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| the coming into existence of evil, darkness, and cruelty -- in short, the fall of the angels | 18 FREE WILL |
| that originally appeared as the result of the cruelty of others or fate. All of a sudden | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| see that there were always times when great cruelty existed and mass slaughter happened. After certain intervals | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| not forget, you all went through periods of cruelty, some ten incarnations ago, some even less. If | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| evil. It is not only all the manifest cruelty and wickedness in their extreme forms. It is | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the psychological level as hostility, overactivity, quarreling, destructiveness, cruelty, impatience, thoughtlessness. The principle of restriction in its | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| god-of-your-image, of life, or fate, or through the cruelty, the ignorance, and the selfishness of others. This | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| number of human beings in former times, the cruelty, crime and wickedness on this earth sphere would | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| up in passive, or eventually even in active, cruelty. Such a person might condone cruelty in an | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| in active, cruelty. Such a person might condone cruelty in an insidious and subtle way. Certain things | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| if they recall this era of destruction and cruelty. And a negative lesson could also be learned | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| different one from the approach of making further cruelty impossible, while healing criminals of their disease -- | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| right for you, to eliminate from this earth cruelty and injustice, suffering and pain. Such general complaints | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| will be the strict observation of avoiding unnecessary cruelty. This step cannot be skipped by forbidding meat-eating | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of rebellion with its false strength, defiance, and cruelty; of the unhealthy guilt and self-accusation in false | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| absolutely true that there is this current of cruelty, and no matter toward whom it is directed | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| frustration as the lack of love, or even cruelty. The general climate in which you grow up | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| see. Since he cannot yet separate power from cruelty, he begins to fear this God of his | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| blindness, laziness of thinking and feeling, selfishness, egocentricity, cruelty, vindictiveness, and so on. The first step is | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| will not be affected by the selfishness, or cruelty, or indifference you commit toward an unloved one | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| unable to cope with his hidden selfishness and cruelty due to repression, is unable to attain the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| stagnation and even masochism. It leads to the cruelty of not caring to better conditions that can | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| constructive and what is destructive. Crass injustice and cruelty could often parade as a righteous cause, while | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| long run it is more harmful, for active cruelty induces quicker counterreactions. Passive indifference, however, born out | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| Indifference may not be as actively evil as cruelty acted out, but it is just as harmful | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| The third stage of numbness is actively inflicted cruelty. This stage arises from fear of others who | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| fear. The borderline between passive numbness and active cruelty is often very thin and precarious, very much | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| are adequately equipped to cope with the world's cruelty, which so often gives rise to despair, doubt | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| gives rise to despair, doubt, and confusion. Active cruelty numbs the person who perpetrates it to an | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| between the active deeds of either indifference or cruelty, and emotional tendencies. The indifference or numbness may | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| clear that numbness in its extreme becomes active cruelty. The difference between these two is only in | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| of, and unable to cope with the existing cruelty in the world, and suffer most by the | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| have a tendency to feel overburdened by the cruelty existing in the world. Going back to my | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| numbness during childhood was a protective shield against cruelty from the outside, it does not prevent the | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| you would say, Here I am, fearing the cruelty from the outside, fearing the rage and the | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| my fear of this injustice, this insensitivity, indifference, cruelty and rage, I make myself as numb as | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| is often asked why destructiveness, illness, war and cruelty exist. The answers that have been given are | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| experience the pleasure principle only in fantasies of cruelty, you will understand that this is the actual | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| is the actual nucleus of war -- of cruelty as a whole. This should not make you | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| and misunderstood hurt that has created this condition. Cruelty without the pleasure principle could never have real | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| power. Lack of awareness of this combination of cruelty and pleasure by no means alleviates the effect | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| climate of humanity's emanation. If you have experienced cruelty, whether this act of cruelty was an actual | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| you have experienced cruelty, whether this act of cruelty was an actual fact or a creation of | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| your imagination, your pleasure principle is attached to cruelty and functions somewhat in connection with cruelty. Often | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| to cruelty and functions somewhat in connection with cruelty. Often the guilt and shame are so strong | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| events. The combination between the pleasure principle and cruelty can exist either actively or passively. That is | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| That is, pleasure is experienced either in inflicting cruelty or in enduring it -- or both. Attaching | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| where it functions most strongly in conjunction with cruelty, creates a holding back from love, limits it | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| when the child experiences not so much outright cruelty, but vague rejection or nonacceptance, the pleasure principle | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| actual relationships. The first, crass, instance of attaching cruelty to the pleasure principle or the life principle | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| of the desire for either inflicting or enduring cruelty may prohibit all spontaneity and make you withdraw | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| forces of love and circumstances of, for example, cruelty. For instance, in the case of children who | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| in some less -- there exist elements of cruelty. This cruelty is hard to face. But when | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| less -- there exist elements of cruelty. This cruelty is hard to face. But when you do | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| in truth with yourself. As long as the cruelty within yourself is not fully faced, as long | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| But as long as you still struggle against cruelty in the wrong, self-defeating way -- namely by | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| you fear most -- and that is usually cruelty. You cannot think of anything worse, nothing more | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| gauge to determine whether there is still unrecognized cruelty within is the amount of fear you have | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| of rejection and humiliation, of physical and mental cruelty -- the more must these exact same aspects | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| by any means. Let us now discuss why cruelty exists. After having acknowledged its existence, what then | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| the severest forms is that of cruel impulses. Cruelty will truly cease to exist in the depth | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| of feelings, with your adult understanding and ego-faculties. Cruelty can exist only as a result of a | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| ego. To put it in more practical terms, cruelty exists because reality is misinterpreted, which causes the | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| This level is not totally faced and examined. Cruelty is the greatest stumbling block to self-facing, to | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| of life, and the fear of your unrecognized cruelty. If you are free from cruelty, you cannot | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| your unrecognized cruelty. If you are free from cruelty, you cannot ever fear others. Point 4: Establish | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| order to connect your fears with your unacknowledged cruelty. Discover how the cruelty is a result of | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| fears with your unacknowledged cruelty. Discover how the cruelty is a result of misinterpretation. Question closely why | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| Some of you may be aware of the cruelty, even if only vaguely. You can proceed from | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| regarding this topic? QUESTION: I have found this cruelty in me in connection with revenge. I also | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| in connection with revenge. I also feel my cruelty when I withdraw and punish others with my | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| it does seem real, you seem to need cruelty. You have always assumed that it is real | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| hazy climate, you must hold on to the cruelty. The cruelty will be your precarious pleasure. The | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| you must hold on to the cruelty. The cruelty will be your precarious pleasure. The pleasure will | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| the way. QUESTION: I am extremely aware of cruelty and vulnerability in myself. My feelings are so | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| your ego and trying to numb it by cruelty. On the other hand, cruelty is also generated | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| numb it by cruelty. On the other hand, cruelty is also generated by your misinterpretation of reality | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| reject and humiliate you, you must toughen yourself. Cruelty is almost the only weapon with which to | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| is not so, you will not need the cruelty, you will be relaxed and light, because the | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| go of the pseudo- safety of hate and cruelty and change your personality into one of love | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| the decision to give up my destructiveness and cruelty and enlisted my divine self. I was going | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| Whether the letting go means giving up destructiveness, cruelty, evasion, or any other unproductive way of life | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| surface. For example, just because you fear your cruelty, your need to derive pleasure from hurting others | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| that covers up lack of integrity, destructiveness, and cruelty. This different kind of pretense is deeper, more | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| inevitable further result: fear, guilt, anger, hate, greed, cruelty, selfishness, destructiveness of self and others -- of | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| destructive forces of hate, hostility, resentment, anger, and cruelty that the individual fears may vary in every | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| stress the difference between an apparent freedom from cruelty, the wish to hurt, violence or vindictiveness, and | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so much sexualized. You have turned all this cruelty and anger against yourself. What is more sexual | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the former kind. One must see where selfishness, cruelty, self-centeredness, greed, dishonesty exist, if only in minute | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| can not shed the real selfishness, greed and cruelty. The moment you truly understand your freedom and | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| on this path the necessity of contacting hidden cruelty, brutality, sadism, vindictiveness, and malice. As you learn | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| are selfish; or you have a streak of cruelty; or you hate. If you pretend that your | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| another layer of falsehood. If you feel the cruelty and hate only in secret and act it | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| conscience exist. A temporary negative unity exists instead. Cruelty, brutality, selfishness -- the truly criminal nature -- | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| of those manifestations are -- whether it be cruelty, spite, arrogance, contempt, selfishness, indifference, greed, cheating, or | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of life. Denial of anger turns into hostility, cruelty, spite, self-hate, guilt, confusion between blame of others | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| evil than the evil traits themselves, including spite, cruelty, envy, hostility, and selfishness. How can pride, selfwill | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the most spiteful vindictiveness, the worst impulses of cruelty, if honestly and squarely admitted, neither acted out | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| flowing, life-giving energy. Hate will turn into love, cruelty into healthy aggression and self- assertion, stagnation into | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| to ward off the pain of other people's cruelty and hostility, the unjustified demands they make on | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| regard. The self-punishment for hatred and spite, for cruelty and greed, for selfishness and one- sided demands | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| If you deny it, it will turn into cruelty and hostility, which in turn, as you well | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| such as selfwill, pride, fear, greed, envy, malice, cruelty, spite, and selfishness. The majority of human beings | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| reactions: the false needs create evils such as cruelty, vindictiveness, and so on. The guilt and self-hate | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| process, accompanied by feelings of hate, fear, and cruelty: into negative will direction and intent. In that | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| air out your most negative feelings -- hate, cruelty, anger, and rage, and their byproducts of envy | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| you have dealt with and eliminated your own cruelty. As long as any cruelty exists in you | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| eliminated your own cruelty. As long as any cruelty exists in you, you will never be able | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| It is possible that you are free from cruelty and can speak up in a totally constructive | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| the fear originates in you. Where is the cruelty in you that makes you afraid of saying | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| sexuality. How does it reveal your selfishness, your cruelty, your lovelessness, your greed? Deal with this, my | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| that this very same devil, with all its cruelty, malice, dishonesty, pettiness, hate and fear is essentially | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| and states of consciousness in which ugliness, brutality, cruelty, numbness, limitation of mind -- including shrewdness, as | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| self from others. Selfishness, greed, ruthlessness, unconcern, and cruelty are manifestations of this turn of mind. Since | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| ruthless disregard for others to the point of cruelty and unreality -- the belief that a sheer | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| of minutes in the form of rage, violence, cruelty. Very soon, in this attitude of welcoming, positive | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| or all of the three principles of evil. Cruelty will be hidden under the guise of expressing | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| maligning and distortion will become the tools of cruelty and the intent to hurt. Disconnection from deeper | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| your reactions when you witness earthly events of cruelty whose perpetrators seem to remain unapprehended, or when | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| willfully inflicted on animals by the indifference and cruelty of humans. But that animals have to go | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| out-of-context fragments of life that seem to imply cruelty and meaninglessness? This question may occupy you over | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| harmony with divine law. Other manifestations of nature's cruelty fall into a different category. For example, one | 254 SURRENDER |
| that animals can never indulge in the useless cruelty and destructiveness which human beings are capable of | 254 SURRENDER |