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condition that they are loved first. Such a safe bargain not only locks the door, but causes 4 WORLD WEARINESS
experiences will make you feel that there is safe ground under your feet and establish your permanent 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
door of the soul even more tightly. A safe way would be to first discuss the general 32 DECISION-MAKING
injustice, and that will make you strong and safe. You will become mature by the mere acknowledgement 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
the approval of public opinion. Then he feels safe, because he is not criticized. Also, he does 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
as I may dislike that authority, I am safe. The belief in this apparent safety leads the 47 THE WALL WITHIN
would be willing to love if it were safe. And it would be safe only if I 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
if it were safe. And it would be safe only if I were sure to be loved 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
of God are infinitely good, wise, loving and safe! God's laws do not make a puppet out 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
inkling how free it will make you, how safe and secure. You will fully understand the marvel 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
to be fully reached in order to be safe. It is sufficient that you are on the 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
way, whether spirit or human, you will be safe. You will not have to ask yourself constantly 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
solution and as a consequence you will feel safe. Whenever you feel unsafe, this is so because 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
you are mighty, you are strong, you are safe. Without it you are poor, you are separate 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
soul. Humans think that what is fixed is safe, and what is flexible is unsafe. Since truth 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
you try to, just to be on the safe side. No wonder your soul is torn in 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
believes that the only way it can be safe is by becoming so strong and invulnerable, so 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
In order to live, one needs to be safe from destruction and damage. We know by now 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
by now that what the healthy soul considers safe differs from what the unhealthy, immature soul considers 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
differs from what the unhealthy, immature soul considers safe. The unhealthy soul experiences any rejection -- withholding 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
the same holding on to something that appears safe. The tightness is not obvious. Even after having 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
will not be your central focus, you are safe in adjusting to any given situation, person, or 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
guiding you and you cling to what seems safe, the little pride. QUESTION: Here is a question 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
the quest for power in order to be safe, with all the accompanying hostility, ruthlessness, pride, superiority 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
rules do you have a chance to feel safe and gain a minimal amount of pleasure. Alternatively 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
with yourself subside, you automatically build on real, safe ground -- on what is feasible. Your self- 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
feel yourself defenseless, while before your stronghold, your safe point, was the hardened mass of your defense 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
doubts that this is good or advantageous or safe or whatever. There must be a part in 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
that chooses a particular view as necessary and safe, but this is only an explanation. It does 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
you have to remain in order to be safe. To give up being a helpless, fearful baby 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
using the crutches that have once seemed so safe. So you are divided now. One part of 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
energy- consuming, while experiencing the real self is safe and easy. I mention this again because I 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
period because the individual leaves the accustomed and safe period of childhood behind, without possessing, as yet 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
are governed by the little self are you safe. You are under the misapprehension that giving yourself 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
the new accepting attitude to life is entirely safe, is the final step in moving from a 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
your fate. You then know that you are safe and not ever dependent on something beyond your 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
makes life easier and happier, more agreeable and safe. Yet people believe the opposite, acting as though 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
necessary to move out into the great and safe freedom. You fear the freedom and, rather, choose 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
commit yourself with reservations, watching that you remain safe, bargaining and holding back, life will pay you 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
In that moment one stands separate -- apparently safe but separate. Later this separateness may be overcompensated 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
beautiful world outside the room, and see how safe and satisfying it is, you experience it as 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
you do not end it. It is utterly safe, there is no danger and no conflict attached 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
strained, and lonely will become easy, self-perpetuating, relaxed, safe, and bright. You will feel a deep sense 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
me and the other, you will experience how safe, easy, and joyful life becomes when you dispense 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
within you invulnerable, because this seems the only safe way. You overlook and ignore the fact that 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
you may be gratified and appeased and feel safe. But how long can you retain mastery over 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
essentially intact. No theory can bring about this safe state. Only one inner act can do this 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
stream when it brings you all that is safe, good, productive, and joyful? This is the tragic 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
false the fear of loving is, and how safe, secure, and beneficial it is to love. Closer 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
rather than against you, love is not only safe but it is the only possible way to 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
them. You think the life process is not safe, that it does not have its own inner 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
forces within you. You want to play it safe. Think deeply about all these things, my friends 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
doing and seeing. The life principle is always safe, always holds out justified hope that will never 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
to unmoving, petrified psychic substances. The unmoving seems safe; the moving, perilous. To want to hold on 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
moving. When you find that the movement is safe because it carries you, you have found the 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
chaotic, that only your ego is orderly and safe. This feeling is, again, due to ignoring the 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
at home in the world, in life -- safe and secure, with a firmly established ground under 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
and the old, cold, separating way to be safe, although you all know that this cannot be 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
The child had to deny them to remain safe and secure and retain the parents' love. As 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you one with the universe. It is totally safe. Everything feels home and peaceful and so intensely 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of creating, to mold one's fate, to feel safe and at peace with the world. You see 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
is no pleasure in swimming, nor is it safe. The water will control you, rather than support 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
let go of the ego in a healthy, safe, and life- giving way. An ego is healthy 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
This undivided intelligence and inexorable fulfillment is deeply safe and trustworthy. But as long as the ego's 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
authority, or a self-destructive maneuver against a secure, safe life. The personality's resistance to recognizing the real 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
barricade around the realm of feelings to stay safe from its self- perpetuating negative creativity, they also 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
when these faculties have been developed is it safe to allow primitive, destructive feelings to the surface 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
activating principle, not yet aware that it is safe to use this power. The destructiveness that still 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
attempt would even be dangerous. It is perfectly safe, however, to open up these centers once the 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
and inner concepts generate. Thus a meaningful and safe procedure will be established. When the centers are 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
may experiment longer, and going beyond what is safe, it no longer leaves itself enough power at 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
and expansion, yet it appears to make you safe. Seeking a tiny point of security within a 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
order to become decent, mature, realistic, self-responsible and safe, or you take pleasure from the negative trait 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
your bliss is the latter, are you truly safe and free? Are you not still dependent and 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
childhood the defenses cannot be sufficiently weakened for safe reexperiencing on the emotional level. When the defenses 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
the discovery all over again that it is safe to jump. The same applies to letting yourself 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
the universe is benign and trustworthy, good and safe, then you cannot and need not fear to 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
the person so that the powers will be safe. If the energy force field of a human 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
be pulled into this undercurrent. It is therefore safe to test the kind of pain that you 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
of writhing and hitting, but there is a safe inner ground due to the absence of the 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
is already integrated into your consciousness will feel safe and very real. At the same time, it 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
experience its familiarity and you will feel how safe it is, how much you it is! It 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
like nothing else ever could, in what a safe, just, loving universe we all live. Cause and 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
come in yet. You make yourselves hard and safe. But your continual openness to the power of 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
pain and anguish, fear and despair, in a safe and wholesome way? I now claim this ability 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
Remaining in the isolated ego state may appear safe and easy, but it leads to stagnation and 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
ego tricks that serve to maintain its present safe position are: denying pleasure, bliss, joy, expansion, and 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
their present state because they feel it is safe and they think they have eliminated the need 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
an immense security, a knowledge of being truly safe, which in turn releases much energy that is 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
worldly fulfillment. It makes abandonment to involuntary processes safe. The self-disciplined person can surrender to spirituality, to 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
to the deeper feelings and processes. It is safe. He or she stands on the firm ground 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
truth and love that is freeing and yet safe. So, I say, my dearest friends, create a 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
today hardly anyone knows the fine line between safe, honest expression and admission of negative material, and 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
orientations in practice today. But it is a safe and truly unifying path that leaves nothing limping 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
techniques can be expanded. It will then be safe, from the point of view of this spiritual 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
letting God feels wonderful, rich, light, joyful, and safe. Many of you have begun to experience this 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
life, until you fully know that it is safe to live in a state of being charged 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
practices as such means. There is only one safe and secure way to attain the blissful now 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
my beloved friends. You all float in a safe cloud of divine consciousness and you are nurtured 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
or not, you need not fear. You are safe and secure, and this does not depend on 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
work through those blurred areas, you become absolutely safe, no matter what others do or fail to 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA
reaction that expresses the belief that to be safe, you must not move. Trust in life is 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
has to do with the familiar. You feel safe in a familiar territory, even though this territory 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
even though this territory may actually be less safe than the unfamiliar one. So you frequently remain 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
believes that he or she is now truly safe and has in all areas the connection, that 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
distrust, ungivingness, and false ideas about what is safe and what is not safe. It contains itself 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
about what is safe and what is not safe. It contains itself in one's own inner world 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
to have, or what? I found this superstition safe but I see how it has limited me 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
of you feel content with, or believe yourself safe in, though you also feel stagnation. You feel 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
is no fear. A sense of being utterly safe and at home in the world permeates your 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
discovered that give life a most exciting and safe new face. All the fragmentation that is the 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
holds you, Who contains you, Who makes you safe and secure, Who infuses His truth and His 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
a very literal and doctrinaire sense. They feel safe only in a rigid, life-denying structure. The other 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
good, acceptable, having the power to create a safe life, deserving happiness. Being wrong means being bad 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
the tragic error that the old ways are safe and must therefore be worshipped and held on 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
exactly the opposite. You believe that you are safe only when you hold yourself separate, suspicious, and 254 SURRENDER
community that consists of autonomous people is autonomous, safe and creative as a group entity. In the 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS

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