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by acting them out but by facing them, feeling them, expressing them in the way you have 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
women. I may also have to face the feeling of unacceptability more than I already have. Is 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
frustration. In other words, you will connect the feeling of unacceptability with the newly-faced sadistic impulses. That 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Gradually, the sadistic impulses will lessen and the feeling of acceptability and self-liking will grow. It will 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
what remains on the surface is a vague feeling of being unacceptable, without quite understanding why. Unconsciously 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
but my own that I am miserable. The feeling of unacceptability cannot cease as long as its 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
in at different times. One is a divine feeling of freedom and bliss. The other is a 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
freedom and bliss. The other is a crushing feeling of anxiety, guilt and insecurity. What more can 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of self-realization: the knowing of truth and the feeling of pleasure. Both are equally important and both 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
being, no experience, no situation, no concept, no feeling, no object that does not already exist. Everything 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
the intense pleasure of being, the pleasure of feeling the energy flow of your body, soul, and 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
of the visible alternatives give you that good feeling about yourself, that resilient strength and well-being, in 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
cannot conceive of any other reality of thinking, feeling, and being in oneself but the reality of 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
that may be more or less conscious. A feeling of missing out on your life, of lacking 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
aware of emotional tensions that prohibit the free-flowing feeling of the life force. This free-flowing feeling can 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
free-flowing feeling of the life force. This free-flowing feeling can only affect you when you are in 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
or hope for can ever equal the true feeling of selfhood -- of your own powers, your 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
confirm the truth of what I say. The feeling is one of immense safety and well-being, of 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
of vibrancy, peace and aliveness; of a flowing feeling of utter confidence. It is a feeling of 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
flowing feeling of utter confidence. It is a feeling of being carried, yet deeply knowing that the 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
The new is as yet only a vague feeling deep inside the self. But gradually it becomes 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
over and replaces the old. The old hopeless feeling recurs as rarely now as the experience of 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
beginning of unification. In this attitude any painful feeling loses its terror because it no longer seems 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
torturous feelings turn into warmth and pleasure. The feeling of alive peace accompanies this experience. Your body 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
pain happen when you experience pain as a feeling? Is the common denominator that the self experiences 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
self experiences both as feelings, when even the feeling of pain becomes pleasurable because it is experienced 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
moment the personality ceases to struggle against a feeling, the pain ceases and becomes pleasurable. This is 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
and letting it out in a haphazard way. Feeling the anger, one accepts, faces, and ceases to 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
denying the struggle, let your mood, your inner feeling, be the determining factor that tells you where 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
way, not due to lack of generosity and feeling, not out of pride, fear and selfwill, but 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
somewhat. The only time I have some good feeling is when I read these lectures. I am 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
as you waste your energies on complaining and feeling victimized you are in a vicious circle. The 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
what you really believe causes the specific unhappy feeling -- and usually this requires relatively little attention 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
worthless and do not wish to admit this feeling. But even this does not go far enough 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
reliable gauge there is: Do you have the feeling of utter relief and liberation, of being energized 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
self-knowledge that you ought to have. When this feeling is missing, you can be quite sure that 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
constant struggle of living comes from a vague feeling in your unconscious that there is something to 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
of this either, you may explain away the feeling of discomfort with all sorts of reasons. You 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
new material about yourself and the world, and feeling yourself and the world in new ways. You 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
well-being and happiness. Truth in life equates with feeling good in the deepest possible way -- without 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
for extended periods -- even incarnations -- without feeling their inner discontent, without registering qualms, anxiety, doubt 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
and of sickness; a message leading people toward feeling good again in themselves after having lost their 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
It is also self-perpetuating. As long as the feeling world is predominantly negative and destructive, its self-perpetuating 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
this consciousness grows and the negativity of the feeling world becomes obvious, people do their best to 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
scientific development is out of proportion to your feeling qualities and your capacity to experience spiritually. Your 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
philosophy you adhere to in principle rather than feeling it. The feeling self still appears to be 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
to in principle rather than feeling it. The feeling self still appears to be a great enemy 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
in it only as a principle, with actually feeling and loving. This is the general trend or 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
possessing insufficient reason and will to control the feeling world proves to be groundless. You must go 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
you feel, without having to act on the feeling. You can now recognize the feeling. You can 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
on the feeling. You can now recognize the feeling. You can now execute your relaxed willpower. This 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
mere spiritual ideas. You must bring your living, feeling self into play, even if this cannot happen 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
way to a new aliveness. A sea of feeling will crystallize pleasure supreme, the capacity to experience 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
as the saving measure, you concoct reasons for feeling. You are always full of explanations of why 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
why you feel a certain way, until no feeling remains -- only theory and explanation. This is 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
or destructive. These are merely reactions to a feeling you do not want to endure. This is 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
will experience a wonderful process: The negative, painful feeling will dissolve naturally, as every living process dissolves 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
Beware of either talking yourself out of your feeling by suspecting an irrationality, or talking yourself into 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
mind be passive and gently, gently let your feeling come up -- whatever it may be. The 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
more relaxed you are, intently listening to your feeling, the more it will turn out to be 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
it will turn out to be the original feeling, not the covering one. When you permit yourself 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
When you permit yourself the original impact of feeling, you are so much nearer to the life 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
agony, there is violent rage, there is the feeling of absolute helplessness -- first toward the world 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
and resourcefulness, your inborn strength and richness of feeling. By owning up I do not mean merely 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
you wish to avoid becomes a vital, living feeling of love, joy, and pleasure. There is, however 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
is not hurt -- it is lack of feeling, inner deadness. The deadness was originally meant to 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
live, of rejecting aspects of living, such as feeling, breathing, moving. If and when an entity reaches 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
accepted emotion and a rejected one. The accepted feeling is not half as painful nor as filled 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
is enlivening. As you dare to accept your feeling, whatever it may be, and go deeper, it 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
negative now -- you eliminate the possibility of feeling something positive in that area of yourself. The 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
find how you defend yourself against any negative feeling and experience. There you will have the key 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
soul may in one case exist in the feeling of not being loved; in another, in the 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
being abandoned, to no longer shrink from the feeling of, I am being abandoned. Here is the 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
not you want to be fully alive and feeling and thereby come to experience the best that 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
gives the necessary stimulation and perhaps a new feeling of comprehension, so that the obstructing mechanism weakens 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
is a conscious decision directed toward the inner feeling self, in which you feel yourself letting go 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
need be feared. QUESTION: How can I synchronize feeling and movement? ANSWER: The inability to do this 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
yourself by and through your activity, without falsely feeling guilty about your healthy aggression. The creative activation 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
they desire it. They will be basically unhappy, feeling that life passes them by, that it is 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
have the honesty to say, I cannot help feeling this way, although I know I do not 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
movements and laws. The movement creates an immense feeling of bliss that cannot be described. It is 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
assume responsibility for others in the sense of feeling guilty when his reason tells him he need 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
of not deserving happiness and love. The vague feeling of being undeserving that may surface when confronting 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
for which the price was guilt and a feeling of being sinful and unclean, or he was 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
conflict arising out of misconception leads to a feeling of helplessness and the passivity that prevents the 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
he needs and wants. The helplessness and the feeling of being victimized are themselves misconceptions. The false 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
and keep the self calm and receptive. The feeling for this increases as you experience the reality 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
it, and for the inspiration and depth of feeling to meditate in a meaningful way. Each phase 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
ability to give yourself over to the involuntary feeling processes, without the ego needing to stay in 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
we have dealt with three basic human functions: feeling, knowing, willing. If harmony exists between these three 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
centers creates a full capacity for living and feeling. Their closed state is responsible for unhappiness, negativity 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
accustomed to thinking in a certain way, to feeling specific emotions, that you cannot imagine anything else 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
you have attained awareness of the outer thinking, feeling, and physical states, the inner awareness begins to 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
it, if the thought is untrue and the feeling destructive. To the degree you have attained outer 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
Once your outer body has attained the relaxation, feeling healthy and vital, and you therefore gain awareness 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
crystallize it out of your vague thinking and feeling processes. Frustration is not dangerous or disastrous. Heed 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
it without exaggerating its impact on you, without feeling threatened by it. As long as you want 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
pay attention to it. The oneness of the feeling with the mind and the body will become 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
firmly established. The mind carries the misconception; the feeling responds to it by negative, destructive emotions; and 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
may perceive here or there a peculiar guilt feeling that makes no sense to you. Although this 174 SELF-ESTEEM
power of the mind: the power of thinking, feeling, and willing. Just dwell on this significant fact 174 SELF-ESTEEM
of it, these new ways of thinking and feeling change those attitudes you now dislike so much 174 SELF-ESTEEM
new expressions of life in your thinking, your feeling, your willing, your energies, your possibilities of action 174 SELF-ESTEEM
react negatively, destructively, making myself hopeless, complaining and feeling angry about it? This choice is yours. Your 174 SELF-ESTEEM
is sterile, as you well know. Only the feeling of life, the natural life, can indeed bring 174 SELF-ESTEEM
you will get an answer on a deeply feeling level, a level where the answer is more 174 SELF-ESTEEM
to reach out, that wants the pleasure of feeling love, warmth, and giving of yourself? And can 174 SELF-ESTEEM
recipient. It comes when you vibrate with this feeling. Nor does this mean that you do not 174 SELF-ESTEEM
nature is as yet incapable of allowing the feeling of love, you must fear bliss, since bliss 174 SELF-ESTEEM
is an ongoing process, just as knowing and feeling are. Where consciousness exists, knowing, feeling, and willing 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
knowing and feeling are. Where consciousness exists, knowing, feeling, and willing always exist as well. Often a 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
of your inner processes of thinking, willing, knowing, feeling, and perceiving. As you can now appreciate, it 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
switch in your entire approach to life: from feeling helpless to seeing life as your own creation 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
with all sensations and faculties alive, awake, and feeling. This blissful state is very much here and 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
and will may spontaneously bring forth an inner feeling that springs up in the fraction of a 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
innermost being is developed and governs your thinking, feeling, willing, and acting. There are other parts, still 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
development, which also govern and influence your thinking, feeling, willing and acting. Thus you find yourself divided 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
which in turn creates fear and hostility for feeling let down when the other does not measure 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
at maximum speed, and, in the dimension of feeling, happiness, bliss, profound experience, and ecstasy will become 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
consciousness can conceive of and express in thought, feeling, and will-direction, creative life stuff molds, forms, builds 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
ago. The immediacy exists, nevertheless, for each thought, feeling, attitude, and will-direction affects the substance that forms 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
conscious and unconscious concepts create. So does the feeling tone, the climate of your inner being. If 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
your thoughts are productive and positive, but the feeling tone is depressed and negative, if in your 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
vestige of evil, of negativity, of destructiveness in feeling and behavior. Do not be afraid to recognize 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
over the inner answer, or the first vague feeling of resistance. Acknowledge it very articulately. Realize that 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
unexpressed hate manifest in your life? Perhaps by feeling undeserving and afraid or by inhibiting your energies 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
of guidance, wisdom, strength, and a new inner feeling of love that comes from being penetrated by 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
depression. If the underlying causes of the original feeling of depression are not courageously exposed, you become 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
becomes more and more removed from the original feeling and therefore removed from itself, making it more 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
making it more difficult to find the original feeling. The increased negative momentum finally leads to a 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
receiving it, being in tune with this universal feeling. The ability to experience and express love will 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
motion. So it is with every other constructive feeling and attitude. The more meaningful, constructive, fulfilled, and 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
without finding excuses or blaming others, but not feeling hopeless and self- rejecting about them either. This 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
through entire incarnations without becoming aware of the feeling that so much is lacking in their lives 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
obstacles will fall by the wayside. First consciousness, feeling and awareness must be cultivated. Then everything else 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
even to the negative experience and the negative feeling. You will soon see that this is far 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
makes you less so. It makes you more feeling. A plasticity of soul substance, a state of 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
and truthfulness? While you are in the painful feeling in a fully accepting spirit, slowly -- and 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
-- and often even quite fast -- the feeling of pain transforms itself into pleasure, the feelings 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
feelings of hate and fear become love, the feeling of distrust turns into confidence and even into 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
and feelings. In this new way the negative feeling will become a tremendously positive, creative force, which 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
the process I just described. Welcome the painful feeling that awakens in you. It is your life 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
no longer wish to deny life, that by feeling pain you prepare yourself to sustain pleasure, and 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
yet unmanifest wisdom, truth, love, energy, strength of feeling, capacity to transcend painful opposites that will enrich 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the denial of your vulnerabilities, your shame of feeling helpless, and your feeling of being unlovable create 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
vulnerabilities, your shame of feeling helpless, and your feeling of being unlovable create evil and destructive attitudes 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
precisely because you had locked the gates against feeling your feelings. Some time ago, I was asked 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
can be a barricade when you replace the feeling with knowing. In this case the unity of 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
nor how they still direct your life now. Feeling and knowing are not really two separate functions 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS

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