removed. The old restrictions that make 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975
thing that the old taboos are removed. The old restrictions that make sexuality a dirty, guilty secret 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975
against this path, and you cling to the old protective illusion that your painful feelings of self-rejection 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
something or someone outside. In such instances the old pseudo-solution is still coveted, if only in the 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
coming into new states of consciousness in which old blind reactions no longer have any room. In 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
you. You may then revert back to the old, drab, gray state to feel more secure and 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
insist on not giving up anything of the old familiar environment, and yet you desperately strive toward 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
toward the new place. You chafe against the old structures while complaining that you cannot arrive at 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
moment in-between -- between letting go of the old and the unfoldment of the new experience or 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
sort of no-man's land. You have left the old place and are not yet in a new 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
right attitude, you will never rebel when an old tradition is discontinued, or when it is replaced 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
customs, rituals and celebrations. Ask yourself if the old tradition has been superseded by truths and values 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
past. On this earth sphere you talk about old and new. Often these words carry positive and 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
be either way. Some people think of the old as all good, all benign, unthreatening and full 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
traditionalists. There are also those who see anything old as outdated, undesirable and bad, while anything new 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
these terms makes any sense. There is neither old nor new, and there is both. Everything already 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
to the eternal truths and laws. So the old and the new exist in the timeless reality 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
timeless reality of eternal now -- not as old and new timewise, but as concepts or attitudes 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
gained them in the previous curve. Thus the old truth, learned in the previous curve, makes new 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
revelation, later becomes renewed in repetition -- an old truth under new light. But the renewal could 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
place only because other truths -- new and old -- have been discovered along the way. They 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
have been unknown by the individual; they are old in the sense that they existed before they 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
threat. You wish to hold on to the old familiar approach which is known to you, to 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
as unobstructed as possible. Growth must combine the old and the new. It must retain tradition and 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
orientations, or schools of thought, arise constantly. The old is either being calcified by the distorted concept 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
openness to change. In this open state, some old opinions, beliefs and ideas will be reinstated because 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
felt level; this means preserving tradition. Then the old truths will live in a new way in 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
the person; this means enlivened, renewed tradition. Other old beliefs will be discarded because they no longer 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
new planetary being, with new values and with old truths renewed. This new person will gradually overtake 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
always rationalizations. Each phase was of course also old, because no eternal truths are totally new. They 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
in the spirit reality and is thus neither old nor new, and yet is both. It is 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
nor new, and yet is both. It is old, because it has always existed. It is new 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
openness and freshness to give new considerations to old truths and thus flow with the beautiful rhythm 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
best sense. You retain the values of the old and constantly eliminate values no longer applicable. This 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
while continuing to look down on them. This old history is very relevant for those who are 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
have a vicious circle: Believing totally in the old tradition of Judaism, an eye for an eye 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
laziness and by the tragic error that the old ways are safe and must therefore be worshipped 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
of life and begin gradually to discard the old one that has proven detrimental because it has 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
Humanity has truly become ready to shed these old attitudes and create new conditions, new standards, new 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
greater fulfillment. A particularly pernicious aspect of the old attitude toward marriage was that the sexual need 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
is exactly what I am talking about. The old ways desperately need profound change. A new sexual 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
Age. It is not to be found in old taboos and denials, nor in moralizing judgments about 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
be accepted, may be allowed into surface consciousness. Old age is a slow withdrawal of the personality 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
laboriously through the thicket of obsolete values, the old negative and destructive attitudes toward life. The new 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE
of any new influx and they proceed by old standards and values that are often based only 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE
reality. They may bring up new, or again old, material on your path that you need to 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION

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