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you to observe that there are always two opposing currents. Think about it, my dear ones. Fear 4 WORLD WEARINESS
psychiatrist to become aware, in time, of these opposing soul currents. Only when you know of their 4 WORLD WEARINESS
come from emotional short-circuits. The more frequently the opposing currents clash within the soul, the more the 4 WORLD WEARINESS
insist on having the advantages of both the opposing alternatives and none of their drawbacks, having their 4 WORLD WEARINESS
a matter of either/or. In some cases the opposing emotions surge with equal power and clash with 4 WORLD WEARINESS
unconscious, which is so often deeply split into opposing currents and works against the conscious mind. Some 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
contrary to what the higher self desires. The opposing tendencies clash and exhaust the soul; they create 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
caught. The same principle holds true to everything opposing divine law. This one spirit who succumbed first 20 GOD: THE CREATION
something like a short circuit occurs when two opposing forces clash in the soul. The life force 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
life force cannot fill your being, because the opposing forces bottle it up. Without suppression and self-deception 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
two bars, one horizontal, one vertical, indicating two opposing directions. As long as the opposites cannot be 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you knew nothing but supreme bliss without any opposing alternative. You can recapture this state gradually, by 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
shown you many times how confusions arise when opposing points of view can be both right and 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
tension, setting your soul forces to work in opposing directions. The result is stagnation of growth, as 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
can only be right in every possible respect. Opposing it out of blindness, ignorance, stubbornness and fear 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
realize this fantasy life, there must be an opposing current of fear in you that prevents the 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
the other side is applying awareness to unify opposing forces. I showed the various symptoms by which 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
showed the various symptoms by which the hidden, opposing currents can be detected. Discovering them is of 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
of truthfulness, realism, awareness, and consciousness. The two opposing forces create such tension through the pressure of 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
create such tension through the pressure of two opposing energy currents that finally an explosion occurs and 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
attitudes depends on the strength of the no-current opposing the process, and on the degree to which 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
two people involved in a relationship have adopted opposing choices, the relationship must be fraught with friction 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
be no mental health. These are two entirely opposing views. Which one is correct? Which one is 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
The spiritual plane is unity itself, therefore conflict, opposing directions and, consequently, pain are unthinkable and illogical 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
denial -- not knowing that you want two opposing things at the same time -- confuses and 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
forces in your life that may oppose you. Opposing you means that you lose, and losing, in 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
feared, nor opposed. But growth cannot come by opposing the opposition; it comes only when the feared 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
infinitely. It never repeats and never needs an opposing motion. It has transcended the principle of cause 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
you will go with the stream instead of opposing it. Now there is one more aspect of 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
state is free of opposition, you must stop opposing what you fear. But this should not be 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
causes the fear of the alternative instead of opposing the alternative itself. This is directly connected with 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
tensely hold on to life, pushing away and opposing death, you cannot come to the unitive principle 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
distortion of the life force and comes from opposing the creative principle. Life, pleasure, contact and oneness 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
paradoxical position of believing that life comes from opposing life. Consequently, you live in a very deep 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
between giving in to the cosmic force and opposing it, the greater the extent of your pain 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
it, so as not to endanger yourself by opposing what you fear the world expects of you 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
sides of the duality are reconciled, two apparently opposing forces work together toward one goal and complement 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
how a misconception splits the truth into two opposing halves that confuse you and make it impossible 174 SELF-ESTEEM
of being torn apart by going into two opposing directions? This struggle is more painful, confusing, and 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
committed or haphazard and unconscious, obstructed by blind opposing forces that pull toward a state of stagnation 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
As is so often true, both of these opposing teachings express great truths, but the exclusiveness with 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
tribes, nations, and families -- but mainly by opposing other tribes. In the expression of negative aggression 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
one to avoid excess. You already know the opposing principles of dualism versus the unitive consciousness. In 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
 
 Opposites...................144
a process of complementing, of bringing together the opposites? ANSWER: Just so. You know that each element 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
variety of divine attributes can change into their opposites and create the corresponding spheres in the world 21 THE FALL
cases where the opposite extreme exists. Yet the opposites are now more similar and nearer to one 47 THE WALL WITHIN
one. Then one has outgrown the world of opposites. You must not expect in this life to 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
unknown makes humans distort true concepts into fixed opposites, thereby diminishing their truth. It was very significant 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
indicating two opposing directions. As long as the opposites cannot be brought into harmony, pain and suffering 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
this entire process. He demonstrated victory over the opposites by integration through love and sacrifice. This is 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
this deeper level where the battle between the opposites is waged. The battle creates a tremendous confusion 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
well as the seemingly lesser ones. The great opposites are life and death, happiness and unhappiness, love 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
this confusing result. Religion symbolizes the struggle between opposites as the struggle between God and the devil 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
core you are bound to find the basic opposites. But this level of duality on which you 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
duality on which you are torn between the opposites is still not the core. Behind it is 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
the next level one side of the two opposites. In other words, the source, which is a 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
the next level of consciousness splits into two opposites. This underlying core is your longing for complete 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
you cannot live because you cannot reconcile the opposites that constitute the dualism in your own soul 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
is the great battle between another pair of opposites. One is the surging spirit going forward, the 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
are still deeply involved in the illusion of opposites and duality; nevertheless, they meet the illusion and 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
only because of your confusion, the two apparent opposites will become one whole, without any negativity. The 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
lead to, and stem from, self-alienation; both are opposites of love, of communication, and of relating to 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
flow into each other. Sometimes they seem like opposites, like sloth contrasted with covetousness or with gluttony 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
covetousness or with gluttony. They are not exact opposites, but in some ways they are. And yet 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
between sloth and gluttony? ANSWER: The two are opposites, because gluttony is a greedy reaching out, coming 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
genuine, while in reality they cover up their opposites, would serve only to strengthen rather than destroy 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
well rooted in the personality only if hidden opposites are faced, understood, come to terms with, and 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
the superimposed faith and hope cover their hidden opposites. In order to fully understand your guilts, you 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
discriminate between reason, common sense, logic, and their opposites. They depend on being supplied with the ideas 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
because so many things appear as pairs of opposites. In philosophical thinking, humankind itself is paired -- 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
consciously or unconsciously reverse the facts into exact opposites; whatever is healthy, constructive, and good appears as 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
this at the moment, the sooner the apparent opposites coalesce and the full experience of the painful 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
bliss. One then reaches beyond the illusion of opposites. If you quietly acknowledge, I am now unhappy 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
your specific desires, with the fear of their opposites, have to be ascertained in your personal work 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
plane, where you perceive and experience everything in opposites: either/or; good or bad; right or wrong; life 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
by this dualism. The unified principle combines the opposites of dualism. By transcending dualism you will also 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
the unified plane of consciousness there are no opposites. There is no good or bad, no right 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
that comprises only one pole of the dualistic opposites. It transcends them both and is completely different 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
of the unified principle, through which things become opposites that impose conflicts. This creation of irreconcilable opposites 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
opposites that impose conflicts. This creation of irreconcilable opposites generates a tension within and therefore with the 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
words. They mean the unification of the dualistic opposites, so that there is no longer any tension 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
and against the other of any number of opposites. This applies not only to material issues but 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
Every truth can thus be divided into two opposites, one being adhered to as the right and 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
success with the desirable alternative of the two opposites. The helplessness and hopelessness, the wasted energy of 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
unitive principle, which holds that there are no opposites and no conflicts. When this unobstructed wish flows 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
principle. This means that everything is perceived in opposites -- good or bad, desirable or undesirable, life 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
universal, cosmic truth is always unified and transcends opposites in the realization that the belief in opposites 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
opposites in the realization that the belief in opposites is illusion. Unification does not mean, however, that 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
they hope to attain one of the illusory opposites as the salvation. As long as one opposes 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
you seek one side of a pair of opposites, you must oppose the other side. In that 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
plane of consciousness, because there are no more opposites to be feared, the dichotomy no longer exists 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
curve that perpetually recycles itself, always expressing two opposites. It is the state of cause and effect 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
missing it because you derive joy from both opposites of the dualistic state. This is, briefly, as 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
is always bad. The unification of these two opposites can come only in the unitive state as 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
makes them one movement, instead of two warring opposites. Hence you will no longer be discouraged, nor 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
can be reached principally by two roads, both opposites of the dualistic state. It can be reached 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
it will be possible to conciliate two apparent opposites. The state of unity is a fearless state 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
of experiencing life, activity and passivity appear as opposites. But in the reality of the highest state 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
regulated by this principle, each of these seeming opposites containing both active and passive elements. Work coming 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
an opposite state, hence they must produce more opposites, more irreconcilable poles. For example, a false feeling 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
and peace. The false feeling cannot combine apparent opposites, such as excitement and peace. They must seem 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
as excitement and peace. They must seem incompatible opposites that cannot be reconciled, so that the person 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
these cases, pleasure and pain must exist as opposites. As I said at the beginning of this 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
they are evil and regards them as the opposites of divine life, or spiritual life. So you 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
attitudes, frustration can easily be distorted into two opposites, both equally destructive. Everyone knows that the inability 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
discovery of this new life reconciles the apparent opposites of being an individual and being at one 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
of a whole. These are no longer irreconcilable opposites, but interdependent facts. All such opposites, all apparently 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
longer irreconcilable opposites, but interdependent facts. All such opposites, all apparently mutually exclusive alternatives that cause so 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
truth, not for truth. This is what makes opposites of discipline and letting go. By the same 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
that removes all threats, that combines the apparent opposites of discipline and letting go is the ever-renewed 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
incapable of establishing healthy living. These are not opposites or mutually exclusive facts, my friends. Before we 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
experiences the real self, which reconciles all apparent opposites. Then one sees that life and death are 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
longer alternate between pain and pleasure. Then these opposites will be reconciled, and the pulsating movements of 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
erroneous, illusory way of perceiving and experiencing life. Opposites are not to be divided in this fashion 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
when, through your personal evolution, you transcend the opposites and conciliate them, can you reach the unitive 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
state. In order to approach this state the opposites must be faced and accepted as long as 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
and accepted as long as they appear as opposites, so that the inner tension diminishes. Some opposites 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
opposites, so that the inner tension diminishes. Some opposites are no longer experienced as one versus the 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
much larger degree, the average person experiences these opposites in a truthful fashion. Both are seen as 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
further example where, for a halfway healthy mind, opposites are transcended -- are no longer seen as 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
fulfilling their own function, equal in beauty. These opposites are the forces of activity and passivity -- 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
in reality it is this way with all opposites, even those that seem most difficult to comprehend 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
to show you that even a pair of opposites like health and sickness does not, in reality 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
regarding life and death. There are many other opposites that you cannot help but experience at this 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
an entity believes itself in danger. Since all opposites are constantly around, always there, deep within your 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
that most of them appear as mutually exclusive opposites -- one being grasped at, the other being 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
real in all the discomfort they give. The opposites people struggle with create a tremendous tension. Humanity 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
cancel each other out. In truthful perception, both opposites are accepted and function organically, mutually aiding each 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
the mind holds true actually happens: the two opposites annul each other. The further result of this 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
polarities lies in seeing the good in both opposites. This alone will lead to truth, reality, health 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
to the point when you can embrace both opposites in their truthful, real, healthy manifestations. More and 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
unitive whole, a dualism makes two mutually exclusive opposites out of them. When both sides of the 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
resolve the problem. The healthy version of these opposites is a harmonious balance of proper self-responsibility and 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
an unpleasant truth and self-acceptance into mutually exclusive opposites. But before I will discuss this in greater 174 SELF-ESTEEM
spiritual and physical pleasure are one -- not opposites. Pleasure, in the real sense, is intensely fleshly 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
is always easy to get lost in two opposites, which are both wrong when they appear as 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
are both wrong when they appear as real opposites. This principle is clearly illustrated here. Acceptance and 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
here. Acceptance and rejection of frustration are not opposites but can form a beautiful oneness. The attitude 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
are dispensed with. Again, we have two apparent opposites. The right kind of self-assertion, which accepts the 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
considerations, instead of wishful thinking. The paradoxes and opposites that you constantly deal with in life will 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
the dualistic, separated mind do they seem like opposites leading to confusion about which is right or 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
I will choose a third example of apparent opposites that make a comprehensive whole when not distorted 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
productive, growing process toward increasing transcendence of the opposites. All this, broadly speaking, is a recapitulation, in 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
of suffering and of painful struggle with the opposites. As your whole system, your whole organization of 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
and thinking to make room for all the opposites that exist within the human soul. And thus 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
to the limiting tendency of your consciousness, the opposites cannot be transcended. Only when the distortion is 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
of duality where you must battle with the opposites -- pleasure and pain, life and death, good 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
death, good and evil. You cannot transcend these opposites as long as the key of life is 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
energy, strength of feeling, capacity to transcend painful opposites that will enrich and reorient your life toward 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
of humanity is one of duality or of opposites. I have often discussed the many aspects of 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
profound and broader vantage point, what appear as opposites suddenly reconcile and complement each other. I shall 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
other. I shall explain presently how these apparent opposites are all true. Let me first repeat that 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
life be true when they appear to be opposites? Let us look into this more closely. It 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
experience as interconnected aspects, rather than mutually exclusive opposites as you do ordinarily. This oneness contains every 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
changes as you discover the oneness of the opposites. The more you avoid a feeling, the less 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
truth has many facets, often including two apparent opposites that are parts of one whole. With spiritual 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
discover that power and love need not be opposites. You can then begin to use your innate 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
widen. It will not consist of mutually exclusive opposites but of different facets of the same fullness 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
are no longer split into apparently mutually exclusive opposites, but become one comprehensive whole. My dearest friends 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
sense of the word, you are apparently two opposites at once: you are unique and special, while 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
it. Only in this way can you reconcile opposites, transcend dualities. Each duality, each mutually exclusive opposite 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
the true and distorted possibilities of both apparent opposites. The moment you see this, opposites exist no 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
both apparent opposites. The moment you see this, opposites exist no longer. You then pass into a 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
a typical dualistic picture. We have apparently two opposites -- faith and doubt. Religion will glibly say 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
version, faith and doubt are not mutually exclusive opposites. They complement each other. The real kind of 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
be a faulty perception. What appear to be opposites coexist in oneness. Therefore the individual is only 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
commensurate with the higher laws of life conciliates opposites that are mutually exclusive on the lower level 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
no longer contradict; where you experience two previous opposites as valid aspects of the same truth. When 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
the dualistic state do you live with two opposites within your soul. But this dualistic state is 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
on your path, you soon discover that all opposites are illusion and are facets of the same 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
areas of your inner life to fuse such opposites so that contradictions no longer exist and become 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
and become conciliated. This must apply to all opposites on your level of reality. So if there 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
this level of consciousness, divine manifestations appear as opposites, but as I so often mention, are not 228 BALANCE
But in the dualistic misconception they appear as opposites. Although they are a manifestation of the dualistic 228 BALANCE
force that underlies the manifestations that appear as opposites. The balancing factor is the cohesion, the bridge 228 BALANCE
manifesting both sides of what now appear as opposites. As your understanding of this concept ripens, your 228 BALANCE
be an autonomous adult? These are not real opposites but consequences of the dualistic confusion. When movements 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
appearance values. Such desires and God's will are opposites. Sometimes the desires seem pleasurable, perhaps because they 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
your words deep inside of you they seem opposites, and thus you create conflict. My friends, pay 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
possibility for a healthy fusion of two apparent opposites. The other two categories offer less freedom and 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
you begin to sense the unification of all opposites. You no longer need to battle them. So 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
On the emotional level, this mental clarification of opposites creates an entirely new mode of being, of 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Not to see your world in terms of opposites, of duality, appears the crassest form of delusion 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
awaits to be recognized underneath the level of opposites. Since living on the level of duality brings 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
attempt to feel the same way about two opposites. You could not possibly make yourself react the 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
ask. As long as the strain between two opposites of a duality exists, you must live in 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
harbor the most realistically grounded affirmation of all opposites -- of life and death, pleasure and pain 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE

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