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deal with the problem of death is through negation of the very thing for which one longs 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
attaining it. Therefore they rush right into the negation of what they long for most. This self-destructiveness 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
to cope with death. Both are based on negation: one by evasion, the other by deliberately going 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
problem of duality, since duality arises out of negation. The problem of duality has to be tackled 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
from it. Both have the same result, namely, negation. QUESTION: What is your attitude toward the ascetic 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
lived. Since the duality is a result of negation, one can only find the way out of 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
denying it, you may encounter the danger of negation and evasion. If belief in the end result 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
facing death and suffering. It happens through eliminating negation and slowly, bit by bit, melting away the 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
energy. The energy you thus lose produces a negation of life. There is a feeling of futility 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
been gained, the sting of fear, resentment, self- negation, and self-rejection will vanish. And that is the 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
yourself, or to others, a chance. Such life- negation cannot ever be resolved unless you come to 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
that love has two sides: a kind of negation and a positiveness, both in a personal involvement 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
ever be fully negative. Whenever there is some negation in one's makeup, tension and conflict must exist 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
where the fear of the positive, hence its negation, exists. Consequently, deprivation and suffering manifest in your 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
integrity, to defend and assert your rights, while negation and destructiveness must weaken you and make you 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
where you are. See yourself being in the negation and destructiveness and set out to find what 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
opens up when you let go of destructiveness, negation, denial, negativity? What is the fear? I cannot 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
forth in complete affirmation instead of the old negation. When this inner movement can take place, when 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
personal form of nonlife. Perhaps you fear a negation of your dignity, of your essential value; or 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
life. You feel anxious, persecuted, ill at ease. Negation of life, negation of feelings, and negation of 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
anxious, persecuted, ill at ease. Negation of life, negation of feelings, and negation of self are all 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
ease. Negation of life, negation of feelings, and negation of self are all one and the same 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
are all one and the same. And because negation implies non-life, fear arises. Out of fear one 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
about yourself. In order to avoid seeing the negation of the self, of feelings and of life 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
negating rather than affirming; here I express the negation in this specific way, and a justification of 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
this specific way, and a justification of this negation, while denying its existence. The denial manifests in 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
those who battle with the actuality of their negation. Now, my friends, are there any questions in 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
your counter-pull denies the primary force, so the negation combines with the original force, and negative contact 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
To an individual geared only to affirm, any negation would be experienced with pangs of hesitation, doubt 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
hesitation, doubt, uncertainty and guilt -- even if negation is healthy and constructive in a particular situation 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
become aware of and can acknowledge this resentful negation in yourself, you will comprehend more deeply the 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
with your spirit only when you see the negation and become honest and humble enough to give 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
When you examine dispassionately the irrationality of your negation, of your destructive insistence on remaining separate and 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
being left alone; in still another, in the negation of personal value. There are many variations of 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
at work, even while the boil erupts. The negation of this process, the inner attitude that says 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
indirectly, through denial, that is stagnation, to a negation of life. This is why some supposedly negative 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
can further life and be directed against the negation of life. Denial of anger turns into hostility 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
that the world is built on deceit, pretense, negation. Even though such thoughts are hardly ever actually 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
and the unconscious, bent on destructiveness, hate and negation, mutuality cannot take place. I emphasize here that 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
The harm you inflict upon yourself by the negation of the unacceptable part causes you to do 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
genuine self-search and development must unearth this inner negation and the reasons for it. The progress in 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
to deny the split, which is the inner negation of the outer affirmation. In other words the 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
to set out calmly to uncover your inner negation of the frantic outer wish. Many of you 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
conclusions, false and unjustified fears which determine the negation, even then it is often impossible to give 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
your progress in awareness and acceptance of the negation of your conscious affirmation. The ever- present, ongoing 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
lurking in an open, flowing attitude, so that negation and negativity, evil and destructiveness, seem protective devices 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
must know about yourself in order to release negation will come to you. If it is simply 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
at the point of clear-cut awareness of the negation of their most cherished desires. It can be 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
beliefs, assumptions and ideas do I base the negation in contrast to the conscious striving? When you 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
who are quite aware of their negativities and negation in other areas of their personality. So we 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
and health of the personality, so that unconscious negation springs from the best, most wise aspect of 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
life exists -- when fear, hate, spite, distrust, negation of self and of the truth of the 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
momentary state, pretense, dishonesty, self- deception, false ideas, negation of the beauty of the universe, secret cheating 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
us begin with the contracting state, due to negation, which causes more contraction -- and so on 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
experience, only when you go through the self-produced negation and negativity. Otherwise the climate is too heady 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
previously hidden reactions. The more you encounter your negation of the good life, the more you can 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
in response to the previously stated and admitted negation. You state that you wish to experience what 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
extent you foster your ongoing frustration. You perpetuate negation of life and negativity of feelings, thoughts and 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
at the demon in you or your total negation of its existence? Whether individuals know it or 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the truth and so create unnecessary pain. The negation of your original pain in this life leads 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
As I discussed in the earlier lecture, the negation of your real needs creates your false needs 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
by insistence and tight selfwill, and by the negation and repression of feelings and thoughts. Hardened insistence 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
wishful kind of faith over inner doubts, negativities, negation. Unfortunately, this is what happens all too often 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
lack faith because you live in blindness and negation and are therefore cut off from the truth 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
be impressed. This will reinforce my doubt and negation. Conversely, When I fulfill the law of truth 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
must come. But if conscious resistance and unconscious negation, fears and blocks bar the way, then a 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
small part of your consciousness is locked into negation, while a much more substantial part of the 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
see the existence of such senseless destruction and negation within you. But when you finally do see 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
a blessing. You can then deal with this negation of life. There are a number of reasons 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
energies, you finally come to discover your intentional negation of all the good things in life. You 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
less than ideal circumstances. The origin of this negation of life is in childhood. It is now 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
become thinner. To whatever degree you hide behind negation and doubt, which are the strongest defenses against 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
pride, or fear, whether it is ignorance and negation of what is, does not matter. Resistance obstructs 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
will always fluctuate between guilt and resentment, between negation and rejection of self, of others and of 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
deny and negate on the other. Denial and negation express distrust. The energetic movement of denial and 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
express distrust. The energetic movement of denial and negation are a closing-up which makes it totally impossible 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
enough involved with the deeper levels of your negation and destructive intent so that there is little 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
joy and relaxed inner creation. Cramp always indicates negation, doubt, a negativity that you must unearth and 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
but not with the kind of hostility and negation you now practice still too often. The truth 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
look, that each crisis you experience means a negation of truth, a violation of your divinity. And 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
but the necessary outpicturing of doubts, fears, negativities, negation and denial, in the personal and the collective 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
the words, I want to give up my negation. I want to see the truth of the 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975
up to a degree, does not the deliberate negation of the desirable lead to a similar state 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
come when inner, deeply experienced answers will appear. Negation of truth, beauty, love, and the meaning of 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
attitudes can only produce more justifications of such negation, hiding the vistas that harbor the most realistically 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE

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