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| protection -- whether you hurt them actively or passively, by commission or omission -- then your guilt | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the world. Furthermore, depression is unhealthy because you passively remain unchanged, falsely accepting what need not be | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| fear you may not succeed in a venture, passively, helplessly waiting for fate to determine the desired | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you had no other recourse and had to passively wait until the resistance vanished by itself. It | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| principle and cruelty can exist either actively or passively. That is, pleasure is experienced either in inflicting | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| includes attitudes, such as the determination to remain passively controlled by resistance or negative emotions. You labor | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| active. But you must also learn to wait passively for the unfoldment and expression of both these | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| Yet the gift is not something you can passively receive; it does not come to you without | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| Nor does it allow you merely to be passively receptive. This venture must truly become mutual. It | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| that you deplore and have complained about while passively waiting for some miracle to happen from outside | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| I am not contradicting the necessity of being passively receptive. It is simply a shift of balance | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| colludes with those who inflict the pain by passively standing by. Many self-defeating patterns are connected with | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
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| has to be assimilated in the period of passivity. And for these times you need a little | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do it. 29. THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL Greetings in the name | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| happiness. I have often mentioned that activity and passivity are two basic divine aspects in the universe | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| exercised -- which is a state corresponding to passivity -- so that God's will can be fulfilled | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| words will also help you to understand that passivity is not necessary to fulfill the will of | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| active movement begins to take the place of passivity. Whenever an emotion is felt and you follow | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| need activity and strength of will nevertheless. The passivity is necessary, though certainly not in order to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| not misunderstand these words to mean that complete passivity is called for on your part. The act | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| principle is rest, the state of being, timelessness, passivity in the healthy sense. Healthy growth occurs in | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| versa. This applies not only to activity and passivity, but also to other trends that may be | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong for a woman -- no more than passivity, as such, is wrong for a man. But | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Fall activity was present in the woman and passivity in the man, then it was meant to | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| many interpretations. It exclusively referred to activity and passivity. Many other interpretations of this symbolism can be | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| but both manifest different aspects of activity and passivity. The woman's activity should enliven and make vibrant | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| woman's activity should enliven and make vibrant her passivity in the true and good sense. Her activity | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| and good sense. Her activity will prevent her passivity from becoming stagnant or stale, will keep it | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| must be. Man's active currents should bring his passivity to the fore, preventing the active current from | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| automatically creates the right balance between activity and passivity. Those of you who have encountered the tense | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| again, a right combination of healthy activity and passivity is needed, as opposed to a mixture of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| opposed to a mixture of distorted activity and passivity. You cannot truly solve the seeming mystery of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| wrong attitudes -- in a spirit of relaxed passivity, while at the same time wanting to grow | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| is the peace a result of an unhealthy passivity? Does it contain elements of giving up inner | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to make a go of life? Such unhealthy passivity is as much an indication of distortion as | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| pressure, and compulsion. The truth combines activity and passivity in a relaxed way. The knowledge and intent | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| my problem is that there is too much passivity in me and that generates a certain fear | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| can reach a proper combination of activity and passivity, action and inaction. You are often confused about | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| we will know when to use activity and passivity, also action and inaction. Could you clarify that | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| and vice versa. Harmonious blending of activity and passivity is not brought about by intellectual evaluation and | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| may be in a passive state. Activity and passivity are not necessarily manifested outwardly. But action is | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| the flow, the state of being, a healthy passivity. Both healthy activity -- fire -- and healthy | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| Both healthy activity -- fire -- and healthy passivity -- water -- are processes of purification. Both | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| feels rejected, she feels passive and helpless. The passivity and helplessness, as an aspect of femininity, is | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| with it. But just because she fights her passivity and ability to give of herself completely, she | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| -- or to put it differently, activity and passivity -- are not only not mutually exclusive, but | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| -- fulfilling all the necessary conditions -- and passivity -- letting the universal powers do their work | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| lead a meaningful existence. Where activity should reign, passivity prevails. Where the ego must let go and | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| ego: would they be connected with overactivity and passivity, respectively? ANSWER: Yes. The functions of the ego | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| is within the state of being. Activity and passivity blend as one harmonious cosmic movement. QUESTION: Where | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| can exist only in non-movement, that is stagnating passivity, as opposed to a movement that is a | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-THE BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY Greetings, my dearest friends. Be blessed, every one | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| love, and a healthy balance between activity and passivity. All these form a comprehensive whole which is | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| to establish a healthy balance between activity and passivity. Let us look at this more closely. A | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| triad is the healthy balance between activity and passivity. Many of my friends have encountered in the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| is necessary to understand them. This hankering for passivity means that the person feels passivity to be | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| hankering for passivity means that the person feels passivity to be a desirable state. It seems to | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the dualistic mode of experiencing life, activity and passivity appear as opposites. But in the reality of | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| of consciousness, the state of being, activity and passivity intermingle. It is equally true to say that | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| also passive, and that the healthy state of passivity is also active. Only on the dualistic level | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| and not as a whole, may seem like passivity. We can also approach this concept from the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| it is never static or motionless. In healthy passivity -- or in the state of being -- | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| In distortion and duality, activity appears as movement, passivity as nonmovement. Activity appears to exert strain; passivity | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| passivity as nonmovement. Activity appears to exert strain; passivity promises relief from strain. In other words, we | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| in yourself, you are often equally afraid of passivity. For the passive state then implies helplessness. The | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| you fear the passive state, too, even healthy passivity. Because you cannot distinguish between healthy and stagnant | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| Because you cannot distinguish between healthy and stagnant passivity, you become overactive and alienated from your real | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| to the exhausted ego. You then flee into passivity, which seems like relief and consequently becomes the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| relief and consequently becomes the desirable state. But passivity never fulfills you; it always leaves you empty | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| you become, for, naturally, at this point healthy passivity has converted into its distorted form of apathy | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| inner real self, activity can be peaceful and passivity can be regenerating. When the real self is | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the real self is in charge, activity and passivity can meld as one unit, so that your | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| something desirable in itself. By the same token, passivity will hold no threat of helplessness, since you | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| describe it, may easily be confused with indifference, passivity, or laxness. It is none of these. But | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| a final effect, an outer immobility, paralysis, excessive passivity. These extremes are always the result of an | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| time, of receptive waiting, and relaxed yet pulsating passivity. When you let these forces flow out of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| These opposites are the forces of activity and passivity -- the expanding and restricting principles, initiating and | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| or femininity is often wrongly associated with helplessness, passivity, and inferiority, while the masculine principle or masculinity | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| Her receptivity should not be confused with paralyzed passivity which is but a distortion of healthy femininity | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| leads to a feeling of helplessness and the passivity that prevents the individual from doing what is | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| us take the inner attitudes of activity and passivity. On the dualistic level these two seem to | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| levels. Then the right blend of activity and passivity prevails in the psyche. The universal powers cannot | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| desirelessness; between involvement and detachment; between activity and passivity. When this balance becomes a steady state, the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| only two sides of the same coin: absolute passivity. But the pushing ego, attempting to go beyond | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| her situation. Self-surrender is never an indication of passivity. It is one of the most active commitments | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| the denied hatred manifests in an apparently harmless passivity that seems directed against the self only. But | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| every soul unconsciously longs for is not cautious passivity which must avoid movement and makes movement appear | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| joyous movement and action. It is only the passivity of the fearful self that creates frenzy as | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| push others aside or withdraw into failure and passivity. Disconnectedness between cause and effect, that is, between | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| all there, as it were. Laziness, tiredness, and passivity are, too, tricks of the ego. They make | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| express its messages in life. Thus activity and passivity need to be reversed. Your mind will thus | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| refrains from action for the good. Laziness, nonmovement, passivity -- in a negative sense -- always support | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| particular level and kind of struggle with apathy, passivity and lack of initiative, however. You know very | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| to fight for these fulfillments by relinquishing your passivity, your irresponsibility in wanting an ideal authority to | 254 SURRENDER |