| Exciting....................15 | |
| inner determination to understand and change, the more exciting and rich, the more meaningful and fulfilling life | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| little, as you begin to discover the strange, exciting, at times even slightly frightening and yet exhilarating | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| at one and the same time, dynamic, stimulating, exciting, vibrantly alive, and yet peaceful. There is no | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| evolutionary path. Each day brings forth new tasks, exciting tasks, beautiful tasks. They should not be approached | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| you set your thinking apparatus. This is an exciting endeavor and one that does not in principle | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| difficulty now begins to become a challenge, an exciting journey, and a process that makes life so | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| yourself, you will find it is the most exciting, significant, and meaningful journey into your own depth | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| in this way. This will be an extremely exciting undertaking for you, one that will yield many | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| not impair the awareness of a joyous, peaceful, exciting, blissful universe in which you lie and which | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| the functioning becomes totally different, forever new and exciting. Nothing becomes routinized; nothing becomes stale; nothing becomes | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the life of learning. Education can be intrinsically exciting, enjoyable and adventurous. Instead humans attach to it | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| in this way the material makes learning an exciting process instead of a dull, compulsory, boring difficulty | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| new awareness that experiences school as the most exciting adventure imaginable. The classroom will be where life | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| connections are discovered that give life a most exciting and safe new face. All the fragmentation that | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| seems easier, and perhaps even more pleasurable and exciting. Ultimately you fall into a state which you | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Excluded....................7 | |
| loving more than one person. The child feels excluded and rejected if the parent also loves others | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to a few chosen ones, but you are excluded. Only understanding the law of cause and effect | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| had been told, but which you disregarded and excluded from your perception. All of a sudden these | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| for a harmonious and meaningful life, will be excluded. If this reaction happens in isolated moments of | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| as an injustice. He or she may feel excluded or rejected. If A happens to be comparatively | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| no longer any part of yourself that is excluded, denied, or split off. Are there any questions | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| abundance is there for everyone. No one is excluded. Nevertheless, it may hardly even occur to you | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Excludes....................14 | |
| own way, a specialist in his activity, which excludes the possibility of a disharmonious overemphasis. It is | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| cause, indeed, but do you really think one excludes the other? Wouldn't it be much more likely | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| attitude; you think the truth of one motive excludes the truth of another, often quite contrary in | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| truth of the karmic law is. One never excludes another. I will leave you for a short | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| Beware of the error that one motivation necessarily excludes another. You know this is not so. Try | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| makes for pretense and rigidity -- and this excludes growth and development, as well as change. Only | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| go of it, the preoccupation with the experience excludes important aspects of reality. One sees and evaluates | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| not seen, the negativity must remain. This negativity excludes unfoldment, self-expression, and fulfillment, as well as the | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| In the split way of experiencing life, peacefulness excludes excitement and brings boredom. Excitement excludes peace and | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| life, peacefulness excludes excitement and brings boredom. Excitement excludes peace and brings anxiety and tension. You are | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| very negative energy and an atmosphere that truly excludes the person from life. Thus, the person must | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| in their present state of development. All this excludes mutuality. The movement of opening up and taking | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| that precludes seeing available alternatives. This false vision excludes so many important factors. The few that are | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| source of everything. Yet this by no means excludes your own potential to unite with this divine | 254 SURRENDER |
| Excluding...................7 | |
| all other divine aspects rather than weakening or excluding them. So it may be possible for you | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| not by being free of all failure, not excluding the possibility of making mistakes. But your attitude | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the pleasure drive is not self- centered and excluding. Hence, it cannot be antisocial. It is only | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| cannot be antisocial. It is only antisocial and excluding if the adult manifests his or her sexual | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| child. Children are antisocial, self- centered, and therefore excluding. Emotions that remain fixed in the childish state | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| one's full share of happiness, instead of mutually excluding either love or happiness, as seems inevitable when | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| make this choice: to stick with the old, excluding, restricting way, or to allow for a new | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| Exclusion...................11 | |
| darkness does not have as a consequence eternal exclusion from the divine worlds. From this Christ has | 22 SALVATION |
| you represent only one of them to the exclusion of the other two. That cannot be. Although | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| a predominance of one, but not to the exclusion of the other. It is exactly the same | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| aware of its often preposterous self-concern to the exclusion of all else. In this area of your | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| climate of egocentricity and self- concern to the exclusion of all other interests; (2) repression of creative | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| is destined by nature to attain this manifoldedness. Exclusion of certain fulfillments at the expense of others | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| universe and of life and therefore moves toward exclusion and separateness is the opposite of love. The | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| growth, the self-selective process of dying off, or exclusion, sets in to protect the whole organism from | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| bad, this or that -- one to the exclusion of the other. The whole human sphere is | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| on certain phenomena, outside and inside, at the exclusion of other aspects of reality, until only that | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| you focus on the inner world to the exclusion of your outer world, you not only create | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Exclusive...................75 | |
| destiny and free will are not two mutually exclusive factors, but are interwoven and connected. The events | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| the same desire-current. You are used to an exclusive attitude; you think the truth of one motive | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| love, the child in its ignorance craves an exclusive love that is neither divine nor humanly possible | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| parent also loves others, however. In short, the exclusive love the child craves can never be gratified | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| parent who seems to reject it. When this exclusive tenderness and affection is not forthcoming, the child | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| wish it seems unattainable. The desired aim -- exclusive love and acceptance -- is confused with the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the place of that which was originally desired: exclusive love, approval, and acceptance. A further result of | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| made to feel that such a desire for exclusive and limitless love is wrong; therefore it feels | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| feels guilty about it. It is true that exclusive and limitless love is unrealistic, its desire immature | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| will realize that you can never receive the exclusive, unreasonable, one-sided love that the child in you | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| if it were given, the unrealistic demand for exclusive love would be diminished considerably. However, the capacity | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| at once, never realizing that they are mutually exclusive and would defeat your purpose even if it | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| blind and unconscious attempts to make two mutually exclusive forces serve the same end, you must inwardly | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| desire. But when you simultaneously pursue several mutually exclusive alternatives, you bring such disharmony into the universe | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| get the kind of love you desire -- exclusive, limitless, guaranteed with absolute certainty that you will | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| aloof, and superior. The co-existence of these mutually exclusive ways presents a particular hardship for the psyche | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| possibilities, individual pseudo-solutions combining all sorts of mutually exclusive trends. All this has to be found individually | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| Closer analysis will show that they are mutually exclusive, because of the distortion. Every person has to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| of this raging inner battle between such mutually exclusive aims and solutions, the psyche seeks compromise solutions | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the compromise that seeks to combine the mutually exclusive pseudo-solutions. Many more variations are possible and have | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| with its opposite. These two tendencies are mutually exclusive and therefore create conflict, and additional conflict arises | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Love and faith and emotional immaturity are mutually exclusive, my child. The ability to love is a | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| mechanism, trying to do justice to two mutually exclusive drives -- for and against gratification of the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| become secondary. They will no longer be the exclusive means of communication. The more alienated you are | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| yourself, the more you need words as the exclusive means of communication. While the more real you | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| certain prescribed rules. Between these two, apparently mutually exclusive concepts, man is confused. The question you asked | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| omnipotent Creator and man's self-responsibility are only mutually exclusive when viewed in time, and from the mind | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| will know, profoundly, that complete self-responsibility is not exclusive of a supreme Being. A person who is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| love cannot exist. These two elements are mutually exclusive. The pseudo-need for manipulation, if you examine it | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| lack inner peace due to split aims, mutually exclusive drives, contradictory concepts. You now know that the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| self, that these two concepts are not mutually exclusive and contradictory but interdependent, you will comprehend the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| to cosmic intelligence become interdependent instead of mutually exclusive. Self-responsibility and self-government do not mean arrogant overestimation | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| and passivity -- are not only not mutually exclusive, but are interconnected and interdependent. Your fear of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| point of balance where it is not mutually exclusive to stand firmly and to love, to be | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| friends, why are these two approaches not mutually exclusive? Where is the common denominator that unifies them | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| versus the other. The two are not mutually exclusive, but interact in harmonious interplay. In both instances | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| of your life as long as you pay exclusive allegiance to the outer self, and therefore to | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| merely a symptom of the basic ill of exclusive ego-identification, no matter what name you give it | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| a positive attitude, concept, or characteristic by the exclusive use of the ego, without help from the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| or outwardly, rebels against postponed gratification is angry, exclusive, negative, tense, and stubborn. All these traits defeat | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| interdependent facts. All such opposites, all apparently mutually exclusive alternatives that cause so much heartache to humanity | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| you transcend dualism, two opposite and apparently mutually exclusive aspects become equally true. This applies to the | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| healthy living. These are not opposites or mutually exclusive facts, my friends. Before we go into greater | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| from separating these concepts and making them mutually exclusive, which is what the dualistic ego does. In | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| how burdensome such misconceptions and confusions and mutually exclusive ideas are and what a relief it is | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| and to accept the now are not mutually exclusive -- they are interdependent. Tonight's lecture specifically examines | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| as complementary and mutually fulfilling rather than mutually exclusive -- even in this predominantly still dualistic state | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| fact that most of them appear as mutually exclusive opposites -- one being grasped at, the other | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| two polarities which arbitrarily seem to be mutually exclusive, annul one another. In the groping for a | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| one unitive whole, a dualism makes two mutually exclusive opposites out of them. When both sides of | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| others. In distortion, these two aspects become mutually exclusive alternatives, where one is accepted as good and | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| admitting an unpleasant truth and self-acceptance into mutually exclusive opposites. But before I will discuss this in | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| sheer hatred and vengefulness. Also, by making mutually exclusive demands that cannot be fulfilled -- by virtually | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| If you see desire and desirelessness as mutually exclusive, you cannot grasp or feel the necessary attitude | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| dualistic level these two seem to be mutually exclusive. How can you be both active and passive | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| When you can perceive both, not just one, exclusive of the other, you will have made a | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Can both alternatives be true? Are they mutually exclusive? You need to realize that your guilt for | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| feeling being, your intellect and will take almost exclusive charge of your deadened feeling part. They temporarily | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| positive intentionality. Negativity and receptivity are therefore mutually exclusive. The negative person is thus constantly deprived. To | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| then experience as interconnected aspects, rather than mutually exclusive opposites as you do ordinarily. This oneness contains | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| guilty about in yourself. Power is thus always exclusive of love and joy, for it is an | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| and widen. It will not consist of mutually exclusive opposites but of different facets of the same | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| one of many possibilities, rather than a fixed, exclusive reality applicable to all inner states. When a | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| self-responsibility are no longer split into apparently mutually exclusive opposites, but become one comprehensive whole. My dearest | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| reconcile opposites, transcend dualities. Each duality, each mutually exclusive opposite you meet as an obstruction, is a | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| principles clash with each other in a mutually exclusive way. But the principles remain the same. When | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| real version, faith and doubt are not mutually exclusive opposites. They complement each other. The real kind | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| laws of life conciliates opposites that are mutually exclusive on the lower level of consciousness. What is | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| and self-discipline on the other are not mutually exclusive as most people believe. They are in fact | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| conceives of perfection as static, very limited and exclusive, rather than inclusive. Therefore perfection deteriorates into perfectionism | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| very closely interrelated and not at all mutually exclusive. You may on the same day or even | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| evil, dissension, hostility, outer and inner warfare, mutually exclusive dualities. If I am a Jew, I cannot | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| -- and they are by no means mutually exclusive. I wish to give you some perspective on | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| you will find that they are not mutually exclusive alternatives. It is true that both attitudes are | 254 SURRENDER |
| quite clearly that these categories are not mutually exclusive. Yet some among you may still feel a | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |