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| many times to overcome or fulfill one thing, experiencing it again and again. Others, who have recognized | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| That would necessarily close the door to personally experiencing the truth. In this respect people can be | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to worship God as a person as against experiencing Him in dissolution and formlessness. We can notice | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| her spiritual development. But this is rarer. Fully experiencing a heavy fate often already brings an advancement | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| doubt you are depressed, and when you are experiencing truth, you feel happy. Truth must always make | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| creatures. It is, therefore, understandable that a philosophy experiencing God in the female aspect would be less | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| state of unhappiness. In breaking the law and experiencing the resulting unhappiness lies the remedy itself and | 18 FREE WILL |
| utterly and solely God, fulfilling His will, and experiencing Him. But the true mystic will not even | 18 FREE WILL |
| vast and tremendous difference between the ecstasy of experiencing God and anything else on earth or in | 18 FREE WILL |
| self-chosen medicine for a considerable time, that is, experiencing a state of desolation, did a vague longing | 21 THE FALL |
| those who can do so are capable of experiencing real happiness. So everything you do in life | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| many good things. One of the difficulties in experiencing the perfection of divine harmony is to find | 36 PRAYER |
| are directly responsible for the tests you are experiencing at any given time. And in order to | 38 IMAGES |
| that is always dangerous. The unpleasantness you are experiencing is only a reflection, a necessary effect of | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| as a child and occasionally also later, when experiencing a hurt, disappointment, frustration, or rejection, wishes to | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| and nothing will stand in the way of experiencing truth on all levels. In other words, a | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reality. You are all on the way toward experiencing this truth, at least to some degree. When | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| she is ready? ANSWER: They know this after experiencing certain major breakthroughs, certain victories, certain reliefs, having | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| freely. However, you can have the chance of experiencing this free gift only if you don't force | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| have succeeded in crystallizing the pain you are experiencing, you cannot understand anything further in this respect | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you hurt or are causing you pain now. Experiencing these similarities emotionally will carry you further on | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| feel the similarities, while at the same time experiencing the pain of now and the pain of | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| do not have to find it. Only after experiencing all these emotions, and synchronizing the now and | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| outer knowledge may contradict this inner state of experiencing life. Yet, in your real feelings, this is | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| is always dangerous. The unpleasant things you are experiencing are but a reflection and a necessary effect | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| or the world. They withdraw into isolation, never experiencing the dreaded defeat, never realizing what a poor | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| is healthy. An unhealthy soul is incapable of experiencing pleasure. At the same time, if a person | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| personality, that person not only becomes capable of experiencing greater pleasure, but also leads a fuller life | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to find the cause of the addiction by experiencing it as his or her own recognition as | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| soul currents, being utterly self-centered, prohibit you from experiencing and dealing with defeat. From the findings you | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| thinking, intellectually evaluating, and deducing to feeling and experiencing all your positive and negative emotions. I cannot | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| quite sure that each one of you is experiencing such emotions; if you question yourself truly, you | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have neglected emotional growth and discouraged yourself from experiencing the world of feeling. Why is there such | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| gnawing feeling of having passed through life without experiencing its heights and depths, without developing yourself to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| moment onward, you withdrew from living, loving, and experiencing -- from everything that makes life rich and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| every one of you, the growth period of experiencing and maturing has to happen now. It just | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| degree. If you prevent yourself now from consciously experiencing these emotions, you will not get rid of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| words, always veering away from feeling, reacting, and experiencing. Now, how can you love if you do | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| more at ease. You will become capable of experiencing negative emotions in a way that promotes growth | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| Rigid, perfectionistic standards prohibit making mistakes, receiving criticism, experiencing failure. They point to your fallibility, which you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| of evaluating people. You are only capable of experiencing secondary, conditioned responses, which are unreliable and will | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| free yourself, yet you cannot do so without experiencing extreme discomfort. This impatience at the delay engages | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| unfulfillment, while before you were befogged and hazy, experiencing the unfulfillment in an indirect way. The stringent | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| and they are in your true selves; not experiencing yourself in your true strength; not identifying with | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| self. It is a question of feeling and experiencing yourself in relationship to others, to the world | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| You are capable of loving and relating, and experiencing joy. You are truly self-responsible. You have the | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| after you have gone through the maze of experiencing all sorts of other emotions that are superimposed | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| of withdrawal, false serenity, escape from living and experiencing. Both alternatives lead to shallowness, and not to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| problems. So you whisk away these inadequacies by experiencing their opposite in fantasy. It is true that | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| much more than what you are capable of experiencing in reality at this time. Determine whether this | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| preconceived ideas, they will feel less capable of experiencing fulfillment. The discrepancy between daydreams in which they | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| the other. This is why you alternate between experiencing pseudofears and pseudofulfillment in daydreams. QUESTION: I can't | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| cannot cut the tie that keeps you from experiencing freedom and independence. You are also kept from | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| inner liberation. Inner liberation can come only from experiencing these words as truth -- and this can | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| into emotional adulthood. Can you imagine being spared experiencing the pain against which you instituted the destructive | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| outside without your creating it by learning and experiencing in a productive way. First you need to | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| right versus wrong and become thereby capable of experiencing others and reaching out to them. The defense | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| governed by the past. Therefore, its way of experiencing life is as poignant as a child's. But | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| strive away from it, but rather that of experiencing yourself, in awareness, in your defensiveness. This then | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| prevent you from feeling, from living, and from experiencing life to the fullest, these blessings would be | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| the words as material for thinking, feeling, and experiencing. Be blessed again, my dearest friends, receive and | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| is hard and brittle; it prevents feeling and experiencing and causes the first type of rigidity. The | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| rigidity: one dulls your capacity of feeling and experiencing; the other colors your views and experience to | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| that pseudo-solutions are strenuous and energy- consuming, while experiencing the real self is safe and easy. I | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| dimension you live in can you outgrow it. Experiencing everything that each moment of time contains will | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| spirit, the psyche, is, of course, capable of experiencing this. In fact, it experiences it constantly, only | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| between identification with self and with others; between experiencing yourself as real and not. Even the most | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| amiss, if you do not expose yourself to experiencing what you may perhaps fear, even while you | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| As people gain inner unity by perceiving and experiencing true reality, the split mends and negative involvement | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| life of the individual. Thus the faculties for experiencing maximum pleasure are thwarted. Human beings are meant | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| hinder the unfoldment of your emotional depth in experiencing pleasure, your inner being is off balance. In | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the personality is integrated and therefore capable of experiencing its destiny -- the utter bliss of the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| emotions, to where they really belong rather than experiencing them in displacement, is always a relief. But | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| must exist, it is now a question of experiencing it -- not just once, but whenever it | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| or destructive. It is the same with feeling, experiencing, and expressing the attitude of I want to | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| one has previously become aware of means deeply experiencing the answers to all these questions. These answers | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| you. Knowing is not theoretical understanding. It is experiencing the truth. Knowing the truth behind the untruth | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| condition. Such expression of trust is possible after experiencing again and again your true selfhood and its | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| in the fearlessness of living, the beauty of experiencing, the rich variety of experience without feeling harassed | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| that hinder you -- you must know that experiencing the fulfillment is within the scheme of Creation | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| has experienced, either consciously or unconsciously. But while experiencing something in a state of fear, all faculties | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| connection with this topic? QUESTION: Lately, I am experiencing something new which is evidently a result of | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| the extent that an individual is capable of experiencing and expressing real love, he or she is | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| dearest friends, the absorption, understanding, the knowing and experiencing of all this is of great importance for | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| that the person cannot experience pleasure without also experiencing revenge -- some kind of sadistic wish toward | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| that there is unlimited freedom and possibility for experiencing the good. That possibility is given to everyone | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| wanting the result you now suffer from and experiencing this result, you must be frantic and frightened | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| your childhood with its strong emotions and deep experiencing, both positive and negative, but by truly observing | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| moment you can question the reality of your experiencing slight and hurt, you have a firm foundation | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| terrified that you won't attain the fulfillment, despite experiencing the truth of the unified principle in other | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| accomplished by theoretical understanding, but only by actually experiencing those areas where you still hide yourself. These | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| their complementary fragments. In the dualistic mode of experiencing life, activity and passivity appear as opposites. But | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| way I experience fear of pleasure is by experiencing a fear of losing myself in pleasure. Is | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| and following one's own deep instincts and consequently experiencing the highest state of bliss. They also apply | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| self-liking is missing, the psyche is inhibited from experiencing its natural state. This in turn alienates you | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| to what it is doing, thinking, feeling, and experiencing. This means wholeness, integrity, undivided motives and attention | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| own body, the less possibility is there of experiencing the spontaneous life principle in the self. The | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| may manifest as a new vibrant way of experiencing life, giving a new flavor to all one | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| widen your horizon in thinking about, and inwardly experiencing, new boundaries of reality, thus diminishing your fear | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| discussed. To that measure you become capable of experiencing delight, pleasure, happiness. There is a direct relationship | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| For humans are created for the purpose of experiencing pleasure supreme, intense joy, though the majority of | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| contrary to your way of thinking, being, and experiencing on your average level of consciousness. But the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| -- is one of the necessary prerequisites to experiencing the fullness of life's infinite potential. Before you | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you have experienced up until now and are experiencing in the present. This is precisely the first | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| dualistic ego does. In the split way of experiencing life, peacefulness excludes excitement and brings boredom. Excitement | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| world -- of growing, being, reaching out and experiencing life. Then nothing stands in the way any | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| anything and remain in a flowing state of experiencing life as it really is. It creates a | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| to unite the two apparently opposite ways of experiencing and to thereby find the meaning of life | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| and accept it, will you be capable of experiencing this shift in consciousness. Usually the mind makes | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| another way. Thus you go on never really experiencing life independently, never experiencing the real you, this | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| go on never really experiencing life independently, never experiencing the real you, this particular individualization of the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| always an erroneous, illusory way of perceiving and experiencing life. Opposites are not to be divided in | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| As long as you lack the courage of experiencing all that is in you, whether or not | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| is between intellectually knowing about something and emotionally experiencing it. People often set out with the wrong | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| your present life. Once you do not avoid experiencing these problematic emotions right now, you will recognize | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| best of life on the other. Knowing and experiencing your own rejection of pleasure is the first | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| considerably nearer your own potential for being and experiencing. Once again, the same holds true on the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| find themselves in the error of perceiving and experiencing life in a fixed way, as though what | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| to give up that which obstructs you from experiencing it; therefore neither the will and commitment to | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| degree you become more and more capable of experiencing pleasure. The more you can look forward to | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of life and thereby developing negative attitudes and experiencing life exactly as you perceive it. The average | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| higher powers that will make me capable of experiencing more and more bliss because I can let | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| find new ways, deeper ways, more variations of experiencing love in giving and receiving it, being in | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| what I said as a philosophical statement and experiencing it as a personal truth. In the intervening | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| use what I have said. 190. IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| knowledge first intellectually is the necessary preparation to experiencing it. Without such intellectual awareness of the truth | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| human nature is a result of defending against experiencing painful, undesirable feelings. This denial stagnates energy. When | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| as long as the energy flows freely. Not experiencing feelings stops the movement of those currents and | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| use in other ways as a substitute for experiencing your feelings, unless you really fully reexperience your | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| way to become fully alive than to keep experiencing your real feelings. The necessity of bringing together | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| incarnation presents the task of cleansing yourself by experiencing and understanding them. You are purified when there | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the fear of the fear; the fear of experiencing the fear. This is where the real harm | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| postulate that the true meaning of life is experiencing it in all its facets and variations, in | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| way the consciousness can be expanded is by experiencing life to its fullest and from all its | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| again and again, until all the blocks against experiencing life are eliminated and he or she has | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| protect yourself by denying the pain rather than experiencing it to its fullest, later life circumstances will | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| of all, you will remain open and vulnerable, experiencing the pain softly, gently, without inner fight, and | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| hiding. This will lead you to a fuller experiencing of your present and past feelings. And when | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| of life are rooted in the fear of experiencing what is in you, your feelings. Out of | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| lies exclusively in the walls you build against experiencing what is in you. You thus convert constructive | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| productively, and it certainly increases the capacity for experiencing pleasure and deep feelings. It is the living | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| re-experience. In the course of this journey toward experiencing old feelings which had not been fully experienced | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| residual original pain. For in the case of experiencing real pain, an inner organic wisdom guides the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| healthy way, from having good feelings, and from experiencing the vital energy flow which is the nature | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| to enumerate here. It suffices to say that experiencing and expressing feelings once deemed to be unacceptable | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| feeling and body is the indispensable prerequisite for experiencing pleasure and thus for reaching fulfillment. The refusal | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| increasingly free to believe in the possibility of experiencing the abundance of the universe. A finely calibrated | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| use meditation first for the express purpose of experiencing life in a more meaningful way, or whether | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| observing and admitting your real thoughts and feelings, experiencing all your feelings, owning up to them on | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and when the individual no longer defends against experiencing pain, a substantial step of the initial purification | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| been accomplished. Negative intentionality is a defense against experiencing pain. Misconceptions are a result of both. So | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| mature willingness to let be what is. In experiencing real pain, you stop controlling, manipulating, hiding -- | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| of being, fear of feeling, or fear of experiencing the height of universal love which is, strange | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| step of commitment to your feelings and to experiencing life without holding back. How joyful life could | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| defense or brittle wall, which keeps you from experiencing life. Your adult thinking has to express itself | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| inspiration for this process. Ask for help in experiencing increasingly the abundance of the universe. Then you | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and creative movement into life. The fear of experiencing all these states is obviously also a trick | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| from the real world, all of which make experiencing life deeper and more meaningful. The word territory | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| from this state of feeling and knowing, of experiencing life as it really is. The experience becomes | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| groping before the personality can accept all feelings, experiencing and handling them constructively. I have said much | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| your capacity to love grows commensurately. By willingly experiencing your fear, you grow fearless and secure. This | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| which new knowing, new seeing, new hearing, new experiencing come from the divine kernel within. The integration | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| you cannot experience God within you without also experiencing joy, peace, and light. How are you ever | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| right. Most human beings are still incapable of experiencing how their distortion and negativity directly affects, reinforces | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| unrealistic image. The more you are capable of experiencing any feeling, the less you will be enslaved | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| life and yourself than you are capable of experiencing at this time. How then can we find | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| the attitudes in you that prevent you from experiencing life in a fulfilled and meaningful way; when | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| with rage, complaints, and other defenses against cleanly experiencing this pain, you are not in truth about | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| contentment, and security. It is a state of experiencing and expressing deep feelings and blissful pleasure, where | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| going through whatever in you prevents you from experiencing it. This state already exists as a dormant | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Then you need to face the fear of experiencing certain feelings: it is perhaps your implicit belief | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| to pain -- be it the pain of experiencing something, or experiencing the lack of it. Can | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| be it the pain of experiencing something, or experiencing the lack of it. Can you trust pain | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| pain are essential to giving and receiving and experiencing bliss. On the other hand, if you are | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| direction, by a commitment to wanting it, to experiencing it, to realizing and bringing this experience into | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| the moment I am still not capable of experiencing it. This meditation, my friends, must be the | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| according to the human state of consciousness, is experiencing what is as a sequence rather than as | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| and on, then the consciousness prepares itself for experiencing the now point. People may have only occasional | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| its essence; it changes only its expression. In experiencing and knowing this, your resistance will therefore lessen | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| without any temptation into erroneous, faulty conceiving and experiencing the world. To be deeply aware of the | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| personality, your thinking and feeling, your being and experiencing, your capacity to will and decide -- all | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| with appearance values, you actually invest in not experiencing what you really desire, what may be your | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| requires bridging the gap from not knowing to experiencing. This gap can be bridged only by faith | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| motion unless you speak the truth. You are experiencing this now in your beautiful venture, the Center | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| way. The motive on the higher-self level for experiencing the true divine state of omnipotence has nothing | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| are not to be feared, while you avoid experiencing them and going through the dark tunnel they | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| during life in the body, you believe that experiencing your pain and terror -- or your imagined | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| resistance to meditation and prayer. I have been experiencing lately a lot of feelings of hopelessness and | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| you are doing and the progress you are experiencing have made many of you capable of pinpointing | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| thereby increase the self-hate? Where do you prevent experiencing your freedom by childish denial of boundaries and | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| you. Even if you are still far from experiencing the reality of eternal life, even if you | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| from inner worlds or other realities, a re- experiencing today of a dynamic aliveness, no matter how | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| much of the past suffering. It would entail experiencing the pain of guilt for having inflicted pain | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the pain of doubting, the pain of not experiencing God's existence. However, not knowing that all actions | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| not the same as the pain of not experiencing justice. The latter leads to the former and | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| has much greater value. This is parallel to experiencing at certain stages on your path the relief | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| enclose you and prevent you from perceiving and experiencing grace. In reality the walls are mist and | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| and misinterpretations of life that prevent you from experiencing grace. The automatic habit of this reversed thinking | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| of admitting fear of loving an equal and experiencing the pleasure of sexuality, the woman had to | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| as well. If you continue, you cannot help experiencing this as the only way to be. Only | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| must be a lot of anger connected with experiencing it. If pain is assumed to come only | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| though you may be in the midst of experiencing it. So you will truly become still and | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| think back to a time when you were experiencing the fullness of love, light, and bliss and | 254 SURRENDER |
| you pray for converge on one central point, experiencing the reality of God. When this happens, you | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| link can be seen. When this occurs in experiencing the power and presence of the Creator, you | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| The threat of extinction prevents the entity from experiencing the sweetness of the transition. In many instances | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| voice to manifest. The same is true about experiencing the inner universe -- the real world. Focused | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| from the vicissitudes of life and thus from experiencing your reality. When autonomy exists, there is no | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| possibilities of expression, of manifestation. The joy of experiencing this reality is greater than any other. In | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| alien, and therefore were enemies to be distrusted. Experiencing others to be similar when it comes to | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| in your soul, and the pain of not experiencing oneness is excruciating. Not knowing of this longing | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| your impurities can you do this. Only through experiencing rather than denying your various pains can you | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| love yourself without at least knowing, and finally experiencing, His love for you? How could you activate | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |