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 Pulsebeat...................9
rhythmic movement is regular in intervals and the pulsebeat can be measured according to three-dimensional time. The 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
not cringing away from it on the outgoing pulsebeat and by meeting what appears at first as 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
and pleasure cannot be gained when the spiritual pulsebeat is stopped through hardening, refusal of the experience 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
with your emotional self by allowing the healthy pulsebeat of the psyche to continue its natural process 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
wish to avoid by interrupting your natural spiritual pulsebeat rests on just such an illusion. By refusing 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
amounts to a deliberate stopping of breathing and pulsebeat through some artificial, inorganic means. Again, I would 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
experience how what was painful on the first pulsebeat of expansion diminishes with each pulsebeat. Each set 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the first pulsebeat of expansion diminishes with each pulsebeat. Each set of movements will expand your self-realization 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
are not cramped up inside, when your natural pulsebeat functions according to its own organic law. As 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
 
 Puncture....................3
It is therefore necessary that you begin to puncture that closed circuit. You cannot immediately dissolve it 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
and you need your mind. But where you puncture your mind, the flow of new energy and 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
thus become an instrument. It will open up, puncture its limitations, and acquire new concepts -- lightly 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
 
 Punish......................47
judge in a moralizing way; we do not punish. All that is wrong. There is no such 47 THE WALL WITHIN
is wrong. There is no such thing. You punish yourself. If you go against your own plan 47 THE WALL WITHIN
It fosters wrong guilt feelings and seeks to punish the self for them. You must differentiate between 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
exists another form of punishment, the wish to punish another. If the other person does not do 53 SELF-LOVE
your wish, you often feel a desire to punish. This can happen in very hidden and subtle 53 SELF-LOVE
desires to die most often in order to punish those who have slighted him. The child feels 53 SELF-LOVE
of indulging in the death fantasy, you can punish your fellow-creatures in many other ways. Whenever you 53 SELF-LOVE
sickness. How many people develop an illness to punish their loved ones, to force them to be 53 SELF-LOVE
by unconsciously choosing to be ill. Or you punish yourself for various guilts by using sickness as 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
part. There are parents who never dare to punish or exert a healthy authority. This failing is 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
The approach of taking it upon oneself to punish another human being is a very different one 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
extent should humans take it upon themselves to punish a criminal? ANSWER: It is not up to 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
It is not up to human beings to punish. Your course of action should be, and one 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
live out your negative emotions, the world will punish you in one form or another. Yes, my 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
you do not forgive yourself. You hate and punish yourself. All this may be unconscious to a 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
be lenient, in another to restrict and even punish. Those who depend on outer rules to tell 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
expedient, false unhappiness in order to manipulate, or punish others. The false, superimposed tendencies have to disappear 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
kind of vindictiveness turned around so that you punish others with your state of unhappiness. If you 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
also feel my cruelty when I withdraw and punish others with my isolation. Now, in spite of 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
which you have already verified: the desire to punish or to use the forcing current that says 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
a person one deeply resents and wishes to punish increases the guilt, for the ever-wakeful presence of 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
more selfish you become, the more you must punish yourself for the selfishness and convince yourself that 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
destructive attitudes: stubbornness, blind resistance, the desire to punish those who one thinks are responsible for one's 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
feels guilty for it, makes you hate and punish yourself and rob yourself of the real satisfactions 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
and drag out old injuries, to quite deliberately punish others for what your parents did to you 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
will even forgo your own happiness just to punish someone from your past. To see this seems 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
no right to exist and therefore I must punish myself out of existence. Since this conflict is 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
self. But the giant guilt that threatens to punish these destructive aspects with total annihilation is not 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
venomous passive resistance and self-punishment are used to punish others who appear to cause the negative state 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
them. Negative intentionality is also a means to punish life in general. Some of you may have 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
the common and pervasive attitude of wishing to punish your parents. You do realize that this spiteful 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
us take the same example: I want to punish my parents by my own misery and spite 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
pain of your guilt, the more ruthlessly you punish yourself. Conversely, it is true that the more 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
that pain, the less you will need to punish yourself. The negative attitude of hiding from yourself 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
therefore truly be called a sin, because you punish others for your own failings, for your own 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
their real shortcomings as your excuse, when you punish them for the result of your own unloving 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
me everything. If you do not, I will punish you. This attitude is very typical. The more 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
treat others, and exactly how you choose to punish -- always so that you cannot be caught 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
you dare to react to this I will punish you by hating you and by blaming you 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
takes place. Suppose you inwardly say, I will punish you for not fulfilling my insatiable demands. I 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
love you or give you anything. I will punish you by making you guilty, and if you 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
I will not give it to you. I punish you most effectively by making myself the victim 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
even use others' real failings as excuses to punish them for not living up to your demands 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
you and then blame you, accuse you, and punish you when you do not comply with my 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
They were used to dominate, to judge, to punish, to put down, to instill fear of life 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
is true that the leader is out to punish and deprive you. Since you envy the leaders 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
messages He brought? He said, God does not punish mercilessly and unforgivingly, it is never an eye 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
 
 Punished....................24
guilty, the unconscious says, I desire to be punished. Thus a fear of punishment arises in the 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
this chain reaction. Now, the fear of being punished and the fear of not deserving happiness create 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
unconscious mind thinks, I am afraid to be punished by others, although I know I deserve it 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
deserve it. It is much worse to be punished by others, for then I am really at 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
be it life itself. But perhaps if I punished myself I could at least avoid the humiliation 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
humiliation, the helplessness, and the degradation of being punished by forces outside myself. These basic conflicts of 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
the other hand, the desire not to be punished coexists with it. Thus a hidden part argues 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
conscience; in reality no one needs to be punished. As you all know by now, the way 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
I know how much I deserve to be punished and despised. The bargaining you wanted to do 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
believe that somehow it was He who has punished you. Or you think, at best, that He 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
to be taken that way, that you are punished because you have broken a law. It is 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
mean: If you do wrong, you will be punished by retribution. It means: As you see and 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
perfect. When you were not, you were often punished in one way or another. Perhaps the worst 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
that no unkind fate or cruel god has punished or neglected you, so you will deeply understand 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
this an asset for which you are unjustly punished by life; you will see the intrinsic selfishness 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
Simultaneously, it frees him from fear of being punished. In some ways, it brings him back to 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
of awareness of it; the fear of being punished for it; the pride of wanting to be 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
same fate, but also about the other being punished and having difficulties. This is, of course, entirely 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
you to know that you will not be punished for knowing and yet not acting on the 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
of the pride for which you may be punished, as well as the disappointment. You do not 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
have been known, you would have been gravely punished. The child had to deny them to remain 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
only be by stealing, and you would be punished. So as you speak the word for what 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
am so bad that I deserve to be punished this way. You have all learned on this 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION
that were closed before -- not because God punished humankind and therefore locked the doors, but because 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION

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