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| their luster because the law of giving and receiving has been violated. If you are a living | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| more could be given than what they are receiving -- but they do not want it. They | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| they would open themselves again and again to receiving help. Yet they simply forget to ask for | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| spirit. The mission spirits fulfill the task of receiving the beings who come to us so suddenly | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| one's lower nature is decisive, the basis for receiving the grace of deeper knowledge and experience of | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| way alone, what you have never succeeded in receiving the other way, which your lower self has | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| time of preparation for birth to warrant their receiving a different child, the first intended child will | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| for argument's sake, that all your needs in receiving love could be gratified while you invest only | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| give love and not be so concerned with receiving. But all of you, in your emotions, still | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| capable of giving, but when it comes to receiving, they feel humiliated -- therefore often unduly obligated | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| believe, mistakenly, that this can be accomplished by receiving attention, admiration, and approval. Many of you have | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| not recollect having been at a certain place, receiving certain information, or advice, or teaching. In fact | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| question. Talking to a departed dear one, without receiving proof of his or her continued existence, is | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to shed those tendencies that prevent you from receiving what you should. Moreover, you will realize that | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you had been denying yourself the chance of receiving the only true and valuable love that exists | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| but also see how they block you from receiving that which you yearn for. By recognizing your | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one of the greatest blocks to giving and receiving love, especially so because it is submerged. No | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| But as you steadily convince yourself that not receiving it is no abyss, you will be able | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| For those who are unafraid of loving and receiving love in a mature fashion, you will have | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| becoming free to receive real value; or, not receiving it, to discover that the loss is not | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| really and fully aware. But this lack of receiving mature love need trouble neither you nor your | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the same time checking your inner resistance to receiving the answers -- you will make great advances | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| they can do much to prepare themselves for receiving more intensified help. It would be constructive for | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| will not shy away from the possibility of receiving such help and you will be guided to | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| the child in you hopes and fights for receiving what you cannot possibly receive. In other words | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| their counterfeits. Rigid, perfectionistic standards prohibit making mistakes, receiving criticism, experiencing failure. They point to your fallibility | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the child there is no clear-cut distinction between receiving love and receiving approval. He has only a | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| is no clear-cut distinction between receiving love and receiving approval. He has only a vague memory that | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| concentrate on being successful, on impressing others, on receiving admiration -- which all fall under the category | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| strive for all this through an act of receiving. In your emotional awareness it seems to you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the consequent frustration of the healthy fulfillment of receiving. If you do not receive enough, your demand | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| you thus become capable of letting go, of receiving, examining, discriminating, and objectively looking at an issue | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| as yet. If a person is incapable of receiving your love and is frightened by it, yet | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you are the person incapable of loving and receiving, you, who are on this path, know what | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| an over-eagerness to give for the purpose of receiving love as a child wants to be loved | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| you might very well visualize a need for receiving your inner lifeblood from sources outside yourself. That | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| actually deserving it, he later feels shame for receiving a salary. GUIDE: Such a case requires further | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| to false guilt is in the area of receiving. Anything you wish to attain for yourself often | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the compulsion to give and the guilt for receiving. These two emotions may be comparatively easy to | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| alternative of either giving and resenting it or receiving and feeling unfree, inhibited and guilty. He or | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| Whether it concerns the aspect of giving and receiving, or any other natural, legitimate need and self-expression | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| knows no conflict. That truth combines loving with receiving one's full share of happiness, instead of mutually | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| of giving love and freedom and therefore of receiving love and remaining free. Your outer self does | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| delicate balance of allowing your self-expression and also receiving the other's self-expression. Since no rule can be | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| self- assertion and giving in, between giving and receiving, or between active and passive participation. These delicate | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| there is no more conflict between giving and receiving. There is no more refusal to add to | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| then there is no conflict between giving and receiving. There can be no conflict of control. If | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| life, it will make you completely comfortable about receiving. You can easily determine this fact. To the | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| and joyfully, until the aspects of giving and receiving truly become one. When there is no effort | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| giving oneself, there will be no effort in receiving and therefore no frustration. The person will no | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| love and understanding, toward consideration, toward giving and receiving. But always there is still this other side | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| universe and consequently feel worthy and capable of receiving from it. Then no good you desire needs | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| That you are capable of reaching for and receiving the good of the universe only when your | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| God! 155. FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING Greetings, my dearest friends. May this evening prove | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| is true that the helpless child depends on receiving all its needs from others; however, far too | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| giving out. The frustration resulting from not sufficiently receiving has been overemphasized in the last decades, while | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| it goes. The healing of damage from insufficient receiving can be much better accomplished when you realize | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| time that giving love is more blessed than receiving it. It constantly stresses, in one form or | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| how can a healthy flow of giving and receiving be created when such faulty attitudes bar the | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| that causes more pain than any lack of receiving. From there it becomes easier and more and | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| fill your being. The pleasure of giving and receiving will become possible. For you cannot receive as | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| not only make your giving impossible, you make receiving equally impossible. A vessel that is closed cannot | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| of being in the flow of giving and receiving. It is not an esoteric, otherworldly pleasure, disconnected | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| from the cosmic, creative flow of giving and receiving, of the constant turnover, the constant movement that | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| who are still hooked, consciously or unconsciously, on receiving will fear fulfillment and pleasure. Because they are | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| of your wealth and are therefore afraid of receiving. You are doubly frustrated. Your refusal to let | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| is followed. It leads to loving, giving and receiving, uniting, opening up to the forces of life | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| obstructions has to be balanced with the waiting, receiving spirit in which the expressions of the destructive | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| waiting for the manifestation belongs to the passive, receiving function. The human mind is constantly groping to | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the self. Deliberate receptivity toward the inner processes, receiving into consciousness what wants to work its way | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| identical dynamics of doing and waiting, initiating and receiving. In one instance the conscious ego is wiser | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| and more. The alternating rhythm of initiating and receiving -- of becoming and being -- is the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| want to get by with giving nothing and receiving all. You certainly know that these attitudes are | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| you will expand into life, opening up to receiving life's gifts. Very much related to what I | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| do not also receive love. The giving and receiving become so interchangeable that it can often no | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| these four steps. Purification is also unthinkable without receiving active help. It is too difficult to do | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| toward giving of your feelings, as opposed to receiving good feelings from others, is the criterion by | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| want to share only on the basis of receiving according to your own terms, and you are | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| more variations of experiencing love in giving and receiving it, being in tune with this universal feeling | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| another in a harmonious interplay of giving and receiving, of mutual cooperation, of positive opening. This means | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| each other and giving to each other, thus receiving. It happened as a natural, spontaneous, unplanned event | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| closed to truth and love, to giving and receiving. But a number of developed human beings are | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| becomes a real alternative to greedily insisting on receiving. All these increased abilities will fill the emptiness | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| consists of both impressing by active principle, and receiving the impression by the receptive principle. The more | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| loving feelings which are the giving and the receiving of love, the power in me can make | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| joy are you capable of feeling, giving, and receiving? Are you plagued with resentments, anxiety, and tension | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| pleasure, and the giving as well as the receiving of warmth and openness. Also, every human being | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| frustration and pain are essential to giving and receiving and experiencing bliss. On the other hand, if | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| mutual exchange impossible. Since in reality giving and receiving are one, you cannot give to others without | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| still clinging to the illusion that giving and receiving are two separate acts. The fusion you long | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| in trust and to know that giving is receiving. Only as you receive can you give, and | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| interdependent. There will be generosity, a giving and receiving in one ongoing stream. There will come a | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| with another person, or in giving to and receiving from another person. The security of your own | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| that same degree must you hold back from receiving life's riches. There can be no mistake. A | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| an energy field, which is its antenna, its receiving station, so that it must become a reactor | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you raise that question and open up to receiving the answer, the meaning will communicate itself to | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| re-creating; and expressing: that is, listening, hearing, and receiving. The time has come when you can safely | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| love and a desire for mutual giving and receiving. You share and experience the struggle of growth | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| where the need is greatest and through your receiving where your need is greatest. You thus fulfill | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| it deprives others. It makes you incapable of receiving what is available for you. When you operate | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| your ability to maintain the uncentered state of receiving self-value from outside yourself. You have no real | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| would like to say a few words about receiving and giving. You do know by now -- | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| to see it increasingly -- that giving and receiving are one. But, again, this knowledge is often | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| if you are not aware of your worthiness, receiving love threatens a worse punishment and exposes you | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| and in the giving is the taking, the receiving. Even when the process alternates, you will find | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| you will find yourself in one stage more receiving and less able to give, or giving through | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| able to give, or giving through your sincere receiving. That is all right. Receive in truth and | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| It will become an endless flow. Giving and receiving will no longer be differentiated, for they are | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| will know that giving is the road to receiving. It becomes one and the same. Since letting | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| between you will become a mutual giving and receiving. If your perception is distorted and you assume | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| You have heard the law of giving and receiving discussed many times. It is such an important | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| distortion. What does the law of giving and receiving mean in reality? Every human being contains a | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| human being contains a built-in mechanism that makes receiving quite impossible when the soul withholds its innate | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| yearning to give. Since in reality giving and receiving are one and the same flow and movement | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| and movement, the total process of giving and receiving is stopped, so that the grace of God | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| and penetrate you. This inner mechanism makes your receiving impossible; it strengthens and finally seems to confirm | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| you give the more are you capable of receiving. It is then that giving and receiving become | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| of receiving. It is then that giving and receiving become one. So the first step must be | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| with a constant balanced flow of giving and receiving, never exhausting the reserves because all is based | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| works on the most practical levels. Giving and receiving can exist when countries share their resources, rather | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |