| how impossible this may seem offhand. Question your emotions extremely carefully, and look at them when it | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| extricate yourself from then untruths. Therefore various negative emotions, tensions and distortions of concepts come into existence | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| This begins to take the hard edge off emotions and makes them bearable. It is the beginning | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| convert it into its component parts of other emotions you had denied -- perhaps rage, hurt, sadness | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| denied -- perhaps rage, hurt, sadness. When these emotions are fully experienced in body and soul -- | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| when you no longer run away from feared emotions. This happens invariably and inevitably when you are | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| are often many sets of contradictions and conflicting emotions, and even that you do in a cursory | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| no further search would be necessary. Naming such emotions as a beginning to explore them would serve | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| approach yourself and your state of mind and emotions in this manner and with this view. This | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| further errors, creating many chain reactions of destructive emotions and attitudes. To name only a few: self-deception | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the discrepancy between the surface and the underlying emotions. The greater the outer, assumed, sacrificial unselfishness becomes | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| will build up hidden destructive selfishness. In your emotions and hidden desires you pay no heed at | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| induced violence, rage, greed, separateness, and other destructive emotions. This still exists in the soul: suffering, blindness | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| qualities and your capacity to experience spiritually. Your emotions seem far more negative than positive. Even your | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| and therefore cannot stem the flood of destructive emotions. Humans must spend many lifetimes training reason and | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| human is lopsided in being completely controlled by emotions: Will and reason are still too frail to | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| you have reached a certain awareness of your emotions, you will see what you are constantly doing | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| yet enormous difference between genuine and dishonest manufactured emotions. May you all remind yourself, again and again | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| well-being, is contained and held back by condensed emotions -- by powerful feelings you do not wish | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| of whether to deny the existence of these emotions or to meet and experience them -- to | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| it must also hold true of distorted, destructive emotions. And since it is true, you can only | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| of violence and pain. The bottomlessness of the emotions you fear so much will prove to be | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| a bottomless fear in you of violent, uncontrollable emotions which you do not wish to deal with | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| By the very act of self-acceptance, the unwelcome emotions and attitudes gradually dissolve. Even before that happens | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| that it is precisely by accepting the negative emotions that you dissolve them. Even while you still | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| concentrated aspect of self-analysis develops gradually. The predominant emotions that you shrink from and numb yourself against | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| the frustration can bring to the surface the emotions that cause it: the fear of disappointment and | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| friends here: When I speak of accepting negative emotions, I do not mean masochistic, self-denying, morbid attitudes | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| Once you do not avoid experiencing these problematic emotions right now, you will recognize them as repetitions | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| what I feel. I will stop fighting against emotions that are vital life energy and that can | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you first come to terms with your negative emotions and desires. When you fully face these feelings | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| you learn to see, understand, and accept these emotions, you can truly outgrow them. Only then do | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| honesty to fully see and accept these damaging emotions and desires, only when you totally comprehend and | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| life: that your attitudes, your hidden thoughts and emotions, and nothing else, create your fate. This discovery | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| be to themselves. If they cannot bear certain emotions, which are locked away, they genuinely believe that | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| rage. When people are subtly infused with such emotions but cannot face them, all their feelings are | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| often produces false guilt. The false guilt produces emotions, defenses, and pretenses that lead to justified guilt | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| unreality, and unreality cannot help but produce negative emotions such as anger, hopelessness, and distrust. Moreover, misconception | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| of your misconceptions and actively experience your negative emotions without acting out the negativity, the recreating can | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| misconceptions. No false beliefs create fear, defensiveness, destructive emotions. Someone who is in truth perceives the benign | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| up the streamings of healthy energy flow? When emotions tighten up because of such negative feelings, the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the centers, in body and spirit, always reflect emotions of fear, anger and guilt. This fundamental duality | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| fundamental duality creates the chain reaction of negative emotions, limited concept, conflict between self and others -- | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| substitutes. These may be your intellect; your unexplored emotions, which are merely reactions to unexplored attitudes; other | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| false ideas, which create fear and other negative emotions as well as the fear of feelings themselves | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| thinking in a certain way, to feeling specific emotions, that you cannot imagine anything else and are | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| -- be it a painful state in your emotions or body, or merely a neutral state in | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| important example of error creating tension and negative emotions. What human being is not, to begin with | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the feeling responds to it by negative, destructive emotions; and the body expresses all this with contraction | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| conscious. The power of thought, of will, of emotions is infinitely greater than any inanimate power. And | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| your own erroneous assumptions and beliefs to the emotions and will- direction they create. Without understanding the | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| sustained injuries as the cause of your negative emotions toward people and life experience -- enables you | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| made possible when the state of mind and emotions is quietly confident, calmly expectant and receptive, patient | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| investment of the mind and will, of the emotions and attitudes corresponds to sustained practice in building | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| are on the most hidden emotional levels, since emotions cannot be directly willed and are never quite | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| life occurs most frequently in the realm of emotions. Most human beings -- in one respect or | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| but as an entity grows, such unconscious, displaced emotions become keenly conscious, although, at first, one ignores | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| a result of recognizing certain attitudes, reactions, and emotions for what they really are, does the inner | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| negativities. What are they? The misconceptions; the destructive emotions, attitudes and behavior patterns that arise from them | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| underlying misunderstanding and mishandling exposed. Many times manifest emotions are not direct primary emotions: fear may disguise | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| Many times manifest emotions are not direct primary emotions: fear may disguise rage; depression may disguise fear | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| and faced up to. Thus the crises of emotions such as anger, frustration, impatience, and depression are | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| of life. This is why some supposedly negative emotions are actually desirable. For instance, anger can further | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Many of you have experienced this conversion of emotions whenever you chanced to hit upon the right | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| experience is blind contraction with its accompanying destructive emotions and thoughts. More specifically, the personality invariably feels | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| of opening yourself and encountering first the negative emotions honestly. You did not hide from them. You | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| bliss. As you become aware of your negative emotions toward pleasure, you can endure it with less | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| and denied sadness becomes self-pity, hopelessness, depression. These emotions are indeed debilitating and destructive, whereas the direct | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| thoughts and beliefs often vary drastically from their emotions, the result, their creation, must vary accordingly. The | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| adult mind, let alone in those vague, confused emotions that you experience without knowing their meaning. As | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| of this path the depths of the negative emotions connected with these false ideas. You have also | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| it exists, is to consult your mind and emotions. If you feel comfortable with others, without anxiety | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| Thus what you may now believe to be emotions are often merely fixed opinions. And where your | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| who have a tendency to use certain limited emotions as a defense against other emotions should deliberately | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| certain limited emotions as a defense against other emotions should deliberately abstain for a while from using | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| inner misconceptions, misunderstandings, destructive attitudes, alienating defenses, negative emotions, and paralyzed feelings, all of which psychotherapy also | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| explicit and implicit thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, intentions, feelings, emotions and will directions -- conflicting as they may | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| functions merely from the surface, from immediate little emotions, from the narrow view that has a stake | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| desires were concerned. They were totally driven by emotions and desires, regardless of ethics and morality. So | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| former, being merely an outward projection of what emotions are held back with a misdirected emphasis. How | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| myself for the truth, to going through whatever emotions and experiences I need, in truth, and to | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| this or that area, full of disturbing, turbulent emotions, full of conflict, and cannot therefore form an | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| in a different way. In order to cleanse emotions and make them life-affirming, rather than life-destroying, you | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| life-destroying, you must have clear and truthful concepts. Emotions cannot live in a void, without any mental | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Humans are not meant to live by blind emotions. To develop their emotional nature, they need to | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| to be. When issues are tinged by personal emotions, desires, or interests that belong to the realm | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| to the realm of darkness, and these personal emotions are not recognized as fogging the vision, then | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| as different from each other as the sequential emotions within a vicious or a benign circle are | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| creates negative behavior patterns and self-destructiveness. All these emotions, although interconnected, are as different from one another | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| set off a chain reaction of further negative emotions, such as doubt, fear and discouragement. I am | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| a point in which you deal with involuntary emotions, responses, reactions and even beliefs that do not | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |