| it is man's complete illusion to believe that pain and suffering are terrible in themselves. Please, try | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| product of the mind, in error. Man fears pain and suffering mainly because he believes he has | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| chaotic coincidence. But once he realizes that every pain he experiences is due to his own evasion | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| within, abstaining from perfectionism, moralizing, and justifying, the pain instantly recedes, although the outer situation may remain | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| may believe that your feelings of sadness and pain are purely normal and healthy and do not | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| not only feel it as a healthy growing pain free of hopelessness, but you are sad due | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| may be the same, but your feelings of pain are, to quite an extent, due to other | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| the real or entire reason that underlies your pain. This is very important, my friends, and I | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| are still in the worst stage of your pain, you know and believe, deep inside, that your | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| love and affection is for the departed. This pain will not leave a scar, because any healthy | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| you and you attribute that to the legitimate pain of loss. Thus you have shifted your emotions | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| It is not only the unhappiness or the pain you fear and rebel against. That too, of | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| yourself. When you are fully aware of the pain you may have inflicted on others, your desire | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| desire will be strong enough to remove that pain, and then you will also find the right | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| as you do not want to face the pain you have inflicted, you cannot truly want to | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| do not want to become aware of the pain you have inflicted, you do not want to | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| up for the wrongs committed. You can inflict pain by not daring to give your best, be | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| elasticity. Over-tender soul-stuff causes both conscious and unconscious pain. Since the effect is bound to be detrimental | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| dent upon the soul-stuff. If you suffer physical pain in a certain area of your body, you | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| in the past, pertaining to the hurts and pain during childhood, will now prove useful in that | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| because he is aware of his own. Unnecessary pain is thus avoided and help is given in | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| person and the real situation, a lot of pain would be avoided. Pain is the result of | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| situation, a lot of pain would be avoided. Pain is the result of illusion, the illusion being | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| the maximum of pleasure and the minimum of pain. For the former, feelings must be moving; for | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| its bliss and pleasure, and the less its pain and suffering. This is due to correct evaluation | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| is important to recognize this fact. Fear and pain are the essence of all negative experience. It | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| or sexually only in connection with fear and pain; when fear and pain are absent, the pleasure | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| connection with fear and pain; when fear and pain are absent, the pleasure principle cannot manifest. I | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| connect them with the childhood circumstances that produced pain and fear. Then you can find the fixation | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| you might think, because the child alleviates the pain by allowing the pleasure principle to influence the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| may have given more pleasure, the other more pain. Both parents may have given both. In any | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| given both. In any case, the pleasure and pain go on battling within you until they are | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the infant's struggle between attaining pleasure and avoiding pain. The infant's fusing of pain and pleasure as | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| pleasure and avoiding pain. The infant's fusing of pain and pleasure as a way out must not | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| be confused with the unity between pleasure and pain when overcoming the duality of life on earth | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| a slight element of rejection, fearfulness, insecurity, or pain. When these negative emotions are completely absent, the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| you least desire it. When dealing with the pain and pleasure that are fused because you could | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| wider view. Although the fusing of pleasure and pain in the conflicted psyche may be called perversion | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| baby experiences are sense impressions -- pleasure and pain. Its reactions to both are strong. It obviously | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| withheld or when it experiences any degree of pain. Frustration of pleasure or infliction of pain cause | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| of pain. Frustration of pleasure or infliction of pain cause violent anger. The infant knows nothing beyond | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| its pleasure may have a relationship with the pain of another. There is no logic and no | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| its own sensing of pleasure or sensing of pain. Even pain and pleasure -- this limited range | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| sensing of pleasure or sensing of pain. Even pain and pleasure -- this limited range of experience | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| of foregoing an advantage if it creates undue pain and unfair disadvantage for another. So, on the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| undergoes crisis in growth. A teething baby experiences pain. Puberty is psychologically a painful process. It is | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| cease to exist. By repressing needs, the imagined pain of frustration is supposed to be eliminated. In | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| be frustrated? Does this not mean more intense pain when rejection occurs? The answer to the first | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| is no. Healthy involvement does not bring more pain than isolation. Fulfilling one's needs only partially does | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| petrification itself which you experience as frustration and pain, and partly from your pathwork -- the hardness | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| Then only can you relive the frustration and pain you suffered as a child, and therefore still | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| have instituted very destructive defenses against the original pain and frustration. One of them is an unusually | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| less painful physically, as well as mentally. Mental pain exists in individuals who are filled with fear | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the old, obsolete attitudes disappear. The degree of pain at dissolving the false, old ways and transforming | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| static. This fundamental misunderstanding about life causes untold pain. Without this senseless falsity so much suffering would | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| unhealthy aspects existed, one would live through the pain and grow out of it. The more one | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| of loss, fear of the unknown, fear of pain, fear of trust, fear of letting go of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| often appears more realistic to accept suffering and pain than to allow for constructive living and the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| them. If you desire pleasure because you fear pain or the absence of pleasure, the door to | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| to release yourself into an abyss of danger, pain, and hardship. This is why fear increases, and | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| can be broken. You may argue that actual pain can be very much feared. But, my friends | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| much feared. But, my friends, think about it: pain is inordinately feared only when one does not | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| and finally death. If you know that the pain will not threaten your safety, you can bear | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| of mind and thus it ceases to be pain. When you meet your fears and squarely acknowledge | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| of fulfillment, another part actually strives for nonfulfillment, pain, and deprivation. The great danger falsely believed to | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| who feel hurt, rejected, and helplessly exposed to pain and deprivation often find that numbing their feelings | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| is born. Numbness and insensitivity toward one's own pain in turn means equal numbness and insensitivity toward | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| off fear and guilt. The act of inflicting pain on others simultaneously kills off one's own ability | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| the less the person is able to avoid pain. Children are, by their very nature, helpless, weak | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| control are very much connected. Since helplessness causes pain, pain causes numbness, and numbness leads to evil | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| are very much connected. Since helplessness causes pain, pain causes numbness, and numbness leads to evil, it | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| numb oneself, to cope with helpless exposure to pain; for you are no longer helpless. My dearest | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| the service of your hurt, your suffering, your pain. All the emotions arising from this original hurt | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| out feelings, sometimes with a great amount of pain, then try to rationalize and explain them away | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| give according to your potential. Conversely, your greatest pain is not giving to life and to others | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| All other pains and frustrations derive from the pain of not giving out what is within, just | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| freely, the involvement in a pattern of compounded pain, stems from your fear of your innermost being | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| you. Understand that this struggle is a useless pain you inflict upon yourself and that you can | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| must run into confusion and difficulties, fear and pain. You inevitably struggle in a most frustrating way | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| opposite directions. This causes a tremendous strain. The pain of isolation will always push people into attempts | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| deeply meant, problems would have to resolve themselves, pain would cease, solutions would appear on the horizon | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| then you know what is responsible for the pain you feel in your isolation and for the | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you feel in your isolation and for the pain when you are relating to others. They must | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| the very moment people eliminate barriers because the pain of isolation becomes unbearable, they already set up | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| peace, and the light within. All struggle and pain must then, sooner or later, fall away in | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN Greetings, my dearest friends. Blessings, again, for each | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| us take a look at the meaning of pain and its real cause. Pain is the result | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| the meaning of pain and its real cause. Pain is the result of conflict. It occurs when | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| is not the disturbance itself that creates the pain, but the imbalance and a special sort of | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| the pull of the two directions creates the pain. You can tell that this is what actually | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| tell that this is what actually causes the pain because when the struggle is given up and | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| individual lets go and gives in to the pain, the pain stops. Many people have verified the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| go and gives in to the pain, the pain stops. Many people have verified the truth of | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| the existence of the negative direction is accepted, pain must cease. When the disturbance is fought against | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| the more tense. That is the origin of pain. If the personality were conscious of wanting non-health | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| in the system. The two pulls continue and pain comes into being. But when this process is | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| can let oneself go into this now existing pain, and the pain must cease. This is not | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| go into this now existing pain, and the pain must cease. This is not necessarily a destructive | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| is not necessarily a destructive way of embracing pain, or a masochistic, self- punishing element that in | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| full acceptance of what is -- with that, pain ceases. It is the principle, for instance, of | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| to the physical plane, of course. Therefore, physical pain ceases when tension ceases -- and this happens | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| of these consequences -- the mental or emotional pain ceases. This does not happen when the negative | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| by understanding the now. Then mental and emotional pain cease, just as physical pain ceases when the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| mental and emotional pain cease, just as physical pain ceases when the opposite pull is abandoned. All | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| unity itself, therefore conflict, opposing directions and, consequently, pain are unthinkable and illogical there. People who are | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| there. People who are free from conflict and pain must be in unity. They can be in | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| for an individual to fully want the negative, pain too would cease. But this is not possible | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| tension and conflict must exist, and so must pain. The negative direction is opposed to life, and | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| violently objects to the negative desire, so that pain must result. On the physical as well as | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| total being cannot ever totally want the negative. Pain and suffering are always the result of the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| must be infinitely greater than any suffering or pain that can ensue when one is aware of | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| strenuously struggle against. And that is exactly your pain. You struggle against something that you have yourself | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| that fears and resists it. Therefore a particular pain exists, and the greater the denial, the greater | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| and the greater the denial, the greater the pain. Do not forget that it is impossible to | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| reconciled to its results, there would be no pain. But it is not possible totally to ever | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| health and union -- hence the fiercer the pain. The pain is aggravated by the struggle that | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| union -- hence the fiercer the pain. The pain is aggravated by the struggle that sets in | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| oriented pleasure principle tears you apart. It inflicts pain on you by itself, but it does not | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| this fight, the latter would still be in pain because of his or her own division. But | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| pleasure principle attaches itself to it, making the pain more bearable. A will then revel in the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| in the negative situation. In the meantime, the pain of isolation in B becomes unbearable, and B | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| for me. Whenever I come to see the pain and hurt in another person, I immediately bring | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| such a negative chain reaction, with all its pain and frustration, will you long to return, step | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| of happiness and fullness, than of confinement and pain. This may appear preposterous, yet when you test | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| assuming that thus it will overcome the obstruction. Pain, disappointment, and complications follow. People are usually so | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| By transcending dualism you will also transcend the pain it causes. Few human beings transcend the dualistic | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the false fight leading into more confusion and pain. The three basic pseudo-solutions are simply means for | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the fore. You can shed these layers of pain, error, confusion, and limitation only when you no | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| are still deeply submerged in the illusion and pain of dualism. We shall come back to this | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| exists within, behind the levels of confusion and pain. And this state behind the acutely, momentarily experienced | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| surface only when the level of confusion and pain is totally understood. The natural cosmic flow, existing | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| do not exist. This is why you invite pain; for all pain, in the last analysis, is | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| This is why you invite pain; for all pain, in the last analysis, is utterly superfluous. These | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| that natural stream in which there is no pain. You have understood also in these moments that | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| destroy or endanger you. But you constantly embrace pain, either by believing it is inevitable, or by | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| organic step toward wholeness, you will find the pain much easier to go through. This should not | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| considerations, and any other peripheral values, including personal pain or pleasure. If awakening the real self requires | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| the ego-struggle. Its solutions will bring you less pain and anxiety. Answers will inevitably follow that reconcile | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| if you succeed in removing temporary states of pain and deprivation. There is a vast difference between | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| be what you can be, is an endless pain that you need to allow yourself to experience | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| a much greater terror than any live hurt, pain, or unhappiness ever could. You see, my friends | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| It is often sought to alleviate doubt and pain, but it never really does so in a | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| quality of joyful outreaching and gusto. Only when pain, misconception and misinterpretation of pain arise, is the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| gusto. Only when pain, misconception and misinterpretation of pain arise, is the natural flow diverted or stopped | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| illusory life, not being sufficiently aware of its pain and waste. You do not permit your inner | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| to convey to you the awareness of this pain. You do not dare risk it because you | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| this. Any superfluous emotion always causes the greatest pain and suffering. No emotion that is spontaneously and | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| aspect of this negativity, regardless of how much pain you feel in your surface consciousness. The difficulty | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| energy was first blocked by outer conditions. The pain of this blockage has caused destructiveness which at | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| you are more afraid of pleasure than of pain. If you have not verified this reaction in | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |