| beat as doing your best to overcome the fear of facing something unpleasant; giving the best in | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| beat of the universe behind your curtain of fear. Your conviction that frustration is pain and perhaps | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| a continuum that need not ever know the fear of death, a continuum of living and rejoicing | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| real cause cooperates in leading the helper astray. Fear of the consequences of total commitment to growth | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| with other more limited aspects -- for example, fear of feelings. But isn't such a fear based | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| example, fear of feelings. But isn't such a fear based on precisely such a dualistic struggle -- | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| weakness of many people result from a deep-seated fear of denying anything. This is not real goodness | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| to give of oneself. It is a subtle fear of making any self-assertion, of claiming anything for | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| own self. The hidden, destructive selfishness comes from fear and makes guilt an obstruction that seems insurmountable | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| enough and do not stop in hesitation and fear of your probing -- that healthy self-interest cannot | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| matter dies off only because underlying life-defeating attitudes fear truth and love. These fears induce decay, which | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| of those who work deeply by overcoming their fear of self, you will see that they more | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| contradictions suddenly unify without a breach of logic. Fear vanishes, and life becomes unending pleasure just because | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| going through it. Thus there is nothing to fear. The creative power of the self is available | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| all times, because of the personality's freedom from fear. These words are inadequate to describe the state | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| direction can be reversed. This is why you fear the realm of feelings. You have indoctrinated yourself | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| -- and now you must unlearn it. You fear the realm of feelings because it is still | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| danger in encountering the world of feelings. The fear that you will be helplessly swept away by | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| quite deliberately, with an ulterior motive. So your fear of possessing insufficient reason and will to control | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| self-discipline and reasoning needed to overcome the ingrained fear and consequent resistance are a built-in safety measure | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| juncture. That is why there is nothing to fear. Humankind's unconscious imprints are still so powerful that | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| describe its intense and potent aliveness. When you fear and deny your feelings, your aliveness is by | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| the actual situation often escape you. Since you fear feelings and see reason as the saving measure | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| explain how to genuinely eliminate the destructiveness you fear so much that you shut out life itself | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| imprisons you to the exact degree that you fear letting out this mass and letting it unfold | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| it unfold. Only then can it dissolve. This fear must be overcome. No human being born into | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| anger -- and where you also meet your fear of not being able to ever exhaust these | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| and pain. The bottomlessness of the emotions you fear so much will prove to be an error | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| point of awareness where you know that you fear yourself. For if you fear yourself and do | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| know that you fear yourself. For if you fear yourself and do not know it, it is | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| it, it is infinitely worse than if you fear yourself and know it. Fearing yourself and not | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| on life. It makes you attach this very fear of yourself to any number of other, outer | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| facets which have nothing to do with the fear itself as it exists in its original state | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| threshold of your inner destructiveness -- to the fear and pain and rage, and also to the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| react to it, but not with the old fear. For as long as you fear the indwelling | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| the old fear. For as long as you fear the indwelling negativity, you must also fear the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| you fear the indwelling negativity, you must also fear the indwelling power for positive experience and unfoldment | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| and unfoldment. You will no longer react with fear to the greatest power in the universe, which | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| point of recognition that there is a bottomless fear in you of violent, uncontrollable emotions which you | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| wish to be outgoing, positive and giving, the fear of self will vanish. Then the threefold principle | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| you can break through the wall of your fear of self. You must emerge triumphantly, cleansed, stronger | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| even if it means to go through pain, fear, anger. The experience of who you are now | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| meant to be a protection against the pain, fear, and discomfort with which the individual was unable | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| bear. As I said, numbness dulls pain and fear. But in doing so, it dulls life itself | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| no longer be. Anyone who suffers from the fear of death should try to understand these words | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you will no longer feel helpless in the fear of death. Something will change about it. You | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| not want to move must understand why. The fear of moving can be ascertained relatively easily. Once | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| them, you will be easily aware of your fear of moving. You may first feel it simply | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| and moving is pleasure. When you discover your fear of moving, your distaste for it, your reluctance | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| the life center is feared because pain and fear cannot be dealt with, numbness is supposed to | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| the enormous difference between pain and pain, between fear and fear, between anger and anger. It is | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| difference between pain and pain, between fear and fear, between anger and anger. It is the difference | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| conditioned reflexes are too deeply ingrained. The old fear will come back -- perhaps not consciously at | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| Here, too, indirect processes are at work. Some fear, some defense, some inner shrinking has taken place | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| from and numb yourself against are pain and fear, as well as the anger and rage that | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| it. Let us take the simple experience of fear. If you shrink from fear and deaden yourself | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| simple experience of fear. If you shrink from fear and deaden yourself in order not to experience | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| have nothing to do with what you really fear. When I speak of not rejecting your negative | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| for good experience. The latter occurs out of fear and weakness and cringes from experience. By fighting | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| inevitably produces inner fight and self-division. When you fear hurt, disappointment, frustration, you fear experience per se | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| self-division. When you fear hurt, disappointment, frustration, you fear experience per se. If you fear experience, you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| frustration, you fear experience per se. If you fear experience, you must guard against it in one | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| not for the painful one. But if you fear the painful experience, you are defensive, unspontaneous, and | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| will have the key. It becomes obvious that fear of emotional experience breeds frustration, discontent and emptiness | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| the surface the emotions that cause it: the fear of disappointment and pain which numbs the feelings | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| a negative emotion, but do not shrink in fear from it either. You should say, Yes, here | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| some kind of pain: it is the constant fear of pain that adds up to a sort | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you shrink from and reject it. You then fear the fear and numb your fear, as well | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| from and reject it. You then fear the fear and numb your fear, as well as the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| You then fear the fear and numb your fear, as well as the fear of it. Thus | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| and numb your fear, as well as the fear of it. Thus you alienate yourself further and | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| come out of the cycle where you constantly fear death because you court it, and fear pain | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| constantly fear death because you court it, and fear pain because you do not encounter it in | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| have perpetuated. When you no longer reject pain, fear, and negativity, when you deal with them in | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| of not being loved; in another, in the fear of being left alone; in still another, in | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| In the last analysis it is always the fear of pain, and the pain of not being | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| were. Therefore, you must learn to transcend the fear of being abandoned, to no longer shrink from | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| Until recently you have denied and ignored this fear. Now you begin to be conscious of it | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| process, no conceptualizing can help you transcend this fear. Rather, you have to first see what it | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| know that in this denial you increase the fear. You make the experience inevitable. You constantly live | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| must also imagine that this state knows no fear whatsoever, since one knows absolutely that there is | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| where the limit is reached. See how they fear this limit and yet how stubbornly they refuse | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| different from one that reflects an attitude of fear and hate. The greatest obstruction is fear, especially | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| of fear and hate. The greatest obstruction is fear, especially unconscious unrecognized fear. You must clearly understand | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| The greatest obstruction is fear, especially unconscious unrecognized fear. You must clearly understand that these words apply | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| there is. Ignorance is a greater cause of fear than any other single factor. Every destructiveness is | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| other single factor. Every destructiveness is connected with fear -- either comes from it, and/or leads to | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| it, and/or leads to it and perpetuates it. Fear is a tremendously important element. The soul movement | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| a tremendously important element. The soul movement of fear is tension, cramp, and stopping of the flow | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| from the inner energy center that enlivens you. Fear blocks the opening through which self-renewing life flows | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| organism. As I explained in the last lecture, fear freezes, paralyzes, stops movement. It is thus accurate | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| accurate to state that the soul movement of fear is no movement. Thus it is of great | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| Thus it is of great importance to understand fear in terms of the dynamics of the soul | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| soul movements. We have discussed many elements of fear in this work. You have found what some | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| you are afraid, what misconceptions exist that create fear, and so on. I do not wish to | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| so on. I do not wish to examine fear again in these contexts. Rather, I say to | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| when you are unhappy that you must have fear if there is anything that burdens or frustrates | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| have fears you do not know about. This fear must eventually be experienced for you to overcome | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| overcome it. As I said, the dynamics of fear is tension, cramp, paralysis. Such a cramp prohibits | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| you go deep enough and truly confront the fear dispassionately, you must always recognize that it comes | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| for an answer. This kind of desire breeds fear, for it comes from distrust and thus actually | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| it comes from distrust and thus actually from fear. I must have it, I will not give | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| Therefore it reveals distrust, ignorance of the universe, fear that one may not get one's own -- | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| strong desire of this nature is always behind fear. And when you experience, acknowledge, and examine such | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| you give up the specific desires behind the fear will the fear vanish and the soul movement | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the specific desires behind the fear will the fear vanish and the soul movement relax. Thus you | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| trends. Try to ascertain the desires behind each fear. This is my message to you tonight. If | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| Let us take a simple universal example: The fear of death contains the desire to live. There | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| creation's fact that life is unending. But the fear of death contains every false attitude I discussed | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| lesser degree, everyone must experience death. Therefore, you fear and cramp up against this limit. But denying | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| not say that to overcome death and the fear of death you must abandon the desire for | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| as a continuum. I let go of the fear that I will not live and accept what | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| prove to you that there is nothing to fear. For life, indeed, is an unending process. QUESTION | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| an unending process. QUESTION: How can you get fear out of your system? ANSWER: You get fear | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| fear out of your system? ANSWER: You get fear out of your system by recognizing what is | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| by letting go of the cramp. Meet the fear head on instead of evading it. Fear is | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the fear head on instead of evading it. Fear is maintained when it is not faced. When | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| when it is not faced. When you face fear, you can recognize, experience, and alter it according | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| you with its reality. If you are in fear, therefore cramped, therefore alienated from the life force | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| force within you, you must really face the fear on the deepest level - - find the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| - - find the cramped desire behind your fear, and then see the meaning of the cramped | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| reveals a tremendous frozenness that also comes from fear. You fear that if you express your feelings | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| tremendous frozenness that also comes from fear. You fear that if you express your feelings, you must | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| you must move out into the world. You fear that by doing so, certain unwelcome results will | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| too, you must ask yourself precisely what you fear if you move with your feelings. Perhaps you | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| if you move with your feelings. Perhaps you fear rejection, ridicule, hurt, but whatever your fears may | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| from all the other things I said about fear, it is a refusal to risk anything. It | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| to risk anything. It is impossible to lose fear without the willingness to lose. This means risking | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| only way is to face exactly what you fear, what you want, and where you ungenerously withhold | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| risking. That is the only way out of fear. There is no other. Fear is totally the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| way out of fear. There is no other. Fear is totally the result of duality. You see | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| see, if you want so strongly, you must fear as strongly not getting what you want. Conversely | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| not getting what you want. Conversely, if you fear so strongly, you must unconsciously also want what | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| and conceive of, what you secretly wish and fear, shape and determine creative substance and constitute the | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| will turn the destructiveness upon yourself, in your fear to let the active principle out and sow | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| your holding back is motivated almost entirely by fear of retribution and consequences. Only when you have | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the universe within yourself. You will no longer fear this power, for it will be free from | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| manifestation. Instead, she surrenders to him out of fear of life, refusing to assume her obligations in | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| The result is that she must increase her fear of life, as well as her fear of | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| her fear of life, as well as her fear of the man who is supposed to be | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| is supposed to be her authority. She must fear her self-determined enslavement. Thus the feminine principle or | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| to its highest potential because you no longer fear your own destructiveness, and trust the universal powers | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| woman down to aggrandize himself and makes her fear of surrender justified and reasonable. He therefore hinders | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| and the beauty that you inherently are--God! 170. FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| lecture is on the theme of the human fear of bliss. Of course, my friends, we have | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| it. Every human being has this apparently nonsensical fear to some degree. Even though it makes no | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |