| no sense, it nevertheless exists. Coexisting with your fear is an inherent longing for your true birthright | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| something in you knows and remembers that this fear is not natural. Indeed, if this inner knowledge | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| follows from this: the desire for and the fear of bliss and pleasure supreme. For some people | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| bliss and pleasure supreme. For some people the fear is much less than the desire. These will | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| into blissful being. The majority of people, however, fear happiness much more than they desire it. They | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| cause of their suffering. Their defenses and their fear of expanding into a different state of consciousness | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Finally, there are many whose desire for and fear of happiness is approximately evenly divided. They will | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Of course, people are totally unaware that they fear what they want most. The further away the | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| longing, the easier it is to overlook one's fear of it. But when it comes closer and | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the human unconscious to comprehend and sense the fear of the most longed for, the most cried | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| as the inner no, because it consists of fear and distrust, born out of the unconscious knowledge | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| but live in a state of tension and fear of others and life. From practically all I | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| control others, pretense, and, last but not least, fear of standing up for one's own feelings and | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| turn, is feasible only when you lose the fear of self-responsibility and face the entire truth about | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| creation brings inner security, trust, fearlessness. Ignorance creates fear. Fear creates an inner atmosphere of closing up | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| brings inner security, trust, fearlessness. Ignorance creates fear. Fear creates an inner atmosphere of closing up, and | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| and feminine principles in perfect harmony. If you fear bliss, and therefore expansion, you will also fear | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| fear bliss, and therefore expansion, you will also fear growth and change. People, in fact, do fear | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| fear growth and change. People, in fact, do fear their own inherent powers. Bliss, pleasure, and fulfillment | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| attitude. As the mental attitude changes from ignorance, fear, alienation, distrust, and hostility, to an open, trustful | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| easily that there is a connection between the fear of pleasure and the energy centers. For in | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| of pleasure and the energy centers. For in fear these centers are necessarily cramped and closed, and | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| let go, there is such inner tension and fear that the good of life cannot come or | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| be more than you are, you will never fear to be less than you are. 172. THE | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| is free from misconceptions. No false beliefs create fear, defensiveness, destructive emotions. Someone who is in truth | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| no clogging, no blocking, since there is no fear. And fear cannot exist if there is no | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| no blocking, since there is no fear. And fear cannot exist if there is no negativity or | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| will be governed by true considerations, not by fear of disapproval, by dependency on another's good opinion | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| disapproval, by dependency on another's good opinion, by fear of frustration and inability to stand non-gratification. You | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| In that way, you transcend dualism, and consequently fear, greed, a sense of deprivation and anger, with | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| in body and spirit, always reflect emotions of fear, anger and guilt. This fundamental duality creates the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| from expansion and delightful experience. You detect your fear of using your potential to the utmost. Any | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| deprivation and thus negative feelings, which you must fear to expose? Therefore the center must be closed | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| is eternal -- and there is nothing to fear. It is only when you are disconnected from | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| too afraid and angry to do so. The fear and anger must be made conscious. Also, your | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| and anger must be made conscious. Also, your fear of disappointment, your lack of courage to be | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| or ever could know. Such deep wisdom removes fear and makes love flow. To avoid confusion, I | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| make an asset of it. Others counteract the fear of a weak ego by overstressing pseudostrength. Both | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to take in or swallow anything. Such people fear being gullible because deep down they refuse to | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to be true to the self, such people fear their own lack of backbone and consequently cannot | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| way to let go of the tightness your fear creates. This can be done only when you | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| such love cannot develop in a climate of fear and coercion. The second, even more important facet | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| duality. You come out of the struggle between fear and deprivation on the one hand, and tight | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| if not now, later, you will lose your fear, tightness of centers, and sense of loss. Then | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| then to eliminate the false ideas, which create fear and other negative emotions as well as the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| and other negative emotions as well as the fear of feelings themselves. This is the absolutely fundamental | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| dependency on others is what creates so much fear in you. It is this fear that creates | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| so much fear in you. It is this fear that creates the tensions. It is this fear | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| fear that creates the tensions. It is this fear that, based on utterly wrong assumptions, induces you | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| sickness, joy must replace suffering, security must replace fear. The ultimate truth of divine law and wisdom | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| you have worked out that every state of fear creates tension and is a result of error | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| be in error because you must be in fear. And every slightest tension closes the centers. Every | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| for opening up the life and energy centers. Fear of frustration is an important example of error | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| not, to begin with, afraid of frustration? This fear must be overcome, for it is an error | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| in which frustration appears to be disaster. Hence fear and tension; hence closed life centers; hence unhappiness | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| of fear-tension. If you can then verbalize the fear, you will have made an important inroad. You | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| else. Thus you avoid a great deal of fear and possible hostility. When you turn off your | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| off your life centers because of your defensive fear of frustration, you perpetually frustrate yourself. A great | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the feelings that create it. What is the fear that creates this tension? Ask yourself: What is | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| direct relationship between the specific body tension and fear? Send the thought into these cells, which have | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| every human being who experiences feelings of uncertainty, fear, insecurity, guilt, weakness, doubt, negativity, inadequacy, and inferiority | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| and trust in it. Do not deny and fear it because you still have difficulties accepting and | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| dispassionate, objective way, you will always find that fear and denial really oppose the life of the | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| destructiveness is always a result of pride, selfwill, fear, vanity, greed, separateness, lovelessness, one-upmanship. In this way | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| this battle has created the instinctual restrictions and fear, the self-alienation, the aridness and impoverishment of the | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| in you that you do not need to fear, and a new gentleness and softness that does | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| love yourself? This is the reason why you fear pleasure. For pleasure not only seems entirely undeserved | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| of allowing the feeling of love, you must fear bliss, since bliss and loving are the same | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| At the same time you feel revulsion and fear because you sense that somehow you set something | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| negative, but this time unmarred by suffering, guilt, fear, and self-blame, the world opens up before you | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| hostility on you, it is an illusion to fear it and set up your negative defenses. You | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| that the simultaneous longing for pleasure and the fear of it constitute one of your most basic | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| attain it -- when you know that your fear of pleasure will disappear proportionately to your self-purification | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| be further from the truth. Dependency stems from fear and creates greater fear, leading inevitably to resentment | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| truth. Dependency stems from fear and creates greater fear, leading inevitably to resentment and hate. You try | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| I am talking about when I mention the fear of pleasure. Offhand, you all want pleasure and | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| also do not want it, that you also fear it desperately. My friends here, who are already | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| they are often terrified of pleasure. Perhaps they fear it even more than negative feelings within themselves | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| I have pointed out the connection between the fear of negative feelings about yourself, about others, and | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| negative feelings about yourself, about others, and the fear of pleasure within you. For only because you | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of pleasure within you. For only because you fear pleasure do you inadvertently but logically want the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| want the opposite -- the unpleasure. Thus you fear the result of your negative desire. Deep inside | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of what you want, the more you must fear the result. Hence, fear of death always connotes | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the more you must fear the result. Hence, fear of death always connotes an unconscious death wish | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| and unworried. Otherwise your battle against your own fear of pleasure will consciously manifest in an excessive | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the attainment of pleasure to a considerable degree. Fear of pleasure must be made conscious in order | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| transformed into acute and direct awareness of the fear. This is not easy, but it is certainly | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| those of you who are relatively free from fear of pleasure not to overlook those areas within | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| exploration of the validity or invalidity of this fear, so that you can finally want to give | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| you can finally want to give up the fear and obstruction to pleasure to an ever-increasing degree | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| when you are acutely conscious of how you fear and deny your pleasure will you stop making | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| that you wish on the one hand and fear on the other. As it is impossible to | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of all destructiveness and deviation: pride, selfwill and fear. I said many years ago that where there | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| pride, where there is selfwill, where there is fear, there must be a state of contraction. Contraction | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| good they may be, if pride, selfwill, and fear are not abandoned. In pride, selfwill, and fear | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| fear are not abandoned. In pride, selfwill, and fear the ego-structuring becomes more tight and rigid. Selfwill | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| unpretending state is the absolute prerequisite to pleasure. Fear is a total contraction. It cannot trust anyone | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the universe. Therefore the self that is in fear cannot let go of itself. Pleasure is unrealizable | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| bound to the ego in selfwill, pride and fear -- bound in the negative creations, in the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Realize the truth that there is nothing to fear. Be blessed. 178. THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| you will find that resistance to growth is fear. Your insistence on remaining as you are sacrifices | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| to the negative one, to give up your fear of and resistance to pleasure, and give up | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| this light you will eliminate a lot of fear and hopelessness and wasteful effort. You will become | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| attitude creates further negative, limiting aspects, for example, fear and greed. Both fear and greed stem from | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| limiting aspects, for example, fear and greed. Both fear and greed stem from blindness and breed further | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| and hopeless -- in short, selfwill, pride, and fear -- create a dark climate and dissension in | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| is willing to sacrifice its selfwill, pride, and fear -- its defenses -- for the sake of | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| for happiness is counteracted constantly by an equal fear of happiness, so that you repel it even | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| are and either accept or reject them without fear of displeasing. At the same time, there probably | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| and on life, and you will have no fear of losing your grip. The control is yours | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| ascertained that you actually want what you most fear and resist, there is a way out, although | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| in that he has become conscious that his fear of others is largely a result of his | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| alternatives -- isolation and contact -- are unbearable. Fear of pleasure is, to a large degree, connected | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| does not, this indicates some unrecognized weakness and fear that needs to be faced. If a relationship | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| growth, rather than as a result of spite, fear, or escape. To explore the underlying interaction and | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| enlightenment where this is possible will no longer fear any kind of interaction. Difficulties and fears arise | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| of the other party, which in turn creates fear and hostility for feeling let down when the | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| unconscious interaction. The launching of blame spreads poison, fear, and at least as much guilt as one | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| fulfillment and pleasure? How can you love without fear unless you approach relating to others the way | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| will be built on rock, not sand. No fear will ever find room under such circumstances. Feelings | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| beautiful, and life will acquire more meaning. Conversely, fear of intimacy implies rigidity and the denial of | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| in its absence. This state also brings about fear of one's feelings. You are still at that | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| primitive juncture where you shift guilt on others. Fear and uncertainty will make it impossible, under such | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| to be found within, the haphazard fate you fear is your own unconscious. The powerful currents and | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| still elude the conscious perception evoke as much fear in a human being as the strange, removed | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| on chance -- and autonomy, between living in fear and living fearlessly. As you who are seriously | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| me. I will overcome all self-pity and exaggerated fear because I know that they are only manipulative | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| you have not freed your innermost psyche of fear, negativity, defenses, hopelessness, unrecognized and mischannelled anger, a | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| the other side strives toward separateness, destructive aims, fear, hate, and blind assumptions that never open doors | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| afraid to recognize it, my friends, for your fear to do so is infinitely worse than your | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| is difficult exclusively, my friends, because of the fear of not being as perfect, as evolved, as | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| and beautiful? First there is an absence of fear and the presence of trust. If you fear | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| fear and the presence of trust. If you fear frustration, unfulfillment, and their consequences, the tension of | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| the final analysis such tense desire comes from fear caused by the infantile belief that you will | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| of it. So the vicious circle continues. The fear induces a cramp that becomes a denial of | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| unending change. Only those who still live in fear and negativity, who resist change, perceive change as | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| The same principle applies to feelings. For example, fear could easily be overcome if it were challenged | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| times manifest emotions are not direct primary emotions: fear may disguise rage; depression may disguise fear. The | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| emotions: fear may disguise rage; depression may disguise fear. The problem is that fear creates more fear | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| depression may disguise fear. The problem is that fear creates more fear of facing and of transcending | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| fear. The problem is that fear creates more fear of facing and of transcending itself. Then one | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| and of transcending itself. Then one fears this fear of fear and so on. The fear compounds | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| transcending itself. Then one fears this fear of fear and so on. The fear compounds. Let us | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| this fear of fear and so on. The fear compounds. Let us take depression. If the underlying | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| a vicious circle. The first depression -- or fear, or another emotion -- is the first crisis | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| want it to be. When you resist change, fear grows because your innermost being knows that crisis | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| lesson must then be repeated until the illusory fear of change is exposed as an error. If | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| will soon know that there is nothing to fear. This courage has to be summoned, only to | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| such confrontation, rather than bringing the devastation you fear, wakes up vital energy and makes you a | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| opposed to good. The dualistic approach reinforces your fear of yourself and your guilt; therefore, it only | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |