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when their feelings are unexpectedly returned, their own feelings cool off. When they are not returned, when 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
returned, when the other is unreachable, unattainable, the feelings increase and reach out. It is as though 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
why you are frightened of the real love feelings that may come your way. You have to 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
reality is less stimulating, less conducive to loving feelings than the fantasy. Recognize that you feel more 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
doubt results from your reluctance to trust your feelings. QUESTION: How can a person who has a 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
who has a great problem with those manipulated feelings differentiate between the false and the genuine feelings 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
feelings differentiate between the false and the genuine feelings? ANSWER: The easiest way would be to express 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
become aware of them; to face where false feelings arise. The attention will then focus itself, with 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
truly wants to become aware of the false feelings, to deceive oneself no longer, and states the 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
want to live in reality and feel real feelings, the more this will become possible. The more 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
the feeling may be to begin with. True feelings warm the whole system, the whole person: body 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
For then, and then only, can your real feelings manifest. See this and live it; proceed in 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
division tend to think, Here are my negative feelings. I wish I could have positive feelings instead 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
negative feelings. I wish I could have positive feelings instead. Or you believe that after the negative 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
negative emotions are dissipated, a new set of feelings will follow, as though this new set of 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
will follow, as though this new set of feelings consisted of an entirely different energy or psychic 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
of the two forces, the two sets of feelings, it is merely a figure of speech, a 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
life force turns into a destructive non-life force. Feelings turn from love to fear and hostility, from 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
the negative power becomes so unbearable that the feelings connected with it are numbed altogether. When human 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
This in turn is responsible for numbing all feelings. For how can pleasure be liberated from destructiveness 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
deliberately dropped like a cloak, nor are constructive feelings produced by a similar act of will. It 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
must be ascertained in order to eliminate destructive feelings. Hence this anger is essentially directed against the 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
the weakness is not by forcing the destructive feelings away. This cannot succeed. One must work on 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
counter-pull, with its fear, distrust, and other destructive feelings, must then create negative contact. All human beings 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
so-called spiritual guise, and render pleasure impossible. Instead, feelings of hopelessness and waste set in. Since pleasure 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
not trusting in the benign nature of your feelings. You cut them off. There is deep in 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
strong, but you also feel threatened by natural feelings in yourself and you pay allegiance to a 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
seems to say one should not trust these feelings. You deny the universal forces within you. You 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
that you have unconscious attitudes, opinions, thoughts and feelings which completely contradict your conscious attitudes, opinions, thoughts 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
completely contradict your conscious attitudes, opinions, thoughts and feelings. This discrepancy presents a major block, for the 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
goodness or sentimentality. False goodness results when real feelings are blocked. The personality feels guilty for hindering 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
feels guilty for hindering the natural flow of feelings, for having numbed them. The vibrancy of real 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
for having numbed them. The vibrancy of real feelings makes overintensity unnecessary, and it also knows no 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
overintensity unnecessary, and it also knows no obligatory feelings -- false goodness, sentimentality. It is free and 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
want to face my refusal to have real feelings? you can then proceed and question your deep 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
in yourself and with your environment. Deep, full feelings do not have to be intense in this 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
attention on the subtle variations -- where thoughts, feelings, and body are strained; where reactions exist that 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
as you now make yourself feel. Are your feelings really that intense? Consider the possibility that if 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
loving generosity, but also to all other real feelings and ways of being. This strange shame manifests 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
-- regardless of your good or bad thoughts, feelings, or behavior. This is extremely important to comprehend 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
the quality of being are different. The imitation feelings are often subtle and so deeply ingrained that 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
of the apparent exposure and nakedness the real feelings cause in you. The subtle imitation not only 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
subtle imitation not only reproduces other, or opposite feelings from those you register, but also, and just 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
are. You will stop the imitation, the counterfeit feelings and ways of being, and venture out into 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
lecture? QUESTION: How can you determine whether your feelings are real or put on? ANSWER: The only 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
first of all, considering the possibility that your feelings may be put on, and by not being 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
people are terrified of the thought that their feelings are fake -- even in a subtle way 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
a subtle way. They fear that if these feelings are not real then they have no feelings 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
feelings are not real then they have no feelings. They fear their own emptiness. And this fear 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
the result -- which is, of course, no feelings. The terror is infinitely greater when the conscious 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
infinitely greater when the conscious self that wants feelings is ignorant of the side of the self 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
of the side of the self that fears feelings. The terror of being unable to feel cannot 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
to realize that no one is really without feelings and these feelings cannot ever die permanently. Life 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
no one is really without feelings and these feelings cannot ever die permanently. Life and feelings are 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
these feelings cannot ever die permanently. Life and feelings are one; where there is one, there must 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
will cease to fear that you have no feelings. It is then possible to reactivate your feelings 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
feelings. It is then possible to reactivate your feelings with the help of reason, through realistic and 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
and the will faculty. The involuntary processes comprise feelings, intuition and, what is more, certain manifestations which 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
or both. You fear the spontaneity of your feelings. You may ignore this fact because you believe 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
is treated constructively, so does the level where feelings and intuition create conditions and experiences of life 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
go of ego control, what will happen? My feelings may want something that is destructive or that 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
the likewise ever-present, but still deeply hidden constructive feelings, the positive power inherent in your deepest nature 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
power inherent in your deepest nature. The latter feelings have the self-regulating wisdom built into their very 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
you than you are of all the negative feelings and desires put together. Anyone who goes deeply 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
my individuality, I will lose control. The good feelings seem to be even more threatening than the 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
individuality. The fear may exist that the good feelings may be directed to someone who is not 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
do they justify the denial of the good feelings themselves. If the choice of the love object 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
temporary phase of growth. Growth is stopped when feelings are stopped. If the feeling is allowed to 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
trusting the flow of involuntary processes, of spontaneous feelings. The difficult experience should never be taken as 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
experience should never be taken as proof that feelings are not trustworthy. It only proves the existence 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
wishes. It results from ignoring the fact that feelings, intuition, spontaneous thoughts and inspiration, creative processes, undergo 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
The personality becomes stiff, unspontaneous, empty of real feelings, bound to outer rules and regulations, tight and 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
vibrant energies, creativeness and wealth of healthy strong feelings, and enough resiliency to cope with anything. Instead 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
of his or her innermost beliefs, concepts, attitudes, feelings, and actions. How each experience is met also 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
elicits, again and again, difficulty, crisis, disharmony, destructive feelings. These are the experiences people so often refuse 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
defenses and allowing the expression of your natural feelings. The degree of guardedness is not clear to 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
knowing or as the fullness and depth of feelings that make the personality vibrantly alive and joyous 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
aliveness, or disconnectedness. It is a deadness of feelings that also brings in its wake a sense 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
vague theoretical way the existence of some negative feelings. It does not suffice to make abstractions about 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
no harm. In fact, the more the destructive feelings are acknowledged and the responsibility for them assumed 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
No wonder love is rejected, since the pleasurable feelings it causes in the body are denied and 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
easier and more and more natural to allow feelings of warmth to flow. But at one point 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
of the old way that refuses life, love, feelings, happiness, unfoldment, giving forth of what you have 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
moment you may not yet have the strong feelings, but you will have a new understanding that 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
unfulfillment in you, made you withdraw from your feelings and made you turn them into a negative 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the world, toward girls, toward your own best feelings. This is where you are inwardly locked in 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
locked in battle. The more you face these feelings, the more you allow them to come out 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
dissolve them. The more you go through these feelings -- not by acting them out but by 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
anger, fear, anxiety and all sorts of guilt feelings, conflicts and confusions -- such as wanting closeness 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
even begin to give out of your good feelings. The more you can connect your fear of 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
seem to be implying that I have sadistic feelings toward women. I may also have to face 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
way: When you can fully face the sadistic feelings, without the threat and terror you still experience 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
accepted had it been known that you harbored feelings and thoughts of a nature that was less 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the old way of pulling back from unpleasant feelings. Do not lose patience with yourself. The moment 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of spiritual matter and substance, of thought and feelings, can be experienced. The degree depends on the 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
allow the spontaneous and natural flow of your feelings, where you fearfully, anxiously, and suspiciously hold back 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
find within themselves an inexhaustible well of wonderful feelings. Insecurity and weakness cannot exist when these feelings 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
feelings. Insecurity and weakness cannot exist when these feelings are activated. When part of your development is 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
on the deep source of your own rich feelings. You know of and yearn for these pleasurable 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
You know of and yearn for these pleasurable feelings, but you do not know that you are 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
being allowed to activate and express these rich feelings. This is your human tragedy, for you thus 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
guilt comes up. You conclude that your destructive feelings must be hidden so as not to antagonize 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
and you know that the strength of your feelings with which you can give and receive love 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
either receive or give, and the less real feelings of any sort about any vital experience can 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
fear and anger makes room for the good feelings. So many of you are still locked and 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
life to negative emotions because you fear positive feelings. This is yet another aspect of the same 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
you see yourself as responsible for the negative feelings you still possess as well as for your 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
avoid the threat of expressing your own negative feelings because they would spoil your obtaining from others 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
real being, as well as with your good feelings. When you can lose gracefully, you will find 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
pleasure, fear of giving up control, fear of feelings -- fear of being, as such. It takes 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
living. One then begins to understand those vague feelings of missing out on life that one usually 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
open yourself for the deeper self's truth and feelings. You go blithely ahead as though there really 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
exhausted and dissatisfied. The ego cannot add deep feelings and a deep flavor to living. Nor can 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
death, pleasure and fulfillment, happiness and unfoldment, one's feelings and the creative process itself. Second, it is 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
creative process itself. Second, it is self-evident that feelings cannot be controlled by the ego. Those who 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
freedom of the real self. This is why feelings can never respond to any must, issued either 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
this law and wisdom rather than deny the feelings and superimpose over them your puny ego logic 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
puny ego logic, ego law, and pseudo-wisdom. For feelings are an expression of the creative process itself 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
can only be encouraged or discouraged, just as feelings can. Feelings and the creative process are inner 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
be encouraged or discouraged, just as feelings can. Feelings and the creative process are inner movements, which 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
more capable you are of self-surrender, to your feelings, to the creative process, to the unknown qualities 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
in spite of having faced up to your feelings. The magnificent creative process, constantly at work within 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
have -- through your errors, misconceptions and destructive feelings and behavior patterns -- created these unpleasurable experiences 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
always a complexity of interacting chain-reactions producing contradictory feelings and concepts, one overlapping the other, all mysteriously 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
acting out against any scapegoat -- the torturous feelings turn into warmth and pleasure. The feeling of 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
common denominator that the self experiences both as feelings, when even the feeling of pain becomes pleasurable 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
It then dissolves, for it is always illusion. Feelings reconvert themselves into their original substance. Anyone not 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
all my anger and sarcasm are displaced positive feelings, especially overwhelming feelings of love. I am terrified 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
and sarcasm are displaced positive feelings, especially overwhelming feelings of love. I am terrified of expressing these 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
love. I am terrified of expressing these enormous feelings in certain instances. Could you help me with 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
to know when and how to express your feelings. Sometimes the expression of feelings may be frightening 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
to express your feelings. Sometimes the expression of feelings may be frightening for those who are still 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
an individual, but because they cannot handle the feelings. Only when you are not a child yourself 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
you will be able to allow these wonderful feelings, whether or not it is possible to express 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
them. The very fact that you have these feelings is in itself the most precious treasure, the 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
the extent you can acknowledge and allow these feelings -- to the extent you can express them 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
are to feel, to receive and give good feelings. Or you will be able to help those 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
at one point, you have denied your good feelings and deliberately turned them into bad ones, you 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
with one's own suffering. These are subtle, vague feelings, fleeting attitudes -- so elusive they almost seem 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
while underneath they often were not. They covered feelings opposite to love with a superficial veneer that 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
do. I realize now that I have no feelings but act according to reflexes. I also recognize 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
think I understand them. I also have good feelings when I meditate. I can feel, at times 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
you fear the involuntary forces of spontaneous good feelings. To the degree you cling to negative attitudes 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
you cling to negative attitudes, and therefore negative feelings, to that degree you must fear the positive 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
discomfort and insecurity -- you forfeit the good feelings without any conflict about them that are your 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
about them that are your birthright. The good feelings must actually appear frightening as long as bad 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
must actually appear frightening as long as bad feelings are cherished. To the extent you abandon the 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
that extent exactly, you will not fear good feelings. QUESTION: I found out that it is almost 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
superficially and not in the depths of their feelings, the manifestations the person then experiences will correspond 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES

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