| that you are at a vital threshold. The living spirit you are, which is perpetually waiting to | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| waiting to unfold itself in creative and joyful living and well-being, is contained and held back by | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| live in the true unfoldment of the eternal, living, breathing spirit that you are, from which unlimited | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| feared, denied expression, and tightly held together. Thus living becomes a poor imitation of what it could | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| a limited existence of robotlike make-believe to real living, in which you are increasingly in the full | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| that in you which freezes and paralyzes the living spirit, it is impossible to be moved and | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| impossible to be moved and lived by the living spirit. Its life is squeezed out if you | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| is an end. The end is when the living energy of all those feelings you wish to | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| feelings you wish to avoid becomes a vital, living feeling of love, joy, and pleasure. There is | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| It cannot, ever, since it is an eternal living force. But it cannot manifest to you, and | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| essence of life. No one is capable of living productively without warmth and love, without sharing and | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| shedding your idealized self-image, if you insist on living up to its unreasonable demands, then your perception | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| expression works quite differently in truth and creative living. If perception is truthful the entire picture changes | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| then express this power, for you are a living part of it and become more and more | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| to the truth of your life, to the living spirit of perpetual growth. It demands time, perseverance | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| be what you really truly are -- the living spirit, the Universal Living Spirit! 167. FROZEN LIFE | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| truly are -- the living spirit, the Universal Living Spirit! 167. FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE Greetings | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| quite wanting to live, of rejecting aspects of living, such as feeling, breathing, moving. If and when | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| emotionally -- you have discovered the cause of living in a sphere of consciousness where death is | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| react. Therefore, something in you again shrinks from living, especially when faced with the threat of new | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| love and truth, consciousness and strength, and creative living that is the God-consciousness. Although the ego-consciousness is | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| greatest power in the universe. Each and every living instant -- I do not care whether it | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| continue in life. I would like to continue living. My outer intellect knows only the philosophies of | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| in this lecture that every single instant of living contains the possibility of choosing the attitudes that | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| forces and begin to experience and perceive their living reality in you, a reality that builds up | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| sufficiently strong to accept the total power. Each living organism therefore possesses special centers that convert, assimilate | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| lack the courage for the great experience of living, for the deeper wisdom that transcends the ego | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| processes do their part in the business of living, requires strength. Perception of the greatest reality of | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| your expansion becomes mainly a joyful expression of living. One more word about the dualism that wrecks | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| of the centers creates a full capacity for living and feeling. Their closed state is responsible for | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the centers are determines exactly the degree of living in unreality and therefore in a state of | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| state of strife and numbness. Joyful, fruitful, meaningful living implies a commensurate degree of openness of the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| open up your life centers and let the living force surge through your entire being. This question | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| without which there can be no fruitful, joyful living. Now, where is the inner, universal consciousness? The | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| in every atom, in every tiny fraction of living matter. Every one of these infinitesimal units of | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| that something hardened in you prevents you from living fully -- set out to find the underlying | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| of consciousness. They are vastly underrated by humanity. Living consciousness therefore deserves a respect that can hardly | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| more you also perceive that you are a living, moving, endlessly changing unit of life expression. And | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| distrusted and to find the truth of the living creative spirit in and through them. You will | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| in the abstract, but an effective way of living, day in and day out, a constantly growing | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| truly alters your entire self-perception and attitude toward living. Not knowing this will make you feel constantly | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| life supplies you with every smallest detail of living that is important to you. The inner source | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| you are actually forsaking happiness, fulfillment, bliss, fruitful living. You may be terribly unhappy about the result | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| tight structuring, this unit is experienced as a living reality of indescribable bliss and fascination. The whole | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| life. You will come to see that guiltless living can only exist when negative creating is given | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| to use to describe the goal of all living -- cannot occur unless you face your deepest | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| and consciously commit yourself to the reality of living, not for the sake of appearances but for | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| all the pleasure you can have and that living a decent life implies sacrifice, you cannot even | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| deals with outer and often mechanical aspects of living while the other represents one's innermost self. When | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| thoughts, feelings and will. I have shown that living inevitably means creating. The person who ventures forth | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| spirit; self-alienation; the false, destructive reaction to frustration; living for the sake of approval and impressing others | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| yourself. This may mean many things. It means living for the truth of the issue that momentarily | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| fail to experience. Thus growth and fulfilled, beautiful living become one and the same. May you all | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| process which is ongoing and available to all living creatures. To know this is key to the | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| difference is that the life stuff is a living, moving, energetic process, containing its own immutable laws | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| authority or on chance -- and autonomy, between living in fear and living fearlessly. As you who | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| -- and autonomy, between living in fear and living fearlessly. As you who are seriously involved in | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| of creation at my disposal and not fully living my life. My own happiness will contribute to | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| I am willing to involve myself deeply in living fully, giving as much as I wish to | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| begin. On the contrary, the meditation process is living at its best. You may begin each meditation | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| will actually feel, my friends, as a new, living force. This infant must not be slain. It | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| comes from starting out on unaccustomed ways of living after giving up a familiar one. Crisis in | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| When this attitude is adopted, change becomes a living reality for anyone and everyone. When trust and | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| to the most seemingly insignificant aspect of daily living and being. You must be totally committed to | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| want to give up irresponsibility if responsibility implies living on a narrow margin of pleasure, and confining | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| where you are stuck. The gift is a living powerful force of healing that can flow through | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| Then, through the instrument's hands, a very strong, living power and force will penetrate you. It will | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| me until, finally, I release these same healing, living forces from within my own being? Do not | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| harmony with its own creativeness, is constantly moving. Living matter never stands still. It moves and moves | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| out of your contribution. It is indeed a living force. It is a reality. As all living | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| living force. It is a reality. As all living things, its continuous life and fruitful manifestation depend | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| to true expansion, to the joyousness of the living energy and to the divine consciousness that dwells | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| conversations as they should or might have been, living through fulfillment in a concocted series of mind | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| itself. Thus the energy is unavailable for real living. Subsequently real living becomes more and more fraught | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| energy is unavailable for real living. Subsequently real living becomes more and more fraught with apparent danger | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| life is the only avenue of fulfillment. Vicarious living can also take place by over-identification with figures | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| Escape into them is often due to fantasy living, rather than real living from the self. The | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| often due to fantasy living, rather than real living from the self. The second grade on this | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| and observe yourself from this point of view. Living for impressing others permeates you more than you | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| choose whether or not you wish to continue living with the illusion. To give it up requires | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| willingness to change and chance unknown modes of living and being. What is the fear, my friends | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| of thought says that thoughts and attitudes are living realities and have an effect on others. Thus | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| thus become more destructive. You prohibit yourself from living. Nevertheless, your thoughts, feelings, wishes, and attitudes do | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| still in the state of fearful defense against living, even when there is no cause for it | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| in each individual. The variety of manifestations gives living a special excitement, without disrupting one's deep inner | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| describe it. It is the exact opposite of living encased in your defensive walls, which completely separate | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| and expands. The immediately available consciousness of every living human being is usually not fully put to | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| give my very best to the venture of living. I will try over and over again to | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| movement of those currents and therefore stops the living energy. When the natural energy flow is halted | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| in it must envelop you when you resist living through the feelings you harbor; you go on | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| entire cycle of dying and being born, by living through whatever has accumulated from this life wherever | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| as many other symptoms have prevented you from living. But what really prevents you from fully living | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| living. But what really prevents you from fully living is your fear of and resistance to living | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| living is your fear of and resistance to living the feelings you did not accept when they | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| this life task is your true reason for living. In addition, it is the key to productive | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| In addition, it is the key to productive living for you right now. The second important aspect | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| change the direction of your focus to inner living. Only a fearless soul can experience bliss, pleasure | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| feelings will dissolve. The new experience of everyday living will be a wave of life as it | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| experiencing pleasure and deep feelings. It is the living principle of Do not resist evil. It requires | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| their corresponding worlds either alternately or simultaneously. While living on earth in a human body, this pull | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| is the corresponding true concept and how would living according to it lead me into a wide | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| allowed to express itself from within as a living, organismic reality. The various approaches offered on this | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| this path will experience that there is a living, organic reality in it. It instructs and shows | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| Yes, it seems miraculous. There is indeed a living process and intelligence at work that surpasses what | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| do this and content yourself with theorizing sophistry, living by proxy in as-if land, you can never | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| from all I said before. Since you are living in an infinitely malleable substance of creative, impressionable | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| for the smallest and the biggest issues of living. In reality there is no small or big | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| others pain? It makes you miss out on living fully and joyfully and it causes you severe | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| spiritual self make the new acquisitions a spontaneous, living, effortless experience. Ego means effort; spiritual self means | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| in every one of you. The aim of living is to realize this, to know who you | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| and partly because you are so used to living with them that it does not occur to | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| out. Everyone of you, without exception -- every living thing in the universe, organic or inorganic -- | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| and the volition to be totally committed to living my life in a good, deeply feeling and | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| are concrete actions to be put into everyday living. You will then no longer depend on others | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| failings as excuses to punish them for not living up to your demands and for not accepting | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| will become less frequent, and peaceful, joyous, creative living will become the norm. Right now, the saddest | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| these two aspects of the whole. Forsaking everyday living is not true spirituality. In most cases, it | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| with all that you could ever need for living your life and for completing the task you | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |