| relates no longer according to a genuine, spontaneous, creative experience, but to a projection of himself. The | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| work and you will become forever stronger, more creative, and more harmonious with yourself and with your | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| what we seek to attain -- independent understanding, creative thinking. Therefore occasionally we need to redefine a | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| impulses you also hide some of your most creative and inherently constructive impulses -- out of mere | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| exclusion of all other interests; (2) repression of creative and productive aspects and trends; (3) repression of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| state, but are destined by nature to become creative and constructive if given a chance to grow | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| superimposed conscience hides also the most constructive and creative life-force and the impulses that would free the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| erotic instinct which in its nature is entirely creative and unitive if it be allowed to grow | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| emphasis on its sinfulness so often causes this creative instinct to remain self-centered, in hiding and, if | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| to grow out of separateness. By thwarting this creative instinct, not only is emotional fulfillment hindered and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| same time, she also feels that all her creative, active trends are considered unfeminine by the world | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| They manifest indirectly through a general paralysis of creative functions, of the ability to have rewarding and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| life activity, no matter how useful, productive, or creative in itself, seems to hinder the unfoldment of | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| full personality, one activity will enhance the other. Creative endeavor never suffers by the full experience of | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| you the most enlightening guidance, wisdom, understanding and creative outlet. Your inner conscience conveys the truth without | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| and mental activity; the need for sexual and creative expression; the needs for self-assertion and for flexible | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| take some illustrative examples. An overconcern with one's creative abilities hardly leaves room for other needs to | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| oneself, or of one's need to develop a creative talent. An unbalanced, one-sided need for spirituality and | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| readily recognized, there are others: the need for creative accomplishment, the need for ego-gratification and self-esteem, the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| fears and misconceptions that divide you, the constructive, creative, productive elements you never knew existed will be | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| yourself. Someone who has experienced some previously unmanifested creative, constructive soul material may not be further advanced | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| unconscious must constantly furnish you with regenerative strength, creative energy, resourcefulness, harmony. But this help can come | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| is the expression of the supreme intelligence and creative universal force. It is the life force, whose | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the world around you, your own most vital, creative forces; or you feel lost and endangered. Thus | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless every | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| creator of your own life, thereby continuing the creative process of the universe. There is no limit | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| powers that are constantly at work in any creative process. How do they interact with the self | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| powers engaged? This equilibrium is essential for the creative process, whether this means the creation of a | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| in this respect. They sense that without these creative powers nothing of value can come into existence | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| must make a choice between either disregarding these creative powers and trusting the outer mind and will | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| The balance between the self-directing mind and the creative universal powers is upset the moment the choice | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the mutual interplay between the self and the creative powers is the wholehearted wanting of happiness, that | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| With such a commitment you automatically set the creative powers in motion. This must produce results, which | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| results, which then justify entrusting yourself to this creative process. You then trust your ability to fulfill | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| automatically, allowing one's unconscious attitude to affect the creative life force, or one can deliberately articulate the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| articulate the direction in which one wants the creative force to work. The self-directing mind sets the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| beyond your scope and resourcefulness must complete the creative process. Compare yourself with a gardener who must | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| The gardener thus fulfills his job, calling the creative process into existence, making it possible for it | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| about the seed developing into the plant. A creative process is at work that requires his cooperation | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| strengthen your confidence in the principle of the creative process. The same principle prevails in the healing | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| forces take their course. When you regard any creative process on the physical, mental, or spiritual level | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| The mutual interaction between the self and the creative forces establishes a perfect balance between the activity | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| within you and around you. You set the creative process in motion in a marvelous way when | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the potential to be realized and for the creative powers to enter into you as you remove | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| and reason to trust your innermost self. The creative forces, the positive elements which you could not | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| immediate purpose of this Pathwork, of self-realization, of creative living. Honest testing means an attitude of I | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| are in truth, you are joyful. The most creative and constructive contributions to life come from your | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| is the key to fulfillment, to security, to creative growth. And yet love cannot be commanded, nor | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| flow? Would they usually be expressed by a creative force or a creative realization? Would this expression | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| be expressed by a creative force or a creative realization? Would this expression usually be expanding from | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| you stand guard over the most spontaneous and creative forces within yourself. You will see why you | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| that knows no conflict and no limitation. The creative power at work in any life process is | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| expand, to be in harmony, in the dynamic, creative life process in which you give and receive | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| as well as to the most constructive and creative elements in you. The manifestations of both at | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| offer many possibilities for desirable solutions and for creative growth. You cannot emerge from any difficulty if | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| you can neither function properly where life requires creative responses, nor can you contact another person's innermost | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| malleable live center in which the most powerful, creative and intelligent forces are contained. For its own | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| bring forth in you all that is healthy, creative, constructive and real. You will find it immediately | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| in a personality. The direction of the universal creative forces is toward light, life, growth, unfoldment, affirmation | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| exclusively in the full reality of the cosmic creative principle. It is exceedingly important, my friends, to | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| union between the sexes. It exists in any creative state in which the ego is not very | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| ego faculties with their too tight control. All creative manifestations are the direct work of an inner | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| in your desire to reach unlimited good and creative power within yourself, find a key not only | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| unfoldment, self-expression, and fulfillment, as well as the creative powers within you. This thought could be a | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| principle of active-passive balance must reign in every creative process. A creative process without the active and | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| balance must reign in every creative process. A creative process without the active and passive forces harmonizing | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| neutral: life itself consists of a highly potent, creative, and impressionable substance that is exactly as malleable | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| infinitely greater, wider, deeper and fuller, limitless in creative experience and joy, can embrace the limitless vistas | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| Greetings, my dearest friends. May the blessings of creative intelligence, existing all around and within you, strengthen | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| you live. This pull is part of the creative principle. Since every individual consciousness is also part | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| individual consciousness is also part of the same creative principle, is made of the same substance in | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the life force and comes from opposing the creative principle. Life, pleasure, contact and oneness with others | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| deep pull of nature, of evolution, of the creative principle, is understood. Although the intellectual understanding is | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| to dissolve this conflict. The conflict congests the creative force, which is compatible with you and your | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| you finally allow yourself to harmonize with the creative principle. Even when the opposition is great, the | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| when you consider the possibility that the entire creative process is trustworthy, you will develop the courage | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| and honesty to transcend the blocks that deform creative energy and divine substance and reconvert them into | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| topic. When you block the stream of the creative principle, which brings you into the pleasure supreme | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| responsible for your self-distrust, hence distrust of the creative powers. If these areas are observed, you have | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| is the original consciousness. This original consciousness, or creative life principle, takes various forms. When in the | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| a genuine desire for constructive participation in the creative process of life, frees the self. This is | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| solving one's personal problems or in cultivating one's creative talents. Or it may manifest as a new | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| whose ego is still in conflict with the creative life principle, misinterpretations do occur. They must alienate | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| areas of experience and branching into new territories. Creative life is no different. Thus it finds forever | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| individuals, you will find that you and the creative life principle are one. You will then find | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| not surrendered when the involuntary processes of the creative life principle are allowed to take over and | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| in life is a result of the involuntary creative process? Nothing that is really worthwhile, meaningful and | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| humanity bent on destroying, dominating, denying and manipulating creative life -- that is, the involuntary processes -- | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| much less adequate, much less wise, resourceful or creative. They are but separated particles of the greater | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| depending on how much the ego controls the creative life within, it creates sickness or -- if | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the rigid vigilance which rules out all inner creative life and use the ego faculties in another | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| can be molded with it. It is the creative force itself. But it is neutral in the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to do with their ideas. They ignore the creative power in themselves and the fact that it | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| have instituted, through the erroneous assumptions influencing the creative life energy, involuntary processes that are destructive. Since | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| convince yourself of the benign nature of the creative forces within you. Productive, creative involuntary processes cannot | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| nature of the creative forces within you. Productive, creative involuntary processes cannot become operative as long as | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| can never prove the reliability of the involuntary creative processes contained in every human soul. To get | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| involuntary processes of the emotional life, of the creative functions within, of the direction one's life is | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| fact that feelings, intuition, spontaneous thoughts and inspiration, creative processes, undergo their law of growth as does | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| you still hold back and distrust the flowing, creative life processes within, you may come up with | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| due to ignoring the self-regulating nature of the creative life processes. Recognition of this must help you | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| integration of the ego functions with the highly creative potentials that are still dormant and involuntary -- | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the self, discipline becomes a rigid constriction of creative processes. The personality becomes stiff, unspontaneous, empty of | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of the real self is always a profoundly creative process, whether it surfaces as intuitive knowing or | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| out. And there is the possibility that something creative, constructive, expanding, and pleasurable would come out. It | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| Something new begins to happen from within. The creative powers begin to function. Thus, you will no | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the mind and the will, never allowing the creative processes to manifest. Therefore they frustrate their tremendous | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| their tremendous need to be part of the creative process. They frustrate themselves by withholding from themselves | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| them to give, to become part of the creative process again. In other words, they disconnect themselves | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| other words, they disconnect themselves from the cosmic, creative flow of giving and receiving, of the constant | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| if you can meditate and request from your creative innermost being -- the superior intelligence that dwells | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| side resides a power which is, in itself, creative. Once you have the courage to experience the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of pleasure and delight, the degrees of more creative unfoldment, are infinite. Be blessed, my dear friends | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| miss out on life itself. You miss the creative process of living by fearing this process. I | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| a concept of the real self, of the creative substance that enlivens every human being, forget in | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| ninety-five percent of your daily lives that this creative being lives and moves in you and you | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| to living. Nor can it produce profound and creative wisdom. The ego can only memorize, learn, collect | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| ego can only memorize, learn, collect other people's creative knowledge, repeat, and copy. It is equipped to | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| and to know deeply, which is to be creative. When I say creative, I do not merely | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| which is to be creative. When I say creative, I do not merely mean artistically creative. Every | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| say creative, I do not merely mean artistically creative. Every simple act of living can be creative | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| creative. Every simple act of living can be creative, provided you are activated by the real self | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| stuck in it: unfoldment and pleasure, delight and creative living, fulfillment and happiness, can exist only when | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| identified with the real self, with the eternal, creative substance of your being. And here is what | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| life. Whatever was truly pleasurable, inspired, effortless, fearless, creative, and deeply joyful was precisely due to this | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| fulfillment, happiness and unfoldment, one's feelings and the creative process itself. Second, it is self-evident that feelings | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| pseudo-wisdom. For feelings are an expression of the creative process itself. Anyone knows that this process cannot | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| discouraged, just as feelings can. Feelings and the creative process are inner movements, which I also term | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| are of self-surrender, to your feelings, to the creative process, to the unknown qualities of life itself | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| it is too frightened to surrender to the creative process. It is therefore of primary importance to | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the laws and power of your own innermost creative being. So discover the areas where you cheat | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| fights against it, one fights against one's own creative output and is thus at war with oneself | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| a masterpiece, an accomplishment of any other admitted creative act. The only difference is that the one | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| having faced up to your feelings. The magnificent creative process, constantly at work within yourself, often reveals | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| negative manifestation. Even when you believe in the creative powers, in their unlimited possibilities, you still imagine | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |