| you should remember that your fault has a positive side or background, so to say. Build on | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| all. Often you are only aware of the positive side of a particular trend, while you ignore | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| accused, because for you only the unconscious, unaware positive side appears to exist. The human being is | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| realms the goal becomes the self. Use the positive aspects to cleanse this current of its exaggerated | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| change from within, gradually, in the only way positive and constructive growth can ever take place. And | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| people, particularly nowadays, who force themselves to think positive thoughts. But that is not what I mean | 36 PRAYER |
| do not follow suit in harmony with the positive thoughts, then there is a self-deception that may | 36 PRAYER |
| good and bad -- and to retain a positive attitude. The distortion is in the struggle of | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| exist is a distortion of a healthy and positive attitude. To find the right way is not | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| You might contend that people can also have positive, healthy images engraved on their soul. That is | 38 IMAGES |
| fate that is inevitable in a spirit of positive and constructive self-search, in an attitude of humble | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| need a great amount of will, in a positive sense. Isn't that clear? Can you explain why | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| courage that comes from fear? ANSWER: Definitely. A positive attribute can originate in either a positive or | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| A positive attribute can originate in either a positive or a negative motive or current. That is | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| same applies to faults. But the natural and positive extension of will is courage. Both will and | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| aspects of life. Will needs active pressure, either positive or negative. It needs activity. In the purified | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| are charged with emotion. This principle applies to positive as well as negative thought forms. The strongest | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| comes from weakness and fear can never produce positive results. The fact that this attitude was adopted | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| does not alter the results. To achieve a positive outcome, a free, strong and independent choice has | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| observation, a very warm interest in other people, positive feelings, also a certain basic detachment. The time | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| emotional maturity you will no longer fear your positive feelings, either, because you will accept an occasional | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| an occasional hurt. You will risk expressing your positive feelings rather than withholding them from others, because | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| previously about expectation, especially in the form of positive thinking as opposed to acceptance? ANSWER: Each of | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| distorted when you embrace its extreme. Rightly understood, positive thinking means knowing that everything must turn to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| through them. The most constructive attitude is a positive acceptance of yourself and life's risks. It includes | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| yourself and to face life as it is. Positive thinking, when abused, avoids facing that which is | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| these basic religious attitudes. The wrong kind of positive thinking is self-willed and impatient. The wrong kind | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| in a hurry, which the wrong interpretation of positive thinking tries to do. Eventually your emotions will | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| not clear about yourself, you can have a positive and optimistic attitude consciously, but unconsciously you can | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| with the negative attitude. So underneath both the positive and negative attitudes something else may be hidden | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| lack healthy resistance. I mean resistance in the positive sense, as when you resist disease, and not | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of your own weakness will have the same positive effect. Another motive for holding opinions not your | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| afraid of unhappiness; that you do not avoid positive involvement because you are afraid of negative involvement | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| gratefulness and joy of living, which are purely positive. The borderline between the two emotions is very | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| to where you deviate from the healthy and positive attitude. But beware of the opposite extreme, of | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| whose life force is strong, who have a positive outlook on life, one can be reasonably certain | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| through the difficulties, through the crucifixion in as positive and healthy a spirit as possible. And when | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a spirit as possible. And when I say positive, I do not mean for you to deny | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| us now consider these principles separately in their positive, as well as in their negative aspects. The | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| impatience, thoughtlessness. The principle of restriction in its positive aspect means equilibrium, balance -- for it is | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| selfishness, egocentricity, separateness. The static principle in its positive aspect stands for preservation. At first sight it | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| static principle is of particular significance. In its positive aspect it represents the ultimate goal, the highest | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| different state of affairs in a constructive and positive way -- which includes seeking and understanding the | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| your unconscious negative side and not to the positive side, even though the positive has won out | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| not to the positive side, even though the positive has won out in your outer actions. This | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to turn the course of events in a positive direction. When you experience the existence of this | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to your past good efforts. It is a positive chain reaction. If your entire attitude and life | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| stronger. At other times they recede and the positive aspects come to the fore. Understanding this very | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be what was said. Subjective coloring, due to positive or negative emotions, will cease; in its stead | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not work itself out against you. Then a positive and healthy reaction would come out of the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the negative decision would turn out to be positive for you. You cannot try to understand this | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| disaster. Are there within the child already these positive and negative forces which it projects and by | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the negative of a photograph compared with the positive. What is black in one, is white in | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| out disagreements. It is very possible that the positive motive exists to a stronger degree than the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| the soul until the next incarnation. QUESTION: Would positive karma also work in this way? ANSWER: Yes | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| for you at this particular time. With this positive result, you may find it impossible to solve | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| in peace, be in God! 68. SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES Greetings, my | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| human being suppresses not only negative aspects, but positive and creative tendencies in the soul as well | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| new approach in searching for the suppression of positive and creative tendencies as they clamor for the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| may think it makes no sense to suppress positive aspects since only the negative is unpleasant to | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you will be able to bring the suppressed positive tendencies to the surface and view them in | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| between the suppression of the negative and the positive aspects is often quite strong. Your dependency on | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| will certainly be easier to search for suppressed positive tendencies which you now know deserve full right | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| mean a discipline that suppresses anything, negative or positive, in you. This concept is, unfortunately, often misunderstood | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| at the time from following through with a positive, creative impulse because, as you are now seriously | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| conditions of your inner life. This includes the positive and the negative conditions. It is sometimes more | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| more difficult to assimilate and constructively absorb the positive results of your inner life. The existence of | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| as at its worst. The rhythmic change from positive to negative outer manifestation, and back again, alternating | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| to have a different approach to both the positive and the negative manifestations. Only thus will the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| an unreality. You may think that in the positive manifestation it does not matter: If I am | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| spiritual law -- and to that end, a positive perception of our being in God. ANSWER: One | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| may be other negative emotions; if they are positive, you are deceiving yourself even more. Only by | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| your motives really are. Look behind the apparent positive outer appearances. Use your findings, your images and | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| It is so with any kind of emotion, positive or negative, good or bad. Your conflicts, your | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| your own problems, increasingly affect the healthy and positive part of the other's personality. This work increases | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| began, all these feelings -- good or bad, positive or negative, joyful or painful -- have existed | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| as much part of your world as the positive. You automatically tune into that which corresponds to | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| start to think and visualize that there are positive and negative currents, it makes me think that | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| do I switch in order to contact the positive? ANSWER: What I spoke about tonight should not | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| strength and insight to become one with the positive currents. Your very reaction is proof of the | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| do so when you exaggerate and dramatize a positive feeling about a person. And you do so | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| that the meaning of these words has a positive, rather than a negative implication. It does not | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| happiness. In your fullness, you progressively attract more positive experience. In your soul-sickness and error, productive of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it if you stand still. This can be positive in the sense of taking a firm stand | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you will find that you superimpose not only positive but also negative emotions on your genuine feelings | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it up. You will shed the pretense of positive and negative attitudes, trends, desires and motivations. Instead | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You may think it is merely a strong positive quality, and as such it cannot or should | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| but it will come from motives that are positive and conscious. Try to visualize this strong, forward-surging | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| death, your embrace of life will have a positive spirit. This alone can solve the problem of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you were untouched by it, except in the positive sense, because the experience caused you to grow | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| era of death and destruction? Three, can any positive lesson be learned by mankind through reviving this | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| Again it depends on the individual. A positive lesson could be learned by individuals, as well | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| learned through it. By the same token, a positive as well as a negative lesson could be | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| truly felt -- the lesson will be a positive one. On the other hand, not reviving it | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| up. Even if you are ashamed of something positive and constructive, the very fact that you are | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and deducing to feeling and experiencing all your positive and negative emotions. I cannot emphasize this enough | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| element will stand in the way of the positive. Those of you who now follow this path | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| applies not only to negative but also to positive or favorable incidents. This dramatizing is based on | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| repression of negative emotions, as well as of positive goals, a futility, lack of self-confidence, and therefore | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| needs, and, in connection with them, repressed emotions, positive and negative. In the third phase we investigate | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you had relinquished something. Look perhaps first for positive examples; they might make it much easier for | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| see in each of the two alternatives a positive and a negative side, and therefore you cannot | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| come into being through the split of a positive idea: self- forgiveness and fully facing one's sin | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| take on self-responsibility. Due to the split, these positive ideas have now a counterpart in self-indulgence and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| Because of the split in yourself into both positive and negative trends, confusion sets in in the | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| manifestation to the world's. The rebellion has a positive aspect too; one may call it healthy self-assertion | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| always tempting to pride oneself on having a positive attitude, thus covering up a negative one. Why | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| It will take some time before new, constructive, positive causes can go into force and produce comparable | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| itself through understanding your emotions' origin, before the positive feelings, coming from your real self, follow suit | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| participate in life? The shallow artificiality of superimposed positive emotions lacks real substance and is therefore untrustworthy | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| refer to both sadism and masochism, calling one positive, the other negative. How do you regard this | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| immediate concerns. In moments of actual danger such positive feelings would be detrimental. When the danger is | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and undermines the healthy one and diminishes its positive effect. Now as to what is natural. It | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| being. Every human being has, in both a positive and a negative aspect, every emotion, trend, or | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| The reasons why the same quality displays its positive facet at one time and its negative at | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| feeling appears to be negative, while an apparently positive feeling may weaken you if it is dishonest | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the fact that a destructive feeling may produce positive results in certain cases does not make the | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| certain cases does not make the feeling itself positive, healthy, or productive. The seventh cardinal sin is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| you give it. A person who has a positive, constructive attitude toward life will not be slothful | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| anger, you use the weapon of turning a positive into a negative feeling. You feel resentment, rejection | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| negative emotions are bound to build destructive results. Positive emotions build constructive results. If the mind is | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the real self, and is functioning on a positive level, and then one discovers a neurotic trend | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| negative manifestation is often an indication that a positive transitory phase is occurring. QUESTION: How does that | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| the negative emotions which do not allow the positive emotions to come to fruition because you harbor | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| a person's attitude toward life is correct and positive, his feelings will be right also, and consequently | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| problems. It is according to these potentials -- positive, as well as negative -- that the entity | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| happy or unhappy. Where the underlying potential is positive, the corresponding soul-stuff will be so resilient that | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| split -- which in this sense is a positive development compared to the person who can have | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| to repression, is unable to attain the desired positive result. It is always the split motives -- | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| lend itself to deeper exploration. Constructive, realistic, and positive feelings do not conflict with time, because time | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| to understand this, my friends. For the child, positive identification is desirable. For an adult, a positive | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| positive identification is desirable. For an adult, a positive identification is often as undesirable as a negative | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| on again. Beware of this temptation. The warm, positive, generous, loving, unselfish feelings must follow eventually, and | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| should be on the lookout for what is positive in you. You often jeopardize your inner security | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the psyche no longer needs to produce falsely positive feelings. Such fear is a result of self-centeredness | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| light on the exact opposite. Apparently favorable and positive factors in childhood can be equally responsible for | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| with unending creativity and love. These wells of positive energy can be tapped to the degree that | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| No consists of. Many people believe that a positive attitude toward life means ignoring the negative in | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| genuine -- not superimposed -- hope, and a positive attitude toward life. You will glean that what | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| affects the soul substance negatively, even if the positive attitude is stronger and conscious, while the negative | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| nature you are a much more constructive, accepting, positive person than you artificially make yourself. Once the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| rigid soul movements. Truthful concepts create relaxed, warm, positive feelings and flexible, harmonious, rhythmic, organic soul movements | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| a current of trust which will have its positive effect. In other words, when you find yourself | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |