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| is that. The betrayal is aggravated because you abandon the very thing you yearn for. You betray | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| whether or not it is avoidable, makes you abandon the very desire. The healthy way is to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of acknowledging the original need forces you to abandon a different, but equally legitimate need. You may | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| state and fully be there before you can abandon it for a higher state is extremely important | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| is up to the ego to maintain or abandon either of these two. The ego alone is | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| outer state will help you search for and abandon the untruth. You will then inevitably find that | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| wish to, because you do not want to abandon it. Character transformation is an absolute necessity in | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| particular character defect does not permit you to abandon a self-destructive, self-denying attitude? State clearly that you | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| the positive nature of life. Then you will abandon seclusion, separateness, hate and fear. Open yourself up | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| manifests in your life, seems so difficult to abandon. At the same time it will loosen up | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| it will no longer be a problem to abandon destructiveness. For one cannot succeed by forcing it | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| -- right or wrong -- how can you abandon yourself to plunge into your inner depths and | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| frivolous, selfish aims which truly spiritual people must abandon for the sake of their spiritual development. Sacrifice | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| bad feelings are cherished. To the extent you abandon the claim to be constantly injured -- your | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| courage to look at themselves in truth, to abandon self-illusions and delusions, cannot come to such a | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| cannot come to such a transition. You cannot abandon a negativity you ignore you have. You cannot | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| by your parents. Then, in your turn, you abandon life when you die. I am very involved | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| one's past direction. It need not mean to abandon one's desire to live. In fact, the desire | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| death and the fear of death you must abandon the desire for life. What I do say | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the individual particles of consciousness accept truth and abandon misconceptions and error. Every sick part of your | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| painful, the pleasure of creating is difficult to abandon as long as the individual ignores that positive | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| to want to be in deeper truth, to abandon those falsities and to meet life with real | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| positive is effortless. Offhand it seems that to abandon the negative that has become so much second | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| yourself and life? How can you wish to abandon negative pleasure, the pseudo-satisfactions of your pretenses, your | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the creative process makes it seem difficult to abandon negativity. Yet the creation of negativity and a | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| than denying that the self is unwilling to abandon destructive attitudes and then pretending that what happens | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| and take you over when you choose to abandon the fear of it. Quite the contrary is | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| keep you hooked on this appearance level and abandon it, just as you needed to abandon the | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| and abandon it, just as you needed to abandon the fantasy level. Such attitudes may still exist | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| is -- your own good feelings. When you abandon your defenses, you can melt with life, melt | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| illusions. And it always seems most difficult to abandon one's cherished illusions. Whenever an original experience -- | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| and loved your way. Until you recognize and abandon these demands and go through the original pain | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| You can truly remove this fear when you abandon the ego attitudes. Playing fair and square with | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| still find yourself unable, or rather unwilling to abandon this attitude. A great effort to overcome resistance | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| that you will not be annihilated if you abandon your view fixed to the present interpretation. This | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| with oneself and life? Therefore I should really abandon this longing. The way out of your confusion | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| stop the inner fighting and resisting. Do not abandon the longing per se. Take it seriously. In | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| less than fulfilled and joyful state. Do not abandon the longing that comes from the sense that | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| way and right place, it is easier to abandon yourself and relinquish control where that is right | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| dependent on the individual's self-honesty and goodwill to abandon dishonest, hurtful, and destructive patterns. If you are | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| new alternative in principle, and feeling ready to abandon an old and accustomed mode of operation, is | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| consideration of truth and love. You do not abandon the little immediate advantage for the sake of | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| the negativity. Yet you do not wish to abandon it. You are puzzled by your own attitude | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| this does not mean that you should now abandon all your individual needs and forms of self-expression | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| center, distorted and neurotic. You must therefore first abandon the distortions, on the level of ego-consciousness, before | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| see very clearly, my friends, that you must abandon the claim for perfection for the sake of | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| truth from outside will not work. You must abandon immortality and accept mortality until you can truly | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| obviously necessary for the growing, maturing individual to abandon the claim for omnipotence and magic, with all | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| this wall elicits in you. You need not abandon the ideas, but you need to admit that | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| omnipotence exist already within you. Only as you abandon your insistence of possessing them right away will | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| vision, pride, impatience, distrustfulness. You will learn to abandon them, as you go through the feelings that | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
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| have. QUESTION: Why is it that one feels abandoned by God, that one finds oneself without assistance | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| with life and therefore feel alone, isolated and abandoned. All human beings strive, in their soul's core | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| with God's spirit world, will never be alone, abandoned or embittered. Such a person will obtain true | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| have started out on the mystic way, but abandoned it because they were too impressed by magic | 18 FREE WILL |
| but selfish and destructive. They have to be abandoned before they can be attained. This is the | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| possibilities, even though the rigid, childish version is abandoned. Part of this maturing lies in establishing clearly | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| realm. This is where the ego must be abandoned. This was the essence of this lecture. The | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| physical pain ceases when the opposite pull is abandoned. All this is verifiable and has been verified | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| be retraced. It must be understood and subsequently abandoned, so that the personality finds its way back | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| painful aspects, meaning the negative expression, can be abandoned, while the pleasurable aspect grows stronger, negativity can | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| activated in the process. Once the tension is abandoned, pleasure follows. The flexibility of relaxing into what | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| presumptuous, not meek enough. All these delights are abandoned in the distorted belief that they are wrong | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| mentioned are dangerous because then ego control is abandoned, the self immersed into a vaster consciousness and | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| more than what one is must be absolutely abandoned before such healthy self-observation can exist. If the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| example. It need not and cannot be deliberately abandoned. Whenever this is attempted it fails. To the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of you where a basic destructiveness will be abandoned through your squarely facing it. Then the divine | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| life, abandonment plays a big role. You are abandoned by your parents. Then, in your turn, you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| must learn to transcend the fear of being abandoned, to no longer shrink from the feeling of | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| shrink from the feeling of, I am being abandoned. Here is the experience. The words are of | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| exit, until the double violation is uncovered and abandoned. Let us say you are selfish; or you | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| forms. Once these illusions and cheating intentions are abandoned, the realization of your own creative power -- | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| be, if pride, selfwill, and fear are not abandoned. In pride, selfwill, and fear the ego-structuring becomes | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| cannot possibly vanish before pride and selfwill are abandoned. For fear is a product of both, as | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| of happier state is unrealistic and should be abandoned. But does this truly mean that the longing | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| degree that negativities and egotistical defenses are being abandoned, and the involuntary movement is accepted, welcomed, and | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| perfection. Your belief in immortality needs to be abandoned temporarily, even though it may be quite accurate | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| as neurotic states that the maturing individual naturally abandoned, at least to some degree. Through psychology, a | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |