| Prohibited..................23 | |
| from the spiritual point of view, marriage is prohibited between souls who are incarnated as brothers and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| never be gratified. Furthermore, whenever the child is prohibited from having its way, that serves as an | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| experience all kinds of authority. When they are prohibited from doing what they enjoy most, they experience | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| most is forbidden. Whatever gives most pleasure is prohibited, usually for the child's own welfare; this the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| we concentrated mostly on obstacles that eclipsed or prohibited healthy functioning, in the present phase we are | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| opinions vary from yours, or if you are prohibited from pursuing a certain aim. The child in | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| life grow, the more it shrinks and is prohibited from functioning. QUESTION: In modern psychology we frequently | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| sufficiently analyzed, it will be found that they prohibited the very things one wanted to attain. Once | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| with their effect on this particular man have prohibited the unfoldment of the personality which would bring | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| come into existence. The richness of feeling is prohibited and thus you impoverish yourself. You live on | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| were put aside due to your perfectionism. You prohibited your own creative unfoldment just because of your | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| goal out of partly unhealthy motives, and you prohibited yourself from reaching the goal entirely out of | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| These mature feelings exist, but they have been prohibited from developing and this must be made conscious | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| motion. Feelings are movement, too. When feelings are prohibited, or manipulated so that they cannot function according | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| manifest, it is patently destructive. If it is prohibited from manifestation, the inherent destructiveness is not eliminated | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of the pleasure principle, and the soul is prohibited this aspect of its development. It is frustrated | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| easier to find certain factors within yourself which prohibited the fulfillment of this need, certain destructive behavior | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| it, was -- perhaps because a mass image prohibited it -- without any justification, logic, or meaning | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the energy current seeking expression is blocked and prohibited from flowing to its destiny; the natural flow | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the positive pleasure force was blocked, hindered, or prohibited and has therefore turned into unpleasure. Now, it | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the fresh flow of the life force is prohibited. If there is unreal emotional intensity, the life | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| in its vibrant flow is willfully interrupted and prohibited by an overly watchful, denying attitude of the | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| to the degree that positive expressions have been prohibited, first by the parents and the environment in | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| Prohibiting.................13 | |
| the fear of this creates the extreme of prohibiting the self from giving itself up at all | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| It is also a very strong factor in prohibiting the inner will from functioning. I am speaking | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| soul forces and increase their inner separateness, thus prohibiting creativity. Creativity can function only in wholeness, never | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| of a pseudo-self. Another factor that contributes to prohibiting strength is the mistaken time concept. By this | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is impossible to get rid of the life- prohibiting idealized self-image if you merely observe what is | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| at another way you manipulate your emotions: by prohibiting their full force, and stultifying their intensity. Both | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| urgent need, they will find a reason for prohibiting their real feelings for affection and loving. This | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| see where you disturb the universal forces by prohibiting yourself from loving. As you recognize this, you | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| exercising both in the wrong way and thereby prohibiting her self-fulfillment. When a man refuses responsibility, not | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| of how the no-current continues to work, even prohibiting the very change so ardently striven for by | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| how to handle it. You flatten the experience, prohibiting the deeper, richer dimensions that come from your | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| part of this lecture. What are the obstacles prohibiting mutuality between two human beings? Usually this is | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| about it are obstructions that are like barricades, prohibiting the train from taking its course. If you | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| Prohibition.................22 | |
| of God and His laws must be the prohibition of free choice and the domination of the | 21 THE FALL |
| about. Do not misunderstand me: there is no prohibition of argument. It is not that the spirits | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| child is given, no matter how necessary the prohibition is at times, it represents the first hurdle | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| unconscious the wrong motives, the more powerful the prohibition is. Or the person may be constituted so | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| seeking and understanding the inner block and the prohibition you set up. Only then can you truly | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the inner will is kept from functioning. The prohibition is caused by the various layers of error | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| your awareness. On top of all this, the prohibition you inflict on them makes you resentful. You | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| life because they have no certainty yet. The prohibition of this knowledge speeds development. On the other | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| than before. It goes without saying that any prohibition of creative faculties is due to negative aspects | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| but life on earth prohibits such fulfillment. This prohibition creates the world of duality, and therefore your | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| say that the world of duality created the prohibition. It created life conditions on earth which made | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| one is a deep-seated guilt for this deliberate prohibition to loving, and another is a subsequent lack | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| are not the only ones will stop the prohibition. You will gain a new freedom with the | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| upward can begin. Until you find this particular prohibition toward loving as it exists specifically within yourself | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| recognize this, you will let go of that prohibition for the sake of love. You can cultivate | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| your nature. But it is counteracted by a prohibition. This prohibition causes the problems. You have to | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| But it is counteracted by a prohibition. This prohibition causes the problems. You have to find it | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| you have gained considerable self-knowledge. To summarize: The prohibition against allowing the flow of all feelings into | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| you flee from allowing yourself to love. This prohibition causes all the other ills. The prohibition against | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| This prohibition causes all the other ills. The prohibition against loving comes from two basic misunderstandings. The | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| psyche that directly connects this displacement with the prohibition of pleasure. The more childishly you hang on | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| truth is that they should indeed deny the prohibition of feelings, positive aggression, sexuality, self-responsibility and autonomy | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Prohibitions................4 | |
| I have to admonish you that identifying these prohibitions is not easy, even though many emotions may | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| had feared it, why you rather chose self-inflicted prohibitions. The fences are rarely just simple constructs. They | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| stands in the way. It is the useless prohibitions I do not yet quite know that cause | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| had to decree dos and don'ts, commands and prohibitions. The totally childish and self-indulgent consciousness does need | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Prohibitive.................5 | |
| wrong motives very accurately. Thus the conscience puts prohibitive currents in the way of fulfillment. With a | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| of the idealized self. Therefore the pretense is prohibitive. It does not allow the truth to come | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| with love. Such an attitude is unfair, cheating, prohibitive, and infringes on the other person's freedom, or | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| about it any other way, your means become prohibitive and, in the deepest sense, dishonest. Because you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| receive the existing or growing love because your prohibitive energy form does not allow it. An attitude | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Prohibits...................56 | |
| in self- pity, but express a sluggishness that prohibits your working actively on the elimination of that | 31 SHAME |
| The unconscious does not realize that its attitude prohibits the very wish you consciously express but cannot | 38 IMAGES |
| fulfillment, on the other, a fear of happiness prohibits the fulfillment. Although the desire for happiness can | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| masochism, denial of your personality. Not loving yourself prohibits your proper functioning. It prohibits your capacity to | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| Not loving yourself prohibits your proper functioning. It prohibits your capacity to love and to help others | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| hidden wrong motives is only one reason that prohibits your wish- capacity. There is, for instance, the | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| You will realize that no one but you prohibits the fulfillment. This recognition will be healthy and | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| and unless you discover that in you which prohibits fulfillment. Though there may be several additional reasons | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| very vital about the self, and this ignorance prohibits healthy growth. Emancipation, apart from some healthy aspects | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| that the outer will is tense and impatient prohibits the inner will from unfolding, from floating, from | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| that this conflict frustrates your inner will and prohibits the deserved fulfillment of your desire. The idea | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| desire for happiness manifests, a little inner voice prohibits it so that the inner will is broken | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| an awareness of your childish, immature self-concern that prohibits a true recognition of the situation in question | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| body. 77. SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT Greetings, my dearest friends. I bring blessings | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| one way or another. Needless to say, pretense prohibits real healthy strength because such strength can only | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is for happiness supreme, but life on earth prohibits such fulfillment. This prohibition creates the world of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| it makes you arrogant and intolerant; how it prohibits the humility of self- acceptance and therefore keeps | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| reactions. Without that you cannot ever find what prohibits your true growth. This work demands that you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| others toward you are. Needless to say, this prohibits truth, spontaneity, and reality. In a secondary reaction | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| an invisible wall, unconsciously perceived by everyone, which prohibits love at the same time as it begs | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| neglected, and you will see how your defense-mechanism prohibits the attainment of your deepest goals and desires | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| your true self and at the same time prohibits a joyful life. I do not mean a | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| and fear? ANSWER: Where there is perfectionism, which prohibits growth rather than encourages it, all three are | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| about others, about life, and about yourself. It prohibits you from seeing your possibilities and potentials in | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| not mean an exclusively intellectual understanding, which often prohibits the inner absorption and therefore growth. Try to | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| go to feeling and to being. Therefore manipulation prohibits love, even though some measure of real love | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| remedy is unproductive, even destructive. The forcing current prohibits a free giving of love. In its own | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| the confirmation of their worthlessness. Their distorted view prohibits a true evaluation of the situation in question | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| truly unfold if you stopped the self-evasion. It prohibits, impairs, or dilutes your capacity to communicate and | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| I say so, or because some spiritual law prohibits forcing. Obeying an authority or a law is | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| very contradictory to some facets of his being, prohibits an unsplit will. Therefore, a conscious determination to | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| gets accustomed to it, and when life later prohibits similar gratification, the personality is driven to seek | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| an artificial separation of instinctual drives. Their existence prohibits the natural development. With growing maturity in this | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| typical manifestation of the no-current. That is what prohibits you from becoming quiet and listening to yourself | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| lack of consciousness creates self-alienation, cripples creativity, and prohibits love. It stifles the ability to give and | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| live at all. Fear of death and dying prohibits one from living, and only by deeply living | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| pseudo-control that merely increases tension and anxiety. It prohibits peace and confidence in the self and in | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| selfwill. Fear is the great locked door which prohibits you from entering, right here and right now | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| nucleus of distorted perceptions, this foreign body, that prohibits the soul from being in its natural state | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| to an even greater extent; it not only prohibits the influx of spontaneous positive feelings but also | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| with anything they encounter. Therefore, the control which prohibits people and guards them from life must lead | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| anxious control becomes utterly superfluous. The control which prohibits your giving your best must perforce also prevent | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| overreaction, as well as muscular tightness. All this prohibits the flow of the force. The universal power | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| heightened the pleasure. Intensity is an ego-attitude and prohibits the letting go of the ego. Thus pleasure | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| manifests in jerky movements or in paralysis -- prohibits the inner powers of the life force from | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| course, one very substantial reason why the individual prohibits the free-flowing soul movements, the cosmic flow as | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| fear is tension, cramp, paralysis. Such a cramp prohibits the creative flow. If you go deep enough | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| of consciousness sets in that subtly but definitely prohibits your expansion. As you become more aware of | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| as opposed to the block that hardens and prohibits the flow. The block can be distinctly felt | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| movement in the opposite direction, which in turn prohibits the real flow of life. When strong inner | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| laws that lack of awareness of one area prohibits awareness of another. So, for example, if you | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| badly that you create a forcing current which prohibits fulfillment because its tension and its emotional mind-content | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| hold on in a tight, squeezed way that prohibits the influx of the greater world that is | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| currents and distrust create an energetic climate that prohibits the divine flow. The state of consciousness that | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| nature of guilt, which devastates the self and prohibits the vision of your ultimate divine being. Now | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| that which obstructs you. You find that which prohibits you. You find that which is negative. When | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |