| Closed-up...................3 | |
| the good. But you all live in your closed-up world in which you do not see the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| This is because your limited inner concepts and closed-up energy centers prohibit expansion. You still suffer from | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| not necessary in the least. It creates a closed-up, tight, and very negative energy and an atmosphere | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Closeness...................36 | |
| the existence of the other world and its closeness to you -- must not be made too | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the need to receive, be it love, understanding, closeness to others or creative fulfillment. You strive for | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| is not somewhere a tightness, a prejudice, a closeness, a fear of relinquishing a preconceived idea. This | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| about our true self and our fulfillment, our closeness to God. Can you say a word about | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| fully aware of your lower self, a real closeness to God is unthinkable because it stands between | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS Greetings, my dearest friends. I bring blessings for | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| such attempts look like succeeding, the fear of closeness induces them to pull back again and push | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| struggle between the desire and the fear of closeness as the simple common denominator. Your destructiveness and | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| this, after all, is the real relating, the closeness which eliminates isolation. Intimate self-expression and relating flows | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| real key. The struggle of wanting and fearing closeness with others, as well as of wanting and | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| give up one of the two alternatives of closeness or separateness. This can never work. It can | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| set up new barriers because the fear of closeness overwhelms them. This fear comes from the false | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| feelings, conflicts and confusions -- such as wanting closeness and fearing it, therefore becoming more deprived and | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and productive way of fighting for love and closeness will come to you -- no longer a | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| necessarily imply a capacity and willingness for inner closeness. For many, closeness is too taxing. On the | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| capacity and willingness for inner closeness. For many, closeness is too taxing. On the surface this seems | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| each other. Loving, sharing, and profound and satisfying closeness to others could be a purely positive power | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| impossible, under such conditions, to find bliss and closeness -- fearless closeness. So you see, my friends | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| conditions, to find bliss and closeness -- fearless closeness. So you see, my friends, it is of | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| the blocks to awareness, self-fulfillment, to intimacy and closeness with others, is expressed by the spiritual self | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| possible. Wherever peace, fulfillment, light, hope, and trusting closeness to your intimate friends are lacking, take it | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| inability to give more warmth, good feelings, and closeness? Well, you are inflicting the same on others | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| which appears to be more comfortable than love, closeness, and pleasure. Love, closeness, and pleasure will be | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| more comfortable than love, closeness, and pleasure. Love, closeness, and pleasure will be the most comfortable and | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| infant and in an adult. For an infant, closeness is an entirely passive experience: the child takes | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| woman expresses her masculine principle. For the adult, closeness can be successfully consummated only when the experience | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| it seeks the merely receptive, in-taking kind of closeness. The fusion thus aspired to can never take | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| her caution, withholding, and negativity. The movement toward closeness is split off and a counter-movement is instituted | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| conflict about the need for and fear of closeness will no longer exist. Such relationships fuse on | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| manner of the pathwork offers wonderful protection. The closeness you have developed, the intimate knowledge of yourselves | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| pseudo-solutions. Let us assume you wish love and closeness with another human being, but feel uncertain that | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| self-sufficient person has valid needs for love, intimacy, closeness, and warmth to be happy. The greater the | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| needs and attaining true expansion. It also makes closeness and intimacy impossible, and closeness is surely one | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| It also makes closeness and intimacy impossible, and closeness is surely one of your legitimate needs. So | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| secrecy are being confused, either the need for closeness or the need for privacy must be shortchanged | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| of a better way to establish love, trust, closeness? Again and again I show you parallels between | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Closes......................18 | |
| It is nothing new, and a door automatically closes within yourself. In this way you do yourself | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| One reaction leads to another until the circle closes. When you have found several such vicious circles | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| emotions argue below the surface. So the circle closes where it started, and the need to be | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| is like a bottomless well. Thus the circle closes. It is your work on this path to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| at the next resting point, when this cycle closes again, provided your work on the path is | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is disharmony, there is no love. The circle closes. Where there is no love, there can be | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| to what comes out from inside, it often closes into a tight knot formed of pressure against | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| perception of others be accurate when your self-perception closes its vision to what is in you and | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| which there is no way out. It never closes life. Even while you experience the pain, wonderful | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| deepening conviction increases negative feelings, tightens your defenses, closes the centers. As long as you feel obliged | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| must be in fear. And every slightest tension closes the centers. Every exercise -- physical or otherwise | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| true independence. In reality, a self who blindly closes itself to other people is just as weak | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| be resisted. They resist life itself, and suffering closes in on them more tightly. This happens in | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| your clogged energy system erects a wall that closes you off from the ever-present abundance. Of course | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| demanding, jealous, and domineering. Thus the energy system closes more and more tightly and shuts out life's | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| divine. So, as an in-built protective mechanism, negativity closes the perceptive organs: blindness, deafness, dumbness, and numbness | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| resentment, fear, envy become inescapable, and that, too, closes the heart. The new woman is neither a | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| half-vague, opinionated, incomplete, secretive holding onto assumptions that closes all doors. This is where your spirit friends | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Closest.....................7 | |
| seven sons, those first created beings who were closest to Him. Two of these fell, along with | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| Ask your dear ones, and those who are closest to you and know you best, Please tell | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you can imagine. The words I use are closest to what I am attempting to describe. All | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| yourself. QUESTION: I'm just about to lose my closest friend. And I would like to be able | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| dynamic complexity of the human being who was closest to you. It is most important for your | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| connections which are within the first fences, the closest sections of your private maze, you will then | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| small amount of life. Inorganic life would be closest to that state of life with no love | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| Closing.....................32 | |
| rather superficial subconscious level, that you keep busily closing your eyes, afraid that if you saw the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| of their faults, knowing them, seeing them, not closing one's eyes to them and then to build | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| anti-divine is, unfortunately, a reality in your world. Closing your eyes to reality is unreasonable. Of course | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| new beginning, a commencement. It is like the closing of a circle or cycle. When you close | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The significance of the figure seven is the closing of a cycle. Then you go on, starting | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Evolution is always the movement of a circle closing. This applies to the huge overall picture of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the work on the Path. There are many closing circles. Tonight I mentioned commencing with spiritual emphasis | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| acutely aware of an inner tension, a cramped closing up. This prevents you from meeting others freely | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| of love. Negative emotions are a result of closing the door to reality and to loving. That | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your ability to face what is, rather than closing your eye in wishful thinking and persisting in | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| the less you feel you deserve fulfillment yourself, closing up to it because of false concepts, the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| character structure without incurring the past danger of closing the door through your damaging moralizing. Your freedom | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| comes exclusively from defending yourself against experience, by closing yourself up. The anxiety you experience is exclusively | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| fluctuating initiating and receptive forces -- opening and closing, opening and closing. The more the individual consciousness | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| receptive forces -- opening and closing, opening and closing. The more the individual consciousness of an organism | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| is felt as desirable and pleasurable, whereas the closing, tense state is felt as painful and undesirable | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| does not mean the cessation of the tense, closing movement -- for that would mean the cessation | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| by direct will. They work indirectly -- the closing as well as the opening. You do not | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| seems the same with the opposite process of closing up. You may be open, pulsating, alive, and | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| your deepest reactions, you will find an inner closing up, a shrinking away from it. This may | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| creates fear. Fear creates an inner atmosphere of closing up, and your mind will not use the | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| is determined by them. But the opening or closing of the centers, their smooth functioning or congestion | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| being exclusively because of what is denied. By closing your eyes and your consciousness to the total | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| experience, against which the personality defends itself by closing up, by building a protective armor -- which | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| experiences as the negative and painful feelings. The closing words did not get on the tape. 193 | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| one and the same. Resistance stems the flow, closing up; it prevents the movement of the universal | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| for the work you begin this season. Before closing the lecture, I want to give another exercise | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| trust the denial of truth. You trust in closing your sensibilities to the messages of your process | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| turn into benign circles. Instead of inferiority feelings closing the heart, creating resentment, hate, and therefore frustration | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| against recognizing this by blaming, accusing, resenting, and closing your heart and your feelings with apparent justification | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| from a very human point of view. Before closing this message, I would like to talk about | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| teacher or loving a mate. This never means closing your eyes to reality. Quite the contrary; you | 254 SURRENDER |