| peace, life. Lack of love means enslavement, conflict, death. It creates restlessness, anxiety, and unhappiness. Even though | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| love is nonlife: it is various degrees of death, for there are many degrees of death, just | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| of death, for there are many degrees of death, just as there are many degrees of life | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| If it were totally static, it would be death, and death does not invigorate; only life does | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| were totally static, it would be death, and death does not invigorate; only life does. Life must | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| also in your physical body. QUESTION: You relate death to a lack of love. How can you | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| of love. How can you then explain physical death? ANSWER: The manifestation of physical death in this | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| explain physical death? ANSWER: The manifestation of physical death in this sphere of human existence is precisely | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| stagnation, stasis and nonlife ensue -- that is, death. Error equates with nonlove. Nonlove is directly opposed | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| is no duality, there is no life versus death. To get there the human entity has to | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| mentioned that people who fear life must fear death, and vice versa. But any apprehension, aside from | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| and vice versa. But any apprehension, aside from death, when you truly analyze it, always boils down | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| or the negative ones they produce to avoid death and nothingness. It is impossible to eliminate the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| Here is truly a kind of life and death conflict. This conflict manifests differently in each individual | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| physical system. Thus gradual illness, decay, and physical death come about. You may remember that a few | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| removed from the now into a life after death. All such views and approaches to life are | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| in your separate existence. This illusion has brought death into the human realm, for death is nothing | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| has brought death into the human realm, for death is nothing but this illusion being carried to | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| sense. It is a growing pain, not a death pain. It is a pain that creates more | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| my mind: one is orgasm, the other is death. It seems that the pulsation and vibration lead | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| vibrations and pulsations cease. In both orgasm and death there seems to be no more vibration and | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| illusion is much more difficult to establish about death because your three-dimensional orientation and perception is not | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| not this occurs in a state of physical death or while in the body. In fact more | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| endure pleasure. The two experiences you mentioned -- death and orgasm -- are the deepest experiences a | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is not possible unless this attitude exists. Healthy death only occurs with love and trust and it | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| amount of bliss and, also, does not fear death. I repeat: The ability to stand pleasure, delight | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| life. In fact, you could not even fear death. Before one embarks on any intensive path of | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| may further be projected on the fear of death, since they are really one and the same | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| not need to wait for a life after death. It is available at any minute, in any | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which is fear: fear of life, fear of death, fear of pleasure, fear of giving up control | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| ideas. Let us begin with the fear of death, since it is this particular fear that casts | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| predominantly identify with your ego, your fear of death is really quite justified, for the ego dies | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| as a daily reality is ever afraid of death. One feels and knows one's immortal nature, one | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| whenever you en counter it. Therefore, fear of death must exist only when one's sense of self | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| a philosophical precept will not alleviate fear of death because it cannot give a sense of reality | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| innumerable times that whoever fears life must fear death, and whoever fears death must fear life, because | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| fears life must fear death, and whoever fears death must fear life, because they are really both | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| apparent opposites. Then one sees that life and death are the sunny and the shadow sides -- | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the real self, one must fear life and death, pleasure and fulfillment, happiness and unfoldment, one's feelings | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| levels of existence, means courting various degrees of death. Embracing this life force means living deathlessly. The | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| denial of the pleasure supreme of life is death. The fact that the ego came into existence | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| that the ego came into existence means that death came into existence. I cannot go into details | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| are related and interdependent. Ego existence, pleasurelessness, and death are directly connected, as the real self, pleasure | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| denies pleasure because of this fear, must court death. This is the true meaning of death. It | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| court death. This is the true meaning of death. It is a denial of the true, original | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| also begin to comprehend the outer life and death manifestation. When this is understood, nothing can frighten | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| unless it has gone through a form of death. This rhythm prevails until the consciousness is no | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| result of illusory dualism. The down movement -- death -- represents one side of the dualism, the | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| The crassest one is the physical life and death curve. It is the most frightening only because | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| to be an end -- an end in death, at that, and not in life. In reality | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the life processes: fear of life, fear of death, fear of pleasure, fear of letting go, fear | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| Would the same apply to the fear of death? That the moment one accepts the experience of | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| self within each individual being. The process of death itself should appear in a new light for | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| life, and therefore the cycle of life and death. If a human being overcomes the separation, then | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| extent life dries out and various degrees of death set in. Actual physical death is the natural | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| various degrees of death set in. Actual physical death is the natural end result of a process | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| they react and even believe it to be death, annihilation, the end of their being. Why do | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| that hinder replenishment, dry out the psyche, cause death, and make life unpleasurable and bleak? Why do | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| act of self-destructiveness is a gesture of courting death, of walking toward it. Death is the great | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| gesture of courting death, of walking toward it. Death is the great relief the personality seeks when | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| self- destruction is a slow form of suicide. Death is unconsciously longed for to the precise degree | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| that need not ever know the fear of death, a continuum of living and rejoicing. Be in | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| with the greatest polarity of all: life and death. Perhaps the foregoing can help you begin to | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| that it is no different with life and death. Both are good; neither needs be feared or | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| this is bound to happen regarding life and death. There are many other opposites that you cannot | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| attitudes so it can continue to grow. Physical death results from the same principle. Physical matter dies | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| be painful to endure at the moment, such death is often the most life-preserving event, borne of | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| organism could tolerate the life-defeating attitudes much longer. Death is overcome when the whole organism no longer | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| be. Anyone who suffers from the fear of death should try to understand these words on a | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| no longer feel helpless in the fear of death. Something will change about it. You can also | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| of living in a sphere of consciousness where death is inevitable. You hasten death to the degree | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| of consciousness where death is inevitable. You hasten death to the degree you refute movement on all | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| battle against one's own inner processes. By instituting death processes and shrinking from experience you divide yourself | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| cannot be stopped all at once either. The death process will be eliminated gradually. Eventually you will | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| out of the cycle where you constantly fear death because you court it, and fear pain because | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| The dualism here is not only life versus death, but movement versus nonmovement. Although the healthy personality | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| movement versus nonmovement. Although the healthy personality accepts death as one of the phenomena of this state | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| take a simple universal example: The fear of death contains the desire to live. There is nothing | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| that life is unending. But the fear of death contains every false attitude I discussed in this | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| false attitude I discussed in this lecture. Physical death is, on a certain level, the final breaking | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| a greater or lesser degree, everyone must experience death. Therefore, you fear and cramp up against this | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| in grave conflict with yourself and life. Accepting death in the right way merely means assuming the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| Thus I do not say that to overcome death and the fear of death you must abandon | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| that to overcome death and the fear of death you must abandon the desire for life. What | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| be an attitude somewhat like this: Here is death coming. I do not know whether I will | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| in the spiritual center, which enlivens the rest. Death means a separation from the center, so that | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| moment. Hence, more and more, life must replace death, health must replace sickness, joy must replace suffering | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| creature. As long as you confuse life with death, with inanimate matter, you will despair. And even | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| devil, between good and evil, between life and death. It does not matter what you call these | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| kind of physical illness or deterioration, including physical death, is a manifestation of division, conflict, and denial | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| you must fear the result. Hence, fear of death always connotes an unconscious death wish. Conversely, pleasure | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Hence, fear of death always connotes an unconscious death wish. Conversely, pleasure is made possible when the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| profoundly enough when they speak of growth, life, death, love and pleasure. Growth is not merely an | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| looked at, eventually reveal desire for illness, for death, for any kind of suffering the person may | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| no inflamed boil will form. The process of death itself is such a crisis. I have discussed | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| crisis. I have discussed various deeper meanings of death. This is yet another. Superficial death -- and | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| meanings of death. This is yet another. Superficial death -- and it is nothing else but that | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| but dissolved voluntarily with the available consciousness. Superficial death of the human body takes place because the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| one's present incarnation as a whole, then physical death will occur. In the latter case, the eruption | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| operating and creating new ones, the process of death and rebirth signifies the identical principle. People tend | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| more the natural state. Crisis becomes superfluous; therefore, death eventually becomes superfluous. This may sound like an | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| who are still awed by the mystery of death -- which is also that of life -- | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| each entity. You remain in the cycle of death and rebirth, of pain and struggle, of conflict | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| a continuously flowing process. When it stands still, death temporarily manifests. Since life is eternal, the death | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| death temporarily manifests. Since life is eternal, the death can be only temporary. This applies not only | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| As long as the energy flow is arrested, death takes place and lasts until the energy flow | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| is the manifestation and yet another meaning of death on this plane of consciousness. The principle also | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| self, and is thus a destructive energy current. Death will become superfluous, will be overcome, when energy | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the opposites -- pleasure and pain, life and death, good and evil. You cannot transcend these opposites | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| removes the terror of annihilation -- not just death, but annihilation, which is different. We shall now | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| if you wish life eternal because you fear death; if you wish happiness because you fear unhappiness | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| not a human being who does not fear death. A wall within separates people from the process | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| separates people from the process of life beyond death. That, too, can become a topic of meditation | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| remove the wall. You can live without fearing death. You can experience the truth of eternal life | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| may delude yourself that you do not fear death by not looking at it, but your fear | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| encased in the ego's walls, you must fear death, even as you destructively wish for it, motivated | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| the end of fear: no more fear of death, fear of life, fear of being, fear of | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| ardently protected is an illusion: the illusion of death and aloneness. Awareness has to be fought for | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and easy, but it leads to stagnation and death -- ever recurring death. The ego uses any | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| leads to stagnation and death -- ever recurring death. The ego uses any number of tricks in | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| your life unbearably lonely, fearful, and meaningless. Unfathomable death is terrifying, and although it is possible to | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the imaginary line of demarcation between life and death impossible. This is the sickness of the ego | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| knowledge of life's eternality versus the illusion of death, the illusion of finiteness. But every one of | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| otherwise. When you know that there is no death, no real suffering other than the temporary manifestation | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| dark nothingness -- which is confused with physical death. Since the divine reality must ultimately fill everything | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| feeling afraid of life, of other people, of death, is to meet what you are most afraid | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| always collapse. The most radical collapse is physical death, which always affords the possibility to start anew | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| the golden point within itself. There is no death that does not bear the golden point of | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| receptivity to experience the eternal state beyond physical death. This perception is not reliable as long as | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| seek it out of your own fear of death. It is reliable only when you do not | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| is reliable only when you do not fear death because you now can die, just as you | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| must die. In that way you can transcend death and intuitively experience the reality of life ongoing | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| life ongoing. When you live without fear of death because you experience it so many times, you | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| times, you will know that in principle physical death is the same. You find it to be | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |