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necessary to be afraid? Is it possible to experience this or that joy, creative self-expression, pleasure? Or 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
self-expression, pleasure? Or, is it possible to first experience pain and anguish, fear and despair, in a 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
of your being, but you will feel and experience that what you fear is illusion and that 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
your cosmic existence, with its infinite possibilities for experience, joy, and creation of the self. Humanity believes 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
awareness, less power to create, less ability to experience joy. Your consciousness was much more limited and 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
blurs and falsifies reality, denying all desirable life experience. Other ego tricks that serve to maintain its 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
their degree of functioning, the scope of their experience and awareness. When I speak of territory, I 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
some way your present ability to function and experience life, and thus indirectly contribute to the ultimate 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
or indirectly, more spiritual power and awareness, more experience of joy and realization of your own adequacy 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
make the new acquisitions a spontaneous, living, effortless experience. Ego means effort; spiritual self means effortlessness. This 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
is not tiring or exhausting, although you may experience such symptoms at first, because to go from 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
spiritual territory. It needs to expand its knowledge, experience, and creative potential. In order to do this 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
you have overcome certain obstacles can you occasionally experience your true identity. In tonight's lecture I should 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
prepare you to understand the meaning of this experience so that you do not reject its magnificence 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
it into the mold of the usual human experience -- that would destroy it and make its 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
recognized because it transcends the usual human being's experience of feelings. Within the spectrum of human emotion 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
Since it is a generally very rare human experience, except to the few people who reach full 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
It is a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual experience. It encompasses the entire person. I shall try 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
entire person. I shall try to describe this experience as best I can within the limitations of 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
make it possible. The cosmic feeling is an experience in which feeling and thinking are no longer 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
imagine when one has never had such an experience. But some of you have occasionally experienced the 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
oneness of feeling and thinking. It is an experience of bliss, of the comprehension of life and 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
and what is illusion is part of the experience of the cosmic feeling. This experience lends an 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
of the experience of the cosmic feeling. This experience lends an immense security, a knowledge of being 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
Relaxation and excitement, peace and pleasure you then experience as interconnected aspects, rather than mutually exclusive opposites 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
that you have always been what you now experience yourself to be -- that none of this 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
of experiencing life as it really is. The experience becomes possible the moment you can bear the 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
extremely limited, for the words cannot convey the experience. To gain an inkling of the reality of 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
Observe in yourself how much you fear this experience even while you long for it, and how 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
all your feelings and to handle the feeling experience. It requires a bit of growing and groping 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
you avoid a feeling, the less can you experience its other side. The cosmic feeling is of 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
to help you in this endeavor, you will experience the powerful energy contained in the previously hidden 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
can and will be. The strongest human love experience is only a lukewarm, mild shadow of the 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
it lightly, without the feeling that I must experience it now. Calmly wait. Learn to become inwardly 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
for understanding must always follow to integrate the experience with the conscious ego personality. Still another may 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
and the faith you gain through what you experience and see around you. You can gain so 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
both real and false ideas and to consequent experience which is either productive and blissful or destructive 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
ensuing chain reactions. To discover particular images, to experience fully and without defense all the feelings involved 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
your personality: you see, know, understand, and fully experience pain, fear and anger; you assume responsibility for 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
create magnetic fields which in turn create life experience, is very regrettable. The next decades will bring 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
contact with your divinity. You have begun to experience who you really are. But still your hesitancy 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
and more and more you can feel and experience it fully and thus free yourself. However, your 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
that others inflict upon you, then you cannot experience in a constructive way the pain of your 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
given pain you do not deserve such an experience. But how can you break the negative pattern 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
power of God within you? And you cannot experience God within you without also experiencing joy, peace 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
there is only one consciousness. What a liberating experience to know and to see into others, to 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
and therefore about others and the world, you experience life in deeper and more varied ways -- 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
incarnated. As you gain understanding and learn to experience feelings which you have previously avoided, you are 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
but they might possibly open up an inner experience for you through which you will truly know 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
the door to deeper knowledge and to the experience of eternal, immutable truth. Once again I must 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
the apparently separated divine spark is what you experience when you meet your innermost terrors. For, what 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
openly respond to them, the sooner you will experience the true state of your being. But when 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
the ultimate reality, your mind blocks off the experience. This is the plan of creation, this is 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
that you have perhaps never before dared to experience or accept, and you learned how to express 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
holding back, and the personality's innate capacity to experience any feeling if the soul is in a 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
two states. You hanker for nonmovement. So you experience fear of the vacuum. You want nonmovement in 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
as you cultivate your capacity to produce and experience any feeling, the feeling, if undesirable, will have 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
mean that such people cannot and will not experience these feelings ever again. On the contrary: the 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
direction at any time. Such people can now experience any feeling at will. The experience, however, must 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
can now experience any feeling at will. The experience, however, must not come from tight selfwill; it 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
to build it up and allow yourself to experience and express it fully and intensely. After that 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
for other possibilities. Ask for inner guidance to experience yourself without pride, yet without humiliation and with 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
ready for this possibility, even before you can experience it, the divine life will produce it from 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
at best. Theory is not the same as experience, and letting it go at that for the 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
you go deeper into your own depths and experience your inner wealth and connectedness with the universe 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
state of consciousness and a larger capacity to experience life must exist. As you translate this longing 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
annihilate me, or it will last forever, the experience will release powerful creative energies to increasingly work 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
function in a blissful state. Your longing to experience more pleasure is a message for you to 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
now, elimination of masks and pretenses, and the experience of one's naked vulnerability. It is a tall 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
view you look at it and choose to experience it. The difficulty can be measured in terms 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
your innermost center, which is a very different experience from functioning from your periphery. You are now 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
another dualistic misunderstanding where you think, Either I experience my center and then must forfeit all love 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
pleasures and bliss: human beings are supposed to experience them, not forsake them. No amount of forsaking 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
find that the deepest pain is a revivifying experience. It releases contracted energy and paralyzed creativity. It 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
feel pain. The same applies to fear. To experience fear in itself is not devastating: once experienced 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
implicit belief that you will perish if you experience some of your deeper feelings which are, in 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
opens up from within you, you begin to experience, maybe for the first time in your life 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
should or should not, could or could not experience? If you make your commitment to yourself to 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
to relative degrees in human life. One can experience love, truth, wisdom, peace, bliss, reality, only relatively 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
consciousness, and guidance to follow through. If you experience a great deal of resistance to doing so 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
disappointment, rejection, and believe that you must not experience these feelings, then you will have an overly 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
games. You cannot fear confrontation when you can experience pain. You will assert yourself if your pride 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
proceed to the point of view that no experience on earth can come to you that you 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
of fear. The moment you decide this, the experience you are involved in begins to take on 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
for you cannot split off any single existing experience from the rest of creation. Both the movement 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
and the nature of how you approach painful experience. Your approach to pain immediately and directly determines 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
to be now, but you do not emotionally experience this. Emotionally you still have a stake in 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
you and in the other, you will truly experience the unitive principle. You will understand how the 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
tight, strenuous current of the need to blame, experience and observe this drama truly as an observer 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
sets you free in all ways. You may experience pain, but the nature of the pain is 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
to expand into new states of consciousness and experience. As you learn to do so, the rewards 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
man-made, has a deep spiritual significance. All human experience is always symbolic of a wider, deeper, and 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
can convey more fully than any other human experience what spiritual bliss, oneness, and timelessness are. In 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
oneness, and timelessness are. In the total sexual experience you break through the confines of time and 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
limited mind has bound you. Through such an experience, you are reminded of your true existence in 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
your true existence in the eternal. The blissful experience of fusion and the sense of timelessness in 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
all levels of their being. If the sexual experience is an expression of the physical, emotional, mental 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
in accordance with spiritual law have a sexual experience as complete, fulfilling, rich, joyous, nourishing, sustaining, furthering 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
and reminiscent of spiritual reality as any human experience can be. Then in that blissful experience of 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
human experience can be. Then in that blissful experience of total union the fulfillment transcends personal satisfaction 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
is added to the universal reservoir. Each such experience is like a new star lighting up somewhere 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
filled. What is the meaning of the sexual experience on the physical level? What does the urge 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
expression at least to some degree, the ensuing experience will be disappointing, and will leave a lot 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
not know it. The measure of fulfillment you experience is a good gauge of how much you 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
For an infant, closeness is an entirely passive experience: the child takes in, receives, soaks up nourishment 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
closeness can be successfully consummated only when the experience is mutual -- when both participants actively reach 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
call this love. What is the vivid, living experience behind the stereotyped label? The experience of love 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
vivid, living experience behind the stereotyped label? The experience of love is primarily the attempt to perceive 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
the other person so you can truly perceive, experience, and feel all the complexities of this other 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
complexities of this other being. What more fascinating experience could there be? When you have no stake 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
struggle must be painful and you will not experience peace from recognizing your partner's role in the 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
the human psyche shows up in the sexual experience; it is impossible to keep anything out. The 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
keep anything out. The manner of the sexual experience is therefore an infallible indicator of where a 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
the psychic system are denied consciousness, the sexual experience must be blocked, flat, unsatisfactory, mechanical and, in 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
the more revitalized will you be by the experience of fusion, and the more your involuntary forces 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
striving entities in whatever creative act. This creative experience can take place only to the degree that 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
movement is accepted, welcomed, and followed. The creative experience will continue to expand until total union with 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
not know that you have molded what you experience in this moment in such a precise way 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
as they may be -- creates your present experience and the way your life unfolds for you 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
often create what you do not wish to experience at all because you do not know what 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
dangerous weapon, as you all well know. You experience power as something you fear in others and 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
being the thought or wish, effect being the experience -- is a constant given in the state 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
connecting thoughts, wishes, intents, feelings and attitudes with experience seems to be a new discovery that establishes 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
must temporarily forget its full capacity and its experience in a state that can only be wholesome 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
my friends on the path have begun to experience this process as an ever-increasing living reality that 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
organic process of learning creative meditation, recreating life experience, will come as an intuitive, spontaneous expansion of 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
as you will intuitively understand cosmic reality from experience rather than theory, so will you learn to 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
Yet as you pursue that self- expression, you experience an inexplicable resistance to follow through. Something in 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
little effect. At times you may even consciously experience an outright resistance to meditate for the very 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
every level. You do have the birthright to experience this and other fulfillments, for the universe's abundance 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
to experiencing it, to realizing and bringing this experience into actuality. You may be perfectly aware of 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
in you is not yet ready for this experience. You yourself have put obstructions in the way 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
a certain degree. It creates matter, sub-matter and experience, but not to your blessing. It creates with 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
stands in the way. Instead of the desired experience, you must create the awareness and comprehension of 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
power to create, to feel, to enjoy, to experience -- all worlds exist within. For the true 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
is uttered. Impatience is the memory of this experience, without the connectedness with the inner being, so 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
effect from cause, soul from soul, form and experience from thought, inner from outer. Life itself appears 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
are the same illusions as your concept and experience of time, distance, and movement. They are all 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
of the limited, separated ego state. Everything you experience seems to exist only in those seemingly objective 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
to make the connection between the misery you experience, the dissatisfactions and the frustrations you experience, the 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
you experience, the dissatisfactions and the frustrations you experience, the feeling that life goes by without really 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
only an obscurity, will become something that you experience as reality. Wisdom will guide you, manifesting into 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
always evolve toward new states of consciousness and experience. Each stage deepens in scope and releases new 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
mean it. But unless you have come to experience the contradictory levels within you where you do 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
you are always capable of using whatever you experience to heighten your blissful life. Dark spots become 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
fear, or whatever. Again and again you will experience the wide open system of creation. You will 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
life come from realizing that your world, your experience, your life is your creation. This opens many 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
lose your fear of pain because you can experience pain, your pain ceases to exist. As you 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE

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