| to experience this or that joy, creative self-expression, pleasure? Or, is it possible to first experience pain | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| to maintain its present safe position are: denying pleasure, bliss, joy, expansion, and creative movement into life | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of your being. Relaxation and excitement, peace and pleasure you then experience as interconnected aspects, rather than | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| now feel that you cannot bear happiness and pleasure -- if the current is too strong and | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| your pain, you become commensurately capable of sustaining pleasure. By humbly and honestly admitting your hate and | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| your life and consciousness, for feeling joy and pleasure. Tiredness, listlessness, lack of energy can be explained | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| pain, no fear is ever permanent, but love, pleasure, security, peace, and bliss are permanent conditions. Hate | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| right after you have opened up and experienced pleasure, love, the goodness of life. You know that | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| then no longer a chore; it is a pleasure. As long as movement is a chore, the | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| and terror; at will produce equanimity and peace; pleasure and joy; love and compassion; then you are | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| wishes love and fulfillment, perfection and happiness, or pleasure and creative expansion without paying the price of | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| of experiencing and expressing deep feelings and blissful pleasure, where you are capable of meeting life without | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| not even capable of accepting and sustaining intense pleasure at this time. Pleasure exists on all levels | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| accepting and sustaining intense pleasure at this time. Pleasure exists on all levels: spiritual, physical, emotional, and | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| levels: spiritual, physical, emotional, and mental. However, spiritual pleasure, separated from the levels of everyday functioning, is | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| a blissful state. Your longing to experience more pleasure is a message for you to embark on | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| be exchange, intimacy, communication, sharing, mutual love, mutual pleasure, and the giving as well as the receiving | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| and paralyzed creativity. It enables people to feel pleasure to the degree they are willing to feel | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| own divinity. You will feel your potential for pleasure and security, awareness of yourself and others, and | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| its rewards. You deprive yourself of the deep pleasure and bliss of the involuntary life stream that | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| ability to bear good feelings, intimacy, love, and pleasure is an exact indication of that. The work | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| to be more comfortable than love, closeness, and pleasure. Love, closeness, and pleasure will be the most | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| than love, closeness, and pleasure. Love, closeness, and pleasure will be the most comfortable and easy state | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| to condemn others and yourself and find negative pleasure in doing so. If this is where you | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| unpleasant. In reality, the more complete the joy, pleasure, bliss, and ecstasy, the more creative power is | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| perpetuation of the race or the need for pleasure, are only partial answers and rather superficial at | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| cannot fuse and thus you can have no pleasure. Loving, and therefore the ability to give and | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| may show up character tendencies such as finding pleasure in being cruel. There are many variations and | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| am, and is unwilling to give up this pleasure, convinced that this is the only way he | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| the only way he or she can have pleasure. This is totally untrue; the pleasure that would | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| can have pleasure. This is totally untrue; the pleasure that would become available if the negative characteristic | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| do not, I am bad and have no pleasure. So I must force myself to love. Another | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| I want to possess you to have my pleasure. In such a predicament, sexuality is either annulled | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| in what is referred to as perversion -- pleasure in giving pain, pleasure in denying the self | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| to as perversion -- pleasure in giving pain, pleasure in denying the self and the other. Hating | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Without this as the essential foundation, no joy, pleasure, or fulfillment can exist for long. Even while | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| other, better expressions. You now become capable of pleasure and joy and no longer need to reject | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| mate, and the satisfaction of deep, open friendships. Pleasure will no longer frighten you because you now | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| and still cling to them. Hence, you fear pleasure, which becomes more frightening than the grayness you | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| wish for and create, a grayness of neither pleasure nor pain. You often want to painstakingly preserve | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| your experience of joy and security, peace and pleasure, becomes deeper, longer lasting, and less fraught with | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| and truth. For there could be no greater pleasure than sharing love and truth as a result | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| clearly that your inability to tolerate the ever-increasing pleasure in your life, to the point where you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| the joys of life, the pain and the pleasure of living, and you are grateful for this | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the New Age. I do so with great pleasure. I shall speak of the evolution of consciousness | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| homework is the price to be paid before pleasure can begin can guarantee a hatred of learning | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| The superimposed, false desires do not give real pleasure, nor are they the will of God. They | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| that you do deserve fulfillment, peace of mind, pleasure and abundance, underneath you will fear not being | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| only when you can feel you deserve the pleasure of doing so. You can receive love only | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| full sexuality and experience the joy and the pleasure of it. GUIDE: It will indeed be so | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| You encounter the difficulty of sustaining happiness and pleasure so many times. You have begun to open | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| still dare not believe. Much more fulfillment, happiness, pleasure and abundance exist in your lives. But in | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| those areas which are still blocked you reject pleasure because it feels uncomfortable. At least you are | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| inner courage, to make room for joy, for pleasure, to make room for ecstasy, can experience the | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| not meant in the sense of denial of pleasure, but in the sense of the constant process | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| an inner guilt for wanting to grab a pleasure in a selfish way without lovingness. Only when | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| capacity to enjoy all the pleasures, including sexual pleasure. QUESTION (Child): I want to know why I | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| this state you experience moments of an intense pleasure that permeates your total being. When self-love has | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| receptivity is possible. The inability to receive love, pleasure, fulfillment, and the compulsion to sabotage fulfillment come | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| if you do not earn enough to experience pleasure and comfort and material security, somewhere within you | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| vitality, my life energy, my sexuality, my body, pleasure, for all these are sinful. Therefore rebelling Christians | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| feel that they must deny their energies, their pleasure principle if they embrace Christ, they could try | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| who is filled with evil, experiences excitement and pleasure when spreading destruction, suffering, and pain. The second | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| seems inexplicable: where you retract from happiness, fulfillment, pleasure, and love. You close up your centers of | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| reactions of contraction, restlessness, and anxiety when great pleasure and fulfillment come to you, you can then | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| the line of least resistance and its negative pleasure which makes you persist in a destructive course | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| a lower-self fixation to indulge in the negative pleasure of negative thoughts, suspicions, blames, and accusations which | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| to the light of love, truth, joy, peace, pleasure supreme, eternal life, and wellbeing in all respects | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| fear of loving an equal and experiencing the pleasure of sexuality, the woman had to alienate herself | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| not a moralized edict that deprives you of pleasure. Quite the contrary is true. The power current | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| to choose independently, to experience sexual and erotic pleasure, to make mistakes and learn from them, to | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| the greatest, most desirable state imaginable, the keenest pleasure and fulfillment for which the soul and the | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| become strong, resilient, mature, and capable. Bliss, ecstasy, pleasure supreme can never exist gratuitously, can never be | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| person reacts to pain no differently than to pleasure. In that way pain and pleasure become indeed | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| than to pleasure. In that way pain and pleasure become indeed one and the same. To put | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| person transcends duality. This kind of detachment from pleasure or pain is strongly fostered by Eastern religions | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| possibly make yourself react the same way to pleasure as to pain. It is a natural movement | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| movement of the human manifestation to strain toward pleasure and away from pain. Even the often-encountered fear | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| pain. Even the often-encountered fear and denial of pleasure is essentially nothing but another version of fear | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| and truly observe your reactions to pain and pleasure, to life and death. These reactions contain a | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| equanimity does not express a disregard for earthly pleasure and life in the body, but it no | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| and desires in connection with life and death, pleasure and pain. As these observations become more honest | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| fear. Life is feared as much as death, pleasure as much as pain, success as much as | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| of all opposites -- of life and death, pleasure and pain, light and darkness. When you can | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| still give you at times a certain negative pleasure and excitement. For beings in the lowest, darkest | 254 SURRENDER |
| that is capable of saying no to momentary pleasure, because that, in the long run, defeats you | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| need to sacrifice your pride, your stubbornness, your pleasure in having a case against someone or your | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |