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will cease to be necessary once you can fearlessly accept and shoulder them. It is a good 38 IMAGES
to pray for the will to recognize yourself fearlessly and truthfully. Thus, in such an instance, you 39 IMAGE-FINDING
to pray for the will to recognize yourself fearlessly and in truth. This cannot be construed as 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
of time, so that you may utilize it fearlessly, neither straining toward the future nor stemming against 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
the eternal now. In it you can live fearlessly with rightful confidence in the unknown. You do 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
can only go out into the great freedom fearlessly after discovering that you had not dared to 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
this respect, you give of yourself freely and fearlessly. At the same time, you free the loved 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
In these areas you will find that you fearlessly open your heart to the positive, dynamic experience 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
it so hard to give themselves wholeheartedly and fearlessly to the stream that comes from deep within 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
outer world, your whole inner organism reaching out fearlessly and pleasurably -- even when the outer experience 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the unified real self. How can you embrace fearlessly a state that must dispense with the ego 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
you will be more and more freely and fearlessly yourself, and you will expand into life, opening 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
ungiving. All feelings will stream forth generously and fearlessly. More of life's gifts come to the individual 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
and autonomy, between living in fear and living fearlessly. As you who are seriously involved in this 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
eternality of life. Only then will you live fearlessly. How can you die all these little deaths 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
a unique contribution to life, who does not fearlessly meet the inner devil and expose it. Only 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
to going with your movement, with your process, fearlessly letting out what there may be. My friends 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
has come when you need to know clearly, fearlessly, and intelligently what the facts of life are 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
 
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looking forward to every moment, knowing joy through fearlessness. You don't have to wait for perfection in 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
happiness you cannot imagine. It is in the fearlessness of living, the beauty of experiencing, the rich 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
makes all the difference. The soul condition of fearlessness produces the conviction that nothing negative is ever 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
only on the substantial soil of reality and fearlessness. Where one perceives reality in truth, one does 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
can blossom only in this natural state of fearlessness, where you allow all inner movements to perform 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
inkling of peace and of a state of fearlessness, because you are, within yourself, contemplating your own 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
fruitful expansion is a reality. On this level, fearlessness, peace, unlimited unfoldment, stimulation -- all that one 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
a benign fate for humanity, the freedom and fearlessness to love, and a healthy balance between activity 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
vision and enlightenment. Let us now look at fearlessness as a precondition to love. Any one of 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
which can grow only in a climate of fearlessness -- must be absent from the contact. The 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
what you truly are, the fundamental prerequisite is fearlessness. Overcoming fear of self is the key. Every 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
never end, as long as it is chosen, fearlessness comes about. The other direction, away from the 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
the nature of creation brings inner security, trust, fearlessness. Ignorance creates fear. Fear creates an inner atmosphere 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
in reality, in love, in a state of fearlessness and undefendedness. A certain basic state of selfhood 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
spiritual and psychic potential and power, bliss grows. Fearlessness increases. Solutions to all problems become increasingly more 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
many-faceted reality at your disposal. The confidence and fearlessness in which you then live necessarily release an 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
there is nothing to fear in dying. Such fearlessness is the ultimate development of each human soul 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
measures completion of the task is inner peace, fearlessness and the organic quality of your living and 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
 
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your pain, to your vanity, and to your fears. Only by minimizing the importance of these can 4 WORLD WEARINESS
themselves to anything. This attitude can cause increasing fears. Another frequent factor in fear is lack of 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
and unhealthy currents -- the more the person fears self-surrender, in spite of yearning for it. The 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
consciously or unconsciously break divine law. This part fears the certainty of the spiritual world. For knowledge 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
in the grip of your ego with its fears and anxieties, you cannot live in the present 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
layers are, as I said, your faults, your fears, and your ignorance of spiritual law. These layers 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
direction of inner self-development, of making hidden emotions, fears or problems conscious and dealing with them properly 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
answers. Meditate on this. Find out what your fears are, what you really desire, who you really 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
but of a number of interacting subconscious tendencies, fears and resistances. These use up your inner strength 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Now, my dear friends, let us examine the fears you may have. Certainly the path is difficult 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
for that than for your body -- then fears, doubts, and questions bar your way. But they 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
to understand what is underneath these doubts or fears that want to lead you away from the 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
directly or indirectly harm others, but also your fears, which are not generally considered to be faults 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
be faults. You do not realize that your fears cause great harm, not only in your own 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
but also in the lives of others. Your fears also hide your light of love, understanding, and 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
of overcoming your character weaknesses. Overcoming your own fears is of equal importance, for as long as 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
and therefore unknowingly, you remain unaware of all fears, you are gravely affected by them and thus 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
these facts. If this is not done, the fears of others reaching you will increase your own 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
of others reaching you will increase your own fears; this sets up a hard wall between you 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
or indirectly from your shortcomings and from your fears. If you did not have any shortcomings, there 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
you can see the connection. These subtle, smoldering fears are infinitely more frequent and also more harmful 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
also more harmful than the obvious and pronounced fears. If you begin to check your various impressions 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
negatively to life. Test your emotions and your fears of other people, the hazards and risks of 35 TURNING TO GOD
are precipices to jump, my friends -- your fears of life as it actually presents itself, your 36 PRAYER
of life as it actually presents itself, your fears of pain and disappointment. To master your life 36 PRAYER
to jump into the unknown; to lose your fears you have to go through them. You must 36 PRAYER
other? Can you really grasp and understand your fears, insecurities, and complexes from the point of view 36 PRAYER
that you may find out specifically what your fears are. And once this prayer has been answered 36 PRAYER
been answered, pray that you can overcome your fears by being able to accept what you fear 36 PRAYER
control over certain patterns in your life; and fears and resistances on specific occasions. The harder you 38 IMAGES
begin to face your own wrong conclusions and fears and are ready to accept life for what 38 IMAGES
desirelessness and renunciation to rationalize away your inner fears of life, of love, and of being hurt 39 IMAGE-FINDING
get much further along toward liberation from their fears and anxieties. QUESTION: Do animals killed for the 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
mostly out of fear and pride. This type fears that emotion might lead to an experience he 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
but beauty and happiness as well. The emotion-type fears that curbing and disciplining his or her nature 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
are over-emotional, and although they may know other fears of life, they are not afraid of this 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
how much the other side of the personality fears union and is tempted by inertia. This dissatisfaction 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
you which correspond to your subconscious desires and fears. You know that. Humanity, on the whole, is 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
are driven into certain attitudes by your unrecognized fears, the effect will be infinitely stronger on other 47 THE WALL WITHIN
So you can hide your faults, emotional conflicts, fears, and negative trends behind a truth. In its 47 THE WALL WITHIN
emotional self-centeredness. You may be aware of your fears without realizing that they come from being overconcerned 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
dissolve. If hostility and aggression are suppressed, if fears are suppressed and not faced, if hatred is 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
person who unconsciously maintains the distorted God-image rightly fears this deity and resorts to cajoling for favors 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
reactions to authority, to your parents, to your fears and expectations. Out of these reactions you will 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
that it gives them safety. For instance, people's fears of life and love, of reality, of self-responsibility 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
about your revolt against authority, and about your fears of not being accepted and loved. All these 53 SELF-LOVE
decision at all. Of course, all their personal fears and inferiorities enter in as well. Yet making 53 SELF-LOVE
loves his mother very much, and despises and fears his father, this, too, may cause homosexuality, because 53 SELF-LOVE
disproportionately. On the other hand, if a woman fears the passive and receptive state that, in a 53 SELF-LOVE
yourself: your emotions, your motives, your desires and fears. All these can be brought to light in 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
or possess. Nor do I speak of realistic fears that you can face constructively. I refer only 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
constructively. I refer only to the subtle little fears in your soul, to the frustration and anxiety 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
be enforced because of my words, while unconscious fears and blocks are still unrecognized and unsolved. Forcing 62 MAN AND WOMAN
able to cope with the woman and thereby fears he will jeopardize his masculinity. Since it is 62 MAN AND WOMAN
you may despise yourself. It will reduce certain fears and anxieties, especially when dealing with other people 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
permit yourself to realize that these questions and fears exist in you. And then ask yourself why 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to be a defense against your uncertainties, your fears, your vulnerabilities. Only when you find that this 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
also say this: An insane person will have fears the sane person does not have. To the 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
person does not have. To the former, these fears are very real. The healthier and sounder a 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
would like to suggest to whoever has such fears that you examine exactly why you fear only 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
has no fear or distrust of life. The fears may manifest in other respects. A person who 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
is free to some degree, without compulsions, without fears, without uncertainties, feeling at ease with life and 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
breakthroughs, certain victories, certain reliefs, having lost certain fears, a self-confidence that they did not have before 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
create an inner world of illusion. They create fears and tensions. This is bound to weaken you 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
by forcefully superimposing right concepts on childish, illusory fears that continue to fester in your unconscious mind 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
term reality actually means. It means freedom from fears, and therefore greater happiness and security. This can 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
not only will free yourself of tensions and fears, of many unnecessary burdens, but you will also 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
is decidedly different from the psychological, unhealthy, destructive fears we generally discuss in our work. As to 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
them. So often you have found that your fears were unjustified. As a consequence, you cease heeding 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
being afraid of an unknown fate, whether your fears be conscious or unconscious. My friends, it is 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
is not there. The more unconscious inhibitions and fears exist in you, the more you will attract 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
loved instead of giving love maturely, by your fears and inhibitions and shame which are always a 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
the same. First, understand the basis of your fears. When you go deeply enough, and don't shy 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
to see that you are in error. All fears, with the exception of the healthy instinct of 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
misconception. When you understand the basis of your fears, you will be able to give them up 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
of the negative is the essential part. All fears and other negative emotions are the result of 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
step is to be aware that you have fears. The second step is to pin down exactly 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
in believing that the transition state produces new fears. The same old fears have existed all along 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
transition state produces new fears. The same old fears have existed all along. You merely become more 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
respective religions taught and -- due to inner fears -- held on to these teachings ferociously. True 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
terms with them as well as with your fears. In such cases, the good foundation you are 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
by courageously facing these problems, questions, confusions and fears, and examining how you have tried up to 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
attention. By looking at your various moods, emotions, fears, apprehensions, and anxieties -- which all represent a 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
tries to buy himself out of what he fears. He forfeits all pleasure and happiness by self-imposed 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
he chooses unnecessary hardship because he so greatly fears another hardship. QUESTION: How about the spiritual ascetic 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
hand. The temptation is so great because humanity fears to face the truth. Truth is never unpleasant 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
fear. Go beneath surface reasoning, surface desires and fears which are, in reality, but a symptom of 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
glory of faith without the human doubts and fears he expressed in the hour of the culmination 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
death with a wishful-thinking spirituality, by avoiding your fears and doubts; not by using religion as a 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
for your weaknesses, as a consolation for your fears, as an attempt to appease God to get 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
being unlovable that the soul resists facing. He fears that what he will find will indeed be 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
you still holds on frantically to childhood and fears adulthood with its responsibilities and what seems like 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
is very opposite to what the rebellious person fears most -- the goody-goody conformer. Watch, observe yourself 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
yet your emotional experience is colored by your fears and desires in connection with this person -- 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
One part of you wishes to change, another fears it. It may take a little while longer 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
we experience due to our own inadequacy and fears. When one achieves this feeling, there is still 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
will be able to ask yourself whether your fears, desires, or the ingrained principles you think you 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
need fulfillment is hindered through your pseudosolutions, unrealistic fears and erroneous images, which paralyze your constructive energy 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
I have many daydreams. When I stop, my fears become active. When my fears recede, I start 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
I stop, my fears become active. When my fears recede, I start daydreaming again. Why is that 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
well from your recent findings that your conscious fears are not your real fears. They are displaced 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
that your conscious fears are not your real fears. They are displaced fears. They are the fears 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
are not your real fears. They are displaced fears. They are the fears you want to have 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
fears. They are displaced fears. They are the fears you want to have rather than the basic 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
being yourself. Since these are not your real fears, they therefore represent the same escape mechanism as 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
