| forward into it, because the future also means death and decay. While they strain into the future | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| Some time ago I discussed the fear of death, which is an integral part of the conflict | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| part of the conflict with time. Fear of death causes a backward movement opposed to the natural | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| which also causes your fear of growing into death -- which is actually a threshold of life | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| back while you also push forward. Fear of death exists in many forms and shapes. I do | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| as much a part of the fear of death as a violent protestation of unbelief. They are | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| piece. This, in itself, brings the knowledge that death is but an illusion. Death is merely a | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| the knowledge that death is but an illusion. Death is merely a manifestation of transition into a | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| crassest symptom is not feeling that your own death is a reality. To experience oneself as mortal | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| reality of their mortality are morbidly afraid of death. For if you do not feel your mortality | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| man and woman, night and day, life and death. These are but a few examples of how | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| struggle to overcome the duality between life and death. From this basic predicament derive all other problems | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| with. Whether this manifests directly as fear of death, of aging or of the unknown, it is | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| be confronted more directly with the fear of death. I want to emphasize it again: to the | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| yourself, your dormant potential. And to that degree death will not be feared but experienced as an | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| the main obstacles to overcoming the fear of death is the fear of letting go of the | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| long as these barriers exist, the fear of death must also be there just as strongly. There | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| love with the opposite sex, and fear of death. The connection between the first two is beginning | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| in the highest bliss in what you call death. Death has many faces. Those who are afraid | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| the highest bliss in what you call death. Death has many faces. Those who are afraid, tightly | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| tightly holding onto the little self, may experience death as fearful seclusion and separateness, but for those | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| out and no longer preserving the little self, death is the glory that union on this earth | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| self-will, and fear also influence one's attitude to death. Dying ultimately means giving up self-direction -- and | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| to union with the other sex and to death? The truth is that you cannot give up | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| selfhood will you gain more selfhood. Now, if death, or dying, can be such a blissful experience | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| is it perceived so darkly? Why doesn't a death instinct, a yearning for death exist, as, for | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| Why doesn't a death instinct, a yearning for death exist, as, for example, the strong instinct to | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| instinct to lose oneself in love? Why must death be encountered without the help of instinctual drives | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| it would be so easy to wish for death because you cannot cope with life when life | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| terror, you would all too easily escape into death, even though, in this case, death would not | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| escape into death, even though, in this case, death would not prove any different than life -- | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| And it can operate only as long as death remains an unknown. No words can remove your | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| your life instinct can prevent you from choosing death out of negative, destructive motivations. This strengthens the | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| endeavor will the inner understanding finally dawn that death is not to be feared -- or, that | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| loving. Hence the sharp cleavage between life and death, their illusory opposition, begins to dwindle. The true | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| instinct will no longer have to oppose the death instinct; they will be one and the same | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| toward the passage of time, toward life and death, you will find that they are identical with | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| What about a person who does not fear death for himself, but just for people he loves | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| loves. In other words, can the fear of death be for other people? ANSWER: This may easily | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| after overcoming the initial reluctance, fear of the death of others will diminish; the bitter frightening aspect | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| fully and therefore no longer fear life or death. If you fear life, you must also fear | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| If you fear life, you must also fear death, whether you consciously experience it in incidents when | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| can fear of losing one's life. The approaching death of others triggers the reminder that one day | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| of others triggers the reminder that one day death will come to the self, too. But this | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| alone and to the fear of one's own death. Both these indicate the same thing. All this | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| you will be disturbed by the fear of death in one form or another. Often the real | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| self, you can be sure that fear of death must exist in equal measure. And so does | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| state of your soul regarding life, love, and death. I showed that the conscious conviction and feeling | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| there must be fear of love and of death. Where one of these fears exists, the other | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| the third in the triad, the fear of death. It is this fear of one's own unconscious | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| QUESTION: If something terrible happens, let's say the death of a dear person, how can unhappiness not | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| of being means fear of life, fear of death, fear of love, fear of pleasure, fear of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| as you fear yourself, you will fear life, death, love - - and all the rest of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| complete stagnation, of non-movement. This would, indeed, be death. People in this stage are particularly afraid of | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| People in this stage are particularly afraid of death. To those who have already attained the realization | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| but happiness itself; such people do not fear death because they do not wish it. At this | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| ability to accept the inevitable -- such as death, or other acts of destiny -- is a | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| negative need be accepted, that all hardship, even death, is unnecessary. It says that there is no | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| begin with the great duality of life and death. This will give you a better understanding of | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| ago, in which I spoke of life and death as being two facets of the same process | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| feared -- in fact, that there is no death. I also said that the person who fears | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| that the person who fears life must fear death, and vice versa. It is impossible to truly | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| truly love life as long as one fears death. This can be constantly corroborated when observing human | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| and joy, the less he or she fears death. The more people shrink in fear from death | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| death. The more people shrink in fear from death, the more they cling to life, not because | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| related to it, but in order to avoid death. Such people really do not live at all | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| really do not live at all. Fear of death and dying prohibits one from living, and only | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| clings to life because of the fear of death, life will not be meaningful, nor can it | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| anyone is completely free of the fear of death -- otherwise they would not be incarnated in | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| impossible for the average soul to realize that death is not to be feared, it has to | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| out of control. While spiritual teachings postulate that death is unnecessary, they also claim that the truly | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| it, such as a serious disease and finally death. If you know that the pain will not | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| in which one goes through the experience of death as we know it? ANSWER: This is so | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| the soul. QUESTION: Are only those who fear death incarnated in this sphere? ANSWER: That is one | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| where a balance is established, life continues, and death is an impossibility. The outer, physical levels follow | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| fear of life and even the fear of death. Neither could the fear of others possibly exist | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| make-believe. The great human struggle for life or death is as illusory as death itself. For no | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| for life or death is as illusory as death itself. For no matter how many destructive, undesirable | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| threaten annihilation. Giving up control must appear as death, as the giving up of selfhood and safety | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| negative context does loss of control lead to death or to a loss of power over oneself | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| or specifically -- fear of life, fear of death, fear of the unknown. The more you are | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| the struggle is too fierce on all levels, death sets in. Death may also be a result | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| too fierce on all levels, death sets in. Death may also be a result of having given | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| when tension ceases -- and this happens in death. On the mental and emotional planes, something similar | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| of a perfectly lived life, as you fear death, as you fear all great experiences that take | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| of dissolving. You might call it fear of death, but it is much more than that. It | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| does not always occur in what you call death. This depends on the individual's state of development | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| irrationally -- that, being happy, I would fear death. I feel that death does not matter when | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| happy, I would fear death. I feel that death does not matter when I am unhappy, so | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| it up. Again, this amounts to fear of death, the fear of having no individuality, no consciousness | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| sexes, and finally the great experience of physical death itself which human beings erroneously assume to be | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| or horrible. This is no more true of death than of the other two experiences, which are | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| these last two fears, while the fear of death has been exaggerated and made into a big | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| without the ego faculties. Loss of ego means death to you because you feel nonexistent. Threatened by | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| good or bad; right or wrong; life or death. In other words, practically everything you encounter, every | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| bad, no right or wrong, no life or death. There is only good, only right, only life | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| would rather be commensurate with a life or death issue. Although you may think this irrational on | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| quarrel truly becomes a matter of life or death, which explains the intensity of emotions when it | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| plane each issue ends with either life or death. Life becomes terribly important in order to avoid | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| Life becomes terribly important in order to avoid death. Often people fear death so much that they | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| in order to avoid death. Often people fear death so much that they run into it head | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| on. Such individuals do not escape fear of death. Quite the contrary. Their constant struggle with life | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| which results from their fear and struggle against death, renders them so unhappy that they believe they | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| so unhappy that they believe they don't fear death. This is an illusion as long as life | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| or continuing the fight. Admitting a wrong means death, in a sense. So you are faced with | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the alternatives of admitting a wrong, which means death in the deep psyche, in order to avoid | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| putting your life at a grave disadvantage, again death, in the deepest sense, or insisting on your | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| total rightness. Any way you turn you find death, loss, annihilation. The harder you fight for and | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| because the inner quarrel is between life and death -- or so you believe. The fallacy of | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| inner quarrel where you fight for life against death, for existence against annihilation. You will see what | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| good or bad, desirable or undesirable, life or death. As long as humanity lives in this dualism | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| the moment you are born you move toward death. From the moment you unfold and grow toward | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| approach its opposite. It moves from life to death to life and back; from construction to destruction | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| move in a perpetual cycle of life and death, construction and destruction, of being and becoming. In | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| of ugliness; life is not the opposite of death; good is not the opposite of bad, because | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| peace and joy. For instance, when you fear death -- and it makes no difference whether this | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| hold on to life, pushing away and opposing death, you cannot come to the unitive principle unless | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| untruth you oppose life and secretly wish for death. Only when you find the untruth can you | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| the untruth can you relinquish the fear of death. This, of course, does not mean that you | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |