| Alienating..................4 | |
| than using them for yourself. This is self- alienating. It leads you to be as helpless as | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| daily life. People who are frightened of these alienating processes remove them by creating a vague theory | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| or she believes. That is truly the most alienating state -- not knowing what one believes, assumes | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| deal with confusions, inner misconceptions, misunderstandings, destructive attitudes, alienating defenses, negative emotions, and paralyzed feelings, all of | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Alienation..................25 | |
| also leads you more deeply into isolation, unhappiness, alienation from yourself, and unsuccessful, unrewarding patterns that you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| be. But this is not your real nature. Alienation from yourself is both the result and the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| these exist in you because of this self- alienation. And this self-deprecation is then often projected on | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| It leads not only to self-deception, but to alienation from your real self by borrowing ready-made rules | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| assumption of a role. The tragedy of self- alienation that people unconsciously and so arduously bring about | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| to graver error, to compounded misunderstanding, to further alienation from the truth in that respect. Each cause | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| -- this fundamental violation inevitably leads to further alienation and destruction. When you realize that no situation | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| feelings in certain areas -- out of fear, alienation, deliberate and false defense mechanisms -- then, as | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| because your fears and misconceptions lead to self- alienation and escape from life, then a conflict arises | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| yourself. You no longer flounder in ignorance and alienation, believing life and you are two separate factors | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| distortion. Consequently, there is denial, repression, and further alienation from the nucleus where these conditions can be | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the life-giving force. They are responsible for your alienation from the universal life principle. They create the | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| other times, is what may be called self- alienation, or lack of aliveness, or disconnectedness. It is | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| home within yourself and, therefore, in life. Such alienation is a direct result of unawareness of the | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| and will function sufficiently to hide the inner alienation and who therefore thinks that he or she | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| One begins to project the causes of the alienation onto the outside world, with less and less | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| As the mental attitude changes from ignorance, fear, alienation, distrust, and hostility, to an open, trustful, truthful | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| you can bridge the gap from ignorance and alienation to an open state of mind that questions | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| feelings. By that dynamic you create the twice-removed alienation process that is so disconcerting and painful: fear | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| to the now is a measure of your alienation from the now point. The degree of such | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| is the creation of more fragmentation, a further alienation from the psychic nuclear now point with all | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| so does individual consciousness turn into separatism and alienation from the other. If the movement is followed | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| blindly, and selfishly, in a state of emotional alienation where the other person's pain was not experienced | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| in lying to myself and to others, to alienation from myself and from others, and in a | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| inaccessible. Everywhere there is only deadness, mechanicalness, and alienation from all that is pulsating life, within and | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Align.......................7 | |
| whom they were incarnated for that purpose, to align their actions with God's laws, and to refrain | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| completely alone. In the first place, you then align yourself with a spiritual law, my friends. To | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| that is why all other personality levels must align with the spirit's innate nature: movement. You move | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| your whole person. Or you can choose to align your conscious mind and will with the higher | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| increase your sense of divinity. Let your consciousness align itself with the divine will of loving yourself | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| your mind to impress your soul substance and align it with divine intent. Your primary aim is | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| individual cells of consciousness begin to purify and align themselves with the divine will, the more they | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Alignment...................6 | |
| studied beforehand and which must again be in alignment with the entity to be born, certain magnetic | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| and flexible is very important for your ultimate alignment with your divine center. Eventually, I will also | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| emotional being, and your mental being -- into alignment with the divine center through the ability to | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| total integration and oneness must bring sexuality into alignment with spirituality. The realization of your spiritual life | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| be fulfilled when you bring your personality into alignment with spiritual truth, whatever that may be at | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| to communication and communication leads to oneness, to alignment with the Christ spirit that sweeps with great | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Alive.......................196 | |
| its ultimate goal in yourself, it cannot remain alive in you, and therefore your happiness will be | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| will also be able to sustain and keep alive their own happiness. You can and should allow | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| dry out, or die, but will always be alive, pulsating, forever regenerating itself. And only a person | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| it. In this way your prayers will come alive. Then, after you have asked for help to | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| will become more productive, because it will be alive, and therefore also constantly changing. It will not | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| sole requisite to keep the stream of happiness alive and flowing. In this way it will never | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| higher feelings within the soul will truly come alive and enjoy a deep, intimate contact with God's | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| individuality. For what is of the spirit is alive. When you see a dead body you often | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| shallow and grey world and nothing is really alive to them, because through their bondage to matter | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| however, does not make them really spiritual, really alive. Thus it happens that those over whom the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| in the least true! Indifference means not being alive, not vibrating with vitality. And the higher you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| higher you are on the path, the more alive you become. You do care and you do | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| I want to say: There is no person alive who has no willpower. Whoever says, I am | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| you do that, my friends, the willpower already alive within you will often change direction and, even | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| self. If your lower self were not also alive within you, it would be comparatively easy to | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| state of not caring or not being fully alive. Here, as in everything else, the right middle | 18 FREE WILL |
| imperfection; and as long as any imperfection is alive within you, you cannot unite with God. And | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| reincarnate anymore and which of them may be alive now. I have very good reasons, particular reasons | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I can promise that you will be vibrantly alive -- first at intervals, and later more consistently | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| have. On a day when you feel strong, alive and full of enthusiasm, it is much easier | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| not believe that there is a human being alive who is entirely free of self-will, pride, and | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| spiritual development. For there is no human being alive who has not the opportunity to become happy | 31 SHAME |
| praying, but be wakeful that your prayer remains alive. Be mindful and wary that you do not | 36 PRAYER |
| prayer accordingly, to keep it forever new and alive. The various points of your vicious circle will | 36 PRAYER |
| prayer into a routine. It will then remain alive, ever changing according to your changing path. Gradually | 36 PRAYER |
| again be careful that you keep your feelings alive. Listen to the strength of your feelings. Take | 36 PRAYER |
| and from life. Yet, while your image is alive, you have not changed. At one time in | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| does the spark of the erotic force remain alive. By itself, without love, the erotic force burns | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| when you are known entirely. The soul is alive, and nothing that is alive remains static. It | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| The soul is alive, and nothing that is alive remains static. It has the capacity to reveal | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the relationship turns static. It is no longer alive even though it may have some very pleasant | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| been aware of. Then your love will remain alive. It will never be static; it will never | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| been aware of. Then your love will remain alive. It will never be static; it will never | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| lead and help. In a relationship that is alive, healthy, and flexible, it must alternate and change | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| wrong; you cannot kill off something that is alive. You can only hide it so that it | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| peace, strength, and a sense of being vibrantly alive -- until the next obstruction is tackled. These | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| unconscious, it did not die; it is still alive in the present. You get over something only | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| means, for instance, that the person becomes most alive in negative situations -- in situations of fight | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| at least occasionally. Examine whether you feel more alive in a negative situation and more dead in | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| in the physical realm. Ideas and thoughts are alive. You have often heard these words expressed, but | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| manifestation. The latter is pure consciousness, it is alive, thinking, feeling, willing, endowed with all the qualities | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life, it cannot create something that is not alive. Everything that is alive is spirit, and everything | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| something that is not alive. Everything that is alive is spirit, and everything that is spirit creates | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| their struggle to keep their joy in life alive, even if it manifested only rarely, their capacity | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| some time ago with tendencies that are still alive within yourself, whether you are fully conscious of | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| As you experience the truth of these words, alive in you to a much stronger degree than | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to them that something wise, true, flexible and alive may be behind the ritual. They would realize | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| For then you are fully open, receptive, and alive. You will be better able to formulate your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| burdens, but you will also become much more alive to each moment. Your reactions will be much | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| will become much fuller. You will be so alive in each moment! You will be aware of | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| what is flexible is unsafe. Since truth is alive like anything else that is alive, it must | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| truth is alive like anything else that is alive, it must be flexible. So people fear truth | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| or lack of them, your sense of being alive and fulfilling a purpose or the lack of | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| concentrated at the same time, fully aware and alive to the moment and its requirements. You will | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| integrate and become one within yourself, you become alive, vibrantly alive. To a small extent those of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| become one within yourself, you become alive, vibrantly alive. To a small extent those of my friends | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| through which to manifest only when you are alive, when you are the life force. You have | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it results in a vibrant feeling of being alive. Most of you know this from your own | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The fire of love. The burning of being alive, of action, of doing in the right, organic | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| details. Do not forget, these lectures are something alive. They are adapted to your progress, to the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| instant gratification but retain the attitude of keeping alive, in principle, the wish to obtain what you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the causes that have made you only half alive, using only a small measure of your potential | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| come to the point where real morality is alive and flexible in you, and you will then | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| beautiful these rules are they will not be alive and true in you. In humanity's insecurity, in | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| of human imperfection, people borrow what was once alive and could again be alive. They need only | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| what was once alive and could again be alive. They need only the courage to become themselves | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| rigid structure of what could and should be alive within the self. Do you follow what I | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| have a question about killing anything that is alive. I have a little girl and, naturally, I | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| must be, and the less capable of being alive and free in a real situation. Therefore, you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| person is, the more he or she is alive, a distinct individual, and not a machine, divorced | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| a predicament. You are unhappy. You are not alive. To a large degree, the human struggle exists | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| You cannot learn something that is constant and alive by learning a few rules, by hearing a | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| they really are, becomes monstrous. It is not alive, not real. Everything you have experienced from those | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| exists. What if the parents are no longer alive? Often there may be someone still near you | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| which you emotionally experience them. Then they become alive. You will understand at least some of their | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to fluctuations and changes, for nothing that is alive remains static. Only a free spirit can be | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| understanding what you are talking about. Meaning is alive, it is forever a fresh, spontaneous experience, and | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| all beings; of understanding and perception; of being alive. It is impossible to convey that these few | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| other human beings. But since they are still alive, they must continue to relate somehow. They relate | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| on a new form that is very much alive, whereas before you used them as substitutes. Often | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| paralyzed; so that your pathwork remains dynamic and alive in a beautiful forward surge, in the meaningful | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| and with your life. You will become more alive than you ever thought possible. Be in peace | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| in the process of growth, and therefore not alive. Non-life is non-growth. Life, as growth, proceeds in | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Life, as growth, proceeds in degrees. Between being alive or not alive, being in growth or not | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| proceeds in degrees. Between being alive or not alive, being in growth or not, there are many | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| below par and the person is only half alive -- often even less than that. The interaction | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| movement of mind, thought, spirit, man is more alive than the animal. The range of the possibilities | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is diminished, and how your feeling of being alive is reduced. The vibrancy of true aliveness is | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you with the vibrant feeling of being truly alive. Your awareness, and therefore your life, can grow | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| entire universe is in motion because it is alive. This principle applies equally to every aspect of | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| harmonious law, they deaden. Hence, to be fully alive as far as movement is concerned, all levels | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| that an entity is conscious, so is it alive. There are many degrees of consciousness. The human | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| to unroll the whole process and become vibrantly alive. QUESTION: I understand that very well, I know | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| your capacity. The vibrant feeling of being wholly alive, in stimulating peacefulness, fills you even while you | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| be avoided. Men and women would be vibrantly alive in the immediate now. Whenever this is so | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| has become theoretical knowledge; it is no longer alive. It will come to life again only when | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| know that cause me to be only partly alive. I want to be fully alive. To bring | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| only partly alive. I want to be fully alive. To bring this about, I contact the inner | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| which you are truthful about. Your very being alive can only be a truthful phenomenon when there | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| what to do with or how to keep alive. Hence, oneness is established between the outer and | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| others from all that is true, real, constructive, alive, and blissful. Behind the wall one suffers separation | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| the child state, the inner center is just alive, full of feeling, energy, and capacity for experience | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| in a positive, wonderful way. It is flexible, alive, vibrant and full of the strong feelings without | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| a new hope. For whenever this awareness is alive, you see, at first as a principle and | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| tension, conflict, or fear. Consequently, the world becomes alive and the self is master, not in a | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| to make this possible, your feelings must come alive. In this work, and in these lectures, we | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| one is driven to choose the distortions. Being alive becomes a chore, a peace-robbing and difficult endeavor | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| anger. These feelings seem to keep the psyche alive, as it were. The aliveness is not real | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| that want to stream out of you, beautifully alive, whole. Instead, you wastefully and ignorantly think you | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| the feelings, wants the experience of feeling yourself alive and vibrant with the beauty of such feelings | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| to find a compromise between wanting to be alive, wanting to feel the sweetness and fullness of | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| you feel more reassured when you feel less alive, while this more intense state of feeling threatens | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| for then, and then only, can you become alive; to see yourself in nonfeeling. For then, and | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| path of self-finding. Each moment of discontent is alive with answers for you. If you look for | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| of the cosmos, the rhythmic breathing of everything alive. This cosmic breathing can only exist when there | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| The latter is dead, the former is vibrantly alive. Intensity and overindentation of soul substance are also | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| of soul substance are also confused with being alive, while letting oneself be in the natural state | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| feel your entire inner and outer organism vibrantly alive and growing. When the restricting, tense, congested movement | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| depth of feelings that make the personality vibrantly alive and joyous on all levels of being. Fear | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| be had out of life if you become alive. But you can become alive only to the | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| if you become alive. But you can become alive only to the degree you overcome the fear | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the spontaneous inner nature. Love forces can remain alive only when the self is totally unafraid of | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| goals. They ignore that there is anything else alive in them besides the ego. Even those of | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| given undue importance in one's sense of being alive. If one cannot conceive of any other reality | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| therefore has the capacity to render you more alive, more fulfilled, and steadily stronger. Certainly, none of | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| and the same time, dynamic, stimulating, exciting, vibrantly alive, and yet peaceful. There is no longer any | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the ego faculties when your sense of being alive seems to come exclusively from these ego faculties | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| ground of one's own being which is so alive, so powerful, so full of potentials and possibilities | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| turn into warmth and pleasure. The feeling of alive peace accompanies this experience. Your body and soul | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the most wonderful experience, for it makes you alive and streaming with pleasure. It gives you true | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| themselves from the very thing that makes them alive and vibrant with well-being. We have seen superficial | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| that do not leave you peaceful, happy and alive, and try to see how what I say | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| of every aspect or particle thereof. For everything alive in the universe is an aspect of it | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| Yet the realm of feelings is the most alive and creative faculty. It is also self-perpetuating. As | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| even dangerous. For those who are becoming more alive and real and are no longer frozen, the | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| Universal Living Spirit! 167. FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE Greetings, all my friends -- those whom I | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| a habit, it is extremely harmful. When something alive is deadened, all experience stops. This deadness creates | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| in yourself where you desire not to be alive, not to move or feel. When you connect | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| is really no pleasure at all. To be alive and moving is pleasure. When you discover your | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you, at the same time, feel yourself immensely alive, beautifully alive. Little by little the pain makes | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| the same time, feel yourself immensely alive, beautifully alive. Little by little the pain makes room for | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| of closing up. You may be open, pulsating, alive, and full of joy about the new condition | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| self. One side is dead, the other is alive. The life process wants more life, with all | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| yourself further and further from where you are alive. What I suggest here is indeed a new | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| case, abandonment. My friends, to make the deadness alive, you must first feel it in you. You | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| whether or not you want to be fully alive and feeling and thereby come to experience the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| is also a movement, for anything that is alive must be moving. But this kind of movement | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| -- and you are life because you are alive -- represents all life, all nature. One of | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| the flux of true life. Since you are alive, this fluidity is yours; in reality you are | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| inner being -- with all sensations and faculties alive, awake, and feeling. This blissful state is very | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| only up to the point of still staying alive. He calls himself a 'cliffhanger.' He does | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the relationship become more and more dynamic and alive. This work has to be done individually and | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| own immutable laws. Creative life substance is as alive as the consciousness that molds it. The sum | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| contracting against it, you remain open, flexible, pulsating, alive -- even though at first this means enduring | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| observing yourself makes you more real and more alive. Each time you come through a negative period | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| there is no other way to become fully alive than to keep experiencing your real feelings. The | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| this, you will become real, open, and truly alive. 191. INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE Greetings. Blessings and | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| They temporarily give you the illusion of being alive. But the aliveness is precarious. It is, in | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| in you, you will become free and truly alive. As you let go of the defenses, you | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| to the confused mind. True restfulness is always alive and effortlessly moving. This is impossible in a | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| potentials, containing within it all seeds. Brilliant, effervescent, alive, intensely conscious, it is endowed with every conceivable | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| flow? When you feel good, happy, open and alive, the soul movements are very smooth and soft | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| spirit and your true self. Thus you become alive and awaken from your deadness. You will free | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| all that is going on in an intensely alive creation -- you will also notice more, perceive | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| you, you see this process unfolding as an alive, organismic event. The mistake you make is in | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| as I said, in themselves a meaningful and alive part of the whole, even though they may | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| they may momentarily seem painful, ugly and not alive. But when you make the connection between the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| become more and more beautiful, more and more alive, more and more joyous, as all of you | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| listen to the whole, wonderful universe, an ongoing, alive phenomenon. You dwell in this universe and it | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| your anesthesia, my friends. You can become truly alive and know the aliveness that is in you | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| your body and your energy, as a vibrantly alive inner tube. Energy goes through it, feelings go | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| you need it most. That emptiness, that vibrant alive emptiness, is God talking to you. At any | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| nothing becomes redundant. For the spirit is forever alive and changing. This is the energy and experience | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| is the intrinsic nature of life to be alive. This may sound, on a more superficial level | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| the inexorable destiny of evolution. Everything that is alive is animated by the eternally divine consciousness. And | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| there is no inanimate object that is not alive in some way, that is not somewhere a | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| receptive state makes it as alert, wakeful and alive as the active state is. If you think | 228 BALANCE |
| and calm. And you have receptivity that is alive and vibrant. In both states you have all | 228 BALANCE |
| from the ongoing movement of all that is alive. Time stems also from the belief that you | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| different way that is forever more desirable, more alive, more fascinating. And, as the threat of tomorrow | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| and vibrate with life, you think you are alive. And you think slipping through the gate means | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| I mean a genuine transcendence that is highly alive, conscious and dynamic, full of feelings that flow | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| on the physical plane. The physical body is alive through the pulsations of the organism. The heart | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| terms. I have said before that whatever is alive moves. You see this right in your own | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| own sphere. You see that anything that is alive is in movement. Even when it is still | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| has gone from it. The spirit that is alive has withdrawn from the shell. An inanimate object | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| outside, but it can still be very strong, alive and vigorous. I am not speaking of the | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| I am speaking of the organism that is alive from your point of view. A tree is | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| the world of spirit. To keep these values alive, it is necessary to feel and inwardly experience | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| at one time through change. Without continuous change, alive unchanging verities cannot be lived. True tradition must | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| manifestation, just as much as against its real, alive manifestation. This blind attitude is a result of | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| in which nature is totally absent. Nothing is alive; all is condensed matter. Nothing has flavor. By | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| self are the prerequisites of fulfillment in an alive and vibrant relationship. When the vibrancy ebbs away | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| all is good in a new, different, more alive and very dynamic way. I have used a | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| In physical death, the spirit, that which is alive, withdraws into the inner world, not as is | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| a specific work to keep its true concept alive. As far as the New Age is concerned | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |