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 Sensitively.................4
that you will not only come to be sensitively attuned to the need of the moment in 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
as you will see if you study it sensitively. The topic is pulsation of consciousness. Everyone knows 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
step has to vary. You have to feel sensitively into yourself. On the other hand, you should 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
plan has been fulfilled. You need to listen sensitively into your entire pathwork process and occasionally gain 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
 
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would like to ask a question about the sensitivity of animals. Although man is supposed to be 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
tightly to your ego and to your little sensitivity or vanity, you do not give up your 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
and so on. If you have this particular sensitivity, it is because in your own way there 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
by testing your motives without any self-pampering or sensitivity for your ego, with utter and shattering self-honesty 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
made conscious. You have to develop a special sensitivity for them -- and this takes time, of 39 IMAGE-FINDING
who are on such a path develop a sensitivity with which they can observe the reactions of 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
your own growth. You can unfold your intuition, sensitivity, and your ability to understand only by developing 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
little by little, through your increased self-awareness, your sensitivity to the other person's needs will develop. You 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
such can be a defense. You artificially overproduce sensitivity in order to evade something. You may evade 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
the effect the soul has produced. QUESTION: The sensitivity is carried along? ANSWER: Of course. The sensitivity 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
sensitivity is carried along? ANSWER: Of course. The sensitivity, the perception, and the ability to experience. All 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
All these faculties have a progression. One person's sensitivity may be on the lowest note of the 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
I have numbed my perception, experience, feeling, and sensitivity. Therefore, I wish to contact my inner being 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
at other times they must proceed separately. The sensitivity for this must be cultivated; no rules can 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
the ego and the destructive self. Your own sensitivity will grow day by day to feel what 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
a prideful claim of being sensitive. But this sensitivity is not a sign of a unique individuality 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
goodness. This requires one to develop a fine sensitivity so that the organic rhythm of each individual 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
again I ask you to open your innermost sensitivity and intuitiveness to understand, at least to some 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
if you use all your feelers, your inner sensitivity, to attune to the meaning of this meeting 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION
facet of your inner development. A finely attuned sensitivity will give you a deeper understanding about these 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
 
 Sensory.....................3
right way, the faculties of instinctual and extra- sensory perceptions -- including mediumship -- will not become 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
as they really are, without preconceptions or preconditioned sensory reflexes. Your preconceptions are illusions, and they can 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
same is true of its many other subtle sensory expressions of which human beings with their limited 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
 
 Sentences...................7
find that you will need to reread certain sentences several times and meditate on them so that 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
lecture once and forget it. Some of these sentences have deep meaning for you personally, and therefore 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
dearest friends, meditate deeply on these last two sentences. You will then come to see that the 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
you have chosen. Name these roles in simple sentences that describe what they are meant to convey 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
needs no concealment. When you re-create, formulate your sentences very concisely. State that what you do does 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
wish to operate in a different way. These sentences, if they are truly meant, have great creative 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
blessed manifestation of God. Every one of these sentences was repeated in unison by the 130 or 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
 
 Sentimental.................7
people often ignore the difference between love and sentimental weakness, love and masochistic dependency -- and thus 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
may be overly burdened, some may be overly sentimental, still others may be overly tough and indifferent 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
an abstraction; it is not emoting, or a sentimental gesture. It is vigorous, assertive, and free. Honesty 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
loving goodness and taking it in silence is sentimental and usually dishonest. For in reality you merely 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
attitude of selfless giving. It is never a sentimental giving in to neurotic and unhealthy demands. It 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
a different way by becoming overly permissive and sentimental, developing a false, mask-self acceptance that is only 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
Christ has newly risen. It is not a sentimental, meek force by any means. It has tremendous 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975
 
 Sentimentality..............12
feelings be replaced by a false and weakening sentimentality. When fear of true deep feelings vanishes, the 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Later this separateness may be overcompensated by false sentimentality, dramatization, and insincere exaggerated sympathy. But these are 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
call of life disregards outer appearances and shortsighted sentimentality. It surges toward bringing all individuals into their 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
is false goodness, which we might also term sentimentality. Easily overlooked, sentimentality is due to a combination 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
which we might also term sentimentality. Easily overlooked, sentimentality is due to a combination of two trends 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
fear to do so creates false goodness or sentimentality. False goodness results when real feelings are blocked 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
also knows no obligatory feelings -- false goodness, sentimentality. It is free and spontaneous, since love has 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
to be able to feel and love. In sentimentality, one lives under the illusion that one has 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
to get away with something underneath an outer sentimentality that pretends the act is good. It is 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
with intelligence, whole investment and integrity. No fearful sentimentality must blur your view to your rights. No 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
it allows no escape. It dispenses with all sentimentality that encourages your weaknesses and self-evasions. But because 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
strongly assert a position. There is no maudlin sentimentality that shrinks fearfully from confrontation. The courage to 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
 
 Separate....................176
other. The ego, putting itself in its own separate place, elevates itself above the other by wanting 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
himself, but only become more embittered and more separate from God. Another person may prove herself worthy 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION
who searches will find. QUESTION: In trying to separate the higher self from the lower self in 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
very distinct and different trends exist in you. Separate them. After making this separation, let go of 18 FREE WILL
existence on earth of man and woman as separate entities is a result of this splitting, as 20 GOD: THE CREATION
self, because everything mixes constantly. Purification means to separate, understand, and rearrange in conscious understanding all these 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
sake of a healthy and harmonious soul to separate these motives and to recognize their voices. Do 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
may have to probe a little deeper and separate the clean motive from the impure in the 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
differently. Clarify your motives first and purify them. Separate the wrong motives from the good ones in 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
systems exist in your world that advise particular, separate concentration exercises. My advice however is that prayer 36 PRAYER
reach this point. How many of you still separate your problems from your shortcomings, even if you 36 PRAYER
realize that these same weaknesses exist on a separate level, however. So, if you approach the search 39 IMAGE-FINDING
criticized. Also, he does not like to be separate. A child suffers whenever it feels different from 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
In fact, it is little known that three separate forces exist and what the differences between them 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
of Salvation. As long as the soul is separate, loneliness and unhappiness must be its lot. The 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
one current. The more the three forces remain separate, the unhealthier the personality is. Another frequent combination 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
of my friends are unaware that to stay separate is almost a conscious wish. With many of 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
of my friends are unaware that to stay separate is almost a conscious wish. With many of 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
even in many grownups, sex remains childish and separate from love. And this, in turn, led humanity 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
many people exist for whom sex is completely separate from love! They not only suffer from bad 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
that you change desires. It means that you separate the good motives from the wrong ones, at 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
must consider not only that you need to separate the good motives from the bad ones in 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
your emotions, desires, and motives. Then you can separate the pure motive from the selfish one. This 47 THE WALL WITHIN
images and image conclusions, for your own clarification separate the unjustified from the justified guilts. Find where 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
is merely a distortion. They are not two separate forces. It is one current. QUESTION: May I 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
is cleared up, and then meet in three separate groups again. Work out some plan. You will 53 SELF-LOVE
out for it, especially when disagreements and frictions separate you. Tonight I should like to discuss the 53 SELF-LOVE
slight streak of self-love in this particular fashion. Separate the two without stifling the right emotion in 53 SELF-LOVE
other? Yes. Nothing in the human soul is separate. Every quality, reaction, attitude, or tendency must invariably 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
It is the part in you where you separate yourself from your fellow human beings, out of 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
vice versa. They both battle along in their separate worlds. The only way they can at times 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
fixed rule on that. Each case is a separate instance, with entirely different problems, conflicts, assets, liabilities 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is now split into a greater number of separate parts. The development of humanity has reached a 62 MAN AND WOMAN
currents, attitudes and trends, there is no one separate thing. Everything works together like cogs in a 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
you now realize. It is a mistake to separate this approach from the conflicts of your psyche 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
with the thinking process, instead of being two separate facets. This is strength-giving, provided the two coordinate 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
safe. Without it you are poor, you are separate; you are isolated and fearful. However, this knowledge 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
childhood, then compare the two until, like two separate picture slides, they gradually move into focus and 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
work between the different subconscious minds of two separate human beings? Does one subconscious hear the screaming 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
the idea of many branches, many subjects, all separate. The separateness, fostered by intellectual concepts, is bound 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
you, you experience your life as essentially unique, separate and peculiarly your own, unshakable and untransmittable. You 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
or life-experience, you are still unique, alone, and separate. When you begin to feel that you are 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
the whole and can no longer be the separate individual you have felt yourself to be. I 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
your entire inner and outer outlook. From a separate, self-centered being you are bound to become, little 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
to individuality; it claims that you are a separate being and therefore essentially separate, alone and unique 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
you are a separate being and therefore essentially separate, alone and unique. At best, you believe that 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
byproduct of real success, is incompatible with the separate state; even when this separate state is not 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
incompatible with the separate state; even when this separate state is not clearly recognized as the subtle 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
current, and feel it distinctly, almost as a separate foreign substance within yourself. You will then understand 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
aware of it, feeling it almost like a separate element in you, you cannot relinquish it. Once 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
weaknesses and faults. They feel themselves ostracized, different, separate -- and therefore it is a great relief 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
leads to love and union. If it remains separate, it is lust, but it is no more 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
of your own innate desire, you have to separate your true wish from your dependency on public 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
would be a cover-up for the self-condemnation. Now, separate these two aspects. Become aware of your dependency 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
so that you can accept them as truth. Separate yourself from ideas you cling to merely because 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
that he can see. Since he cannot yet separate power from cruelty, he begins to fear this 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
your dimension time, space, and movement are three separate elements of reality. When humanity reaches a higher 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
In your dimension, time and space are two separate factors. I give you a practical example: you 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
do not advocate a life in which you separate yourself from all ideas, groups, loyalties, and causes 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
meaning to it. They believe that they are separate from life, but they are not! Regardless of 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
straw in the wind. As long as you separate yourself from your life, you are not only 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
point. But each of these points is still separate and distinct. The conglomeration of all of them 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
is lifted the moment you are no longer separate from your spiritual center. The real you is 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
for healthy male aggression and energy. He cannot separate the two. Simultaneously, he represses his need for 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
not dealt with the flaws in himself that separate him from truth and reality, he or she 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
still see life too much as a process separate from yourselves. This is why I draw this 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
this channel close up, leaving you once again separate. Then stagnation and gray hopelessness set in again 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
fear of letting go of the barriers which separate you from the opposite sex. As long as 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
what the unconscious expresses, it is important to separate the healthy part of yourself from the unhealthy 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
force, whose aspects have been discussed in a separate lecture. It is all that strives toward union 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
universe has in store for you is not separate and far away from you, my friends. It 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
evil. Traditional religion postulates that evil is a separate force. According to this concept, people have to 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
illusory as the belief that evil represents a separate aspect in the universe. In this lecture I 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
unfeelingness has formed. In that moment one stands separate -- apparently safe but separate. Later this separateness 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
moment one stands separate -- apparently safe but separate. Later this separateness may be overcompensated by false 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
two aspects become one, even while they remain separate within you; the free person, not alienated from 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
limitation. Those who are stuck, please do not separate yourself from those of your friends who can 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
mind, which feels as though it were a separate being. A different, vaster kind of being seems 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
is an illusion, because there are not two separate entities, but at this point you have taken 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
of the personality can also appear as a separate, foreign consciousness dwelling within. In the first attempts 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
control. Here, too, you feel as though two separate entities were involved: your familiar conscious self, with 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
are contained. For its own protection, it must separate the live center from its consciousness. However, when 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
cause is in yourself. Point 2: Let us separate the admission of the lack, which is the 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
As long as the self and others seem separate, a conflict of interest will appear between the 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
they begin to experience it occasionally as totally separate from their conscious, deliberate selves; and finally they 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
with collecting and assimilating knowledge. All these form separate magnetic energy fields. In each human life, some 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
the real self in it. Since it is separate and limited, it is less reliable than what 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
you do not need to be special and separate from others; that this very claim traps you 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
must be better than others, I must be separate, disappointment is inevitable. This belief cannot bring the 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
of the false need to win, to be separate, to be special, to be right, to have 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
and alienation, believing life and you are two separate factors, not seeing how your life is a 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
pleasure and pain, are thought of as two separate forces, not one and the same energy current 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
trust the pull toward unity. Therefore when you separate nature from the divine principle, or your own 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
in contacts but inwardly you remain uninvolved, isolated, separate. This isolation cannot be maintained for long, because 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
humility, without ceasing to seek complete fulfillment, you separate yourself from feeling good. But often the temptation 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
to the energy. Consciousness and energy are not separate aspects of universal life; they are one. But 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
laws until it seems to be a totally separate entity. Individual existence is therefore associated only with 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
entity. Individual existence is therefore associated only with separate existence. Giving up the ego must then appear 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
I am, can be found only in your separate existence. This illusion has brought death into the 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
The realization of the illusory character of a separate ego-existence is an extremely important step in the 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
self. An inner tension and rigidity exist that separate the personality from the real self which has 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
and a need to withdraw, to be fearfully separate, over-controlled, and rigid. When the heaviness of the 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
your path, to your blocks that prevent and separate you from life. Dip deeply into the reality 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
spiritual self-realization impossible. As long as human beings separate earth from heaven, body from spirit, you cannot 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
do not want to look at it, you separate yourself from it, and it therefore seems as 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
universal mind is concerned. Human consciousness is not separate from universal consciousness. In fact, there is no 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
only by an illusory belief that you are separate. You do not possess an aspect of this 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
as well -- namely that you are a separate being. Your fear of giving up this illusion 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
tragic because you believe only in this illusory, separate state as being real, as having identity. You 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
of the self, consisting of an apparently quite separate destructive, self-willed part and a still more hidden 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
hurt results from all the false layers that separate your consciousness from the original hurt. The false 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
your negation, of your destructive insistence on remaining separate and ungiving, you will indeed come to see 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
or counter-reflections, which might sometimes be interpreted as separate centers. For example, the center at the base 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
it exists only because you experience yourself as separate at this time. The moment you discover the 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
only in the human ego that thought seems separate from form and deed. The less awareness an 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
precisely in making this connection. No matter how separate in time and space they may appear, thought 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
not easy to do this when you are separate in your perception of yourself, even after you 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
ever-enlarging state. The voluntary and involuntary functions seem separate only when you split them in your consciousness 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
applies to the unity or dissension between outwardly separate and different entities. They, too, are one, beyond 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
is as unrealistic as to believe that two separate forces exist: one good and one evil. Such 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
theory that destructiveness, evil, is not a final separate force. You must think about this not merely 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
relationship is treated as if it were a separate entity that, either favorably or unfavorably, runs its 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
safety valves: each preserves the self in its separate state and simultaneously helps it venture out to 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
not. The same illusion prevails about all apparently separate entities. Here, too, the separation is an arbitrary 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
is an outgoing and outflowing movement. When two separate human beings open up toward one another in 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
It is otherwise with the people who remain separate, who contract, and cannot open up to mutuality 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
universe is permeated with energy/consciousness, but not as separate entities existing side by side. Energy is consciousness 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
living encased in your defensive walls, which completely separate you and create a great loneliness. These defenses 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
no longer in need of destructive defenses that separate you and shift responsibility for your state onto 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
disharmonious and destructive aspects of consciousness always remain separate. This can be readily verified by all individuals 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
of consciousness are negative and destructive and thus separate, like appendages. It is the task of each 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
permeating the universe becomes less split off into separate particles and more unified. When you assimilate what 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
now. Feeling and knowing are not really two separate functions but rather tail ends of the same 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
against a movement in your inner life. You separate yourself from a vital part in yourself. No 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
life experience. Generally, life experience is perceived as separate, as if the human entity were put into 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
is movement and energy, it is impossible to separate consciousness from energy in their essence, although in 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
the flow of life. It creates walls that separate you from truth and love -- from your 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
just as you are no longer an entity separate from God. As your outer, hitherto split-off little 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
the illusion will always remain that you are separate from others, that your interests are contradictory, that 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
and negativity. What now seems like an altogether separate entity will be seen for what it is 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
fear of bridging the gap between the little, separate ego consciousness and the all-consciousness stems from the 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
necessary to go through all the layers that separate you from it. The misconceptions, false images, negativities 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
upon other levels of your being that still separate you from your innermost divinity. Or, to put 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
the illusion that giving and receiving are two separate acts. The fusion you long for can only 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
level in a truly satisfying way, while keeping separate on any of the other levels and thus 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
all the case. There you wish to keep separate and do not wish either to give, or 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
only be temporary. Hence the parts find themselves separate again and continue their striving forever more, until 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
in the illusion that it is not only separate from others, but that others are essentially antagonistic 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
comprehended. Only on the ego level is everything separate: effect from cause, soul from soul, form and 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
self-created worlds. You must occasionally reside in these separate worlds; the amount of time, for lack of 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
do not overcome, you do not oust or separate yourself from anything in you. You meet your 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
When this group came together, you were all separate islands, each one concerned with his or her 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
consists of consciousness and energy. They are not separate factors, except to limited human perception. In principle 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
a content and a meaning. It is not separate from consciousness. It is an integral part and 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
task always lies where the personality is still separate from the essence. It is then up to 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
connectedness and believes itself to be a totally separate being. This is a familiar picture for you 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
consciousness and energy as if they were two separate phenomena. This is incorrect. Consciousness is a creator 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
where you hate rather than love, where you separate yourself in your defense rather than openly trust 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
or later through the ages, the distorted, inverted, separate piece of consciousness and energy, the separate personality 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
inverted, separate piece of consciousness and energy, the separate personality, must be filed down, purified through experiences 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
influenced by it. This aspect has its own separate will and thinking processes, as you often find 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
you, nor do you cast them out and separate yourself from them. Instead you truly fulfill the 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
on the level of spiritual reality is not separate from one's attitudes; it is always connected with 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
and energy emanations. Everything is chopped up into separate categories and manifests in a disjointed way. This 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
this natural development, those who follow it necessarily separate from those who do not. They create their 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
This does not mean that you should now separate yourself from the group, for alone you could 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
and energy particles lose themselves and seem to separate themselves from the whole. In the attempt to 228 BALANCE
on and on. In this process, the forerunners separate. As the movement continues they reunite, filling the 228 BALANCE
is an illusion that you and others are separate. All is one. These are words, but perhaps 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
awareness of other people's wrongdoing, clearly seen as separate from your own inner wrongdoing, will come when 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
life appears meaningless, boring, frightening, at loose ends, separate from all things in creation. To live in 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
tradition. All these dualities are false choices that separate. When you are one versus the other, you 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
holding in rather than giving out. Hence you separate yourself from the riches that surround and penetrate 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
you are safe only when you hold yourself separate, suspicious, and stiff. The truth is that by 254 SURRENDER
the mother and first becomes merely a physically separate entity. Even the physical separation is not complete 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
a while until mother and child are truly separate entities. And I do not mean this in 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE

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