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seeds. Thus, in a transitory state of evolution, people prevent themselves from using the activating principle, because 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
based on negativity. This explains why so many people find themselves paralyzed in inactivity and stagnation. Temporarily 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
find themselves paralyzed in inactivity and stagnation. Temporarily, people will hold themselves back to prevent their use 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
settled its difficulty with its own destructive nature. People may have to go through a number of 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
know that it can create. At this point people discover the powers within them and that their 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
fear of bliss and pleasure supreme. For some people the fear is much less than the desire 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
than the desire. These will be relatively fulfilled people whose life is rich and joyful, whose capacity 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
further expansion into blissful being. The majority of people, however, fear happiness much more than they desire 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
the exactitude of a mathematical equation. Of course, people are totally unaware that they fear what they 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
those who still battle against it. Often, when people sense that there is somehow more to life 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
lack is projected onto outside circumstances or other people. This creates deep entanglements and confusions. I must 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
more light on the all-important question of why people say this mysterious no to the fulfillment of 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
when one starts on such a path. Usually people are aware only of what they pretend to 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
the rage with which you blame others, circumstances, people, life itself. And this already removes a poisonous 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
expansion, you will also fear growth and change. People, in fact, do fear their own inherent powers 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
difficult times. While it hardly ever occurs to people to enlist these same powers at all relevant 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
degree during exceptional states in their life. Most people are usually in a state of cramp because 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
and more permeated with hostility and rage. When people are subtly infused with such emotions but cannot 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
worst of the problem, because it makes such people go around in circles. The more entangled a 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
too, and vice versa. Yet, how often do people say, It is right to be self- assertive 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
person, who must be bought through submission. Such people enslave themselves -- with the secret aim of 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
person is the recluse who cannot cope with people and thus escapes into solitude, rationalizing the escape 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
a flexible, accepting attitude toward life, unexpected developments, people, and his or her own unconscious inconsistencies and 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
refuses to take in or swallow anything. Such people fear being gullible because deep down they refuse 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
integrity to be true to the self, such people fear their own lack of backbone and consequently 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
by the way, that the overwhelming majority of people live in an abnormal state: their state is 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
to anything undesirable that comes your way? Many people gravitate toward metaphysical and spiritual teachings for precisely 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
of I do not like and respect myself. People are constantly confronted with an inner, and rarely 174 SELF-ESTEEM
situation or a state of mind may appear. People in deep depression and hopelessness must be in 174 SELF-ESTEEM
who cannot thrive in a climate of self-rejection. People also ignore that all the religious commands to 174 SELF-ESTEEM
can be achieved only to a limited degree. People often ask, How does evil come into existence 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
as the cause of your negative emotions toward people and life experience -- enables you to want 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
your consciousness and your self-creating. Many are the people who want to reach spiritual heights but who 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
initiating negativity, quite regardless of whether the other people involved act like your parents or not. The 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
bliss appears so unreal and distant from what people consider truly desirable that it remains at best 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
opposition to true spiritual self-realization -- as many people falsely believe -- but is in fact one 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
The life force contains the urge that motivates people to go in certain directions. They may be 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
inner urge, or even that it exists. Many people experience a vague inner drive but do not 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
us clarify the real meaning of growth. Usually people do not think profoundly enough when they speak 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
previous efforts. This can be so deceptive that people believe it would have happened anyway, without all 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
power freely, growth becomes adventure and joy. Many people increase their physical and mental skills. This is 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
beyond the apparent one. In any problematic situation, people suffer most because they cannot disentangle the many 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
a self who blindly closes itself to other people is just as weak as the self who 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
proved unusually intelligent, even quite brilliant, as such people often are. This woman asked the Guide several 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
forming any relationships. He felt constantly threatened by people, by anything and everything. However, despite the severity 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
unwilling to share, your longings must remain unfulfilled. People would be well advised to consider their unfulfilled 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
of how imperfect others may also be. When people whose spiritual development is on different levels are 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
in the conflict, it is most difficult for people to look within and find the source of 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
projection in this area. A favorite tendency among people is to say, You are doing it to 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
man and woman. The power that brings two people together in love and attraction, and the pleasure 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
relationship and the individual state of the two people involved. This is not sufficiently recognized by even 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
recognized by even the most aware and sophisticated people who are otherwise familiar with spiritual and psychological 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
to be seen. Some interaction between the two people remains unclear. If it is understood and brought 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
world -- God, fate, life, chance, or other people -- but you are equally frightened of your 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
use the mass occurrences, which seemingly affect all people indiscriminately, to rationalize away true self-responsibility, self-determination, and 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
escape. Nevertheless, on the whole, more and more people, even those who have used this as an 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
way. This is the difficult juncture where many people stumble again and again. Even those of you 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
weak, inadequate, will fall by the wayside. Many people meditate, but they neglect the two-sidedness of the 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
pressure bursts. This is a painful crisis, and people usually resist it with all their might. But 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
in the case of frustration and anger. Many people can see relatively easily that the frustration itself 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
of death and rebirth signifies the identical principle. People tend to oppose going on to other ways 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
others. You tend to completely reject and negate people whose destructiveness you perceive, and react to them 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
always the attitude toward it. This is why people who incorporate and accept their negative aspects find 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
begin to resolve their inner conflicts. Healthy, balanced people who have found themselves always find their personal 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
creative, spontaneous, effortless experience that initially brings two people together in attraction and love occurs all the 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
holds true you must have problems with mutuality. People who are the least developed and the most 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
way for the sake of clarity -- those people who are at the second stage are the 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
of expansion and union can be experienced for people at this stage is in fantasy. This leads 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
to a very common and frequent fluctuation: such people are convinced that their strong longing indicates their 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
ready to put true mutuality into practice. Many people continue to go alternately through periods of aloneness 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
and the confusion are often very profound in people trapped at this stage. But this pain and 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
open state. At the third stage are the people relatively capable of sustaining actual mutuality -- not 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
much struggle everyone puts up, and how many people are tempted to leave this pursuit altogether because 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
produce a greater acceptance and understanding of other people you have to deal with. Mutuality will then 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
know this now. But are you really two people? Of course not. The same illusion prevails about 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
interflow and exchange. It is otherwise with the people who remain separate, who contract, and cannot open 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
and cannot open up to mutuality; two such people remain enclosed, each like an island, with little 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
easily be observed in the everyday life of people. They either always fall in love when it 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
determine, will, and issue your intentions. Usually, when people speak of a spiritual healing force they mean 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
for, what is unfulfilled in your life. Most people do not state this clearly to themselves. They 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
exist in some areas of the personality, with people who are quite aware of their negativities and 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
their personality. So we have two manifestations. Some people are very conscious of a lack in their 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
until the layer of longing becomes more conscious. People in this predicament should deeply listen into themselves 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
longer of value in the life of the people concerned. The process cannot ever be completely generalized 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
The free-flowing consciousness/energy eventually prevails. (After this, two people availed themselves of the Guide's offer; they came 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
would like to say to this group of people, what an extremely wonderful thing it is you 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
is supposed to ward off negative life experience. People make themselves more brittle and stiff, thus pushing 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
the least developed state is that in which people live in fantasy. They may appear to live 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
on the lowest first. The degree varies with people. Some are much more developed and live predominantly 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
aspects of their personality remain undeveloped. With most people it is the other way around. How is 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
their present stagnation, to wanting additional help. Four people came forth, one at a time, to receive 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
thoughts and feelings, the polluted energy, of other people, thus they remain victimized and dependent. It is 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
what is going on, the blindness with which people are involved in the struggle, and their deliberate 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
of spiritual consciousness unfolds gradually and organically. Often people go through various spiritual practices and wait for 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
explains the hankering that exists in so many people for a seemingly desirable inactive life. It is 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
It is not enough to say that these people find the difficulties of life too much for 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
intensity, the inner life flow must become stagnant. People will find themselves inexplicably paralyzed. Their actions will 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
despair may be another. In this latter instance, people may often use a current event or difficulty 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
to concoct theories to justify the fear. If people convince themselves that it is indeed dangerous to 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
is very disquieting. Having everything they ever wanted, people still cannot remove a nagging dissatisfaction. The faster 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
You may do this by building cases against people who make you sad. Your mind attempts to 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
can I do to avoid it? Indeed, most people are motivated to start spiritual work like this 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
incarnation. The embedded material seeks out circumstances and people for the next incarnation that will give an 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
it into a later time and onto other people, so that it becomes a false need. Let 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
and destructive patterns of feeling and thinking. When people begin to assume true self-responsibility, they will gradually 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
equipped to deal with life, yourself, and other people. Low awareness will also certainly result in your 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
world is perceived in dualistic terms. When issues, people, the self, the world, life, ideas and attitudes 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
begin functioning. So much frustration is incurred when people push with their outer will and thus prohibit 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
the personality is entirely unaware of this consequence. People see no other alternatives to their ways of 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
true that, after having shed the body, some people who have led a difficult and apparently unspiritual 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
spiritual influx. Often real spirituality is rejected by people meaning to reject the false, escapist spirituality, and 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
the fallacy of human helplessness. The truth leads people to assume self-responsibility in every conceivable respect. Most 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
a specific result that expresses this thought. Since people consist of many conflicting thoughts, and since their 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
accordingly. The mixed-up, conflicting, and confusing lives most people lead testifies to this fact. There are those 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
commit a conscious act. Between them and those people who attempt to check, test, and challenge their 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
obvious that you can tell exactly what other people think, feel, and believe -- consciously and unconsciously 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
but it is such an important point. Many people give up meditation because it does not seem 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
creative act must be. This is why the people with strong defenses cannot meditate, no matter how 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
and are honest with yourself. In these days, people often keep a closed mind because they fear 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
be. By the same token, just as frequently people will not allow the answer to an honest 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
does not fear death. A wall within separates people from the process of life beyond death. That 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
that are important to know. The least enlightened people use petitionary prayer. We do not need to 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
result of a childish, undeveloped state. If such people plead humbly enough, they imagine the wish will 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
an important fact of human psychology that whatever people fear, they unconsciously want; that whatever they experience 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
only valid, reliable function. This is the way people are split in regard to identification. When a 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
and satisfying. But this is comparatively rare. Usually people give only half of themselves and are then 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
less visible, and longer-range. Emotionally and spiritually immature people are not sufficiently aware to be able to 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
and many other concepts or phenomena. There are people on this earth plane who experience the universe 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
used again and again in psychological terminology. Usually people even forget the real meaning. The word is 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
real meaning. The word is thrown around, and people lose contact with its dynamic reality. Words become 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
unworthy and unlovable. This is the great struggle. People believe that in order to be lovable and 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
accomplished and adequate, or creative and fulfilled other people are, they are not better or more, not 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
and as unfairly treated and injured as when people are truly mean and spiteful to you because 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
whatever it is I resent and envy other people for? If I do not make these commitments 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
Eva's hands -- was given to a few people.) All of you who have received the special 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
this point that it seems more important to people to create an impression than even to consider 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
neuroses, as spite against a specific person or people -- let us say parents or parent substitutes 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
sense, is unthinkable without discipline. And, conversely, the people who indulge themselves and who reject discipline are 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
of what humanity has already achieved. The territory people have gained determines their degree of functioning, the 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
means a new territory has become your own. People truly wither away when they remain in the 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
present confines. The new territory is foreign, unknown. People want to avoid the unknown, and they would 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
can verify this by looking around you. The people who do the least are always the most 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
least are always the most tired. And the people who do most are always most energized and 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
very rare human experience, except to the few people who reach full self- realization, it has no 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
a state where you constantly make others -- people, circumstances, life as a whole -- responsible for 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
It may appear in different realms for different people. With one, the inner ear will suddenly open 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
different ways to use it. Perhaps there are people here who do not love each other, who 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
and approaches to life, attract or repulse events, people, happenings, and actions of others and also of 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT

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