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| everyone without exception. For a few a more spontaneous way may be better, but only when in | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| will respond automatically in kind. If you are spontaneous and genuine, you will find such immediate response | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| other person will feel your openness, and a spontaneous, free situation can slowly grow. My dearest friends | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| each moment. Your reactions will be much more spontaneous and healthy, your intuition more reliable. I am | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| his love-capacity. In this partner the free and spontaneous expression of love may be paralyzed and inhibited | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| your real self with all its natural, beautiful, spontaneous right reactions was constantly hampered. Your real self | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| or action, and no wavering. Your instant and spontaneous reaction is of such a nature that you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| matter how much it is camouflaged. Your right, spontaneous, uninhibited expression depends solely on whether or not | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| function to its full capacity, will you become spontaneous, free of all compulsions, will you trust in | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| a healthy trust in yourself, in your natural, spontaneous reactions, will follow. You will become more lenient | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| reality and cope with it, you cannot be spontaneous. You dare not consult your intuitive impressions which | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| to fulfill your need. Either your free and spontaneous reactions will produce favorable circumstances for you, so | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| that you will be liked, or, in your spontaneous primary reaction, seeing the truth you will perceive | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| same anew, you will finally experience this automatic, spontaneous new reaction. It is never a forced and | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| commands? The real self always dares to be spontaneous. Spontaneity is out of the question when emotions | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| that cripples their functioning. Your intuitive, creative, and spontaneous capacities cannot unfold. You substitute other faculties for | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| others or by yourself. Genuine feelings are always spontaneous and come of themselves. They are an indirect | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| Meaning is alive, it is forever a fresh, spontaneous experience, and you have to guard yourself against | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| not of thought and will, but of a spontaneous, creative experience that comes into being unbidden, when | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of awakening causes man to wonder. In this spontaneous experience of wonder and perception, he often has | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| he relates no longer according to a genuine, spontaneous, creative experience, but to a projection of himself | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| to ask questions and wonder, and in this spontaneous experience of wondering and allowing new considerations to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| outgoing to others, it is not a natural, spontaneous process, but artificial and compulsive. But this natural | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| thus cope with, their resistance. If there are spontaneous questions referring to this lecture, please ask them | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| particularly when being alert to oneself, but usually spontaneous feelings for the new person also exist, which | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| They can never afford to be free and spontaneous; instead they constantly hold themselves in check. How | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| in God! 133. LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF Greetings, my | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| it be a commandment. It is a free, spontaneous soul movement. The more people try to love | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| artificial, superimposed commands from the intellect, but the spontaneous inner activity of the heart. When love exists | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| the real self, the live center where a spontaneous, loving intelligence and fulfillment without conflict awaits you | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| allow all inner movements to perform with their spontaneous rhythm, even if at the beginning of their | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| be forced, commanded, or superimposed. They are a spontaneous expression, happening as an organic, natural result of | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| not an intellectual consideration, but, as always, a spontaneous manifestation of the real self. If necessary, such | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| closely, one might often observe that the first spontaneous reaction to others is a feeling for and | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| all destructiveness, all evil results from denying the spontaneous real self, and substituting secondary reactions that in | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| extent; it not only prohibits the influx of spontaneous positive feelings but also wards off fear and | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| You seem to have no control over your spontaneous feeling reactions. This, too, can be quite frightening | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| fate seems to control your inner body, your spontaneous reactions, and a number of outer circumstances. But | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| between your consciousness and your inner body, your spontaneous feelings and your life? The same relationship exists | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| inner orientation of the pleasure principle. In their spontaneous reaction, more and more individuals will respond to | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| and why you stand guard over the most spontaneous and creative forces within yourself. You will see | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| inner wisdom will activate you. This is a spontaneous process that comes quite effortlessly. But first you | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| be activated. Then relationship with another can be spontaneous and mutually satisfying. Not in contact with your | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| completely constructive psyche, the personality can trust its spontaneous, unchecked, free expressions. It can give itself up | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| the personality does not dare to invest natural, spontaneous feelings in certain areas -- out of fear | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| non- volitional self. The latter manifests in a spontaneous, unbidden, indirect way and is not controllable by | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| in others, finding a harmony between their unhampered, spontaneous feelings and life. With others, this is true | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| where the human experience requires the most direct, spontaneous freedom of feelings, where the joy and the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| one unaware of how one holds back the spontaneous flow of natural feelings, and the illusion that | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| and the false feelings, the genuine wellspring of spontaneous life and the drummed up, manufactured emotions, instituted | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| -- false goodness, sentimentality. It is free and spontaneous, since love has nothing whatever to do with | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| consciousness or as energy, is that it is spontaneous. It cannot possibly reveal itself through a laborious | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| life, frees the self. This is how the spontaneous processes begin. They are never consciously volitional. Hence | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the less possibility is there of experiencing the spontaneous life principle in the self. The life principle | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| reaction to your surroundings. Something that is not spontaneous and involuntary, something that is directly rather than | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and trusting the flow of involuntary processes, of spontaneous feelings. The difficult experience should never be taken | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| results from ignoring the fact that feelings, intuition, spontaneous thoughts and inspiration, creative processes, undergo their law | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| you need to guard against anything. A relaxed, spontaneous being is at one with the cosmic flow | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| manifest. The self can manifest only as a spontaneous expression. Such spontaneity exists, for example, when knowledge | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| courage to acknowledge and follow through such intuitive, spontaneous manifestations of their inner being. The real artists | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| happen? This dangerous something would manifest from the spontaneous depth of their being. What is it? Fundamentally | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| less possible it is for you to be spontaneous and thus to allow the destructive emotion to | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| because they require an unguardedness that trusts the spontaneous inner nature. Love forces can remain alive only | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| process of living. Without the cooperation of the spontaneous inner nature life becomes impoverished. But the acceptance | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| love doubly: either one gives in to its spontaneous manifestation, then it becomes wicked, or one cuts | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| in both instances, for the natural impulse, the spontaneous urge, is to give abundantly -- as abundantly | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| self-assertion takes over, the less real generosity and spontaneous outflow exist. There are innumerable occasions in people's | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| resentment or censorship, or to allow a new spontaneous attitude to come forth from the depth of | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| and restricted, guarded and overwatchful, unable to be spontaneous, always determining with the mind and the will | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| Both are coercive, both deny the real, the spontaneous, the free, the natural, which alone can bring | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| emotional level, where you do not allow the spontaneous and natural flow of your feelings, where you | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| to do now. You will stop undermining the spontaneous processes, and you will learn to trust them | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| precisely why you fear the involuntary forces of spontaneous good feelings. To the degree you cling to | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| you find your own truth as a direct, spontaneous experience from within. In the first moments of | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| given moment. The recognition becomes more and more spontaneous and automatic as the self unfolds and integrates | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| by themselves and that healthy growth is a spontaneous process that cannot be forced. But they use | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| a reorientation can begin. True change is a spontaneous process that happens quite by itself -- or | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| waiting, but their active, initiating powers and the spontaneous, indirect manifestations of growth are just as disconnected | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| -- are not your own true, free, and spontaneous reactions, but preconceived reflexes. They result not only | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| in genuine love, in a free spirit of spontaneous giving. When genuine love is present, the idea | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the willpower to hold back, to discipline all spontaneous impulses. When this consciousness grows and the negativity | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| and petty, distrustful withholding of all the generous spontaneous moves of the soul close the very door | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| no longer be on guard against your own spontaneous reactions, you will be free enough to activate | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| to the compulsion. Real growth leads to effortless, spontaneous change that comes so naturally that it may | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| the more he must hold back his natural, spontaneous feelings. The more he holds back, the less | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| the other person. Outgoingness, if genuine, is a spontaneous expression of a warm, loving personality who wants | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| quickly accessible. When you relate in a natural, spontaneous, organic way to the topics under discussion, it | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| actions and reactions begin to respond to new spontaneous impulses. And these, in turn, bring forth new | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| body, for they go together. Direct experience of spontaneous feelings in your body is as much an | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| deal with the topic of dynamic growth, the spontaneous unification inherent in the process of growth. All | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| new constructive, positive way of reaction. This is spontaneous unification. When it occurs you no longer need | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| in stirring up your areas of stagnation if spontaneous unification is to occur. Where emotional, psychological and | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| or mental skills. The first appearance of effortless, spontaneous unification will be incomplete. It will disappear because | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| all this, my friends. To recapitulate, effortless and spontaneous unification is the result of effort and struggle | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| spiritual growth and mastery on the inner level, spontaneous unification of emotional, psychological, and therefore spiritual rifts | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| result of your efforts will be unexpected and spontaneous rather than direct, then harmony between the voluntary | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| must make room for the involuntary until the spontaneous unification occurs. You will let it happen, wanting | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| own, thereby fulfilling your destiny. You can create spontaneous unification out of disunity. Out of a highly | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| each other. The creative attitude is a free-flowing, spontaneous manifestation. Execution is an act that comes through | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| effort. It has totally different characteristics from the spontaneous, effortless influx of creative ideas. Human beings are | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| in the area of human relationships. The creative, spontaneous, effortless experience that initially brings two people together | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| other, thus receiving. It happened as a natural, spontaneous, unplanned event, as an inevitable result of opening | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| explanation of an effect. Natural movement is a spontaneous expression of the inner energy flow that is | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the psyche and open up new channels of spontaneous behavior no longer based on conditioned reflexes, and | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| little others can participate. Let it become a spontaneous expression. You can thus generate a marvelous energy | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| the spiritual self make the new acquisitions a spontaneous, living, effortless experience. Ego means effort; spiritual self | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| were, by the spirit. Your living becomes a spontaneous, effortless flow. QUESTION: In what way was this | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| nurture, receive, and take in. This organic self-regulating, spontaneous rhythm cannot be determined by the mind. It | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| you will find yourself to be, the more spontaneous the inner movement will become, the more revitalized | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| recreating life experience, will come as an intuitive, spontaneous expansion of your consciousness. Just as you will | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| then suddenly something will click in you. A spontaneous, almost automatic, organic desire to develop in the | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| of assertion and giving in, for instance. The spontaneous knowing when one or the other is appropriate | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| balances and dualities will become elements in a spontaneous unification and harmony. The intuitive knowledge of when | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| are illusory shortcuts meant to avoid finding the spontaneous functioning of your Godself, which knows your right | 228 BALANCE |
| enlightenment or peace. Balance is a divine and spontaneous manifestation. Balance is sanity. Within every particle of | 228 BALANCE |
| a carelessness rather than a trust in the spontaneous growth. I find that when we discuss individual | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| yourself. This new strength will suddenly become a spontaneous movement. The wisdom to choose when to use | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in everything else, practice leads to an increasingly spontaneous and automatic ability to be outwardly what you | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |