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the consciousness of the I is expanded and intensified with every higher level reached, and exactly because 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
as all other human beings, but his were intensified to a maximum degree. Material substance is a 22 SALVATION
do much to prepare themselves for receiving more intensified help. It would be constructive for all of 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
have help. If there is a will for intensified search with the help of someone else, a 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
beyond the earth life. They will only be intensified. You will be more capable of sustaining the 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
cannot even believe in pleasure. This difficulty is intensified because you cannot bear pleasure exactly to the 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
This point is most crucial for your further intensified transformation work. You do not cast out any 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
 
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freedom from worries that money can provide to intensify his or her spiritual development, then the integration 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
God's severe injustice is strengthened. Such experiences also intensify your fear of God. All this forms an 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
applies to elements like confusion and puzzlement. You intensify and dramatize your emotions, as I explained in 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
first as pain, the ingathering movement may briefly intensify the pain. But soon, if the pain is 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
 
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or elsewhere, can be personally experienced at an intensity that leaves no room for doubt, that overshadows 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
will feel the other's pain with the same intensity as their own; the other's joy will be 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
cases even longer. It depends entirely on the intensity and diligence with which the medium pursues his 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
in the spirit world and, according to the intensity of the thoughts or feelings, are vague and 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
various other circumstances, also influence the outer manifestation, intensity, degree, and direction that these general trends may 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
thoughts and feelings is in the strength and intensity, not in the characteristic or type. A feeling 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
circumstances also play a role and determine the intensity of this conflict. Observe your relationship to the 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
you can never get commensurately to the desperate intensity of your struggle. Find specifically how this fight 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
not yet found. You will see that the intensity of your feelings is out of proportion with 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
you the discrepancy between the issue and the intensity of your feelings. When you realize this, you 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
discrepancy between them and your actual needs the intensity still remains, consider whether the fulfillment of the 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
find the existence of the need, and its intensity, try to determine to what measures you have 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
disappointment or frustration, you will find their true intensity and significance. Then you discover the illusion and 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
you discover the illusion and see that the intensity of your emotions bears no relation to the 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
supreme on the other, is not determined by intensity of feeling, but by the time element, and 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
is permanent and unchangeable. Only an illusion loses intensity as time goes by. Yet as long as 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
Yes, it is a matter of degree, of intensity, and of how many areas of the personality 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
say, many variations exist. According to the strength, intensity, and distribution of these solutions will the tyranny 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
but one has to become aware of the intensity of the anger, the childish demands and claims 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
is also variation in the conflicts and their intensity. QUESTION: There were two questions last time. One 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
will naturally change their direction, their aim, their intensity, their nature. But this can only be done 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
cause the false needs to disappear. Slowly, their intensity will diminish, and gradually they will disappear altogether 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
by prohibiting their full force, and stultifying their intensity. Both procedures tamper with the natural flow; the 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
unaware of them, or, at least, of their intensity. The moment you are fully aware of a 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
when the feelings show themselves in their natural intensity, or their lack of intensity compared to what 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
in their natural intensity, or their lack of intensity compared to what you thought you felt before 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
is usually the main reason for exaggerating the intensity of your feelings. It is a measure of 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
feel the same way and with the same intensity; marital love cannot be measured in such terms 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
unless you fully recognize it in all its intensity and various side-effects. QUESTION: Would it be possible 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
person's life, and reflects the degree of the intensity of that experience. Any negative involvement with another 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
-- certainly no relationship of any importance and intensity. You are caught in this trap until you 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
hostility, overreaction -- where one sees that the intensity of feeling is not commensurate with the occasion 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
Full awareness of this shift will lessen the intensity and strain, even if the displaced need has 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
result of both vertical and horizontal shifts. The intensity of preoccupation resulting from such displacements applies to 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
bound to relieve the involved situation of surplus intensity and painfully twisted, conflicting emotions. You may try 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
you are unaware of your needs or their intensity because you have displaced them, this blindness to 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
between yourself and the others in question. The intensity of your need may not be automatically diminished 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
overlap, with each having many subdivisions, degrees of intensity, and variations. At this point, we need not 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
yourself with a vague, general acknowledgement. The full intensity of partly-repressed longings and frustrations must be aired 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
resentment, and self-pity. Meanwhile, you ignore: a) the intensity of the real longing; b) the presence of 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
more than the issue itself, for when the intensity of emotions is truly tested it often has 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
matter of life or death, which explains the intensity of emotions when it comes to proving your 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
actual issue. This is why you deny the intensity of your emotions knowing that what takes place 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
here. Be in peace, be in God! 151. INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION Greetings, my dearest friends 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
state is one of more or less taut intensity which is foreign to and incompatible with the 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
and incompatible with the universal power. This very intensity may cause, as a final effect, an outer 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
These extremes are always the result of an intensity of soul-movement which must be dissolved. The dualistic 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
to life leads to a typical misunderstanding of intensity. The idea exists that the more intense you 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
when energy is expended. The unnatural tautness and intensity of a person's state of mind and emotions 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
it has been accepted as natural. In fact, intensity is viewed as the desirable state, connoting all 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
result of -- and results in -- artificial intensity, which is, half- consciously, deliberately cultivated and nursed 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
finely attuned perception will produce verification of this intensity, which will then be felt as something foreign 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
force is prohibited. If there is unreal emotional intensity, the life force cannot enter the emotional realm 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
can only exist when there is no artificial intensity in the system. The indentation of soul substance 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
the system. The indentation of soul substance through intensity causes paralysis on all levels. Resiliency must exist 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
to look and become aware of your own intensity. If you follow through, you will dissolve the 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
follow through, you will dissolve the cramp such intensity causes on all levels. The misconception that intensity 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
intensity causes on all levels. The misconception that intensity is favorable also applies to pleasure. It is 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
is, the greater the pleasure. In other words, intensity is not only supposed to connote seriousness and 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
force and, hence, the more heightened the pleasure. Intensity is an ego-attitude and prohibits the letting go 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
latter is dead, the former is vibrantly alive. Intensity and overindentation of soul substance are also confused 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
you must become observant of yourself until the intensity of your emotions, thoughts, and also your physical 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
one's approaches to life. Quite the contrary. The intensity I discuss is always connected with impairment of 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
be the possibility of letting go of the intensity and becoming light where heaviness once prevailed. You 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
so fought for, or against. This lack of intensity, in the right way, makes the universal power 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
way, makes the universal power available, while the intensity I discussed is a cramping-up that blocks off 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
capable of totally letting go of your unhealthy intensity, the mere awareness and understanding of its significance 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
also begin to observe your tautness and an intensity that surpasses relaxed and natural attention, concentration, and 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
natural attention, concentration, and fullness of experience. This intensity does not feel pleasant at all. It is 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
natural way, you might not feel that unpleasant intensity about this or that at all. Is this 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
have cause to be that convinced? Let the intensity of the conviction go and consider the possible 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
little areas of tension in your body, of intensity of muscle tissues and your whole physical being 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
reluctance to relax and know that tension and intensity are the immediate blocks to self-realization. Your reluctance 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
limited. In the peaceful state of self-realization all intensity vanishes. This statement is confusing only when you 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
This statement is confusing only when you associate intensity with depth, involvement, delight and ecstasy. I mentioned 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
not only tense, but tense because of an intensity that is directly related to the state of 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
exists -- is completely free from the cramped intensity in either grasping or avoiding. One grasps because 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
the split of the duality. It lessens the intensity of both pleasure and pain. It enables the 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
but in a very different way than ordinary intensity. It knows no fear, no cramp. It involves 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
states also vary as to the degree and intensity of the submergence. Each state fulfills a specific 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
courageous enough to feel it without exaggerating its intensity -- which is a painkiller in itself. If 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
of what you do inwardly will lessen the intensity and the compulsive drive to perpetuate it. Life 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
human potential for it. Only the degree of intensity varies, for no human being is capable of 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
does not last long but its depth and intensity and significance are so profound that you cannot 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
put yourself into a state of crisis. The intensity of the crisis indicates the intensity of the 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
crisis. The intensity of the crisis indicates the intensity of the opposition, as well as the urgency 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
find rational explanations for such a peculiar emotional intensity -- explanations which can be called rationalizations. Sometimes 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
faced, and admitted, such feelings will diminish in intensity and must sooner or later convert into flowing 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
When feelings are not experienced in their full intensity, the inner life flow must become stagnant. People 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
of truth and God. It will increase in intensity and frequency until you realize that you are 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
The more pain is experienced in its full intensity, the faster it dissolves into its original state 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
exists in variations and with different degrees of intensity. The refusal to love, when not admitted, often 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
negative characteristic were recognized is incomparably higher in intensity and quality, and nothing has to be given 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
the full awareness, the full extent, the full intensity of your most negative self, the most destructive 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
lack of a better word, depends on the intensity of each state. Each will indeed be a 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
that obstruct them. The faults may vary in intensity and emphasis. You may differ in your development 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
creative matter that a self-perpetuating chain-reaction of immense intensity follows inexorably. These points constitute the underlying principle 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
exists in degrees. Many varieties of distribution and intensity of divine and evil manifestations exist. Consciousness and 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
human being whose lower self could approach the intensity of the evil that exists in the lower 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
self could not by any means approach the intensity and beauty of the true, divine, eternal existence 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
appear, the more the frustrations will grow in intensity and significance until they overwhelm you. Through being 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
to each other, join and finally fuse, the intensity and vibrancy of the sexual encounter will surpass 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
Once the pulsation reaches this mass with sufficient intensity and frequency, the mass begins to soften. The 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
into hardened, inanimate matter. These beats vary in intensity. At times the beat is vigorous, at other 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE

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