| to avoid facing what is actually negative and destructive. Do not blindly apply it to distortions of | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| sum total of everything that is negative and destructive in you. The mind does not want to | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| to accept the consequences of being negative and destructive. It would be a shortcut. So the topic | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| undesirable for yourself and other people. They are destructive and they cut out life. You face and | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| recognize the old way of functioning as being destructive, negative, undesirable for myself and others -- it | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| activity. When you tend to doubt in the destructive way, faith must protect you from being submerged | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| true happiness? What in me makes me so destructive? How much do I really pay for allowing | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| terms, even though its terms are life-denying and destructive for the self and others. This countermovement has | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| the lower self approach anywhere near the intensely destructive levels I discussed earlier. But the lower self | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| discussed earlier. But the lower self is always destructive; otherwise, it would not be a lower self | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| not be a lower self. It may be destructive in wanting to be malicious or ungiving. It | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| wanting to be malicious or ungiving. It is destructive by persisting in its limited view that what | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| selfish is good for the self. It is destructive simply in refusing total self- surrender to the | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| this: Here I see myself wanting to be destructive. I see the pain it causes me, the | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| way, yet I want to go on being destructive. I do not want to give up my | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| glory of this work. What was once negative, destructive, and even outright evil, will turn positive, constructive | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| ignorance makes it stubborn, unperceptive, as well as destructive and negative. Earth also possesses a lower self | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| do not trust it. You trust your old, destructive habitual defenses more. Then of course there are | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| themselves out from a power that would turn destructive in a mind that is still geared to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| truth and to changing what is negative and destructive. But then there are specific aspects that require | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| The constructive power of these energies then turns destructive, though only in the limited light of human | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| between social and antisocial behavior, between constructive and destructive acts. This was a totally dualistic state, inevitable | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| evil, between what was constructive and what was destructive for others, even if it seemed advantageous to | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| and deprived you feel when you refrain from destructive behavior, and also how guilty and self-rejecting you | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| who have acted primarily on the selfish and destructive level must come to a change of heart | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| there would have been chaos, and the most destructive impulses would have been acted out to a | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| are therefore disconnected structures. When it comes to destructive acts of killing, stealing, or in other ways | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| this would affect the organism: it would be destructive to life. It is no different with the | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| and they will willfully act out in a destructive way -- children as well as adults. The | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| or the will of the cut-off, ignorant and destructive particle of consciousness. Be it conscious or not | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| in your unacceptability, because all defenses are negative, destructive, and create guilt. So even when you try | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| frustration, pain, difficulties, struggle. Obviously this distortion is destructive. It implies selfishness, lovelessness, ruthless disregard for others | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| movement, while you perceive the contracting principle as destructive. You ignore the existence and importance of the | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| is a game, a kind of deliberate but destructive playfulness, which is based on nothing but superstition | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| The superstition of pessimism begins as a superstitious destructive playfulness, but then you get lost in its | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| to appease the gods, as it were, is destructive. You do not know the power of such | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| lower-self desires, that you can indulge in every destructive action or attitude without facing the consequences. This | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| the same time these currents can turn more destructive when channeled into inappropriate and negative directions. Therefore | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| from it. In a sense it is more destructive and insidiously negative than outright, active maligning. Maligners | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| you find it so difficult to change a destructive, negative attitude or fault even though you have | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| compelled by inner forces to commit an impulsive destructive act. The pain and remorse that this act | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| negative thoughts, and is not part of your destructive attitudes or actions. But those layers of your | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| perceptions and therefore in untruthful attitudes and unloving, destructive acts, must work themselves out of this morass | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| positive, energetic, aggressive movement will replace childish and destructive rebellion and denial. Graceful giving in, yielding, following | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| process of accepting their feelings, no matter how destructive they may be. People must learn to find | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| others. Once people learn to accept even their destructive feelings they can begin to change them. This | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| its ignorance, fear, and lack of faith, creates destructive defenses and negative intentionality, and the voices of | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| you learn to observe any other irrational and destructive reaction. Often this seems to make so little | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| negative pleasure which makes you persist in a destructive course bringing clouds of pain and darkness to | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| surface. You keep it down by strengthening the destructive process of projecting on others what you fear | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| -- even though they may not be particularly destructive or outright wrong -- exert through their unrecognized | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| and win with your negativity, your evil, your destructive attitudes, you realistically and logically conclude that Creation | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| resist knowing this because you believe that your destructive aspects are your essence, your ultimate reality. That | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| you protect yourself against this alleged hostility with destructive defenses -- that you may or may not | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| have unwittingly created through false beliefs and by destructive means that only increase the deficit. Then the | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| self-moralizing, without discouragement. All these forcing attitudes are destructive and erroneous. The attempt to enforce an ideal | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| to involve you in hiding something negative or destructive. If these secrets were revealed, they could be | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| maintain and nurture negative thoughts, dishonest actions, and destructive behavior patterns. The person who has a stake | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| of them and of me regardless of how destructive they may be. If you do not, I | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| you will no longer need to desire a destructive act or attitude. Your lower self must be | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| who inspire you to trust in your false, destructive, separating devices for safety and for the resolution | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| divine love, an aspect that seems cruel. Nature's destructive forces, the storms, the floods and the earthquakes | 254 SURRENDER |
| to be clear and undistorted by childish or destructive motivations. When this is the case, your intuition | 254 SURRENDER |
| part in you that is most childish, most destructive, most shortsighted, is the self that is autonomous | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| those who come from the lowest spheres, with destructive intent and/or spiritual ignorance, will be capable of | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| new and better structure can be erected. Many destructive events on your earth are of this kind | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| thicket of obsolete values, the old negative and destructive attitudes toward life. The new values are still | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| are misguided. Many succumb to the influence of destructive forces and evil spirits. This can never be | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| universe that makes you suffer -- these are destructive responses to your rhythm pattern that delay its | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| easier to let all aggression out in a destructive way and give in to negative influences without | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| are now, no matter how flawed, imperfect and destructive your lower self may be, will you be | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |