| Daylight....................6 | |
| they have to be brought out into the daylight. This is the difference between false guilt and | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| soul, even before it is brought out into daylight. Your superimposed hope masks an inner hopelessness that | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| you until they are brought out into the daylight of consciousness. Then the struggle continues in an | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| hazy emotional impressions and question them in the daylight of consciousness. Examine the faraway fantasy when, apparently | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| everyone's path to bring them into the clear daylight of consciousness. For as long as the personality | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of night you rest, in the brightness of daylight you become active. This is a symbolic manifestation | 228 BALANCE |
| Dead........................57 | |
| moment the cycle is interrupted, it is also dead. Let us suppose that a particular wish of | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| Thus they belong to the land of the dead. This is spiritual death. But in no way | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| the spirit is alive. When you see a dead body you often say, Life has gone out | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| is the sphere where the spirits of the dead children live to be trained and educated. This | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| relationship can never stagnate and degenerate into a dead end. For you who are on this path | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and they therefore lose their validity. They become dead, rigid, and meaningless. No truth is exempt from | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| but an illusion. An inanimate object you call dead is only so temporarily. All life, in whatever | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| more alive in a negative situation and more dead in a quiet one. Your reactions will have | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| level, rules are made that become rigid and dead. And you cannot make one rule. There are | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| exist in everything, from what is apparently a dead object to what is obviously a live organism | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| life and life is creation. Only what is dead does not create. Life can only create life | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this expression as well. Both are rather static, dead, and an imitation of life, depicting pseudo-reality. It | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| treatments and it seemed that they were actually dead for a few minutes or seconds. Is it | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| own evaluations, they want to adhere to a dead ruling. Then they feel good about doing the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more. They could bring to life what lies dead and static. This factor is an essential part | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| figures to revise your image. They may be dead, and even if they are still living, and | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| shell breaks down and you are no longer dead inside. But the first reaction will not be | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| As the solution to withdraw makes you feel dead inside and robs you of the meaningfulness of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| in thinking for oneself. Thus it becomes something dead. The living spirit has gone out of it | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| meaning behind the word gets lost; it becomes dead. The moment it becomes a label, you repeat | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| power. It will change what is dull and dead into a dynamic lifestream. It will change what | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| an unconscious level being wrong truly means being dead, for being wrong means being denied by the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| and the physical body. But it is still dead. I have not been able to activate it | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| layer of fear and resignation. The latter is dead, the former is vibrantly alive. Intensity and overindentation | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| these forces cannot manifest, numb themselves. They become dead. The prevalent manifestation in this world, today no | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| it. Even admitting to yourself, I feel half dead, I could feel more than I do, therefore | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| Fearing yourself and not knowing it makes you dead, makes you miss out on life. It makes | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| direct result of wanting to be unfeeling, hence dead, hence nonmoving. When the life center is deadened | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| inner fighting against the self. One side is dead, the other is alive. The life process wants | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| that area of yourself. The side that is dead misses out, cannot experience, and the life side | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| to live. In fact, the desire to be dead is far from healthy. It stems from morbid | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| Think about this, my friends. Even an apparently dead object is not dead; it contains life, movement | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| friends. Even an apparently dead object is not dead; it contains life, movement, and utter change. Think | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| long-lasting relationships are almost invariably more or less dead in feelings. Difficulties that arise in a relationship | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| feelings will replace those which were negative or dead. Rushing and pressuring the resisting part is as | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| is called neurosis. Since the deadened consciousness is dead -- which may sound like a redundant statement | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| in you that never dies. Usually you are dead to it because your busy outer mind is | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| but if your capacity for inner experience is dead, all outer experiences will add little, if anything | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| without awareness of their anxiety, but they feel dead, numb, listless, and paralyzed. This may be a | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| strength. When the movement is stopped, you feel dead. When the movement is hurtful, raw, edgy or | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| be a thought -- even the most mechanical, dead, sterile, cut-off thought -- that does not also | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| I repeat, abstraction in the sense of mechanical, dead, alienated, superficial, unfeeling or defensive thinking. How can | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this cannot happen by itself, cannot be a dead, disconnected process. The apparent disconnection of inanimate matter | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| potent energy, the consciousness contained within the outwardly dead material. What does such consciousness say when it | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that finally becomes a crust, hardened and apparently dead. This is what matter is composed of. The | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| plan of evolution. Even the deadest of all dead matter is not really dead. Spiritual beings who | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| deadest of all dead matter is not really dead. Spiritual beings who are in greater possession of | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Thus there could be no cell in a dead body that is not an expression of the | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| you think slipping through the gate means being dead. Even during life in the body, you believe | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| a continuous movement. But when a body is dead, the movement has gone from it. The spirit | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| universe that does not contain life, even the dead objects, as they seem to you, contain movement | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| mind. Tradition in its distorted sense means a dead weight, a meaningless carryover. This does not necessarily | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| meaningful reality, or it can be a meaningless, dead repetition of the past that no longer has | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| against all tradition; they rebel against its meaningless, dead manifestation, just as much as against its real | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| thus create a new future, rather than a dead repetition of the past. On this earth sphere | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| in a totally disconnected way, convinced that the dead state of thickly condensed matter -- much more | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| to lose contact with and awareness of so-called dead people. They live in the inner reality which | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Deaden......................8 | |
| your own life force, how you darken and deaden life itself. The more you advance in this | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| function according to their own harmonious law, they deaden. Hence, to be fully alive as far as | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| become your enemy also. Consequently, you proceed to deaden them and deliberately institute non-life, out of fear | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| of fear. If you shrink from fear and deaden yourself in order not to experience it, you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| experience. By fighting against the undesirable experience, you deaden an integral part of life -- something that | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| of life -- something that feels. When you deaden something that feels -- even if it be | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| act out often with extreme destructiveness, or to deaden these forces in order to be protected from | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| it is really death. For example, when you deaden your faculty to feel and your faculty to | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Dead-end....................6 | |
| choice, the farther one will stray into a dead-end street from where it will be ever more | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| your endeavors will always wind up in a dead-end street. And now I will retire, my dear | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| distortion of an over-developed ego. It is a dead-end street: the goal is misstated because it is | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| distortion, fulfillment turns into satiation, stagnation -- a dead-end street. The individual then fluctuates between the equally | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| is distorted into satiation and therefore is a dead-end street. You can also ascertain how you constantly | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| incomplete and must always wind up in a dead-end street. There will always be something missing. It | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Deadened....................14 | |
| you no longer allow your soul to be deadened by it. Then your entire personality will be | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| this. If you do, your insistence on remaining deadened and dulled will finally give way and you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| it is extremely harmful. When something alive is deadened, all experience stops. This deadness creates the hopelessness | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| dead, hence nonmoving. When the life center is deadened, the desire to move dies as well. You | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| for the first time -- with a heretofore deadened life center, know the tremendous experience this is | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| The anesthesia must be undone. As what is deadened thaws out, you are bound to experience pain | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| which is what is called neurosis. Since the deadened consciousness is dead -- which may sound like | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| are not aware why you feel numbed and deadened, you create a magnetic energy block within your | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| and will take almost exclusive charge of your deadened feeling part. They temporarily give you the illusion | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| positive sense. When you find part of yourself deadened and numbed and you are frightened of reviving | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| You therefore prefer to keep yourself numb and deadened. I am not talking about whether such deadening | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| love, toward being -- even in this separated deadened state -- replies to the creation of mind | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| life energy and vitality that you have deliberately deadened. So you see, my friends, even knowing what | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| mechanically repeated and thus the tradition has been deadened; its reality has become flattened or even totally | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |