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| inside -- and both can do that: one pleasurably, the other unpleasurably -- you have attained some | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| sets you free; the second appears when you pleasurably indulge in the other's wrongness, and this blinds | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| the disturbed organism unpleasurably contracts when it should pleasurably expand. When the natural contracting movement is supposed | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your whole inner organism reaching out fearlessly and pleasurably -- even when the outer experience is doubtful | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
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| will regain its shine, and the joy and pleasure that you had lost will be restored to | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| and avoid those who do not give them pleasure. They are inclined to apply what was true | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| that little joys will then give you less pleasure. On the contrary, while now your capacity of | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| of you, my friends. Again I have the pleasure of welcoming some new friends here tonight and | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| your times of leisure; you will get more pleasure out of life whatever you may do, whereas | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| the good things in life -- happiness, joy, pleasure -- if your soul becomes healthy again, if | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| will not know the difference between pain and pleasure. Pain will be happiness and happiness will be | 36 PRAYER |
| of this world teach you that pain and pleasure become one in the absolute; I am showing | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| way to reach that state. You cannot attain pleasure by avoiding pain, but you certainly can by | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| feels good or bad. It knows love and pleasure when its will is done. It knows hatred | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| and not according to one's own pain or pleasure. While your image lives, you continue the childish | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| and simply use the erotic force for their pleasure and when it is worn out they hunt | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| sets in. Whenever you are happy and enjoy pleasure, in spite of this being a natural longing | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| child enjoys most is forbidden. Whatever gives most pleasure is prohibited, usually for the child's own welfare | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the child cannot understand. Parents may also prohibit pleasure out of ignorance and fear. Thus it is | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of development. Some of you have heard that pleasure and pain are one above a certain level | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you elaborate on the statement that pain and pleasure are the same in the healthy and developed | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| place. When this state is reached, pain and pleasure become truly one. Then one has outgrown the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| reach the point where pain instantly turns into pleasure. In fact, this would be a dangerous expectation | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| reality, namely a mixture of both pain and pleasure. Only by fully accepting both can you come | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to spiritual unfoldment. And part of it to pleasure and relaxation. In other words, your life should | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| proper balance between work, spiritual unfoldment, rest and pleasure. You should all be able to arrange this | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| concept is that if you enjoy something, your pleasure will automatically be at the expense of somebody | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| God requires them to be unhappy, to forfeit pleasure and joy, to do something against their innermost | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| moment. It knows only the immediate pain or pleasure, forgetting that in the relatively near future these | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| life instinct versus the death instinct, or the pleasure principle versus the reality principle. In connection with | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| God and which for the devil. Is the pleasure principle selfish and therefore destructive? Can you indulge | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| that God is happiness, bliss, light, and the pleasure principle makes you yearn for that. Whether you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| earth which made reality something that opposed the pleasure principle, to speak in psychological terms; in spiritual | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and distant spirituality, let us use the phrase pleasure supreme on all levels of your being instead | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| your being instead. Your deep-rooted longing for this pleasure supreme is constantly in conflict with reality as | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| negative aspects of life, everything that opposes your pleasure drive. In that sense death also means loss | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| aspects determines your ability to live and experience pleasure. The healthier your attitude toward death, the more | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and enduring will be the gratification of your pleasure drive. Your first step is to detect how | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| become fully aware of the constant longing for pleasure supreme. Both may be very hidden. Find which | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| give you a foretaste of what real happiness, pleasure supreme, and true security is, even while you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| life constantly imposes on you the alternatives of pleasure and unpleasure. Let us consider, for instance, work | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and therefore not according to your liking or pleasure. Moreover, the conditions of working, with all their | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| it in the words I used tonight -- pleasure supreme. You have discovered that much of this | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| hand, and the mature wish for love and pleasure supreme on the other, is not determined by | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| Thus, you feel you have to decide between pleasure and unselfishness, both of which are part of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the child's way -- often sets one's own pleasure against the other's. However, from an expanded vision | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of the basic current of your longing for pleasure supreme, as well as your apprehension of death | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| way toward the gratification of your wish for pleasure supreme. You do not like it, but it | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| out of what he fears. He forfeits all pleasure and happiness by self-imposed hardship. In other words | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| QUESTION: How do you account for the supreme pleasure that comes from mastery in achievement and accomplishment | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| show the unity behind the duality, so that pleasure and pain become one. But there are also | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| life or death. So death must be a pleasure. Doesn't the healthy attitude therefore deny the unpleasant | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| Before you can truly experience that death is pleasure in a healthy way, you first have to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| realization that life and death are one, that pleasure and pain are one. QUESTION: Is it not | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| very human and concrete sense. Suffering and joy, pleasure and pain are dualities that, in the final | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| often misunderstood, says that one must rise above pleasure and pain. This is of course true in | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| unpleasantness of the duality. Instead, the transcendence of pleasure and pain happens only by accepting and fully | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| Those who misunderstand the meaning of rising above pleasure and pain do so because they wish to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| death and suffering causes flight from life and pleasure, often inadvertently. No matter how much one may | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| may strive for joyful participation in life and pleasure, when one consciously or unconsciously avoids facing and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| will also be a flight from life and pleasure. The truth is that these two escapes always | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| simply reject pain and suffering, and therefore also pleasure and joy. Such persons will find at some | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| reality one and the same, your happiness and pleasure are also connected to your attitude toward death | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and reject happiness in the false belief that pleasure and joy are contrary to the will of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| by a faulty attitude toward life and death, pleasure and pain. How can you meet life's conditions | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| life force which will truly make you experience pleasure and joy, on all levels of your being | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| death very much, like to enjoy and take pleasure in this present physical life -- meaning the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the whole person more receptive and capable of pleasure on all levels, including the physical one. However | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| levels, including the physical one. However, this complete pleasure can be experienced only if the soul is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| healthy. An unhealthy soul is incapable of experiencing pleasure. At the same time, if a person heals | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| person not only becomes capable of experiencing greater pleasure, but also leads a fuller life. Almost as | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| misconceptions, distortions, and deviations. The true experience of pleasure on all levels, the unfoldment of creative abilities | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| soul, the less it is capable of real pleasure, and the more will its inherent creative abilities | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| despairing, and stands in such contradiction to my pleasure drives, that I have no choice other than | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| primitive instincts if I wanted to realize my pleasure drive. But, on the other hand, this would | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| environment and therefore I would be stopped from pleasure a priori. So the situation is hopeless. These | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| primitive instincts are not more conducive to the pleasure principle than is the spiritualized rejection of bodily | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| principle than is the spiritualized rejection of bodily pleasure. In a mature and healthy soul, the pleasure | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| pleasure. In a mature and healthy soul, the pleasure drive can never interfere with one's environment. This | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| as development proceeds, all the more receptive to pleasure in a much higher form than the primitive | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| form than the primitive, unchaneled instincts. This heightened pleasure includes the physical level. Such inclusion comes, in | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| different way, that it comes from shifting the pleasure drive to another area of the personality. The | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| is quite true that if you repress your pleasure drive, it must still express itself somewhere else | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| supply the missing self-confidence and to thereby gain pleasure supreme. At least this is the unconscious reasoning | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| order to attain self-confidence and therefore, finally, happiness, pleasure supreme. The stronger its presence, the more genuine | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| life above and beyond your need for happiness, pleasure, and security, you will come to see the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| be loved -- apart from the craving for pleasure supreme -- there is the element of, I | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| frustration of not being able to receive the pleasure one yearns for. Lack of pleasure is a | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| receive the pleasure one yearns for. Lack of pleasure is a sign that the person has made | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| also motivated by the strong craving for love, pleasure, and ecstasy. So another one of these vicious | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| is estranged from the real self, the less pleasure is possible and therefore the greater the longing | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| enjoy, to give and receive, and to experience pleasure and happiness. In other words, your yearning for | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| and happiness. In other words, your yearning for pleasure supreme is connected with the instinct of procreation | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| in crass cases, to addiction. The craving for pleasure, although perhaps completely unconscious, can be so strong | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| misunderstand me as saying that a desire for pleasure, as such, is wrong. Quite the contrary. The | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the contrary. The healthy soul will aim for pleasure, but in a very different way. The more | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| very possible not to experience any longing for pleasure, fulfillment, happiness. In fact, you may be completely | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| damage. The superimposed denial of the longing for pleasure supreme may seem to be expedient because the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| instinct of self-preservation, as well as happiness and pleasure through the distortion of the instinct of procreation | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| as life-giving, life-preserving, and as conducive to true pleasure and happiness as your inner truth. Be in | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| serve both ends, since safety as well as pleasure are necessary in life. If the instincts are | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| contrast, the distorted instinct of procreation contains the pleasure drive, the yearning for pleasure supreme on all | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| procreation contains the pleasure drive, the yearning for pleasure supreme on all levels of being. When, due | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| limitations and personality disturbances on the other, this pleasure is not forthcoming, the distortion of the procreation | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| that they will be loved and thus receive pleasure. The third pseudo-solution, namely, withdrawal, the quest for | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| soul rebels against this. It continues to crave pleasure. The less this craving is heeded because of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Unconsciously, you confront the alternatives of safety or pleasure. For, in order to obtain happiness, fulfillment, bliss | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| For, in order to obtain happiness, fulfillment, bliss, pleasure, a certain courage is presupposed, a spirit of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| presupposed, a spirit of adventure, so to speak. Pleasure presupposes the willingness to risk. But such risk | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| immature soul struggles to get both safety and pleasure without daring to risk, without coming out of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and masochism, thinking to combine the needs for pleasure and safety. In giving in, you believe you | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| compromise may assume various forms. For instance, the pleasure drive will be released only on certain levels | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| You may feel that spiritual, intellectual, or mental pleasure is not a dangerous pursuit. It does not | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| risk of rejection and hurt. Emotional or sensual pleasure, on the other hand, seems extremely dangerous and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the quest for power aims at love and pleasure in the unconscious belief that being omnipotent, strong | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| pseudo-solution is a quest for love to obtain pleasure will compromise by trying to combine this pleasure | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| pleasure will compromise by trying to combine this pleasure drive with the need for safety. Often they | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| them, they will receive not only love and pleasure, but protection from danger as well. They do | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| helpless child, looking for love and protection; craving pleasure and happiness; feeling vulnerable, submissive, insecure, and dependent | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| a quest for love in order to receive pleasure, with all the accompanying self-effacement, appeasement, self-denial, and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| feel safe and gain a minimal amount of pleasure. Alternatively, if this is your main image, you | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| believe that you can find the safety and pleasure you need for survival only by breaking the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| their significance. You wish to gain safety and pleasure through a strong power drive, which is simultaneously | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and the bad, the happy and the unhappy, pleasure and pain. Contrary to just registering such impressions | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |