| morality is based on the fear of disapproval. People may fight it because in their minds goodness | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| continue to vacillate between two camps. If many people were capable of totally committing themselves to a | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| conflicts. This may take different forms with different people; even in the same person it may appear | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| form of psychology and psychiatry, agree on this, people nevertheless find it so hard to give themselves | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| of existence is a state of love, but people manage to cover it up and contort it | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the total personality, except for the insane. Most people have many areas where they do love and | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| understood in terms of intellectual processes, as many people attempt to do. It is a feeling that | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| for non-action. These tendencies are stronger in some people than others, but in whatever form, or to | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| have the requirements at its disposal. So when people are not in contact with the real self | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| possibility that you may be mistaken. So often people remain in a bottleneck on their path because | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| that is really unimportant. I know that some people may be disappointed with such an answer and | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| naturally, in the best possible way. Contact with people who are no longer in the body cannot | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| strength to the deceased person? ANSWER: No, no. People who are oriented toward striving and growth will | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| it is not new to you. Very few people truly understand the full significance of the connection | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| first superficial layer is removed -- and many people do not even wish to do this -- | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| the immediate correlation is obvious. To the extent people allow themselves to feel in any given area | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| of its opposite. I have often mentioned that people who fear life must fear death, and vice | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| and therefore a false life. This is why people who know about the correlation between self and | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| of happiness or unhappiness, the reactions of other people to you. Then you believe these reactions to | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| for you is to penetrate these illusions. Most people would rather do anything than that. Some find | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| they unconsciously believe they cannot live without. Those people who have reached the point where they no | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| to a general one. In other words, when people try to expound a nihilistic world view, they | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| their own lack of fulfillment through false feelings. People who live a false life with false feelings | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| many reasons for this. Often in such cases, people find that if and when their feelings are | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| truth in this matter makes it impossible for people to measure themselves against any other person. Comparison | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| themselves against any other person. Comparison between two people is totally unrealistic; it measures what cannot be | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| distrust your own innermost self. This is why people insist on dividing body and spirit and why | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| though they were proof of its badness. Thus people have preached through the centuries that the body | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the less one experiences the pleasure. Rigidly insistent people lose the pleasure they strive for, either because | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| succeed, their inner state makes enjoyment impossible. Such people cannot win. For real pleasure to be felt | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| development. Could you explain this further? ANSWER: When people oppose their cosmic pull and struggle against it | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| events or on anything having to be different. People believe that if only this or that were | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| is part of the process of self-realization, since people often dislike themselves for the wrong reasons. I | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| standards without question. The automatism that allows most people to take conditions and laws of life for | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| you think of the crass issues that developed people begin to question and wonder about. None of | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| individual to rote repetition of handed-down moral codes. People may accept handed-down laws because they are afraid | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| cowardice, a conformity to a specific group of people the individual believes he or she desperately needs | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| laws inherent in one's being are often ignored. People who follow the human laws receive homage for | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| and the poison are frequently the same. When people begin to crystallize the questions they are to | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| there any questions? QUESTION: You speak about the people who want to be better than others, who | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| same duality, two sides of the same coin. People who genuinely feel their value never need to | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| then always provided they are willing. Unfortunately, most people would do anything, go anywhere, rather than look | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| to see. No matter how much growth occurs, people fail to utilize moments in their life to | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| have lost its meaning because a lot of people use the expression and claim that they see | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| clarify this? Does it apply to areas where people don't want to face the truth about themselves | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| opposed to complying with the expectations of the people around me? ANSWER: You forsake the natural law | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| In the opposite state, on the dualistic plane, people are overserious, heavy and intense on the one | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| and toward others. It is this outgoing movement people are so afraid of. You hold back, you | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| perceive the cosmic force? Is it that most people are unaware of the cosmic force due to | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| truth so difficult to face for so many people is that no one is ever responsible for | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| will help or hinder the expansion of perception. People have a tendency to consider outer conditions as | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| other devices, as explained by Cayce and other people who work with this -- are they really | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| lack. A change of personality does not make people lose their uniqueness, but rather makes them more | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| deep within one's own being. As long as people working from the outside understand this, all is | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| of universal life; they are one. But some people tend to be more receptive to one or | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| immediate self and from your practical daily life. People who are frightened of these alienating processes remove | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| about good qualities, about giving and loving. Such people believe they give into society's demands and they | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| is in the moment. Because of this feeling, people pretend. This is a different kind of pretense | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| and by not being frightened of this. For people are terrified of the thought that their feelings | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| -- if one prefers the expression -- neurosis. People proceed from the premise -- often quite consciously | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to consider it on two fundamental levels. When people are involved in the vicious circle, it is | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| misconceptions, deeply lodged in the soul substance, compel people to act upon these premises. Since the premises | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Hence, the results must be opposite from what people really want. In short, they act against their | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| outer manifestation in the events the ideas create. People who are as yet unaware of what they | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| no idea what they are doing and why. People who follow a path of self-confrontation are bound | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| innate resistance to illness, on their inherent health. People are born with some organs that are more | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| plexus, rather than the volitional, artificial thought processes people use when overemphasizing the intellect. You are used | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| real self, where life is all good. But people fear total surrender to the involuntary processes, so | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| is met also determines the rhythm of pulsation. People are often aware of phases, or cycles, in | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of soul movement again and again. Unfortunately, most people are not even aware that such a thing | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| crisis, disharmony, destructive feelings. These are the experiences people so often refuse, deny, flee from -- when | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| one really fears only one's own unknown depths. People project this real fear onto any number of | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| innermost self. I wish to stress again that people who constrict their natural soul movements do so | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| through a learning process introduced from outside. Only people who do not fear themselves, at least to | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| a little more closely, my friends. Why are people afraid that if they are not guarded and | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| with their fears is the one thing most people wish to avoid like the plague. It does | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| Such acting out is always explained away; also people often remain unaware of how much more strongly | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| psychological aspect has created a generation of self-pitying people who go around in life moaning that they | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| concept of love is exactly this. No wonder people fear loving; it is represented as a pleasureless | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| Since each of the two alternatives proves undesirable, people usually switch back and forth, although the tendency | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| It is quite on the surface, only most people prefer to gloss over it and do not | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| impoverishes and deprives, you inevitably become enraged. Most people find themselves in the preposterous predicament of holding | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| well. The irony then is that these same people resent the world for not giving to them | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| ramifications and total significance of their predicament, such people complain that the world leaves them unfulfilled. Their | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| many forms as there are human personalities. Many people are not even aware of making such a | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| and more for going through a process most people shy away from. Is all that clear? QUESTION | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| problem -- as it exists in so many people. What varies is the degree, the way it | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cruel impulses are so contradictory to the image people have of themselves and of how they feel | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| harbor such impulses, except for some very bad people. No one who is at all valuable has | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mean license to act out destructive impulses. Some people may misunderstand. You mean by freedom to permit | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have suggested a long time ago but, unfortunately, people forget it. It is good at this point | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| creation has granted all beings. For example, when people shift the blame for their present unhappy state | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| degree depends on the state of growth. First people fear this fluid state more than anything. They | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ecstasy are frivolous, selfish aims which truly spiritual people must abandon for the sake of their spiritual | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| any of these necessities without interacting with other people. But this interaction is entirely different from the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| a parent-substitute, public opinion, or certain groups of people who represent the last word of truth to | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| living, dynamic experience -- of its existence. If people were educated with the idea and the goal | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| inner being. Since this is not the case, people become more and more limited in their concepts | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the real self, it is inevitable that such people -- and they comprise the majority of human | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| respond to any must, issued either by other people or by the self. They come about indirectly | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| extremes are always equally wrong, damaging, and dangerous. People who have throughout a lifetime -- nay, often | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| is exhausting by its very nature. It makes people cramp up in order to hang on desperately | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| for example, a journey, a change of domicile. People invariably experience depression when they terminate one phase | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| creative powers. This is the vague belief most people have and it is a distortion of reality | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| in the distorted belief that they are wrong. People believe that if they assert themselves in such | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| -- so can group consciousness. Larger bodies of people whose combined creative life substance forms one unit | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| is the second, seemingly so difficult step. If people shy away from finding the causes of suffering | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| that exists when you blame life, or other people, for what is really in yourself, no matter | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the natural state of being, existing, functioning. Generally, people do not conceive of any other inner state | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| It is very important to understand this principle. People are habitually not only tense, but tense because | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| and have found many reasons or pseudo-reasons why people believe they must protect themselves from the very | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| short- sighted character attitudes of defeatism that make people so destructive that they would rather forfeit their | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| process, unnatural processes are sought. This is why people yearn for the sensations drugs give, why a | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| has not really helped and has often made people more hypocritical. They deluded themselves that they were | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| some who are blind to such areas. Wherever people hold on in blind self-deception to such attitudes | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| aware of a very deep tendency of disliking people, almost inadvertently. It is frightening to me how | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| attitude makes it impossible for me to appreciate people at all. It was suggested to me yesterday | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| comment on this? ANSWER: Yes. Such dislike of people -- including yourself, of course, since this is | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to ask yourself whether you want to like people. What is the answer? Feel into yourself. QUESTION | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| mental processes tell me I need to like people, but I feel resistance. Where do I go | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a conflict, for the very great majority of people have similar conflicts but are not aware of | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| approach why you do not wish to like people, and do not be afraid to give yourself | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| not be the threat it is for most people if there were no specific assumptions connected with | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| the unstrained, natural, poised outer efforts. But when people expect direct and visible manifestations of their efforts | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| to come immediately, they misunderstand the process. Such people become disappointed and discouraged; they start to use | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| tense and pushy toward their own processes. If people wait for results without going to the trouble | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| you unless this inner attitude is cultivated. When people are too impatient, their pathwork is stopped. Excessive | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| toward those with whom you are involved. Other people retract from this onslaught of forcing that says | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| It is, of course, quite true that if people were entirely in harmony with the universal forces | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| feed the needs of their destructive demands. Usually people overlook, or even ignore, that neurosis is, in | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| But the strange thing is that the more people ignore their birthright to be happy, and overlook | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| of health and of sickness; a message leading people toward feeling good again in themselves after having | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| unfeeling for its own innermost self and other people, it is not good. Conversely, ill health is | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| at, the other being tensely denied -- puts people in a constant state of painful tension, anxious | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| in all the discomfort they give. The opposites people struggle with create a tremendous tension. Humanity has | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| how exploitative. The spinelessness and weakness of many people result from a deep-seated fear of denying anything | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| a minimum of investment into life. How can people who do not take themselves, their growth and | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| real factors to be reckoned with, experience other people as sufficiently real to have concern for their | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| so? What takes place in the psyches of people involved in such an interaction? Those who accept | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| and responding, a new way of knowing life, people, values, and events. Everything is endowed with a | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| the first place. This is why you, and people in general, often feel as if you were | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| the negativity of the feeling world becomes obvious, people do their best to deny, cover up, and | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| consciousness of the divine nucleus. This is why people who are most dominated by reason and will | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| be resentful with life -- and therefore with people and events that come to pass both from | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| intellectually knowing about something and emotionally experiencing it. People often set out with the wrong expectation. They | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| unnecessarily painful. The words have been said, but people seem unable to hear and understand that you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| to move. This can be verified by many people. It expresses itself in your awareness as laziness | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| well. You can see for yourself that as people grow older, their desire to move diminishes. This | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| happens on an overall plane. Look at the people in your environment and see how many are | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| final realization of human consciousness is reached when people connect with their unconscious blocks and comprehend the | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |