| Dichotomy...................20 | |
| you will be able to pinpoint this particular dichotomy. This is very important, for the moment you | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| said at the beginning of this lecture, all dichotomy, all duality, can be reduced to the simple | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| and important example of this state is the dichotomy between desire and fulfillment. In health and truth | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| your greatest longing and your deepest fear. Such dichotomy between desire and fear is particularly strong in | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| are no more opposites to be feared, the dichotomy no longer exists. Self-realization always leads to the | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| and is therefore distorted, and where the pleasure/unpleasure dichotomy produces an unconscious fixation of the pleasure experience | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| yourself -- and then you will see the dichotomy between pleasure and unpleasure. You will understand and | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| cannot really be wanted. You cannot resolve this dichotomy unless you go deep into your psychic processes | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| state is felt as painful and undesirable. The dichotomy causes the entity to strive away from one | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| out of the tragic misunderstanding of duality, the dichotomy that is rampant on this earth sphere, where | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| will indeed come to see that this unrealistic dichotomy is present in your attitude. When you bring | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| the first obstructions to look for is the dichotomy of anxious striving versus hopeless resignation, arising from | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| with this false concept begins to see a dichotomy between the two which are really one. Many | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| extricate yourself from the incredibly painful and hopeless dichotomy in which all humanity is caught. One person | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| us look at the other side of this dichotomy: the question of doubt. Doubt exists in the | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| my friends, I would like to explain another dichotomy you have experienced in the course of this | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of your path, there is no longer a dichotomy between the self and others. When you free | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| have here a very painful conflict and a dichotomy. On the one hand, you resent and envy | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| of the personality can only come when the dichotomy of frustration versus fulfillment has been conciliated. Now | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| is obviously a substantial step toward conciliating the dichotomy of frustration versus fulfillment. The further step on | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Dictate.....................6 | |
| may assume many forms. It does not always dictate standards of recognized perfection. Oh yes, much of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| a substitute. For instance, the idealized self-image may dictate to live up to something, or gain something | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the rigid conditions of the self- will that dictate all the details. This describes the difference between | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| All the false assumptions you harbor seem to dictate keeping them secret. For example, should it be | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| in which large groups master the masses and dictate laws and values. The self-alienation of overcrowded living | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| going to be wonderful. Without knowing it, you dictate into your soul a belief creating circumstances that | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Dictated....................7 | |
| in turn, would follow what the Luciferic spirits dictated. Despite all this harm and danger, the few | 21 THE FALL |
| final solution at once. And this urge is dictated by the false belief that you prove yourself | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| connected with religion. Merely sanitary, or health reasons dictated them. In certain periods of history, under different | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| very proper and correct behavior is often not dictated by love at all. Let us now consider | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| to grasp eternal values. The temporary needs are dictated by the conditions of a specific society. Social | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| are they the will of God. They are dictated by appearance values. Such desires and God's will | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| ego, so that perfection was forced, pretended, punitively dictated, in order to allay the fear of facing | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Dictates....................25 | |
| return to the above example. The lower self dictates to the person to be quite ruthless about | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| perfection. Oh yes, much of the idealized self-image dictates highly moral standards, making it all the more | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the ungenuine pretense imposed upon you by the dictates of your idealized self. You will discover the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| some of the implications. Since the standards and dictates of the idealized self are impossible to realize | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| one is incapable of living up to the dictates of one's particular idealized self, which say that | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the other two types. This particular idealized self-image dictates standards of godlike independence and power. Believing in | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| liking anyone. The idealized image in this case dictates that one must not love. Loving, or at | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| cannot do justice even to the chosen solution's dictates. Even if it were possible never to fail | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| this becomes more and more impossible when the dictates of a person's idealized self-image simultaneously demand one | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| on others and therefore feeling insecure -- the dictates of the idealized self- image of these two | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| is shocked by them because they violate the dictates of the withdrawal solution. These dictates are, You | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| violate the dictates of the withdrawal solution. These dictates are, You must look benignly and detachedly at | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| being is ever quite as serene. Hence such dictates are unrealistic and unrealizable. They, too, include pride | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| must also fall short of the standards and dictates of this particular idealized self-image. This will make | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| each one is that living according to the dictates of these solutions will help you master life | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| resentments because they do not correspond to the dictates of their idealized self-image. When you find such | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| of minor significance for you, remains imbedded and dictates your reactions towards future events? You thus distort | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| state of development and you evaluate all its dictates without acting them out. Then you will have | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| that may or may not coincide with the dictates of society. In neither case will the person | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| no longer acts and feels according to such dictates. And that is a tremendous milestone on the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| act the way the unconscious, fearful, life-refusing part dictates. This is then rationalized and explained away. Even | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the instinct of self- preservation. But mere expedience dictates this kind of conscience. It is still far | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| are merely reactions to unexplored attitudes; other people's dictates over you; or all these mixed up together | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| create willfully from the little ego, following the dictates of vanity, greed, laziness, and dishonesty, so can | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| well. In that distorted, immature state the self-will dictates total omnipotence: I want it my way. There | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Dictator....................3 | |
| breaking the rules, exercising power, and becoming the dictator in your environment. In either case, the God-image | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I feel about the assassination of Trujillo, the dictator of the Dominican Republic? ANSWER: If you ask | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| seemingly stronger person: a mate, a boss, a dictator. By serving them, you hope to gain the | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Die.........................66 | |
| will never become shallow, or dry out, or die, but will always be alive, pulsating, forever regenerating | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| a disease of which he knows he must die. What should such a person do? ANSWER: It | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| spirits to protect the people destined not to die. This is always the task of the guardian | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| spirits are specifically trained to receive people who die in a different way, to lead them and | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| where, when, and how one is going to die, and even how certain definite phases within the | 18 FREE WILL |
| be. You must not imagine that when you die your state of being will be altogether different | 18 FREE WILL |
| thus live a more pleasant life. If you die, for instance, in a state of fear, you | 18 FREE WILL |
| in a state of fear afterward. If you die in a state of serenity, you will be | 18 FREE WILL |
| Yes. How is it possible that sometimes babies die at birth after they have already received their | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| on this path. You know that when you die, not only your physical body disintegrates but the | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| ANSWER: Well, my dear, you know that children die and I have often discussed this. If it | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| forty-five years of age. And the majority did die at that age. Of course, you can say | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| number of people whose plan it is to die when they are twenty. QUESTION: What I meant | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| utter harmony with the life force would not die, yet would not remain in the physical body | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| point repressed into the unconscious, it did not die; it is still alive in the present. You | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| a hurt, disappointment, frustration, or rejection, wishes to die. When analyzing this thoroughly, we find that the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| is seldom so deep that the wish to die is genuine. The child desires to die most | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| to die is genuine. The child desires to die most often in order to punish those who | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| Father we are born, in the Son we die. In other words, it is a certain restriction | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| it may have otherwise, especially with people who die in agony. Can they apply this experience in | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| seconds. Is it possible that they actually do die for a few moments? ANSWER: No. What you | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| There is no human being who does not die many little deaths every day. Your attitude toward | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| it. The task is learning the strength to die, for only the person who knows how to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| for only the person who knows how to die knows how to live. Needless to say, you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| physical death in order to learn how to die. Not only can your occasional conscious fear of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| living. If you do not know how to die, you cannot live because you cannot reconcile the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| which in turn comes from the inability to die. Civilized life constantly imposes on you the alternatives | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| In the same way, your desire never to die makes you reject life. All of your everyday | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of it, and then you can learn to die -- and thus to live! As you become | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| have to wait for physical death, because you die many deaths every day, in all your little | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you meet both life and death, you cannot die. You will then live in the true sense | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| person's professed belief and attitude. The desire to die, for instance, does not necessarily indicate a true | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| more is meant by coming home. You may die many deaths, one earth life after another, but | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| pass from childhood into adulthood. Even if you die in this life as a child, at one | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| eternal, it must potentially be growth; spirit cannot die. Its growth and unfoldment can be arrested if | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the state of adolescence? Did they rise and die? ANSWER: Part of the answer is that some | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| will live. If I am unhappy, I must die. There is nothing in-between perfect bliss and absolute | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| said that you must learn the ability to die, that you will do so by acceptance, and | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| of embodiments, one after the other, learning to die until dying is no longer a frightening experience | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| does not mean that you should want to die. To find these deep levels which make relinquishing | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| but I know that I am destined to die, even if I am able to love. ANSWER | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| frustration, insistence and rigidity with a do or die attitude, are equally erroneous. Only when individuals learn | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| pleasure supreme. Since it is life, it cannot die. It is the essence of all that breathes | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| really without feelings and these feelings cannot ever die permanently. Life and feelings are one; where there | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| discordant layers, the aspects that resist union, gradually die off. Resisting growth is not necessarily a theoretical | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| in your turn, you abandon life when you die. I am very involved with abandonment. ANSWER: Wherever | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| body and soul cease to exist when you die. On the contrary, the body feelings come from | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| all- consciousness, which is you and can never die, and which must slowly interpenetrate the vacuum. The | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| stagnation. If you stop moving, you begin to die. On the feeling level, the same holds true | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| your own state of eternal being that cannot die. You will also become aware of the power | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| do not fear death because you now can die, just as you can be in pain. Whenever | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| the opposite road must be taken. You must die many deaths, right now, every day in your | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| then will you live fearlessly. How can you die all these little deaths? Follow exactly the process | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| have such an investment in. You have to die to those. The little ego with its little | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| The little ego with its little investments must die. In that way you can transcend death and | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| thus become happy and fulfilled, then they must die. The way they visualize dying is, of course | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| to establish, the inner being may decide to die. The higher self knows that to continue in | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Premature and violent deaths, as when young people die in war, often, though not always, fall into | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| that were emphasized in the first incarnation may die down after the rebirth. They are no longer | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| existing beyond me, that goes on and doesn't die; it is eternal. It is me eternal. I | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| will not be a question of do or die. Such a demand creates an unbearable tension that | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| you are God. As such you can never die. Give that which is you now, in your | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| on an unconscious level -- the will to die. Thus the life span becomes more limited than | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| appearance duality is a fact. Life seems to die, evil always lurks somewhere in the shadows no | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| that they will no longer exist once they die, in this very acceptance lies the ultimate rage | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| beat, an outbreathing. Each time life seems to die an inbreathing takes place. The strength of the | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |