| imply a destructive intent. For that matter, a positive motivation in this context could also mean a | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| dear life to negative emotions because you fear positive feelings. This is yet another aspect of the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| than create an expansive, unfolding life filled with positive experience and pleasure. You aim to avoid the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| that all my anger and sarcasm are displaced positive feelings, especially overwhelming feelings of love. I am | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| -- that they do not wish to be positive, to give their best to life in whatever | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| feelings, to that degree you must fear the positive ones. On that level you have made a | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to discover your own creative power in the positive before you recognize the connection between negative reality | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| an overt manifestation -- will experience one as positive and the other as negative. The deep psyche | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| destructive attitude, is as undesirable as negating a positive, constructive condition or attitude? To an individual geared | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| barricade around the divine kernel, the self- perpetuating positive creative source. Nevertheless, each entity must go through | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| spiritually. Your emotions seem far more negative than positive. Even your preaching about love and spirituality generally | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| from life my vital energies, my goodwill, my positive spirit of participation. I want to remain separated | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| learn with its help to become giving and positive; to risk investing yourself; to become generous and | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| in kind. Since you are unwilling to be positive and giving, and do not wish to admit | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| perfect specimen if you use this in a positive way. Your truthful perception of what is far | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| that spirit, what expresses itself must be infinitely positive. In that attitude, you see everything as it | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| divided one, relationship to others must become equally positive and fruitful. It cannot help being so. I | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| to yourself that is not according to the positive aspect of this threefold principle. My advice is | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| you must also fear the indwelling power for positive experience and unfoldment. You will no longer react | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| exchange it for a wish to be outgoing, positive and giving, the fear of self will vanish | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| relationships will change from the negative to the positive. You will perceive yourself correctly, you will react | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| The former occurs out of strength and the positive consciousness of reaching for good experience. The latter | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| -- you eliminate the possibility of feeling something positive in that area of yourself. The side that | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| spiritual force within -- the ongoing process of positive unfoldment, of unlimited possibilities for pleasurable and meaningful | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| of transforming that experience. In order to create positive fate deliberately, it is essential for you to | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| simply because they do not know of its positive potential. They are like a man who has | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| is deep, whose attitude to life is trustful, positive, and expanding. They will find it comparatively easy | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| aliveness--or the lack of them. When self-acceptance, truthfulness, positive attitudes prevail you tune more into awareness, trust | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| attitudes exert much greater power than the conscious positive attitudes. It is therefore imperative to make the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| Recreating Soul Substance by Changing Negative Imprints to Positive Imprints After you become thoroughly conscious of your | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| express a harmonious mind attitude of the most positive nature, until gradually the volitional mind ceases to | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| This applies, to a lesser extent, even to positive experiences. For if you do not know that | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| still greater depth, you need to see what positive and negative directions consciousness can take. You have | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| negative manifestation for granted. Perhaps you want a positive result, and at the same time you do | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| the dynamics of mental creativity, both in the positive and in the negative sense, this can be | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| abandon as long as the individual ignores that positive creation is also possible. As negative creations proceed | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| even stronger when it is used for the positive because in the negative there are always conflicts | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| fact, the same pleasure will be transferred to positive creation, where you can expand joyfully and guiltlessly | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| discover the same fascination with creating in a positive way as in the negative, but this time | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| facilitate the discovery of this connecting link of positive fascination with creation, you will need to recognize | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| have to consider and test the possibility of positive creating. You will then see that to create | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| to them that they seem more natural. The positive is effortless. Offhand it seems that to abandon | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| instances. But the moment you realize that the positive creation is already there within you only covered | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| see that it is possible to feel this positive undercurrent. Simultaneously you will experience the deep joy | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| are clear in this respect, their reactions are positive whenever others do not react negatively toward them | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| yourself to integrity, truth, deepest honesty and a positive approach to yourself and life? How can you | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| suddenly you become aware of a new constructive, positive way of reaction. This is spontaneous unification. When | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| have suggested, is to want to have the positive attitude as opposed to the negative one, to | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| creative process itself, with every human's creation of positive or negative life circumstances through beliefs, thoughts, feelings | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| -- both in its natural, unhampered, and therefore positive manifestation, and in its distortion. In its positive | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| positive manifestation, and in its distortion. In its positive, natural version, the links of this chain are | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| repeatedly experience this truth, the more trustful, relaxed, positive, creative, and generous you become. There will be | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| we can determine whether the chain reaction is positive or negative in any aspect of your life | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| -- for the sake of what is most positive under the circumstances. Once again, this often requires | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| would be a mistake to view either the positive or the negative chain reaction as the only | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| that you have both. In some individuals the positive is stronger, in some the negative. Look at | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| and expectation of life in this area is positive. This is not because life has been good | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| not easily threatened or frightened. You maintain a positive attitude, even if there are occasional difficulties and | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| manifest. Human beings whose chain reactions are only positive, or only negative, are the exception. The former | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| are somewhere in the middle. They have some positive and some negative chain reactions working within them | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| make the switch from the negative to the positive chain reaction seems impossible. In this battle you | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| you have first established an awareness of a positive chain reaction within yourself. You then have a | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| yourself for these chain reactions. See how the positive and the negative ones work in your life | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| satisfying closeness to others could be a purely positive power without any threat if these snares were | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| will directions, must become as conscious as your positive attitudes and will directions. Paradoxical as this may | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| yourself. What then prevents you from indeed wanting positive experiences, fulfillment, pleasure? Offhand you will say, especially | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| will be convinced that nothing in you blocks positive experiences -- hence factors outside yourself must be | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| indiscriminately, to rationalize away true self-responsibility, self-determination, and positive involvement with life. The life substance is so | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| inner being. If your thoughts are productive and positive, but the feeling tone is depressed and negative | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| painful. There the dualistic split reigns, and your positive attitude is constantly obstructed and fought by indwelling | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| degree the self is already embarked on a positive road as well. In individuals whose destructiveness is | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| toward overcoming the negative side and strengthening the positive side. This effort then leads to the new | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| with the side striving toward true fulfillment and positive expression, very often the destructive side needs a | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| outlet for a strength and a power the positive consciousness does not yet know how to deal | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| subsequently overcome all resistance and have a totally positive response to your efforts and investment in the | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| and thus establish self-respect, courage, honesty, strength, and positive energy patterns. If only a germ, only a | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| into play wherever the personality is sufficiently free, positive, open, but the unfree, negative, closed areas are | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| be an obstacle. An open, waiting, accepting, and positive attitude is also necessary, though recognizing its absence | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| and feelings accord with truth and are therefore positive, the self-perpetuating momentum of the energy current will | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| self-perpetuation. Of course, it exists primarily on the positive side. Let us look at love. The more | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| negative self-perpetuation. The only difference is that the positive process is infinite. Once you establish the contact | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| I suppress it. Can you suggest what my positive response should be? ANSWER: First of all, I | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| alternately. The way to go about making a positive change is to want it; you must be | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| of giving and receiving, of mutual cooperation, of positive opening. This means that, in fact, two Yes-currents | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| fulfillment, to interplay and expansion, to cooperation and positive pleasure. This always requires relinquishing the negative pleasure | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| expansion and contraction. Expansion takes place when a positive, open, committed, honest, loving, giving attitude exists. When | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| soul movements, which are the basis for a positive, affirmative attitude toward life -- and on and | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| effect is not negative, but turns into a positive one. The energy of these attitudes begins to | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| movements. Contrary to what you may believe, the positive experience also requires a new attitude. We shall | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| then are you indeed capable of accepting its positive counterpart. Initially all human beings try to avoid | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| endlessly. When you meet negative experience with a positive attitude, instead of contracting against it, you remain | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| way the negative feeling will become a tremendously positive, creative force, which is the same as that | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| is your creative substance. When this occurs, a positive, benign circle will very definitely and solidly build | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| let us talk for a moment about the positive circle or sequence. Offhand, it may appear as | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| in the above- mentioned way, the more frequent positive experience will become. It will also become increasingly | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| become. It will also become increasingly obvious that positive experience does not befall you by accident either | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| result. However, unless you become attentive to the positive as much as to the negative experiences and | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| the inability of enduring a greater expansion of positive experience. This exists in exact proportion to your | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| entirely unaware of this fact. If you desire positive experience out of a negative reason -- out | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| self only. But the underlying seething hatred prevents positive deeds of loving and giving; it prevents one | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| also discuss how you affect others from your positive, self-realized, purified levels of being. These clear, free | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| all individuals who observe their own inner process. Positive traits and constructive aspects of consciousness are always | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| nor your self-punishing superimposed conscience, nor even your positive traits. Even though you have managed to integrate | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| good will, its already existing capacity to be positive, committed, truthful, courageous and persevering in the struggle | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Some examples of new attitudes are: setting a positive goal of self-acceptance without losing a sense of | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| drastic change. This last attitude is no more positive than the previous one. Because it is based | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| rarely does an individual start out with a positive goal. Many may pay lip service to the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| goal. Many may pay lip service to the positive goal of total self-purification and spiritual growth, but | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| established destructive patterns, the conscious commitment to the positive goal suddenly disappears. With most, the positive goal | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| the positive goal suddenly disappears. With most, the positive goal is pursued and strengthened only as you | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| healthy need. When this need becomes conscious, a positive goal and direction can be set. But as | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| way, you will be able to allow the positive feelings to become as deep and as real | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| for the danger of blindly escaping into the positive aspects, rather than using the positive attitudes for | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| into the positive aspects, rather than using the positive attitudes for the purpose of purifying the negative | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| ones, is always great. At other times the positive aspects should be concentrated on. Do not overlook | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| ITS LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-A SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) Greetings. Blessings for all of you | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| universe is therefore correctly perceived, attitudes will be positive and accord with the cosmic laws of truth | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| to test how much you resist your conscious positive desire for fulfillment. To what degree do you | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| itself to you. When you cultivate this attitude, positive results have to occur. The human being who | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| will be lacking. Or, if I want a positive result without wanting to make the necessary change | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| must know that you do not want the positive, but wish to remain in the negative. Then | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| matter how small in relationship to the liberated, positive aspects of self, the negative part holds a | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| such trust and the necessary climate of unpressured positive expectation cannot exist. And if it does not | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the spirit. Identification can exist in a most positive and constructive way or in a most negative | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| may take into consideration that trying out a positive intentionality could be interesting and desirable for you | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Just investigate how it feels to set a positive intentionality in motion. As you avail yourself of | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| ready to give it up in exchange for positive intentionality. The key for many is a complete | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| that this should suffice to bring about a positive result, while you continue to disregard the power | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| give you the desired outcome that only a positive intentionality can bring about. But positive intentionality requires | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| only a positive intentionality can bring about. But positive intentionality requires commitment: total, unequivocal commitment. If you | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| no matter how strongly you seem to express positive attitudes that are also present, the former affect | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| up negative attitudes and intentions and to institute positive ones, but you will gain emotional and spiritual | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| right now, in this lifetime. You have both positive intentionality and negative intentionality within you. Each necessarily | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| you have. The more awareness exists, the more positive attitudes and positive intentionality are fostered and, proportionately | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| more awareness exists, the more positive attitudes and positive intentionality are fostered and, proportionately, the greater your | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| truth; when negative intentionality is being exchanged for positive intentionality; and when the individual no longer defends | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| all defenses and are thus free to adopt positive intent: to express the best in life. False | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| rich could be your ties with others, your positive relationships. I say to you, my friends, a | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| and the inner attitudes are in truth and positive. The unmanifest levels are much more real and | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| this group as a whole creates a new positive energy that transcends the work itself. The work | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |