| Let me give you an example on the physical level: an infant will feel the strong urge | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| respective organs. The urge to indulge in strong physical exercise has the same function. The same is | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| nature to the necessary growing pains of the physical and mental sides of the personality than to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| an example of a real need in the physical realm. If you have not eaten for a | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| need. Although this false need manifests on the physical level, it comes from an emotional and/or spiritual | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| may also manifest on other levels, so that physical or spiritual needs may also originate from emotional | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| have seen doctors and they don't find any physical reason. ANSWER: This condition applies to many people | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| because you concentrate on the outcome and the physical act, believing one choice must be right and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| was several years ago. Everything changes, even in physical matter, though you may not be aware of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| in theory you know that everyone has needs, physical and otherwise, but you do not feel any | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| change in your emotional, mental, spiritual and even physical being because you face yourself in utter candor | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| a human being still held down by the physical body. I have hardly made any progress beyond | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| sickness if there are no symptoms? If a physical disease is hidden in an inner organ, without | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| and resourcefulness, then an imaginary outlet is necessary. Physical, emotional, mental and spiritual fulfillment is then possible | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| automatically include any state of life -- the physical as well as the nonphysical. The symbol for | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| may be your outer life, the material life, physical life, physical actions and outer facts; in short | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| your outer life, the material life, physical life, physical actions and outer facts; in short, everything visible | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| found in pain. I still do not mean physical masochism; it may manifest only on a psychic | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| exist, but it created other outlets, perhaps in physical sickness, or in other symptoms. As you become | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| to you to understand the processes of your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual nature, and specifically what | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| reaction, however, you will develop more strength -- physical or mental -- than you normally have in | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| will affect your bloodstream and nervous system, and physical damage will accrue in one way or another | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| or another. According to individual makeup and the physical resistance of the various organs, damage will appear | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| that part of the body. This is the physical side. As to the mental side of your | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| precisely because this enables you to protect your physical safety. Such concentration does not leave room for | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| exists, you are releasing poisonous substances into your physical body. You are limiting your range of thought | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| be the result. Defensiveness not only damages your physical body, but limits your thoughts, your range of | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| that the body releases poisons which damage the physical system. On this path, is it possible to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| in truthful self-examination. Actual dangers are not only physical in nature; they also occur on other levels | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| process, to your faculty of feeling, to your physical system, and to your spiritual life. May you | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| Not merely because it is destructive of your physical health. That would certainly not be sufficient reason | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| In spiritual spheres where you live without your physical body, you are in a life where you | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| does not manifest suddenly, after you shed your physical body, but it can be experienced occasionally, and | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| They can and should be used for your physical life, for outer actions, for deciding to know | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| are necessary for your outer actions, for your physical life, for preventing destructive impulses to manifest. But | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| difficult, not only because of the struggle for physical survival, but even more so in these times | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| that life imposes upon you. Your fight for physical and psychological survival necessitates alertness, power to make | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| of course, crass differences, as, for example, between physical psychic phenomena and trance mediumship, or automatic writing | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| of crystal-clear water, and therefore penetrate all hindrances. Physical matter is much less of an obstruction -- | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| easy to shed it. This even applies to physical habits that are destructive and difficult to get | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the dent upon the soul-stuff. If you suffer physical pain in a certain area of your body | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the idiosyncrasies -- everything that is behind the physical being. It also includes, of course, unresolved problems | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| You gave attributes to the soul of a physical, material nature. You gave it roundness and malleability | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| You gave it roundness and malleability in a physical sort of substance. Is it localized like any | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| your earth matter, although not perceivable with your physical organs. As you know, and have often heard | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| of the soul has much greater variety than physical skin and flesh. Words are so limited that | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| waking brain is rarely aware of it. The physical body is incapable of the experience because it | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| which functions according to laws similar to the physical laws. The child is dependent not only for | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| The child is dependent not only for its physical existence, but also for its emotional, intellectual, and | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| more dependent on others for love than for physical subsistence. Similarly, children are not capable of forming | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| has to be cut. Only then is further physical growth possible. The process is no different for | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| bodies need to shed the burden of the physical body, of gross physical matter. You could not | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| the burden of the physical body, of gross physical matter. You could not sustain a lifetime without | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| could not sustain a lifetime without this rest. Physical matter is a burden to the real personality | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| move into a wider dimension actually restores the physical organs through the psychic bloodstream, which is regenerated | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| or subtle bodies are always the cause; the physical body is the effect. With great love I | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| it is not a psychological fear, but a physical one? ANSWER: Your attitude toward a physical predicament | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| a physical one? ANSWER: Your attitude toward a physical predicament does not preclude psychological deviations. A realistic | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| life. This does not only apply to the physical manifestation of life, but to the source itself | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| The same applies to the anatomy of the physical body. It, too, is an organization. The well- | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is out of commission, the efficacy of the physical body will be impaired, or physical life will | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of the physical body will be impaired, or physical life will cease, depending on whether the part | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| exceed the animal's. This is true on the physical level, but you will undoubtedly admit that in | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| waves of the ocean. It is in the physical manifestation of the cosmos, as well as in | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| every aspect of the human entity. On the physical level it is easy to observe. When muscles | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| are not moved, they atrophy. Part of the physical body is losing its life. On the mental | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| harmony into your emotional life. Frequently, you neglect physical and mental movement. But much more frequently, it | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| that you neglect. And even your neglect of physical and mental movement is only too often due | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| sexual pleasure. The truth is that infants experience physical pleasure more strongly than the average adult human | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| baby is caressed, fed, loved, it experiences acute physical pleasure in contact with its surroundings. If development | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| are identical in principle and procedure for the physical, the mental, the emotional and the spiritual organism | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| levels. The infant is not only entirely a physical creature, but also utterly self-centered. The same condition | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| and offer new vistas, experience and challenge. The physical system also undergoes crisis in growth. A teething | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| be compared to the fixed time that a physical organism takes to grow from one state into | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| be measured in fixed states as with the physical organism. Besides, as I have also said, the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| and the need for companionship; the need for physical and mental activity; the need for sexual and | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| vibrant, dynamic life force. Every cell of your physical and emotional organism will be filled with this | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| nature you find it. In the very complex physical, mental, emotional organism of the human creature lies | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| When you regard any creative process on the physical, mental, or spiritual level, you must find the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| it cannot be considered untrue that the entire physical universe is inhabited -- all space, all time | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| stage of development. QUESTION: Are other spheres also physical? ANSWER: Human beings make too arbitrary a distinction | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| Human beings make too arbitrary a distinction between physical and non- physical. A human being consists of | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| too arbitrary a distinction between physical and non- physical. A human being consists of many layers, and | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| they will be drawn into spheres of more physical -- that is, denser -- matter, or finer | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| inner activity of the heart. When love exists, physical health, one of the most vital requisites in | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| distant future, not in a state beyond your physical life, not in attaining something through arduous means | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| self-confrontation. QUESTION: In that case, would you permit physical violence? ANSWER: No. Healthy anger does not necessarily | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| Healthy anger does not necessarily manifest in physical violence. Expression of negative emotions, even when they | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| in the least lead to destructive acts, either physical or otherwise. This is one of the most | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| and even verbal expression of it results in physical violence or in any other form of destruction | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| necessary, such counterattack and defense will also be physical. QUESTION: Regarding expression of anger, I find it | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| to move. In fact, a number of your physical functions are under the direct jurisdiction of your | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| This, then, compounds the guilt. QUESTION: Regarding the physical functions that are beyond our control: is it | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| create problems, hazards, difficulties that manifest in the physical, emotional, or mental system, or in the outer | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| to a limited degree. Whether this power be physical, such as electrical or atomic power, or mental | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| more into being. The same applies to the physical level of existence. As you observe the emanation | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| also see that the same imbalance affects your physical body. Since the principle of life itself is | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| continues, and death is an impossibility. The outer, physical levels follow suit automatically as the psychological imbalance | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| experience happiness? This is as logical as any physical law. For instance, if you move your body | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| ruthlessness and separateness, of rejection and humiliation, of physical and mental cruelty -- the more must these | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| all levels. It is indeed ascertainable on the physical level. The physical system, like all other systems | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| is indeed ascertainable on the physical level. The physical system, like all other systems or planes, also | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| given up the struggle. This applies to the physical plane, of course. Therefore, physical pain ceases when | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| applies to the physical plane, of course. Therefore, physical pain ceases when tension ceases -- and this | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| Then mental and emotional pain cease, just as physical pain ceases when the opposite pull is abandoned | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| desire, so that pain must result. On the physical as well as the emotional and mental levels | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| with its own distinct flavor and atmosphere. The physical, material world you live in manifests the positive | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| what the pathwork is all about. On the physical level the existence of this potential is obvious | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| the existence of this potential is obvious. Your physical system works in absolute perfection when the laws | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| you move away from that level on which physical perfection is a reality. I formulate it this | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| see that, as long as the laws of physical functioning were not tampered with, the physical system | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| of physical functioning were not tampered with, the physical system naturally worked in absolute perfection, giving humans | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| the way back. As it is with impaired physical health, so it is on the mental and | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| exact and definite as the laws of the physical body. They can be understood in a similar | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| more difficult to comprehend or to ascertain. The physical system contains an inherent healing force that is | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| your original potential, understand the laws governing the physical, mental, and emotional systems, comprehend the perfection of | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| difference between direct and indirect will on the physical level. Your direct will can determine that you | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| the sexes, and finally the great experience of physical death itself which human beings erroneously assume to | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| separates them from life. Thus you equate your physical separateness with individuality. It is of course true | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| toward work, human relationships in general, material values, physical health and outer life, appearance and activity; there | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| the subtle bodies or is it in the physical organs or structure? Or where is it? ANSWER | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| reach the outer layers of your personality. In physical sickness, the body remains inactive for some time | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| enlivened by the real self on all levels, physical as well as emotional and mental. QUESTION: I | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| having found my misconception about spirituality and the physical body. But it is still dead. I have | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| love in your whole person, also in your physical body. QUESTION: You relate death to a lack | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| lack of love. How can you then explain physical death? ANSWER: The manifestation of physical death in | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| then explain physical death? ANSWER: The manifestation of physical death in this sphere of human existence is | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |