| the duality. It lessens the intensity of both pleasure and pain. It enables the soul to go | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| infinite and inexorable. The idea that pain and pleasure become more similar may sound impossible and preposterous | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| as such. The experience of pain turning into pleasure and the two thus becoming one does not | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| -- the torturous feelings turn into warmth and pleasure. The feeling of alive peace accompanies this experience | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| experience. Your body and soul are streaming in pleasure currents when you no longer run away from | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| what the experience, it must become pleasurable. Such pleasure is of an entirely different nature than the | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| is of an entirely different nature than the pleasure that is opposed to pain in the dualistic | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the dualistic state. On the level of duality, pleasure is feared as annihilation while, at the same | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| opposite. The completeness, the wholeness, of the unitive pleasure may also be intense, but in a very | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| this topic? QUESTION: Does the coming together of pleasure and pain happen when you experience pain as | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| for it makes you alive and streaming with pleasure. It gives you true security. To the extent | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| -- more flexible, wiser, and filled with the pleasure supreme that all human beings long for. Once | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| relaxed, and permeated by the knowledge, power and pleasure of the real self. Every activity, no matter | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| being injured. All this affords you a certain pleasure you are unwilling to give up. Well, the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| high indeed. As long as you choose this pleasure -- with all its pain, guilt, discomfort and | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| forth more and greater life; it creates supreme pleasure. Disharmonious interaction, with over-or under-emphasis on one force | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| softness. The fertile soil of life, growth, peace, pleasure is the resilience that springs from the pulsation | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| that you no longer alternate between pain and pleasure. Then these opposites will be reconciled, and the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| which tension and relaxation are different aspects of pleasure. Unless frustration ceases to be a threat so | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| of love, for the deepest experiences of happiness, pleasure, union with others -- if health continues while | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| must also produce vital happiness, vibrant stimulation and pleasure. For such is the goodness of God's world | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| of logic. Fear vanishes, and life becomes unending pleasure just because its opposite is no longer feared | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| new aliveness. A sea of feeling will crystallize pleasure supreme, the capacity to experience heights of joy | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| obstructed. The original state is not pain but pleasure, not suffering but joy, not deadness but forever | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| that the real pain is the gateway to pleasure and fulfillment. What I have given you here | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| a vital, living feeling of love, joy, and pleasure. There is, however, the second point of awareness | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| desire to be immobile, which is really no pleasure at all. To be alive and moving is | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| at all. To be alive and moving is pleasure. When you discover your fear of moving, your | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| Little by little the pain makes room for pleasure. Safety, hope, new experience -- they are all | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| For life is truth and love, experience and pleasure, movement and unfoldment, new adventure and new horizons | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| In this consciousness, infinite modes of self-expression, bliss, pleasure supreme, and stimulating new ventures exist in the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| these principles function as they are meant to. Pleasure supreme is possible to the degree these attitudes | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| desire for and the fear of bliss and pleasure supreme. For some people the fear is much | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| is rich and joyful, whose capacity to experience pleasure is deep, whose attitude to life is trustful | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| miss out on it. Their capacity to experience pleasure is very limited; they are numb, lifeless, and | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| and openness your most subtle reactions to fulfillment, pleasure, and expansion, you will find that wherever there | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| other. Knowing and experiencing your own rejection of pleasure is the first step to removing this block | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| yourself, you cannot bear happiness, you cannot sustain pleasure. There are two basic reasons for self-rejection. All | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| hidden, and yet available reaction that wards off pleasure. Cultivate a purposeful willingness to see whatever still | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| fact, do fear their own inherent powers. Bliss, pleasure, and fulfillment require the greatest of all strengths | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| there is a connection between the fear of pleasure and the energy centers. For in fear these | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| them. When, however, you inwardly open up for pleasure, joy, happiness on all levels of your being | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| cannot be described. It is the most intense pleasure on all levels -- physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| creates unity which creates a benign circle of pleasure and happiness. For example, a young man recently | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| contexts -- is the question of morality versus pleasure, selfishness versus altruism, self-deprivation versus depriving others. The | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| tragic decision between goodness and joy, morality and pleasure, self-interest and love, you cannot ever fully decide | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| I mean something that goes beyond limited genital pleasure. It comprises the whole extending of personal love | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| sex; it is the individual's capacity to experience pleasure on all levels -- physical, emotional, mental, spiritual | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| its infinite marvel of greatness, wisdom, love and pleasure is an altogether different perception from the usual | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| forget it that you find yourself in strife. Pleasure supreme without a trace of anxiety is an | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| an unusually strong state of either pain or pleasure. Your states of tension have become such second | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| an equal amount of potential for unfoldment, therefore pleasure. It does not have to be merely this | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| feelings. There, too, a fluid, loose state gives pleasure, aliveness, constantly flowing currents of pleasure and energy | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| state gives pleasure, aliveness, constantly flowing currents of pleasure and energy, as opposed to the block that | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| own limitations. I realize that I can't stand pleasure. Coming from my habitual state of unpleasure, pleasure | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| pleasure. Coming from my habitual state of unpleasure, pleasure almost seems unnatural. ANSWER: If you can conceive | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| that wants to reach out, that wants the pleasure of feeling love, warmth, and giving of yourself | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| yourself? This is the reason why you fear pleasure. For pleasure not only seems entirely undeserved, but | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| is the reason why you fear pleasure. For pleasure not only seems entirely undeserved, but love and | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| not only seems entirely undeserved, but love and pleasure are interchangeable. True pleasure is loving, and without | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| undeserved, but love and pleasure are interchangeable. True pleasure is loving, and without loving pleasure just does | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| interchangeable. True pleasure is loving, and without loving pleasure just does not exist. This is not a | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| or even from your own self; love is pleasure, and pleasure is love. The two are interchangeable | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| from your own self; love is pleasure, and pleasure is love. The two are interchangeable. If you | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| your natural instincts. When you deny love and pleasure, you must inevitably also deny your self-esteem. Your | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| that unify decency, honesty, and self-interest; love and pleasure; reality and bliss; fulfillment of your duties without | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| can alter. Creating becomes so involving, and the pleasure of it so engrossing that, once set in | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| that, once set in a negative direction, the pleasure continues to keep the soul in its spell | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| Even if what is created is painful, the pleasure of creating is difficult to abandon as long | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| you ceaselessly seek ways to deny life, love, pleasure, happiness; to court decay, waste, and pain. The | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| that you like it, find some sort of pleasure in it, and do not wish to give | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| wrong, you still are captivated by the perverse pleasure of your own negative production. This acknowledgment is | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| third step also consists of seeing that the pleasure you derive from your negative production is never | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| joy, peace, self-esteem, inner security, expansion and growth, pleasure on all levels of your being, and a | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| and more can never be worth the perverse pleasure you derive from your negative creation. See how | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| is to reach for the understanding that the pleasure you derive from being destructive in your feelings | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| to be given up. In fact, the same pleasure will be transferred to positive creation, where you | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| When you then perceive that it gives you pleasure to dwell on all this within yourself and | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| strength and energy, feelings of bliss, joy, and pleasure supreme available to you on all levels, but | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| strength are given forth for everyone here. 177. PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE Greetings to | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| moment. Tonight's lecture deals with the topic of pleasure -- the meaning and significance of pleasure in | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of pleasure -- the meaning and significance of pleasure in the universal scheme, as well as for | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| totally different from the human state of ultimate pleasure, or from the human potential for it, whether | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| possible for an unstructured, highly developed consciousness. But pleasure remains pleasure. Spiritual pleasure is not bodiless, for | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| an unstructured, highly developed consciousness. But pleasure remains pleasure. Spiritual pleasure is not bodiless, for even unstructured | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| highly developed consciousness. But pleasure remains pleasure. Spiritual pleasure is not bodiless, for even unstructured consciousness is | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| this energy form is without obstruction; it is pleasure itself. The human body in its gross matter | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| negativity, is capable of a high degree of pleasure, for the energy of the subtle bodies penetrates | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| about the fact that the simultaneous longing for pleasure and the fear of it constitute one of | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Tonight we shall discuss the legitimate need for pleasure and its purpose for the human entity. I | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| prerequisites. Or to put it differently, whoever blocks pleasure must, perforce, also block the deep connection with | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| experiences -- spiritual self-realization and the capacity for pleasure -- become one and the same. They are | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| that barricade you from the deep experience of pleasure supreme. What are these obstructions? What hinders the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| dwell too long on the cosmic meaning of pleasure, to avoid the danger of making it appear | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| to misread and misapply the meaning of cosmic pleasure. Only when you reach the point where you | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of bliss will you deeply know that human pleasure is essentially the same as the cosmic state | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| cosmic state of bliss, that spiritual and physical pleasure are one -- not opposites. Pleasure, in the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| and physical pleasure are one -- not opposites. Pleasure, in the real sense, is intensely fleshly and | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| dwell too much on the philosophical aspects of pleasure in the scheme of creation. The only thing | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| state of liberation, of cosmic being, is total pleasure. So pleasure is the ultimate reality. Bliss is | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| liberation, of cosmic being, is total pleasure. So pleasure is the ultimate reality. Bliss is not -- | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| itself and the universe. When we speak of pleasure, we must also be clear about what we | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Let us now come to the meaning of pleasure for the human being on all levels of | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| human being on all levels of existence. The pleasure we speak about here is, as I said | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| yourself: You will make the total experience of pleasure a spiritual and practical goal. You will act | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| You will feel increasingly that personal fulfillment and pleasure further spiritual growth and self-realization, and vice versa | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| this later. Let us first discuss what full pleasure means on all levels of the human personality | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| regulated by and dependent on the state of pleasure the body is capable of allowing. The streamings | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| body is capable of allowing. The streamings of pleasure are the simultaneous forces of life, health, self-renewal | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| health and longevity result from the capacity for pleasure. Conversely, to the degree you deny yourself pleasure | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| pleasure. Conversely, to the degree you deny yourself pleasure -- due to shames, fears, misconceptions, negativities, impurities | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| flow of spiritual healing power, life, health and pleasure that permeates the entire creation can also permeate | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| It is important to understand that feelings of pleasure and bliss that you register in your body | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| be more capable of sustaining the feelings of pleasure supreme, ecstasy, bliss, love, and what is called | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| a manifestation of division, conflict, and denial of pleasure. Spiritual unfoldment must bring an increase of pleasure | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| pleasure. Spiritual unfoldment must bring an increase of pleasure and not, as many authoritarian religions want to | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| want to have it, denial and sacrifice of pleasure. This concept of martyrdom is a total misunderstanding | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| But the truth can be understood only when pleasure is no longer felt to be negative, when | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| can confirm that the degree of deeply experienced pleasure determines energy and well-being. This is not something | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| a deeper level in exploring the importance of pleasure. On the psychological level, the importance of pleasure | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| pleasure. On the psychological level, the importance of pleasure is at least as great as on the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| life? How can you wish to abandon negative pleasure, the pseudo-satisfactions of your pretenses, your role-playing, your | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| are convinced that these substitutes are all the pleasure you can have and that living a decent | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| life implies sacrifice, you cannot even believe in pleasure. This difficulty is intensified because you cannot bear | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| This difficulty is intensified because you cannot bear pleasure exactly to the degree that you cling to | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| life. You become capable of taking in genuine pleasure only to the degree you give up the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the degree you give up the false, negative pleasure. You must find a way to break through | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| and destructive defenses, the less you can accept pleasure; therefore you cannot believe in it; therefore you | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| therefore neither the will and commitment to experience pleasure, nor the giving up of destructive, life-inhibiting patterns | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| seems an insurmountable hardship if not accompanied by pleasure as a by-product. But to the degree you | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| your integrity, to that degree you cannot experience pleasure. Your innermost being does not make it possible | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| you become more and more capable of experiencing pleasure. The more you can look forward to a | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| acceptance of full autonomy with the capacity for pleasure is extremely important to comprehend. One is not | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| in the truest sense seems to imply that pleasure must be renounced, then pleasure cannot really be | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| to imply that pleasure must be renounced, then pleasure cannot really be desired, or if it is | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| -- when you know that your fear of pleasure will disappear proportionately to your self-purification. To the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| less threatened. Instead you will become open to pleasure in its deepest and fullest meaning. All of | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| all its meanings and the realization of personal pleasure. This is very logical, my friends. You know | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| self unto yourself without depending on another. And pleasure is possible only when you love. As I | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| when you love. As I said before, sexual pleasure without love is very incomplete and must always | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |