| Tighten.....................3 | |
| the streamings of healthy energy flow? When emotions tighten up because of such negative feelings, the physical | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| negative feelings, the physical structure must eventually also tighten up. The tightness of the centers, in body | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| struggle in vain and, in fact, you only tighten the chains that bind you. We come now | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Tightening..................6 | |
| willingness to let go. Whenever you feel a tightening rigidity, even if your opinion is right, you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| does not, and cannot, happen through a rigid tightening of the ego forces -- of will, or | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| to occasional physical threats, where a quick defensive tightening is automatic and healthy. That lasts a very | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| ordinary human sense, the flexing is associated with tightening and defense. In the pure state the tightening | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| tightening and defense. In the pure state the tightening is a kind of charging, so as to | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| even on the deepest possible psychic level, a tightening occurs that prevents healing. Healing requires a deep | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Tighter.....................12 | |
| and as their only defense, put an even tighter shell around themselves. This separates them even more | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| one incarnation to another, the knots have become tighter and more tangled. Therefore it must take time | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| these words, you will quickly close the door tighter. You will say to yourself, Oh, this really | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| prevents free self-expression and relaxed, joyful living. The tighter the control, the greater the danger that this | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| source of life. The net of entanglement becomes tighter and tighter; the individual is completely ensnarled in | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| life. The net of entanglement becomes tighter and tighter; the individual is completely ensnarled in this trap | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| the limited and false life becomes and the tighter the prison doors close. Although you have erected | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| price. Consequently, the entity may hold on even tighter to the immobile, rigid state, perhaps for many | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you fight it, you only pull your chains tighter. Only when you relax your rebellion and open | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| you consistently yield to the temptation, you draw tighter fences around your emotional freedom and you set | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Then the heart and mind must close even tighter. Then even this fact of close-mindedness and close-heartedness | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| pain of duality, only to draw the net tighter by the very nature of the struggle itself | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Tightly.....................44 | |
| the spiritual experience itself. When one clings so tightly to the ego, it is not only because | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| Furthermore, the fear may also come from clinging tightly to the ego with its self-pity, vanity, cowardice | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| a little pain, if you hold on so tightly to your ego and to your little sensitivity | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| life; rather, you hold on to it too tightly and therefore must lose it. To lose, in | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| have found by holding on to themselves so tightly. It is therefore of utmost importance on the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| close the door of the soul even more tightly. A safe way would be to first discuss | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to the reason-type who holds life's reins too tightly, often loses his or her grip on life's | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| the potent force of eros can enter the tightly locked door. But in most cases, when the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| most cases, when the door is not too tightly bolted, eros does come to you at certain | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| self because the conscious mind holds on too tightly. This may afflict the intuitive sense of discrimination | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| have two distinct soul movements. One holding on tightly, not letting go of obsolete things so that | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| is something to which you hold on too tightly, something you think you must have. It is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| Death has many faces. Those who are afraid, tightly holding onto the little self, may experience death | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| adopt, is much easier than what you so tightly hold on to. Whenever you are aware of | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| are lost now; where you grope and clutch tightly because you are driven by blind needs, by | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| to look at it and hold on too tightly to yourself. You refuse to let go, to | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| can be distinctly felt. Where you were first tightly laced in, you open up to the liberation | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| giving up control leads to better control, while tightly holding on to control must finally lead to | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| can be maintained only when the ego is tightly held together. What does life mean in this | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| nonexistent. Threatened by this I am not, you tightly hold yourself together. The history of spiritual evolution | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| a state of holding onto the ego too tightly until it learns to reestablish the balance. In | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| other alternative is that you hold on too tightly which, of course, is what you habitually do | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| and hopes to the dualistic plane, with its tightly held opinions, false ideas, vanity, pride, selfwill, and | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| longer fear anything, nor do you cling and tightly insist that your good should be given to | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| where and how you oppose something because you tightly cling to its opposite, you will again be | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| this is impossible because the door is too tightly locked, you cut yourself off from the invigoration | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| will feel as though you are shedding a tightly constricting straightjacket in which you once lived. You | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| feel this indentation, which is connected with too tightly held convictions, too intense and exaggerated emotions, overreaction | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the mental realm is too intense in its tightly held views, the fresh flow of the life | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| to give up what one has been so tightly holding on to. This loosening up must occur | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| the inner organism is feared, denied expression, and tightly held together. Thus living becomes a poor imitation | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| not have to dissolve the hard mass of tightly packed feelings of violence and pain. The bottomlessness | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| glow of your energy and feelings becomes a tightly packed, hardened mass behind which your spirit seems | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| substance to create more expansion but, rather, more tightly shut defenses. Bliss is a necessity, for bliss | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| The weak ego makes you hold on so tightly that you cannot open up for what lies | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| itself, and suffering closes in on them more tightly. This happens in people's overall development as well | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| amount of honesty is required to challenge one's tightly cherished convictions. Such challenge cuts out the negative | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| joy. Some of you, who are still too tightly defended, will not let the force come in | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| you have built in your mind with your tightly fixed conclusion to convince yourself and eliminate disturbing | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| domination. For you do not need to be tightly holding against actual domination. The tight holding, the | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| A closed energy system with an attitude of tightly holding on is really your false and inefficient | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Thus the energy system closes more and more tightly and shuts out life's riches. Your illusion of | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| limitations, and acquire new concepts -- lightly, not tightly -- with which to play around for a | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| your feelings, you want to hold your heart tightly. You do not realize that by holding you | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| Tightness...................31 | |
| what I mean, sense the difference between the tightness of bitterness and the sorrow that loosens the | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| work, you will sense and feel this inner tightness and gradually you will recognize the basic damage | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| ideas have the same origin as avarice, stinginess, tightness, the same holding on to something that appears | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| holding on to something that appears safe. The tightness is not obvious. Even after having done this | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| being in whom there is not somewhere a tightness, a prejudice, a closeness, a fear of relinquishing | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| in choosing accountability and letting go of the tightness in the mind, as you commit and give | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| Control, in the best sense, is yours, without tightness or fear. In distortion, in false control, you | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| false inner movement will become unbearable in its tightness until the exhausted psyche loses itself in a | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| and exaggerated emotions, overreaction, as well as muscular tightness. All this prohibits the flow of the force | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the truth. You may recognize quite clearly the tightness with which you do not want to let | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| physical structure must eventually also tighten up. The tightness of the centers, in body and spirit, always | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| find a way to let go of the tightness your fear creates. This can be done only | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| not now, later, you will lose your fear, tightness of centers, and sense of loss. Then the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| will decrease. Anger, fear, resentment and self-pity create tightness and brittleness. They numb you to all live | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| it appears to want it. The moment the tightness of self-will exists, divine aspects are hindered from | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| movement. Observe these movements. Do you feel a tightness? Is the movement blocked and stopped completely because | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| movement blocked and stopped completely because of the tightness, or is it absent in its expression? Is | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| the very fulfillment you insist upon most. The tightness, the saying no to something -- whatever it | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| not capable of handling, a great deal of tightness will dissipate, make room for creative movement, and | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| act of saying no with a weakness, a tightness, an unhealthiness prevents creative receptivity. By the same | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| investigate how tight this current is. The very tightness may hide an important clue to what you | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| and eliminate before fulfillment can come, or the tightness of the current may reflect your lack of | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| or later be exposed. Therefore a protective, defensive tightness is put into both desires, which influences the | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| you know, all attitudes create energy systems. The tightness of holding on creates a closed energy system | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| of the path, constantly encounter in yourself this tightness, this fearfulness, this holding. You may call it | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| that must be repeated many, many times. The tightness you feel is so often traceable to the | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| desperation is much more a result of the tightness that shuts out God than of not having | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| not having what you want. The state of tightness stemming from fear, the distrust, and a concept | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| of truth, after you let go of the tightness and fearfulness of your opinion, you will find | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| God indeed exists. I speak generally about the tightness of holding on to a belief that is | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| experience has the capacity to loosen up the tightness against frustration and consequently against all of life | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |