| order and unity. This creates realistic, benign, constructive feelings, concepts, opinions, and corresponding actions. Change has taken | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| all their opinions, goals, ideas, ideals, and even feelings on what others proclaim -- or what they | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| of others. When one ceases to manipulate one's feelings in order to control and manipulate others, one | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| as well as apparently right and wrong emotions, feelings, reactions, drives, needs, expressions. Fear of being comprises | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| contribute to it with your actions, thoughts and feelings. After you become aware of this, you have | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| well as your unconscious attitudes, concepts, thoughts, and feelings. The truly integrated spirit would not need to | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| The sphere is a result of your thinking, feelings, attitudes, and general state -- the sum total | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| not only with your mind but with your feelings, is essential. Now then, my friends, if this | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| he or she is, and adjusts one's own feelings to what the reality is. Then there is | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| underestimation of the self and the consequent inferiority feelings. This may sound almost paradoxical. Superficially viewed, it | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| other person as real. By dint of your feelings of helpless weakness and inadequacy, others assume the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| present state away through denial and superimposition of feelings that cannot ever be forced. The next stage | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| to get back to the reality of your feelings. Also, you often substitute fear for another emotion | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| growth in the self and in others. Real feelings cannot be forced, commanded, or superimposed. They are | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| compulsion is the direct result of unacknowledged, unconscious feelings and conditions. The more you know yourself, the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| awareness. If I choose to verbally express these feelings when there is a good purpose, such as | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| and evasions. Directly reaching the core of one's feelings or reactions, and thereby understanding their true significance | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| When the issue justifies anger, insecurity induces conflicting feelings. Healthy anger makes you stronger, twisted anger, weaker | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| and to find the right expression of your feelings in the now, you must experience the beauty | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| pain and deprivation often find that numbing their feelings is their only protection against suffering. This is | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| Passive indifference, however, born out of numbing the feelings, can go unnoticed because it can so easily | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| brink of a decision: Either I allow my feelings to reach out in empathy with the other | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| order to deflect this strong influx of warm feelings, I have to behave in the exact opposite | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| not only prohibits the influx of spontaneous positive feelings but also wards off fear and guilt. The | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| weak, afraid. The relationship between your body, your feelings, and your personal life circumstances is the same | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| over my body or my own reactions and feelings; and if a frightening power which I do | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| your consciousness and your inner body, your spontaneous feelings and your life? The same relationship exists in | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| relationship exists in life as between body and feelings. You have direct control over certain happenings. Your | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| with the body and the world of your feelings, there is an area where this immediate, direct | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| relationships with your body, your inner world of feelings, and your outer life are all the same | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| that all inner processes -- inner body, inner feelings, and inner life, manifesting in fate and apparently | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| then controls all inner faculties -- including body, feelings, and apparent fate. The outer consciousness must be | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| psyche says, I stop myself from warm, loving feelings to protect myself. In spite of the numbing | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| obstructed it is. When you have numbed your feelings, the inner self is inactivated. It alone is | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| and make you withdraw from and numb all feelings. My dearest friends, this is a tremendously important | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| purely positive conditions and circumstances. Positive or pleasurable feelings will no longer be derived from negative circumstances | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| you repress and suppress the combination of pleasurable feelings and negative events. Instead of repressing it, denying | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| from life; why you withdrew from your own feelings; why you repress and why you stand guard | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| yourself. You will see why you block out feelings, sometimes with a great amount of pain, then | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| believing oneself helpless in the grip of one's feelings, attitudes, and even thoughts or actions. When you | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| Simply state, I shall fully face these destructive feelings, which will not force me into actions, for | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| into actions, for I am master over all feelings. I determine actions. I determine what I want | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| an inner distaste for giving up such destructive feelings, I shall neither deny this inner refusal by | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| in a way that produces hopelessness, fear, frustration, feelings of doubt. I will now deliberately contact and | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| need to have right now, into actions and feelings that are good and productive in this moment | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| which is withdrawal, indifference, non-involvement, non-commitment, numbness of feelings, separateness and refusal to love. When you are | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| outlooks and ideas. It will lead you into feelings of truth and beauty. Its guidance is invaluable | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| and your insistence on holding on to both feelings are the barriers which keep you separated from | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| every aspect of it, including what your real feelings and desires are, you will find what your | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| longing; c) their reasons; d) the consequent thoughts, feelings, emanations, attitudes in inner and outer behavior; and | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| various: separating and withdrawing, toughening yourself, numbing your feelings, denying your real feelings and substituting counterfeit feelings | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| toughening yourself, numbing your feelings, denying your real feelings and substituting counterfeit feelings, and also becoming cruel | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| feelings, denying your real feelings and substituting counterfeit feelings, and also becoming cruel. All these measures serve | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| recognized, observed, and allowed to function. The intense feelings of the live center can then be compared | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| to deny the depth, scope and richness of feelings as they manifest from the live center, the | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| center, with its vulnerability and its strength of feelings, with your adult understanding and ego-faculties. Cruelty can | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| this, or what makes you believe that your feelings are justified and appropriate. You can go to | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| who has not yet integrated these energies and feelings with the ego-faculties. When this integration takes place | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| flexible, alive, vibrant and full of the strong feelings without which pleasure, joy, and happiness cannot exist | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| it out. Instead of shying away from the feelings in this vulnerable spot, you will widen the | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| aware of cruelty and vulnerability in myself. My feelings are so strong when I feel slighted that | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| When you begin to ask yourself whether your feelings are true and commensurate with what actually takes | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| meditation. By themselves, your positive thoughts, attitudes, and feelings create more positive thoughts, attitudes, and feelings. These | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| and feelings create more positive thoughts, attitudes, and feelings. These, in turn, create fulfillment, productiveness, peace, and | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| forms -- the product of attitudes, thoughts and feelings -- create this negative world. There are many | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| precarious pleasure you derive from indulging in destructive feelings and attitudes. This may evolve subtly, insidiously, and | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| rage, and I am blinded by these negative feelings. I cannot see anything positive or understand the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| may appear preposterous, yet when you test your feelings you will find this to be so. After | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| personality does not dare to invest natural, spontaneous feelings in certain areas -- out of fear, alienation | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| of your thinking you can eventually change undesirable feelings. In a similar way the heartbeat and the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| his or her life, together with the thoughts, feelings, impressions, concepts, and the actions, reactions and interactions | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| That is, you can examine yourself, your thoughts, feelings, and attitudes in this regard. You can directly | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| you wish either to continue the same thoughts, feelings, and attitudes, or to change them. You can | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| how vaguely, it first appears in your inner feelings -- and this grasp comes from facing personal | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| such. You may pay lip service to the feelings and rights of others or to the liberation | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| the life stream of love, resulting in increasing feelings of emptiness, helplessness, despair, and isolation. You then | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| and isolation. You then try to counteract these feelings with the laborious effort of trying to love | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| covered the real self with its strong, wonderful feelings, will dissolve. You have already gained some preliminary | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| when looking at their personality, their concepts, their feelings or the lack of them, and at the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| better yardstick of your real concepts, attitudes, and feelings than how your outer life manifests in any | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| the correspondence between the hitherto unconscious concepts and feelings and the manifest life experience is established, you | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| your life is a direct effect of your feelings and attitudes which, in turn, are the sum | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| fuller. In order to make this possible, your feelings must come alive. In this work, and in | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| lectures, we have often discussed the issue of feelings from various angles. But how exceedingly difficult it | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| where they discourage the full natural flow of feelings, where they deliberately numb them. It is usually | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| this, too, may be covered up by counterfeit feelings. After the first superficial layer is removed -- | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| encounter a sadness about the true lack of feelings. You feel like a cripple who is different | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| others, born with less capacity for rich, warm feelings. But this is never so, and there is | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| believe life is your enemy, and your life-affirming feelings would deeply involve you with this feared enemy | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| feared enemy. In order to avoid this, the feelings must be clipped, stilted, hindered. With some individuals | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| others, finding a harmony between their unhampered, spontaneous feelings and life. With others, this is true as | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| This takes your life from you. Since the feelings naturally affirm life, your feelings become your enemy | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| you. Since the feelings naturally affirm life, your feelings become your enemy also. Consequently, you proceed to | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| the misconception itself: that life, as well as feelings, are hostile forces you need to guard yourself | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| you need to guard yourself against. The natural feelings are always life- affirming, outreaching, joyous and so | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| As life is essentially buoyant, so are the feelings. As life is essentially positive, so are the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| As life is essentially positive, so are the feelings. As life is essentially rich and involving, so | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| essentially rich and involving, so are the natural feelings when they are not tampered with. There the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| be against you, you proceed to numb your feelings. As I have said before, you fear life | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| back, where, instead of affirming life and your feelings, and instead of expanding with your feelings into | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| your feelings, and instead of expanding with your feelings into life, you negate life and your feelings | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| feelings into life, you negate life and your feelings and retract from life, from your feelings, and | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| your feelings and retract from life, from your feelings, and consequently lose contact with them. You do | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| ill at ease. Negation of life, negation of feelings, and negation of self are all one and | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| experience requires the most direct, spontaneous freedom of feelings, where the joy and the involvement is most | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| avoid seeing the negation of the self, of feelings and of life, you produce a false self | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| of life, you produce a false self, false feelings, and therefore a false life. This is why | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| This explains the conflicts arising from the false feelings. This is why conflicts seem to be created | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| seem to be created when one trusts the feelings. It is never the real feelings that produce | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| trusts the feelings. It is never the real feelings that produce conflicts. There must always be a | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| relationship between the self, life, or others. False feelings are created because nothing is as frightening as | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| are compelled to go on numbing your real feelings. You are just as much frightened of awakening | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| are just as much frightened of awakening your feelings as you are of their deadness. You then | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| their deadness. You then proceed to create false feelings. These false feelings parallel other illusions -- about | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| then proceed to create false feelings. These false feelings parallel other illusions -- about your spiritual development | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| Being aware of the deliberate intent to numb feelings, and of the poverty-range of the feelings, constitutes | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| numb feelings, and of the poverty-range of the feelings, constitutes a major step in self-realization, because the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| do not really believe either the fake good feelings or the negative ones they produce to avoid | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| distrust in their own innermost self, in their feelings, by making a general rule that life is | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| world is bad when one believes that one's feelings are unacceptable or dangerous; the illusion that ignores | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| one holds back the spontaneous flow of natural feelings, and the illusion that does not want to | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| admit them. It is rather obvious that false feelings are produced when one talks oneself into a | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| at all. It is less obvious that the feelings are false when the rudiments of the particular | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| emotions is just as frequent as pretending positive feelings. Usually they go hand in hand and can | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| may all be dramatized and clung to. Artificial feelings, both positive and negative, serve to alleviate the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| can you tell the difference between the real feelings and the false feelings, the genuine wellspring of | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| difference between the real feelings and the false feelings, the genuine wellspring of spontaneous life and the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| a means of averting a terror? The manufactured feelings are always troublesome and problematic. They do not | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| becomes lifeless and finally ends in fright. False feelings always create problems on the dualistic level. Let | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| conflicts, and all are the result of false feelings. Artificial production of positive and negative feelings are | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| false feelings. Artificial production of positive and negative feelings are both equally damaging, but each breeds different | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| different manifestations on the practical level. False positive feelings breed irreconcilable conflicts. False negative feelings, after a | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| False positive feelings breed irreconcilable conflicts. False negative feelings, after a time, appear as real negative feelings | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| feelings, after a time, appear as real negative feelings. They begin to envelop you and involve you | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| played a game and deliberately constructed the false feelings, let us say fear or anger. These feelings | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| feelings, let us say fear or anger. These feelings seem to keep the psyche alive, as it | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| on this temporary plane of existence real negative feelings do exist, real anger, real fear, real hurt | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| ever be a waste. Only numbing the real feelings and creating false feelings, no matter how subtle | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| Only numbing the real feelings and creating false feelings, no matter how subtle they are, is a | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| how subtle they are, is a waste. False feelings are the result of a chain reaction that | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| yourself actually holding back the natural process, the feelings that want to stream out of you, beautifully | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| created their own lack of fulfillment through false feelings. People who live a false life with false | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| People who live a false life with false feelings often believe themselves further advanced than those who | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| part in you that very much wants the feelings, wants the experience of feeling yourself alive and | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| alive and vibrant with the beauty of such feelings, as only the most dynamic experience on this | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| not find yourself in such a situation. Your feelings would be directed toward a person who is | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| In fact, it would be unthinkable that your feelings could be elicited, could be ignited in a | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| cases, people find that if and when their feelings are unexpectedly returned, their own feelings cool off | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |