| Pleasurelessness............3 | |
| it, preferring the pseudo-safety of restriction, inhibition, dependency, pleasurelessness. When that state worsens, the suffering becomes unbearable | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and living are related and interdependent. Ego existence, pleasurelessness, and death are directly connected, as the real | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| depression, hopelessness, illness, frustration, failures, feelings of inadequacy, pleasurelessness, listlessness. All these are indubitable signs that there | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| Pleasures...................22 | |
| to you for all your other duties and pleasures. Actually, it is quite the contrary, my friends | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| takes something away from your other duties or pleasures. You take it for granted that this is | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| physical life -- meaning the body and the pleasures and sensations of the body. I would like | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| not, cannot, and will not sacrifice the bodily pleasures for the sake of a spiritual life to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| is within, just as all other satisfactions and pleasures flow from giving oneself to life without restriction | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| diminish it. It enhances every one of your pleasures; it takes nothing away from you whatever. May | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| only fail to find fulfillment, but even the pleasures I had are gone. When you understand that | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| self must become very flat and unenjoyable. Substitute pleasures are then -- often frantically -- looked for | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| that union with the other sex, and the pleasures of this union, are bad and dangerous comes | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| all. By the same token, the old, immature pleasures cease to be attractive and no longer yield | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| attractive and no longer yield satisfaction. New, deeper pleasures arise that are not the opposite of anything | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| a result of abandoning these pseudo- satisfactions and pleasures, these poor substitutes? As long as you are | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| attitudes, for it brings the greatest of all pleasures -- physical as well as mental and emotional | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| unfoldment. The universe is abundant in its joys, pleasures and bliss: human beings are supposed to experience | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| interim state where you experience new joys and pleasures you never knew existed. Life opens up for | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| state of fulfillment in your relationships, partnership, work, pleasures, your inner state of joyousness and peace, and | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| you will find new security, new joys and pleasures, new creativity of which you know nothing so | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| guilt, and you have begun to share the pleasures of love and truth. For there could be | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| hard work and the relinquishing of some immediate pleasures. The child will rejoice in discovering all the | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| therefore the full capacity to enjoy all the pleasures, including sexual pleasure. QUESTION (Child): I want to | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| all your tasks, your duties, your fulfillments, your pleasures, deeply meaningful and joyous. It will lend to | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| lower-self gratifications for a while, so that higher pleasures can take root in you. No one else | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Plenty......................4 | |
| not very important. Of course, if someone has plenty of possessions and never gives anything to anybody | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| planet at their disposal better, there would be plenty of room for all to come. Perhaps the | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| soul are concerned, as you all have had plenty of opportunity to verify on your path, but | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| looks for proof of this negative view receives plenty of confirmation, and takes pride in being objective | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| Plexus......................29 | |
| field of the human being. In the solar plexus, a person's entire spiritual picture is imprinted. Those | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| your willpower to flow out of your solar plexus and not out of your brain. There is | 18 FREE WILL |
| view. QUESTION: What do you mean by solar plexus as opposed to the brain? ANSWER: A wish | 18 FREE WILL |
| the soul. In the region of the solar plexus, in radiant matter not visible with your human | 18 FREE WILL |
| place, but from the region of your solar plexus. Your soul, however, manifests in your emotional life | 21 THE FALL |
| advice to listen within you where your solar plexus or spiritual field is. You may receive answers | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| realized. The inner will comes from the solar plexus. The outer will comes partly from the intellect | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| not in your brain but in your solar plexus -- that your reaction, or your knowledge, or | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| brain, so to speak, located in the solar plexus, gives you the most enlightening guidance, wisdom, understanding | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| happens from deep inside -- from the solar plexus, rather than from the upper mind. And control | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| obstructed than ever before. Out of your solar plexus flow new wisdom, strength, serenity, and dynamic vitality | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| seems to be located deep within the solar plexus. This is not a complete illusion in the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| come from the deepest resources of the solar plexus, rather than the volitional, artificial thought processes people | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the middle of the body is the solar plexus. For years and years I have spoken about | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the center of your body, around the solar plexus. From this area new life flows -- new | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| the spine. There is another in the solar plexus region. A third center is at the front | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| -- sexuality, partnership love, personal love. The solar plexus center opens the way to the connection and | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| recognized and the vaster brain in the solar plexus is consulted. The ego must learn to alternate | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| activated. The second center is in the solar plexus. Its opening creates a connection with spiritual wisdom | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| other human being. The opening of the solar plexus channel connects you with the ongoing, ever-present truth | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| you find solutions for everything. In the solar plexus is the center that connects you with the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| being somewhere in the region of your solar plexus. This is so, because, as outlined last time | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| outlined last time, the center in the solar plexus region is the channel of communication with the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| that cosmic truth is located in the solar plexus. Your inner wisdom provides down-to-earth answers when you | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| reside in a special area within the solar plexus. This view is no more true than the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| come out through this center in the solar plexus -- which is, perhaps, no more than a | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| neither in the brain nor in the solar plexus. Where does it reside, then? It is quite | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| agitated mind. Therefore the center at the solar plexus will open. Through this exercise, a channel to | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| innermost being, from the center of your solar plexus, the voice of wisdom will guide you. It | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| Pliable.....................3 | |
| Your adult sense of fairness makes you sufficiently pliable to give in. And your sense of self | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| and the conscious mind must become receptive, listening, pliable, impressionable. It must tune into and understand the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| your inner God. You need to be willing, pliable, flexible, trusting and forever ready for another change | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Plight......................3 | |
| believe that others may be in a similar plight. This is an illusion, but it does exist | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| fear and suffering. This is, broadly speaking, humanity's plight. It is your task, in the cycle of | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| will greatly help you all to see your plight in this light and to know that this | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Plough......................4 | |
| truly found it. Until then, you have to plough along exploring your emotions, bringing repressed needs to | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| then possible to use these released energies to plough the way further to where the thickets still | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| when you come out of your darkness, to plough your way between the two extremes. These extremes | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| your resistances, distortions, and darkness. Hence we must plough ahead in our work, to make more spiritual | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Plunge......................13 | |
| is not very intuitive about such things, may plunge into a crisis in which his state of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| as gradually as growth. It is no sudden plunge. And now, my friends, I am ready for | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| and your life once you have made the plunge into it. The first time it may call | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| This is the abyss into which you should plunge so as to find yourself floating instead of | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| arbitrarily. But this must not cause you to plunge ahead heedlessly. So we always come back to | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| disapproval may completely spoil your mood. It may plunge you into depression and ill humor. The former | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| decision and thereby incur criticism or frustration, will plunge you into despair. All this is proof that | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are afraid that you will be forced to plunge yourself into it when you recognize the existence | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| wrong -- how can you abandon yourself to plunge into your inner depths and into the stream | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| become completely capable of the courage necessary to plunge into those frightening feelings. Without this second point | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| and you must be ready to take the plunge. When this happens, a measure of eternality will | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| without being ready for it makes the personality plunge into hell. Meditational exercises are another way in | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| evil have access to the human consciousness and plunge it into destructiveness of all kinds. The whole | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |