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| react, think, and feel differently from what is pleasing to God. Pray that you may find out | 36 PRAYER |
| the proper and healthy attitude that must be pleasing to God. That is the only way, everything | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| lack of acceptance of yourself, your dependency on pleasing the moral standards of others so as to | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| for the sake of being good and of pleasing an authoritarian god. No wonder love is rejected | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| and make the changes in the expectation of pleasing the parental authority who is supposed to give | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| emanations -- in color, in brightness, in their pleasing hues. The difference is quite obvious: The lower-self | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| Pleasurable.................83 | |
| it is undeserving of anything good, joyful, or pleasurable. The child feels that if it were ever | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| on the child's mind that for everything most pleasurable in the world one is subject to punishment | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| Other painful experiences are bound to follow, although pleasurable experiences occur as well. But since the knowledge | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| does not seem worthwhile. So, the yearning for pleasurable fulfillment is squelched and an essential part of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| human struggle. If you find growth and change pleasurable because of past development that has already freed | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| out this voice by all sorts of evasions, pleasurable or painful, constructive or destructive. But eventually the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is often tied in with what is momentarily pleasurable or unpleasurable, or with what conforms or is | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| accessible through blind acceptance. Eternal values may seem pleasurable while going against the temporary value system, or | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| for not really conforming to present values, the pleasurable indulgence and permissiveness will create as many problematic | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| The child may experience this as favorable and pleasurable at the moment, but there may be a | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| not only to inflicted hurt, but equally to pleasurable overindulgence. It too will have no adverse effect | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| us examine what the specific effects of apparently pleasurable circumstances, such as growing up in a permissive | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| personality is driven to seek to duplicate the pleasurable state it once enjoyed. He or she seeks | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| in your childhood which you experienced in a pleasurable way. It took considerable insight into yourself to | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| objective terms. The same holds true with the pleasurable aspects. Both are part of the general climate | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| in principle, the connection between the damage of pleasurable childhood experience and shame. If a human being | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| shame. If a human being wants to reproduce pleasurable childhood conditions in later life, it indicates a | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| shame, and how it also connects to certain pleasurable circumstances in childhood. Perhaps you were praised for | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| rejection. But they are often more acceptable than pleasurable feelings in connection with one's own family. Therefore | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| in connection with one's own family. Therefore, such pleasurable feelings are kept even more securely locked than | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| in your life is the unconscious. Everything favorable, pleasurable, advantageous, as well as your hardships, suffering, disappointments | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| will not be meaningful, nor can it be pleasurable. Needless to say, this is, as always, a | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| from this fear and therefore live meaningful and pleasurable lives. Since it is almost impossible for the | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| will be so much better, so much more pleasurable. Meditate and pronounce the words that you truly | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| Under these circumstances love is not the tempting, pleasurable experience it may be to another part of | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| to purely positive conditions and circumstances. Positive or pleasurable feelings will no longer be derived from negative | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| hence you repress and suppress the combination of pleasurable feelings and negative events. Instead of repressing it | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| it, because reality is more desirable and more pleasurable, just as positive circumstances are. Between these two | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| extremely important to sense deep within yourself the pleasurable aspect of this negativity, regardless of how much | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| why negativity seems so difficult to shed. The pleasurable aspect of it always exists. When you have | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the negative expression, can be abandoned, while the pleasurable aspect grows stronger, negativity can transform itself. When | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| particular phase of your development, to ascertain the pleasurable aspect in your destructiveness. You must feel the | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| as far as I have because it is pleasurable, but I will not risk allowing my full | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| the unintense state of being which is so pleasurable and so constantly self-renewing. My friends, when you | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| subtle, but distinct movement that is vibrant and pleasurable. You can feel yourself expand toward the outer | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the possibility that something creative, constructive, expanding, and pleasurable would come out. It is not true, as | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| god. No wonder love is rejected, since the pleasurable feelings it causes in the body are denied | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| Everything feels home and peaceful and so intensely pleasurable that it is almost like a physical taste | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feelings. You know of and yearn for these pleasurable feelings, but you do not know that you | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| heightened moments in your life. Whatever was truly pleasurable, inspired, effortless, fearless, creative, and deeply joyful was | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| without allowing the life force with all its pleasurable effects to surge through the system, ill health | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| aspects of maturity and self-responsibility. They are intensely pleasurable and must also be forsaken when pleasure is | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| forsaken in this duality. It, too, seems too pleasurable, too presumptuous, not meek enough. All these delights | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| to this growth, which must be experienced as pleasurable. Finding out one's strength, resources, abilities, resiliency, and | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| becomes effortless and self-perpetuating. A very secure and pleasurable relationship exists between the water and the body | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| no matter what the experience, it must become pleasurable. Such pleasure is of an entirely different nature | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| feelings, when even the feeling of pain becomes pleasurable because it is experienced? ANSWER: You are quite | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| against a feeling, the pain ceases and becomes pleasurable. This is why a person who can say | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| connected with, its true identity -- the more pleasurable and blissful both tension and relaxation inevitably are | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| opening, relaxed state is felt as desirable and pleasurable, whereas the closing, tense state is felt as | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| pulse is felt as painful, the other as pleasurable. The right interaction of the two principles or | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| will experience how the pain turns into a pleasurable movement of pulsation. Only when you let yourself | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| that it is impossible to come to the pleasurable experience of pulsation. You are usually too busy | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| is no longer applicable. The act is so pleasurable that it is as selfish as it is | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| is quite different, very near to an opening, pleasurable experience. Accepting the negativity of life makes the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| energy, whereas the former frees it for joyful, pleasurable experience and strength. This new approach requires a | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| process of positive unfoldment, of unlimited possibilities for pleasurable and meaningful existence, of real selfhood, of the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| created needs to be constructive, fruitful, joyful, and pleasurable, these principles must interact in a harmonious way | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the blocks give way, you will feel a pleasurable energy and delight flowing through your entire being | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| with stimulation, with excitement in the most relaxed, pleasurable way. That cannot come through anything that is | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| is created is at first perhaps slightly less pleasurable or blissful or brilliant. Even in that may | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| do not wish to give it up. The pleasurable aspect of creating applies also to negative creating | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| about what we mean. I do not mean pleasurable pastimes of the mind. I do not mean | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| and will be in harmony with it. The pleasurable rhythm of the universe is in each microcosmic | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| it combines an inner activity of the most pleasurable rhythm with an inner calm receptivity and apparent | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of life, you will find it challenging and pleasurable. Within this attitude you will find the right | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| unconscious reluctance to move forward. Relaxed movement is pleasurable in itself, while rigid, reluctant movement is painful | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| it. Relaxed and determined movement into life is pleasurable in itself, however difficult and challenging. Each completed | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| wrong, evil. Yet I enjoy them; they feel pleasurable. But I feel guilty. For instance, I overspend | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| habitual reaction of the average human being to pleasurable experience is a momentary rejoicing. But, at the | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| my friends, begin to be as attentive to pleasurable and fulfilling experience as you have learned to | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| you are committed, what you do will be pleasurable, free from conflict, and rewarding. It will be | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| skill. First there is always effort. It becomes pleasurable only when it seems, and actually is, happening | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the salt of your life and become almost pleasurable. But the times of outer problems will become | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| in which your self-responsibility increases and becomes so pleasurable that you would no longer exchange it for | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| jokes? ANSWER: Life in the universe is joyous, pleasurable, it is light-hearted, it is humor. Humor is | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| balance just sufficient to sustain life. In imbalance, pleasurable warmth turns into unbearable heat and purifying cold | 228 BALANCE |
| or the temptation to do what seems most pleasurable at the moment -- the outwardly imposed discipline | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| values, you also discover the miracle that these pleasurable and forbidden desires which you thought were the | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| God's will are opposites. Sometimes the desires seem pleasurable, perhaps because they seem naughty and rebellious, and | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| momentarily this seems easier, and perhaps even more pleasurable and exciting. Ultimately you fall into a state | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| believe that pornographic or promiscuous sex is more pleasurable than the sexuality that streams from a unified | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| of least resistance and what feels momentarily most pleasurable is tantamount to your autonomy. This may occasionally | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |