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 Fellow-creatures............21
yourself in some kind of disharmony with your fellow-creatures and do not know the reason. If such 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
when you feel a quarrel brewing with your fellow-creatures -- and have the presence of mind to 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
you can be of best service to your fellow-creatures is the goal. And only a very healthy 18 FREE WILL
but service to God through service to one's fellow-creatures through the utter fulfillment of God's will in 18 FREE WILL
by noticing how all of a sudden their fellow-creatures begin to change a little bit, due to 21 THE FALL
love, for God above everything and for your fellow-creatures as for yourself. You have to begin with 21 THE FALL
responsible, not only about the life of your fellow-creatures, but also their well-being. It is your personal 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
up a hard wall between you and your fellow-creatures that eliminates all divine aspects that could be 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
defending a part of geography but his immediate fellow-creatures. By refusing to go to war, he may 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
outside! You all know that to love your fellow-creatures is one of the most important laws of 32 DECISION-MAKING
ones -- spiritual pride and separateness from one's fellow-creatures. Since you will be utterly unaware in your 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
very conscientiously concentrating on your relationship with your fellow-creatures. You will often find a particular intolerance in 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
come to discern in which category among your fellow-creatures you belong. As you can see, how the 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
in the death fantasy, you can punish your fellow-creatures in many other ways. Whenever you feel rejected 53 SELF-LOVE
really penetrate the wall separating you from your fellow-creatures before you have penetrated the wall that separates 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
help, or any other constructive contribution to your fellow-creatures. If you are good or unselfish because of 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
operating within man and between man and his fellow-creatures, can a human being truly sense God and 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
of the weak makes stringent demands on their fellow-creatures. This becomes evident if the unspoken expectations, the 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
connected with the difficulty of coping with your fellow-creatures. Therefore we will now use the knowledge you 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
a healthy interdependence exists between them and their fellow-creatures. For this growth process to take place, the 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
areas where you demonstrate the opposite toward your fellow-creatures in subtle little ways. Leadership in its real 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
 
 Felt........................169
the soul. I believe that you have all felt this at one time or another. Whenever you 4 WORLD WEARINESS
way is only possible when, in a deeply felt way, the ego is no longer the center 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
Thou that, as I said before, everything is felt and experienced equally in the self and in 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
be helpful to remember the last time they felt a strong vibration that connected them to God 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
forgive others. And whoever has experienced, comprehended, and felt God's forgiveness should also be able to forgive 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
that you have understood how the call is felt, I will explain what follows it and what 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
come to the point where this improvement is felt. This happens first in one's state of mind 18 FREE WILL
longing that first some and later more creatures felt was sufficient to bring a glimmer of light 21 THE FALL
person is something else again. Christ can be felt in person as a presence, in his personification 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
to check your reactions to all you have felt during the day in response to often seemingly 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
put down the incident and what you have felt. When you have done this for a while 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
the place of passivity. Whenever an emotion is felt and you follow that emotion through to its 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
deeper emotional level, something sick and negative is felt and a very negative and unfavorable reaction comes 32 DECISION-MAKING
downward curve, every upward curve feels better. You felt an elation and a liberation that you do 39 IMAGE-FINDING
your conclusions. You cannot remember them because you felt the need to hide this whole procedure for 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
moments where only a little while ago you felt angry and resentful. With many of you these 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
than the word that is thought and deeply felt. However, if in a group gathering a person 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
The next step, instead of merely acknowledging, I felt angry or hopeful or unhappy or joyous on 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
an occasion, is to ask yourself why you felt these reactions, no matter how obvious the reason 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
bad motives. Then you will understand why you felt it necessary to hide the existence of the 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
criminals and prostitutes. And all those lowly people felt this quality of understanding within him. Against Jesus 47 THE WALL WITHIN
Against Jesus they did not rebel, because they felt not only his true goodness, but also his 47 THE WALL WITHIN
reasons why they were what they were. They felt he did not judge, they felt he went 47 THE WALL WITHIN
were. They felt he did not judge, they felt he went with them, in spite of the 47 THE WALL WITHIN
line of least resistance, the result must be felt by the entity. We in the spirit world 47 THE WALL WITHIN
have done some successful work on one's path, felt the relief of the recognitions, and experienced inner 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
it does not is precisely because you have felt guilty about it and suppressed awareness of it 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
because it is so different from your sincerely felt outer reactions. Whether these outer reactions are really 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
denominator. As long as this fact is not felt and experienced, you cannot shed inferiority feelings. You 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
parental authority indulges a child, authority will be felt as benign. When there is a predominance of 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
same degree will fear and frustration unconsciously be felt toward God. God is then believed to be 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
have not experienced grief and disappointment because they felt betrayed. They have displayed utmost loyalty and decency 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
to think of the many instances you sincerely felt according to the right concept -- or thought 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
to the right concept -- or thought you felt that way. Yet I ask you, try to 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
derive from the unhappiness you provoke is never felt to be truly and wholly enjoyable. If it 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
But this aim is mostly unclear, only vaguely felt, and even less understood. It often mingles with 62 MAN AND WOMAN
is no real solution, but you thought or felt that it was. You chose sickness as a 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
arises in the soul. In the child's vaguely felt emotions, love and acceptance from this particular parent 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
expression. You will find that what you vaguely felt was wrong and had to be concealed is 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
in joyful recognition even what you may have felt guilty about. It will lead you a step 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
are outgoing and whose love can truly be felt, have less need to be catered to, approved 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
in other people's reactions toward you, you have felt disappointment. And you have to see what this 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
that in the relatively near future these strongly felt emotions will have lost their impact. For all 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
tragedies that befall every human being will be felt very differently in retrospect than at the time 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
and logical deductions or they are only vaguely felt emotions. This is not enough. Therefore I should 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
the experience of your emotions that impatience, whenever felt, is accompanied by such feelings as tension, anxiety 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
parents: what they gave you, how you really felt about them. You will become aware that in 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
whatever you experience at the moment is also felt by millions of other people. It was felt 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
felt by millions of other people. It was felt by millions in the past and will be 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
by millions in the past and will be felt by millions in the future. Ever since the 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
no longer be the separate individual you have felt yourself to be. I do not expect that 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
the last upward curve you were on. You felt an elation and a liberation that you do 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
is what I have explained. Pain is always felt in the emotional body. QUESTION: Will you explain 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
your joy and liberation will be a strongly felt reality. What you have so far experienced only 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
a very young child. I thought I really felt this emotion. But then, in working, I found 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
giving endlessly, and thus finding fulfillment. Wherever is felt the need for a fresh spring, it does 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of mind, and not acknowledging how you really felt, is not the right solution. To feel guilty 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
though they did not consciously understand, inwardly they felt more strengthened than ever, because truth goes directly 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
self is at work. These are the consciously felt emotions out of all those that lie hidden 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
than destructive -- not only proclaimed, but truly felt -- the lesson will be a positive one 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
better than everyone else. Any competition will be felt as an injury to the exalted special position 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
behavior patterns and rules, however subtly and vaguely felt. When others do not abide by these rules 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
its theoretical value. But it is not yet felt. Therefore it is constantly interfered with by the 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
extent in every individual, have to be acutely felt and experienced by each one of you as 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
order to determine this, the emotions you once felt as a child and, in a different way 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
child -- whether you actually were unloved, or felt unloved makes no difference -- feeling lonely, misunderstood 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
at large must be appeased. This can be felt also toward certain people, or it can actually 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
became unattainable when you expressed what you really felt. This then became an additional reason for you 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
great relief to recognize that often what you felt most guilty about is not only normal and 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
The experience of the insight has to be felt again, until its meaning makes a stronger impact 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
of the two hard movements. Without it, you felt vulnerable, exposed to attack. If you realize that 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
of the real need, once it is truly felt and experienced in its full impact, will automatically 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
the way I have tonight. QUESTION: I always felt guilty because I didn't have real pity for 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
unhealthy. It depends entirely on how it is felt. It may be something utterly healthy. But it 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
to healthy grief. But if the loss is felt as painful without a feeling of self-impoverishment, then 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
QUESTION: When I started working with you, I felt very much afraid. Then one day, I was 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
of intensity compared to what you thought you felt before, you will get a good inkling of 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
accepted the failures, the mistakes and everything. I felt a wonderful revelation and relief. This kept on 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
happened frequently in your life that you first felt rejected or slighted, and later through a variety 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
realized the significance of these, you no longer felt rejected. You understood that they had nothing to 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
of my work, I have, of late, occasionally felt the need to give love, and not only 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
a state wherein many other emotions can be felt, apart from fear and anger. If you are 101 THE DEFENSE
warmth and understanding. These feelings can even be felt for people who do not actively love this 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
lecture a year ago, I would not have felt it as I do now. ANSWER: Of course 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
trying to pretend a truth that is not felt. But love can grow out of facing a 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
growth have also gone through phases when they felt just as you feel now. Yet, they persevered 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
myself, so how can I love others? I felt all of a sudden that this might be 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
to experience negative emotions unlike any you have felt before. The temptation is then to put the 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
also need to examine the times when you felt similarly as a child. Then synchronize these two 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
to any of your findings. Consider how you felt as a child toward each parent, then see 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
helplessness, as an aspect of femininity, is then felt as such a humiliation that she fights against 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
lookout for the following: to the degree you felt unloved, the conflicted feelings of love and guilt 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
The pretense not only hides what the child felt to be missing in its life, but also 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
approach of a more mature state can be felt on earth, in spite of the remnants of 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
cannot be resolved by finding that you originally felt similarly toward a parent, but did not dare 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
displacement of it. It must be dealt with, felt, experienced, in its deep original manifestation. In order 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
of hidden emotional reactions, of subtle, elusive, vaguely felt emotional movements. But once your mind is accustomed 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
discovered a hidden No you could never have felt before. On the contrary, you were convinced that 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
a coming into your own, would never be felt as a joyful liberation. Instead, it would seem 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
by rote, however. They must yield a deeply felt reality. Once understanding has been reached, the individual 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
did not frighten you. Quite the contrary. You felt warm and comfortable in it. Perhaps, at the 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
hours of deep recognition, this can be distinctly felt. Where you were first tightly laced in, you 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
awareness must be not only intellectual, but actually felt and experienced. You must remove the restriction, to 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
reach the secret chamber. Since the self is felt as finite and not as infinite, every activity 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
in exact proportion as this attitude is truly felt and lived. Use this key, my friends, and 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
points together, not just intellectually, but as deeply felt experience. This, indeed, will give you courage and 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
self-realization, you gain strength and self-confidence. Where you felt uncertainty and guilt as you experienced friction with 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
It immediately releases an energy that is distinctly felt when this act is done with a deep 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
is a dynamic movement that can be also felt as a stream. This stream of life manifests 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
be intellectually recognized, but they are not necessarily felt and experienced. This can happen only when the 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
people cannot win. For real pleasure to be felt, a relaxed inner state is necessary. A flexible 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
paralyzed. This induces the hope, where before you felt hopeless, that you might someday experience aliveness and 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
verification of this intensity, which will then be felt as something foreign and unnatural. This is the 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
yields to the involuntary processes. The shame is felt most acutely when it comes to being what 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
I mean is that these emotions must be felt and expressed in certain circumstances, under therapeutic supervision 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
and Answer session as a lecture. Those present felt that because of the universal usefulness of the 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
yourself. This is not only because originally you felt you were not accepted by your mother, but 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
-- then you will know, as a personally felt experience, that this very same power, or force 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
something unphysical, but as something that must be felt within the body. If you expect spiritual bliss 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
they produce in spite of their secrecy is felt as gross injustice, in the sense of They 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
sense of They did not know what I felt, only what I pretended to feel, and if 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
I pretended to feel, and if I had felt as I pretended then their reaction would indeed 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
about your father? What do you believe he felt about you and why? If you tackle only 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
phase in which the opening, relaxed state is felt as desirable and pleasurable, whereas the closing, tense 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
and pleasurable, whereas the closing, tense state is felt as painful and undesirable. The dichotomy causes the 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
the middle state, where one universal pulse is felt as painful, the other as pleasurable. The right 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
that letting out blindly what he or she felt would eventually produce more pain. Thus a social 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
what you know in theory is now a felt reality. You have experienced your own inner life 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
where they have, perhaps for the first time, felt the life of their inner center and perhaps 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
life of their inner center and perhaps also felt it close up again, must continue with renewed 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
vital recognition I had at Thanksgiving, I have felt this release, which I take to be a 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
he gave in to his masculine sexuality and felt adequate as a man, for which the price 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
You will suddenly detect what you have never felt before: that although your outer body feels well 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
prohibits the flow. The block can be distinctly felt when you pay attention to it. The oneness 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
other suffering is as acute as the one felt when you do not know that you have 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
be understood only when pleasure is no longer felt to be negative, when it is no longer 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
He was incapable of forming any relationships. He felt constantly threatened by people, by anything and everything 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
been disconnected from this knowledge, so that he felt himself to be a victim of circumstances beyond 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
resentment he could not examine why he really felt so injured. He falsely assumed he was considered 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
losing a sense of individuality. This can be felt very distinctly when you deal with your own 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
for passing through a bottleneck you may have felt obstructing your further progress. Use this approach very 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
emotionally reexperience past feelings can corroborate as a felt reality what I have reiterated for so many 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
experiences cannot be released if they are not felt, known, expressed, and lived through as fully as 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
including fear. Only when this truth is fully felt and understood, when you stop fighting against it 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
leaving a mark, just because it was fully felt. Feeling pain directly and fully strengthens resilience and 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
has taken place, this task begins to be felt and inwardly experienced until it becomes a reality 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
be faced, feel the feelings that must be felt. It may seem unnecessary to repeat this, but 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
which in turn releases much energy that is felt as bliss in every part of your being 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
you believe no woman is trustworthy because you felt your mother rejected you. You now know that 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
between remorse and guilt: remorse is the deeply felt pain of your wrongdoing, yet without losing sight 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
of your own distortions must be fully faced, felt, and understood in all its ramifications and chain 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
to them, and assume responsibility for them. They felt compelled to give vent to them and became 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
stench. On the level of touch, energy is felt by other energy bodies. The energy of the 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
bodies. The energy of the higher self is felt as soft, nurturing, vitalizing; you bathe in the 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
it is eternal. It is me eternal. I felt that it is my task to link up 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
are blessed, go in peace. PATHWORKER: I have felt ever since I joined the Pathwork, and more 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
Eva shared with us the anxiety she had felt prior to going into trance. She had hesitated 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
gave us this most beautiful gift. I never felt happier in my life, she said, coming out 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
want to deal with disappointments. But I also felt that I must have it, I can't bear 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
of courage are and where courage might be felt represented in the body? ANSWER: Yes. The elements 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
outer rest and quietude, the movement is being felt in the joyousness, aliveness, ability to change, flexibility 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
their truth will become discernible on a deeply felt level; this means preserving tradition. Then the old 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
to be open to a truth that you felt hitherto disinclined to accept. But truth can fill 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
stand up for it. The Jews in power felt threatened -- unjustly so -- by Jesus Christ 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
inevitably led to lack of self-responsibility. Thus humanity felt victimized by evil spirits. Fear of them often 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
toward the cosmic, eternal aliveness that can be felt deep in the soul of any individual when 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
Remember how, after seeing the connections, you always felt much more secure about life. With this insight 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
and behavior toward you. Most of you have felt something like this. In such a situation you 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
many earthly manifestations. His presence can be keenly felt and so can His absence when you block 254 SURRENDER

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