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| a disciplined effort to concentrate on others and expressing unselfish desires, already creates a definite change in | 36 PRAYER |
| may be simply a tool, a means of expressing certain facets. But this is all. It is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| will accept an occasional hurt. You will risk expressing your positive feelings rather than withholding them from | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| stating that detachment is just another way of expressing separateness? ANSWER: Not necessarily. When it comes to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| other ways. Thus, these two currents work together, expressing themselves in choosing a partner of the same | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| causes you to assume a veneer of outgoingness, expressing emotions and love that are not quite real | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of becoming aware of what you feel and expressing it in a direct way without finding reasons | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| is a danger in becoming aware of and expressing childish emotions. There is danger only if you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of evolving negative emotions without repressing them, but expressing them constructively and learning from them. Find the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| circumstances. Then observe how you feel frustrated when expressing your wants and your ideas to others. See | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| touched that we have great difficulty defining and expressing. So emotions enter, and that may also bring | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| the point when you will be capable of expressing unreasonable, childish, imperfect emotions without explanations. Then, and | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| is restitution, which is often subdivided into first expressing the real guilt to another human being so | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| blessing. If a human being were capable of expressing a wish for someone else in that way | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| manifestations may, in reality, be the same one, expressing itself in different degrees and forms. There are | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| indicated, or if restitution should merely be in expressing your thoughts and changed feelings. What counts is | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| you undertake any action of restitution, such as expressing your regret, such as making up in one | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| speaks of emotional maturity or emotional involvement, of expressing one's emotions when feelings too, are meant. But | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| easier. As you gain inner comfort while freely expressing what seemed to be so shameful, suddenly you | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| problem: self-assertion. Suppose a man feels guilty about expressing his healthy, masculine aggressiveness, confusing it with unhealthy | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the following predicament and conflict: he desists from expressing his natural need for masculine self-assertion in the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| will have no reason to feel hostile, so expressing aggression will not create guilt. You will also | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| It is the same with feeling, experiencing, and expressing the attitude of I want to, regarding a | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| yes-current exist, if part of your personality is expressing false emotions? It is exactly the same with | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| Your consciousness cannot be divided, with different levels expressing different goals, opinions, concepts, and emotions. The yes-current | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| When you allow yourself to shed all falseness, expressing your will to grow, you must come to | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| through this decisive threshold. Formulating clear-cut thoughts and expressing the intent of the change within and without | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| It is difficult to reach the state of expressing a yes-current for happiness when one fears its | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| her meditation she should work on this factor, expressing the wish to acquire a truthful concept about | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| limit to how far you can go in expressing beauty, wisdom, happiness, fulfillment, productivity -- for yourself | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| both of which are necessary. One is finding, expressing, and emptying out what is within you, so | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| regarding this happy interaction, this mutual interplay between expressing and impressing, between emptying out and putting in | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| what way they are misconceptions. This is the expressing, the emptying out. Let us first examine expressing | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| expressing, the emptying out. Let us first examine expressing. One of the most important aspects to look | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| other consecutively on this path - - first expressing, then impressing. Up to a certain point, a | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| examination and analysis of this material begin. Both expressing and impressing must exist throughout, from the beginning | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| stating truth and formulating constructive intent -- and expressing must prevail. As you advance on the path | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| character is completely different. Impressing the need for expressing -- for facing what dwells inside, for overcoming | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| distinct facets. One helps to overcome resistance to expressing. The other reorients and rebuilds the inner personality | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| the proper rhythm and balance between impressing and expressing, finding which kind of impressing is to be | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| help is necessary. Since a healthy balance between expressing and impressing does not mean one versus the | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| but where that level ends must come the expressing that I talked about. In order for the | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| inner being would be constantly manifest, functioning, and expressing. The tremendous power of the life force would | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| that an individual is capable of experiencing and expressing real love, he or she is capable of | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| very good question. Where there is fear of expressing a justified anger, to that degree there must | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| own words, your individual way of verbalizing and expressing the essence of these thoughts. This would be | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| such a struggle. Activate the inner center by expressing that you want to give of yourself freely | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| are? Do you cultivate such an aim by expressing this desire, particularly in moments of discontent and | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| willingness to really look? The simple formula of expressing the deep and full intention and desire to | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| me with such problems. You may begin by expressing exactly what hurts you and why. You will | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| and detached a way as you can muster, expressing the wider outlook of the real self, as | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| by the divine principle operating in you and expressing itself through your individuality, integrating your ego faculties | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| a downward curve that perpetually recycles itself, always expressing two opposites. It is the state of cause | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| not only to where you are negative in expressing your desire, but also where you are connected | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| merely a figure of speech, a way of expressing two different kinds of experiences. However, this figure | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| fulfillment, the only way you can conceive of expressing yourself is by measuring and comparing yourself with | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| realm, and it goes beyond the limitations of expressing spiritual truth in human language. Language can lend | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| state of consciousness. One of the physical laws expressing this state of consciousness is the law of | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| them out but by facing them, feeling them, expressing them in the way you have learned to | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the word freedom is no different from expressing destructiveness and acting out of rebellion and spite | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| many of you are still locked and paralyzed. Expressing fear and anger is the last thing you | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| to act them out in unconsciousness rather than expressing them directly and taking the responsibility for them | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| pleasure. You aim to avoid the threat of expressing your own negative feelings because they would spoil | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| overwhelming feelings of love. I am terrified of expressing these enormous feelings in certain instances. Could you | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| come -- be in God! 166. PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING Greetings, my friends. The universal love and power | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| determines its nature. It is: perceiving, reacting, and expressing. When this threefold principle operates in health, truth | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| of one's own life in the universe and expressing God within oneself. I venture to say that | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| so undeveloped that they have no compunction about expressing their destructive impulses. They do not mind activating | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| body is the crudest, most temporary outer manifestation, expressing the level of consciousness that is most alienated | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| express itself. You can see, my friends, how expressing the negative part, exploring its meaning, cause and | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| with your appreciation of one another and by expressing your innermost needs to one another, as true | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| of the fact that you are immersed in expressing your insatiable demands which are your false needs | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| are often at total variance with each other, expressing different states of development in the evolution of | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| alternatives for the self, for life, and for expressing the self in life. This demands making an | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| concentration is directed toward cultivating, enhancing, manifesting, and expressing the divine reality within. However, this does not | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| here. It suffices to say that experiencing and expressing feelings once deemed to be unacceptable and unbearable | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| expose yourselves and accept each other. Thus, by expressing openly your hate, you become genuinely loving. From | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| quite correct, but human language is incapable of expressing the essential oneness of consciousness and energy, so | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| By humbly and honestly admitting your hate and expressing it constructively, that is, assuming responsibility for it | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| so ugly, or negative intentionality so awful, that expressing it honestly -- rather than acting it out | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| reversing it in a deliberate, creative act of expressing positive intentionality. How can you gauge where hidden | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| you do this seriously, just becoming still and expressing your intent to hear the will of God | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| security. It is a state of experiencing and expressing deep feelings and blissful pleasure, where you are | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| in what is. This is one way of expressing love. From that solid basis a feeling-exchange can | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| by unselfish devotion to universal truth, love, faith, expressing a desire to contribute to life according to | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| impressing, that is, instructing, claiming, conditioning, re-creating; and expressing: that is, listening, hearing, and receiving. The time | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| has come when you can safely focus on expressing. You can learn to listen to the whole | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| the mind turns around and starts thinking and expressing itself in a new and different way. This | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| birth of new expressions, of new ways of expressing God in life, birth of new levels of | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| also rebel, of course, but the fear of expressing the rebellion openly is much too threatening. So | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Cruelty will be hidden under the guise of expressing your feelings, while maligning and distortion will become | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| You will develop a new wonderful way of expressing yourself, and that in itself will enhance your | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| ways of meditation, particularly those of impressing and expressing. Many of your meditations have dealt with impressing | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| tool becomes a creative agent. The aspect of expressing has begun to manifest to some degree with | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| your beautiful, golden, ever-growing community a greater glory, expressing the Christ, serving the Highest. I want also | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |