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sand. The withdrawn type and the seeker for power seem to have something in common: aloofness from 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
types are very different. While the seeker for power glories in hostility and in an aggressive fighting 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
you will combine the divine attitudes of love, power, and serenity in a healthy way, as opposed 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
self-centered. Your own capacity to love will combine power and serenity. Or, to put it differently, you 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
love and understanding while being truly independent. Love, power, and serenity will not be used to furnish 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
love will then no longer interfere with healthy power, which is not the power of pride and 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
interfere with healthy power, which is not the power of pride and defiance, neither the power to 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
the power of pride and defiance, neither the power to triumph over others, but the power to 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
the power to triumph over others, but the power to master yourself and your difficulties without proving 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
you seek mastery by distorting the attribute of power, you do so for the sake of proving 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
your superiority. When you gain mastery by healthy power you do so for the sake of growing 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
experience. You will learn, accomplish and gain real power, not the false kind. There will not be 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
experience, life, and your own conflicts; love and power in their healthy forms will give you a 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
them and find what is behind them. Love, power, and serenity can go hand in hand. In 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
would that come out of the solution of power? ANSWER: You cannot pinpoint the cause so easily 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
one instance, it may indeed be so. The power drive is frustrated because the person's idealized self 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
be a combination here of the search for power and love. These two attitudes are constantly at 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
the other side stands the superiority of the power type, who feels particularly humiliated and exposed by 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
This may come from a distortion of the power to have and to possess. It may come 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
pseudo-solution. If your pseudo-solution is the quest for power, then your reaction to defeat will be extreme 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
to the intuition. Such overemphasis on the reasoning power constantly prevents the real self from coming out 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
the quest for love, (2) the quest for power, and (3) the quest for serenity. The misconception 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
leads the soul to adopt the quest for power. The distorted instinct of procreation leads the soul 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
the last lecture. These tendencies include aggressiveness, hostility, power drive, a need to triumph over others, competitiveness 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
many variations possible. For example, the quest for power may predominate without any apparent aggressiveness or hostility 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
lead to the pseudo-solution of a quest for power, with all its demands, aggressiveness, and power drive 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
for power, with all its demands, aggressiveness, and power drive. The psyche thinks: If I assert myself 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
psyche thinks: If I assert myself and my power, my omnipotence, my invulnerability, nothing can happen to 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
of self-preservation and its pseudo-solution, the quest for power, predominate, a vital part of the soul will 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
course, cannot work. For instance, the quest for power aims at love and pleasure in the unconscious 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
The more they submit, the more the existing power drive of others will indeed take advantage of 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
If the predominant tendency is the quest for power in order to be safe, with all the 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
submissive inwardly, for example, may have an underlying power drive -- and vice versa. If this becomes 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
an example. Say a man has a predominant power drive. He has associated with many submissive people 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
then, seems to work for him. Thus the power drive is predominant. Let us say a very 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
further, since the submissive person also has aggressive power aspects. So then the solution of superior power 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
power aspects. So then the solution of superior power no longer works. In order to get what 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
for survival only by breaking the rules, exercising power, and becoming the dictator in your environment. In 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
be a Trujillo, to have that kind of power. Oh, you may have recognized such emotions already 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to gain safety and pleasure through a strong power drive, which is simultaneously counteracted by an equally 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is the reaction of your submissiveness to your power drive. An additional aspect is the tendency of 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
submissive attitude was originally chosen. But since the power drive also exists, it reacts to such self-effacing 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
in the whole character structure, will they have power. Whenever you wonder why things happen to you 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
is wonderful and that you have much more power than you have yet realized, if only you 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
your logic, as well as your range and power of deduction. Without being allowed to make mistakes 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
unwelcome results, but how it is in your power to change them. Understanding the interaction between yourself 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
you will no longer need to fear the power of those emotions which you cannot control by 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
you allow yourself to be guided by your power of intuition. But it happens more as an 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
that love is the first and the greatest power. In the last analysis, it is the only 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
In the last analysis, it is the only power. Most of you have used this maxim many 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
any danger of negative emotions taking on a power that the personality cannot handle. In the second 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
would seem that the emotions are a tremendous power factor, raging violently unless channeled. They use the 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
discuss, namely, disproportionate reactions. One imperfection has the power to color your entire emotional experience of yourself 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
often confused, then this unavoidable confusion has the power to disrupt you completely. You may attribute the 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
a person who has chosen the pseudo-solution of power. Not to be helpless does not mean that 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
the contrary, if you adopt the pseudo-solution of power, you are more dependent than most on others 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
this will inevitably be that you ascribe less power to outside circumstances than you did before. You 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
you live on the periphery, you put your power outside of yourself. You may invest some authority 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
richness of their individuality. They experience their own power. They trust in themselves because they can relinquish 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
life, regardless of temporary storms. You have the power to change this, step by step, through the 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
real needs shifted into false ones have that power. Thus being aware of your real needs, long 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
The overdramatization is connected with the pseudo-solution of power. The repression of feelings is connected with the 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
deal with outer obstructions, and the more their power will grow on you. Finally you will come 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
of the appropriate reaction, and to quicken the power of your perception. When you are in real 101 THE DEFENSE
refers to sexual desire, or the lust for power, for money, for being liked, or for a 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
is no more evil than the lust for power, for money, for fame, for always being right 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
are hurt because you give someone else the power to hurt you. Therefore, you substitute anger for 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
it, project onto this God. He senses the power of this immensely wise and resourceful Creator of 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
he can see. Since he cannot yet separate power from cruelty, he begins to fear this God 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
painful fact of life as something beyond your power to change. When you are truly sad, without 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
fight for physical and psychological survival necessitates alertness, power to make decisions, willingness to make mistakes and 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
to self-respect. The process will give you a power you have never known to exist. It will 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
wish for someone else in that way, the power and strength this wish would have for a 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
for all of one's efforts, concentration, and will power? How then, is it possible to suspect, even 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
more easily available. Thoughts of truth have the power of light, the clarity of crystal-clear water, and 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
is what I have so often said: The power of the spirit. The power of the cosmic 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
often said: The power of the spirit. The power of the cosmic laws is at all times 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
coming together that make it possible for such power to manifest. On earth it manifests in isolated 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
little of how these so-called miracles work. The power currents of the spirit are infinitely more forceful 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
more forceful, their energy much stronger than the power and energy necessary to operate your technical equipment 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
individual steeped in this earth-world, blind to the power of the spirit and the cosmic laws, never 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
purity of spirit, so much more pure, undiluted power was available. Exactly that is the reason. QUESTION 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Can you give us some information about the power of habit in a person, again in relation 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
out into the open and considered with the power of reasoning and truth that is unavailable in 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
on this inner strength, which you have the power to liberate. You reach so often for outside 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
the same energy-current that, if released, is the power of love. Negative emotions are a result of 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
soul you harbor a wealth of wisdom, knowledge, power, love -- the solution to all that puzzles 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
with the inner, real self which has the power to nourish you constantly, to sustain and to 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
or it was not. The parents had the power to give or to withhold. The basic struggle 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
was governed by the law of strength and power. You can see this again and again in 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
different than themselves, but eventually they could gain power only by offering their subjects some rights also 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
developed first as a necessity, for without it power and advantages could not be gained, and then 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
discarded as wrong. The child's mind lacks the power of independent thinking, of discriminating, and it shirks 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
dissolving destructive, childish trends through reason and the power to understand, so will humankind. Hence, humanity is 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
rely on reason and fairness, rather than on power. But to make this possible, each nation, each 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
real guilts and putting yourself unnecessarily under the power of detrimental influences which encourage that in you 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
friends, are really and truly aware of the power of your unconscious and how it still governs 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
truth of true spiritual awakening: that the tremendous power and immanence of the divine is at your 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
ways for you. It is unlimited wisdom and power, infinite love. If you use this great power 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
power, infinite love. If you use this great power more specifically and regularly, rather than only occasionally 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
Why do I say No? I have the power not to say No. And I now say 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
of it, I say Yes. It has no power over the way I direct my will and 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
its selfishness, not entrusting yourself to the vast power at your disposal. These inner deviations, ignorances and 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
fill the consciousness with its truth and its power until the integration is complete and there are 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
and then become part of, the vast limitless power that gradually enables you to truly master life 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
The greedy child wants happiness, too. The great power of the life force is supposed to make 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
to make all things possible. Is this unlimited power not in contradiction to the aim of this 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
person in human form. Think of a tremendous power, continuously creating life in a purposeful way. Look 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
you find aspects of the universal intelligence and power. In all manifestations of nature you find it 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
creature lies the proof of this intelligence and power. God is not a disciplinarian; God is beyond 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
into more blissful experience, into greater wisdom and power, into wider scopes and depths of being. However 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
with your choices, but was caused by a power over which you have has no influence. Even 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
to penetrate behind the resistance. I am in power, not my resistance. My will for truth and 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
My will for truth and growth is in power, is real, and not my vague, childish fears 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
that suffering is inevitable, in ignorance of the power inherent in your knowing, and by not having 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
of others. This is the real and healthy power resulting from spiritual growth. This is the self-sufficiency 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
When the obstructions are too great, this same power is diverted and temporarily appears as a destructive 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
movement. This does not mean that another, evil power is at work: it is the same benign 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
Thus that which is most benign, which is power, liberation, bliss, is blocked. A further fundamental human 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
self with truthful statements. This impressing has the power to gather inner forces and direct them into 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
like a straw in the wind, having no power over life and circumstances. That much you know 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
realize that you have an unlimited fount of power at your disposal. You all have to accept 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
of the ultimate aim of perfection, of limitless power, of pleasure supreme, I do not mean that 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
of the childish distortions of utter perfection, utter power, and utter pleasure. In the underdeveloped ego, these 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
experience, or a certain pleasure, or a certain power? And then I would say, must I accommodate 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
real self. But it is also within the power of the ego to give up both selfwill 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
relaxed, free-flowing, flexible will, based on discriminating reasoning power, and calling upon the intuitive levels of self 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
be constantly manifest, functioning, and expressing. The tremendous power of the life force would flow into all 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
not understand it. You feel you have no power over a vast area of your body, and 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
own reactions and feelings; and if a frightening power which I do not know and cannot control 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
this seems not to be so. There another power appears to be at work over which you 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
work over which you have no jurisdiction, a power you do not understand and therefore fear. From 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
fear. From this idea that a strange, independent power seems to play with you, the concept of 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
and appeased. Finding the true nature of this power is the ultimate aim of human spiritual development 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
is to find the true nature of this power, and to extend this power over fate. But 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
nature of this power, and to extend this power over fate. But this message, coming from the 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
longer helpless at all. You not only discover power, strength, resourcefulness, and adequacy -- qualities you never 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
outer, as well as inner consciousness has the power to direct this inner being, with all its 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
all its marvelous resourcefulness, with its intelligence and power. This inner being, in turn, has jurisdiction over 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
the inner consciousness. In spite of the tremendous power of the latter, it responds only to a 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
It is this two-step, indirect approach to the power of the inner self that establishes what I 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
and re-institutes health. Ignoring its presence and its power must make people helpless victims. It is the 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
my inner being of higher intelligence and greater power than my outer mind, to take the necessary 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
This substance consists of forces of such tremendous power that people have only begun to discover them 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
vaguely and to a limited degree. Whether this power be physical, such as electrical or atomic power 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
power be physical, such as electrical or atomic power, or mental power makes no difference, for it 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
such as electrical or atomic power, or mental power makes no difference, for it is all the 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
no difference, for it is all the same power, or different facets of the same power. This 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
same power, or different facets of the same power. This power is a very impressionable mass, a 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
or different facets of the same power. This power is a very impressionable mass, a substance that 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS

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