| the fleeting pleasure of giving in to any destructive impulse. The real relief of being in truth | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| means acknowledgement of one's limitations, facing wrong conclusions, destructive emotions, self-defeating devices, lack of integrity in the | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| ascertaining the causes and effects of negative patterns, destructive emotions, and false ideas. It means understanding that | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| an arbitrary split of concepts. Further confusion, conflict, destructive emotions, thoughts, and actions follow. All this is | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| best you have to give while the most destructive part may rule you unbeknownst to yourself. Fearing | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| refusing to be the prey of your own destructive aspects. When you finally come into your own | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| that you are suppressing or repressing your negative, destructive helplessness. Repression is merely another word for deception | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| no longer feel and react according to a destructive trend means repressing it and superimposing a constructiveness | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| So express the will to grow out of destructive patterns and take active leadership of your life | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| of all life issues -- or limiting and destructive. Ask, what is constructive about it and why | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| is constructive about it and why, and what destructive? You are used to quickly assuming a ready-made | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| which are not only impossible to realize, but destructive for all concerned. The loser, on the other | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| right for all concerned, and there is nothing destructive or wrong about it. You must contemplate its | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| power is diverted and temporarily appears as a destructive downward movement. This does not mean that another | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| such insight is it possible to stop the destructive repetitive process. When you learn the rhythm of | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| confusions, its state of consciousness which clings to destructive emotions. In other words, the earth, with its | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| a number of general and particular misconceptions and destructive attitudes. You will find the following factor connected | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| truth, as opposed to untruth. Reorientation of negative, destructive consciousness can take place only after you understand | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| Without an ego these strivings are unrealistic, even destructive. You all have experienced in your pathwork that | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| desires are not only illusory but selfish and destructive. They have to be abandoned before they can | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| fact that you do not give up the destructive patterns. If you say often enough how bad | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| hostility against unjustified demands, where compliance would be destructive for all concerned. You will not be driven | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| contact with others, or from facing faults and destructive attitudes in yourself, but primarily you flee from | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| misconception, underestimation of self, illusion, fear, and other destructive conditions. Hence in these areas love and trust | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| would be no justice and no progress. The destructive forces would take over. Allowing this takeover to | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| healthy, need not in the least lead to destructive acts, either physical or otherwise. This is one | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| no difference whether you feel or act in destructive, harmful ways. Hence, the entire trouble area is | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| insight is gained, little by little, and the destructive attitudes change, the cooperation between the outer and | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| Let me put it this way: All the destructive emotions that are hidden underground create problems, hazards | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| It is this: Mere negativity, as in a destructive attitude, has a much less destructive effect than | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| in a destructive attitude, has a much less destructive effect than destructiveness attached to and combined with | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| positive force mingles with a negativity or a destructive attitude, this combination creates evil. Real destructiveness is | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| you are. As long as you keep a destructive part of yourself separated and secret, or hazy | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| actions. Simply state, I shall fully face these destructive feelings, which will not force me into actions | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| encounter an inner distaste for giving up such destructive feelings, I shall neither deny this inner refusal | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| you is the part that hates and nurtures destructive wishes and desires. You begin by hiding it | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| as death itself. For no matter how many destructive, undesirable facets you may find in yourself, your | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| cannot come out of it. The negative and destructive substance you fear in yourself is unchangeable only | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| what is and to give up what is destructive, this, as all choices, must be honored. But | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| with uncovering the images, the wrong concepts, the destructive emotions and behavior patterns. To the extent that | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| In the first attempts to bring hitherto unconscious destructive material to the surface, the individual often feels | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the individual often feels as though an indwelling destructive entity, over which there is no control, were | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| struggle between the educated ego and the indwelling destructive element ceases as soon as the outer ego | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| is able to recognize its oneness with the destructive element. The process is identical when you meet | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| unaware of it as you are of the destructive processes. As the mind questions its previous perception | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| to the fore. This process applies to the destructive as well as to the most constructive and | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| As you take ownership and responsibility for the destructive in you, it no longer rules you, and | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| When you are no longer ruled by the destructive because you accept it as part of you | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| hitherto undreamed-of results. As you see how the destructive elements in you work and what motivates them | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| conscious mind. As long as you fear the destructive in you, you must also fear the divine | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| in you. You will cease to fear the destructive only if and when you are willing to | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| these areas you are separated from knowing what destructive elements are at work as well as from | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| of how you give in to the most destructive thought patterns and emotions. You will see how | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| it. You give in to the negative, the destructive so easily! You entrust yourself so readily to | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| this process and use your energy to halt destructive processes, when you deliberately contact the powers within | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| in harmony, and there is no trace of destructive motivation in the remotest recesses of your personality | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| great? Basically the fear is due to people's destructive aims, and specifically to your aim of refusing | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| It can be resolved only when negative and destructive aims are surrendered, and the best of who | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| usual superficial way of meeting life situations, unconscious destructive aims must fall away. Paying only shallow attention | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| primary aim of the personality is in fact destructive. Covering up the more powerful destructive aim can | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| in fact destructive. Covering up the more powerful destructive aim can be subtle but it nevertheless has | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| constructively, and not by selfishness or any other destructive attitude. Isolation, and the attitude of me versus | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| their own innermost aims, at least partially, are destructive and malignant. This vicious circle between life's malignancy | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| it will feel frightening when you pursue negative, destructive aims -- free self-expression is dangerous, contact with | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| threatens to eliminate control. Without this control, your destructive aims could take over and threaten annihilation. Giving | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| up of selfhood and safety, as long as destructive aims persist and preoccupy the psyche. Therefore, in | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| The inherent tragedy is that as long as destructive goals exist in the psyche, isolation gives one | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| necessary with negativity in the psyche. Otherwise the destructive aims not only become exposed to the self | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| one fears their taking over and manifesting in destructive actions. Hence control seems necessary, a control that | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| give of yourself and of cultivating a negative, destructive, or at least a denying attitude toward life | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| to misunderstanding and ignorance, the energy will turn destructive. The result of the inverted power must be | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| pain must cease. This is not necessarily a destructive way of embracing pain, or a masochistic, self- | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| of people cannot imagine how they might harbor destructive desires. Even some friends who have been on | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| may as yet be unable to feel their destructive direction. Meditate and truly want to find what | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| a self-perpetuating negativity that you sow through your destructive wishes. You must therefore suffer because you deny | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| such periods of mutual positiveness, until the negative, destructive, and denying side is fully understood and eliminated | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| understood and eliminated. The negative, the denying and destructive direction would not be as fierce and as | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| the precarious pleasure you derive from indulging in destructive feelings and attitudes. This may evolve subtly, insidiously | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| because of that! Were you free from the destructive desires, you would not feel guilty, hence you | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| the ensuing chain reactions must be negative, confining, destructive and disagreeable. Let us take any idea that | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| removed you are in your mental confusions and destructive emotions, the more difficult it becomes to return | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| self and others, which forces you to be destructive -- either of the self or the other | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| more? When you precisely acknowledge the empty or destructive areas, when you acknowledge the possibility that within | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| your deliberate destructiveness; how you want to be destructive, how you wallow in your desire to be | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| how you wallow in your desire to be destructive. This is great progress, my friends. If you | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| begun to do -- that you are deliberately destructive in those areas where you are unhappy. When | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| and your sense of worthlessness vanish. Yet your destructive past tries to assert its worth by continuing | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| to assert its worth by continuing to be destructive. Most of you here still find yourselves in | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| face it -- and all the old negative, destructive emotions returned. I suffered and suffered; I couldn't | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| though it is outwardly constructive activity, it is destructive to happiness. I would like to know if | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| fear. QUESTION: Would you say that overemotionalism is destructive? ANSWER: Of course, everything that is over, exaggerated | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| a guilt feeling because I get a negative, destructive pleasure out of it. If I would let | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| not indoctrinated with false concepts, false fears, and destructive attitudes. Only then can the ego give up | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| its direction. The negative fields contain all your destructive patterns of believing, thinking, feeling, and willing, which | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| for you to switch the energy currents from destructive into constructive channels. Only in this way can | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| pleasure drive is negatively attached to a particular destructive pattern. Part of your resistance to correcting these | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| It explains why your idealized self-image is so destructive. You feel more confident when you make yourself | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| tight grip on certain attitudes that are obviously destructive but protect you from danger. This makes it | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| Because you are driven and controlled by the destructive force set in motion by your negative concept | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| take a defensive position toward life, perpetuating the destructive trend. In the last lecture I discussed the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| new, constructive attitude that will replace the old, destructive one. This is how transformation must occur; rarely | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| first penetrate the mask self that hides your destructive attitudes. You are so afraid to do so | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| afraid to do so because you think this destructive self is your ultimate reality, and the only | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| when this first battle is won can the destructive currents be let out so they can reconvert | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| themselves therefore often believe this pathwork to be destructive or negative. It must appear that way from | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| the opposite state. The justification manifests as a destructive, negative world view to justify a personal fear | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| Human beings are geared to think of a destructive force as something opposed to a constructive force | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| affirming way, or it can turn into a destructive, negating current. In order to understand this process | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| which the positive life force turns into a destructive non-life force. Feelings turn from love to fear | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| will be in a position to allow the destructive current to unfold, express itself, and reconvert itself | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| primarily manifests itself in your life as sexuality, destructive, blocked energy contains blocked sexual energy. It follows | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| from the erroneous dualistic concepts which are always destructive. It actually does destroy the other's value, at | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| and measures itself against others, this uniqueness is destructive and must lead to innumerable problems. But when | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| positive power at work and convert it into destructive power. When you feel envy, or -- looking | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| which must be ascertained in order to eliminate destructive feelings. Hence this anger is essentially directed against | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| eliminate the weakness is not by forcing the destructive feelings away. This cannot succeed. One must work | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the counter-pull, with its fear, distrust, and other destructive feelings, must then create negative contact. All human | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| easily be distorted into two opposites, both equally destructive. Everyone knows that the inability to tolerate frustration | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| driven, so you are unable to stop the destructive process. This lecture aims to help you understand | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| concept, each wrong conclusion, each erroneous opinion, each destructive attitude, each negative emotion stands directly in the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| from the life-stream. The reason for cultivating this destructive attitude is in part the dualistic misconception mentioned | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| unpleasant, change my personality, or give up a destructive attitude I do not wish to shed -- | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| barrier to wanting to be constructive rather than destructive, and not for an as yet theoretical process | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| ensuing actions and emotions are bound to be destructive and are geared to defend something that does | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the creative life energy, involuntary processes that are destructive. Since the energy caught up in the images | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of the images, the involuntary, unconscious process is destructive. The conscious mind is an instrument of the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| understanding that the involuntary processes need not be destructive, that they are only destructive according to your | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| need not be destructive, that they are only destructive according to your hidden misconceptions. Yet, in actuality | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Your mind can nurture brooding thoughts which encourage destructive emotions. Or your mind can choose honesty with | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| happen? My feelings may want something that is destructive or that I disapprove of. And I say | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| built into their very existence, just as the destructive emotions and assumptions become self-regulating in the automatic | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| go. By the same token, letting go becomes destructive when it is used to evade the truth | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a result of self-indulgence, of indulging in a destructive line of least resistance, maintaining unhealthy attitudes. Then | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| self-deception must still exist. A will to be destructive and negative must still exist. A desire to | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |