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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 |
| Fearlessness................18 | |
| 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 |
| Fears.......................380 | |
| 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 |