| The fright is caused by a wrong conclusion. Experience of pleasure, as well as of unpleasure, cannot | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| The harm comes exclusively from defending yourself against experience, by closing yourself up. The anxiety you experience | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| experience, by closing yourself up. The anxiety you experience is exclusively a result of fearing pleasure, as | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| as unpleasure -- fearing to be touched by experience and therefore building a defensive wall against it | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| Say to it: I am wrong in fearing experience. Nothing bad can happen to me if I | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| and ideas. I no longer wish to reject experience. My fear of so-called good or bad happenings | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| will learn, little by little, to let yourself experience whatever comes your way. Let it come to | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| deliberate tuning into deeper, more sensitive layers of experience is required to cultivate and increase this awareness | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| and also occasionally before, you produce whatever you experience. Unhappiness does not actually mean that you have | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| your soul substance will begin to change. Your experience will, at first, be the following: After you | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| new way of being evolves. You will simultaneously experience both. I venture to say that some of | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the best possible way. As I said, this experience will first come simultaneously with the usual anxious | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| hopeless feeling recurs as rarely now as the experience of the true inner reality did before. To | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| your being simultaneously is, in itself, a good experience, for it brings the split into full focus | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| simultaneity of two levels is a very distinct experience on the path. It should be expected, not | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| This may sound like indifference and shallowness of experience, which are distortions of the state I have | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| brings the soul onto a new level of experience -- the healing of the split -- where | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| of you who has been near such an experience will feel what I mean. You will then | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| to be temporary, and experienced as such. The experience of pain turning into pleasure and the two | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| in your development. Anyone on this Path can experience it any time they truly face up to | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| pleasure. The feeling of alive peace accompanies this experience. Your body and soul are streaming in pleasure | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| must be found. Then no matter what the experience, it must become pleasurable. Such pleasure is of | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| together of pleasure and pain happen when you experience pain as a feeling? Is the common denominator | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| of death? That the moment one accepts the experience of it, it ceases to be frightening? ANSWER | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| not true. As you know from your own experience, the present state you are in -- which | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| it is because you are frightened of the experience. When you give up the self-centeredness of the | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| itself the most precious treasure, the most wonderful experience, for it makes you alive and streaming with | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the universal forces. This melting leads to an experience that involves all levels of being: mental, emotional | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| physical. Therefore it is the most total spiritual experience humans can have. In other states where the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the ego can let go of itself, the experience is hardly ever that inclusive of all of | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| vision and expand your horizon. For you still experience like an infant who only sees the moment | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| as a faraway, abstract, unreal theory, and you experience yourself as an isolated particle in an essentially | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| laws. This concept, and the way you therefore experience yourself in relation to life, is what makes | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| find your own truth as a direct, spontaneous experience from within. In the first moments of understanding | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| beginning. Elimination of error frees intuition and creative experience from within. The lectures first give an impetus | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| me and others? In the condition as I experience it? Finding the answer to these questions is | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| Anyone working on such a path knows from experience how burdensome such misconceptions and confusions and mutually | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| this, to some degree even out of personal experience, and most certainly as a valid theory, none | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| dynamics, with all their consequences that happen in experience and fact. So, what you believe and what | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| can truly and deeply embrace limitless vistas of experience for happiness and self-expression, this is exactly what | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| within that life cannot be merely what you experience from day to day or what it is | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| it merely with your brain. The way to experience the truth is to apply it first to | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| in the application transcend the problems. Then you experience every force of the universe within yourself. Still | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| unfolds through new ideas, feelings, and depths of experience, the ego will be instructed and suffused by | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| -- often unconsciously. Every good, beautiful, and creative experience in which you feel at one with life | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| is that you do not approach every life experience freshly. You are conditioned to respond to it | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| see it according to your own perception and experience. You see it according to your indoctrination about | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| already a reflex, so that you do not experience the tulip as though you were confronted with | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| and relevant to our topic here, is the experience of pain and frustration. You have been indoctrinated | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| be by itself. Little by little you will experience how the pain turns into a pleasurable movement | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| it is impossible to come to the pleasurable experience of pulsation. You are usually too busy following | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| this particular individualization of the Divine. You never experience things as they really are, without preconceptions or | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| is hardly ever an overt manifestation -- will experience one as positive and the other as negative | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| error set in. This is most difficult to experience with the greatest polarity of all: life and | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| many other opposites that you cannot help but experience at this state of your development as good | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| divine nature, to that degree you cease to experience life in this divided way. Only then can | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| in the right and healthy way does not experience his or her own self in reality -- | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| seriously, as real factors to be reckoned with, experience other people as sufficiently real to have concern | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| Only then is it possible to perceive and experience that you and the other are one, within | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the other are one, within. You will inevitably experience that self-interest in the right way can never | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| path of growth itself is the most blissful experience imaginable. All self- deceptions must be eliminated before | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| is to come; perhaps you have begun to experience this state to a small degree once in | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| them into conflict with their environment. Gradually, life experience expanded people's consciousness and the first reasoning processes | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| It is still far removed from the inner experience of oneness with one's fellow creatures. But eventually | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| realm of feelings under control. They identify and experience themselves almost entirely as the so-called ego -- | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| deepest possible way, the enormous threat all individuals experience when they come to a certain crossroads in | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| to your feeling qualities and your capacity to experience spiritually. Your emotions seem far more negative than | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| generally has little to do with true emotional experience. More often than not, these are ideals and | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| by meeting destructiveness and pain. When you fully experience the hate and the pain in you without | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| feeling will crystallize pleasure supreme, the capacity to experience heights of joy that you never dreamed possible | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| explanations and theorizing make it impossible to really experience the hurt. And when you deny an actual | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| the hurt. And when you deny an actual experience, you cannot put it truly behind you. You | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| conclusion. The real hurt is a gentle, soft experience, never unbearable, always leaving the essence of the | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| or to reason it out. Then you will experience a wonderful process: The negative, painful feeling will | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| They come gradually, to the degree that you experience your actual sensations and feelings without either denying | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| in your meditations, I would like to know, experience, and feel what I really feel. Beware of | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| the pain; in fighting it, you avoid the experience whose full acceptance is necessary to outgrow it | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| expansion of creative living and the capacity to experience the goodness of life are truly infinite. The | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| can be detected when you understand, feel, and experience what I say here. Then you will indeed | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| by powerful feelings you do not wish to experience. It is not the nature of those feelings | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| great and significant progress without which no genuine experience of the universal self is possible. Some of | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| result of letting the feelings out is an experience and a surge of new spiritual life, so | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| sense that; somehow they know that what they experience cannot be all there is to life, but | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| existence of these emotions or to meet and experience them -- to let them out into the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| And since it is true, you can only experience it only as a reality when you give | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| life force. Without this energy the depth of experience you long for cannot ever be yours -- | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| an error only when you emerge from the experience of them. Such an experience is threatening only | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| emerge from the experience of them. Such an experience is threatening only before you enter into it | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| hesitation and reluctance and let yourself into this experience, no matter what you feel, it will not | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| merely an intellectual admission, but the actual emotional experience and volitional expression of it. For if you | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| original state. When you have the courage to experience the pain, agony, anger, violence and helplessness, you | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| kind of negativity that makes the courage to experience the destructive feelings so perilous. For as long | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| as this negativity exists, the courage to face, experience, and express the destructive feelings cannot be completely | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| must also fear the indwelling power for positive experience and unfoldment. You will no longer react with | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| event. For the first time you gain personal experience of this path as a reality that leads | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| truly to bliss. For the first time you experience that the key to every conceivable possibility of | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| and understand that you must accept yourself and experience yourself as you are now, even if it | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| means to go through pain, fear, anger. The experience of who you are now cannot be avoided | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| Those of you who have had the wonderful experience of contact with your life center now know | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| have your negative feelings, you simultaneously begin to experience an aliveness that you have never tasted before | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| This is truly a wonderful, encouraging, and strengthening experience, after which you can never be the same | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| do you have to grope so ardently to experience something so deep within you? Why is it | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| know, the greatest distress a human being can experience is not hurt -- it is lack of | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| extremely harmful. When something alive is deadened, all experience stops. This deadness creates the hopelessness all human | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| not want to venture forth into life, into experience, the wrong attitude creates deadness in you and | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| a heretofore deadened life center, know the tremendous experience this is. Yes, you first experience pain or | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| the tremendous experience this is. Yes, you first experience pain or whatever other emotion it may be | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| out. It never closes life. Even while you experience the pain, wonderful pulsating life bubbles up in | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| pain makes room for pleasure. Safety, hope, new experience -- they are all available, but only through | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| difficult to accomplish this again. But the onetime experience will not remain. Your conditioned reflexes are too | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| when faced with the threat of new painful experience or disappointment. This shrinking from the life process | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| have nothing to do with them. The beautiful experience seems to be gratuitous. It seems the same | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| it contains. For life is truth and love, experience and pleasure, movement and unfoldment, new adventure and | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| quite different, very near to an opening, pleasurable experience. Accepting the negativity of life makes the negativity | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| makes the negativity eventually superfluous. Rejecting the negative experience binds you to it for as long as | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| on fighting it. Let us take the simple experience of fear. If you shrink from fear and | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| fear and deaden yourself in order not to experience it, you become unconsciously enslaved to it. On | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| welcome pain. What I mean is that negative experience ceases only when you do not shrink from | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| and the positive consciousness of reaching for good experience. The latter occurs out of fear and weakness | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| out of fear and weakness and cringes from experience. By fighting against the undesirable experience, you deaden | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| cringes from experience. By fighting against the undesirable experience, you deaden an integral part of life -- | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| The side that is dead misses out, cannot experience, and the life side must fight against this | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| process, any attempt to deny a genuine inner experience, inevitably produces inner fight and self-division. When you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| When you fear hurt, disappointment, frustration, you fear experience per se. If you fear experience, you must | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you fear experience per se. If you fear experience, you must guard against it in one way | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you are open and ready for the good experience, if not for the painful one. But if | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| painful one. But if you fear the painful experience, you are defensive, unspontaneous, and thus walled off | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| and thus walled off from any kind of experience. You will be unable to fully feel love | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| hopeless. If you wonder about your capacity to experience deep, warm feelings of love, find how you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you defend yourself against any negative feeling and experience. There you will have the key. It becomes | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| key. It becomes obvious that fear of emotional experience breeds frustration, discontent and emptiness which, in turn | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| processes. By instituting death processes and shrinking from experience you divide yourself. Any outer strife in your | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| think of; it is also the most painful experience within the individual person. In a state of | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| and eliminate its cause. Only going through the experience of the frustration can bring to the surface | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| not mean masochistic, self-denying, morbid attitudes toward negative experience. You are not required to welcome it. I | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| morbid wallowing. When you come to the traumatic experience that has created the numbing experience in this | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| the traumatic experience that has created the numbing experience in this lifetime -- which always happens in | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| possible and necessary, though, to reconstruct the emotional experience by comprehending the problematic reactions that you have | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you will recognize them as repetitions of early experience, and, sooner or later on the path, discover | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| is deadened thaws out, you are bound to experience pain -- the pain you once froze. The | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| whereas the former frees it for joyful, pleasurable experience and strength. This new approach requires a calm | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| make the pain a deeper and eventually joyful experience by no longer rejecting it. Now, are there | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| personal value. There are many variations of this experience. Each of you must find the particular emphasis | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| of, I am being abandoned. Here is the experience. The words are of course too limited to | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| see yourself cramping up, numbing yourself, denying the experience of abandonment. As you see yourself doing this | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| denial you increase the fear. You make the experience inevitable. You constantly live in the shadow of | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| As you do this, you will first truly experience the pain of abandonment, even if only the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| threat of it is being repeated. As you experience it in this way, the threat is already | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| fully alive and feeling and thereby come to experience the best that life is, the best that | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| can be made that leads to an emotional experience of these truths. First a vivid new experience | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| experience of these truths. First a vivid new experience has to take place in the mind, which | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |