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 Part-souls..................3
split multiplied and multiplied. And some of these part-souls became, as an expression, mineral, plant and animal 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the world of matter came into existence, these part-souls incarnated in these various forms. In other words 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
for the better, even as far as the part-souls on the down-curve are concerned. Can you grasp 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 
 Party.......................7
you and then the understanding for the other party will increase steadily because you have experienced it 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION
fosters dependency on the perfection of the other party, which in turn creates fear and hostility for 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
picture of where and to what extent each party contributes to a negative involvement and psychic interaction 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
and defy you for it, even though being party to the arrangement. Thus, even when you succeed 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
here, and eliminate the unnecessary division of one party, or government, or format going against the other 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
new-age person is not bound to nationality, political party, race or creed. He or she combines all 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
associated with any group consciousness, religion, nationality, political party. True individuality blossoms only when God's truth is 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
 
 Passage.....................8
connection easier with the help of a specific passage from the Bible, a certain prayer or spiritual 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
some of you? QUESTION: No, I believe the passage in Isaiah may be a wrong translation -- 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
your questions. QUESTION: Can you explain the Biblical passage: The word of God was given to Moses 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ANSWER: In order to explain fully only the passage you have just read, books could be written 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
so damaging to yourself and others. In the passage my friend just read, it also says that 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
at your conscious and unconscious attitudes toward the passage of time, toward life and death, you will 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
Since movement in your life is also the passage of time, movement brings you closer toward the 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
this existential fear of a meaningless universe, the passage of time, and the pain of life that 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
 
 Passing.....................29
all the difference as to whether you are passing the test or not; it will determine the 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
an exchange may actually have taken place before passing through this particular gate. When an increased spiritual 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
incomprehensible and that made life very difficult. After passing a turning point it is as if a 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
having the humility, in spite of all the passing thoughts of doubt, to put God above everything 22 SALVATION
by every breath you take, by every thought passing through your mind; even your unconscious feelings will 36 PRAYER
recognized your own responsibility for the darkness while passing through the tunnel -- which is not an 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
this feeling of happiness carelessly and greedily, never passing the threshold into true love. True love demands 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
others is a basic misunderstanding of life. Yes, passing disadvantages can come to you, that is true 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
this moment. The child does not see the passing character or overall quality of the moment. It 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
and relative importance, but simultaneously will perceive its passing nature and genuinely evaluate its overall significance. Therefore 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
will give you a new outlook on your passing sorrows, and it will help you to make 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
emotion, general development, character tendencies, as well as passing moods or outer happenings, you tune into one 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
if they are not a repeated pattern -- passing, fleeting ones, those that do not necessarily involve 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
moods. There is no other way. Instead of passing them by half the time, as you all 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
unimportant, can save the day for you. A passing approval may make all the difference in your 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
fear of death and your fear of the passing of life which you do not permit yourself 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
the unknown, it is always fear of the passing of time. All are manifestations of the same 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
goes on within you, you will fear the passing of time and the great unknown. When one 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
the stream of being, do not trust the passing of time. They hold on with the little 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
inwardly assimilate these words, you come closer to passing over this threshold. All of you can make 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
possible temporarily to accept the negative as a passing stage, in the understanding that it is the 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
make the unconscious conscious. Vague emotional reactions or passing thoughts one usually ignores may reveal more about 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
formulates something important, world forming, or just a passing insignificant attitude, the principle is the same. I 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
it will become a very substantial instrument for passing through a bottleneck you may have felt obstructing 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
whenever you so desire -- and no real passing of time since time, too, is a production 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
within the level of manifestation, of which the passing of time is an integral part, it seems 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
temptation to remain in them and savor their passing gratification; through the deliberate overcoming of this temptation 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
with a specifically chosen other, and who chooses passing partners without heart and mind and is promiscuous 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
and resourceful. As long as this is a passing phase from which further changes will emerge it 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
 
 Passion.....................4
find themselves as husbands and wives, because when passion or sex plays a role, it becomes possible 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
a better marriage than one based only on passion. In the latter, the real values may be 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
sex; of affection and respect; of tenderness and passion; of trust and mutual partnership; of sharing and 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
current evoked through a fusion between love, respect, passion, and sexuality is infinitely more ecstatic than the 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
 
 Passions....................3
way leads to doom, the other to utopia. Passions are aroused and provocations compounded to enlarge the 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
that humanity was too much enslaved by its passions to be let free. Therefore obedience had to 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
and often has nothing to do with sexual passions, it may not be obvious that it is 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
 
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all else. By embracing this error, you become passive, you are unable to lift the veil and 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
God: the active or male aspect and the passive or female aspect. I explained that in the 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
philosophers have experienced God in the female and passive manifestation. That is a partial answer to this 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
and hopelessness, for this allows you to be passive and -- consciously or unconsciously -- blame some 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
and be active and when should I be passive? When you really want to know, you will 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
it leaves you free and detached, yet never passive and resigned. One will-stream comes out of your 18 FREE WILL
proper distribution, for instance, of the active and passive forces. I will soon give a lecture on 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
wrong way while your other side is overly passive, again in the wrong way. When you are 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
because you live that way, when the next passive period comes around you will quietly nurse what 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
harmony with the movement of the active and passive streams of your personal life, only when you 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
what each period signifies: the active or the passive -- the weekday or the Sabbath. The analogy 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
active periods have to be longer than the passive ones, although the latter always have to reoccur 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
are twelve basic active forces and twelve basic passive forces or principles in the universe. According to 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
representative or a personification of one active or passive principle. They are all perfect in their own 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
there is not just one active and one passive principle in existence, but twelve of each. For 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
when to assume an active and when a passive attitude? When should you use the free will 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
in the least true that you can be passive when you want to fulfill God's will. In 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
are used in the channels destined for the passive currents, a congestion occurs, and the result is 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
is frustration for the human being. If the passive forces replace the active ones, entering the channels 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
what respect the forces should be active or passive. I will try to shed light on this 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
certainly do need your willpower. However, where the passive forces should hold sway, and where they are 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
an active force is used instead of a passive one. Since a wrong desire cannot really be 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
those instances when you are supposed to be passive? You cannot change this world or other people 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
you will rechannel the wrongly used active and passive currents. This also means to accept the imperfection 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
set an active force in motion where a passive one should exist. Only after the passive force 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
a passive one should exist. Only after the passive force has been cultivated can a different kind 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
and peace of mind. The moment you become passive where you should actually be passive -- not 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
you become passive where you should actually be passive -- not in your thoughts alone, deceiving yourself 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
close at hand that where you should be passive, you are active because you actively desire a 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
start allowing your wrong overactive currents to become passive and the wrong passive currents to become active 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
overactive currents to become passive and the wrong passive currents to become active. For those purified currents 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
wrong to believe that you have to be passive in order to fulfill God's will, but it 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
God's will, but it is impossible to be passive and without a will to do that. To 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
into the right channels; and so will the passive forces. Yes, my friends, this change will and 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
At other times it has to become more passive. The inner will has to be active, but 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
lecture that the twelve active and the twelve passive forces are also personified. It is the same 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR
the wrong kind of shame that makes you passive where you should be active. Thus, you find 31 SHAME
dear ones. True humility cannot be a completely passive state, which has just as little to do 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
with humility as outright rebellion. True humility is passive only inasmuch as it accepts the temporary state 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
of harmonious interplay between the active and the passive currents. So you cannot sit with your hands 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
lecture I gave about the active and the passive forces, in which I said that both currents 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
entirely active person as to be an entirely passive one. Actually, such a person does not exist 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
current flows through the channel destined for the passive current, and vice versa. It is similar with 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
is not the instrument. An instrument is something passive. But the mind actively produces currents. QUESTION: Where 47 THE WALL WITHIN
soul. The aura is the product of your passive state. It is the product of that in 47 THE WALL WITHIN
the other hand, if a woman fears the passive and receptive state that, in a healthy way 53 SELF-LOVE
masculine and feminine, that is, the active and passive aspects of the spirit, why is it that 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is it that it is the feminine and passive aspect that is shown as taking the first 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
manifests an active current, whereas woman is more passive. Where man is more passive, the woman is 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
woman is more passive. Where man is more passive, the woman is more active. In both cases 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
so to speak. The outer active side is passive inwardly, and vice versa. This applies not only 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and become destructive. The same with a repressed passive current, where an unhealthy, compulsive activity is superimposed 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
was as much at fault by being too passive in a wrong and destructive way. Were he 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
a wrong and destructive way. Were he not passive where he should not have been, he could 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
have stopped Eve. In other words, he was passive where he should have been active, while Eve 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Eve was active where she should have been passive. This symbolism does not show that man should 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
man should be entirely active and woman entirely passive. This is a gross misunderstanding, and also illogical 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
with Adam and Eve shows that active and passive currents are present, to begin with, in both 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
man and woman, but of the active and passive elements as such. ANSWER: No. Adam and Eve 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
represent much more than merely the active and passive elements. They actually symbolize manhood and womanhood with 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
man is supposed to be active, a woman passive. These concepts and many more variations of them 62 MAN AND WOMAN
that man is active and that woman is passive by nature, but both manifest different aspects of 62 MAN AND WOMAN
are one. This does not mean a fatalistic, passive attitude in which you wait without ever doing 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
that individual, which could possible wind up in passive, or eventually even in active, cruelty. Such a 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
sometimes too active when one should be more passive, and vice versa. Harmonious blending of activity and 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
action, yet your soul may be in a passive state. Activity and passivity are not necessarily manifested 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
and used. Thus it relates in a completely passive way. The relating capacity of an animal is 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
laziness and pride. Such inner nonparticipation is a passive pretense that hinders the quality of the discussions 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
asserting your rights. You feel you must become passive and apathetic and no longer try to fulfill 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
woman. When the girl-child feels rejected, she feels passive and helpless. The passivity and helplessness, as an 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
long time to be delivered from this helpless, passive position, but as long as you do not 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
toward others. In this stage, it is a passive attitude of indifference that enables one to watch 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
more harmful, for active cruelty induces quicker counterreactions. Passive indifference, however, born out of numbing the feelings 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
are always connected with fear. The borderline between passive numbness and active cruelty is often very thin 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
between giving and receiving, or between active and passive participation. These delicate balances cannot possibly be determined 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
exact opposite of the conscious striving, meaning the passive resistance against your male role. You fear it 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
life happens effortlessly, yet you are not a passive recipient. Things do not happen for you; they 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
left out of the life process and remain passive recipients, they have not grasped the nature of 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
distribute your energies between making both active and passive contributions to the relationship. It must give you 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
that the healthy state of activity is also passive, and that the healthy state of passivity is 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
relaxed, easy, and effortless, which seem to be passive qualities. In healthy relaxation the outgoing movement of 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
end. When you feel yourself in a healthy passive state, it is never static or motionless. In 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
process. A creative process without the active and passive forces harmonizing, complementing, and furthering one another is 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
of these seeming opposites containing both active and passive elements. Work coming forth from a healthy organism 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
all the demands activity makes on them. The passive, static state then seems desirable because it does 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
are often equally afraid of passivity. For the passive state then implies helplessness. The passive state must 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
For the passive state then implies helplessness. The passive state must imply helplessness when activity is rejected 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
action, while on another level you fear the passive state, too, even healthy passivity. Because you cannot 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
or numbed. This means that you are either passive, paralyzed and held back, or you are ruthless 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
But this interaction is entirely different from the passive, weak dependency of the small child. The thoroughly 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
this forcing-current. They include compliance in varying degrees, passive resistance, spite, withdrawal, refusal to cooperate, forceful outer 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
and when to step aside in a more passive, listening and learning attitude. The ego can be 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
carries you. Yet you move, you are not passive. If you were entirely passive you could not 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
you are not passive. If you were entirely passive you could not be sustained by the water 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
is a wonderful balance between the active and passive forces of the person swimming, which determines the 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
might also be called the active and the passive forces. I spoke about this topic many years 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
the waiting for the manifestation belongs to the passive, receiving function. The human mind is constantly groping 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
expressions when governed by a misconception of the passive principle. They claim rightly that things must ripen 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
from the proper relationship between the active and passive principles. When you think back to those experiences 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
the twofold principle of the active and the passive. The initiating, active, masculine principle distorts into the 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
fears. Conversely, those who, in distortion of the passive, feminine principle, trust in God in a way 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
you to the same impasse. When you are passive and let things go instead of accepting self-responsibility 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
serious and total involvement with your growth. The passive phase of the pulsation is following all such 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
too active a mind. Let your mind be passive and gently, gently let your feeling come up 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
must harbor areas in which he is too passive and expresses the distorted feminine principle. Both these 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
law of personal responsibility wipes out self-pity, resignation, passive endurance, smoldering resentments against the injustices of life 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
as unrealistic as the illusion of being life's passive victim. Accepting your own limitations and the limitations 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
must learn to alternate between being active and passive, initiating and receptive. Gradually a harmonious, self-regulating integration 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
live fruitfully, one must be both active and passive in a harmonious interaction. When one of the 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
inner state is needed, but relaxation is not passive apathy, paralysis or inertia. True relaxation is a 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
make itself known that is neither active nor passive in the outer sense, but it combines an 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
voluntary and the involuntary, the active and the passive principles. If you see growth in this light 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
meditation in which the ego is made totally passive and will-less and the divine allowed its own 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
the ignorant child. The other is a more passive, patient waiting for the final, but always gradual 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
exclusive. How can you be both active and passive in a harmonious way? The right inner interaction 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
human being unless both the active and the passive movements are present. These are very important concepts 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
all for you. You remain in an absolutely passive state, waiting for it. Again, the conscious self 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
own capacity, must inevitably end in the same passive state of either falsely waiting or falsely giving 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
The pushing exhausts the self and renders it passive. These attitudes may exist simultaneously or alternately. The 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
mean a physical healing force given to a passive recipient, destined to remove a physical symptom of 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
commitment to the divine power is not a passive manifestation. It too, implies activity. On the other 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
not the kind that will ever make you passive. It will elicit the same source within you 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
my friends, when you find yourself stagnating, lazy, passive, or inert, and when you desire to do 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
resentment, hate, blame, and often spite. A venomous passive resistance and self-punishment are used to punish others 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
and stagnant. Where it should be receptive and passive, it is tight, forced, and active. Balance is 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
adult. For an infant, closeness is an entirely passive experience: the child takes in, receives, soaks up 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
universe. This, however, is far from being a passive state. Lack of tension does not imply flaccidity 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
to follow your inner journey. When you are passive and inert, it is as much of a 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
their divinity. Without a mind, you become a passive amoeba; when the mind is deemed the highest 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
This does not mean that you will become passive. In a sense, you will be more active 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
only in active expression and reject all receptive, passive attitudes, and vice versa. Many other life attitudes 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
of the qualities contained in the active and passive principles, you see the following -- I oversimplify 228 BALANCE
committing to your purification. Wishful thinking is a passive dreaming in which you hope against hope that 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
being rebuked and having to face the consequences. Passive listeners cheat by trying to have it both 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
by itself wreak the same havoc as the passive, receptive principle in distortion. This is why many 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
has been presented to them as a meek, passive, sexless figure who demands the same kind of 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
may be experienced, at first occasionally, into a passive standstill. Then you have spiritual approaches that advocate 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
service of lower-self aims, while keeping an apathetic, passive attitude toward the good you desire to receive 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION
desire to receive from life. Or you are passive and apathetic when you are enveloped in the 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION

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