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others. This you can do not only by destroying your own and courageously facing up to your 32 DECISION-MAKING
in all probability, will not come about by destroying the existing religions suddenly. As Jesus has said 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
be aware of the necessity of one day destroying your wall. This can and should happen without 47 THE WALL WITHIN
something useless. Hidden, the infant would go on destroying your life, no matter how hard you tried 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
often have to go through the process of destroying something: the old and obsolete and illusory. This 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
place and the child in you lashes out, destroying others and the self. Find the child who 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
the natural and healthy vegetation and structures alongside. Destroying the barricade in such a violent way is 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
brings you into vicious circles and inner conflicts destroying your happiness and self-respect. Very few people are 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
not fully understand and therefore cannot control, thereby destroying union, peace and integration of the personality. This 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
on with human beings first erecting and then destroying the barriers between themselves and others. All individuals 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
one, absolutely no one, goes through life without destroying some chances. Every single incarnated soul has unresolved 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
held until now. You can begin only by destroying those little personal errors from which your daily 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
begin to sense that in the act of destroying error, truth reconciles construction with destruction and makes 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
rest. This may take all sorts of forms, destroying your best interests. When you do identify and 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
direct ego control. Why is humanity bent on destroying, dominating, denying and manipulating creative life -- that 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
exists to release untold energies for building or destroying, how infinitely more is this the case with 174 SELF-ESTEEM
parents so much that he punishes them by destroying himself. However, he does not want to destroy 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
he expects magic cure, while he goes on destroying himself with a vengeance. This is true despite 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
demands that cannot be fulfilled -- by virtually destroying himself and then expecting health and happiness to 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
to suffer, with a vaguely complaining attitude, thereby destroying the forces of creation at my disposal and 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
being unfold. I will not shy away from destroying my self-image, my vanity, my pride. For the 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
this new reality are, at the same time, destroying whatever obstructs this movement. For there cannot be 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
the primitive consciousness required in order to avoid destroying another human being willfully, blindly, and selfishly, in 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
 
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country to another and broaden their views. This destroys their mass images and, eventually, often affects their 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
The poison of the underlying motive distorts and destroys that which could really be genuine. In the 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
its very nature it works against anything that destroys or endangers life. Just as the body needs 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
facing that thing in you which you feel destroys your whole structure. Once you do recognize it 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
make love and honor into something compulsive that destroys real understanding and subsequently real love and honor 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
a human relationship, whereas your greedy egocentric giving destroys it. Let the other person be, allow him 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
become until it bursts the dam, overflows, and destroys not only the dam itself, but all the 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
particles. The absence of any of the particles destroys, or at least seriously impedes, the organization as 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
defense against it, which you continue to use, destroys for you the possibility of fulfillment. All of 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
disharmony, anxiety, and tension, increases the difficulties, and destroys peace of mind. The ability to accept the 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
appeasing and encouraging abuse, not constructive living. It destroys harmony rather than furthering it. It destroys healthy 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
It destroys harmony rather than furthering it. It destroys healthy growth. Anger can be as healthy and 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
untruthful, pretended and distorted attitudes prevail, that which destroys true growth and happiness is believed to be 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
of them, at the same time that he destroys himself, to make him well and happy. This 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
for confronting that part of the self that destroys happiness, fulfillment, and wholeness. You can never create 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
pain contains bitterness, self-pity, resentments -- thus it destroys peace. Real pain is peaceful because you assume 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
of the ensuing destruction is truly marvelous. It destroys the very evil that has created it. Unfortunately 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
will lack the volition to give up what destroys happiness and joy. The first steps toward this 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
a continued life. But the outer self willfully destroys this life, acting out its worst impulses despite 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
and its obsolete measurements -- as it also destroys old, outworn attitudes, feelings, values and concepts. The 228 BALANCE
your being from it and the hurt that destroys you -- or the difference between the struggle 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
another truth. With such exclusiveness the dualistic mind destroys the inner unity that exists in all your 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
 
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not correspond to the technical progress and the destruction of the world, as you said, was precisely 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
man. Sometimes it is impossible to avoid spiritual destruction except by material catastrophe. History often demonstrates this 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
be formed in spirit before it can manifest destruction on the material plane. If only a small 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION
time the question was asked whether a total destruction of entities, souls, took place before the salvation 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
Jesus Christ. ANSWER: There never was a total destruction of a single soul. Never. No created being 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
your time is a gradual but very definite destruction of mass imagery about nationalism. Therefore, from our 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
not, it is a sign of a slow destruction of religious mass imagery, step by step. My 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
on your part of being bad. Evil and destruction can work in you through the basic misconception 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
is so much slower. If the instinct of destruction is strong, it is a product of the 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
building being torn down, may think this is destruction, chaos and imbalance. Only with the knowledge of 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
complete picture will he realize that the momentary destruction is an integral part of construction. This is 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
are there additions and subtractions? ANSWER: Certainly no destruction of any created spirit exists, therefore there can 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
would mean to go through so much hardship, destruction and tragedy. It would be unbearable. And it 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
answer was: There certainly does not exist a destruction of any created spirits; therefore, there can be 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the human soul between construction and creativity versus destruction and stagnation. All these, and many more, indicate 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
healthy to revive an era of death and destruction? Three, can any positive lesson be learned by 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
in general, if they recall this era of destruction and cruelty. And a negative lesson could also 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
to live, one needs to be safe from destruction and damage. We know by now that what 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
means -- often invented for the purpose of destruction -- that symbolize your inner pseudo-defenses that are 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of destructive impulses, the laws to prevent such destruction need not be combined with religion. In other 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
repressed, they will turn into potent forces of destruction. It is not necessarily only the false and 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
truth one believes one sees, disturbance, chaos, and destruction remain. You cannot find a way out of 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
find a way out of the hopelessness and destruction, the temporary and pseudo- satisfaction of no-current manifestations 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
uncover the untruth that caused the disorder and destruction have made this fact familiar to you. Balance 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
physical violence or in any other form of destruction -- whether the anger be healthy or unhealthy 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
fundamental violation inevitably leads to further alienation and destruction. When you realize that no situation in your 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
and grow toward fulfillment, the downward curve of destruction begins. From the moment you strive for any 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
death to life and back; from construction to destruction to construction. One brings forth the other. It 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
that reaching a goal will bring on its destruction. You delude yourself by stemming against time, by 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
perpetual cycle of life and death, construction and destruction, of being and becoming. In nature, the plant 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
As these false ideas begin to crumble, the destruction may bring about more or less drastic outer 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
the idea that construction is always good, while destruction is always bad. The unification of these two 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
understand the unitive state you must recognize that destruction of error can be desirable, and construction of 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
desirable, and construction of error is undesirable. Now, destruction is always a painful process, whether or not 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
state, however, can come about only through the destruction of the old state. Stemming against the organic 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
what happens is not a relapse, but rather destruction of the old, a process that actually is 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
act of destroying error, truth reconciles construction with destruction and makes them one movement, instead of two 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
am not talking about outer levels, for, like destruction, opposition, too, can be part of a whole 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
the real self requires what temporarily seems like destruction, this destruction will turn out to be rather 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
self requires what temporarily seems like destruction, this destruction will turn out to be rather the groundwork 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
energy is not leading you into danger and destruction once you let go of the sharp ego 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
activating this power, the in-between layer of error, destruction and suffering will give way much faster than 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
personality's stubborn refusal and false ideas. All self- destruction is a slow form of suicide. Death is 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
finally manifests outwardly. Hence, what first appears as destruction is, when viewed with deeper insight, nothing but 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
when viewed with deeper insight, nothing but the destruction of destructiveness. Even though it may be painful 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
still completely blind and entrapped in error and destruction. The breaking point has then the healing power 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
universe, of Creation is that the more rapidly destruction approaches, the nearer salvation must be. Hence, reaching 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
and used in erroneous ways, the result is destruction. A man cannot dare to be fully a 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
individual no longer wishes to express violence and destruction will he or she become frightened of his 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
and, victims of their ignorance, are constantly creating destruction without ever knowing it. The human being is 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
protect it from the chaos of negativity and destruction. When negativity is met and eliminated, unstructured, blissful 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
is a direct result of wanting his own destruction. His hatred grows to the extent he feels 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
a vast difference between an overt action of destruction and the mental and emotional existence of this 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
used by either or both. Warfare and mutual destruction is the final result of two entities -- 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
Is there really a bottomless pit of negativity, destruction, and evil at the foundation of the human 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
darkness -- it is light. It is not destruction -- it is construction. The evil, destructive, and 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
wanting to see the existence of such senseless destruction and negation within you. But when you finally 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
an explosion. The deeper meaning of the ensuing destruction is truly marvelous. It destroys the very evil 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
must occur. You will all agree that the destruction of destructiveness is a constructive, creative phenomenon. Thus 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
creative phenomenon. Thus, in the long run, every destruction is constructive and serves creation. Always. But in 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
You can diminish the violence of the constructive destruction if your commitment to truth takes on a 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
be distorted, sick, life-defeating, and thus cause further destruction. Desire in itself is never either right or 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
in you, you could harm, wreak havoc and destruction to a much stronger degree than what now 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
beauty, creativity and goodness, this inversion creates ugliness, destruction and evil. There have been many names for 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
the limited light of human vision. Actually the destruction is always aimed at eliminating the obstructions, the 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
life of the person as upheaval, crisis, painful destruction. The individual needs to learn how to see 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
energies are used according to plan. Crisis and destruction manifest when the new energies are not recognized 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
cannot be growth and creation without also a destruction of destructiveness. Destruction of whatever is already obsolete 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
and creation without also a destruction of destructiveness. Destruction of whatever is already obsolete and therefore needs 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
create obstructions, unhappiness, strife, frustration, crisis, and finally destruction, so that the old may crumble and you 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
new, more appropriate one, the painful crises and destruction are unnecessary. With willingness the change occurs most 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
rebellion and revolution; it is not, in itself, destruction of the old. It is reformulation and change 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
old, outworn attitudes, feelings, values and concepts. The destruction can happen in the very mundane little matters 228 BALANCE
boundaries, the world would disintegrate in chaos and destruction. What keeps the planets in place and prevents 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
with evil, experiences excitement and pleasure when spreading destruction, suffering, and pain. The second principle of evil 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
is a fear that the universe can allow destruction to exist without safety valves. It is the 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
desirable. It is a grieving pain about the destruction caused by evil. It is healthy and good 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
discomforts you might occasionally experience. Negativities, dissension and destruction still give you at times a certain negative 254 SURRENDER

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