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| it is absolutely necessary to make the inner contradictions conscious, even if resistance has to be overcome | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| and will no longer be torn by inner contradictions. In order to reach a negative decision at | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| is fighting because their various interpretations sound like contradictions. In reality this is not so. Even when | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| really is. This will shed light on the contradictions. The higher evolved an individual is, the more | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| that is human. Many things will appear as contradictions -- and yet they are not. In fact | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| In fact, I often speak about the apparent contradictions in psychological currents and how they lead to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you now. But there are many other seeming contradictions, in connection with soul trends, where such misunderstandings | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| downward curve, you encounter conflicts and problems and contradictions that you have not solved yet. They disquiet | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| see, but as you recognize the demands, the contradictions, the cause-and- effect sequences, the difference in motivation | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| be become conscious. Then you will see the contradictions, the arbitrariness of your emotions and how your | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| being, completely integrated, in harmony, without conflict, without contradictions. This is the meaning of one language. The | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| contradictory attitudes exist in you. Because of these contradictions, which can be symbolized as different languages, you | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I experience them as human beings in their contradictions, their blindness, their often conflicting, mixed motivations? Does | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| another level. All of you have found such contradictions in yourselves and in others. This is why | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| perceive the truth of God as Being without contradictions of the sort you asked in your question | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the irreligious person. The splits and divisions, the contradictions and either/ors are a product of separation, error | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| are split within themselves. When you find these contradictions and splits, it is easy to see why | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| Comparison of both often demonstrates your discrepancies and contradictions, as well as your immature expectations. The more | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| of such dormant, smoldering, festering confusions and apparent contradictions. Let us now discuss some of these apparent | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| Let us now discuss some of these apparent contradictions which prevent you from being in contact with | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| on a childish way of life create the contradictions. The moment you give up resisting, two apparent | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| The moment you give up resisting, two apparent contradictions unify into one whole truth: By shouldering self-responsibility | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the truth clears the fog; it unifies apparent contradictions and proves that there is nothing to fear | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| we come to one of the greatest apparent contradictions, which can be resolved only through knowingness. This | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| the limitation of the human language, appear as contradictions. For every divine law contains two complementing principles | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| being. When you pass over this threshold, all contradictions become a complementary whole, which you not only | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| to the other person, no longer appear as contradictions. In fact, you must then experience that the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| spiritual growth. People are often confused by apparent contradictions in spiritual teachings. We have discussed this a | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| the common denominator which brings together two apparent contradictions and thereby eliminates an either/or situation. Tonight's topic | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| right here and right now. These are apparent contradictions. Not seeing the absence of contradiction in these | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| may not only dispel the confusion about apparent contradictions in philosophical ideas about life, but, even more | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| unresolved problems, insecurity, guilts and doubts, uncertainties and contradictions. The issue itself may warrant justified anger, but | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| In order to perceive the unity behind such contradictions, you need to listen with your inner being | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| truths of life, it is full of apparent contradictions; at least as long as you find yourself | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| one of what are often many sets of contradictions and conflicting emotions, and even that you do | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| all the knots, ensnarlments, false beliefs, half-truths and contradictions comprise what actually exists in you. You must | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| intensely personal and universal. What appeared to be contradictions suddenly unify without a breach of logic. Fear | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| are. It is one of these subtle apparent contradictions that exist so frequently when dealing with the | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in some confusion and contradiction. Confusions and apparent contradictions come from the dualistic consciousness permeating the state | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| in being able to create. But these are contradictions only on the most superficial ego level where | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| spreading through your inner universe, these are not contradictions at all. For years I have tried to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| of unification, where dualities cease to exist and contradictions no longer contradict; where you experience two previous | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| inner life to fuse such opposites so that contradictions no longer exist and become conciliated. This must | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| what you create, look at the disorder and contradictions of your various levels of thinking and feeling | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| the inner unity that exists in all your contradictions. A tightrope of infringements diminishes the new truth | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| your own paths, all these systems and apparent contradictions must harmoniously blend in the human personality for | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| reality. In a deeper sense there are no contradictions at all. It is perfectly possible to rejoice | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Contradictory...............114 | |
| ultimate justice. My dear ones, this may appear contradictory to some of you. Nevertheless, it is not | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| Everybody says something different, much of it is contradictory; therefore none of them can be in truth | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| something different. What they see may sometimes appear contradictory, because the connection between the parts of the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| If the whole wheel were visible, the seemingly contradictory parts would be seen as belonging to a | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| a core of truth that underlies the seemingly contradictory positions. As far as masculine and feminine incarnations | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| not my whole being. But there are two contradictory forces in me, and I have to become | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| point when you can quietly realize these two contradictory currents in you: the one in which you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| meekness. Finding the right course between these apparently contradictory courses of action is not as difficult as | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| can receive inspiration for something that may be contradictory to your own stubborn convictions, unless it is | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| picture, because you are made up of many contradictory currents. Do not fear to face that one | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| very strongly something that is wrong, impossible, or contradictory to other currents within you, while at the | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| The human being is ambivalent; there are many contradictory currents in you. The harm of lack of | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| spiritual strivings. The human soul is full of contradictory currents in all respects. The sooner you understand | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| can, and in fact do, consist of two contradictory currents simultaneously. Whether this concerns the issue of | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| is that you encounter tendencies that are completely contradictory to the self you consciously know. Again, this | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| could you admit that you have several completely contradictory desires, that cancel each other out? Yet the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| just that: the fulfillment of two or more contradictory desires. The child in you wants an impossibility | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| to resist facing certain things within. The two contradictory desires can coexist; one searches for the truth | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| it. Various reasons may prevail. The most seemingly contradictory factors may all play a role simultaneously. Excessive | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| to forfeit the love it craves for. These contradictory currents, or apparently contradictory currents -- the desire | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it craves for. These contradictory currents, or apparently contradictory currents -- the desire for love and the | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a complete misunderstanding. I know this may sound contradictory and confusing to some of you. But those | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the immature unconscious is this illogical and this contradictory. You can now see what utter confusion exists | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| more complicated by the subtlety and elusiveness of contradictory emotions in the parents as well as in | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| are likely to overlook the urgency of your contradictory emotions as they manifest inwardly, not necessarily outwardly | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| emanating from you, with all their disturbances and contradictory feelings, tune into negative currents, which are just | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| one, for you have so many different and contradictory currents and these are splits. Purification means one-ness | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of a whole. This is in no way contradictory to the Eastern teachings. It is just a | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| never fully deciding for either, and simultaneously pursuing contradictory ones. It will now be clear to you | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| beauty. You will understand what may have seemed contradictory in your belief that you are healthily interdependent | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| humanity, in spite of its seeming so crassly contradictory to what people believed of, and wanted to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the intuition to function in spite of seemingly contradictory intellectual considerations, the person has a deep purity | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| fully seeing these fantastic expectations and their often contradictory imperatives will you relinquish them. The initial inner | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| self-dislike. Since this is painful, aside from being contradictory to the idealized self-image which recommends self-effacement as | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| to become acutely aware of all these often contradictory trends, and this will be painful. The pain | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| in a distorted way? ANSWER: Again, a very contradictory attitude exists. The person may believe that love | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| again that this does not necessarily mean that contradictory tendencies, such as the quest for love, are | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Such pseudo-solutions superimpose still other ones, along with contradictory underlying emotions. Let me give you an example | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| now the case with humanity, where so many contradictory aims and attitudes exist. After all, you who | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are on this path now know how many contradictory attitudes exist in you. Because of these contradictions | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the reason for them. Likewise, you ignore the contradictory aims, attitudes, and desires within yourself. You can | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of understanding, confusion, unawareness of cause and effect, contradictory aims, and wrong conclusions make up the inner | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is not cut from one piece. Very many contradictory emotions are possible. You may love a particular | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| There are so many factors, so many simultaneously contradictory aspects to unravel and to recognize. A moment's | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| be condemned by the world. It may be contradictory to any notion of perfection. Yet in your | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| a liberating effect and thus no longer be contradictory to love. The less developed you are, the | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| Does it not mean a variety of often contradictory aspects? Can a person be -- if you | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| well ordered. A reality, which is flexible and contradictory, for which there are no fixed rules, is | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the personality may adopt an attitude that is contradictory to another level. All of you have found | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the old sense becomes more and more meaningless, contradictory. His prayer is the action of self-awareness and | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| ANSWER: My dearest, this question is so very contradictory to everything I said tonight, and previously. It | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| absolutely unhampered by selfish motives, by ambiguous, confused, contradictory emotions, by uncertainty or fear, or the slightest | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| do it. Therefore, faith and hope are not contradictory, nor incompatible, nor just something remotely connected with | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| be evaluated. Once the full impact of the contradictory attitudes is on the surface, it will be | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| may all be quite accurate. If they seem contradictory, it is because words are too limited to | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| His own inner development, still hidden, and very contradictory to some facets of his being, prohibits an | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| least, in the present. This wish generates two contradictory soul movements: one strains forward, the other holds | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| of the emotions and attitudes responsible for the contradictory soul movements. If you strain forward you do | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| pull back into the past. Often these two contradictory movements happen simultaneously. In both alternatives, you strain | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| life in God will no longer be found contradictory to a life of personal fulfillment. The misconception | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| peace due to split aims, mutually exclusive drives, contradictory concepts. You now know that the human personality | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| and for unselfishness. These, and many other apparently contradictory needs and self-expressions, can harmoniously live side by | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| become aware of what may seem like two contradictory needs and to realize that they are not | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| it and find ways to compromise with the contradictory directions of your soul. The force driving you | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| little no-current and the yes-current predominates without a contradictory hidden undercurrent. To put it differently: not only | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| of a consciousness unbroken by untruthful concepts and contradictory currents. The no-current affects us in the opposite | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| these two concepts are not mutually exclusive and contradictory but interdependent, you will comprehend the vast difference | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| often the great spiritual truths, in particular, seem contradictory. If you formulate such confusions, you have already | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| human language that make the unitive principles appear contradictory. It is much more that your fearful withdrawal | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| -- products of your false assumptions and the contradictory attitudes you collect. It is your job on | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| loose mass of hazy thoughts and concepts, of contradictory emotions. It means impregnating the self with truth | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| about life and spiritual reality which seem completely contradictory. One says that the spiritually and emotionally mature | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| unifies you. The great spiritual laws always seem contradictory. Letting go of the self into the harmonious | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| they perceive contradiction and conflict around them, equally contradictory emotions arise in their own psyche. Children cannot | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| Numbness is also a protection against their own contradictory responses, impulses, and reactions. Under such circumstances, it | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| At first this may appear confusing, or even contradictory, but when you comprehend it more deeply, you | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| loss of control. All great spiritual truths seem contradictory on the surface. In order to perceive the | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| go. My words will sound obscure or even contradictory if you have never experienced this feeling. But | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| that these forces, these cruel impulses are so contradictory to the image people have of themselves and | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is always a complexity of interacting chain-reactions producing contradictory feelings and concepts, one overlapping the other, all | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| mentioned, it is hardly ever just one thing. Contradictory opinions and ideas exist simultaneously. One set of | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| opinions and ideas exist simultaneously. One set of contradictory ideas results in other sets of contradictory reactions | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| of contradictory ideas results in other sets of contradictory reactions, counter-reactions, defense measures, further false beliefs and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| entanglements and growingly painful beliefs. But the two contradictory original assumptions multiply the confusion, entanglements, misconceptions and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| from your vital life center. You flounder in contradictory alternatives -- confused about what is right or | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| suddenly. Only when all surface layers and all contradictory trends of consciousness have unified with the innermost | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| life situation, in its negative manifestations, reveals a contradictory unconscious desire. Life cannot be cheated, and whether | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| focus our attention on these vague reactions, the contradictory wishes, hidden fears, and negative desires will surface | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| always exist as well. Often a number of contradictory will currents short-circuit on the surface, manifesting as | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| genuine development must bring all the confused and contradictory desires, beliefs, and the inner knowing to the | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| receptivity and apparent motionlessness. Such receptivity is not contradictory to movement, but an intrinsic part of it | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| enough that your understanding of the destructive and contradictory attitudes contained in envy, jealousy, resentments, competitiveness, blame | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| are separate from others, that your interests are contradictory, that in order to protect your interests you | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| and distorted, or simply sound incomprehensible, confusing, and contradictory. Your three-dimensional terms can hardly contain the multidimensional | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| and deprivation become not only unnecessary but even contradictory to true spiritual unfoldment. The universe is abundant | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| But unless you have come to experience the contradictory levels within you where you do not wish | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| responsible for the creation. Even a weak, negative, contradictory psychic nuclear point works according to this principle | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| goes along with it rather than creating a contradictory force by setting up a countervailing attitude. The | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| that will carry you. These are not two contradictory attitudes. They are mutually interdependent. Use the positive | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| into true selflessness that is not at all contradictory to it. When people follow spiritual teachings which | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| venture. Some of these laws seem to be contradictory. Let me put it this way: If you | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| as the doorway to your divinity. This seems contradictory, but it is not. Both attitudes are necessary | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| make your mind neutral and empty. This seems contradictory from the point of view of the dualistic | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| are those who believe that group living is contradictory to individuality. And there are those who accuse | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you become aware of this double, and apparently contradictory, manifestation. When this happens, it is indeed a | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| is that when you get entangled in these contradictory currents, you immediately let go and flow together | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| of you find yourselves. Thus you create a contradictory movement or attitude. On the one hand you | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| they all contain truth and they are not contradictory to one another. As you increasingly find out | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| more responsibility. What I say here may sound contradictory, yet it is not. I must ask you | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| is also an aspect of nature that seems contradictory to divine love, an aspect that seems cruel | 254 SURRENDER |
| that you are helpless. Again it is not contradictory to say that all the power is with | 254 SURRENDER |
| hand because the limited mind's self-will is often contradictory to divine will and law. Insistently holding on | 254 SURRENDER |
| now undertaking. The personal aspect of salvation seems contradictory to the mind that is steeped in the | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| accomplish. These three categories may no longer seem contradictory or confusing to those of you who have | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |