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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 |