| take no for an answer. This kind of desire breeds fear, for it comes from distrust and | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| Therefore it cramps up within itself. A strong desire of this nature is always behind fear. And | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| And when you experience, acknowledge, and examine such desire, you will always see distrustful elements behind it | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| unfoldment. Sometimes this may mean entirely abandoning a desire because you find that it is destructive in | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| is destructive in itself. At other times, the desire itself is perfectly valid, but the way you | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| pain and disappointment. At still other times, the desire may again be valid in itself, but the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| ANSWER: Yes, of the inner will. Often the desire itself may be legitimate and even healthy, as | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| I advise is not necessarily giving up the desire per se. It is giving up the cramped | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| soul movement that is connected with having the desire. It is a conscious decision directed toward the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| universal example: The fear of death contains the desire to live. There is nothing at all wrong | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| There is nothing at all wrong with this desire, for it is creation's fact that life is | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| direction. It need not mean to abandon one's desire to live. In fact, the desire to be | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| abandon one's desire to live. In fact, the desire to be dead is far from healthy. It | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| It stems from morbid fears and from the desire to escape. Thus I do not say that | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the fear of death you must abandon the desire for life. What I do say is that | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the deepest level - - find the cramped desire behind your fear, and then see the meaning | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| and then see the meaning of the cramped desire. It spells out, I do not trust the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| is overly strong; not because one has no desire to expand in bliss, for this is the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| expand in bliss, for this is the natural desire, but because one trusts the universe and its | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| will combine these two aspects of creation. The desire to give to life will never appear as | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| experience life. Another ambivalence follows from this: the desire for and the fear of bliss and pleasure | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| people the fear is much less than the desire. These will be relatively fulfilled people whose life | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| people, however, fear happiness much more than they desire it. They will be basically unhappy, feeling that | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| their main predicament. Finally, there are many whose desire for and fear of happiness is approximately evenly | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| in its negative manifestations, reveals a contradictory unconscious desire. Life cannot be cheated, and whether we like | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| used to institute change. You must formulate your desire and the intention to change in clear, concise | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| to accept that a specific manifestation of your desire cannot now be fulfilled your way. This is | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| integral part of the present reality. The childish desire for omnipotence which bans frustration cannot actualize the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| a door opener for you, should you so desire. Be in peace, be what you are, loving | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| point where you can finally admit the deliberate desire to choose destructive attitudes. You can see that | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| facial aberrations. Haven't you experienced the sometimes irresistible desire to imitate something that is highly undesirable for | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| is given up. Even the sincere and serious desire to do so will bring relief. Still another | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| or life's caprices deprive you of what you desire, it is actually you who do this. For | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| Thus you fear the result of your negative desire. Deep inside, you know that what you want | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| you invest will determine the outcome. Humans often desire a change but avoid taking some of the | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| capacity to create anything you truly believe and desire, then you are caught in a trap from | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| that life will yield the fulfillment that I desire and deserve all the more since I act | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| of injustice. You must dispense with the prideful desire to prove yourself better than others and to | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| experience life's utter abundance and goodness. Otherwise, your desire for happiness is counteracted constantly by an equal | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| can do it. The more you express the desire and the firm intent to see another, larger | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| glossed-over thoughts, when finally looked at, eventually reveal desire for illness, for death, for any kind of | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| induces you to instantly give up the hidden desire. It is a stubborn, destructive wish, with very | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| twofold approach: one is activity that asserts its desire to transform the self-defeating aspects, leading the dialogue | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| For instance, let us examine the paradox of desire. Both desire and desirelessness are important spiritual attitudes | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| let us examine the paradox of desire. Both desire and desirelessness are important spiritual attitudes. Only to | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| about which is right or wrong. Human beings desire, for only desire can bring you to the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| right or wrong. Human beings desire, for only desire can bring you to the fourth aspect of | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| about in previous lectures. If you do not desire a better state of being and more fulfillment | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| life- substance. Visualization of a fuller state presupposes desire. These concepts must be fostered by the conscious | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| create a more expanded state. If you see desire and desirelessness as mutually exclusive, you cannot grasp | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| you cannot grasp or feel the necessary attitude. Desire must exist for one to believe in new | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| greater states of fulfillment and self-expression. But if desire is tense, urgent, and contracted, it forms a | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| urgent, and contracted, it forms a block. Such desire implies, I do not believe that what I | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| price. This underlying denial creates too tense a desire. Therefore a kind of desirelessness must be present | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| cope well with the temporary frustration of this desire. What are the common denominators of healthy desire | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| desire. What are the common denominators of healthy desire and healthy desirelessness that make meditation and indeed | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| want. Eventually you will even give up all desire. Then desirelessness will be distorted, misunderstood, and of | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| of the wrong kind because too much tense desire is present. In the final analysis such tense | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| is present. In the final analysis such tense desire comes from fear caused by the infantile belief | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| induces a cramp that becomes a denial of desire. These very subtle, obscure attitudes need to be | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| meaningful meditation. In this stage you express your desire with confidence in your ability to cope with | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| state of bliss will be yours anyway. Then desire and desirelessness will not be irreconcilable paradoxes, but | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| place, there is always a harmonious blend between desire and desirelessness; between involvement and detachment; between activity | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| try, nor do you express the concisely formulated desire to do so. You are right to believe | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| its rightfulness with self-discipline. If you can reconcile desire for pleasure with self-discipline and responsibility, you will | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| withholding from you what you believe you ardently desire. Another aspect of the problem is unawareness of | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| meaningless unless it arises out of a harmonious desire. Then obstacles will fall by the wayside. First | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| are entirely unaware of this fact. If you desire positive experience out of a negative reason -- | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| and therefore cannot attain proper self-identification. Although your desire to hide the destructive aspects is more destructive | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| wish to be free from destructiveness. Thus the desire to hide destructiveness is a misplaced, misunderstood, and | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| stagnating, lazy, passive, or inert, and when you desire to do nothing, which is often confused with | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| flow of good, warm feelings, and nourishes the desire to share them rather than spitefully withhold them | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| It comes from the unity of your own desire to reach forever new levels of consciousness, feelings | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| for example, you have a strong unconscious neurotic desire that conflicts with your conscious wish, your conscious | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| conscious wish, your conscious mind may refute this desire and battle against acknowledging it, let alone ousting | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| test how much you resist your conscious positive desire for fulfillment. To what degree do you really | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| perhaps fear certain aspects of what you most desire? To what degree are you really willing to | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| becomes really problematic when you deny your negative desire, but complain about not getting the wished for | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| processes are bound to respond and what you desire is in keeping with the immutable divine laws | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| attitude toward life: an attitude that expresses no desire to give, to love, to contribute, to reach | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| feel for not attaining what you so ardently desire, the greater your inner negative intention and the | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| I do not need my spitefulness and truly desire to give it up. I want to reach | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| of you, as I said, have admitted the desire to hold on to destructive attitudes; to hold | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| If you can first express the totally irrational desire and intent behind the totally destructive attitude, and | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| function quite well if and when you so desire. The thinking processes are usually the most highly | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| of the universe to the exact degree you desire. Know that the abundance of creative power at | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| negativities -- which could end whenever you so desire -- and no real passing of time since | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| circumstances and the state of mind that you desire. For example, if you now feel that you | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| create this capacity in yourself by stating the desire and intent, by being willing to give up | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| course, part of the deeper and more essential desire. Perhaps the most accurate translation of this longing | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| what is false about your deepest longing? The desire is false when your personality wishes love and | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| spiritual side. Be blessed, be in peace. 206. DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE Greetings and blessings for all | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| distorted, sick, life-defeating, and thus cause further destruction. Desire in itself is never either right or wrong | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| It is untrue in the sense that if desire is absent, it is impossible to create. You | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| new state of being. To do so, the desire must exist. How you express this desire will | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| the desire must exist. How you express this desire will determine the outcome. If the desire is | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| this desire will determine the outcome. If the desire is too strong, too tight, if it evolves | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| that implies any kind of a must, the desire is no longer a desire, but a demand | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| a must, the desire is no longer a desire, but a demand, a threat, a forcing-current that | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| to create. This can hardly be called a desire, but it often parades under the guise of | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| under the guise of being one. Positive, real desire is a prerequisite to the self-creating process. For | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| Like the wind they carry the creative seed. Desire is the blueprint we act upon. To distinguish | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| To distinguish between the creative and the destructive desire currents it is very important to understand what | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| to understand what I mentioned before. Whether the desire flows without a must, or whether it contains | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| with many other spiritual verities, the concept of desire contains an apparent paradox: The right kind of | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| contains an apparent paradox: The right kind of desire must become so relaxed that it does not | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| have to be fulfilled. If you can strongly desire, without a trace of a must, but with | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| defeated, unhappy, then the power of such a desire is truly limitless. The energy that is released | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| levels is enormous. In other words, your very desire must also be desireless. Now, how can this | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| feelings, then you will have an overly strong desire to have no pain, or you will deny | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| or sick, desirable or undesirable, good or bad. Desire is determined by the underlying attitude which, in | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| of your movement, the nature of how you desire, and the nature of how you approach painful | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| and directly determines either creative receptivity and positive desire or greedy, distorted desire from a fearful rejection | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| creative receptivity and positive desire or greedy, distorted desire from a fearful rejection of life's pattern. As | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| they represent, what thought pattern and type of desire they express. This is a new dimension to | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| into existing resistances and problems contained within your desire. How strong and firm is the desire? Does | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| your desire. How strong and firm is the desire? Does it flow smoothly or is it a | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| does this way of manifesting your otherwise laudable desire hide? Or is the desire overtly weak and | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| your otherwise laudable desire hide? Or is the desire overtly weak and even absent? Can you feel | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| absent? Can you feel a movement of this desire in you? How do you feel it? If | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| an area in your life where a strong desire has still not been fulfilled, in spite of | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| of your personality -- the acting out, the desire to blame, still exists quite strongly. Let us | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| said in this lecture about right or wrong desire to the topic of blaming. You desire to | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| wrong desire to the topic of blaming. You desire to blame because you do not desire to | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| You desire to blame because you do not desire to see yourself. Such unhealthy, distorted desire, contrary | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| not desire to see yourself. Such unhealthy, distorted desire, contrary to the truth of being, creates a | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| the soul movement that is created by your desire to blame. As you take full responsibility for | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| blame. As you take full responsibility for the desire to blame, open your heart in a relaxed | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| in a relaxed, new way to welcome the desire not to blame. In doing so, you can | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| this very special difference. Also, when you truly desire truth, you can wait for the truth to | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| You can wait in a state of flexible desire, in a stream of soft trustful waiting, for | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| you. Once you enter into this process, your desire can make room for the visualization and creation | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| the visualization and creation of a new state. Desire and receptivity, totally free from any must, do | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| I say, my dearest friends, create a new desire for a new inner state in which you | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| movement in you. And every must defeats healthy desire, therefore not allowing fulfillment. For a short period | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| to tune in to the soul currents of desire, right and wrong, healthy and distorted, relaxed and | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| is also seeking to know you. This mutual desire which is energized by an involuntary force creates | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| The awareness can be recaptured if you so desire. Focusing constructively -- which is very different from | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| meditation to a positive self-expression that you deeply desire because you miss it. Yet as you pursue | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| to meditate for the very thing you most desire. What is this block? Let us suppose you | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| in harmony. As you cramp yourself into any desire that is too strong, you close the doors | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| in your innermost being, knowing that your true desire is to accept this benign force and set | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |