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describe that road upward, the right way, the healthy approach that should follow the work of letting 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
are gone, the will to live, to be healthy, becomes stronger and stronger, since they are not 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Your reactions will be much more spontaneous and healthy, your intuition more reliable. I am sure there 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
more the striving soul is thwarted in its healthy instincts, the stronger will it clamor to be 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
concentrated mostly on obstacles that eclipsed or prohibited healthy functioning, in the present phase we are able 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
these desires to your own subconscious, strengthening the healthy aspect of your psyche, and weakening the aspects 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
kind of danger, your reaction to fear is healthy. It is like a signal, giving you the 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
this has absolutely nothing to do with the healthy protective fear we just discussed. Any reference to 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
who never dare to punish or exert a healthy authority. This failing is due to guilt because 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
that in that moment it turns into a healthy growing pain, free of bitterness, tension, anxiety, and 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
Needless to say, this is neither genuine nor healthy, for it is a wrong extreme. To be 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
other? ANSWER: Both are necessary functions of the healthy individual. As I once put it, they are 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
already overdeveloped aspect. That, of course, is not healthy; it does not bring the desired harmony and 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
a certain detachment from yourself in a very healthy way, the smoldering, unhealthy drive and force will 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
by solving your own problems, increasingly affect the healthy and positive part of the other's personality. This 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
fully accept the responsibility of parenthood. Thus their healthy and mature love-capacity will increase to its full 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
error. All fears, with the exception of the healthy instinct of self- preservation, are based on illusion 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
to one's remaining imperfections. This is the only healthy approach. QUESTION: I was talking about the transition 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
He has nothing to worry about. He is healthy, his daily bread is taken care of. He 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
of escaping from it. Accept it in a healthy way, not fleeing it. Accept it as a 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
of doubt that this was so. The truly healthy and mature human being nearly always reacts this 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
can bring forth the maximum ability, creativity and healthy strength. The limitation does not only have to 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
finally result, and lead to ability, creativity and healthy strength. QUESTION: You suggested last time that I 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
means that both forces be used in a healthy way, when there is a real reason or 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
use either of these two forces in the healthy and constructive way for which they originally are 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
love. In reality the aggressive force, in its healthy way, is supposed to serve you in actual 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
place and yield where they should assert this healthy current. Yet where they should not, they often 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
not, they often use aggression most violently. The healthy way will never cause interference and mutual exclusiveness 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and mutual exclusiveness. The desire for love and healthy aggression are meant to live peacefully side by 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
love and sacrifice. This is meant in the healthy and genuine way, in the way I explained 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
or another. Needless to say, pretense prohibits real healthy strength because such strength can only come from 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
striving for his ambition. But the difference between healthy, relaxed striving and frenzied, compulsive impatience has to 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
entire being will become more and more constructive, healthy and beneficial for yourself and others -- and 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is not a question of desiring them in healthy mutuality; there is in you a one-sided childish 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
will be unconscious and negative. In the relatively healthy person, the response will be similar, but it 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
childish, exaggerated craving has nothing to do with healthy love, and that the former is actually the 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
and which you should indeed have in a healthy way. You sabotage communication either by frightening the 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
that you are healthily interdependent with others. This healthy interdependence, however, can exist only if you are 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
the basis of personal independence can you have healthy interdependence. However, both can be distorted, and that 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
how camouflaged, never expresses a free choice for healthy independence and interdependence. Now, my friends, are there 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
of both partners is the mark of a healthy relationship. QUESTION: There seems to be a very 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
seems to be a very fine line separating healthy and unhealthy dependence, as well as healthy and 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
separating healthy and unhealthy dependence, as well as healthy and unhealthy independence. How can we distinguish between 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
immature and distorted emotions can you attain the healthy ones. You will be able to see where 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
that I advocate one- sided love. In a healthy state, you will never have to worry about 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
with these teachings, you would fully understand that healthy mutuality is the essence and natural result that 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
altogether different choice to accept death in a healthy way, out of strength. When I use the 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
can flow through you, and therefore the more healthy and enduring will be the gratification of your 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
to self-destructiveness -- is altogether different from a healthy, strong acceptance of the inevitable. Squarely facing it 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
not learn to cope with death in a healthy way. You sense that the solution lies in 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
exaggerated craving. You learn to distinguish between the healthy wish for mature love and the childish craving 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
out of the wish which in itself is healthy, and you will begin to see the law 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
obtain what you seek, you are using the healthy way of coping with death. The giving up 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
of death. As you become stronger in the healthy way, you are bound to experience that you 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
little by little, and confronting it in the healthy manner. Once you overcome this conflict, the pathway 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
Can you explain a little more clearly how healthy acceptance differs from unhealthy acceptance, for instance in 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
avoidable, makes you abandon the very desire. The healthy way is to say, Yes, death is unwelcome 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
it is done. If it is genuine and healthy, the process I have described has been lived 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
this, and these are illusions. QUESTION: Doesn't the healthy state deny the unpleasant emphasis? ANSWER: No, I 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
So death must be a pleasure. Doesn't the healthy attitude therefore deny the unpleasant emphasis? ANSWER: Let 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
truly experience that death is pleasure in a healthy way, you first have to go through your 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
has learned not to avoid it. Conversely, a healthy attitude that retains awareness will obtain immediate growth 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
of God. Many religions teach this error. The healthy way to meet suffering is perhaps the most 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
therapeutic value. Here again, a right combination of healthy activity and passivity is needed, as opposed to 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
uncover first. Only then can you adopt a healthy attitude toward death. Outwardly, you may not be 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
an inner, unrecognized dependency, as opposed to the healthy interdependence which results from reliance on the inner 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
at through development -- and the right and healthy attitude as described in these lectures, does not 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
can be experienced only if the soul is healthy. An unhealthy soul is incapable of experiencing pleasure 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
professes and thinks one believes that determines a healthy attitude; that is only an indication. So you 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
rejection of bodily pleasure. In a mature and healthy soul, the pleasure drive can never interfere with 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
drive to another area of the personality. The healthy human personality, as it was meant to be 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
different from the truth. In truth and reality, healthy and genuine self-confidence is peace of mind. It 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
is peace of mind. It is security and healthy independence and allows one to achieve a maximum 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
life, and entering into fruitful human relationships with healthy interdependence. But since the self-confidence established through the 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
But they do not know this in a healthy way. They despair. They believe they ought to 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
learn something for ourselves individually? Two, is it healthy to revive an era of death and destruction 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
they manifest in their distorted forms. In the healthy person these three principles work side by side 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
for all people who assert themselves, even for healthy assertiveness and not the kind that arises out 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
submissive type, but also in their real and healthy form. Warmth, affection, communication, unselfishness: all that is 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
attitudes of love, power, and serenity in a healthy way, as opposed to a distorted way. Love 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
self-centered love will then no longer interfere with healthy power, which is not the power of pride 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
proving your superiority. When you gain mastery by healthy power you do so for the sake of 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
distorted ambitiousness, compulsion, and haste. Serenity in the healthy way will not cause you to hide from 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
your own conflicts; love and power in their healthy forms will give you a healthy detachment when 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
in their healthy forms will give you a healthy detachment when looking at yourself so that you 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
hand in hand. In fact, when each is healthy, they complement one another. But they can cause 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
these attributes work hand in hand in the healthy way. But in addition, I feel that not 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
this would be true if these qualities were healthy but in the distorted form they cannot be 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
one could yield sometimes, while still asserting a healthy independence. QUESTION: I wonder, could a distorted attempt 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
damage. We know by now that what the healthy soul considers safe differs from what the unhealthy 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
in the wrong way. Instead of building the healthy self- respect that comes naturally as a result 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
soul- forces because, unconsciously, this seems protective. When healthy, the instinct of self-preservation will lead a person 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
creativity at all levels of being. In its healthy form, it makes you reach out and communicate 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
a raw, grasping way rather than in a healthy, flexible, receptive way; greed; craving, which leads, in 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
as such, is wrong. Quite the contrary. The healthy soul will aim for pleasure, but in a 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
precarious pseudo- safety of your idealized self-image. The healthy personality can take defeat. You all have to 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
and behavior patterns. To experience defeat in a healthy, mature way presupposes true humility, not a false 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
will come, as it always does from any healthy self-recognition and insight. Merely by observing your reactions 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
only physical ones, but any threat to the healthy growth of the individual -- are warded off 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
will discover that some resentments are understandable and healthy, provided you would do something about them rather 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
yourself and, if need be, to adopt a healthy aggressiveness, which is altogether different from the distorted 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
and you will be aggressive where it is healthy and constructive. One imbalance always causes another. Thus 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
shy away from the pain for it is healthy, and indispensable to eliminating your pain once and 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
depends is himself predominantly power-driven, maybe a relatively healthy person will not respond to him with submissiveness 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
real and the idealized self. In the relatively healthy person, the difference will not be as striking 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
as prayer. Regardless of how much real talent, healthy desire, or serious striving you show, the severity 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
motive. In other words, either tendency can be healthy as well as unhealthy. An integrated human being 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
is necessary to make it grow and remain healthy. A good portion of humanity cultivates the mental 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
the degree that your emotional life is strong, healthy, and mature. Therefore, your intuitive powers will be 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
the occasional glimpses of feelings that the still healthy part in you strives for? You cannot have 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
but this period of transition leads to strong healthy organs in this particular respect. For the baby 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
get rid of them; you will not enable healthy mature emotions to follow in their place, but 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
-- and they are secondary in efficiency. When healthy emotions make your intuition reliable, there will be 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
growing up and becoming a wholly integrated and healthy human being. You will soon discover the fallacy 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
you to reach your surface awareness, how can healthy, strong emotions fill your being? If you cannot 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
these are not feasible alternatives at all. The healthy, constructive solution is inner growth that must eventually 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
mature and your reactions will change, and a healthy trust in yourself, in your natural, spontaneous reactions 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
purposely refrain now from showing you how the healthy, mature, and flexible person will handle confusions and 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
received all the food it needs to remain healthy, but if a craving for something inessential persists 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
If the personality does not function in a healthy way, some of these capacities will be paralyzed 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
for pleasure supreme that cannot be attained through healthy means because too much fear and inhibition exist 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
itself should give rise to suspicion. The predominantly healthy soul will have no particular desire for such 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
this life contains by making your soul as healthy as possible. You will find God in that 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
no longing for it, this might indicate a healthy state of mind. The absence of longing means 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
longing means an acceptance of life and a healthy ability to cope with life, or at least 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
not include inner unrest. When the feeling of healthy peace exists, strength gathers and results in confidence 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
so proud, but there is also a very healthy motive, a real spiritual need which you disregard 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
in itself must eventually give you a very healthy trust in yourself. And that is all you 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of self-preservation and procreation. These needs can be healthy and normal. However, if repressed, they will turn 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
are destructive. A need which in itself is healthy and normal can be destructive when awareness of 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
this seeming paradox -- of what is a healthy and legitimate need and what is not. They 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
create guilt feelings, but just as often the healthy, normal, and legitimate needs of every healthy human 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
the healthy, normal, and legitimate needs of every healthy human being cause equally strong guilt feelings. This 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
most guilty about is not only normal and healthy, but is in fact most creative. Because of 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
postponing the gratification serves the interests of your healthy needs, if not right now, then at a 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
find it possible to distinguish between the natural, healthy needs, and the artificially created needs of the 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
you learn to maturely go about fulfilling the healthy, natural needs, will you become capable of giving 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
fulfillment comes to you out of your own healthy inner, and therefore also outer, activities. False needs 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
is no reason to feel contempt for one's healthy needs. You will see that the real reason 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
will give you strength, self- confidence, and a healthy self-respect that nothing else could give you. And 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
forfeit the chance of fulfilling your good and healthy needs. For that, the freedom and strength of 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
are bound to discover that a real and healthy need has been starved and the artificial one 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
that if the awareness of an in itself healthy need has been repressed, some unhealthy factors must 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
become attached to it. This then causes the healthy need to get out of hand and become 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
much aware of which needs are constructive and healthy, and which are not. QUESTION: What about a 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
for harmony? ANSWER: In itself harmony is a healthy need. But if it becomes so strong that 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
the sake of harmony you forfeit your equally healthy and legitimate need for self-assertion, independence, success, happiness 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
all of which require a certain amount of healthy fighting spirit -- then there is something wrong 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
useful. There is a fine distinction between such healthy and right attitude and the idea that you 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
in a few recent lectures why it is healthy and good for you, in this particular phase 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS

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