| Depressions.................6 | |
| true sense. Temporarily you will appear to regress. Depressions are almost unavoidable, temporarily, in the search for | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| this pitfall. Then, if after further disharmonies and depressions, you again find the very facet you were | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| often more restless when pleasant things occur? In depressions one may be calm. In happy incidents, one | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| aware of a new kind of feeling. As depressions, fears, and repressions dissolve, there emerges a personality | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| know that life is benign and that your depressions are unreal. The flow of living is continuous | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| working yourself out of unpleasant moods, irritations or depressions, rather than waiting for life to remove the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| Deprivation.................42 | |
| vibrancy and interest -- will bring an unnecessary deprivation of either the one or the other aspect | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| is your shame about a non-existent and unnecessary deprivation. The third twisted corridor in the labyrinth of | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| hopes for fate to deliver you from your deprivation. So you have fears and hopes, all based | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| rules which seem to decree that goodness means deprivation? In both attitudes, guilt and uncertainty are inevitable | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| remove the false guilt which made you choose deprivation. It will enable you to firmly declare that | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| to accept an ultimate fate of suffering and deprivation. The advice to learn to let go of | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| another part actually strives for nonfulfillment, pain, and deprivation. The great danger falsely believed to be unavoidable | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| hurt, rejected, and helplessly exposed to pain and deprivation often find that numbing their feelings is their | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| for struggle, for doubt, for fear, or for deprivation. In these areas you will find that you | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| of the positive, hence its negation, exists. Consequently, deprivation and suffering manifest in your outer life. You | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| mistaken idea that self- realization must automatically mean deprivation and self-sacrifice. If your life-conditions will not, sooner | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| because in their minds goodness is equated with deprivation. The call of life disregards outer appearances and | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| succeed in removing temporary states of pain and deprivation. There is a vast difference between these two | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| covers up the deep despair that unselfishness brings deprivation, so one is forced to hold back the | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| but another side shrinks back from this movement. Deprivation, emptiness, meaninglessness, and a sense of waste ensue | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| where frustration existed, pleasure supreme where pain and deprivation existed. But the courage and humility to be | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| impoverish oneself. Loving acquires the connotation of self-sacrificing deprivation. If one does not suffer through loving and | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| to what took place, to the sense of deprivation and unfulfillment in you, made you withdraw from | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is what it is meant to do. The deprivation of pleasure renders you ill to some degree | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| Directly Responsible for Neurosis A childhood trauma produces deprivation, unhappiness, destructive feelings and behavior -- in short | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| dualism, and consequently fear, greed, a sense of deprivation and anger, with all their derivatives. More and | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| consciousness and perception of life are geared to deprivation and thus negative feelings, which you must fear | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| partly or completely. Hence you actually do experience deprivation, because the full flow of the life force | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| instead of resist. But what should you accept? Deprivation, unfulfillment, sacrifice? Religion has taught this for centuries | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| in a sense of fearful, resigned, obedient, sacrificial deprivation, you remain in duality. The untightening movement can | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| come out of the struggle between fear and deprivation on the one hand, and tight holding on | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| will you stop making others responsible for your deprivation, which makes you keenly suffer. The deep inner | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| but at the tremendous cost of guilt, self- deprivation, insecurity, and fear of not being able to | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| in your early childhood again inflict pain and deprivation upon you, and you again protect yourself by | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| life and others -- increase one's sense of deprivation, so that a continuous vicious circle seems to | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| of a real unfulfillment, a hurt or a deprivation. The moment these difficulties are not channeled into | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| vacillating between the two states of fulfillment and deprivation, at least until the hidden wish for deprivation | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| deprivation, at least until the hidden wish for deprivation is unearthed. Meditation is a wonderful way to | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| withhold -- even if this causes suffering and deprivation. Recognizing this part of the soul is of | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you have given up and adjusted to unnecessary deprivation and frustration. There is still much work to | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| directly with the darkness within. Then sacrifice and deprivation become not only unnecessary but even contradictory to | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| and peace. Thus do you misinterpret self-discipline for deprivation. What an error! Actually, the more you refuse | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| withhold from yourself. You then blame the consequent deprivation on the other person because you are still | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| beyond your little ego implies masochistic suffering and deprivation, poverty, and frustration of personal fulfillment and needs | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| extreme of overindulgence to the other extreme of deprivation. This applies to a lot of simple parts | 228 BALANCE |
| will grow because the fear of poverty and deprivation may be illusory. As you start giving to | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| itself clearly in that none have come to deprivation from their giving; quite the contrary, more abundance | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Deprive.....................19 | |
| and your fulfillment in one area seems to deprive another of this particular fulfillment. But beyond the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| constructive issue in the world, nor does it deprive anyone. Nothing stands in the way. This will | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| prevent the fulfillment of others. You must then deprive others in order to fulfill yourself, for how | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| that if you add to life, you will deprive yourself. Conversely, you erroneously believe that only when | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| deep down that by depriving yourself you ultimately deprive others, that by obtaining your real advantages -- | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| consciousness, you must believe that you have to deprive yourself to be a decent, loving human being | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| you now believe that others or life's caprices deprive you of what you desire, it is actually | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| is not a command that is supposed to deprive you. Love is the most selfish of all | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| from yourself, the more you frustrate yourself and deprive yourself of the good that life is meant | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| your parents, making them and life responsible, you deprive yourself of the vital center of all good | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| you are not only unloving, but you actually deprive or hurt others. This may not take place | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| you in a way that will hurt and deprive you, for you are driving a separating wedge | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you refuse voluntary self-discipline, the more you unavoidably deprive yourself of the peace and comfort that are | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| peace and comfort that are its rewards. You deprive yourself of the deep pleasure and bliss of | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| beyond the little ego is the supreme satisfaction. Deprive yourself of that and you cannot know peace | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| happiness. To follow the will of God cannot deprive you, so in the years to come you | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| see how you keep the circuit closed and deprive yourself of the inner plenitude you yearn for | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| that the leader is out to punish and deprive you. Since you envy the leaders, you also | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| denied part will manifest indirectly and will somehow deprive you of something you need: of vitality, health | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| Deprived....................18 | |
| deserving. You will know that no one is deprived by your fulfillment, nor will you fear lack | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| its needs are not fulfilled and it is deprived of sustenance on which it thrives -- love | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| budge from the negative position because you feel deprived. You must feel deprived because you make it | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| position because you feel deprived. You must feel deprived because you make it impossible to give out | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| wanting closeness and fearing it, therefore becoming more deprived and consequently more frustrated and more angry -- | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| obtaining relief from an overtense ego that is deprived of pleasure because it is too frightened to | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| must be weak, dependent, afraid and, above all, deprived. The more one sheds misconceptions and wakes up | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| right, good, or mature, the more they become deprived. The inevitable further result is secret destructiveness and | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| self-expression possible. Without these traits, I must remain deprived and in conflict. The discipline will be much | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| remain poor. You cannot receive and are therefore deprived. The impoverishment of your own good feelings -- | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| and perfect according to the notions of the deprived child, for the adult all this giving, coming | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| and responses are unjustified; another part feels so deprived and demanding that it reacts as though the | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the premise that you have reason to feel deprived because someone else has something that you do | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and feel so that you wind up feeling deprived. You may have reached this awareness on your | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| mutually exclusive. The negative person is thus constantly deprived. To one who is negative it appears that | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| experienced in your purification process how resentful and deprived you feel when you refrain from destructive behavior | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| others, who are in a position of leadership, deprived you of something or imposed something on you | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| riches, regardless of how many people will be deprived. My beloved friends, these are the principles that | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |