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| matter and who is supposed to be more dangerous than Lucifer. Is this true? ANSWER: Here, too | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| say that this spirit of matter is more dangerous for humans than the Luciferic spirits are right | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| whom you do not know is always more dangerous than the one of whose existence and nature | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| in a certain way might prove to be dangerous for you, yet as long as this power | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| the intention of continuing the use of this dangerous power, but you feel you must try it | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| any communication with the beyond is Luciferic and dangerous and even claim that it is the only | 21 THE FALL |
| the life of a person -- or even dangerous. But if it is undertaken in the proper | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of its reality, and this may lead to dangerous misunderstandings. I realize that my description will not | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| thing, but it can also be a very dangerous thing, as it is true with so many | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| But lying to oneself is often infinitely more dangerous and harmful than lying to others. Why is | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| than lying to others. Why is it more dangerous? Because when you lie to others, at least | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is a harmful feeling -- and also a dangerous one. Dangerous because there is so much pride | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| harmful feeling -- and also a dangerous one. Dangerous because there is so much pride contained in | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| or that alternative would be bad or even dangerous and why the decisions made by a trained | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| are merely words just now -- perhaps even dangerous words for some of you. You should not | 36 PRAYER |
| come to the conclusion that taking baths is dangerous. The child will never take another bath if | 38 IMAGES |
| are only half right, and that is always dangerous. The unpleasantness you are experiencing is only a | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| a while, in the wisdom that this is dangerous material unless self-awareness is present to a marked | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the only way, everything else may even prove dangerous. Goodwill alone is not enough protection. Ignorance of | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| developed if psychic powers are not to prove dangerous. I am sorry that we could not get | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| strenuously object to in someone else. That is dangerous too, my dear ones, especially because this tendency | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| of focus in a way that can become dangerous. Like the other two types, such persons may | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| was exactly what had seemed so risky and dangerous that they decided to join the enemy camp | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| That is not the point. When he becomes dangerous to the welfare of others, he has to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| never be conclusive. In fact, it could be dangerous. On the outer level, rules are made that | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| powerful weapon of evil. Complete untruth is not dangerous. But when something that may be true in | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| be made here either. To generalize is always dangerous. Of course, one should also keep in mind | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| only the broad outlines, the many possibilities. How dangerous it is to say, homosexuality comes from this | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| is pointed out that their choice may be dangerous. It is shown to them how and why | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sinfulness of sex because the raw and often dangerous and quite destructive sex force manifested in the | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| compulsion or whatever it may be. It is dangerous to just call it by some name and | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| into pleasure. In fact, this would be a dangerous expectation, since it approaches so very much the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the mass image that love is weakening and dangerous. Such an unconscious concept will affect marriage more | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| misconception I mentioned before, namely, that emotions are dangerous and if one cannot avoid them, one must | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| statement of this sort. That could be very dangerous and misleading. It can only be found by | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| knowledge on a superficial level. This can be dangerous in two ways: first, the person who believes | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| if only half understood and digested, can be dangerous and cause damage to the individual, as well | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| it is a half-truth and that is always dangerous. The unpleasant things you are experiencing are but | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| fact, the more direct the explanation, the more dangerous it is for those whose understanding has not | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| truth leads to half-truth which is the most dangerous of all. Much of this has happened and | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| been presented directly. Truth can be a very dangerous weapon, my friends. Even the truth that I | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| over others that may be all the more dangerous in that it would be partly true. Without | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| until a person arrives there it would be dangerous to try to talk one into it. Too | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| discussed recently. I think it would be very dangerous to assume that one person can learn through | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| another in this particular sense. It would be dangerous because it would make for a smugness in | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| itself could be constructive is thought to be dangerous and is therefore not attempted. The perversion of | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| as possible. There is in this course a dangerous self-deception; the lack of awareness of what you | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| about. But I might say it is always dangerous to take on a distant goal when you | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| spiritual, intellectual, or mental pleasure is not a dangerous pursuit. It does not involve you emotionally and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| sensual pleasure, on the other hand, seems extremely dangerous and is therefore more or less eliminated. Needless | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| serve the purpose of coping with a hostile, dangerous world, but also cover up the helplessness of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for either? ANSWER: Generalizations, my friends, are very dangerous. Anything is a symptom of something. But beware | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| attitude, be closer to truth. Apart from being dangerous to draw such comparisons, the question is not | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| because you consider the growing transitional period so dangerous that you proceed to stop growth altogether. You | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| means that the emotions as such are not dangerous, but it is our disappointment in ourselves that | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| in ourselves that makes them so powerful or dangerous? ANSWER: Yes, that is right. But they need | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| that is right. But they need not be dangerous, if you do not want them to be | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| is true. But sublimation is very often a dangerous process because it is misunderstood, misused, and leads | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| Here you have a typical example of how dangerous and fallacious it is to follow rules blindly | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Hence you will not be led into the dangerous illusion of relinquishing something that could be yours | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| question has come up. One of the most dangerous things in dream interpretation is generalization. Beware of | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| launch a counterattack, or, if this is hopelessly dangerous and futile, to run away and protect yourself | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| null. Frustrations may be undesirable, but not necessarily dangerous. Yet a defense mechanism, by its very nature | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| while, on the other hand, I emphasize how dangerous perfectionism, self-condemnation, moralizing, and false guilt feelings are | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| try to label it. Labeling is always a dangerous procedure. With it you somehow close a door | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| of the easy rationalizations, for they are most dangerous. Preposterous rationalizations -- which exist even in the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| love. Yet this seems such an impossible and dangerous undertaking for many that they pretend that life | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| where it will lead, when one suspects something dangerous in it, such as a serious disease and | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| to love. Loving seems such a risk, so dangerous, so threatening, so irrevocable. Nothing could be further | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| pursue negative, destructive aims -- free self-expression is dangerous, contact with others is dangerous, and giving one's | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| free self-expression is dangerous, contact with others is dangerous, and giving one's self up to the bliss | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| will demand from you what you believe is dangerous to give. When a person is still in | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| center is no longer vulnerable in a negative, dangerous or debilitating way, but in a positive, wonderful | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| go is then an escape which may become dangerous. To properly let go a healthy, balanced ego | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| so often inadvertently grab for false and even dangerous means just to be able to experience the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| if you were giving yourself up to something dangerous. The other alternative is that you hold on | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| out of the dualistic fear that nonfulfillment is dangerous. And this fundamental error barricades the door to | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| hostile and depriving, then love would indeed be dangerous. If it is true, however, that life is | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| universe. Therefore the individual believes life to be dangerous, hostile, a force against which one needs to | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| one believes that one's feelings are unacceptable or dangerous; the illusion that ignores a particular unhappiness; the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| results from fearing success. Success seems as vaguely dangerous as any other kind of happiness. Fear of | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| very existence. The moving stream of life seems dangerous, not only as far as your safety is | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the universal life principle. They create the apparently dangerous and unbridgeable chasm between the ego and the | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| why. You ignore that these forces are only dangerous or negative because they work according to your | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| be carried by it seems risky -- even dangerous. In this particular phase, your vague or perhaps | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| utterly truthful way, by self-revelation and self-confrontation. Nothing dangerous can ever happen, provided all illusions about the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| away from the self and truly becomes as dangerous as the wrong kind of discipline. Both distortions | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| afflictions. Fleeing the experience that seems painful, undesirable, dangerous, is fleeing from yourself, just as fighting it | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| constantly watchful with their will and mind, something dangerous might happen? This dangerous something would manifest from | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| will and mind, something dangerous might happen? This dangerous something would manifest from the spontaneous depth of | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| made to understand that they are wrong and dangerous. They are feared because they require an unguardedness | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| is undertaken, it proves not as difficult or dangerous as first anticipated. In fact, the relief and | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| both extremes are always equally wrong, damaging, and dangerous. People who have throughout a lifetime -- nay | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the pleasures of this union, are bad and dangerous comes to the surface more directly. This is | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| that the kind of experiences I mentioned are dangerous because then ego control is abandoned, the self | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a way that actually produces a painful and dangerous state. I suggest that, as you begin to | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| Activating the realm of feelings seems entirely too dangerous, baring the most primal, selfish, destructive feelings, which | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| and is accused of being unreliable and even dangerous. For those who are becoming more alive and | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| The destructiveness that still exists is no longer dangerous because it is now sufficiently conscious. The person | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| her inherent powers, surrender must be debilitating and dangerous. Since men and women express both the masculine | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| most intense bliss imaginable. What makes happiness apparently dangerous or undesirable? To the extent you reject yourself | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| mechanical means, such an attempt would even be dangerous. It is perfectly safe, however, to open up | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| vague thinking and feeling processes. Frustration is not dangerous or disastrous. Heed and recognize this, my friends | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| result of such misconceptions, all forward movement appears dangerous. The stagnating, restricting, limiting life in which one | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| were loved first, and that it is dreadfully dangerous to love without the reassurance that their love | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| its specific detail. This alone will prevent a dangerous indirect manifestation of which the person's consciousness is | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| outwardly, on others, which is always the most dangerous temptation. Or, for that matter, to project them | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| all forms of denial and are therefore more dangerous than the evils they deny. My friends on | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| field -- this bliss is unbearable and appears dangerous for those who hate themselves. When you contract | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| will soon see that this is far from dangerous. Being open does not make you more helpless | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| If people convince themselves that it is indeed dangerous to feel their feelings, this conviction may bring | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the belief that sadness is unbearable and even dangerous, and thus you justify your refusal to feel | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| These powers remain inaccessible or may even be dangerous if the human being is not purified to | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| into its own streamings. The unbearable, hard and dangerous experience of pain is due to the false | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| up this part of the personality appears hazardous, dangerous, and annihilating. The question then is how to | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| false transcendence. But such ego transcendence is highly dangerous and is just a variation of insanity. For | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| longer bear itself. In all these false and dangerous attempts, the entity always seeks to avoid effort | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| begin to ponder, Maybe it is not so dangerous, after all. Maybe I am not all alone | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| able to read others' minds would amount to dangerous magic if it came from an individual's psychic | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| backgrounds and with early influences. Nothing is as dangerous as using a powerful spiritual energy in a | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| destructiveness and egocentricity. The ego makes power a dangerous weapon, as you all well know. You experience | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| why knowledge of your power to create is dangerous as long as you have not purified the | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| attitudes of separateness. Otherwise, this knowledge would be dangerous for you and for others. But totally committing | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| not overtly expressed against anyone -- becomes so dangerous that it may sooner or later lead to | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| separative, loveless, judgmental spirit, the truth becomes a dangerous half- truth. It has to be temporarily left | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| that the worst in you becomes puny and dangerous. By exposing it, you make it possible to | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| all of you. You must beware of this dangerous distortion. There is a direct correlation between this | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| her anger, rejection and retaliation may be less dangerous to you. Or you are so secure in | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| self-perpetuating, involuntary pattern that seems to make life dangerous, alien, something to be defended against. In this | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| consistently say, I will not love, love is dangerous, it will hurt me. It is another word | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| not yet exist. This abuse and misuse, this dangerous escape from the necessary developmental steps, necessitated a | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| All such trickery of the mind is very dangerous. The danger lies in the misuse of the | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| forces seems to be the most threatening and dangerous experience of all. These powers are by no | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| order to avoid a disharmonious condition and a dangerous split. Focused emptiness brings you eventually to the | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| paying the price for them. This illusion is dangerous, all the more so because it is so | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |