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| harm you any more. You will make your instinctive awareness of their fear into an intuition that | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| one's destiny, pleasure supreme -- are deeply inborn, instinctive spiritual aims. The psyche instinctively knows that these | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| confuses you, makes you feel guilty about your instinctive responses, but you are even less able to | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| this case, fulfilling one's task will be more instinctive. Anyone who is on a path such as | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
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| beautifully grown during the active period. You will instinctively sense that you have received enough. But this | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| entire consciousness. But as long as you live instinctively, and therefore unknowingly, you remain unaware of all | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| are deeply inborn, instinctive spiritual aims. The psyche instinctively knows that these are both its destiny and | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| why does it hold on to life and instinctively fights leaving the body? This seems to be | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
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| to refrain from giving in to their lowest instincts. More is required of others; of everyone always | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| and the result is disharmony; then the healthy instincts wither away. This is very much the case | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| end? In connection with the subject of the instincts, ask yourselves the following: First, do I keep | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| darkness first come with very low and coarse instincts. Only after many incarnations and worked off karmic | 22 SALVATION |
| not matter. This distortion may serve people's lowest instincts. It is your sacred duty, just as it | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| who have only had a few incarnations. Their instincts are still low and coarse. Now such people | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| may be tempted to give in to these instincts and perhaps kill someone. If this temptation can | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you. You will have wrong reactions and distorted instincts, which you will then want to interpret to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| impulsively, without planning or deliberation. Submerged in unchanneled instincts rather than constructive intuition, such a person loses | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| used his desire for good to suppress basic instincts rather than facing them with courage and sincerity | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| think is right oppresses them. Perhaps their selfish instincts are still so strong that their real and | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| that if you go ahead, following your lowest instincts, that is harmful to others. Both are true | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| on that assumption and indulge in the lowest instincts. Now, my friends, if there are any questions | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| outer law is a necessity for those whose instincts are still crude. On a deeper level, this | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that the masochistic tendency to allow the unhealthy instincts of others to hurt you is proof of | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the striving soul is thwarted in its healthy instincts, the stronger will it clamor to be heard | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| self we discussed before. If you thwart your instincts, due to the deviations under discussion, you do | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| way you manage your emotional reactions, feelings, and instincts determines your emotional maturity or lack of it | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| live according to the most unchaneled and primitive instincts if I wanted to realize my pleasure drive | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| So the situation is hopeless. These unchaneled, primitive instincts are not more conducive to the pleasure principle | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| sublimation, resignation or repression. It happens because the instincts grow within the rest of the personality and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| a much higher form than the primitive, unchaneled instincts. This heightened pleasure includes the physical level. Such | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| peace. Be in God! 85. DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION Greetings, my dearest friends | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| I am going to discuss two basic human instincts as they appear in distortion: the instinct of | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| of self-preservation and the instinct of procreation. These instincts in their pure form perform a very important | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| immaturities, where there is distortion and unreality, these instincts become warped and no longer work constructively. The | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| to some instances in which you discovered negative instincts, you at one time made the mistake of | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| time made the mistake of concluding that all instincts and emotions are negative. Therefore you do not | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| ones. Be blessed. Be in God! 86. THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT Greetings, my | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| hour. In the last lecture we discussed the instincts of self-preservation and procreation as they appear in | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| topic and show you specifically how the two instincts combat one another, and also the particular distortion | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| as pleasure are necessary in life. If the instincts are distorted, they conflict with, rather than complement | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| bring serenity. In actuality, you cannot satisfy both instincts any better. Satisfaction becomes even less possible as | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| anxiety and frustration, among other feelings. Since both instincts exist in equal strength in the human soul | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| in order to protect yourself from your untamed instincts. You think that the alternatives are either acting | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| This extreme, negative view arising from certain negative instincts or feelings causes an inordinate fear. The more | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| Because you disapprove of the social or immoral instincts you still harbor, you deny their existence inside | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| arises from feeling that awareness of your immoral instincts will lead to acting them out. You are | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| yourself as you are, in spite of the instincts you disapprove of, you cannot grow out of | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| inner process this way: If I have destructive instincts, I am horrible and cannot like or respect | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| image. Instinctual needs derive from the two basic instincts of self-preservation and procreation. These needs can be | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| self-preservation is at work when not required. Whenever instincts which were originally destined to meet a specific | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| their will to overcome their raw, animalistic, destructive instincts that had slumbered in the state of being | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| resistance and the giving in to one's destructive instincts. Before you have reached certain levels of inner | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| you have overcome all your problems and lower instincts, but a deep understanding and complete awareness of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| impulses -- out of mere misunderstanding. Impulses and instincts which are potentially productive and life-giving, if they | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and productive aspects and trends; (3) repression of instincts which are as yet unproductive and self-centered in | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| prevent a person from acting out primitive destructive instincts. For those whose inner conscience is not sufficiently | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| can prevent you from acting upon your lower-self instincts. Therefore you can never come to a healthy | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| done in the past, of one of those instincts that is really constructive, but which we treat | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| vital aspects of this question. In thwarting natural instincts, man so often thwarts his manhood. He is | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| reached, it becomes apparent that the raw, primitive instincts are concerned only with the experience of pleasure | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the baby knows no such boundaries. Its sexual instincts thrive without these concepts and ideas. If guilt | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| a sense of sin do not drive these instincts underground, if the growing person cultivates mental and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| sin of perversion tends only to drive undeveloped instincts inward, as is true of any other human | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| in the living out of raw, undeveloped, primitive instincts in a spirit of defiance; or, you may | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| fear and guilt, thus preventing organic growth. Your instincts remain in the primitive childhood state, and what | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| way. You erroneously fear that your undeveloped, primitive instincts will lead you astray; in reality, becoming aware | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| not advocate that you live out your childish instincts. All I mean to say is that all | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| to say is that all children have these instincts. And they still exist to some degree in | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| irritation -- these constant companions that result from instincts you cannot accept in yourselves, and therefore fear | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of survival by taming the primitive and self-centered instincts. If the child were self-sufficient and independent while | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| of others and the curbing of its selfish instincts. The feelings may be lacking, but at least | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| also manifests as a fear of your deepest instincts so that you cannot ever relax and be | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| of you moves toward others and accepts your instincts and nature, but another side shrinks back from | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| predominant personality affirms life and their own deepest instincts, and is therefore relatively free of conflict. Their | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| trust nature, if one distrusts one's own deepest instincts. For where do these instincts come from? These | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| one's own deepest instincts. For where do these instincts come from? These instincts cannot be crushed, neither | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| For where do these instincts come from? These instincts cannot be crushed, neither can they be denied | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| way out is to understand that the innermost instincts are good if they are not interfered with | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| by well-meaning and otherwise quite enlightened individuals. These instincts will prove themselves as bearers of light when | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| cease to fear and fight against yourself, your instincts, your body, your nature -- and against nature | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| making peace with your innermost physical and emotional instincts. The peace between body and soul is an | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| person, of trusting and following one's own deep instincts and consequently experiencing the highest state of bliss | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| toward another individual, toward an expression of your instincts, toward an integration of the instincts with your | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| of your instincts, toward an integration of the instincts with your conscious mind, your concepts, and your | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| one stream. In your case rage, anger, cruel instincts are there, but not so much sexualized. You | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| source of its feelings, the source of its instincts, the source of its own nature, deep inside | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| itself. Only within the deep core of the instincts can God be found because only there can | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| must find another means to handle its destructive instincts if it is not to annihilate itself by | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| fatal ways as giving vent to those negative instincts. This lecture will give you an additional tool | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| will learn to value and nurture the deep instincts you have always so distrusted and to find | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| and denial really oppose the life of the instincts. The instincts are simple and innocent in themselves | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| really oppose the life of the instincts. The instincts are simple and innocent in themselves; your destructiveness | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| all situations that might bring forth your natural instincts. When you deny love and pleasure, you must | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| when spiritual exercises were used to restrain natural instincts. On the one hand, spiritual development proceeded, on | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| beings strong enough to look at their hidden instincts and to purify them without danger of acting | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| a new and marvelous method of freeing your instincts for the purpose of purifying and revitalizing your | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |