| react in a way that actually produces a painful and dangerous state. I suggest that, as you | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| myself feel this pain. Is it really as painful as I pretend? I mean here pretend in | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| reaction, as if the situation were truly so painful. The tension becomes more painful than the pain | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| were truly so painful. The tension becomes more painful than the pain itself. Once you watch your | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| -- puts people in a constant state of painful tension, anxious grasping, needless denial. The consequences are | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| destruction of destructiveness. Even though it may be painful to endure at the moment, such death is | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| you will experience a wonderful process: The negative, painful feeling will dissolve naturally, as every living process | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| In that battle your reaction becomes even more painful: greater dissension with yourself and even more rage | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| it off in this life. Much of the painful reaction is produced because you battle yourself as | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| of human being. In fact, much fruitless and painful striving goes into this wrong direction and makes | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| makes the path so much longer and unnecessarily painful. The words have been said, but people seem | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| one. The accepted feeling is not half as painful nor as filled with anguish. It never produces | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| especially when faced with the threat of new painful experience or disappointment. This shrinking from the life | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| for the good experience, if not for the painful one. But if you fear the painful experience | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| the painful one. But if you fear the painful experience, you are defensive, unspontaneous, and thus walled | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| possibly think of; it is also the most painful experience within the individual person. In a state | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| shock reaction. A child responds to a protracted painful situation or a subtle emotional climate with an | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| this way, the threat is already much less painful. As you do this, some new strength will | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| in harmony. If what is created is destructive, painful, wasteful, or unhappy, these two principles must also | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| has actually given up. When there is a painful, anxious urge, it can relax only when you | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| double violation, which inevitably leads to the most painful of all mental and emotional states: a double | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| you finally see that an unfulfilled longing or painful conflict of long standing is the result of | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| tensions, there are inner lumps. They are not painful, but you feel that they exist. You will | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| you feel a congestion -- be it a painful state in your emotions or body, or merely | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| You are then torn in inner dissension and painful confusion. In this case the dilemma is: How | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| of you may be stuck just in this painful inner confusion. Some of you may not know | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| deliberate counterforce. Even if what is created is painful, the pleasure of creating is difficult to abandon | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| creation. This realization is at first shocking and painful, but only as long as you remain unwilling | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| someone from your past. To see this seems painful at first, but it will prove liberating. Those | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| attitudes remain unfaced and untouched, you live in painful ambivalence. For you cannot ever go in one | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| into two opposing directions? This struggle is more painful, confusing, and paralyzing than anything else that goes | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| unbeknownst to your conscious mind, it is extremely painful. When you know of its existence, you can | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| an imaginary rift that you experience as a painful chasm. You must always bridge an illusory duality | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| your natural and real state. Disunity is always painful. Pleasure always depends on unity. Expansion into life | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| pleasurable in itself, while rigid, reluctant movement is painful. Rather than denying the hidden reluctance, focus on | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| own blind way, peace with something traumatic and painful. On your path you have found misconceptions that | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| in his state of mind are sometimes exceedingly painful. Yet, he has progressed in this area, too | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the fact that this kind of aliveness is painful, unrewarding, and limiting. This is his revenge. He | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| own inner conflicts. The unfulfilled longing becomes unbearably painful when isolation is chosen due to the difficulty | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| must be cultivated in order to escape the painful dilemma in which both available alternatives -- isolation | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| the split comes to the surface, the less painful it is and the less conflict it produces | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| It is your own inner disunity that is painful. There the dualistic split reigns, and your positive | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| tears down and breaks up, which is momentarily painful, but transformation is unthinkable without it. The more | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| but transformation is unthinkable without it. The more painful a crisis is, the more the will-directing part | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| end when the pressure bursts. This is a painful crisis, and people usually resist it with all | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the human psyche and in relationships that are painful and problematic. If difficulties, upheavals, and pain in | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| human consciousness. Growth is indeed possible without intense painful dark nights, if honesty with the self becomes | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| attitudes and ideas must be cultivated. Then the painful, disruptive crisis can be avoided, because no inflamed | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the greater the obstruction to change, the more painful the crisis is going to be. The more | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| path of an individual, the less severe and painful the crisis is going to be. The severity | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| interpretation of the event makes the crisis disproportionately painful. Sometimes one tries to find rational explanations for | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| eruption of the boil, which consists of a painful entanglement of ever-increasing negative energy whose momentum makes | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the swelling of the boil impossible. Hence no painful eruption is needed to destroy rotten structures. This | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| in fact never be, you remain in a painful state of inner split, partial self-denial, and paralysis | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| individual evolution, everyone comes to recognize fully how painful this fluctuation is, which subsequently leads to a | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| leave this pursuit altogether because it seems too painful and difficult to accept previously unacceptable aspects of | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| The negative attitudes bring more and more undesirable, painful life experience, against which the personality defends itself | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| you. First this must, by necessity, apply to painful experiences and feelings. If you cannot bear them | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| them, accept them, experience them fully. Allow the painful experiences and feelings to be in you. Go | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| to it. This puts them deeper into the painful duality that is so hard to overcome until | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| that create contraction will gradually diminish. Sustain the painful feelings -- not masochistically, not self-rejectingly, not in | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| courage and truthfulness? While you are in the painful feeling in a fully accepting spirit, slowly -- | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| thus do not even notice as an unnatural, painful and unnecessary state. When you listen into your | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| listen into your unfeeling numbness, you will detect painful longing and other undesirable feelings. As you allow | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| institute the process I just described. Welcome the painful feeling that awakens in you. It is your | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| you have learned to be with difficult and painful ones. You will soon note that, in addition | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| you react, are frightened of and angry about painful experiences and feelings, you are also unable to | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| out of the wheel of suffering and of painful struggle with the opposites. As your whole system | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| the struggle is no longer as severe or painful. Increased awareness of higher states of consciousness facilitates | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| out of existence. Since this conflict is too painful to face when it is believed to be | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| pretense, for the only other alternative is the painful struggle I have just described. No wonder human | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| love, energy, strength of feeling, capacity to transcend painful opposites that will enrich and reorient your life | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| These hidden fears are not one iota less painful and limiting than the actual experience of the | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| have become poisonous from not being released. These painful experiences cannot be released if they are not | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| nature is a result of defending against experiencing painful, undesirable feelings. This denial stagnates energy. When feelings | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| flow that is never experienced as arduous or painful, nor as tiring or undesirable in any way | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| first is the childhood conditions which were so painful that you thought you could not let yourself | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| from your core and therefore artificial and more painful than the original experience it fights against. Your | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| fully determined to experience the fear of deep, painful, hurtful, frightening feelings in you. I have often | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| conceived at the outset, your disinclination to experience painful feelings will inadvertently lead you to manufacture an | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the apparent abyss of your blocked feelings -- painful, frightening feelings. Unless you do so, you will | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| You must go through your fear of unpleasurable, painful feelings. That which is feared must be accepted | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| it can dissolve. When you fully savor the painful experience, then you are truly overcoming it. Then | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| split current is the entire basis of the painful state of duality. Such duality can thrive only | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| is and why it exists. What is unbearably painful, frightening, and hopeless is the inner struggle that | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| destructiveness sets in. The fear of feelings, of painful experiences, makes you arrogant and isolated, cruel and | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| creates the false hopelessness that the tunnel of painful feelings is a bottomless pit of horror and | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| a child whose unfulfillment caused most of your painful, and therefore repressed, feelings. As I said, any | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| certain environment will seem to be responsible for painful experience in childhood. But, actually, the undeveloped state | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| purification. Of course, it is possible to treat painful experience in the old ways of avoidance and | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| real effort to awaken yourself, no matter how painful this may seem at first. You can only | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| matter, you encounter the fact that the most painful element is the unfulfillment of your legitimate needs | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| The overreaction of the self then becomes so painful that the non-fulfillment of these insatiable demands for | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| many times the original residual pain. It creates painful tension in the system, which is always blamed | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| and as real experiences as the negative and painful feelings. The closing words did not get on | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| and outer will, feelings are destructive, stagnant and painful. The energy of the feeling body is paralyzed | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| can certainly be expressed constructively. If negative and painful feelings are not consciously dealt with, they will | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| hope that your life should be free from painful feelings, you hope for an illusion. Deep down | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| thus for reaching fulfillment. The refusal to experience painful feelings results from the misconception that they will | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| not, you will not allow yourself to experience painful feelings. The refusal to do so also causes | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| knowledge that what exists inside, no matter how painful, cannot simply be avoided but must be experienced | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| more of your good as well as your painful feelings. You gain strength and objectivity. By your | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| experience your real feelings, some of them quite painful. But the pain will be so much easier | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| example, an infant. When an infant experiences a painful physical sensation, it is incapable of bringing together | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| life: if it wishes not to experience the painful burning sensation, it must avoid touching fires. Here | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| matter blinds true vision and is therefore unavoidably painful. Resistance, matter, blindness, spells dualism, separation, evil, and | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| in the intellect does little to alleviate this painful and disturbing condition. In this lecture we shall | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| right about the issue. There may be a painful confusion here: one part of you senses that | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| adult intelligence is used merely to rationalize the painful confusion, to build defensive cases, to justify one's | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| their negativity affects you. This is a very painful and confusing state. Such an interaction can be | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and will you liberate yourself from the terribly painful confusion about others dealing with you that I | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| another way. This terrible fragmentation is the most painful and confusing state imaginable. Its cure lies wholly | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| you have found it, the drive can be painful and can temporarily make you search in the | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| this must be explored. At first this is painful. You cling to the illusion that you are | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| If humankind goes through the depths of unhappy, painful feelings, it is because it has created them | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| twice-removed alienation process that is so disconcerting and painful: fear of your fear; pain about your pain | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| is either productive and blissful or destructive and painful. It is an important aspect of this pathwork | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| in the fallacy that I can bear neither painful or good feelings. If there are any areas | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| I still battle and defend against either the painful or the loving feelings which are the giving | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| the most severely disturbed individuals completely reverse their painful lives into happy, healthy, unified, fulfilled lives, while | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| you go on punishing the world for this painful frustration. You dare not turn to the wondrous | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| own real guilt without self-devastation and without this painful inner struggle in which the mutual guilts and | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| are ready for it, the greater and more painful the necessary crisis must be. The more volitional | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| would rather avoid. If a life situation is painful and you defend with rage, complaints, and other | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| be much more, that you could live without painful tortured confusions and function on a level of | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| facilitate your growth and development, the solving of painful problems, the fulfillment of your real needs. By | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| desire, and the nature of how you approach painful experience. Your approach to pain immediately and directly | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| this negative exchange indirectly, your struggle must be painful and you will not experience peace from recognizing | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| also between cause and effect. Nothing is more painful than suffering an effect whose cause you ignore | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| yourself into this narrow, uncomfortable, confining and often painful state in which you temporarily dwell. Only aspects | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| so that what it constructs is often more painful than desirable. In the example we have chosen | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| from your voluntary processes. This is a very painful state because what happens to you appears undeserved | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| are victims. No game is deadlier and more painful. Yet no resistance is greater than that which | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| a sense of its real identity. This extremely painful state comes about only when pride, selfwill, and | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| shine through. Just imagine, my friends, the incredibly painful predicament you put yourself in when you hide | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| one time or another encounter a rude and painful awakening. You must go through this process; you | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| produce and create, often on a vast scale, painful, debilitating, and frustrating experience. Then you use this | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| I will let them go. If this is painful, I will accept this pain and explore its | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| so you can extricate yourself from the incredibly painful and hopeless dichotomy in which all humanity is | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| the bliss state is then all the more painful and the state of ordinary, physical consciousness all | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| for your further self-exploration. Suppose there is something painful in you that you struggle against -- and | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| to face what seems most difficult and momentarily painful -- anyone who chooses to forgo the temptation | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| in a sudden accident or illness, in a painful, slow illness and, above all, with the conscious | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| process of dying all the more difficult and painful, because it seems senseless and arbitrary. The outer | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| of it you perceive. You can transcend the painful, confusing and limited state of dualistic consciousness only | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the whole, even though they may momentarily seem painful, ugly and not alive. But when you make | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| only momentary, must present experiences that are puzzling, painful, disquieting, confusing, or that simply rob you of | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| do not need to fear something that is painful, or something that is at the moment not | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| exhilaration and the joy; it ceases to be painful and difficult. You also find this out as | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| the touch perception of inverted negative consciousness is painful in every possible way. It can be cutting | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| those who resist the movement will experience a painful crisis, while those who follow it will experience | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the ever-existing tendency to stagnate, it creates a painful crisis. You may look at all the upheavals | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| way, can manifest only in a distorted, therefore painful way. You create the distortion by not feeling | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the life of the person as upheaval, crisis, painful destruction. The individual needs to learn how to | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| are based on illusion, they must ultimately prove painful and unworkable and are being destroyed by every | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| and adopt a new, more appropriate one, the painful crises and destruction are unnecessary. With willingness the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| You are truly confused and the struggle is painful because it is a struggle that covers up | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| to your expectations. Perhaps even more insidious and painful is the very fact that you do not | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| of false self-value, making room for facing your painful belief in being valueless, can you begin to | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| in creation. That defensive palliative seems perhaps less painful than admitting that you feel too evil and | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| kind of world view cushions them against the painful belief that they themselves are unworthy of love | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| states of expansion and contraction are both equally painful and negative. As the soul begins to evolve | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| desperately wants to change. It is frightening and painful, but I know I will win and I | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| but then you get lost in its very painful effects. You may really believe in what you | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| go with leadership. You have here a very painful conflict and a dichotomy. On the one hand | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| again you defeat the purpose. You create a painful conflict in yourself and you create frustration. True | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| its opposite, you are in a state of painful duality. You erroneously attempt to reduce the tension | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| erroneously attempt to reduce the tension of this painful state by pressuring life into giving you the | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| the following attitude: If what I experience is painful or undesirable, I will trust it anyway; I | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| and your jealousies and envies appear as the painful illusions they are. Still all too often you | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| it, to deny it makes it much more painful and prolonged than it needs to be. Yet | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| for others, and that is truly a very painful state that you need not endure. Most of | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| cling to the old protective illusion that your painful feelings of self-rejection are caused by something or | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| to say that where your problem seems most painful in your life manifestation, that is where you | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| expressions. When the abuse reaches its peak, the painful confusion of dualism arises and the pendulum must | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| conscious of the dark part, it creates commensurately painful experiences. For experience is constantly being created as | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| thoughts, beliefs and feelings of the person. How painful it is when the result of these inner | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| without rhyme or reason! This is the most painful state of consciousness. It leads to the assumption | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| at least in part, in a state of painful separation and darkness, in the fear of not | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| all your intention and acumen on the extremely painful consequences of this negative trait to yourself and | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| attitudes in you that make this expansion unnecessarily painful. In your fear you confuse issues; your thinking | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| a test. All gifts are tests, just as painful occurrences are tests. The test was to recognize | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| and harder the resistance to truth, the more painful it is. The same holds true for collective | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| denying the truth of Jesus Christ seems too painful to bear. To let go of the defense | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| negative situations, feelings, and events. Untruth is always painful. The defense against wrong conclusions creates a negative | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| only lower-self traits, but also their consequences and painful effects on you and your life, you experience | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| to make these connections and an equally strong painful fear that no connections exist, that all is | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| ever exist in the record. Much argument, dissension, painful struggling in dark and confused states of mind | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| For only then will you heal the profoundly painful wound of believing that you live in an | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| for the best, no matter how evil, how painful, how tragic things may appear at the moment | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| is directly designed to create an inner order, painful as this may be at first, so that | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| at the real reasons why you maintain this painful and unnecessary state of isolation and deception -- | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| through this phase of their own evolution is painful, even though there is an intrinsic rightness about | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Perhaps we should begin by pointing out how painful and fearful duality really is. For this is | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| are similar to a child's hardly feeling his painful conditions simply because he does not know what | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| human beings do not know that duality is painful, nor how painful it really is. Nor do | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| not know that duality is painful, nor how painful it really is. Nor do they know that | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| toward the desirable. This very straining is extremely painful and anxiety- producing, but it becomes conscious only | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| the mind becomes more firmly entrenched in the painful, fearful dualism through straining from the undesirable alternative | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| ensnarled in the dualistic state with all its painful strains and anxieties. Denied fear creates more fear | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| temporarily inhabit. The same applies to pain and painful experiences. If one suspects pain to be the | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| darkness, such divine reminders and expressions are as painful as they are nourishing for the more enlightened | 254 SURRENDER |
| of consciousness, or worlds, all light is unbearably painful. Now, why am I telling you this at | 254 SURRENDER |
| in overcoming another aspect of the ever present, painful polarity against which you constantly battle. You often | 254 SURRENDER |
| as intense, sometimes prolonged crisis. Since crisis is painful, it weakens the pulse beat. Only as the | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| from the temporary. Birth is always traumatic and painful. I spoke about this before in another context | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| very tight structure, and this is experienced as painful. When you see the baby's struggle and resistance | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| halted. The more opposition it encounters, the more painful the crisis will be. This has also become | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| were totally obscure before. Nothing could be more painful and more frightening than the disconnectedness between a | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| and more frightening than the disconnectedness between a painful event in your life and its inner cause | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| comparatively long time of search and work, a painful personal event seems utterly disconnected from any personal | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| this path what a constructive response to a painful event is. What can I learn here? What | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| names, such as lower-self aspects, negativities, destructiveness, a painful state of mind. Now what about salvation? The | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| other incarnated entities to be saved from their painful state of untruth -- sin -- and consequent | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |