| does not mean relinquishing forever, but relaxing into pleasure through the power of gentle letting go. My | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| in the process. Once the tension is abandoned, pleasure follows. The flexibility of relaxing into what is | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the experience of letting go, relaxing into the pleasure of letting go. Little by little, you will | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the creative principle, which brings you into the pleasure supreme of giving up separateness, you frustrate yourself | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| these enter the contact and combine with the pleasure principle. This may manifest on any level of | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| you fear your cruelty, your need to derive pleasure from hurting others, you may reverse it and | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| now. Humanity unconsciously knows that a state of pleasure supreme is everyone's birthright, and everyone constantly strives | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| it immediately affects the evolved being's state of pleasure and joyfulness, is primary. For you must respect | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| to all you do -- inwardly and outwardly. Pleasure supreme lies in every fraction of life, provided | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| you from the live center of being in pleasure, from life as a natural state of exhilaration | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| meaning where waste existed, fulfillment where frustration existed, pleasure supreme where pain and deprivation existed. But the | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| hopeless, that you might someday experience aliveness and pleasure and exhilaration. At the same time, all this | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| misconception that intensity is favorable also applies to pleasure. It is believed, half- consciously, half-unconsciously, that the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| tautly intense the personality is, the greater the pleasure. In other words, intensity is not only supposed | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| supposed to connote seriousness and concentration, but also pleasure. This is not true at all. The lighter | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| cosmic force and, hence, the more heightened the pleasure. Intensity is an ego-attitude and prohibits the letting | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| prohibits the letting go of the ego. Thus pleasure cannot be experienced to the extent that the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| of purpose and being, as well as passionate pleasure. It is used as a substitute for real | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| and highest sense. It is eternal movement and pleasure supreme. Since it is life, it cannot die | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| Moreover, you develop an increased ability to experience pleasure, as you are meant to. To the extent | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| easily display to others. You may really experience pleasure, but this, too, is humiliating to expose, so | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| is humiliating to expose, so you create false pleasure. This even applies to elements like confusion and | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the service of growth, completion, perfection, additional creation, pleasure supreme. For growth and pleasure are one. One | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| perfection, additional creation, pleasure supreme. For growth and pleasure are one. One cannot exist without the other | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| waste. The movements that follow are soon in pleasure where first they were in pain. Safety and | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| where first they were in pain. Safety and pleasure cannot be gained when the spiritual pulsebeat is | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this refusal manifests in denial of happiness and pleasure. This is why it is so true that | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| stand pain can, in that exact measure, stand pleasure. No matter how much theoretical understanding you may | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| will fill you with peace, well-being, safety, and pleasure. Each outgoing movement will increase this positive condition | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| better life and thus eventually transforms itself into pleasure. The energy contained in the emotion can find | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| experiences in life, the degree of aliveness and pleasure, your body structure, and your fulfillment and abundance | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and desired experiences in the universe. Utter bliss, pleasure supreme, is feared to the extent pain is | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| denied. One who can accept pain, can endure pleasure. The two experiences you mentioned -- death and | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| fear death. I repeat: The ability to stand pleasure, delight, ecstasy, depends on the ability to assimilate | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that measure you become capable of experiencing delight, pleasure, happiness. There is a direct relationship between the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a healthy, constructive and realistic way cannot accept pleasure either. I shall be glad to answer more | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of the fear of self is fear of pleasure. For humans are created for the purpose of | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| humans are created for the purpose of experiencing pleasure supreme, intense joy, though the majority of individuals | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| completely surrender to the life force with its pleasure currents as it manifests in them. They will | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| it, the rage will transform itself into warmth, pleasure, and love. This transformation may occur directly or | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the destructive emotion to reconvert to its original pleasure current. As I said, not only are the | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the destructive forces feared, but often love and pleasure are feared as much if not even more | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| be done, the more quickly the transformation into pleasure will take place. What happens afterwards depends on | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| extent to which you are able to experience pleasure. This again depends on several factors, some of | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| its own individuality. Both soul and body require pleasure; without it you become crippled, your growth stunted | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| and therefore pain upon yourself, because the immense pleasure of following the natural movement will fill your | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the natural movement will fill your being. The pleasure of giving and receiving will become possible. For | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| by withholding from themselves the intense delight and pleasure of being in the flow of giving and | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| and receiving. It is not an esoteric, otherworldly pleasure, disconnected from the body. It involves physical pleasure | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| pleasure, disconnected from the body. It involves physical pleasure as well. The irony then is that these | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| new fears can be tackled: the fear of pleasure, of happiness, of fulfillment, the fear of being | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| will then see that acclimatizing to happiness and pleasure is not as difficult as it first seems | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| or unconsciously, on receiving will fear fulfillment and pleasure. Because they are unaware of the ramifications and | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| give of yourself makes you unable to receive pleasure, delight, happiness -- often even material success, which | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| your destination. This destination is complete fulfillment and pleasure supreme. Be blessed, be in peace, be in | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| presented to you, the intense delight, the supreme pleasure life can be, that your own body and | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You will feel the transformation from anxiety to pleasure, as you no longer deny the anxiety, nor | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| much courage at first as partaking in the pleasure supreme which creation is and which the created | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I let go, I let myself be in pleasure. The possibility for it exists in me, I | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of being free myself, of allowing myself full pleasure. I have no more anxiety about that. ANSWER | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your being you still have the fear of pleasure. There still is anxiety about allowing yourself full | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| There still is anxiety about allowing yourself full pleasure and full freedom. This word must be properly | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| directly connects this displacement with the prohibition of pleasure. The more childishly you hang on to a | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the knowing of truth and the feeling of pleasure. Both are equally important and both should be | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| expansion of the real self, the degrees of pleasure and delight, the degrees of more creative unfoldment | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do not permit your body to experience the pleasure it is destined to experience. All these are | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| really happy! Human life is very limited. Happiness, pleasure, and ecstasy are frivolous, selfish aims which truly | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| has no good purpose. Fear of happiness, of pleasure, of wide expansion into one's life experiences is | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| It is also based on misconceptions such as, Pleasure is wrong, or It is selfish to want | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| not least, for the very necessary supply of pleasure. A human being cannot live without pleasure. To | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| of pleasure. A human being cannot live without pleasure. To deny this truth is one of the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| errors. Body, soul, mind, and spirit wither without pleasure. As an adult you are able to find | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| are also able to do the same with pleasure. In all these areas you must have contact | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| this is its need. The same applies to pleasure. The child must have the parents' permission to | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| to establish and utilize the source of all pleasure deep within itself. Through the parents' permission the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| need another person to permit you to experience pleasure, you are still in the position of the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| a vicious circle comes into being paralyzing the pleasure forces, which are a good part of the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| becomes dull and lusterless. To deny the intense pleasure of being, the pleasure of feeling the energy | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| To deny the intense pleasure of being, the pleasure of feeling the energy flow of your body | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| receives a shock from the repeated absence of pleasure and therefore the repeated presence of unfulfilled yearning | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| or a parent substitute as your source of pleasure and life. You do not know that you | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| know that you are free to move toward pleasure, toward your own fulfillment, toward the realization of | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| conviction that you have a right to the pleasure you so much desire. You vaguely suspect that | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you may be wrong to even want this pleasure. Thus you begin to displace the original, natural | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| displace the original, natural need and desire for pleasure into other channels where they are sublimated. Other | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| more this vicious circle goes on, the less pleasure remains in the psyche, while unpleasure accumulates. Such | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you what you need in the way of pleasure, safety, and self-respect. The forcing-current says, you must | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| expansive, unfolding life filled with positive experience and pleasure. You aim to avoid the threat of expressing | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| Later you will discover your ever-increasing right for pleasure and happiness. You will find that you move | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| dreamed could exist. You will suddenly permit yourself pleasure. You will no longer cramp up against it | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| humankind has done for millennia, by saying that pleasure is wrong and frivolous and unspiritual. You may | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| fear of life, fear of death, fear of pleasure, fear of giving up control, fear of feelings | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| next on the list might be fear of pleasure. For those of you whose self-exploration is still | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| unhappy, unfulfilled, and empty, fears happiness, fulfillment, and pleasure, no matter how much they strain and yearn | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| you ever forget this. Now then, fear of pleasure, of happiness, of fulfillment, is a reality applicable | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| own inner reactions which shrink from happiness and pleasure. To understand this in context, I should like | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| as you remain stuck in it: unfoldment and pleasure, delight and creative living, fulfillment and happiness, can | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| real self, one must fear life and death, pleasure and fulfillment, happiness and unfoldment, one's feelings and | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| force means living deathlessly. The denial of the pleasure supreme of life is death. The fact that | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| death are directly connected, as the real self, pleasure supreme, and life are directly connected. Therefore whoever | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| go of the ego, who fears and denies pleasure because of this fear, must court death. This | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| ego that fears self-responsibility makes self-surrender, and thus pleasure, impossible. The person who habitually overcharges and exhausts | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| from an overtense ego that is deprived of pleasure because it is too frightened to surrender to | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| to all human beings. It is the following: pleasure versus goodness. The word pleasure includes all personal | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| is the following: pleasure versus goodness. The word pleasure includes all personal happiness, fulfillment, gratification on all | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| unless one contemplates its ramifications very carefully. Sacrificing pleasure includes everything. Since life is pleasure, life itself | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| carefully. Sacrificing pleasure includes everything. Since life is pleasure, life itself is thus renounced. Since health is | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| is a result of this duality. Intense physical pleasure is a legitimate need and legitimate longing because | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| intensely pleasurable and must also be forsaken when pleasure is supposed to be wrong and therefore denied | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| be too aggressive, vigorous, forbidden. Hence, the spiritual pleasure of knowing the power within and one's own | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| no split, or choice to be made between pleasure and goodness. But as long as you believe | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| in order to be good you must renounce pleasure, you must fluctuate between these two alternatives. You | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| The more you feel compelled to deny yourself pleasure, the more selfish you must become in order | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| and convince yourself that you do not deserve pleasure. The delight of loving, the delight that life | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| Then you can reach for every possible delight, pleasure, fulfillment, gratification, ecstasy, and be, at the same | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| they really are, in the ability to experience pleasure supreme. My friends, you may be surprised at | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| -- and the discovery of the unity of pleasure and personal goodness. Are there any questions about | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| It has no way of finding expression in pleasure, which is what it is meant to do | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| it is meant to do. The deprivation of pleasure renders you ill to some degree. The fact | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| you forbid yourself on all levels the intense pleasure you are meant to experience -- out of | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| cannot take place when the destiny of the pleasure current is willfully and artificially stopped. Pleasure comes | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the pleasure current is willfully and artificially stopped. Pleasure comes about when the stream of energy is | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| person is due to the energy of the pleasure principle in you being strongly activated. Thus your | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| resiliency, and any asset you can name, is pleasure. It could be experienced as a knowledge of | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| unnecessary confining straightjacket. Yet you deny yourself this pleasure -- the pleasure of your own accomplishment -- | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| Yet you deny yourself this pleasure -- the pleasure of your own accomplishment -- as you deny | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| own accomplishment -- as you deny yourself all pleasure. It is as though there were a film | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| is caused by a wrong conclusion. Experience of pleasure, as well as of unpleasure, cannot ever harm | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| you experience is exclusively a result of fearing pleasure, as well as unpleasure -- fearing to be | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| bad can happen to me if I have pleasure, or if I am hurt or disappointed. These | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| Fear and illusion are synonymous, as life and pleasure are. Be blessed, be in God! 160. CONCILIATION | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| too tensely and anxiously -- there is no pleasure in swimming, nor is it safe. The water | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| fear of life, fear of death, fear of pleasure, fear of letting go, fear of self, fear | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| of that which you want most -- life, pleasure, fulfillment, realization of your potentials, success in every | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| mentioned -- the only state in which total pleasure exists -- is completely free from the cramped | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the same in soul movement. How is deep pleasure possible in such a condition? This is why | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| is why it is such folly to believe pleasure is possible in only an intense state. The | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| The reconciliation of all duality is the fearless pleasure supreme that comes from the floating state I | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| one cares about nothing and is indifferent to pleasure. The pleasure -- that is the opposite of | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| about nothing and is indifferent to pleasure. The pleasure -- that is the opposite of pain you | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |