| Birthing....................5 | |
| with the ultimate source of all. 255. THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE My dearly beloved friends | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| a onetime event. It is always an extended birthing process. You participate keenly in your own birthing | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| birthing process. You participate keenly in your own birthing process by the work you are doing on | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| path. Consider the entire purification work as a birthing process. For you truly give birth to your | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| is also traumatic for the entity, before the birthing process into matter begins, to temporarily abdicate full | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Birthright..................29 | |
| is really no contradiction that it is your birthright to be happy, while you must be able | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| your own. Then you make use of your birthright and begin to control your fate. Then the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| part of their spirit continuously striving for their birthright of fulfillment, another part actually strives for nonfulfillment | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| in self-alienation. It therefore cheats you of your birthright to be a happy, free, unfolding creature who | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| of the dualistic struggle, rob you of your birthright. You can find your birthright only on the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| you of your birthright. You can find your birthright only on the plane of unification. Since everything | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| message coming from the real self says, Your birthright is perfect happiness, freedom, and mastery over life | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| mastery over life. When you fight for this birthright according to dualistic principles, you remove yourself further | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| It surges toward bringing all individuals into their birthright, since it is based entirely on universal values | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| that a state of pleasure supreme is everyone's birthright, and everyone constantly strives for it. Whether or | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| in wonderful, ecstatic delight. For this is your birthright. The price is some effort of overcoming laziness | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| without any conflict about them that are your birthright. The good feelings must actually appear frightening as | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| thing is that the more people ignore their birthright to be happy, and overlook the messages of | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| encrustations, and long to come truly into your birthright. The Pathwork is actively concerned with fulfilling this | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| perversion, and distortion. You can then claim your birthright. You can then call into being your own | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| fear is an inherent longing for your true birthright, which is a state of supreme bliss, sublime | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| spiritual reality of every entity. It is your birthright, my friends. Your longing for it is the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| in the state of bliss that is your birthright, that is the ultimate destiny for all of | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the divine. You are God. It is your birthright and your destiny to fulfill yourself by making | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| more of the joy that is inherently your birthright. Be blessed, be in peace. 184. THE MEANING | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| willing to change, then I will feel my birthright to experience absolute abundance, the intrinsic nature of | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| can only come when you realize your beautiful birthright to create. Just as you create negatively, so | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| manifestations, you become a creator. You realize your birthright of divinity. Understanding cause and effect in your | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| mutuality on every level. You do have the birthright to experience this and other fulfillments, for the | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| pain, and then say that it is your birthright to be in a state of joy. It | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| measure. No one can claim his or her birthright and genius, and make a unique contribution to | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| you confined in a state less than your birthright. Make the commitment to truth in every possible | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Why has woman been subjugated and denied her birthright of self-expression, of mental, emotional, and spiritual equality | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| long for it, because this fulfillment is your birthright and your destiny. It can exist only in | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Births......................3 | |
| all these factors. QUESTION: Why are there more births now in the colored races or in Asia | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| According to the health of his soul, the births will be healthy or abortive. QUESTION: What exactly | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| having overcome negative involvements will the cycle of births into this sphere cease and human development continue | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| Bitter......................25 | |
| truth, whether it is comfortable or not. Yet, bitter as the medicine may be, I think that | 21 THE FALL |
| explained here. As long as you feel sad, bitter, defiant, or disharmonious in any way when you | 31 SHAME |
| only to receive love. And then you are bitter -- because it does not work; it cannot | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| the direction you have taken is wrong and bitter and dark. Therefore you will have the incentive | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| I mean healthy and constructive joy, leaving no bitter aftertaste. The higher the development of the entity | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| it will leave you unsatisfied and with a bitter taste. You are bound to be disappointed, for | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| and much more painful, but indirect way. The bitter hurt of isolation, of loneliness, of the gnawing | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| painful, but that is never as painful and bitter as the struggle of straining toward the impossible | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| if need be -- even with a momentarily bitter medicine if that is for the good of | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| this very fear is a product of your bitter, unreasonable rebellion. And on such a foundation growth | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| negative way, or you withdraw and live in bitter isolation which, in turn, breeds frustration. These, then | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| and substitution results in much more severe and bitter suffering than would the relaxed admission of an | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| of the death of others will diminish; the bitter frightening aspect of it will disappear, and you | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| longer unknown. But avoidable negative experience has a bitter taste. Negative experience courted out of fear and | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| There will be no anxiety, no befuddlement, no bitter hurt. All this can be avoided only with | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| again and again until you would become so bitter that you would completely withdraw from living. Think | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| avoiding and refusing itself. This causes a hard, bitter, twisted pain because such pulling away is not | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of pain. The pain that is rejected is bitter and disquieting and hopeless. The pain that is | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| feeling your pain, this secondary pain must become bitter, twisted, and unbearable. If you accept and feel | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| causes unbearable pain. It is tight, locked and bitter, with the added connotation of hopelessness. It is | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| as you all know -- an unbearable, twisted, bitter pain that stems from a forcing current that | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| defenses, with their own negative intentionalities, experience a bitter pain, a new rejection, even though they may | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| this fact as a justification to become more bitter, resentful, punishing, and withholding of the best of | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| you lose the connection with self-creation, the more bitter and hopeless the suffering becomes. Then you pretend | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Such false acceptance is always either an angry, bitter resignation or despair about life and its pains | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Bitterness..................34 | |
| There will be in them no torment, no bitterness, no tension, nor any sadness or world weariness | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| can resign oneself to it without rebellion and bitterness. The sadness that comes from undergoing such hardship | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| mean, sense the difference between the tightness of bitterness and the sorrow that loosens the soul. (I | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| depends entirely on your own state of mind. Bitterness, anger, self-pity, all these block the life force | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| turns into a healthy growing pain, free of bitterness, tension, anxiety, and frustration. There are also those | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| is just not there. This, in turn, causes bitterness, rebellion, and a deep feeling of injustice. You | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| a battle to find this level of rebellion, bitterness, hostility, and aggression. This battle is caused by | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| on this goal. Take any negative emotion: envy, bitterness, fear, helplessness -- and most indicative of all | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the answers. When this proves impossible, beneath your bitterness and self- pity you fail to forgive yourself | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| pain of loss does not contain the fear, bitterness, self-pity, struggle, and hardness contained in the pain | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| illusion. But beware of believing that your self-pity, bitterness, futility due to shallow living -- no emotional | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| with life, there would be no anguish, no bitterness, no fear, no emptiness. When you cultivate truthfulness | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| with anguish. It never produces anxiety, tension, hopelessness, bitterness, or torment. It never puts you into a | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| of nonfulfillment. You will teeter between self-pity and bitterness, between projection onto others and life for your | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| and disappointment -- which, in turn, produce resentments, bitterness, anger. The sense of futility inherent in all | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| not wanting to know it -- will produce bitterness and the sense of being victimized. Choosing to | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| for the lack. This in turn elicits resentment, bitterness, anger, and defiance. The resulting confusion is torment | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| may now manifest as hostility, envy, hatred, rage, bitterness, self-pity, or blame -- can become a creative | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you find yourself in a frenzy of frustration, bitterness and tension. Alternatively, you may manage also to | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| you impose upon yourself. This confusion always induces bitterness, a sense of injustice and, therefore, resentments! You | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| and therefore of desirable life experience -- furthers bitterness, self-pity, accusation, spite. The negative attitudes bring more | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| denial you turn your feeling of despair into bitterness, isolation, faithlessness -- the apprehension that there is | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| the best in life. False, defensive pain contains bitterness, self-pity, resentments -- thus it destroys peace. Real | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| the transition from the false pain of complaining bitterness to the real pain that is soft, melting | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| can say, Yes I have hate, envy, blame, bitterness, irrational demands, or whatever they may be. Yes | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| a spirit of trust, however. Doing so in bitterness and hopelessness is again not the right way | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| there is usually a great deal of anger, bitterness and resentment. These feelings are not directed toward | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| quite distinct state of mind. These feelings of bitterness and anger become so absorbed into the system | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| rage. Atheism itself is a manifestation of extreme bitterness against a creation that seems so utterly senseless | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| your inner fear and your previously unconscious anger, bitterness or rage at life for imposing death and | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| only to life's stepchildren, this, too, must create bitterness and rage. Often, these feelings augment the pain | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| or against one's own feelings of rage and bitterness about what seems insane to resist and oppose | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| see, perhaps wish to see in anger and bitterness, the out-of-context fragments of life that seem to | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| and the meaning of creation always stems from bitterness, fear and anger. These attitudes can only produce | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |