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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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

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