| All the world pronounces the mores of society good and righteous, while the natural laws inherent in | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| live center of your real self, where all good exists in immeasurable power, forever and ever. This | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| a natural state of exhilaration, wisdom and eternal good. Vagueness and not looking at your pride and | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| those who feel that they are not as good as others? ANSWER: It is the same duality | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| unitive principle that has no dualistic conflicts of good versus bad -- it is as if you | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| theoretical process called self-realization that promises to feel good. If self-realization is arduously forced and looked for | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| I then discussed feels this shame primarily about good qualities, about giving and loving. Such people believe | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| is feels shamefully naked -- regardless of your good or bad thoughts, feelings, or behavior. This is | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| exert a pressure that would eventually affect the good functioning of your body negatively. All wasted energy | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| lose my individuality, I will lose control. The good feelings seem to be even more threatening than | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and individuality. The fear may exist that the good feelings may be directed to someone who is | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Never do they justify the denial of the good feelings themselves. If the choice of the love | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of the real self, where life is all good. But people fear total surrender to the involuntary | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the momentary difficulty may be, fear of the good life must vanish. When this truthfulness, this courage | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| cycles, in their lives. They feel they have good times and bad times. They even sense occasionally | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| an illusion. By refusing what is yours -- good or bad -- your mentality denies self-responsibility for | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| block you from life, from all that is good. Let guidance come from within to help you | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| impoverishes the self for the sake of being good and of pleasing an authoritarian god. No wonder | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| is natural. If nature is not squashed, if good behavior is not superimposed over a seething pool | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| eventually, even begin to give out of your good feelings. The more you can connect your fear | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and fullness and a sense of life is good, to that extent one has practiced truthfulness. Such | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| standards. Neither one of these ways is the good way. Both are coercive, both deny the real | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| child inside. ANSWER: Yes, that is a very good process, which I have suggested a long time | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ago but, unfortunately, people forget it. It is good at this point to remind all of you | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that really makes no sense and has no good purpose. Fear of happiness, of pleasure, of wide | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| being paralyzing the pleasure forces, which are a good part of the energy available to you. Your | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| out fear and anger makes room for the good feelings. So many of you are still locked | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| What you want, in principle, may indeed be good and within your right. But when using a | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| none of the visible alternatives give you that good feeling about yourself, that resilient strength and well-being | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| self, where the power is to create a good life. Conversely, your inability to give up, to | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| out or downgrading yourself. You will find genuine, good defenses against abuse and you will feel good | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| good defenses against abuse and you will feel good about them. Later you will discover your ever-increasing | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| your real being, as well as with your good feelings. When you can lose gracefully, you will | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| may glorify this holding back, it serves no good purpose. All of you do hold back in | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| versus that, right versus wrong, black versus white, good versus bad. As you know, this is inadequate | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| of deciding for truthfulness, integrity, honesty, effort, and good will, it must step aside and allow the | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| quarrel with fate, with life, with all the good that could work for you if you were | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| a creative output as the creation of the good you dream about. As long as this is | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| creative power within is not only constructive, benign, good and wise. It is also destructive, vicious, evil | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| sake of decency, honesty, morality: You must be good, or else! Goodness and unselfishness then mean renunciation | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| as you believe that in order to be good you must renounce pleasure, you must fluctuate between | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| full of potentials and possibilities -- infinite in good, infinite in abundance. If the ego-intelligence can accept | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| comes to the surface more directly. This is good, for it permits you to look at it | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| a new experience for you. It is a good experience in that it shows you have mastered | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| take and accept before. You not only do good work as such, but you have overcome blocks | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| as a knowledge of one's infinite possibilities for good, as shrugging off an unnecessary confining straightjacket. Yet | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| wish to reject experience. My fear of so-called good or bad happenings is based on illusion. Thus | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the center of your being from which all good must come. You become more and more contracted | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| ever really solve anything and reassure you for good? Certainly not. The only genuine reassurance is knowing | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| of your being simultaneously is, in itself, a good experience, for it brings the split into full | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| of duality -- through believing in something very good versus something very bad. The duality makes a | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| desire you intensely grasp. You grasp for the good because you fear the bad and fear not | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| fear the bad and fear not attaining the good. Anything you intensely avoid you must fear. The | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| is possible in only an intense state. The good in the duality is illusion; it never fulfills | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| In this state all is welcome, all is good, even though one may have preferences. This may | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| you are to feel, to receive and give good feelings. Or you will be able to help | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| that, at one point, you have denied your good feelings and deliberately turned them into bad ones | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| stopped somewhat. The only time I have some good feeling is when I read these lectures. I | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| I think I understand them. I also have good feelings when I meditate. I can feel, at | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| why you fear the involuntary forces of spontaneous good feelings. To the degree you cling to negative | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| guilt, discomfort and insecurity -- you forfeit the good feelings without any conflict about them that are | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| conflict about them that are your birthright. The good feelings must actually appear frightening as long as | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to that extent exactly, you will not fear good feelings. QUESTION: I found out that it is | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| out exactly why I do not want the good. What blocks me from wanting it? In whatever | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a beginning to explore them would serve a good purpose, but only too often you use the | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| to happen, my friends, for life is so good. The truth is happiness, while unhappiness is always | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| this lack of attention -- often unconsciously. Every good, beautiful, and creative experience in which you feel | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| which you respond to what you believe is good in one way and to what you believe | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| and happiness. Truth in life equates with feeling good in the deepest possible way -- without reservations | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| fundamental happiness because to do this is right, good, or mature, the more they become deprived. The | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| of sickness; a message leading people toward feeling good again in themselves after having lost their proper | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| half; in which one half is adjudged as good and desirable, the other as bad and undesirable | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| human being no longer experiences one opposite as good, the other as bad. When I say no | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| obstructions are overcome, still harbors the division of good versus bad. But generally, and to a much | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| a truthful fashion. Both are seen as intrinsically good and beautiful. They complement one another in a | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| are transcended -- are no longer seen as good versus bad, but as complementary facets, both fulfilling | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the most distorted personality will consider one as good and battle against the other as evil. These | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| health and sickness does not, in reality, indicate good versus bad. Both can contain both. If health | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| innermost self and other people, it is not good. Conversely, ill health is good if seen as | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| it is not good. Conversely, ill health is good if seen as a symptom leading to total | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| total health, fulfillment and happiness. Thus, what is good and what is bad is not ever divisible | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the other the other. Each polarity is all good when in its natural, undistorted state. Each polarity | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| no different with life and death. Both are good; neither needs be feared or fought against. The | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| experience at this state of your development as good versus bad. To the degree you have evolved | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| against. Soul currents close up toward all the good of life when an entity believes itself in | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| tension when you assume one opposite to be good. Since all of life consists of polarities, the | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| fight against the bad and grasp for the good. Why, then, are you so discontent, so empty | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| truly illusory, as illusory as the split of good versus bad, but they seem nevertheless real in | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| its psychic existence to feel one opposite as good and right, the other as bad and evil | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| conviction and assumption that the affirmative principle is good and desirable, while the negating principle is sick | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| can see, my friends, even with the seemingly good versus bad of the Yes and No currents | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| conciliation of all polarities lies in seeing the good in both opposites. This alone will lead to | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| undesirable, while all kinds of unselfishness are laudable, good, right. One rarely makes the distinction that some | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| an outer sentimentality that pretends the act is good. It is always loveless and defeats growth. When | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| with unselfishness, which is equated with being a good person. This error is only the beginning of | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| name only a few: self-deception about what being good is; dependency, which is also interpreted to mean | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| selfishness is deemed to be bad and unselfishness good, regardless of the how and why, duality and | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| such conflicts no longer exist. For what is good for one's own real self must absolutely and | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| own real self must absolutely and inevitably be good for the real self, the real ultimate happiness | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| is accepted. Out of it soft and gentle good feelings will arise, swelling stronger and rooting more | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| to the life center out of which all good flows. Meditate and request guidance. Meditate that you | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| They are partly the result of your sincere good efforts and of the love feelings that are | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| breathing spirit that you are, from which unlimited good flows into your whole being, into your entire | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| -- you will close yourself to all the good that wants to flow from you into the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| you many times, you cannot possibly have a good relationship with others unless you first have a | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| relationship with others unless you first have a good relationship with yourself. Therefore these threefold aspects must | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| and where it really belongs. You see the good and the bad in yourself. You see the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| life process wants more life, with all the good it contains. For life is truth and love | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| strength and the positive consciousness of reaching for good experience. The latter occurs out of fear and | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| that you are open and ready for the good experience, if not for the painful one. But | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| from these divided motivations. Here you have a good illustration of the process: fighting such a frustration | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| creative being. When the individual knows that all good can be had and need never end, as | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| healing power, the only possibility from which the good way can be looked for, seen, and undertaken | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| limit where the turnabout must come, that is good if you honestly grope and pray for understanding | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| contains also the duality -- yes versus no, good versus bad. Duality ends in conflict, comes out | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| subtle inner soul-movement that shrinks back when something good comes along. As you discover this, you will | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| is such inner tension and fear that the good of life cannot come or be received. Only | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| It is never true that one opposite is good and the other bad. Each can be either | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| mutually exclusive alternatives, where one is accepted as good and the other as bad depending on the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| that perceives life always in terms of either/or, good or bad, this or that -- one to | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| self-deprivation versus depriving others. The whole concept of good and evil stems from this arbitrary, unnecessary, and | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| believe that you have to choose between being good or obtaining your advantages, you must be in | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| by fear of disapproval, by dependency on another's good opinion, by fear of frustration and inability to | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| failure to use your full potential to create good life. As you hold back your potential to | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| of another life is already there. In your good moments, my friends, you are aware of this | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| immediate availability, because you are afraid of the good feelings that result from its deep wisdom. You | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| and even masochistic self-denial. Religion's postulate that the good person must sacrifice is an error. The original | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| that come from this realization are incomparable. No good that comes to you from the outside, because | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to discern what you think or feel. A good part of any self- development therefore always consists | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| kind of frustration. It will give you a good gauge of your state of fear-tension. If you | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| gain an inkling of its possibilities both for good and constructive, as well as for destructive, ends | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| locked up in me that contain all the good imaginable? By raising these questions seriously, you will | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| eternal fight between God and the devil, between good and evil, between life and death. It does | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| decides to reward you for having been a good child who now deserves it, but because you | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| do it? Why can't I want what feels good for me? This question has been asked here | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| intention to cheat, and life-defeating spiteful resistance to good feelings. All these are examples of negative creating | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| unmasked. It always appears to you to be good in some way, even if only by pretending | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| what you pretend it is. It is never good. You are never that innocent, nor are others | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| to love, trust, and know that life is good and can be trusted. All this, and more | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| misunderstood interpretations -- a reward for having been good. Bliss is the natural state of a unified | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| an unhealthy way, as a reward to the good child from an authority figure one depends on | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |