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| so that none of you will have an empty life, lacking love, affection, respect, and that deepest | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| down all your cards before God. Make yourself empty. Be ready to give up everything. If it | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| For you have to become that naked, that empty so that divine substance can fill you and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| desirous of making the wall crumble, to become empty and naked in your soul, then you will | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you, something that prevents you from being completely empty and flowing. QUESTION: I think that occasionally it | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| But such a response can only leave you empty and disappointed, since it is not what you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| gratified you are bound to be left feeling empty. False aims are illusions, and even if, at | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| these right ideas, they become powerless. They are empty. Only when beliefs are incorporated at the emotional | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| if you ever knew that you were using empty words, always veering away from feeling, reacting, and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| False needs, even if gratified occasionally, leave you empty and dissatisfied. In this nucleus of division, repression | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| life. Without the love-capacity your life will be empty, meaningless, shallow. You all know, and some of | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| real relationships. Thus your life will always remain empty, at least in some important areas. For the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| and liberating. Otherwise it will merely be an empty, although perhaps interesting, speculation. Do not ever forget | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| outside can be assimilated if you do not empty yourself of misconception. Therefore, self- knowledge is the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| are unhappy and lost, the more you feel empty and hungry -- maybe hungry for affection and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| would become more and more incapacitated, weak, and empty in all areas of living. You could not | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| for a short while and making yourself utterly empty. In the emptiness it is possible for hitherto | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| a full, fulfilled, rich life. These are not empty promises. All the tools you need are given | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| must exist, for otherwise you are poor and empty. Is that clear? QUESTION: Yes, it is clear | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| also be necessary when it is important to empty out, but its character is completely different. Impressing | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| know the truth, you must fill the now empty vessel with truth, so as to prevent its | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| cannot be conveyed in words. These are not empty promises. Those of you who have experienced to | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| and receive more? When you precisely acknowledge the empty or destructive areas, when you acknowledge the possibility | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| passivity never fulfills you; it always leaves you empty, dissatisfied, and increasingly frightened, as all false solutions | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| individuals toward each other, making separateness painful and empty. The life force therefore consists not only of | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| of creative processes. The personality becomes stiff, unspontaneous, empty of real feelings, bound to outer rules and | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to the degree they feel unhappy, unfulfilled, and empty, fears happiness, fulfillment, and pleasure, no matter how | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| already is yours, my friends! These are not empty words, this is the immediately available truth. The | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| good. Why, then, are you so discontent, so empty, so lacking in the vital joys of life | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| here. Do not believe that this is an empty word. It carries a strength that can become | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| and deeper well-being and peace. These are not empty promises, but facts of life. You will find | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| since these basic truths become redundant and eventually empty words, they must be brought back in new | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| less and less forlorn, helpless, lost, hopeless, or empty. The whole sense of the universe in all | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| everyday reality in your life. These are not empty promises and faraway ideals. These are the promises | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| your present and past feelings. And when you empty out the past accumulations, the present will truly | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| holds rich fulfillment for everyone. These are not empty words. The truth of these words will make | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| resentful; fulfilled, as opposed to eternally wanting and empty; joyful and content, as opposed to anxious and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| of inner poverty, your belief that you are empty and have nothing to give. The one who | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| have nothing to give. The one who feels empty gives nothing. You can feel rich and full | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| needs, expectations, and personal preoccupations to make yourself empty. Then you can let in what is, let | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| not that, you will be open and sufficiently empty to let in what is. This is one | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| you. Even if you think that you are empty now -- and many of you here believe | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| many of you here believe that you are empty - - find your fullness as a result | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| comfort, but in the long run leaves you empty. An inevitable manifestation of the continuous process of | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| that state of separation, the word love is empty of feeling and experience, a word merely bandied | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| the universe, you must learn to make yourself empty at the moment and allow the divine process | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| to have, even if this leaves you feeling empty, pained, and needy. However, do not lose sight | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| more false reality and become more disconnected, confused, empty -- choosing not to understand why and accusing | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| to activate and to stand! These are not empty words, my friends. You who work on this | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| because they are frightened that they may be empty, that there may be nothing within to sustain | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| quiet is confused with emptiness. It indeed seems empty. The noise will recede, and you must indeed | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| this way: If you cannot let yourself be empty, you can never be filled. Out of the | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| inner God consciousness. Your outer mind must become empty and receptive, yet it must hold itself poised | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| a spirit of patient, persevering, positive expectancy, yet empty in mind and soul, a new fullness can | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| yet you must make your mind neutral and empty. This seems contradictory from the point of view | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| a fear of finding yourself to indeed be empty as of finding yourself with a new consciousness | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| quietly to go into the emptiness. So you empty your mind in order to meet the emptiness | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| better face that. When you make yourself sufficiently empty, the first initial response is an inner aliveness | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| way to aliveness by letting yourself be creatively empty. You will experience your whole inner being, including | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| follow that through, of course, it leaves you empty. No wonder it is a disappointment, even if | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| and the other thing. Yet I feel dissatisfied, empty, I do not even know who I really | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| giving, and therefore it leaves others and you empty. When you take the next downward step and | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| without a loving heart sexuality becomes shallow, unfulfilling, empty, and it will always be guilt-producing, no matter | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| more superficial level, are a coverup of that empty black hole, or what seems to be such | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| a specific truth. A ritual can be an empty gesture. True tradition is therefore a continuous re-experiencing | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| faith become a realistic experience instead of an empty word. As you have the self-responsible duty to | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| its truth. You think of yourself as an empty vessel that needs to be filled. Becoming implies | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| the illusion that you live in a poor, empty universe. It increases the belief that your inner | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| that your inner universe is equally poor and empty, that you have nothing to give from within | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| both the outer and the inner universe are empty and impoverished, you automatically create a vicious circle | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| tendency intrinsically connected with the belief in an empty, poor, ungiving universe. Let me now be more | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| the false world picture of a poor, untrustworthy, empty universe makes this step toward honesty impossible. Taking | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| cannot take place, justice and brotherhood will remain empty words. In short, there must be a willingness | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| do not think, in which you make yourself empty. Those of you who occasionally try this exercise | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| allow the great quietude that is, at first, empty of meaning, devoid of anything that spells life | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| the other. For both purposes, you need to empty your mind of all preconceived ideas your lower | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
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| which are necessary. One is finding, expressing, and emptying out what is within you, so that it | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| this mutual interplay between expressing and impressing, between emptying out and putting in truth. When there is | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| they are misconceptions. This is the expressing, the emptying out. Let us first examine expressing. One of | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| satisfactory. Wherever you stand at that moment, this emptying out must occur. The emptying consists of recognizing | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| that moment, this emptying out must occur. The emptying consists of recognizing that the problem you struggle | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| ask: Am I now more in need of emptying out because heaviness and depression indicate that I | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| QUESTION: Would you say that the act of emptying is the surrender of the outer self saying | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |