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| earthly catastrophe can ever be. Compared to the loss of spiritual life, the loss of earthly life | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| Compared to the loss of spiritual life, the loss of earthly life means nothing. Cause and effect | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| does not make any difference. Due to his loss of memory and his failure to believe what | 18 FREE WILL |
| in the first stages, will be at a loss. Not knowing why he or she has to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| medicine regardless of the fact that sorrow and loss may follow due to other psychological factors. However | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| but you will not be affected by the loss in the same way. A similar relationship exists | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| for anything. This may leave you at a loss. Also, you expect to find something staggering. Yes | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| doing or getting what you compulsively need, the loss will seem out of all proportion. Intellectually you | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a book called Cosmic Consciousness. It says, The loss of the sense of sin is one of | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| that makes your illusion impossible to maintain. The loss of your illusion causes an all-black view in | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| or, not receiving it, to discover that the loss is not half as tragic as the child | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| which may be inconvenient means acceptance of reality, loss of your fear of loving, and the cultivation | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to have which include both a fear of loss and fear of the unknown. This again ties | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| pleasure drive. In that sense death also means loss, change, and the unknown that may actually contain | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| degree that you desire. You say, Death, or loss, is unavoidable anyway, so I might just as | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| still there and it can cause disease, accident, loss, and outer failure in many ways. When you | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| greatness in that you can admit defeat without loss of dignity. This very attitude actually brings dignity | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| one would seem a major personal disaster, a loss of face, another will not experience as such | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| insecure, frightened, and restless, you are at a loss. You feel worse because now you do not | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of all, there will be no sense of loss, of giving up something precious. Neither will you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of another person may indeed feel at a loss to understand even remotely what I am talking | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| manifests in pity. QUESTION: It is more the loss that I feel than identification. ANSWER: It is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| your emotions. The quality of the pain of loss does not contain the fear, bitterness, self-pity, struggle | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| in addition to healthy grief. But if the loss is felt as painful without a feeling of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| overactivity comes from the same root as energy loss and is only a superimposition. It is your | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| submissiveness that is born out of fear of loss or disapproval -- will you derive and give | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| acceptance of lack of perfection conducive to a loss of ambition for further development? ANSWER: Not at | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| kind of daydreaming as well as other considerations. Loss of conscious desires, wishes and goals, or hopelessness | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| it. Let us take the example of the loss of a beloved person through death. If you | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| -- your feeling is due purely to this loss. Here is something you cannot change; you know | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| being. When you are depressed due to the loss of a beloved person, there are in you | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| you attribute that to the legitimate pain of loss. Thus you have shifted your emotions and used | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| or what have you -- or whether the loss has merely triggered off some unresolved, festering inner | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| the unhealthy state of depression. The example of loss through death is purposely a crass one. There | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| a pretense. It goes further than that. One's loss of identity, due to self-alienation, makes a pretense | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| reaction of fright, or anxiety, or feelings of loss, or merely the unwillingness to look further in | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| as a disadvantage and sacrifice and therefore as loss of self. He also fears having to let | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| lack of actual or irrational protection, by the loss of others. Just because these considerations are not | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| or seems, endangered, or whether you fear the loss of others. Fear of coping with life can | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| with life can manifest as fear of the loss of a loved one. And so can fear | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| outer event -- be it rejection, criticism, or loss -- can cause suffering, one is in illusion | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| are unhappy at the moment because of a loss or disturbance. Nevertheless, peace comes into you when | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| fear of risk, fear of change, fear of loss, fear of the unknown, fear of pain, fear | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| the soul movements, and consequently the greater the loss of the final control over destiny. The tight | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| flexibility should exist, as well as a helpless loss of self where resilient firmness should prevail. The | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| guilt, more pretense, more neurosis, and therefore more loss of healthy control over that in you which | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| and to contribute, does not therefore imply a loss of control. You are in the true sense | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| individuality. Yet only in a negative context does loss of control lead to death or to a | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| of control lead to death or to a loss of power over oneself. Ultimately mental disturbance is | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| are to life, then you will not fear loss of control because loss of ego-control will lead | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you will not fear loss of control because loss of ego-control will lead to more control in | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| on to control must finally lead to the loss of control. All great spiritual truths seem contradictory | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| on how holding on to control leads to loss of control? ANSWER: When the conflict exists because | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| guards them from life must lead to a loss of control, to an inability to cope, in | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you fear losing yourself without the ego faculties. Loss of ego means death to you because you | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| rightness. Any way you turn you find death, loss, annihilation. The harder you fight for and against | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| upset. You feel inwardly threatened and at a loss. Outwardly, even the apparently desirable aspects of your | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| not cry over something that is actually no loss at all. Nor will you be misled into | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| it should, even must, be! For the actual loss or absence of a desired good hurts much | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| much less when one does not see this loss or absence as a negative sign. But when | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| be, things would not happen this way, the loss is much more painful. When, instead, you see | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| results in the conflict of submission and slavery, loss of dignity for the sake of giving in | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| be any fear of losing yourself, because such loss of self will be experienced as bringing you | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| body, you might be endangered, particularly by the loss of your genitals. This misconception occurs frequently, which | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| more threatening than the negative ones regarding the loss of control and individuality. The fear may exist | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| happiness that knows no fear of ending or loss or unwelcome byproducts. It is the kind of | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| on the scale does not warrant self-deprivation. Each loss will soon be discovered to be illusory. Increasingly | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| a spirit of trusting expectation, your necessary momentary loss will soon turn out to be a gain | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| your fear, tightness of centers, and sense of loss. Then the life forces will bubble and surge | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| tangible life experiences and you feel at a loss, believing that what life brings is totally independent | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| changes and objectively traumatic events -- wars, revolution, loss of fortune and home, illness. Yet you may | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| lives, bunched up in stronger episodes. Utter darkness, loss, pain, and confusion alternate with heights of golden | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| personality. This limitation is, of course, a terrible loss. Not being aware of that within which is | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| present state, your fear of pain -- the loss becomes a tragedy and not a predictable stage | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| you and others means in terms of the loss of love and also the pain of guilt | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| letting others be, even if this means a loss at the moment. Let go in trust and | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| show your feelings, the consequences may incur the loss of that person whom you need and are | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| this case, confrontation -- and/or risk the possible loss of the loved one. You hope to avoid | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| commitment to all of the self, hence increasing loss of fear of self, trust in self, trust | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| anxiety, the feeling of being at a total loss. For you truly confront a wall which you | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| happiness, and when you do lose it, the loss -- like the previous happy state -- has | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| to feel more secure and less afraid of loss. Now it is very important, my friends, that | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |