| come to terms with it, thereby freeing the life force in you, which remains bottled up as | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| your own soul. Hence you cannot free the life force that lies within unutilized. So examine your | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| death is based on the superimposed knowledge that life goes on and that death is an illusion | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you because you then learn to live. The life force will be released and a great measure | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| an area of your being that clings to life only in order to avoid death. This motivation | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| death. This motivation is negative and negates the life force itself. But if you face and come | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| come to terms with death, your embrace of life will have a positive spirit. This alone can | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| know that death is an integral part of life. To the extent that you grow in this | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| extent that you grow in this direction the life force will flow through you and give you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| still in the body. Many aspects of civilized life stand in the way of the supreme bliss | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| turn comes from the inability to die. Civilized life constantly imposes on you the alternatives of pleasure | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| be necessary within the framework of your present life on earth. In these ways a reality principle | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| brought about a state of civilization that makes life unnecessarily difficult. Thus your often unpleasant reality is | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| how to approach this subject in our everyday life and in this work? How can we learn | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the conviction that so many mishaps in your life were caused by other people's faults, or an | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| as much success in other areas of your life yet, but you have begun, and you can | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| in learning to face death in your everyday life, it is so self- explanatory that I hardly | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| imposed upon you that you may not like. Life is constant change, bringing losses and unknown factors | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| not like it. But it is part of life, and when it comes my way, I will | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| applies also to every other negative facet of life, and can be practiced every day. It is | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| great self-deception and a complete denial of the life force. The principle of death is feared so | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of death is feared so much that the life force is completely negated. It is a very | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| which still exists for you. QUESTION: Is it life and death, or life or death? ANSWER: It | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you. QUESTION: Is it life and death, or life or death? ANSWER: It is life and death | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| death, or life or death? ANSWER: It is life and death. QUESTION: Therefore it could not be | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| could not be unpleasant, otherwise it would be life or death. So death must be a pleasure | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| that will you come to the realization that life and death are one, that pleasure and pain | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| illusory to think that the problems of everyday life and the crass things you encounter are unpleasant | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| 82. THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS Greetings, my dearest friends | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| this day, Good Friday, Jesus Christ brought his life to a culmination in the greatest suffering and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| analysis, are only subdivisions of the great duality: life and death -- never life or death. A | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the great duality: life and death -- never life or death. A spiritual teaching, often misunderstood, says | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| only by accepting and fully facing the duality: life and death. Those who misunderstand the meaning of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and, therefore, in the ultimate sense, you reject life. The flight from death and suffering causes flight | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| flight from death and suffering causes flight from life and pleasure, often inadvertently. No matter how much | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| much one may strive for joyful participation in life and pleasure, when one consciously or unconsciously avoids | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the escape will also be a flight from life and pleasure. The truth is that these two | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and faculties are new and fresh, and every life experience, on any level of their being, is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| is good, for the soul who goes through life rejecting the experience of life with all its | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| who goes through life rejecting the experience of life with all its meanings, deadens its faculties for | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| achieved only after one has accepted all that life has to offer, including death. Some people believe | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| juncture in their evolution, be it in this life or later, that they have to come back | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| are courageous enough not to flee from the life experience. But it often happens that the former | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| And since suffering and pain, or death and life, are connected and are in reality one and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| suffering is perhaps the most important key in life. If you meet it openly and whole-heartedly, willing | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| truly solve the seeming mystery of suffering in life if you do not solve your own problems | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| problems brought on by a faulty attitude toward life and death, pleasure and pain. How can you | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| fleeing from death and suffering, and therefore from life and happiness. To begin by tackling the big | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| then will you learn the right attitude toward life and death. See how you run from death | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| recoil from suffering in the minute details of life that could in themselves seem unimportant. First question | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to convince yourself that you do not want life because you know that one day life in | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| want life because you know that one day life in the body will cease. All little issues | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| loved versus not being loved, and therefore to life versus death. When, from your fear of not | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to yourself that you really want love and life and that you really fear not getting love | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| that you really fear not getting love and life eternal. This condition is unhealthy because you deny | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| your desire never to die makes you reject life. All of your everyday reactions and problems can | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| or a negative occurrence -- you free the life force in you, which will then invigorate you | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you to meet that which you fear. The life of Jesus Christ symbolizes this age-old truth in | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| Christ it has been symbolized in his actual life and death, for Jesus met his death in | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to humanity. Since every single facet of Jesus' life and death has deep symbolic meaning for humanity's | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| as little children praises children's willingness to experience life intensely. Jesus' disciples have this quality; they too | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| Jesus Christ himself showed this amply in his life as well as in his death. He went | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| joy. This he demonstrated not only during his life, but also by his reappearance in spirit -- | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| resurrection and appearance indicate the continuation of spirit life do not go far enough in understanding this | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| They think simply that Jesus showed only that life goes on, and that is all there is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| phenomenon was not meant to prove just that life does continue in the spirit. It will mean | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| in which you meet these determines the subsequent life and fullness of joy that can be yours | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| a similar spirit of truthfulness, you will experience life and joy while still in the body to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| Here is the greatest lived symbolism ever demonstrated. Life on earth is a symbol of reality, and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| vice versa. And so it is with Jesus' life and death. It meant much more than a | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to each individual about the history of evolution, life after death, and the promise after death. To | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| opportunities. Whether you can now believe in a life after death does not even matter. Every day | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| may not believe, to make the best of life by realizing what the everyday little death is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| running away from or negating death and, therefore, life. Only they who have gone through death have | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of this if you look back on your life. When you review certain of your life experiences | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| your life. When you review certain of your life experiences, you will find that what you were | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| your thinking process, but also to your emotional life. If you very truthfully question yourself, in looking | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| it. For only a wholehearted entering into the life experience with all its components will help you | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| want to believe in a physical continuation of life. Therefore, they need to interpret Jesus Christ's reappearance | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| but go through it, you will truly have life in its deepest sense, while you are still | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you are still in the body. Pure, unadulterated life can be had only if death is met | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you accept death you will be resurrected in life -- in the body -- by the flowing | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| -- in the body -- by the flowing life force which will truly make you experience pleasure | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| is condensation of spirit matter, as all physical life is. But the fact that this happened contains | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| I have explained, that if you meet both life and death, you cannot die. You will then | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| enjoy and take pleasure in this present physical life -- meaning the body and the pleasures and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| immortal, the same thing as a belief in life after death? I'm not asking about whether there | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| death? I'm not asking about whether there is life after death. ANSWER: I know you aren't, and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| real knowledge and experience of the continuation of life after physical death -- if it is genuinely | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| bodily pleasures for the sake of a spiritual life to come after the physical one. It is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| this will become quite apparent. Since the freed-up life force must flow through the body, it makes | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| experiencing greater pleasure, but also leads a fuller life. Almost as a byproduct, there is also an | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| another variation of the human entity's longing for life eternal and its struggle against death. One person | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to let go; they want to hold onto life. They cannot give up. This holding on, this | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| creation. It is another way of clinging to life and fighting against death. This type of person | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| not necessarily indicate a true belief in the life after death, or one's reconciliation with non-existence. It | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| an expression of being tired of coping with life, which is, of course, the result of not | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| concept. The religionist sublimates when he says, The life of the flesh is sinful. It opposes the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| well as many other modes of expression in life. Only the limited and distorted soul has to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| a substitute for, but as a completion of life. My dearest friends, on this very special day | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| gain further insight into yourself and therefore into life. The two preceding lectures dealt with the great | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| dealt with the great duality, the struggle between life and death, the illusion that it is a | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| is involved in duality, the more one sees life in terms of extremes, such as happiness versus | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| as happiness versus unhappiness, with happiness standing for life and unhappiness for death. While still struggling in | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| in this duality, it is impossible to accept life as necessarily containing both. Intellectually you may accept | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| through developing one's inherent talents, leading a constructive life, and entering into fruitful human relationships with healthy | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you. It may take a great deal of life experience and inner will to find the truth | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| find serenity and self-respect, and to live your life fully. There is much to be said about | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| an absolute must; it became a question of life or death for you. Still you knew perfectly | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| means of attaining what you desperately wanted -- life, happiness, security, self-confidence. The awareness of this false | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| facets of the idealized self, depending on personality, life conditions and early influences, which are not and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| failure into the outer world, onto others, onto life. The more you try to identify with your | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| your idealized self-image, the harder the disillusionment whenever life brings you into a position where this masquerade | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| able to live up to it. Their whole life is permeated with a sense of failure, while | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| that it is the fault of others, of life, of fate. You will gain an objective view | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| be more, in any given situation of your life. The more you take out of that live | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| It seems to you that this is a life or death struggle. You still believe you need | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| supposed to solve the particular problems in your life above and beyond your need for happiness, pleasure | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| damage the idealized self has brought into your life, you will shed it as the burden it | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| by your own limitations, by others, or by life. Recognize the self-contempt that underlies the anxiety or | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| First will come changes in your reactions to life, to incidents, to yourself and others. This changed | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| overcoming an important aspect of the duality between life and death. At present you are not even | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| this way will allow you to deal with life and to stand in life. You will no | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| to deal with life and to stand in life. You will no longer have to hold on | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| to go through any change that would allow life to bring forth joy and a spirit of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| contained within yourself and thereby you go against life in one of its most fundamental aspects. The | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| gain the great freedom of giving yourself to life because you no longer have to hide something | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| You will be able to squander yourself into life, not in an unhealthy, unreasonable way, but healthily | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| home. You may die many deaths, one earth life after another, but if you have not found | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the duality. This is also the case with life and death. By accepting death, the duality between | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| and death. By accepting death, the duality between life and death is gradually decreased until it disappears | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| self is put between the real self and life, the less can life grow, the more it | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the real self and life, the less can life grow, the more it shrinks and is prohibited | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| a more normal person who can function in life, the idealized self may pervade the whole personality | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the question: Can any lesson be learned about life and death, or any other topic, for that | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| Theoretically, one could learn from any occurrence in life. Mostly it is easier to learn a lesson | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| be every bit as difficult as death or life in prison, only it would be much more | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| not only in childhood but also later in life as a consequence of resorting to wrong solutions | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| needs amounts to forfeiting the only value in life: that of being cared for as a child | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and a means to finally win and master life. To avoid uncovering this falsity, these trends become | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| like that, I would get much farther in life. In doing so, however, such a person stresses | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| a withdrawal from inner problems, and so from life as such. Underneath the withdrawal, or false serenity | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| a stronger degree in certain areas of your life and to a lesser degree in others; in | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| degree in others; in still other facets of life it does not appear at all. The most | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| protected yourself by unloading it on others, on life, and on fate, will become a conscious experience | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| is your idealized self-image, and not God, not life, not other people, who demand all that. You | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| effect of these conditions. You will see your life, and your past and present difficulties, with a | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| utterly unaware of your real values. Throughout your life you concentrate unconsciously on false values: either on | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| of strength and self-confidence will make you see life and yourself in a very different way. Gradually | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| how you will make the best of your life -- not faultlessly, not by being free of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| eyes. Thus you will truly grow with each life experience. You will learn, accomplish and gain real | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |