| Affirmation.................10 | |
| creative forces is toward light, life, growth, unfoldment, affirmation, beauty, love, inclusion, union, pleasure supreme. Whenever this | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| your life does not depend on other people's affirmation of your existence; that you do not need | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| movement by letting yourself stream forth in complete affirmation instead of the old negation. When this inner | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| down are only illusions, falseness; never real positivity, affirmation, or constructiveness. Those who are most confused about | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| which is the inner negation of the outer affirmation. In other words the average human being's predicament | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| and acceptance of the negation of your conscious affirmation. The ever- present, ongoing blessedness and richness of | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| bliss. Such statements to yourself produce an ever-increasing affirmation of life and feelings. Even you, my friends | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| new phase, my dearest friends, with courage and affirmation. Get out of that attitude you still have | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| from life. The more you say this with affirmation and mean it the more this is going | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| the vistas that harbor the most realistically grounded affirmation of all opposites -- of life and death | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Affirmative.................11 | |
| someone dear to you? When you find the affirmative answer, you will know that this is not | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| If you cannot answer these questions in the affirmative, you need to use healthy introspection to find | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| one. Nor does this happen by forfeiting the affirmative principle, but by understanding the now. Then mental | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| in different connections. The Yes current represents the affirmative principle, the principle that expands, embraces, is open | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| is a general conviction and assumption that the affirmative principle is good and desirable, while the negating | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| made this division, explicitly representing God as the affirmative, the Devil as the negating power. This is | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| You would be totally mistaken to adopt the affirmative principle as an overall attitude for all contingencies | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| it be my truth? When the answer is affirmative, it ceases to be someone else's value, it | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| movements, which are the basis for a positive, affirmative attitude toward life -- and on and on | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| then at work and at cross-purposes with the affirmative, conscious striving of the personality. The negative attitudes | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| or spoken in silence with an inner voice, affirmative and decisive. The word is the chisel, it | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Affirmed....................4 | |
| meant by going through it. When it is affirmed and ascertained as a temporary reality, only then | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| that you can exist only through being noticed, affirmed, and confirmed by others. You feel that if | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| stand in the way. The wanting must be affirmed in calm trust and firm conviction. The voluntary | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| this is good. With regard to what is affirmed and what is negated, there are also two | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| Affirming...................9 | |
| yourself against. The natural feelings are always life- affirming, outreaching, joyous and so is life's essence, unhampered | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| discover where you hold back, where, instead of affirming life and your feelings, and instead of expanding | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| negating process, you are already in a more affirming process, because you no longer delude yourself about | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| understanding that here I am negating rather than affirming; here I express the negation in this specific | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| life force can flow in a constructive, positive, affirming way, or it can turn into a destructive | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| untampered with, is totally constructive, totally positive and affirming. Therefore it produces total pleasure for any living | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| are also two possibilities: In some instances the affirming part of the self strives for what is | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| the destructive, ignorant part negates. In other instances, affirming something may be totally contrary to the unity | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| of all you are and have become, and affirming life because you cherish the task your life | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Affirms.....................3 | |
| meant to imply this. The real meaning simply affirms the utter justice of cosmic law, or of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| half-willing, but this half-willingness denies love rather than affirms it. It makes all sorts of conditions and | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| counter-pull is relatively weak and whose predominant personality affirms life and their own deepest instincts, and is | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| Afflict.....................5 | |
| and compulsion -- two contrary directions -- further afflict the inner will. You may desire a certain | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| selfish or not. This guilt is bound to afflict your inner will for happiness. Your unconscious concept | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| real and other factors cause the weakness and afflict the love capacity. On the other hand, the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| conscious mind holds on too tightly. This may afflict the intuitive sense of discrimination. A healthy person | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| all the misery human beings have managed to afflict on themselves. This is so because you look | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Afflicted...................20 | |
| compulsive activity is superimposed. Both sexes have been afflicted by the long-existing mass images in this respect | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| quite healthy faith, but other divine attributes are afflicted and affect the personality predominantly. One can never | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself. When this happens, you are approaching the afflicted area. Some of you, if you but took | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| self-righteous moralizing -- are often those most strongly afflicted with a sense of guilt. It may not | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| when it is necessary that you approach the afflicted areas in yourself without kid gloves, so to | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| not from your true self, but from the afflicted area, and consider their effect on others, you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| aspect of the trend is misused by the afflicted part of your soul. The distortion, in combination | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| conflicts and enable you to cope with the afflicted area of your psyche. First, let us briefly | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| true that the original pain and frustration have afflicted the resiliency of your psyche and made you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| lower-self trends does to you. Not facing these afflicted areas will render you helpless when it comes | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| is taken literally, a soul-particle that is already afflicted will be negatively influenced and impressed. The healthy | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| take effect only where the soul is already afflicted. When an afflicted soul receives a truthful interpretation | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| where the soul is already afflicted. When an afflicted soul receives a truthful interpretation, or other truthful | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| childhood combines with the fear of touching the afflicted areas where the past hurts are. Because the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| from the inner need to talk out one's afflicted area is diverted into other channels, disorder and | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| in spite of this fundamental potential, there are afflicted areas which the soul does not dare to | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| such an inborn need for this person, the afflicted area causes even greater self-rejection, increasing the fear | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| usually in the areas where your psyche is afflicted by images, by neurotic behavior patterns, and misconceptions | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| hence unity. Where the psyche is still deeply afflicted with doubt, fear, guilt, conflict, and error, this | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| new approach, to deal with what was once afflicted. This way of dealing with pain is not | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| Affliction..................6 | |
| what I say here and approach the real affliction, instead of continuously paying attention to the symptoms | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| perhaps, so painful when he first developed the affliction so that his subconscious is constantly reminded of | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of their family would come to visit, the affliction would recur. ANSWER: Certainly, this is good proof | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| depression as a problem in your work. Every affliction of the psyche hinders living. It does so | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| of one's personality. This is quite impossible. One affliction must, to some degree, affect other personality areas | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| at the beginning of their growing out of affliction, these movements point to undesirable aspects in the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| Afflictions.................4 | |
| also a danger that, to one born with afflictions, spirituality serves as an escape? ANSWER: You cannot | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| you have healed your spiritual organism from its afflictions. Fleeing the experience that seems painful, undesirable, dangerous | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is no shallowness and restrictive compromise. Once the afflictions have been overcome, the possibilities of expansion of | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| specific, finite goal. The person with the gravest afflictions and distortions who says, I will go all | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| Afford......................48 | |
| help to someone who is poor and cannot afford to pay. But it wouldn't be right for | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| guide and inspire people to create situations which afford you the opportunity. But you have to decide | 31 SHAME |
| way. For instance, parents may be chosen to afford an environment best suited to bring out certain | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| training and practice. What I have suggested will afford a very good opportunity for everyone exploring the | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| it. Unconsciously, you have believed you could not afford to become aware of all the different motives | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| one is uncertain about the results, one cannot afford to wait with calmness. Hence impatience, doubt, and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| be suppressing the talent or activity that would afford your soul the maximum development. This may apply | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| whole world and personal safety crumbles. They cannot afford to face what they consider a threat to | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| control. If you are not self-centered, you can afford to be flexible, however. You can see and | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| argument can be advanced that other planets also afford opportunity for growth and development. That is quite | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| live through negative, immature emotions in order to afford them the opportunity to grow and thus become | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| awareness that is. In neither instance do you afford yourself the luxury of letting the emotions flow | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| in turn, will create good relationships, which will afford you a wider range for experience, more possibilities | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to face oneself. Then the interconnections will gradually afford a clearer view of reality as it concerns | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| distrust themselves in this respect. They can never afford to be free and spontaneous; instead they constantly | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| on this path that none of you can afford to neglect is involving yourself with others and | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| inwardly weak and dependent person, how can you afford to let go? For the only way you | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| unconsciously, yet deliberately -- violate the laws that afford them the unfoldment we speak of here. Only | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| not need to be on guard, that can afford to be relaxed and confident in its own | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| solution. Only a strong, healthy, robust ego can afford to let go of itself. Such an ego | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| believes he or she desperately needs and cannot afford to antagonize. A special temptation strengthens the tendency | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| undivided attention to every aspect of living. These afford the unintense state of being which is so | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| when one does not control oneself. I cannot afford to let go, I might end up the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| various states and processes in material life which afford humans the possibility of replenishing themselves from the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and activate awareness at all times, you can afford to let the forces come to fruition in | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| of it. Once you perceive this, you can afford the wonderful, relieving luxury of calmly admitting any | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| at least in this particular area, you can afford to be yourself -- you are not strained | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| respect. You possess yourself and thus you can afford to be generous and give of yourself. You | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| person comes to see that periods of aloneness afford him or her some opportunity to open up | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| believed them to be you. You could not afford to even acknowledge these unacceptable aspects, because you | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| drawn by an inexorable law of life will afford you the opportunity to bring to the fore | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| having your defenses penetrated -- so you cannot afford to be relaxed, natural, and close to others | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| was not at all certain that we could afford it or that we would be able to | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| must come from your own richness that can afford to lose at the moment. Then you can | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| to lose at the moment. Then you can afford to tolerate the temporary pain of finding what | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| the superior member of the team. He can afford to relate from the heart, on the feeling | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| approve and applaud your choices -- you can afford the luxury of relaxing inwardly and letting out | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| show you that life is good. You can afford generosity. You can afford to let others be | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| is good. You can afford generosity. You can afford to let others be their best. You can | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| to let others be their best. You can afford to give up the little self-interests. You can | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| to give up the little self-interests. You can afford to be in a state of love. You | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| be in a state of love. You can afford to have the courage and risk truth. You | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| have the courage and risk truth. You can afford humility, and the best will flow to you | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| the leader of a nation. The follower can afford to be lazy, even if the laziness is | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| new society, of which you are pioneers, cannot afford to live with frozen images in the soul | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| you enter into a benign circle; you can afford to release more of your inner and outer | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| think of as essential, until you can truly afford it. You may have to reconsider what is | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| divine nature. Then you will be able to afford the luxury, if I may put it this | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |