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| life appear difficult, ugly, removed and senseless. The activation of your real self, or the divine center | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| character defects. The actual -- not theoretical -- activation of the real self with its vibrating life | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| your ego because you ignore or fear the activation of the real self, other symptoms of this | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| symptoms? Or do you wish total self-realization, the activation of an inner center in which all good | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| this rests upon the deliberate, precise and direct activation of your innermost being. I often hear my | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| which the creative process works: the first is activation; the other is the principle of getting out | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| a pulsating, involuntary movement, while the movement of activation is deliberate and self-determining. Words are insufficient to | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| themselves from using the activating principle, because all activation would be based on negativity. This explains why | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| their use of the creative principle. Therefore, healthy activation, self-assertion, and autonomy are also temporarily bound and | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the distorted form of the creative principle of activation. You all experience on this path the necessity | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| feeling guilty about your healthy aggression. The creative activation will do justice to both -- enriching others | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| receptive spirit of letting be reigns after the activation. Then you can be guided according to the | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| put it the other way, through the deliberate activation of the creative power to its highest potential | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| desired experience that need not be feared; his activation then becomes lovingly enriching to both. This is | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| full selfhood, not competing with or rejecting his activation because it no longer is a threat. Her | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| results and attributes them at once to his activation, violates the feminine principle of the particular creation | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| a sort of letting be, and a simultaneous activation. It feels very creative. Things I can't believe | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| self- humiliation and shame disappear. Through the steady activation of the higher powers, the self feels less | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
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| as with a medium, God's world is directly active. The particular person is then an instrument of | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| open to you to become a useful and active participant in the Plan of Salvation. But the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| with their social life, which might be very active. The separation then will increase the fear. These | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| are not used to be spiritually and mentally active, yet one cannot enter into meditation unless one | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| this process takes place in Him, too. The active element of God that creates contracts over and | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| beings were unified, encompassing within themselves both the active and receptive, that is, male and female, aspects | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| The male element is the creator, the positive, active principle. When God, with the purpose of active | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| active principle. When God, with the purpose of active creation, contracts into form, then the masculine principle | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| there not two kinds of meditation, the spiritually active and another, more emotional? For example, meditating on | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| and the feminine principles. The one is intellectually active and involved with thought, therefore masculine; the other | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| about the two main aspects of God: the active or male aspect and the passive or female | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| or female aspect. I explained that in the active aspect God is personality: active, thinking, planning -- | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| that in the active aspect God is personality: active, thinking, planning -- the Creator. In the female | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the experience of God's personality aspect that is active, would be blind to the experience of the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| have experienced God differently and not in His active aspect. One reason plays into the other, one | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| will? And when should I fight and be active and when should I be passive? When you | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| great Plan of Salvation. You are then an active soldier in the fight. You are a front | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| divine substance of each created being was freely active, and not covered by foreign and un-godlike matter | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| for this is proof that your minds are active, producing, searching. This is always the first step | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| important: the proper distribution, for instance, of the active and passive forces. I will soon give a | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the wrong way. When you are spiritually active, you tend to hoard the strength you may | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| when they cannot muster the force to be active. They are tired, they have to rest. And | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| if you feel in the full strength of active life, spiritually, physically, emotionally, on all levels, you | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| nurse what has so beautifully grown during the active period. You will instinctively sense that you have | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| live in harmony with the movement of the active and passive streams of your personal life, only | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you feel clearly what each period signifies: the active or the passive -- the weekday or the | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| also to the duration of the periods: the active periods have to be longer than the passive | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Blessed is this hour. There are twelve basic active forces and twelve basic passive forces or principles | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is a representative or a personification of one active or passive principle. They are all perfect in | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| can see that there is not just one active and one passive principle in existence, but twelve | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| humanity the question arises when to assume an active and when a passive attitude? When should you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| great deal of activity and willpower. When the active forces are used in the channels destined for | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| human being. If the passive forces replace the active ones, entering the channels where the active principle | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the active ones, entering the channels where the active principle should work and flow freely, there will | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| brought about by the wrong use of the active forces will occur not only in the general | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| out in what respect the forces should be active or passive. I will try to shed light | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| of God. You should at all times be active and use your willpower -- which does not | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| where they are unfortunately often replaced by your active forces, are all the instances in which you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and when other people are wrong. Then an active movement begins to take the place of passivity | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| first, are other positive, constructive desires. Therefore the active force must be put in use in order | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| there is a negative desire and therefore an active force is used instead of a passive one | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| knowledge, and you will rechannel the wrongly used active and passive currents. This also means to accept | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| In the act of revolting you set an active force in motion where a passive one should | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| has been cultivated can a different kind of active current be brought to bear so you can | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| your desires surge into wrong directions. If the active pressure of the wrong desires is relaxed, you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| for the good and proper desires where an active force is badly needed but where you are | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| who appear weak and without will use less active force than the obviously strong and self-willed ones | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| of a faulty premise often manifests in an active pressure to change a condition or circumstance where | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| that where you should be passive, you are active because you actively desire a change that you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| passive and the wrong passive currents to become active. For those purified currents will emanate from you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| must certainly be free of self-will, but your active and clean willpower must be used, first, for | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| or to alter an unpleasant situation without your active participation in the process. You have to realize | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| And then, as you digest the answers, the active process will start functioning properly as by itself | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| example of a person who is spiritually very active with clean and pure motives to help other | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| for change. Sometimes it has to become more active, so you can act. At other times it | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| more passive. The inner will has to be active, but quietly, as befits the whole foundation of | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| mentioned in the last lecture that the twelve active and the twelve passive forces are also personified | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| that makes you passive where you should be active. Thus, you find yourself in a vicious circle | 31 SHAME |
| know. Most people carry hidden unconscious factors equally active as the conscious ones. Those are a little | 31 SHAME |
| However, a great number of spirits are also active there who are out of the cycle of | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| so only to the extent you have been active on the path. You may know some of | 36 PRAYER |
| glimpses may eventually open the door for the active, personal search so necessary for complete purification, to | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| it is self-inflicted; but it is also completely active in the willingness to work, to overcome, to | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| a good example of harmonious interplay between the active and the passive currents. So you cannot sit | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| may remember the lecture I gave about the active and the passive forces, in which I said | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| be just as wrong to be an entirely active person as to be an entirely passive one | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| person. But what frequently happens is that the active current flows through the channel destined for the | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| distribution of currents. The highest angel of the active forces is not disharmonious in his activity, as | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| will is courage. Both will and courage are active. In will there must be a strong active | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| active. In will there must be a strong active current. That will is often used negatively and | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| only in certain aspects of life. Will needs active pressure, either positive or negative. It needs activity | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| their souls. Since men are by nature more active and adventurous, they tend to be polygamous and | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| Such infidelity is often as puzzling to the active partner as to the victim. They do not | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| this vicious circle and experience how it is active in your personal life. Are there any questions | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| decision-making activity, everything that is part of the active life, the feminine side of his nature grows | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| I realize that those friends who are not active on this path of self-search will interpret what | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| have questions must indicate that your mind is active and searching. QUESTION: Where is the borderline between | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from the masculine and feminine, that is, the active and passive aspects of the spirit, why is | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may put it that way. Man manifests an active current, whereas woman is more passive. Where man | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| man is more passive, the woman is more active. In both cases, it is the other side | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the coin, so to speak. The outer active side is passive inwardly, and vice versa. This | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| question: The symbolism shown in Eve, taking the active part, hereby being responsible for the Fall, brings | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong for a man. But if a healthy, active current is suppressed, it will go into a | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| he was passive where he should have been active, while Eve was active where she should have | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| he should have been active, while Eve was active where she should have been passive. This symbolism | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| does not show that man should be entirely active and woman entirely passive. This is a gross | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| symbolic incident with Adam and Eve shows that active and passive currents are present, to begin with | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a symbolic man and woman, but of the active and passive elements as such. ANSWER: No. Adam | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and Eve represent much more than merely the active and passive elements. They actually symbolize manhood and | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| woman is. A man is supposed to be active, a woman passive. These concepts and many more | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| physical prowess and his intellectual capacity -- his active side. At the same time he has deliberately | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| meet. It is not true that man is active and that woman is passive by nature, but | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| as all truly spiritual qualities must be. Man's active currents should bring his passivity to the fore | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| bring his passivity to the fore, preventing the active current from becoming too aggressive, rounding and mellowing | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| spirit entity. They will then be in an active state. This does not mean, however, that the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| impatient may deceive themselves and think they are active and energetic. So it is always a question | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| best way of dealing with suffering combines the active spirit of searching for one's own inner hidden | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| each case stands for itself. Discrimination and an active thought process are necessary all the way through | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| wind up in passive, or eventually even in active, cruelty. Such a person might condone cruelty in | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| to daydream about the idealized self-image. A very active fantasy life in which desires are fulfilled is | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| new ideas, new solutions? Is your inner will active and able to receive new inspiration in order | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| an uncertainty so that one is sometimes too active when one should be more passive, and vice | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| You see, your soul can be in an active state and yet not commit an outer action | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| many daydreams. When I stop, my fears become active. When my fears recede, I start daydreaming again | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| may in some personality structures create a more active process of masochism. Self-rejection in itself is masochistic | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| and to put the links together requires the active work of sincere self-search. The perfectionism that is | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| obey His laws; who guides you without your active participation in your own inner life, provided you | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| from himself. When man reaches the stage of active pursuit of self-awareness, of facing himself as he | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| all of you, and with the promise of active help that can come to you to the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| remain sane, you have to go through this active part of living, but you do so against | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| following the universal powers of love, from being active in life, saying yes to it. And there | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| blessing is a pure wish. It is an active current of energy. Fear denotes selfishness. Wishes are | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| healing comes about only through the kind of active self- finding that you are engaged in. Let | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| -- at least occasionally, if the love is active and not merely theoretical. It does neither require | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| time, she also feels that all her creative, active trends are considered unfeminine by the world, and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| can hardly be understood if one is not active and rather advanced on a path of self- | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| that many of you, my friends, who are active on this path will in the coming working | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| fear and distrust, but are simply one's presently active potentials in this respect. Your present readiness to | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| to grow out of destructive patterns and take active leadership of your life and development; realize that | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the long run it is more harmful, for active cruelty induces quicker counterreactions. Passive indifference, however, born | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| with fear. The borderline between passive numbness and active cruelty is often very thin and precarious, very | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| often gives rise to despair, doubt, and confusion. Active cruelty numbs the person who perpetrates it to | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| attain numbness. You must always distinguish between the active deeds of either indifference or cruelty, and emotional | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| be clear that numbness in its extreme becomes active cruelty. The difference between these two is only | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| your conscious intelligence and will, which form the active outer mind and personality, and that inner, vast | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| giving in, between giving and receiving, or between active and passive participation. These delicate balances cannot possibly | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| preserved and increased in exact proportion to your active desire to be constructive and to give up | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| you to distribute your energies between making both active and passive contributions to the relationship. It must | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| that the healthy state of passivity is also active. Only on the dualistic level does this appear | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| every creative process. A creative process without the active and passive forces harmonizing, complementing, and furthering one | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| principle, each of these seeming opposites containing both active and passive elements. Work coming forth from a | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| life's potentials. You need to have a vigorous, active, dynamic concept of what is possible in reality | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| Even when one pays allegiance only to the active ego self with its consciousness, even then the | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| water for long. But if you are too active -- moving too much, too tensely and anxiously | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| body. There is a wonderful balance between the active and passive forces of the person swimming, which | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| to the universal forces. Your ego must be active in a healthy and relaxed way. You must | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| experiences possible through the right attitude, readiness and active interests. If this is the case, eventually one's | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| two universal attitudes might also be called the active and the passive forces. I spoke about this | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| determination and instruction is the work of the active mind, while the waiting for the manifestation belongs | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| as well as others, misunderstanding and misusing the active principle. Whenever one principle is given such distorted | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| hand, and in inertia, laziness, and neglect of active growth on the other. Since you treat the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| yourself arises from the proper relationship between the active and passive principles. When you think back to | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| existed a combination of poised alertness -- of active involvement and participation and, at the same time | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the distortion of the twofold principle of the active and the passive. The initiating, active, masculine principle | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| of the active and the passive. The initiating, active, masculine principle distorts into the tight tension of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| let God do it, forever waiting, but their active, initiating powers and the spontaneous, indirect manifestations of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| you realize this transcendental fact. When you are active with the separated ego alone instead of living | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| own inner rhythm when you think of the active pulse beat as doing your best to overcome | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| it by building a case. Both imply too active a mind. Let your mind be passive and | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| setting the creative forces in motion. This is active doing. We may call this the masculine principle | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| she become frightened of his or her own active principle and therefore hold it back. This is | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| upon yourself, in your fear to let the active principle out and sow its negative seeds. Thus | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| assume that the man who is not sufficiently active and aggressive is so throughout his total personality | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| go means a deliberate choice of forgoing the active principle because the person recognizes that at a | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| which had been numbed to some extent are active again. My learning processes, too, are enhanced. I | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| You must learn to sense when to be active in formulating new imprints and when to step | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| The ego must learn to alternate between being active and passive, initiating and receptive. Gradually a harmonious | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| principle: To live fruitfully, one must be both active and passive in a harmonious interaction. When one | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| diminished on the surface but continues to be active below the surface. Its products manifest as tangible | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| four steps. Purification is also unthinkable without receiving active help. It is too difficult to do alone | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| you will make itself known that is neither active nor passive in the outer sense, but it | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| marriage of the voluntary and the involuntary, the active and the passive principles. If you see growth | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| victimized and accusatory. With this attitude, you become active and at the same time receptive, so that | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| be mutually exclusive. How can you be both active and passive in a harmonious way? The right | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| explained it here, must include both. You are active when you explore your inner levels of consciousness | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| explore your inner levels of consciousness; you are active when you commit yourself and struggle to recognize | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| struggle to recognize and overcome resistance; you are active when you question yourself further to let the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| previously unadmitted destructive side express itself; you are active when you have a dialogue and reeducate the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| the infantile, ignorant aspects of yourself; you are active when you use your ego-consciousness to enlist the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| the help of the spiritual consciousness; you are active when you create a new concept of life | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| other universes to establish a connection, you are active. But you must also learn to wait passively | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| fruition in a human being unless both the active and the passive movements are present. These are | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| to all those who have not yet taken active steps. Your being here signifies a conscious and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| progress, and its execution will also require your active engagement. The gift has built itself from your | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| of the person and requires his or her active contribution in the healing process. Healers who dispense | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| and the confrontation involved -- indicates a highly active state. The commitment to the divine power is | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| of passivity. It is one of the most active commitments a person can undertake. QUESTION: Why is | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| light again. The first step lies in your active participation as you walk the path that leads | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| some way, even if the personality refrains from active deeds. Holding back from loving and giving is | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| true spiritual state of being is a very active state, although it is a calm and relaxed | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| out of balance. Where the will should be active, it is often paralyzed and stagnant. Where it | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| receptive and passive, it is tight, forced, and active. Balance is re-established as purification of the self | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| act in the universe comes about because the active and receptive principles fuse and create something new | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| cosmic intelligence which creates new galaxies, both the active and receptive principles must always merge harmoniously. The | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| can vary according to which level plays the active part and which the receptive. I shall be | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| stage the conscious mind almost always assumes the active part by speaking the word, by concisely formulating | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| all creative acts, consists of both impressing by active principle, and receiving the impression by the receptive | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| they may be. Their conscious mind may be active enough to formulate the proper concepts, they may | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| that it is a constant interaction between the active and receptive principles, between the voluntary and involuntary | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| of meditation, in which your mind performs the active, impressing part and affects the receptive soul substance | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| levels of human consciousness assume varying roles of active and receptive interaction. Your conscious ego-mind can activate | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| about. The manifesting spiritual self must become the active principle, and the conscious mind must become receptive | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| in charge, has more power, and is more active and real than the part that is being | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| yourself and eliminate disturbing self-doubts. Probe with your active, deciding faculty to envisage alternatives other than the | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| inflexible mind that must be dealt with in active, focused exercises. The more you are willing to | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| to your disorder. Because your avoidance is still active, you may manage not to be aware of | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| these divergent aspects. Your ego, which is your active, determining outer consciousness, can choose to seek an | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| the most noble cause an entity can be active in, the purification and healing of souls. In | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| They permeate all of creation. They are the active and receptive principles. These two principles are aspects | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| is reachable by the much stronger and more active consciousness of the human mind, though to a | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| if it did not matter, that is as active and distinct a choice as when you allow | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| much of a choice as when you are active and take the initiative. These are all choices | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| of development. It is often quite the contrary. Active, virulent evil often indicates that the potential to | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| passive. In a sense, you will be more active, more truly independent than you were before. For | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| do perceive it. Those who may be very active in this work but are not yet within | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the exact opposite. Still others believe only in active expression and reject all receptive, passive attitudes, and | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| rest, in the brightness of daylight you become active. This is a symbolic manifestation of the inner | 228 BALANCE |
| together and gather your forces; when to be active and when to be receptive and quiet. You | 228 BALANCE |
| lacking when you sleep eight hours and are active sixteen hours. Yet in terms of inner balance | 228 BALANCE |
| the cohesion, the bridge, if you will. The active and receptive principles are just two of many | 228 BALANCE |
| us now stay with this example -- the active and receptive principles. The balance is not a | 228 BALANCE |
| meaningful way. I have mentioned before that the active principle must contain within itself the receptive, just | 228 BALANCE |
| just as the receptive state must contain the active. Otherwise there is imbalance. A person cannot truly | 228 BALANCE |
| there is imbalance. A person cannot truly be active unless that activity contains also the receptive state | 228 BALANCE |
| the still, harmonious state of being. Then the active movement becomes what I sometimes term effortless effort | 228 BALANCE |
| because human beings cannot perceive receptive quietude within active movement that they shy away from movement, from | 228 BALANCE |
| and conciliation with the receptive principle, then growing, active outward movement -- becoming -- would not be | 228 BALANCE |
| receptive principle does not contain within itself the active principle, it creates a stagnant deadening state. The | 228 BALANCE |
| it as alert, wakeful and alive as the active state is. If you think of the qualities | 228 BALANCE |
| you think of the qualities contained in the active and passive principles, you see the following -- | 228 BALANCE |
| oversimplify here for the purpose of illustration: The active principle is movement and action. The receptive principle | 228 BALANCE |
| principle is the state of being, quietude. The active state gives out. The receptive state takes in | 228 BALANCE |
| gives out. The receptive state takes in. The active state is a tensing of energies; the receptive | 228 BALANCE |
| though perhaps manifesting differently. The woman represents the active principle just as much as the man. And | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| but the inner forces must combine both the active and receptive principles, otherwise imbalance exists. No true | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| the feeling level, woman has to express the active principle every bit as much as man. The | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| within one embodiment. I suggest that you practice active meditation and visualization in which you trust change | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| way so that you can become more fully active as the carriers of this new, bright culture | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| It is highly volatile creative expression, it is active and aggressive in the best sense of the | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| It implies courage and strength. It is an active force that propels itself outward. On the universal | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| in which the receptive principle alternates with the active principle. Here is another idea for you: You | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| for you: You think in terms of the active principle always being the active principle and the | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| terms of the active principle always being the active principle and the receptive principle always being the | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| What is on one level of manifestation the active principle must then reverse itself, if it is | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| moment and in one phase the outgoing, the active principle, become in the next moment the receptive | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| ladder of learning to transcend frustration is the active, deliberate and renewed search for the meaning of | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| been resolved and when there is already an active purification process at work. You have therefore created | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| focus, commitment, devotion must be generated by your active mind and will. Your total goal in life | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| now how cowardice is just as evil as active perpetration of evil. Spiritual cowardice not only leads | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| of the best, of God, but to as active and potent evil as the more obvious aggressive | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| is more destructive and insidiously negative than outright, active maligning. Maligners expose their evil and thus take | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| much negative gratification from the maligning as the active one, without, however, risking any negative consequences, and | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| silent collusion with evil is more abrasive than active evil? Active evil alone could never have led | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| with evil is more abrasive than active evil? Active evil alone could never have led to the | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| interesting speculation, my dearest friends; namely, that the active principle in distortion, harmful and murderous as it | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| in this community find yourselves in a very active phase. You sometimes feel that this should be | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| you need to use all the drive and active movement in you, even if this means temporarily | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| means temporarily more activity than receptivity. In the active movement of your soul, you build and create | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| you give to God, you need to be active, to overcome inertia, to move and do and | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| inertia that wants to keep you from being active. The activity may be directed to many areas | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| You know very well how important your committed active effort is, how noble your struggle, as I | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| to do it all for you. You need active, positive aggression to never allow the dark forces | 254 SURRENDER |
| There is a finely calibrated balance between the active movement of the personality -- whether in action | 254 SURRENDER |
| It enables you to be more autonomous and active. Genuine positive activity and self-affirmation renders you sufficiently | 254 SURRENDER |
| to become receptive to it and become an active agent of this greater power. You have the | 254 SURRENDER |