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| outgoing love and feelings, which always seem to involve a personal risk. Identifying and analyzing your images | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| I see it right? It seems that we involve ourselves in all kinds of emotions in a | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to understand many of your conflicts that often involve actions and reactions on the part of the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| reality, your inner deviations and errors affect and involve just as many lives in the long run | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sense of a standstill, or stagnation. The feet involve the entire body -- or person. In psychological | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| passing, fleeting ones, those that do not necessarily involve your innermost being, unless, of course, they are | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a consequence of resorting to wrong solutions, people involve themselves more and more in a vicious circle | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| is not a dangerous pursuit. It does not involve you emotionally and does not expose you to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| undefensive. How willing are you to feel, to involve and expose yourself and all that really matters | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| the proof that it does not pay to involve yourself. With true self-understanding, and the consequent liberation | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| your enemy, and your life-affirming feelings would deeply involve you with this feared enemy. In order to | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| and positive, and to the extent they consequently involve themselves with their total being, bringing the most | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| negative feelings. They begin to envelop you and involve you so deeply that, although the whole construction | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| ego faculties, your will faculties, your discipline, to involve your total being in whatever you do in | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| whatever issue is in question -- when you involve yourself constructively with attention and honesty by giving | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| -- often even material success, which does not involve the emotions. Although you sense the existence of | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the self. Each step of giving seems to involve the risk of losing. It is always first | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| to pay the price. I am willing to involve myself deeply in living fully, giving as much | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| totally obliterated. Tradition in its distorted sense might involve a meaningful truth, an experience, a custom that | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| hidden from others, or another person wishes to involve you in hiding something negative or destructive. If | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
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| cannot be changed quickly even without personal emotional involvement; how much longer then does it take to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| independently, that are not free from your emotional involvement. Find out which of these motives apply to | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| of unhappiness; that you do not avoid positive involvement because you are afraid of negative involvement. All | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| positive involvement because you are afraid of negative involvement. All negative experiences should make you stronger. If | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| a certain objectivity and detachment from one's own involvement and interest -- outer, conscious, material ones, or | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| fault may seem to you. Find your own involvement and you will be in peace. You will | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| life takes the form of withdrawal from emotional involvement, a feeling of wanting to be left alone | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| want to be alone out of fear of involvement because you have a strong tendency to withdraw | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| remaining personally uninvolved, not risking pain, disappointment, personal involvement. Can you love in such a comfortable way | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| a comfortable spirituality that leaves out your personal involvement in the world of feelings. After you see | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| evolve. You will feel warmth, compassion, and good involvement such as you never thought possible. You will | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| with strength, self-reliance, and self-responsibility are true love, involvement, and faith possible. Anyone who ever attained spiritual | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you fear the risks of life, love, and involvement, but also because you believe, mistakenly, that certain | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| reaching out toward the other person, toward truth, involvement, and life itself impossible. These alternatives force you | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| that is right. You see, your unhealthy emotional involvement makes it impossible for you to rightly evaluate | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| to obtain relief and release without risking the involvement and responsibility of a personal relationship. The sixth | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| there emerges a personality that has no personal involvement and feelings, so that one first realizes that | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| negation and a positiveness, both in a personal involvement with the self as the object. Thereby love | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Thereby love becomes an understanding and a non-personal involvement, such that you may feel for a stranger | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| particularly and with whom you have no personal involvement. It is just an acceptance. In a personal | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the existence of a deep, subjective and destructive involvement, even if non-involvement is being used as superficial | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the real self there is indeed a deep involvement, but in an entirely different way -- in | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| way that does not weaken and confuse. This involvement is productive for all concerned and fills you | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| in non-involvement or in childish dependency and over- involvement. From a certain point on the path, you | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| deeply involved with others; who are unafraid of involvement; who have no protective covering against experience and | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| whole, they love, relate, and do not fear involvement. They have freed themselves from defense. Such people | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| average person has some capacity and willingness for involvement and relationship, but not enough. The drama of | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| but a superficial one. A real relationship means involvement. That does not merely mean looking at the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| mean looking at the negative aspects and currents. Involvement means the staking of one's whole being. A | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| of one's whole being. A relationship of deep involvement is bound to suffer friction because there are | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| very important to realize that the fear of involvement may not only exist due to fear of | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| confused. One speaks of emotional maturity or emotional involvement, of expressing one's emotions when feelings too, are | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| is often misunderstood as isolation, whereas withdrawal from involvement while frantically holding onto dependency is interpreted as | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| this category. Love for abstract ideas evades personal involvement with the accompanying apparent risks, but, at least | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| may still relieve a person from intimate personal involvement -- the most taxing form of love, and | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| The former may not shy away from taxing involvement and mutual growth through it, while the latter | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| intimate relationship of human love that requires practical involvement, the flexibility of putting one's egocentric aims below | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| but who lives a life secluded from personal involvement. It may indeed be true that the latter | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in general, but in the area of close involvement he or she surely needs to learn. It | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the conditions that are compatible with their negative involvement. Only after having overcome negative involvements will the | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| compatible with the new state. What does negative involvement mean? It means, primarily, confused notions of reality | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| experiencing true reality, the split mends and negative involvement ceases. This idea has been expressed in many | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| with life and with others. The primary negative involvement occurs within yourself, in your misunderstanding of both | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| manifests as an asset. But when the negative involvement is still strong, the parents represent the two | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| that the fundamental attitude that underlies your negative involvement fluctuates between two ways of reacting. Such deep | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| governs you as a consequence of the negative involvement you reexperience with your parents. When I say | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| of the intensity of that experience. Any negative involvement with another person will express this conflict. If | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| were no conflict, there would be no negative involvement. Since the involvement expresses conflict, it must manifest | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| there would be no negative involvement. Since the involvement expresses conflict, it must manifest both sides of | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| given in the most subtle way. The negative involvement ceases to provoke a response. This must finally | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| into another channel. Wherever there is an exaggerated involvement, an involvement which disrupts inner and/or outer peace | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| channel. Wherever there is an exaggerated involvement, an involvement which disrupts inner and/or outer peace, an involvement | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| involvement which disrupts inner and/or outer peace, an involvement that leaves other important functions in life unfulfilled | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| It is indeed a threshold. QUESTION: In an involvement with a new person, how can one be | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| question. You might have hoped to hear that involvement with someone is indeed merely a transference and | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| to the other two questions is no. Healthy involvement does not bring more pain than isolation. Fulfilling | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| does not come easily. It requires your total involvement and investment in the process. It demands fierce | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| ignorance -- for only through such a real involvement can the ignorance of the truth that there | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| defenses and flee. You not only flee from involvement and contact with others, or from facing faults | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| restriction. The refusal to give yourself freely, the involvement in a pattern of compounded pain, stems from | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| involved in the process I recommend. But the involvement fluctuates. It is therefore important to remember the | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| unkind fate. You struggle against seeing your own involvement. But once you want to see the connection | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| freedom of feelings, where the joy and the involvement is most immediate and least conceptualizable, you resist | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| helped considerably. Not knowing this, continuing the blind involvement of the struggle, makes you incapable of relinquishing | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| confusing only when you associate intensity with depth, involvement, delight and ecstasy. I mentioned this once before | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| to function. Another state of replenishment is mutual involvement and love between the sexes. Healthy, intense self-forgetfulness | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a combination of poised alertness -- of active involvement and participation and, at the same time, of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| processes of evolution by your serious and total involvement with your growth. The passive phase of the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| consciousness cheaply. It requires your whole investment and involvement in every issue, no matter how apparently insignificant | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| step to loosen the hold of your negative involvement in distorted creative processes. I shall continue with | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| although in reality his or her own negative involvement may be infinitely more weighty than the other | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| able to search for his or her own involvement whenever he or she is negatively affected, no | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| you begin to be aware of your blind involvement in this guilt-shifting game. But how about the | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| desirable. Unless you tackle your reservations about your involvement with life, about your willingness to give to | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| to rationalize away true self-responsibility, self-determination, and positive involvement with life. The life substance is so responsive | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| Similarly, it seems paradoxical to postulate that both involvement and detachment must exist in the healthy psyche | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| is a distortion of the real attitude. If involvement means merely an expression of a super-tense will | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| away generates, then the healthy, productive version of involvement is inverted. I will choose a third example | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| a harmonious blend between desire and desirelessness; between involvement and detachment; between activity and passivity. When this | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| and not clear about the nature of your involvement and interaction with them? At other times, you | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| has not yet found its power. Your blind involvement enslaves you and inactivates your creative energy. This | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| line of least resistance, giving in to blind involvement, giving up on finding true self-identity and settling | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| what extent each party contributes to a negative involvement and psychic interaction can emerge. This has a | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| longer too blind to fully see the emotional involvement in your negative exchange. As long as you | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| will free the sexual energy from the negative involvement. The awareness of where you are caught in | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| in what you see and therefore without personal involvement. You may already be able to choose to | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| the situation and from the sincerity of your involvement and investment. If you start observing yourself from | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| begin with, but there is no strong emotional involvement with, nor a stake in denying this idea | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |