| you to reject pleasure that is unhampered by pain. QUESTION: Would you define pleasure as expansion and | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| QUESTION: Would you define pleasure as expansion and pain as contraction? ANSWER: Yes, that is quite true | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| as contraction? ANSWER: Yes, that is quite true. Pain is a contraction in the sense that it | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| richer than ever. QUESTION: Is the principle of pain and pleasure characteristic of this earth sphere? ANSWER | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| within themselves. In all these cases, pleasure and pain must exist as opposites. As I said at | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the good and the bad forces, pleasure and pain, are thought of as two separate forces, not | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| opposing it, the greater the extent of your pain and problems. If you cannot allow yourself to | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| circle without misjudging the negative connection between contact, pain, and the pleasure principle. You must look beyond | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| When frustration is not handled properly, it inflicts pain on the self and on others. The traits | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| taking place expresses the pull toward others; the pain arising from it expresses the counter-pull. To the | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| because you inflict upon yourself so much unnecessary pain. Nothing else can ever create as much pain | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| pain. Nothing else can ever create as much pain as running away from the self. You have | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| existed, fulfillment where frustration existed, pleasure supreme where pain and deprivation existed. But the courage and humility | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| understand that the misconception is a misconception. The pain will vanish, for the pain results from the | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| a misconception. The pain will vanish, for the pain results from the misconception and the ensuing conflict | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| leave you unfulfilled and frustrated, or even produce pain, expresses the torn state of your inner direction | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and by meeting what appears at first as pain, the ingathering movement may briefly intensify the pain | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| pain, the ingathering movement may briefly intensify the pain. But soon, if the pain is truly met | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| briefly intensify the pain. But soon, if the pain is truly met, it reduces itself naturally. On | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| soon in pleasure where first they were in pain. Safety and pleasure cannot be gained when the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| so true that only one who can stand pain can, in that exact measure, stand pleasure. No | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| seemed at first like dire threat or unbearable pain, to be avoided at all cost, soon turns | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in an illusion -- and all illusion breeds pain. The painful experience you wish to avoid by | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| at what you really feel. See what fear, pain, guilt and anger cause you to do within | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| refusing itself. This causes a hard, bitter, twisted pain because such pulling away is not organic and | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| experience in the manner discussed, there will be pain too, at first. But the pain will have | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| will be pain too, at first. But the pain will have a completely different characteristic. It will | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| into meaningfulness and sense. It is a growing pain, not a death pain. It is a pain | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| It is a growing pain, not a death pain. It is a pain that creates more and | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| pain, not a death pain. It is a pain that creates more and better life and thus | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| essence. When you remain truthfully open to the pain, fear, or other destructive emotion, you will not | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| futile sense, to go through all the unnecessary pain of avoidance and flight. The effort to shrink | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| I show you. When pursuing this course, the pain must become bliss because you have transcended it | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| terms of your personal growth. You allowed the pain its natural healthy rhythm, you allowed experience caused | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| bliss, pleasure supreme, is feared to the extent pain is denied. One who can accept pain, can | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| extent pain is denied. One who can accept pain, can endure pleasure. The two experiences you mentioned | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| delight, ecstasy, depends on the ability to assimilate pain and frustration in an appropriate and truthful way | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| invariably see that the person who cannot accept pain in a healthy, constructive and realistic way cannot | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| number of other emotions, such as sadness, self-pity, pain, healthy aggression, and self-assertion. All negative energy currents | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| done only when you comprehend the far worse pain caused by the frustration of not giving what | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| taken into consideration. So much more of the pain in your inner life is the pain of | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the pain in your inner life is the pain of withholding what you have to give, rather | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| up the block of withholding that causes more pain than any lack of receiving. From there it | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| You will no longer inflict frustration and therefore pain upon yourself, because the immense pleasure of following | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| or if it is painful at first, the pain is not the end of the world and | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can meet it. Thereby it ceases to be pain. You begin to see and perceive in an | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| over-aggressiveness. Few things give human beings as much pain and shame as this inner, fearful, weak spot | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| correct an unnecessary condition of fear, frustration, and pain. For even those of you who have not | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| into the depths of one's inner being. If pain resides in those depths, it must come out | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| come out, otherwise it cannot be dissolved. The pain obstructs the light and must therefore be dug | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| deny what you consciously wish is the greatest pain because you are pulled in opposite directions. Whenever | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| directions make you feel literally torn apart. The pain of not understanding what goes on increases the | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the universal flow. The division is the real pain. One who is aware of the division and | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| are tortured, anxious, numb, hopeless, and twisted in pain -- another reality. This level of reacting -- | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| The pleasure -- that is the opposite of pain you are used to -- must become less | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| -- must become less intense, just as the pain will become less intense when you learn to | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| It lessens the intensity of both pleasure and pain. It enables the soul to go through anything | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| longer fights, struggles against, avoids and fears the pain, it becomes increasingly less intense, until it ceases | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| increasingly less intense, until it ceases to be pain at all. By the same token, the old | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| reality -- infinite and inexorable. The idea that pain and pleasure become more similar may sound impossible | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| temporary, and experienced as such. The experience of pain turning into pleasure and the two thus becoming | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| nature than the pleasure that is opposed to pain in the dualistic state. On the level of | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| QUESTION: Does the coming together of pleasure and pain happen when you experience pain as a feeling | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| of pleasure and pain happen when you experience pain as a feeling? Is the common denominator that | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| both as feelings, when even the feeling of pain becomes pleasurable because it is experienced? ANSWER: You | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| personality ceases to struggle against a feeling, the pain ceases and becomes pleasurable. This is why a | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| bad ones, you will come out of the pain of self-hate. Be blessed all of you, be | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| you choose this pleasure -- with all its pain, guilt, discomfort and insecurity -- you forfeit the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| multiply the confusion, entanglements, misconceptions and the resulting pain. For error is pain as truth is happiness | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| misconceptions and the resulting pain. For error is pain as truth is happiness. Anyone working on such | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| clarifying the confusion, in spite of remaining in pain while the confusion lasts, in spite of knowing | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| -- thus the truth of life. All the pain and frustration the average human being goes through | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| life. It merely means that gradually, as the pain is transcended, it ceases to be pain. Many | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the pain is transcended, it ceases to be pain. Many human beings find themselves in the middle | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| discomfort, because not knowing the reason for a pain is worse than any conscious pain. In some | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| for a pain is worse than any conscious pain. In some personality types the result is inertia | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the state in which tension is no longer pain, so that you no longer alternate between pain | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| pain, so that you no longer alternate between pain and pleasure. Then these opposites will be reconciled | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| to our topic here, is the experience of pain and frustration. You have been indoctrinated for millennia | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| millennia with the conviction that any frustration is pain. That is why it is so difficult to | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| curtain of fear. Your conviction that frustration is pain and perhaps even danger makes you react in | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the next time. Ask yourself, Now, here is pain. I let myself feel this pain. Is it | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| here is pain. I let myself feel this pain. Is it really as painful as I pretend | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| deeper sense. As you convince yourself of the pain, you produce waves of pain by your very | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| yourself of the pain, you produce waves of pain by your very reaction, as if the situation | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| painful. The tension becomes more painful than the pain itself. Once you watch your reactions from this | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| to you. You will learn to let the pain, the frustration, be. You will let its movement | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| Little by little you will experience how the pain turns into a pleasurable movement of pulsation. Only | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| mind makes such frantic, struggling movements against the pain and frustration that it is impossible to come | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| inner discontent, without registering qualms, anxiety, doubt or pain about their outer deviations from the lawfulness of | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| tension, anxious grasping, needless denial. The consequences are pain and frustration. This is all the more confusing | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| of one's unconscious reflexes means untold confusion and pain. The moment a person is governed by such | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| layers, including those that cause inner conflict and pain. When unification occurs, the layers melt into a | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| state. There came a juncture when all this pain, with no apparent way out, induced violence, rage | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| disconnected from their fellow creatures to sense others' pain as their own. Their suffering made them too | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| he or she felt would eventually produce more pain. Thus a social conscience developed from the instinct | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| this point, predominantly a seething mass of denied pain and, therefore, of violence, hate, and malice. Yet | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| any other way than by meeting destructiveness and pain. When you fully experience the hate and the | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| When you fully experience the hate and the pain in you without flinching, you will be surprised | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| Much sooner than you think, hate, violence and pain will dissolve and give way to a new | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| yourself as you are and go through the pain of some feelings, you will convince yourself very | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| original hurt. The false hurt creates an unbearable pain that leads to desperation and never to a | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| is not obstructed. The original state is not pain but pleasure, not suffering but joy, not deadness | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| have the strength to endure a little real pain. Tell yourself that the real pain is the | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| little real pain. Tell yourself that the real pain is the gateway to pleasure and fulfillment. What | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| shut out life itself. Do not fight the pain; in fighting it, you avoid the experience whose | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| she does not need to go through the pain. Let the divine consciousness infiltrate your entire being | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| and beautiful world, even if the illusion of pain must occasionally be briefly endured. Blessings for my | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| threshold where you meet the apparently uncontrollable agony, pain, hopelessness and violent anger -- and where you | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| mass of tightly packed feelings of violence and pain. The bottomlessness of the emotions you fear so | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| When you have the courage to experience the pain, agony, anger, violence and helplessness, you will truly | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| your inner destructiveness -- to the fear and pain and rage, and also to the deliberate, although | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| A great part of the rage, anger, and pain are not so much a question of the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| now, even if it means to go through pain, fear, anger. The experience of who you are | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| originally meant to be a protection against the pain, fear, and discomfort with which the individual was | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| cross to bear. As I said, numbness dulls pain and fear. But in doing so, it dulls | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| deadness. When the life center is feared because pain and fear cannot be dealt with, numbness is | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| tremendous experience this is. Yes, you first experience pain or whatever other emotion it may be to | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| it you also discover the enormous difference between pain and pain, between fear and fear, between anger | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| also discover the enormous difference between pain and pain, between fear and fear, between anger and anger | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| never closes life. Even while you experience the pain, wonderful pulsating life bubbles up in you, and | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you, and the joy is right behind the pain, with the outlook of limitless possibilities. Accepted pain | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| pain, with the outlook of limitless possibilities. Accepted pain is not frightening, confusing, or conflicting; it is | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| and go deeper, it transforms itself. While the pain is still there, you, at the same time | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| immensely alive, beautifully alive. Little by little the pain makes room for pleasure. Safety, hope, new experience | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you shrink from and numb yourself against are pain and fear, as well as the anger and | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| life center have experienced the different kinds of pain. The pain that is rejected is bitter and | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| have experienced the different kinds of pain. The pain that is rejected is bitter and disquieting and | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| rejected is bitter and disquieting and hopeless. The pain that is accepted is quite different, very near | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| not mean that you are expected to welcome pain. What I mean is that negative experience ceases | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| that cause it: the fear of disappointment and pain which numbs the feelings, which in turn creates | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| why you numb yourself against some kind of pain: it is the constant fear of pain that | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| of pain: it is the constant fear of pain that adds up to a sort of shock | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| soul movements. Instead of shrinking from the feared pain and thereby creating harmful, life-defeating attitudes, you will | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| deadened thaws out, you are bound to experience pain -- the pain you once froze. The pain | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you are bound to experience pain -- the pain you once froze. The pain cannot heal unless | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| pain -- the pain you once froze. The pain cannot heal unless you are courageous enough to | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| be. The more you inwardly tense up against pain, the more unbearable it becomes. The more you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| less severe it will be. By fearing the pain, you shrink from and reject it. You then | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| was once afflicted. This way of dealing with pain is not illusory wishful thinking. It is the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| fear death because you court it, and fear pain because you do not encounter it in a | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| deeper realms of your emotional being. Meet the pain with a new attitude; feel into yourself and | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you have perpetuated. When you no longer reject pain, fear, and negativity, when you deal with them | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| of being real even as you are in pain, will make the pain a deeper and eventually | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| as you are in pain, will make the pain a deeper and eventually joyful experience by no | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| last analysis it is always the fear of pain, and the pain of not being loved and | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| is always the fear of pain, and the pain of not being loved and protected, warmed and | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| do this, you will first truly experience the pain of abandonment, even if only the threat of | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |