| of unhappiness, the will to be negative and destructive -- to cheat, to defy, to pretend, not | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| psychological reactions to outer experiences that cause negative, destructive emotions and reactions in you. I do not | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| It does not mean that you invite damaging, destructive actions from others or yourself. To the contrary | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| truthfully open to the pain, fear, or other destructive emotion, you will not masochistically aggrandize and exaggerate | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| do anything or everything. This would be completely destructive and a crass misunderstanding of what I am | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| condition elicits, again and again, difficulty, crisis, disharmony, destructive feelings. These are the experiences people so often | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| There is the possibility that something negative and destructive would come out. And there is the possibility | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| each human being if it is unhampered. The destructive forces of hate, hostility, resentment, anger, and cruelty | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| proper circumstances in a way that is not destructive to anyone, and at the same time lets | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| and then only, will whatever is unnatural and destructive reconvert itself. Now let us go back to | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| to be spontaneous and thus to allow the destructive emotion to reconvert to its original pleasure current | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| current. As I said, not only are the destructive forces feared, but often love and pleasure are | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| cause no harm. In fact, the more the destructive feelings are acknowledged and the responsibility for them | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| violent forms, but it is all the more destructive indirectly. This phenomenon is very much underestimated. All | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| be avoided if the full strength of a destructive feeling is directly expressed and lived through. The | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| you can let go and give up the destructive attitude, whatever it may be, no matter how | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| eliminate, once and for all, the constricted, resentful, destructive, enraged, rigid place in you from which you | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| without judging yourself, yet knowing that they are destructive and understanding why they are there, as well | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of it this best has turned into something destructive -- at least in part. If you truly | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| what was best became distorted, then facing your destructive side will not be the horror it now | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you have to reject entirely. For in this destructive, sadistic side resides a power which is, in | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the beautiful thing it was before it turned destructive. Then you will be unable to feel so | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you, of course -- everyone. Even the most destructive aspects are, in themselves, components of something beautiful | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| first you allow it to emerge in its destructive way and that you take cognizance of it | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you do not mean license to act out destructive impulses. Some people may misunderstand. You mean by | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unfold infinitely, or one remains stuck in a destructive, erroneous state and then the negative effects become | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| negative. Negative motivation does not necessarily imply a destructive intent. For that matter, a positive motivation in | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| in this context could also mean a very destructive intent or aim. The avoidance of a feared | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| as guilt comes up. You conclude that your destructive feelings must be hidden so as not to | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| of misconceptions, distortions, and illusions with all the destructive emotions that follow suit. You find yourself in | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| question is only whether the ego follows erroneous destructive drives or whether it is activated by the | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| must learn to interpret the messages of the destructive unconscious, as well as of the still more | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| to work inadvertently, arbitrarily, haphazardly by your unwise, destructive and sloppy thinking processes, your fears, your misconceptions | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| and thus disconnected from you. If you do, destructive processes will determine the creation of yourself and | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| constructive, benign, good and wise. It is also destructive, vicious, evil and stupid. This does not make | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| therefore forgotten. This is true for the erroneous, destructive part as well as for the universal mind | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| this is such a general, universal distortion. The destructive part of the universal consciousness is deeply imprinted | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| you may be surprised at the expression the destructive part of the universal consciousness, for it is | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| exist. As you have a personal constructive and destructive unconscious, so it is with the consciousness of | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the individual, this consciousness is partly constructive, partly destructive; what is contained in it is partly aware | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the waking, conscious mind as well as the destructive unconscious -- so can group consciousness. Larger bodies | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| such a change. The more individuals dissolve their destructive conscious and unconscious processes and transcend them by | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the self, consisting of an apparently quite separate destructive, self-willed part and a still more hidden infinite | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| you have -- through your errors, misconceptions and destructive feelings and behavior patterns -- created these unpleasurable | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| causes you to put up all your most destructive defense mechanisms, which increase the unconscious denial, destructiveness | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| inner behavior. Blaming brings in its wake other destructive attitudes: stubbornness, blind resistance, the desire to punish | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| anyone, but overly blame yourself in a very destructive attitude that does not find a way out | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| character attitudes of defeatism that make people so destructive that they would rather forfeit their life than | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| personality tries to force a change before the destructive attitude is quite conscious, nothing real can be | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| who are as yet unaware that they are destructive -- that they do not wish to be | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of the ego-self -- is attached to a destructive attitude, it is incompatible with the universal forces | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| let go, you can now realize that deep destructive forces and attitudes are still rampant in you | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| you exists a will to be negative and destructive. This will is quite deliberate, once you become | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| matter how much you still want to be destructive in certain areas. By destructiveness I mean the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| face. Then they become quite distinct. Perhaps the destructive attitude is to secretly think, No one knows | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| values -- it must be because of a destructive attitude, a negativity you are as yet unwilling | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| you feel anxious, ask yourself: Where am I destructive? Where am I negative? Where do I refuse | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| victimized you are in a vicious circle. The destructive projections and blaming of others consumes the energy | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| assumption snowballs into a host of untenable, painful, destructive beliefs and defense measures, each in itself causing | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| you into actions and feelings which are truly destructive and are called evil. They blur out the | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| balanced, each way produces inappropriate, ineffective, and even destructive results. It is important for every growing individual | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| a firm but relaxed way. The resistant and destructive unconscious must be neither yielded to nor anxiously | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| receiving spirit in which the expressions of the destructive unconscious are accepted. The unfoldment of the universal | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| both alternately: instruct firmly, calmly, and determinedly the destructive part of the hidden self to express itself | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| use less effort and thus fall back into destructive patterns of mind, emotion, and action. At the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| of reasons. You may even be driven to destructive actions, to seeking troublesome life situations that seem | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| consciousness must treat the unconscious -- even the destructive, childish, distorted part of it -- with respect | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| The relationship between the conscious mind and the destructive part of the unconscious can be established by | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| often diametrically opposed to each other. Once the destructive and obstructive unconscious aspects are allowed to reveal | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| two aspects of growth and integration -- transforming destructive elements and manifesting the divine self -- presuppose | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| of your own unconscious processes. Even the most destructive attitudes result not from evil but from sheer | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| one fully understands this fact, even the most destructive processes are awesomely impressive, for their principle and | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| satisfaction when they feed the needs of their destructive demands. Usually people overlook, or even ignore, that | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| true that to affirm an undesirable condition, a destructive attitude, is as undesirable as negating a positive | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| and increases underlying separateness and selfishness in the destructive sense. So you can see, my friends, even | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| separating personalities, who may desire to proclaim their destructive selfishness and separateness as health and self-assertion. This | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| in the capacity to distinguish between healthy and destructive selfishness, so you will not fall into the | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| of further errors, creating many chain reactions of destructive emotions and attitudes. To name only a few | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| ensuing rage and hostility will build up hidden destructive selfishness. In your emotions and hidden desires you | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| no reality to your own self. The hidden, destructive selfishness comes from fear and makes guilt an | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| that true self-interest is nothing but egotism and destructive selfishness. This is why you need to be | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the innermost kernel has led to erroneous ideas, destructive reactions and feelings; spiritual blindness, unhappiness, and suffering | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| out, induced violence, rage, greed, separateness, and other destructive emotions. This still exists in the soul: suffering | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| aware than animals, they freely acted out these destructive feelings. Primitive humans knew no inhibition and no | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| led them into suffering. Thus, they indulged their destructive impulses. At later stages, humans learned that acting | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| as the feeling world is predominantly negative and destructive, its self-perpetuating nature creates highly damaging impulses and | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| divine, even if it now manifests in a destructive way. So, when reason and will erect a | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| the destructiveness under control. Yet the more the destructive feelings are denied, the less they can transform | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| entirely too dangerous, baring the most primal, selfish, destructive feelings, which seem bottomless and final. This explains | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| incarnations and experiences, to channel and control the destructive, primitive self that can go berserk and wreak | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| underdeveloped and therefore cannot stem the flood of destructive emotions. Humans must spend many lifetimes training reason | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| been developed is it safe to allow primitive, destructive feelings to the surface without being compelled into | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| you will not have to become angry or destructive. These are merely reactions to a feeling you | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| true, it must also hold true of distorted, destructive emotions. And since it is true, you can | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| the while knowing, without self-justification, the irrational and destructive nature of what is flowing out. Do not | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| negativity that makes the courage to experience the destructive feelings so perilous. For as long as it | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| the courage to face, experience, and express the destructive feelings cannot be completely mustered. Therefore, these two | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| dispassionately the irrationality of your negation, of your destructive insistence on remaining separate and ungiving, you will | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| expression of it must be equally distorted and destructive. You cannot express the truth of what you | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| briefly: Wrong perception of self leads to wrong, destructive reaction and, further, to destructive expression out into | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| leads to wrong, destructive reaction and, further, to destructive expression out into the world. This, in turn | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| express to others be anything but negative and destructive? Moreover, how can your perception of others be | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| groping for the right balance of letting the destructive, ignorant, irrational child in you express itself, without | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| give up your stubborn insistence, old beliefs, and destructive patterns and find the way that leads to | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| aware of yourself do you eventually see the destructive process that leads to the limit beyond which | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| already be unfolding or slumbering as potentials. Since destructive tendencies and evil are not verities in themselves | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| have a choice to assume a constructive or destructive attitude, a truthful or self-deceptive attitude. You have | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| about many obstructions, such as your misconceptions and destructive attitudes, in many ways and from many approaches | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| a desire because you find that it is destructive in itself. At other times, the desire itself | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| be in harmony. If what is created is destructive, painful, wasteful, or unhappy, these two principles must | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the activating principle then threatens to express these destructive impulses. There are many men as well as | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| that they have no compunction about expressing their destructive impulses. They do not mind activating the masculine | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| personality has settled its difficulty with its own destructive nature. People may have to go through a | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| that a person is sufficiently cleansed of the destructive distortions so as to safely use his or | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| longer needing and therefore no longer fearing the destructive forces, it also begins to know that it | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| not like it and I know it is destructive, you are not only truthful, but you make | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| why you so stubbornly hold on to a destructive attitude. Many of the following laws deal more | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| change this tendency without going to the equally destructive opposite extreme of rebellious, hostile defiance. She will | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| for Neurosis A childhood trauma produces deprivation, unhappiness, destructive feelings and behavior -- in short, neurosis -- | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| is possible only when you profoundly understand your destructive patterns and drastically change them. Stepping-Stone or Stumbling | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| actions were based on illusion and thus were destructive. As long as we are oblivious of them | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| only increases blindness and makes us retain the destructive attitude that produced it in the first place | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| personality would function, as opposed to the past destructive patterns. Although the outer ego personality, with its | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| may be healthy and productive or unhealthy and destructive. The following examples will help to illustrate the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| from misconceptions. No false beliefs create fear, defensiveness, destructive emotions. Someone who is in truth perceives the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| become aware of how each mistaken idea creates destructive feelings and limited concepts of self and life | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| if the thought is untrue and the feeling destructive. To the degree you have attained outer awareness | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| feelings are based on false ideas and are destructive for you and feel unpleasant. You can search | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| understanding so that you can indirectly influence these destructive feelings, until one day you suddenly react in | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| more true than the notion that your ignorant, destructive unconscious resides in a special area within you | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| all the errors that create negative feelings and destructive actions. You know already from so much that | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| that make you adopt unproductive and often even destructive attitudes? Tension must always be related to error | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| misconception; the feeling responds to it by negative, destructive emotions; and the body expresses all this with | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the danger of self-indulgence and self-justification for the destructive traits that exist in all human beings, no | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| can you confront, accept, and admit those negative, destructive traits, weaknesses, little selfishnesses, cruelties, and vanities that | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| can you avoid falling into the danger of destructive guilt, self-rejection, and self-contempt? This is a deep-rooted | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| often even beautifying -- a very undesirable and destructive trait. Here you have the full-fledged confusion! Here | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| will sense that even the lowliest of all destructive creatures has every possibility for change and for | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| for good and constructive, as well as for destructive, ends. Wherever there is life and consciousness, both | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |