| of therapy are used and no matter how good they may be, if pride, selfwill, and fear | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| as mental and emotional pleasure. It simply feels good in itself. Love opens you up. You flow | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the defenses are, how they indeed destroy the good of life that wants to come to you | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| giving of your feelings, as opposed to receiving good feelings from others, is the criterion by which | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| positive. This is not because life has been good to you. It is the other way around | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| less master whenever they come up. Thus, the good that life gives you becomes more and more | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| chain reaction within yourself. You then have a good basis for comparing the two kinds of chain | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| appears to offer few alternatives -- usually one good one and one or several undesirable ones. If | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the severity of his illness, his exceptional intelligence, good will, honesty, perseverance, and courage to work his | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| in a certain guardedness and distorted self-protection. Outer good fellowship does not necessarily imply a capacity and | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| the less developed one makes growth, harmony, and good feelings impossible, or in which the contact is | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| to finally decide, I want to risk my good feelings. I want to seek the cause in | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| and think you really want. There is a good way of testing yourselves, my friends. That is | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| It is possible to have such a rich, good life. I am willing to give to life | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| in even simpler terms, the struggle is between good and evil. All religious philosophies of all times | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| expression, very often the destructive side needs a good cause in order to find an outlet for | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| who become very combative and militant for a good cause. They are no longer in a position | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| as crime in any form. They need genuine good causes, which then serve as an outlet for | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| been found in using negative feelings for a good cause. The next, more desirable state is achieved | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| repressed and therefore need no outlet. Then the good causes can be embraced without serving as outlets | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| material and an inner energy awakened by your good will, by your increased understanding that leads you | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| of not being as perfect, as evolved, as good, as rational, as ideal, as one wants to | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| and healthier. It will be stronger in a good, relaxed sense, with more determination, awareness, meaningful directedness | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| feelings lead to new, more resilient reactions. Thus good feelings will replace those which were negative or | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| refuses every step toward health, unfoldment, and the good life, a counteractive movement may be one of | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| form. I trust the universe and my own good will sufficiently that I can wait and will | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| am doing now. ANSWER: This recognition is very good. It touches upon the age-old alternatives of taking | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| be avoided and taking refuge will do some good. Actually, taking refuge does not do any good | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| good. Actually, taking refuge does not do any good; on the contrary, it increases the critical tension | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| a constructive one opposed to a destructive one: good opposed to evil. The moment you become involved | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| evil, seeing it as a force opposed to good. The dualistic approach reinforces your fear of yourself | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| guilt are used to force yourself to be good. The blindness, compulsion, and the artificial concept of | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| to believe that two separate forces exist: one good and one evil. Such a belief implies that | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| off from what is already clear, liberated, purified, good. It also prevents most individuals from loving and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of these traits is an energy current, originally good and beautiful and life-affirming. By searching in this | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| or that specific hostile impulse was originally a good force. When you understand that, you will have | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| that are really liberated and clear, that are good and beautiful and divine. All your striving and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| friends. As long as you try to become good by denying evil, by forcing yourself to be | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Can you help me? ANSWER: This is a good example. I hope to hear many more personal | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| new galaxy, a work of art, or a good relationship between human beings. This applies even to | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| individual to bridge the gap between the conscious good and the unconscious evil! How much struggle everyone | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| of you -- again you will have a good gauge of where you are within yourself. You | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| conscious of your longing -- and this is good. With regard to what is affirmed and what | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| in the outer action. What is right and good in one case may be the worst thing | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| your knowledge, of the reality of the inner good life, of the spiritual realities I am striving | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| committed, honest, loving, giving attitude exists. When the good feelings and thoughts create a corresponding attitude in | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| are therefore deprived. The impoverishment of your own good feelings -- and therefore of desirable life experience | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| victimized, blames others or life, is resentful, withdraws good feelings in revenge and spite. The person is | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| even into the knowledge that life is as good as you choose to make it. The self-respect | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| though there is nothing else needed for a good experience: all you do is enjoy it. But | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| is due to the fear of losing the good state again. On a deeper level it is | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| the fear of not being able to endure good feelings just as much as you deny negative | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| The more you encounter your negation of the good life, the more you can understand why you | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| turn, must increase your capacity of having a good experience. As you let the negative emotion be | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| will reveal to you that you rarely welcome good experience with all of yourself. You do so | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| part in all of you that still denies good experience, while you are entirely unaware of this | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| then the fear of the disappointment mars the good experience, so that the disappointment becomes inevitable. Whenever | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| vicious circle we are discussing. A dearth of good experiences may then impel you to seek substitute | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| For the more your fight, even for the good, the more you contract. And the more you | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| you frustrate yourself and deprive yourself of the good that life is meant to be; thus you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| a particular strength, a direct influence for the good, and you set an example, although your strength | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| your own negativities. In that way you spread good. Your unacknowledged, projected destructiveness immediately affects its counterpart | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| opposites -- pleasure and pain, life and death, good and evil. You cannot transcend these opposites as | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| defenses are to your detriment. They prohibit the good of life from coming into you, and the | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| with the best there is -- your own good feelings. When you abandon your defenses, you can | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| It does not matter whether these traits be good or evil, such as, for example love, perseverance | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of truth, its already existing power to execute good will, its already existing capacity to be positive | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| these three basic categories. The genuine will for good is, needless to say, an expression of the | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| self. But there is also another will for good which can easily be confused with the former | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the same. It is the will to be good for the sake of appearance, for the sake | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you to concentrate your mind and use your good will, and also contact through meditation higher realms | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| spiritual state of just being, you have a good gauge that there are feelings in you which | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| out of these repetitive cycles, no matter how good your intentions are and how much effort you | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| exist? If the universe is benign and trustworthy, good and safe, then you cannot and need not | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| at whose end you will find the realistic good tidings of spiritual reality -- that life is | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| care of, needs solely to receive care, nursing, good feelings, attention, and appreciation of its own uniqueness | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| deprive yourself of the vital center of all good within you. Only when you search to alter | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| will gradually also cease to wait for the good feelings to come from outside. They will be | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| the ability to have a strong flow of good, warm feelings, and nourishes the desire to share | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| accrues from that. This means pleasure, love, fulfillment, good relationships, and a meaningful contribution to the great | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| can only be released and used for your good when you bring everything that is hidden out | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| life, ideas and attitudes appear to be either good or bad, right or wrong, there is distortion | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| feeling, idea, and human expression can be both good and bad. It is one of the most | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| from functioning in a healthy way, from having good feelings, and from experiencing the vital energy flow | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| that they will prove that you are no good. This misconception must be challenged and replaced. If | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| The more you try to show only your good side -- what is genuinely there in the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| enough must inevitably find out that both the good and the bad life experience is an exact | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| Only then can you begin to create a good life. Meditation can and should, of course, be | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| hold incorrect, negative beliefs, you cannot create a good life; rather, you unwittingly destroy creative substance or | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| substance to be impressed. You can then create good life, new attitudes, better experiences and events, infinite | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| possibilities beyond your scope of experience, and the good will to grope for the way should help | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| might possibly be a fantasy. It seems too good to be true. It is what I would | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| being impressed and called forth by the conscious good will and by the mind. But then another | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| others in the fourth stage. This is a good gauge for you. The fourth stage means you | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| into yourself you can accept more of your good as well as your painful feelings. You gain | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| to discover your intentional negation of all the good things in life. You will find that the | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| insistence on forcing your bad parents to become good parents out of guilt, using your misery as | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| personality aspects -- as if one would be good, the other bad. Identification with any aspect of | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| evaluated, or changed. The moment you identify something, good, bad or indifferent, the identifying part is more | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| for someone other than the familiar you. What good do joy, fulfillment, pleasure, self-respect, and abundance accomplish | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| case, you cannot bring your belief in the good and beautiful universe to bear on the negative | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Reach out with tentative questions, questions asked with good will and in good faith. This is the | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| questions, questions asked with good will and in good faith. This is the very first step to | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| are not aware of it, this is as good a time as any to start exploring the | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| the inner reality is the cause. An apparently good action often has disastrous results because it is | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| friends, because your responsibility is growing with the good work you are doing; the impact of everything | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| specific entity called the devil -- just as good stems from a personified God. Good and evil | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| just as good stems from a personified God. Good and evil stem from two figures, according to | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| Still other philosophies say that the forces of good and evil exist as principles, as energy, as | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| human consciousness, both the pure and the distorted, good and evil, God and the devil, exist. It | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| No evil attitude can manifest unless resistance to good is also taking place. Conversely, wherever life flows | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| occasionally. But once in a while it is good to return to basic concepts and expressions, to | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| for long periods. But when the movement toward good is sufficiently strong, and yet the resistance continues | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| The blind entity may suffer temporarily, but how good it is. The process is awesome in its | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| of what is behind apparent or even actual good intent, as well as behind apparent helplessness. The | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| next phase on the path. You have made good progress in admitting partial negative intentionality. But every | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| so. This sincerity of the heart and this good will must be cultivated again and again. It | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| be your understanding that the universe yields unlimited good to all entities who are open to receive | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| reality is not to be feared. It is good; it is to be utterly trusted. It means | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| most superficial level. What is really right and good can be seen just beneath the surface. According | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the surface. According to divine law this deeper good is right for all concerned. Therefore all comparing | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| its present limited state, the ego requires a good deal of one-pointed focusing, of being all there | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| own sake and not to appease and appear good in the eyes of others. The latter attitude | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| incredibly powerful presence is at first shocking. The good feeling is shocking. It is as if an | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| your divine identity. It is essential merely for good health, for being centered within and reasonably integrated | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| with negative feelings can you accept and sustain good feelings. By the same token, only when you | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| only when you can accept and sustain ordinary good feelings can your ability to sustain the cosmic | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| are so often incapable of holding on to good feelings. You see yourself contract again, right after | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| are aware of this attitude -- and a good part of the pathwork consists of becoming aware | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| it possible for me to change and feel good and secure about the change. I do deserve | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| birth-right which I claim. I can subsist on good feelings. I can sustain and endure them, just | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| fallacy that I can bear neither painful or good feelings. If there are any areas within me | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| totally committed to living my life in a good, deeply feeling and honest way. Even if some | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| pain on others. This is so for partially good reasons. Every truth can be distorted. In the | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| it your parents' inability to give more warmth, good feelings, and closeness? Well, you are inflicting the | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| that counts most. You may give things, money, good deeds, even tenderness and concern, but they are | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| friends, requires a lot of meditation and genuine good will. But then, what a key this is | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| the most incredible wisdom and love. The infinitely good divine Creator aimed to fill this vacuum, a | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| Selfwill may be used to put up a good show and foster the illusion that the soul | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| flow into your outer being. The universe is good and beautiful, and there is nothing to fear | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| that core of your being from which all good stems, this focus is necessary. How long will | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| For humans perceive reality in terms of either/or, good or bad, right or wrong, black or white | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| a reward. You may try to be a good little obedient follower of a powerful authority figure | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| positive attitude; your positive intentionality, your goodwill, your good thoughts, your intention of giving your good feelings | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| your good thoughts, your intention of giving your good feelings to it. If you do this, and | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| perpetuate these attitudes. So your ability to bear good feelings, intimacy, love, and pleasure is an exact | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |