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 Driving.....................14
interpret these feelings correctly and will allow this driving force to act through them and even lead 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS
for God, the longing for God, is the driving force in every human being. Even those who 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS
part. You will feel that you are the driving force of your life. You can help yourself 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
cannot do justice to their real demands. The driving force to still the hunger is misdirected. Real 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
it is your spiritual life-blood. This is the driving force -- in a good and healthy sense 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
Where there is a forcing current and a driving need, there is lust. You all have that 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
is the unconscious mind. The unconscious motivations, attitudes, driving forces, and inclinations are from the soul and 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
the contradictory directions of your soul. The force driving you into love is great indeed, for it 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
action, which has consequences. The action following the driving force or impetus actively builds, affects, causes, and 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
upon the age-old alternatives of taking refuge or driving through. It is perhaps the most important question 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
in and through your feelings should be the driving force in this specific meditation. Your declaration and 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
will hurt and deprive you, for you are driving a separating wedge between yourself and the richness 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
become inwardly relaxed. See your own inner rushing, driving, grasping. Observe it, until you can stop it 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
the fear and the desire will become a driving force, in a most positive sense, to find 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
 
 Drop........................7
is desirable for Westerners to meditate on the drop and the iceberg or on the iceberg and 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
on this path. This strength will be given drop by drop for all your needs, spiritual and 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
path. This strength will be given drop by drop for all your needs, spiritual and material, when 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
abyss can only disappear if you let yourself drop into it. Then and then only will you 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
anybody with common sense who is willing to drop the resistance? If you do not see what 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
present is fully acknowledged, pride and cowardice will drop away without effort. Cowardice, in its compliance and 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
fear of your fear and can let yourself drop into the fear itself, this fear will very 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
 
 Drown.......................3
of insecurity that clamors for alleviation. You may drown out this voice by all sorts of evasions 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
self. A person may, while performing such tasks, drown out his or her inner insecurity. But you 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
ego has been strengthened through self-discipline, one would drown in one's own chaos. So, you see, self-discipline 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
 
 Drowning....................3
with the slow process of striving, grasping, and drowning, is very much at the core of your 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
You will swim in the fear rather than drowning in it. This will eliminate the feeling of 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
to struggling against the wave. The fear of drowning prevents people from swimming, even though they have 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
 
 Drug........................9
in a way, to taking drugs. Taking a drug once will not harm your body or spirit 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
to other people and not in order to drug himself so as not to face an unpleasant 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
suppose you are tempted to take an addictive drug, having the intention not to succumb to it 20 GOD: THE CREATION
All this produces further deliberate escapes, such as drug addiction, or alcoholism, or psychosis, or other measures 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
forms of releasing ego over-functioning are alcoholism and drug addiction. Less extreme forms are self-alienation and mental 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
rejected to begin with, evasion may lead to drug addiction in one person; another may become a 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
Or it can take the form of alcoholism, drug addiction, and all the artificial ways of obtaining 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
You can choose to make a one- time drug experience an incentive to speed up personal development 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
the now point is through drugs. Indeed, the drug experience removes the physical, three-dimensional boundaries and thus 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
 
 Drugs.......................12
can be compared, in a way, to taking drugs. Taking a drug once will not harm your 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
happen too. QUESTION: Can it be induced by drugs? ANSWER: Not in that way; that is false 18 FREE WILL
such as those brought about by sickness or drugs. When the ego is lost because it is 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
This is why people yearn for the sensations drugs give, why a person suffering from insomnia will 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
anxiety when not under the influence of these drugs. Completely unable to cope with life, he had 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
reference, namely the glimpses that the taking of drugs have revealed. Damaging as it may be for 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
it may be for many individuals to take drugs, especially when it is done for the sake 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
my friends, that I discourage the taking of drugs for many reasons. But it is possible that 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
individuals wish to cure by some magic -- drugs, pills, formulas, or even meditation. They also turn 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
It adopts various forms of escape, such as drugs or other means of false transcendence. But such 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
false search for the now point is through drugs. Indeed, the drug experience removes the physical, three-dimensional 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
needs to the point of compulsion, as for drugs, harmful stimulants, or unwholesome food, so can the 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION
 
 Dry.........................10
or her happiness will never become shallow, or dry out, or die, but will always be alive 1 THE SEA OF LIFE
gives will be a fleeting one; it will dry out, become shallow, and eventually dissolve. If you 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
and flowing. In this way it will never dry out. Whatever the person who serves as such 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
differently in a wet environment than in a dry one. The potent forces of the universal laws 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
knowledge is something much more vague, general, and dry. It is not knowledge I am talking about 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
humans cling to those attitudes that hinder replenishment, dry out the psyche, cause death, and make life 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
puts a glow on life. Such incompleteness is dry and sterile. You may arrive at the most 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
cannot be emphasized enough in this context -- dry, cut-off knowledge must also contain feelings. The underlying 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
fill you with peace and joy. It is dry, cut-off knowledge. I am talking about a different 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
without this inner work, the outer work will dry up. Many difficulties cannot be resolved unless this 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION
 
 Dual........................4
is not only that the one being, the dual being, split into half, but as the Fall 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
higher form of existence, just as when the dual beings, once having reached that state of perfection 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of duality, like everything else, desire fulfills a dual role. Desire, from a spiritual point of view 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
very shallow and covers a deep despair. Your dual nature is in constant battle here. One part 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
 
 Dualism.....................37
connection. QUESTION: Various religious philosophies differentiate strongly between dualism and monism. Is dualism a particular level leading 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
philosophies differentiate strongly between dualism and monism. Is dualism a particular level leading to monism, and is 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
the higher truth? ANSWER: One can look at dualism as a level. To explain this is an 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
direction. Returning to the question about monism and dualism that our friend has asked, the only thing 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
I can say is this: Both monism and dualism exist. God is person and is also the 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
understanding. It also touches on the subject of dualism and monism. People who have had a God-experience 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
you cannot reconcile the opposites that constitute the dualism in your own soul. Hence you cannot free 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
encounter, every human problem, is shaped by this dualism. The unified principle combines the opposites of dualism 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
dualism. The unified principle combines the opposites of dualism. By transcending dualism you will also transcend the 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
principle combines the opposites of dualism. By transcending dualism you will also transcend the pain it causes 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
death. As long as humanity lives in this dualism, conflict and unhappiness must persist. Absolute, universal, cosmic 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
an entirely different nature than the good of dualism. The former conciliates both sides, while the latter 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
widens your perception, enabling you to transcend your dualism and perceive the unitive state. This has to 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
deeply submerged in the illusion and pain of dualism. We shall come back to this a little 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
suffice to bring you to the transition from dualism to unity. Growth on the dualistic plane must 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
destroyed. This law points up the falsity of dualism, whose earmark is always that one position is 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
whose consciousness is geared to the concept of dualism, who cannot perceive the conciliating, unifying way of 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
existence. Spheres of consciousness that have transcended the dualism of this plane have different physical laws, corresponding 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
in a dualistic way. The moment you transcend dualism, two opposite and apparently mutually exclusive aspects become 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
split within itself as a result of illusory dualism. The down movement -- death -- represents one 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
-- death -- represents one side of the dualism, the upward movement -- life -- the other 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
The main error in this separated state is dualism -- all either/or. We have talked about many 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
discuss a specific, extremely important, and very fundamental dualism -- based, as usual, on erroneous concepts. This 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
sphere -- is in perpetual, joyful movement. The dualism of conflict is the exact result of the 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
exact result of the denial of movement. The dualism here is not only life versus death, but 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
these two aspects making one unitive whole, a dualism makes two mutually exclusive opposites out of them 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
in the dualistic conflict. Perhaps the most basic dualism -- as discussed elsewhere in different contexts -- 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
how apparently insignificant. In that way, you transcend dualism, and consequently fear, greed, a sense of deprivation 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
expression of living. One more word about the dualism that wrecks a person's inner faculties to cope 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
is therefore unavoidably painful. Resistance, matter, blindness, spells dualism, separation, evil, and suffering -- these are one 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
human mind is in at this time. The dualism is always present. For humans perceive reality in 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
found when you take a step beyond the dualism implicit in this dilemma. It is true that 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
planet was not able to perceive anything beyond dualism. It was also a necessary preparation for the 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
excess. You already know the opposing principles of dualism versus the unitive consciousness. In duality, man will 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
abuse reaches its peak, the painful confusion of dualism arises and the pendulum must swing in the 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
becomes more firmly entrenched in the painful, fearful dualism through straining from the undesirable alternative, then it 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
to the mind that is steeped in the dualism of either/or. Let me present these three paradoxical 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION

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