| the soul, and the body. Total unification of pleasure exists when you love and when you are | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| that you have emotional and mental integrity. Therefore pleasure and spirituality, pleasure and decency, pleasure and emotional | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| emotional and mental integrity. Therefore pleasure and spirituality, pleasure and decency, pleasure and emotional maturity, pleasure and | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| integrity. Therefore pleasure and spirituality, pleasure and decency, pleasure and emotional maturity, pleasure and physical health are | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| spirituality, pleasure and decency, pleasure and emotional maturity, pleasure and physical health are all intricately and intimately | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| connected. Now let us consider the obstructions to pleasure. Some of you who are here for the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| talking about when I mention the fear of pleasure. Offhand, you all want pleasure and long for | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the fear of pleasure. Offhand, you all want pleasure and long for it, strive for it. You | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| it, strive for it. You believe you want pleasure, but you ignore the fact that you also | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| found indeed that they are often terrified of pleasure. Perhaps they fear it even more than negative | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| about yourself, about others, and the fear of pleasure within you. For only because you fear pleasure | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| pleasure within you. For only because you fear pleasure do you inadvertently but logically want the opposite | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| death always connotes an unconscious death wish. Conversely, pleasure is made possible when the state of mind | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Otherwise your battle against your own fear of pleasure will consciously manifest in an excessive striving for | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| will consciously manifest in an excessive striving for pleasure, in an anxiety about not being able to | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| consequently inappropriate overactivity. This obstructs the attainment of pleasure to a considerable degree. Fear of pleasure must | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of pleasure to a considerable degree. Fear of pleasure must be made conscious in order to battle | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| unconscious rejection of the desired result -- whether pleasure or anything else, for that matter. Hence awareness | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| that matter. Hence awareness of being afraid of pleasure must be transformed into acute and direct awareness | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| you must make your negative creations, your negative pleasure conscious to overcome them. You must also be | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| also be in touch with your denial of pleasure. I might safely say that no human being | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| you who are relatively free from fear of pleasure not to overlook those areas within where you | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| those areas within where you shrink away from pleasure as though it were a danger. Meditate and | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| to give up the fear and obstruction to pleasure to an ever-increasing degree. Only when you are | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| conscious of how you fear and deny your pleasure will you stop making others responsible for your | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| ascertain in full consciousness, I am afraid of pleasure, the hopelessness will disappear. You will feel the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| two forces within yourself: one pulling you toward pleasure, the other away from it. You will feel | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| out the further consequences of your denial of pleasure. You are afraid of pleasure because your holding | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| your denial of pleasure. You are afraid of pleasure because your holding on to the negativity, your | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| patterns of behavior and feelings, makes the real pleasure not only undeserved in your own unconscious estimation | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| too frightening for you to be open to pleasure, for your negativity creates a state of soul | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| soul and body that is essentially incompatible with pleasure. Your negativity creates tension, separateness, contraction. It comes | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| is therefore totally alien to a state of pleasure. Negative pleasure is always more geared to gratifying | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| totally alien to a state of pleasure. Negative pleasure is always more geared to gratifying ego goals | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the entity for bathing in the light of pleasure supreme. It harbors the three attitudes that are | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Otherwise I cease to exist. With this attitude, pleasure becomes impossible, for total, real pleasure depends on | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| this attitude, pleasure becomes impossible, for total, real pleasure depends on the ability of the ego to | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| forever more, love becomes less possible and hence pleasure further removed. It does not matter whether you | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| cannot produce love -- and how can true pleasure ever be realized in a loveless state? Love | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| -- physical as well as mental and emotional pleasure. It simply feels good in itself. Love opens | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| and unpretending state is the absolute prerequisite to pleasure. Fear is a total contraction. It cannot trust | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| is in fear cannot let go of itself. Pleasure is unrealizable when the personality is bound to | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the soul. As I said, the realization of pleasure you all deeply long for comes from letting | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of these destructive attitudes. Let me recapitulate: for pleasure, a totally relaxed inner state is needed, but | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| free to be in the unified state of pleasure will feel the cosmic pulsating rhythm and will | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of unpleasure must turn into its ultimate nature: pleasure supreme. It is not easy to do this | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of bringing you toward your inner center where pleasure supreme reigns. These difficult moments will then be | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| your whole person for the state of unconflicted pleasure that is within you. Accept the pain that | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| escapes. Truly look at yourself. The attainment of pleasure and the state of being in pleasure will | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of pleasure and the state of being in pleasure will ultimately and increasingly unfold for you. You | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| part of it. That must be the aim. Pleasure is, at one and the same time, the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| they speak of growth, life, death, love and pleasure. Growth is not merely an organism becoming bigger | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| natural and real state. Disunity is always painful. Pleasure always depends on unity. Expansion into life is | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| difficult and challenging. Each completed unification brings further pleasure. Further pleasure leads to more unification. This benign | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| challenging. Each completed unification brings further pleasure. Further pleasure leads to more unification. This benign circle is | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| circle is the stream of life. Unification brings pleasure when it is no longer considered something that | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| misconceptions that equate love with pain and danger, pleasure with humiliation and shame, self-assertion with unacceptable aggression | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| insistence on remaining as you are sacrifices happiness, pleasure, wholeness, love and expansion, yet it appears to | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| an abdication of your universal destiny. It denies pleasure, wasting the most valuable spiritual power you possess | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| give up your fear of and resistance to pleasure, and give up the roles and pretenses that | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| to disunity rather than unity, pain rather than pleasure. Unification depends on your inner commitment to create | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| create an expanded, unified life of bliss and pleasure rather than one of narrowness, disunity and pain | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| rather than one of narrowness, disunity and pain. Pleasure is possible only in a unified, expanded, ever-enlarging | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| you are now in error. Commit yourself to pleasure, growth, unification and expansion, to that which is | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| unending series of new self-expressions, new forms of pleasure, and depths of unifying relationships, new challenges mastered | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the worst suffering, guilt, and loneliness. He sacrifices pleasure, fulfillment, love, growth, and the realization of his | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the challenge of relationship, thereby sacrificing personal fulfillment, pleasure, love, and joy. When you want to share | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| isolation and contact -- are unbearable. Fear of pleasure is, to a large degree, connected with the | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| of hostility that whitewashes the self. One derives pleasure from doing this, although the pain that ensues | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| follow are infinitely disproportionate to the puny, momentary pleasure. Those who play this game truly harm themselves | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| and reach into the universe for fulfillment and pleasure? How can you love without fear unless you | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| people together in love and attraction, and the pleasure involved are a small aspect of cosmic reality | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| they aware of the direct relationship between enduring pleasure and inner growth? Do they use the inevitable | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| each other determines the solidity of feelings, of pleasure, of enduring love and respect. It is therefore | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| prevents you from indeed wanting positive experiences, fulfillment, pleasure? Offhand you will say, especially when you are | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| life. I want to experience total love and pleasure supreme, without negativities or blocks. I want to | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| expanding into forever new areas of joy and pleasure, as greater inner strength and more resources manifest | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| because I can let go of the doubtful pleasure of being negative, which I now fully recognize | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| forth. Your own potentials to experience beauty, joy, pleasure, love, wisdom, and creative expression, my dearest friends | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| can become a creative power to build happiness, pleasure, love, expansion, for yourself and others around you | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| aggression and self- assertion, stagnation into joy and pleasure. This is inevitable. What I say is no | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| self-acceptance, self-liking, new energy and deeper love and pleasure ensue. But pride, selfwill, and fear make this | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| an insoluble predicament: either you give up all pleasure connected with overspending and irresponsibility in order to | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| mature, realistic, self-responsible and safe, or you take pleasure from the negative trait but at the tremendous | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and be irresponsible is a legitimate yearning for pleasure, expansion and new experience, this predicament will cease | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| responsibility implies living on a narrow margin of pleasure, and confining your self-expression? Since you do not | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of you which rightfully wishes to experience the pleasure of creation at its fullest, but does not | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| fully accept the beautiful force striving for full pleasure underneath the irresponsibility and value it as such | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you sacrifice peace of mind for a short-lived pleasure. The pleasure will be deeper, more lasting, and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| peace of mind for a short-lived pleasure. The pleasure will be deeper, more lasting, and totally free | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| with self-discipline. If you can reconcile desire for pleasure with self-discipline and responsibility, you will express the | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| to use it for the purpose of increasing pleasure and self-expression. My dearest friends, I have given | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| other. The ability to accept, bear, and sustain pleasure can be increased in human beings only gradually | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| actual mutuality. The only way the bliss and pleasure of expansion and union can be experienced for | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| to interplay and expansion, to cooperation and positive pleasure. This always requires relinquishing the negative pleasure and | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| positive pleasure. This always requires relinquishing the negative pleasure and the pseudo-safety. The soul then becomes ready | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| becomes ready to learn, experiment, risk mutuality, love, pleasure, and to function safely in an open state | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| Only as a whole person can you sustain pleasure; only as a fully conscious person can you | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| the self strives for what is healthy, furthering pleasure, love, expansion, growth, fulfillment; while the destructive, ignorant | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| not so long ago. Your lives are fuller, pleasure is greater, fear is lessening, security grows. You | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| Such an attitude brings forth desirable experience, fulfillment, pleasure, bliss and abundance in all respects of life | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| of consciousness, expansion and contraction create opposite experiences: pleasure and pain. Only when you transcend this sphere | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| -- the feeling of pain transforms itself into pleasure, the feelings of hate and fear become love | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| expansion that is intrinsically possible at this stage. Pleasure, too, requires attention and understanding so that you | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| unable to live in the higher climate of pleasure, joy, bliss, and finally even ecstasy. You can | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| repeat: the same approach is necessary toward both pleasure and pain. First, simply observe the previously hidden | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| you become aware of your negative emotions toward pleasure, you can endure it with less and less | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| project it onto outer circumstances, you cannot want pleasure for its own sake, but only to avoid | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| acclimatized to happiness, to fulfillment, to bliss, to pleasure, to abundance, to true expansion, to the joyousness | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| Observe your automatic soul movement when you encounter pleasure and joy. Does it respond with involuntary contraction | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| all life, first the pain and then the pleasure. Only as you observe your inability to do | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| in this self-observing way, your ability to endure pleasure grows. You become acclimatized to functioning on a | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| by feeling pain you prepare yourself to sustain pleasure, and that you wish to increase your aliveness | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| Focus on your actual reactions to pain and pleasure -- and as you do so, your capacity | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| through all sorts of activities, but their real pleasure in life lies in fantasy. I mentioned this | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| that does not further your real self, your pleasure, your innermost individual qualities, potentials and talents. You | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| where you must battle with the opposites -- pleasure and pain, life and death, good and evil | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| reorient your life toward creating more joy and pleasure. The moment self-identification takes place, a deep and | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| are many other manifestations. The inability to feel pleasure or to fully experience life is one of | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the gateway of feeling your pain lies your pleasure and joy; through the gateway of feeling your | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| living. Only a fearless soul can experience bliss, pleasure, joy, and peace. You can fulfill your potential | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| full potential of your creativity and capacity for pleasure can manifest in your personality. But if you | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| in a state of tension. Guardedness is tension. Pleasure and creativity can thrive only in a state | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| that the acceptance of pain makes the pain pleasure. The less you block pain, the more and | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| more and the sooner will pain turn into pleasure. Thus you witness the process of unifying duality | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| and it certainly increases the capacity for experiencing pleasure and deep feelings. It is the living principle | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| than spitefully withhold them. The ability to experience pleasure from within the body and soul, and offer | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| and everything that accrues from that. This means pleasure, love, fulfillment, good relationships, and a meaningful contribution | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| truly begun to know and experience that your pleasure, peace and fulfillment never depend on others but | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| possibility that you might even gain fulfillment, contentment, pleasure, and happiness without these demands being fulfilled -- | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| merely physical energies which bring wellbeing, flow and pleasure. They release the voice of truth and wisdom | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| and body is the indispensable prerequisite for experiencing pleasure and thus for reaching fulfillment. The refusal to | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| the familiar you. What good do joy, fulfillment, pleasure, self-respect, and abundance accomplish if they can only | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you that you can no longer bear bliss, pleasure, ecstasy, happiness. You feel more comfortable in greyness | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |