| sense. As long as your ability to accept death is based on the superimposed knowledge that life | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| superimposed knowledge that life goes on and that death is an illusion, your faith is built on | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| clings to life only in order to avoid death. This motivation is negative and negates the life | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| if you face and come to terms with death, your embrace of life will have a positive | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| it which is superimposed on your terror of death. For only then can you truly become strong | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| strong, from knowing and accepting the uncertainty of death in small ways, every day. This strength does | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| or from anything negative. You will know that death is an integral part of life. To the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| fulfilled, this, too, appears as a kind of death. It can often feel like bleak misery, and | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| bleak misery, and in that sense seems like death to you. When you give up instant gratification | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| are using the healthy way of coping with death. The giving up of the wish itself is | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| wish itself is really an unhealthy acceptance of death. As you become stronger in the healthy way | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| aware also of the illusion of actual physical death, not by intellectual superimposition, but by the strength | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| to the practical approach in learning to face death in your everyday life, it is so self- | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| pleasure supreme, as well as your apprehension of death in all its facets. This is not too | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| -- which all represent a form of personal death -- you will see how you really react | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you will see how you really react to death. Find out which of the two wrong ways | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| we cringe from it. ANSWER: There is physical death and sickness, and the world of matter, bound | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| desire. The healthy way is to say, Yes, death is unwelcome. I really do not know what | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| denial of the life force. The principle of death is feared so much that the life force | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| very self-destructive and damaging way of coping with death. QUESTION: How do you account for the supreme | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| I would say it is just the opposite. Death ceases to be, but this happens in a | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| exists for you. QUESTION: Is it life and death, or life or death? ANSWER: It is life | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| Is it life and death, or life or death? ANSWER: It is life and death. QUESTION: Therefore | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| life or death? ANSWER: It is life and death. QUESTION: Therefore it could not be unpleasant, otherwise | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| be unpleasant, otherwise it would be life or death. So death must be a pleasure. Doesn't the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| otherwise it would be life or death. So death must be a pleasure. Doesn't the healthy attitude | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| is unknown. Before you can truly experience that death is pleasure in a healthy way, you first | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| to go through your own distortion, in which death seems bleak and frightening. Only after going through | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you come to the realization that life and death are one, that pleasure and pain are one | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| this truth when they taught the denial of death. However, due to an inclination to arrive at | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| clings to such words as there is no death and misuses them. The result is superimposed faith | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| in mind that what seems most frightening -- death in all its aspects -- must be faced | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| only subdivisions of the great duality: life and death -- never life or death. A spiritual teaching | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| duality: life and death -- never life or death. A spiritual teaching, often misunderstood, says that one | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| accepting and fully facing the duality: life and death. Those who misunderstand the meaning of rising above | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| experiences. However, it is only when you accept death in its undisguised nakedness without running from it | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| then will you find that there is no death and no duality. You will accept this, not | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| way, you increase the tragic duality. You reject death and, therefore, in the ultimate sense, you reject | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| ultimate sense, you reject life. The flight from death and suffering causes flight from life and pleasure | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| one consciously or unconsciously avoids facing and meeting death and suffering, the escape will also be a | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| accepted all that life has to offer, including death. Some people believe they have risen to genuine | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| from suffering. And since suffering and pain, or death and life, are connected and are in reality | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| pleasure are also connected to your attitude toward death and suffering. As you accept the one, so | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| on by a faulty attitude toward life and death, pleasure and pain. How can you meet life's | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| symptom of your particular way of fleeing from death and suffering, and therefore from life and happiness | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you learn the right attitude toward life and death. See how you run from death in the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| life and death. See how you run from death in the little things and recoil from suffering | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you are caught in the wrong attitude toward death I have outlined in the last lecture that | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the last lecture that manifests in your courting death because you fear it. In a similar way | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| not being loved, and therefore to life versus death. When, from your fear of not getting what | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you are unaware that what you fear are death and suffering. Rejection of love signifies both. You | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| signifies both. You run away not only from death and suffering, but also from your fear of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| then can you adopt a healthy attitude toward death. Outwardly, you may not be aware of this | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you become aware of your real fear of death in any form -- physical death itself, or | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| fear of death in any form -- physical death itself, or a negative occurrence -- you free | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| has been symbolized in his actual life and death, for Jesus met his death in the very | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| actual life and death, for Jesus met his death in the very spirit I have stated here | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| Since every single facet of Jesus' life and death has deep symbolic meaning for humanity's personal problems | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the stark, naked fear of the unknown -- death -- and the acute suffering of physical, mental | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the master experienced doubt in his hour of death. Most did not know that in this very | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| in his life as well as in his death. He went through his suffering to the full | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| You do not have to wait for physical death, because you die many deaths every day, in | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| And so it is with Jesus' life and death. It meant much more than a lesson to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| individual about the history of evolution, life after death, and the promise after death. To find out | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| evolution, life after death, and the promise after death. To find out what it really means you | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you can now believe in a life after death does not even matter. Every day offers an | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of life by realizing what the everyday little death is, meeting it, and in so doing, learning | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you meet that which is inevitable -- physical death as well as the results of your past | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| Take torture, for instance. I'm not afraid of death, but of the agony of dying. ANSWER: As | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| one form of running away from or negating death and, therefore, life. Only they who have gone | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| therefore, life. Only they who have gone through death have the certainty that there is not death | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| death have the certainty that there is not death. To find this out, they must go through | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| must go through it. The lesser degrees of death, such as all forms of suffering, must also | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| discover that they are not the extremes of death or suffering that were feared. Often they are | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| that stems from the inherent fear of physical death. People want to believe in a physical continuation | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you do not flee from your fear of death, suffering, and the unknown, but go through it | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| Pure, unadulterated life can be had only if death is met squarely. In using the word pure | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to be rejected or denied. If you accept death you will be resurrected in life -- in | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| explained, that if you meet both life and death, you cannot die. You will then live in | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| who do not consciously believe in existence after death, and do not consciously desire existence past death | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| death, and do not consciously desire existence past death very much, like to enjoy and take pleasure | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| same thing as a belief in life after death? I'm not asking about whether there is life | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| not asking about whether there is life after death. ANSWER: I know you aren't, and I am | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| experience of the continuation of life after physical death -- if it is genuinely arrived at through | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| longing for life eternal and its struggle against death. One person will be a religious fanatic who | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| atheist, too, goes off the path and meets death in the wrong way, just as the ungenuine | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| want to believe because I am afraid of death. I do not want to let go, to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| way of clinging to life and fighting against death. This type of person is so afraid of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| it. They, too, may manifest the flight from death in their innermost attitudes. It is not what | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| indicate a true belief in the life after death, or one's reconciliation with non-existence. It may merely | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| result of not knowing how to cope with death. Now we come to the matter of sublimation | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| level. Such inclusion comes, in turn, from facing death and suffering. It happens through eliminating negation and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the great duality, the struggle between life and death, the illusion that it is a question of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| with happiness standing for life and unhappiness for death. While still struggling in this duality, it is | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| Then the tragic, unnecessary, and destructive struggle against death or unhappiness begins. Birth is a painful experience | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| belief that it will circumvent unhappiness, unpleasure, and death, is the creation of the idealized self-image as | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| must; it became a question of life or death for you. Still you knew perfectly well that | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| to you that this is a life or death struggle. You still believe you need the idealized | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| important aspect of the duality between life and death. At present you are not even aware of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the return into the spirit world after physical death. Much more is meant by coming home. You | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| This is also the case with life and death. By accepting death, the duality between life and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the case with life and death. By accepting death, the duality between life and death is gradually | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| By accepting death, the duality between life and death is gradually decreased until it disappears altogether. By | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| decreased until it disappears altogether. By struggling against death, as you struggle against your lower self, the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| that it is important for us to face death in order to live fully. There is, at | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| we, and should we, try to face the death of these millions of unfortunates in order to | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| is it healthy to revive an era of death and destruction? Three, can any positive lesson be | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| Can any lesson be learned about life and death, or any other topic, for that matter? That | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| a lesson. But as to the lesson of death, I venture to say that every individual has | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| through that personally, whether it be actual physical death, or the many little everyday dyings I discussed | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| soul, may be every bit as difficult as death or life in prison, only it would be | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| -- not only as unsafe, but actually as death. All of you who follow this path have | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| before. One is the lecture on duality. Accepting death and the unknown is the only prerequisite for | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| for accepting life and happiness -- not accepting death with a wishful-thinking spirituality, by avoiding your fears | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| your fear. There is a mutuality here. Accepting death and the unknown is connected with acceptance of | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| due to your unwillingness to accept life and death and assume the responsibility which makes you capable | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| acceptance of life -- and therefore also of death. If you absorb nothing but this at the | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| this, you suddenly know that there is no death, there is no evil, there is no pain | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| these things so differently. Temporary suffering, parting, and death is, in reality, not what it means to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| very good effect. QUESTION: It is not his death that is so painful, but the leaving of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| of the loss of a beloved person through death. If you are truly sad -- and nothing | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| person. You may experience your own fear of death and your fear of the passing of life | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| state of depression. The example of loss through death is purposely a crass one. There are so | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| you live in isolation and unfulfillment. You fear death because you let life pass by in the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| if it were a matter of life and death, he or she would not need to resent | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |