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 Life-.......................9
able to create worlds and types of manifest life- force. The more your desires and goals are 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
It is impossible to get rid of the life- prohibiting idealized self-image if you merely observe what 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
to yourself, or to others, a chance. Such life- negation cannot ever be resolved unless you come 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
by it, but a paralysis of the general life- force with all its healing, regenerating effects is 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
guard yourself against. The natural feelings are always life- affirming, outreaching, joyous and so is life's essence 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
of the ego in a healthy, safe, and life- giving way. An ego is healthy only when 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
will have no material to create and mold life- substance. Visualization of a fuller state presupposes desire 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
the negativities and hopelessness, seeing only what is life- denying, and not seeing where your life already 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
given to and avoid the responsibility for your life- creation. This immature part weakens you in a 254 SURRENDER
 
 Life/death..................1
dimming of memory is a byproduct of the life/death cycle in which everyone is caught who denies 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
 
 Life-accepting..............1
sweetly, as it were. In this soft, yielding, life-accepting, life-affirming attitude, your own strength grows effectively, powerfully 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
 
 Life-affirming..............9
see whether or not it is constructive, productive, life-affirming and growth-producing for all concerned -- and this 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
you believe life is your enemy, and your life-affirming feelings would deeply involve you with this feared 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
A flexible inner climate must prevail, producing a life-affirming, positive, inclusive attitude. The person who, inwardly or 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
an energy current, originally good and beautiful and life-affirming. By searching in this direction, you will come 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
matter itself can be used by consciousness for life-affirming and positive purposes. Free consciousness can thus communicate 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
as it were. In this soft, yielding, life-accepting, life-affirming attitude, your own strength grows effectively, powerfully, and 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
will be eliminated. In the same way, your life-affirming, positive and truthful thoughts, attitudes and actions have 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
In order to cleanse emotions and make them life-affirming, rather than life-destroying, you must have clear and 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
you and extract a price: positively, in a life-affirming way, or negatively, in a life-denying way, according 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
 
 Life-annihilating...........1
trick is to make change appear threatening and life-annihilating. Worrying and anxiety also prevent you from attaining 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
 
 Life-aspects................1
that create a benign circle connecting the three life-aspects. My friends, try to see how your images 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
 
 Lifeblood...................1
well visualize a need for receiving your inner lifeblood from sources outside yourself. That such a state 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
 
 Life-blood..................2
force in your heart; it is your spiritual life-blood. This is the driving force -- in a 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
your deeper feelings which are, in effect, your life-blood. This fear must be challenged. If you are 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
 
 Life-bringing...............2
flow of the life force, with all its life-bringing, health-promoting, energetic faculties cannot be quite activated. The 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
can transform itself back into its original, flowing, life-bringing energy current. Hard pain is a result of 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
 
 Life-center.................1
possibly dream of. Not being aware of the life-center is directly connected with not being aware of 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
 
 Life-circumstances..........1
And according to these problems, parents, country, and life-circumstances are chosen, so that you can become aware 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
 
 Life-conditions.............1
must automatically mean deprivation and self-sacrifice. If your life-conditions will not, sooner or later, promote your coming 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
 
 Life-conflicts..............1
the inner blocks, faults, and weaknesses? The chief life-conflicts always originate there. QUESTION: People who are too 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
 
 Life-defeating..............11
mean evil or wicked. It can be self-destructive, life-defeating; it can be guilt or fear. But the 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
pain in a very wrong, unhealthy, self-defeating, and life-defeating way. Giving in and going with the stream 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
In the final analysis, arrested growth is always life-defeating and self-centered, but the emphasis may not be 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
there is certainly nothing negative about discovering your life-defeating, destructive attitudes that your No consists of. Many 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
protect the whole organism from being affected by life-defeating attitudes so it can continue to grow. Physical 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
principle. Physical matter dies off only because underlying life-defeating attitudes fear truth and love. These fears induce 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
health. For the unhealthy organism could tolerate the life-defeating attitudes much longer. Death is overcome when the 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
from the feared pain and thereby creating harmful, life-defeating attitudes, you will learn to cope with it 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
destructive feelings, subtle lies, intention to cheat, and life-defeating spiteful resistance to good feelings. All these are 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
opposite, which recognizes the danger of evil, its life-defeating power, and the unhappiness and suffering it brings 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
further creation, or they can be distorted, sick, life-defeating, and thus cause further destruction. Desire in itself 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
 
 Life-denying................6
if they do not conform to small-minded and life-denying views, the deep inner anxiety stemming from this 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
arrogant and isolated, cruel and greedy, selfish and life-denying. It makes you untruthful on the inner and 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
are stuck. Why do you persist in a life-denying attitude? That attitude in you says no to 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
its own terms, even though its terms are life-denying and destructive for the self and others. This 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
sense. They feel safe only in a rigid, life-denying structure. The other alternative the child has is 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
in a life-affirming way, or negatively, in a life-denying way, according to the cause. How is it 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
 
 Life-destroying.............1
cleanse emotions and make them life-affirming, rather than life-destroying, you must have clear and truthful concepts. Emotions 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
 
 Life-embracing..............1
love in its substance and manifestation. It is life-embracing and accepting. Its movements are smooth and harmonious 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
 
 Life-energy.................1
through your real capacity to create with the life-energy at your disposal. The key is learning to 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
 
 Life-expanding..............1
that is great and generous, everything that is life-expanding, beautiful, and wise comes from the inner or 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
 
 Life-experience.............4
as a human being, in all respects. Your life-experience will become much fuller. You will be so 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
that you are producing the respective emotion or life-experience, you are still unique, alone, and separate. When 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
not need, nor want, to skip a full life-experience under the well-sounding pretext that your aim is 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
able to convey through being, through your full life-experience, and that will direct itself to the real 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
 
 Life-experiences............1
outside. When you think of some of your life-experiences, asking What could I possibly have had to 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
 
 Life-expression.............1
healthy desirelessness that make meditation and indeed all life-expression real and beautiful? First there is an absence 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
 
 Life-expressions............1
third level to guide you in all your life-expressions. But where you are still trapped in your 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
 
 Life-fearlessness...........1
Be in God! 146. THE POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-THE BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY Greetings 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
 
 Life-flow...................1
is not fulfilled. For this is indeed the life-flow without which all actions, all contributions to living 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
 
 Life-force..................9
desire lives in every created spirit. The inherent life-force must finally bring the entity out of its 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
friends, you not only maintain eros, that vibrating life-force, but you also transform it into true love 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
become rigid and no longer carry the living life-force. Any truth must do just that. If it 47 THE WALL WITHIN
the feeling of gratitude and rejoicing in the life-force may bring the reaction of a sickly being 53 SELF-LOVE
this particular expression. Self-love is distorted when the life-force is directed toward the self, instead of being 53 SELF-LOVE
of concealment takes a heavy toll on your life-force. It induces such a deep guilt and fear 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
In your confusion you deny the potentially vibrant life-force the opportunity to function in its own beautiful 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
conscience hides also the most constructive and creative life-force and the impulses that would free the life-force 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
life-force and the impulses that would free the life-force. It is an unnecessary artificial creation instilling an 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
 
 Life-giving.................12
you are the life force. You have a life-giving effect on others. Life can only coexist with 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
individuality. But the intrinsic quality of purity and life-giving force will be there forever. 80. COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you are now. For nothing will be as life-giving, life-preserving, and as conducive to true pleasure and 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
Impulses and instincts which are potentially productive and life-giving, if they are not allowed to grow in 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
channel opens within you, tuning you into this life-giving force. Only when misgivings, apprehension, and the old 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
are enveloped by and permeated with the vibrant, life-giving force that knows no barriers and no fear 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
no longer wish to reject all that is life-giving, outgoing, unifying. I no longer wish to embrace 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
no-current, to a building up, to the upward life-giving stream, to the yes- current. My dearest friends 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
more disconnected from your innermost being and its life-giving powers. You then proceed to force yourself into 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
thin but firm screen that blocks out the life-giving force. They are responsible for your alienation from 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
and must sooner or later convert into flowing, life-giving energy. Hate will turn into love, cruelty into 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
your soul becomes accustomed to movement as enjoyable, life-giving, and relaxing. Inertia is believed to be restful 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA

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