| Feared......................129 | |
| if you do hear occasionally something you have feared to hear, you will be extremely happy after | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| an indication that failure and disappointment are greatly feared. And if you fear them so, you lack | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the joy of discovering truth that you have feared and that may not be flattering. For this | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| God is entirely impersonal and therefore to be feared even more. It may contradict the idea of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and cruel. As such, he is to be feared. You know that these emotions exist, regardless of | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| or God, denies it, God is to be feared all the more. It seems senseless to you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| her own interests, or so she believed. She feared that open acknowledgement of these traits would cost | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| are more or less accepted and not unduly feared, while being murdered is, the clue may lie | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| life, you may find that what you actually feared was not being murdered, but that you have | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the life force. The principle of death is feared so much that the life force is completely | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| it. Only those who have gone through the feared experience will arrive at true serenity. The soul | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the extremes of death or suffering that were feared. Often they are not painful or annihilating at | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of cringing, appeasing, and submitting to the most feared person. This is your way of coping with | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mixed motivations? Does the person you may have feared and hated most when you were a child | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| and by fearing uncertainty that need not be feared. You often artificially encourage negative feelings, though the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| was the illusion that reality is to be feared and that it is better to cling to | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| And to that degree death will not be feared but experienced as an organic development. The unknown | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| finally dawn that death is not to be feared -- or, that it is feared only in | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| to be feared -- or, that it is feared only in exact proportion to the still existing | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| an actress. I couldn't do it because I feared that I wouldn't be as perfect as I | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| come to see that the God you unconsciously feared does not exist. The God who does exist | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the knowledge and certainty that what you had feared before was entirely groundless, all that was in | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| one does not perish even if the most feared event happens. Misery is never caused by the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| event happens. Misery is never caused by the feared event itself, only by one's attitude. As long | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| stimulating peace, and you wonder why you had feared it, why you rather chose self-inflicted prohibitions. The | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| with its manifold possibilities. This act is first feared, later tentatively tried, and then experienced as the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| as to any person or cause -- is feared because disappointment is taken for granted. So the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| insight, so you must familiarize yourself with the feared circumstances until they lose their threatening aspect. As | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| will learn that there is nothing to be feared -- in fact, that there is no death | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| to realize that death is not to be feared, it has to go through cycles and cycles | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| eternal is possible; as long as it is feared, dying must be gone through. Another great sin | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| was not half as bad as you had feared? This leads us to the important fact that | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| an event is known, the less it is feared. Although a vicious circle exists in which fear | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| argue that actual pain can be very much feared. But, my friends, think about it: pain is | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| my friends, think about it: pain is inordinately feared only when one does not know where it | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| truly knows, even the greatest difficulties, are really feared. In order to make the unknown known, the | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| In order to make the unknown known, the feared unknown must often be entered into -- just | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| facts must follow suit. Shrinking away from a feared alternative and wanting the positive alternative because of | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| has no existence. Nothing true needs ever be feared in such a way. Wherever you have made | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| you were afraid, and then realized that you feared going from one level to another. When you | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| and satiation. When the self is no longer feared, neither desire nor fulfillment need to be feared | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| feared, neither desire nor fulfillment need to be feared, for the self then knows that desire will | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| unending, deeply satisfying continuum and therefore cannot be feared. In the distortion, you fear desire no matter | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| being in the now. It need not be feared as an end; nor does desire for all | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| all the good in creation need to be feared as a beginning without future, a beginning that | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| yourself to yourself; nothing needs to be hidden, feared, avoided. And to those who still struggle at | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| the other two experiences, which are almost equally feared although the fear is not as conscious. Human | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| different both from what you hoped for and feared on the dualistic plane. You find that you | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| as you thought, nor as wrong as you feared. Neither is your opponent. You soon discover aspects | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| time, by postponing fulfillment and thus also the feared opposite. The status quo, stagnation, creates agitation, or | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| because there are no more opposites to be feared, the dichotomy no longer exists. Self-realization always leads | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| by an opposite; hence it need not be feared, nor opposed. But growth cannot come by opposing | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| opposing the opposition; it comes only when the feared opposite can be envisaged and accepted if need | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| relinquishing the insistence that it needs to be feared and therefore avoided. When you embrace one alternative | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| state must imply helplessness when activity is rejected, feared, and avoided, for then helplessness is a natural | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| life-affirming feelings would deeply involve you with this feared enemy. In order to avoid this, the feelings | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| the pleasure in the unpleasure. Total pleasure is feared for a very important reason: the pleasure supreme | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| accepted and one's own innermost nature were not feared and resisted. Try, my friends, to feel these | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| in the universe. Utter bliss, pleasure supreme, is feared to the extent pain is denied. One who | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| converge on it. Or life itself may be feared and thus avoided, just as the self is | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| self is avoided to the degree it is feared. This general fear of life may further be | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| be believed offhand, that only the former is feared. Fear of the negative is, of course, one | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| I said, not only are the destructive forces feared, but often love and pleasure are feared as | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| forces feared, but often love and pleasure are feared as much if not even more, because the | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| that they are wrong and dangerous. They are feared because they require an unguardedness that trusts the | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| of this cooperation hinges on meeting what is feared. Thus in the vicious circle the love forces | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| in the vicious circle the love forces are feared because they demand giving up the watchful, stilted | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| destructive intent or aim. The avoidance of a feared possibility implies negative motivation. Upon close examination of | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| therefore seems as if it needed to be feared. Not wanting to look at it logically results | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| find genuine and meaningful ways of avoiding unnecessary feared events. Make a list of fears. I said | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| currents when you no longer run away from feared emotions. This happens invariably and inevitably when you | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| state. On the level of duality, pleasure is feared as annihilation while, at the same time, one | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| of its controls. If all involuntary forces are feared and rejected, the various ways in which a | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| for to the precise degree that it is feared; the longing is there because the perpetual wakefulness | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and death. Both are good; neither needs be feared or fought against. The more other polarities or | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| pleasure just because its opposite is no longer feared. The opposite of the desired state of fulfillment | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| and compulsions. This is why it is so feared. It is held in check only by the | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| -- are suddenly approaching the threshold of this feared area in themselves. This is indeed great and | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| life, so is the result of avoiding the feared area disastrous; it paralyzes your best faculties. If | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| when any part of the inner organism is feared, denied expression, and tightly held together. Thus living | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| it will not at all be what you feared. You will find that you can control the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| awakens the deadness. When the life center is feared because pain and fear cannot be dealt with | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| and soul movements. Instead of shrinking from the feared pain and thereby creating harmful, life-defeating attitudes, you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| and unhappiness, but also because an end is feared. The end is feared only when one goes | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| because an end is feared. The end is feared only when one goes the wrong way. When | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the benign universe in which nothing need be feared. QUESTION: How can I synchronize feeling and movement | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| her a desired experience that need not be feared; his activation then becomes lovingly enriching to both | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| defeats life every bit as much as the feared evil itself. Only within the deep core of | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| fear of unpleasurable, painful feelings. That which is feared must be accepted, experienced as it is at | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| flow of life within you, and the previously feared experience will no longer come to you. You | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| come to you. You may temporarily avoid the feared experience because your inner defenses shut off life | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| more energy you invest into blocking off the feared feeling, the more potent the magnetic energy block | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| universe. When you use your will to avoid feared feelings and try forcefully to produce the joy | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| And then try to open yourself to the feared feelings and to let happen what you thought | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| and that this reality is not to be feared. It is good; it is to be utterly | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| all is well and nothing needs to be feared, in which you will find a sense of | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| feelings have been accepted and are no longer feared and rejected, the greater is one's ability to | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| that what is in you needs to be feared and denied. No matter how destructive it is | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| and unfaced evil, then the energy itself is feared and a state of stagnation becomes preferred as | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| pathwork. Many of you have verified that hidden, feared, guilt-producing and denied thoughts and feelings are more | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| of the evil inside, aware now that the feared evil contains the essence of the good. Within | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| not traumatic. When death comes it is not feared, nor is it wished for as the final | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| group consciousness. As the movement is blindly halted, feared, denied, population increases; greater communities develop a mass | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| outward movement -- becoming -- would not be feared. By the same token, if the receptive principle | 228 BALANCE |
| exclusively on man. By the same token, man feared those who were physically stronger than he. And | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| physically stronger than he. And the more he feared them, the greater his urge became to subjugate | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| ancient times, when anything foreign and different was feared, rejected, and conquered by force. In the New | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| This mass-image says that change is to be feared. This image creates a condition in the human | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| leads into the unknown and must therefore be feared. The unknown is thus viewed as something negative | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| intensely trustworthy, desirable, beautiful, and secure. What you feared in the tomorrow will have become a joyous | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| the curtain of so-called death need not be feared, even if it is unknown. Other life experiences | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| it is constantly changing. Now, if change is feared, then life is feared, and naturally death is | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| Now, if change is feared, then life is feared, and naturally death is feared as well. Death | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| then life is feared, and naturally death is feared as well. Death is only one aspect of | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| only one aspect of life. It must be feared as much as life. They always go together | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| as you must face and go through all feared feelings -- will you experience the reality of | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| and terror, as well as the even more feared feelings of love, sexuality, bliss, oneness. As you | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| believe that these feelings are not to be feared, while you avoid experiencing them and going through | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| you make the unknown into a known. Every feared unknown, be it a feeling that you designate | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| new life. In fact, those very feelings you feared as death itself contain much of the life | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| will appear almost paradoxical. Deep down you always feared that by giving over to God you would | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and deal with feelings whose force you inordinately feared and denied. At other times you had to | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| words, you will gain all that you ever feared to lose when you give up your fixed | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| spiritual forces contained in dynamic love are more feared, resisted, and maligned than lukewarm currents. This is | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| unequal relationship between the sexes. Both sexes equally feared -- and still fear -- the powerful spiritual | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| him the enemy. Instead of admitting that he feared an equal relationship, the man had to make | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| whom there has been so much rebellion have feared this combined current more than anyone. These authorities | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| is so much more to you than you feared. How else can you find fulfillment and quench | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| you realize the unity of fear. Life is feared as much as death, pleasure as much as | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |