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| back in fear. Therefore many of you are pained at least as much because you do not | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| what you perceive makes you more angry and pained. This is vastly responsible for the apparently bottomless | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| have, even if this leaves you feeling empty, pained, and needy. However, do not lose sight of | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
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| from your thoughts or conscious intentions is rather painful. It is just this extra effort that God | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| questions of Creation. The reason why such a painful incarnation must occur is always karmic. Its exact | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| you will not experience their erroneous acts as painful to you. You can liberate yourself from your | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| you have refused to understand. This can be painful. You really come to feel that this is | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| her purification will be much shorter and less painful and will give peace and satisfaction. This is | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| and the tearing off of masks is always painful during the process, although it is a great | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| cringe away from it, for it is very painful to them; it causes an extreme pain they | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| good progress, for without going through this stage, painful as it may be for a while, you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and about what you are supposed to accomplish. Painful knowledge might be connected with it which you | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| and ignorant conclusions that have formed such a painful image within you? This image is the one | 38 IMAGES |
| tense up, an incision will be much more painful than if you relax. There are certain people | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| your life, and thereby cause not only a painful discrepancy, but untold conflicts and problems with your | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| loved ones, a crisis, a shakeup, and a painful awakening that will hurt deeply is often unavoidable | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| this point of view, the process will be painful at first, but not half as bad as | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| there some grain of truth somewhere in this painful conflict? By recognizing it I will continue to | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| about, what the reason is for this often painful existence on earth. You all know that life | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| certainly. But this treatment will always be a painful one, particularly if the inner root is not | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and seek what can be learned from the painful situation. You all know well enough by now | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| all know well enough by now that no painful situation can come into existence from which an | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| longer rebel. Nor do you have to make painful efforts in an attempt to gain something that | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| responsible for such an occurrence, which is especially painful since you do not see how you attracted | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| are bound to be others that are extremely painful and cannot be enjoyed at all. But you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| will to find this in you, after some painful recognitions, overcoming the resistance to making them, you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| one can observe this to some degree. A painful event comes your way. You will first suffer | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| fairly soon come to the point where the painful occurrence gives you an important new recognition about | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| moment when the negative incident ceases to be painful -- until finally the moment of recognition and | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| joy occurs at the same time as the painful experience takes place. When this state is reached | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| search for that. Simply try to make the painful experience a constructive one. That is the best | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the growth that can take place after this painful procedure. By the same token, when souls are | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the work is essential although sometimes a bit painful, for a while. But it cannot be dispensed | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| be a particular reason. Death can be more painful in a slow consuming disease or in an | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| accident. Murder may be a quicker and less painful death than other forms. If other forms of | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| this as a joyous experience. It will be painful all over again. ANSWER: Not necessarily. As I | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| either case, working this through need not be painful if the approach is right. Even if you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| so far. It will be more or less painful. On the other hand, a discovery of suppression | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| all into true concepts, it feels certainly more painful than facing something you have suppressed because you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| exactly is that? The recognition will be less painful and much more liberating than you think. For | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| bring him distress; what was once, perhaps, so painful when he first developed the affliction so that | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one is helpless and has to endure a painful fate because he or she is not good | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| good or bad, positive or negative, joyful or painful -- have existed and people have experienced them | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| sincerely search within themselves for what is most painful, and from what they cringe most! Truth has | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| work toward reestablishing it. This is often a painful process. For instance, the effect of aggressive communication | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| suffering that were feared. Often they are not painful or annihilating at all. You will find many | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| against death or unhappiness begins. Birth is a painful experience for the infant. Other painful experiences are | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| is a painful experience for the infant. Other painful experiences are bound to follow, although pleasurable experiences | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| infringement of personal freedom, as well as the painful process of healing the soul, may be every | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| results in self-contempt and self-dislike. Since this is painful, aside from being contradictory to the idealized self-image | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| these often contradictory trends, and this will be painful. The pain that was always in you but | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| allowing yourself to see the false values, however painful this may be, your real values will gradually | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and appreciating. To unroll this entire process is painful at first, because the emotions of anxiety, frustration | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| not avoiding experience and emotions which may be painful at the moment but might yield an important | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| you hide by subtly coloring that which seems painful and humiliating for you; how you belittle others | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| of exposure. What makes this work temporarily so painful is the uncovering of something shameful. Only after | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| will then experience these emotions. This is a painful process, my friends. I want to say to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| is your attitude to this work. When certain painful points are reached, what are your reactions to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to you in a different and much more painful, but indirect way. The bitter hurt of isolation | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| not really avoid unhappiness, as already indicated. This painful isolation was not willingly chosen by you and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| exercise and eating, in itself, might lead to painful experiences. Yet this is done with your emotional | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| security you never dreamed existed. After the first painful release of negative emotions, you will find a | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| like or respect myself. Since this is too painful to bear, I must look away from my | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| to the formation of the image was so painful and so humiliating that you did not wish | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| Only by unraveling this entire process can the painful inferiority feeling disappear. It is the feeling of | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| While doing so, he not only represses the painful fear, but he also represses the entire process | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| Your real self can lose. It may be painful, but that is never as painful and bitter | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| may be painful, but that is never as painful and bitter as the struggle of straining toward | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| me a hint? ANSWER: You are in a painful state because you still act out of obedience | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you is eager for the new life. This painful state is one that many of you are | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| The self-estranged person experiences frustration as much more painful than the unfulfillment of the wish or goal | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| which you perceive things in just such a painful way. This accounts for the often disproportionate pain | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| part of your personality. This lopsidedness is more painful to endure than if the entire personality were | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| real needs not only because facing unfulfillment is painful, but more so because unfulfillment means proof of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| grief. But if the loss is felt as painful without a feeling of self-impoverishment, then it is | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the joy of true self-facing, no matter how painful this may appear at the beginning, for there | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| defense mechanisms. If you dare not experience these painful emotions -- perhaps because you shy away from | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| yourself of the utter truth that all these painful emotions -- whether exaggerated or repressed -- are | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you are now in the throes of destructive, painful emotions? You have conditioned yourself into them, but | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| patterns embody a negative tenet that produces a painful result, are inherently self-destructive. If this is enjoyed | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| threshold. But the act of crossing it is painful in the beginning. You would expect, when crossing | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| constructively for you. The longer you delay this painful process, the more difficult is it bound to | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| up. Through your destructive patterns, you pushed your painful need to receive love into the unconscious. Due | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| pressure. It is this pressure that is so painful. It seems to tear you apart. Do not | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| frustrate you. Such unfulfillment is not half as painful as the error of believing yourself to be | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| it means to you. I know this is painful, at the moment, in time. There is no | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| It is not his death that is so painful, but the leaving of small children, and so | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| difference. In sadness you accept without self-pity a painful fact of life as something beyond your power | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| harmed by circumstances outside yourself, no matter how painful a situation might be? If you cannot answer | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| It is a question of integrity. Without such painful manifestation the person would be unaware that something | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| nothing that makes more sense, no matter how painful life may sometimes be, no matter how many | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| and disillusioning about oneself, and at times even painful, will not diminish the great experience once the | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| why it is that, after an unflattering or painful recognition - - provided you go to its | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| People often say that life is difficult and painful, that it is a confusing and puzzling ordeal | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| one that originally caused you to misinterpret a painful condition or occurrence. You saw that in a | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| voice by all sorts of evasions, pleasurable or painful, constructive or destructive. But eventually the moment must | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the unpleasant, faulty aspects of yourself that are painful, humiliating and unflattering. You have by now learned | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| At such times your struggle is often very painful until you have truly come face to face | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| way of your facing yourself in utter candor, painful as it may appear at times. The aim | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| problems in your life, we concentrated on unhappy, painful childhood events and conditions. We found that they | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| sexual force in the growing individual. But often painful experience melts into the pleasure drive and fixes | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| and fixes erotic and sexual pleasure to the painful experience. It is important to recognize this fact | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| by allowing the pleasure principle to influence the painful experience, which might otherwise have been unbearable for | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| been unbearable for the child's undeveloped ego. If painful experience is eroticized or sexualized, it permits the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| person unconsciously combines these alternatives to deal with painful experience. It is of utmost necessity to dissolve | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| are fused because you could not assimilate your painful experience otherwise, note that on the one hand | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| periods and fight against them, they will be painful and present conflict and disharmony. To the degree | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| teething baby experiences pain. Puberty is psychologically a painful process. It is, again, a step toward individuation | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| patterns, even resisting understanding their mechanism, the more painful these old, obsolete patterns finally become. Conversely, the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| over and over again. Adolescence is a particularly painful and trying period because the individual leaves the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| consciously or unconsciously, that frustrated needs are necessarily painful. This is one of the predominant reasons for | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| try with all your might to understand a painful and involved situation by analyzing yourself and the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| you cannot cope with life when life is painful and unfulfilled. In this unfinished, ignorant, and blind | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| life to make the period of transition less painful physically, as well as mentally. Mental pain exists | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| for instance, that self-responsibility and adulthood are more painful than the position of the child you so | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| opposites coalesce and the full experience of the painful moment will become bliss. One then reaches beyond | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| doomed to making choices between equally undesirable and painful alternatives. The third either/or is the assumption that | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| mean that you should be looking for negative, painful experiences. When you open your whole psyche to | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| second nature and is maintained long after the painful circumstances have changed and when the person is | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| that combines the inherent pleasure current with the painful event. QUESTION: And the child wishes to reproduce | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| in that vibrant experience where desire is never painful and, therefore, where desire and fulfillment become one | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| soon be out of your crisis or your painful confusion. Be blessed, all of you. Be in | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| you fear more. The outcome will be problematic, painful, and fraught with conflict because you pull and | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| to that degree interrelationship must be problematic and painful for you. To the degree you stem against | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you stem against overcoming isolation, isolation must be painful. The key lies in the desire to offer | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| this moment while you are still in your painful seclusion. To be in harmony with life, first | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| do not forget, my friends, that it is painful enough that you want and do not want | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| healthy soul movement toward union was risky and painful and so reverts to the negative and the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| negative and the denial. Since this is so painful, the negative pleasure principle attaches itself to it | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| void, the overemotionalism will cease. Both manifestations are painful, the emptiness as well as the too much | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| correcting negative fields with their ever-repeating undesirable and painful patterns? To say you must trust in a | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| withdraw from living. Think of how much more painful it must be when one ascribes these occurrences | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| in greater detail why you cling to the painful dualistic state, despite the immediate accessibility of the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| to relinquish the ego state, hence the dualistic, painful way of life. Why do you resist so | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| in your life. The outer issue is so painful only because the inner quarrel is between life | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| to hide from issues when they become really painful and frightening. This is your very stumbling block | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| because your shying away from what appears so painful and frightening makes it impossible to uncover the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| where there is no longer any opposition and painful conflict. This is the natural state, so you | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| conditions, your psyche goes through profound upheavals. The painful past state, as you know, was a result | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| error is undesirable. Now, destruction is always a painful process, whether or not it is desirable. While | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| greater the period of upheaval, which is naturally painful. But, my friends, it is painful only because | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| is naturally painful. But, my friends, it is painful only because you misunderstand what is happening and | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| the organic and desirable movement, you prolong the painful, transitional period -- painful primarily because it is | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| movement, you prolong the painful, transitional period -- painful primarily because it is misunderstood. You feel, Here | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| happen this way, the loss is much more painful. When, instead, you see this transition period as | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| of yourself, you will remain trapped in a painful struggle that tears you apart and for which | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| movement; recognizing the fault in question is unbearably painful only because the person refuses to give it | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| you resist the good and battle to maintain painful struggle and insoluble conflict? Why do you fear | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| sacrifice of all you want. But the most painful state is indecision, and this holds true on | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| the denial take place? Strangely enough, it seems painful to admit such denials, until you have reached | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| left behind. When you have understood that the painful aspects, meaning the negative expression, can be abandoned | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| and only then will you truly comprehend the painful outer situation which, offhand, may have nothing to | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| force, moving individuals toward each other, making separateness painful and empty. The life force therefore consists not | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| throws the cosmic stream off course, negative and painful contact has to ensue. The pleasure principle will | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| between the two pulls, and is driven into painful contact. Thus the pull toward contact, and the | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| isolated to some extent. You remain involved in painful negativity and split within yourself, until your further | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| of the distortions, images, misconceptions, misunderstandings of early painful experiences. They do not need, however, to destroy | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| is in fear, and fear makes expansion appear painful and threatening. Fear contracts into unpleasure. Hence the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| from its afflictions. Fleeing the experience that seems painful, undesirable, dangerous, is fleeing from yourself, just as | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and relaxed to the experience, no matter how painful or frightening it may appear, you allow it | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| illusion -- and all illusion breeds pain. The painful experience you wish to avoid by interrupting your | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| movement. You will distinctly experience how what was painful on the first pulsebeat of expansion diminishes with | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of experience does not only exist regarding negative, painful experience. There is as much fear, and often | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| It is only when the compactness becomes too painful that they may reverse the direction and set | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| lose without suffering -- or if it is painful at first, the pain is not the end | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the dying of the old, which is often painful. It means battling through the waste and mud | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| therefore denied. Thus the individual remains in a painful state of dependency and lack of identity, of | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| breed more terror. The unification of the tremendously painful division within you -- of wanting the thing | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| versus something very bad. The duality makes a painful cramp inevitable. Anything you do not want, you | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the beginning of unification. In this attitude any painful feeling loses its terror because it no longer | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| yourself somewhere and thus put yourself in a painful state, whether you are aware of it or | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| temporary reality. This is why it is so painful and feels so insecure and why in no | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| wrong assumption snowballs into a host of untenable, painful, destructive beliefs and defense measures, each in itself | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| itself causing complicated webs of entanglements and growingly painful beliefs. But the two contradictory original assumptions multiply | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| you may sense they are somehow false. The painful premise seems preferable to another alternative that appears | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| relaxation. This kind of tension is not the painful tension a person feels when the two forces | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| of its true divine identity -- the more painful must be the alternating rhythm and pulsation of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| whereas the closing, tense state is felt as painful and undesirable. The dichotomy causes the entity to | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| no other way but to endure the momentary painful state, so as to allow the natural rhythm | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| until the entire personality is freed from the painful, cramped state. Freedom does not mean the cessation | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| state, where one universal pulse is felt as painful, the other as pleasurable. The right interaction of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| isolated ego without deeper connections. In this extremely painful illusion, the real connections remain unused, so that | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| more separation, frustration, and unhappiness -- to the painful tension produced by trying too hard in an | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| perhaps doing what is at the moment most painful, you trust in a false God -- a | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| to the truth of yourself, no matter how painful or unflattering it may be. At the same | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |