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| about the difficulty of this path and the dangers of approaching it with the illusion that a | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| will be easier to overcome the pitfalls and dangers of the marital relationship and to repair damage | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the privilege of leading you will avoid these dangers; your outer and inner reactions will become one | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you first have to attain nearer goals. The dangers are manifold. For instance, you may be tempted | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| In a state of health and maturity, real dangers - - not only physical ones, but any | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| -- are warded off. But in distortion the dangers are imagined and unrealistic. When a human being | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| result, I will not be threatened by the dangers of a hostile world, which does not understand | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| order to spotlight the feelings without courting the dangers of self-judgment, more substantial growth has to take | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feel threatened and endangered. There certainly are realistic dangers, and the human system is equipped to deal | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| particular danger. In an average life, such actual dangers occur only every once in a while. The | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| your busy defense against an unreal danger. Actual dangers in which you need all your defensive equipment | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| system is constantly geared for defense against unreal dangers is often incapable of coping with real attack | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the unreal defense against an unreal danger. Such dangers are emotional hurt, rejection, frustration of your will | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| cannot be truth. When it comes to real dangers, the real danger is the truth of the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the moment, but when it comes to unreal dangers, the truth lies somewhere else. You do not | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| can only be found in truthful self-examination. Actual dangers are not only physical in nature; they also | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| But the seemingly valid rationalizations pose the real dangers: they require sincere effort and the cultivation of | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| predicaments: struggling and defending against false assumptions, nonexistent dangers. You have already made such discoveries and some | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| the numbness to protect yourself from the supposed dangers of life, you do not know this and | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| freedom that may, at first, feel fraught with dangers. You will feel exposed without it, only to | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| life in order to preserve itself from its dangers. But by doing so humanity has cut off | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| with all its suffering, appears preferable to the dangers imagined to be lurking in an open, flowing | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| the life manifestation will bring out, the greatest dangers and pitfalls, how much risk to take, how | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| not exist to the same degree. Then other dangers exist. But once someone's channel has been established | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| more development and freedom, the greater are the dangers of abuse and distortion. Freedom always contains more | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| You must be willing to risk the imaginary dangers of truly feeling with your heart, of feeling | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| who somehow, in their inner being, know the dangers of such surrender. The weaker ones will surrender | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
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| an answer. But you so often do not dare to take this step. You cover up what | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| to ask a question and they do not dare to speak up first. Then there is an | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| of human beings even if they do not dare make them conscious. Therein lie the seeds of | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| it behind a wall, so to speak. You dare not stand up for who you really are | 31 SHAME |
| do not know yourself. And how can you dare to judge and compare if you don't even | 31 SHAME |
| I was too much of a coward to dare to love and forget my own little ego | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to do so, and therefore one does not dare to look. This right middle way demands a | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| it. The guiltier you feel, the less you dare to look into the cause, and the stronger | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| desires for happiness are selfish, you do not dare to desire at all. In the process of | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| cost you pay in happiness and joy. You dare not wish for happiness simply because you fail | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| love all the more because you do not dare to show that which is real. This happens | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of what it is that you do not dare to want or to do. By freeing yourself | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| all the more frustrated because you do not dare to live it out. Thus, you force the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| law is for the child who cannot or dare not assume self-responsibility. The fear of the unknown | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| reactions be right? Will I make a mistake? Dare I make a mistake? In other words the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| on their part. There are parents who never dare to punish or exert a healthy authority. This | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| into your own soul. But since you don't dare to find the truth there, you adhere to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| taught lives in you. If you do not dare to go deeply enough into your real being | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| You crush not only destructive emotions which you dare not face and acknowledge within yourself so as | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to stand frustration, unable to relinquish, because you dare not face an unwelcome reality and cope with | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| cope with it, you cannot be spontaneous. You dare not consult your intuitive impressions which are so | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of finding out what it really is. You dare not allow yourself to like the other person | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| your pseudo- solutions and defense mechanisms. If you dare not experience these painful emotions -- perhaps because | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| to the fore and ask yourself pertinent questions. Dare to feel what you feel, regardless of right | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| fearful to love? Too withdrawn? Do you not dare reach out into the world and into relationships | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| lead a meaningful life; if you do not dare to do what is necessary to produce a | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| to relate to others what you do not dare to acknowledge to yourself? Thus you live in | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| unfeeling, undemonstrative, or even tough, you do not dare to let yourself feel your natural feelings, for | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| be true to your real self, when you dare to love a person the superior world decrees | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| forces cannot flow organically because people do not dare to love, to let these inner forces free | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| whose inherent need to display love does not dare go any further than loving inanimate objects. That | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| felt similarly toward a parent, but did not dare to acknowledge it. The moment you allow yourself | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| at confused, disturbed, and disharmonious feelings, you must dare to let out the irrational and have the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| in clear-cut terms what you previously did not dare to acknowledge because it was uncomfortable or beneath | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| spiritual potentials. Its growth will enable you to dare take personal risks. You will no longer have | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| one form of fulfillment or another. You may dare to express fulfillment in health and in a | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| yourself. Fearing your darker side, you do not dare to look at it and hold on too | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| are afraid to try. You may listen, but dare not do what is necessary to move out | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| what even your nearest and dearest know but dare not tell you because they rightly feel you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| stagnant, obsolete ideas that remain unquestioned. If you dare not question your own taboos, you cannot widen | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| or fulfillment takes away someone else's, so you dare not wish for your own, in the fear | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| I will be lost, so I do not dare to do it. ANSWER: You see, this is | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| dangling as a theory I do not ever dare explore. In other words, commit yourself honestly to | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| are constantly in negativity because they do not dare to find out, once and for all, Is | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| that correct? ANSWER: Indeed. Where you do not dare to make your own decisions, where you lean | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| genuinely good and loving within you. But you dare not acknowledge the opposite of this seeming goodness | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| are afflicted areas which the soul does not dare to face. The existing misconceptions and confusions, as | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| right to feel anger, since you do not dare to love. If you continue to struggle and | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| grasped. Convinced that fulfillment is impossible, you cannot dare to desire. When you do not desire freely | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| of this overemotionalism. When the personality does not dare to invest natural, spontaneous feelings in certain areas | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| of this can be established only when you dare question your reactions honestly and precisely. Even though | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| joy happens to the exact degree that you dare take a look at the temporary truth of | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| experience life according to them. You do not dare to be unselfish; you cannot wholly want to | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| is against you, so that you do not dare to love. Put down the very specific ideas | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the awareness of this pain. You do not dare risk it because you assume that the ultimate | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| lifeless shell, held together by rigid guards you dare not ever relinquish. You get into a vicious | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| confusing, or conflicting; it is enlivening. As you dare to accept your feeling, whatever it may be | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| ways, the result is destruction. A man cannot dare to be fully a man and activate the | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| can truly eliminate what is undesirable. When you dare experience inwardly what comes to you, it will | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| punishing the world for this painful frustration. You dare not turn to the wondrous magnificence of your | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| away with my one-sided demands. And if you dare to react to this I will punish you | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| when you have that specific understanding will you dare to revive the energy charge that lives constantly | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| your spiritual and material being. You will then dare to allow the charge to flow. You have | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| says something so desirable that you do not dare believe it, it may still be true. You | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| that only being values can have. If you dare not know what you really desire and long | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Find within you the voice that says, I dare not believe in the good. It may not | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| of you has brought results that you still dare not believe. Much more fulfillment, happiness, pleasure and | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| your mask and lower self that you never dare expose your deficits and the inner bankruptcy that | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| make this understood by those who do not dare as yet to be real. You need to | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| you sufficiently strong and resilient so you can dare to let go of self, to give over | 254 SURRENDER |