mechanism as your daydreams. You experience either substitute fears or substitute fulfillments. Since you do not tackle 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
real fear, I do not mind having other fears. But as long as I remain in this 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
QUESTION: I can't connect my daydreams and my fears in a concrete way. ANSWER: That is not 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
of your daydreams and the nature of your fears, and you might discover the connection that I 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
what they were, what were their own hurts, fears, and frustrations? Understand them as one mature human 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
may find it to his disadvantage because he fears losing the person he needs, whose love and 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
When I go through certain phases of various fears, is that connected with the subject you discussed 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
you discussed tonight? ANSWER: Yes, it is, indeed. Fears are so often a subterfuge to hide from 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
have often noticed that, after certain progress, the fears begin to vanish more and more, and then 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
are frightened. Therefore, it is important that unrealistic fears should cease, and being on the defensive for 101 THE DEFENSE
of a new kind of feeling. As depressions, fears, and repressions dissolve, there emerges a personality that 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
you have to fully face that what he fears is correct. It is not an invention, an 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
in your discoveries about yourself that what he fears is actually so. You have pursued this pattern 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
relieved of self-responsibility. On the other hand, his fears of life and his inadequacy to cope with 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
a product of the mind, in error. Man fears pain and suffering mainly because he believes he 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
his own injustice, greed, selfishness, one- sidedness, pride, fears, all on a deeply hidden psychological level, these 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
will either react by giving in due to fears, needs, and dependency, and lose integrity, or will 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
all the negative currents and distortions, conflicts and fears, unconscious defensive measures and manipulations. It is not 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
destined for such perceptions are dulled by your fears, shame, and urgent wishes, and by your defenses 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
to disregard and bypass the inner noise of fears, shames, defenses, and urgent needs and come directly 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
to do with their worthlessness. The other person's fears and problems may be as responsible for it 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
becomes then the means of confirming their worst fears. The true remedy for those who belong predominantly 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
of you. Make yourselves inwardly calm. Detect your fears, your guards, your shames, your embarrassment, your resistance 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
and outwardly. You will give up your little fears and misgivings, your imagined shame and vulnerability, for 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
own subjective colorings, stemming from your desires and fears, distort reality, blind you to factors that existed 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
see what is behind the fear. Nagging, persisting fears are unrealistic fears you do not cope with 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
behind the fear. Nagging, persisting fears are unrealistic fears you do not cope with properly, regardless of 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
reasonable way possible. If the unpleasant result one fears is not eliminated, then acceptance of the unpleasantness 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
want to accept it. Situations result in nagging fears whenever this division exists goes unrecognized. Moreover, the 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
ever finding it. You wish to have your fears, anxieties and uncertainties assuaged from the outside. But 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
quick, superficial evaluation. Only when you question your fears and insecurities, your reactions to those aspects of 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
in turn, cannot happen unless you overcome your fears and vanities; unless you find and dissolve the 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
traits as weapons against the femininity that she fears and associates with a state of humiliating helplessness 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
and realistic perception, and free-flowing movement unhampered by fears, inhibitions, and paralysis. In short, the experience of 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
faculties to experience universal bliss combines with personal fears and negative experiences so that the personality may 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
inherited prejudice halts the growing individual's natural development. Fears of perversion, homosexuality and incest play a role 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
not take place, however, if there are taboos, fears, and an artificial separation of instinctual drives. Their 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
has consequences. The freer you become of blind fears, guilts, and misconceptions, the more you can choose 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
crisis that is always possible when one unreasonably fears to face something that is hard to accept 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
role as a man or a woman. Such fears are quite naturally barriers that prevent relating to 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
or mature than the unitive drive. Hence one fears all natural impulses toward union. One fears the 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
one fears all natural impulses toward union. One fears the self which produces the impulses and then 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
a man puts up against his masculinity. He fears self-loss not only because the necessary discipline of 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
and therefore as loss of self. He also fears having to let go of himself in a 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
woman, but from a different angle. A woman fears the apparent helplessness of giving herself up, of 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN

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