| Painfully...................8 | |
| having done the very thing he has so painfully experienced as a victim. Therefore the hurt is | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| relieve the involved situation of surplus intensity and painfully twisted, conflicting emotions. You may try with all | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| and pleasure engenders a vicious circle. The more painfully the pleasure principle of the cosmic pull manifests | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| movement is possible only when it is forced painfully by the outer will. This explains the hankering | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| accept when they first came to you so painfully. Laziness is a protection against the movement of | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| misconception that makes you struggle so arduously and painfully against the sadness. When you then experience sadness | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| could never bring real fulfillment. The fulfillment so painfully longed for can be attained only when you | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| box in which the mind finds itself becomes painfully narrow and limited. All perceptions are untrustworthy because | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Painless....................5 | |
| is absolutely not the case. QUESTION: Is a painless return a grace that one has merited? ANSWER | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| not so important whether everything is pleasant and painless. Only you human beings think that this is | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| Such a way is not as easy and painless as it may appear, yet it is really | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| ceases. It is the principle, for instance, of painless birth. It is the principle of non-struggle. It | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| human souls before realization of the unitive, deathless, painless state has been attained. The feeling is, if | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Painlessly..................3 | |
| is in truth and can therefore comfortably and painlessly give its best -- and there is a | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| proportion, such a person can consequently receive comfortably, painlessly, and joyfully, until the aspects of giving and | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| lower stages perhaps a bit faster and more painlessly, perhaps a bit more safely and more meaningfully | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| Pains.......................43 | |
| a negative decision at all, you must take pains to honestly confront yourself, bring the unconscious into | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| they say a prayer, or because they take pains to become decent human beings. Yet this was | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| yourself and become hopeless, wallowing in your little pains and tribulations. It means that you should be | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| is not so terribly important, whose own little pains and hurt vanities do not matter so much | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| cowardice. Let me meet life with all its pains courageously. Then you do the right thing. But | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| than the labor of the search and the pains of growth. It is good that way, it | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| such exploration. This is part of the growing pains every living organism goes through. As this general | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| this respect. Once you can synchronize these two pains and realize that they are one and the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| have only to redirect the approach to their pains. They do not have to find it. Only | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| life; pain and disappointment are common. If such pains and disappointments are not experienced consciously, they are | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| resistance in human nature to the necessary growing pains of the physical and mental sides of the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| emotional nature. Hardly anyone recognizes that emotional growing pains are necessary too, and that they are constructive | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| emotional growth process should come about without growing pains. Most of the time it is completely ignored | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| is, identification occurs. The nature of these two pains is different, if you probe your emotions. The | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| is unconscious. In fact, you go to great pains not to be aware of this conclusion. You | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| up the greatest resistance. You go through great pains to convince yourself and others that this situation | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| and be in your present confusions, errors, and pains, facing and understanding them, you cannot ever be | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| it. And you have also experienced how your pains take on a new face once you thoroughly | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| deliberately dull itself not only to one's own pains, but also to those of others. You often | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| for utopia. Why do we then take such pains to grow out of this childish state when | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| foreign matter, with all its distortions, negative emotions, pains, hurts, and hostilities, takes on many forms even | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| misconception, illusion. It is these misinterpreted hurts and pains which are responsible for the foreign nucleus I | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| on this path have found certain hurts and pains you endured as a child. Some of you | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| to others according to your potential. All other pains and frustrations derive from the pain of not | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| things at the same time -- confuses and pains you. What is required for an entity to | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| as well as the too much. Both these pains will turn into pleasure, when harmony has been | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| life becomes more arduous. The more unconscious your pains and frustrations are, the more you will strain | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| although your outer body feels well, coordinated, without pains or tensions, there are inner lumps. They are | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| you ascribe your frustrations, your unfulfillment, or your pains to society you are completely wrong. This does | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| discover a new dimension of life without birth pains, for each new unification is a spiritual rebirth | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| now is only a trauma because the previous pains had been denied. You can do this, my | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| this lifetime is all you need. Your early pains in this life are essentially those you have | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| flow of your being will deal with new pains in a very different way. First of all | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| false needs, and the resulting soft and hard pains. To find your way further through the maze | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| of life. This is what really hurts and pains you now. You must start with yourself, at | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| that person has done something to you that pains and angers you. Acknowledging that pain may also | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| You hope to avoid all risks, discomforts and pains by building an illusion into which you invest | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| away and assuage it busily with substitute problems, pains and fears. Have the courage to fully experience | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| you. The confusion of not quite understanding what pains you and what goes on in you brings | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| intention to make restitution. Some of the above pains are obviously interrelated. For example, the unwillingness to | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| This is perhaps one of the most unbearable pains in the human soul! I strongly recommend that | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| bitter resignation or despair about life and its pains. At the same time, accepting eternal life can | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Only through experiencing rather than denying your various pains can you do this. The Creator has filled | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Painstaking.................7 | |
| minutely everything had to be worked out, how painstaking this work was so that everything would accord | 22 SALVATION |
| therefore discouraging. To learn of your emotions through painstaking and diligent analysis and to let them mature | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| pure, permanent strength can only come through the painstaking piecemeal work of daily analysis of one's negative | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| up by rationalizations, that it takes a very painstaking, focused look to gain an awareness of all | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the negative desire has been attained through the painstaking struggle of this work, you at least know | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| divided. Whole philosophies are based on such divisions; painstaking treatises are written in which a lot of | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| consciousness? Could individual consciousness go through all the painstaking steps of developing and cleansing itself, of growing | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Painstakingly...............17 | |
| it that, where many details have to be painstakingly considered and weighed. You have no idea how | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| caused your various conflicts. This process should be painstakingly undertaken by all my friends who work together | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| There are many, many aspects to this pseudo-solution. Painstakingly, you have to find them in the work | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| development, you will see that it was all painstakingly built up to lead to this point: the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| can you spontaneously feel your love. Only by painstakingly acknowledging your selfishness can you truly convince yourself | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| They must truly be faced up to -- painstakingly and specifically -- not glossed over in a | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| it is part of the individual work to painstakingly examine where such collective labels come from and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| you long for. The third step is to painstakingly work through the exact consequences and ramifications of | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| in me. All the defenses you have so painstakingly erected serve to protect you not only from | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| mental task, mental knowledge has first to be painstakingly acquired, often through quite mechanical processes. Then the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| neither pleasure nor pain. You often want to painstakingly preserve this state of grayness without knowing that | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| the exact setting of the stage, must be painstakingly figured out to fit the total plan. To | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| is most of the time faulty. I have painstakingly shown you throughout the years that most of | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| therefore also outside with others. You have, often painstakingly, learned the importance of challenging and dissolving your | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| peoples of this earth. Openness must then be painstakingly learned by the nations just as by individuals | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| key of safety. If you follow this through painstakingly, in the spirit of service to fulfilling God's | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| design behind events when you explore your microcosm painstakingly, honestly and courageously. And when you see the | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |