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and from unreality into reality. Once you have sacrificed your self-will and therefore God has become a 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
on others to reward the self for the sacrificed happiness. Since the loser does not go out 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
contradict goodness and unselfishness and must therefore be sacrificed. The opposite facet of this same duality is 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
self with its lower aims must often be sacrificed. But is this really a sacrifice? It only 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
before you can realize that nothing is being sacrificed by growing up, because your real interest cannot 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
has come to an end. Those who have sacrificed for the good of all, for the sake 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
 
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truly succeed. The more happiness results from their sacrifices, the worse their guilt becomes until true inner 38 IMAGES
humility, thus false pride, to the person who sacrifices. It makes an exploiter out of the person 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
bliss and unfoldment for either the one who sacrifices or the one who blindly accepts it? Even 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
fear. Your insistence on remaining as you are sacrifices happiness, pleasure, wholeness, love and expansion, yet it 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
incurs the worst suffering, guilt, and loneliness. He sacrifices pleasure, fulfillment, love, growth, and the realization of 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
and the realization of his potentials; he literally sacrifices and wastes his life out of sheer hatred 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
 
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yourself will you know whether or not your sacrificial acts are truly free. QUESTION: Will you tell 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
is impossible. Letting go does not mean self-defeating, sacrificial self-deprivation. It means merely that wherever you recognize 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
fear loving; it is represented as a pleasureless, sacrificial, and depriving act that impoverishes the self for 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
is unselfish. Unselfishness is selfishness, and vice versa. Sacrificial unselfishness always implies an inner bargaining, a secret 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
the underlying emotions. The greater the outer, assumed, sacrificial unselfishness becomes, the more the ensuing rage and 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
go in a sense of fearful, resigned, obedient, sacrificial deprivation, you remain in duality. The untightening movement 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
untrue that acceptance of pain implies a masochistic, sacrificial weakness and submission, but quite the contrary. True 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
 
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sacrifice, my friends. If you are capable of sacrificing something for God, you will have that experience 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
you do not know how to go about sacrificing or even what it is you should sacrifice 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
them, by giving up some selfishness, and by sacrificing something in order to help those who may 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
you do the utmost in developing spiritually, in sacrificing for others. And only when this well-founded self- 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
called for on your part. The act of sacrificing for God and overcoming your self-will is the 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
be a compulsive burden one unconsciously struggles against, sacrificing one's happiness, in the belief that it constitutes 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
all the accompanying self-effacement, appeasement, self-denial, and masochistic sacrificing, the underlying core may be a ruthless selfishness 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
Being a loser means to be unselfish, self- sacrificing, good, kind, and considerate. Some people adopt one 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
grasp unless one contemplates its ramifications very carefully. Sacrificing pleasure includes everything. Since life is pleasure, life 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
price you now pay for negative creation and sacrificing your very life -- which is no exaggeration 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
use it. By withdrawing from this challenge and sacrificing the fulfillment of intimate contact, many inner problems 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
self withdraws from the challenge of relationship, thereby sacrificing personal fulfillment, pleasure, love, and joy. When you 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
in order to help you become unselfish without sacrificing personal fulfillment. The lower self with its lower 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
being against the self. Therefore when you are sacrificing from a dualistic consciousness, you often do so 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
 
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fate you suffered on earth made you very sad then, but since from the spiritual point of 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION
say that I recognize in this room a sad heart. Oh, there are a few people here 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
have nothing to fear and nothing to be sad about. Angels of God are forever near every 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
refuses to hear the cry. When you are sad or depressed, when you are dissatisfied with your 31 SHAME
reasons explained here. As long as you feel sad, bitter, defiant, or disharmonious in any way when 31 SHAME
humanity, we of the spirit world often become sad. We see so many struggling men and women 35 TURNING TO GOD
suffers vaguely in a continuous, gnawing pain. How sad it is to observe this, particularly because it 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
of you. Do not despair when you are sad and discouraged, there is no reason. For life 47 THE WALL WITHIN
if they so choose. That may make you sad, but it will never make you tense, or 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
is not forthcoming, you may be a little sad, but your life will not depend on it 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
is an illusion that the lack of love, sad as that may have been when you were 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
anger and without feeling hostile. You may feel sad, but feeling sad seems to many people so 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
feeling hostile. You may feel sad, but feeling sad seems to many people so humiliating that they 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
to be angry and hostile than to be sad, so you suppress the real hurt. But the 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
Certainly you will at times be frustrated, uncertain, sad. In fact, if you were never sad, you 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
uncertain, sad. In fact, if you were never sad, you would not be your real self. Sadness 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
earth. Of course, you will be insecure, afraid, sad and unhappy at times, but you will not 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
your power to change. When you are truly sad, without depression, you not only feel it as 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
growing pain free of hopelessness, but you are sad due to an outer circumstance, knowing it is 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
beloved person through death. If you are truly sad -- and nothing else -- your feeling is 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
you feel depressed. When you believe you are sad due to a good outer reason, test your 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
are yours for the asking. It is often sad for us to notice how people turn in 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
humanity from our vantage point, it is indeed sad that people so rarely react to and perceive 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
with the greatest of difficulties. This is the sad irony. They are so blind that what is 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
itself which human beings erroneously assume to be sad or horrible. This is no more true of 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
believing that this destructive self is the ultimate, sad reality. For a complete perspective on the revelation 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
something in you says, I must not be sad, I should not be sad, you rebel against 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
must not be sad, I should not be sad, you rebel against a feeling that exists in 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
soon creates the misconception in you that being sad is catastrophic and that, if this catastrophe befalls 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
I will perish if I have to be sad. You build mental concepts that sustain the belief 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
and thus you justify your refusal to feel sad. You may do this by building cases against 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
by building cases against people who make you sad. Your mind attempts to justify why you should 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
the denied anger and rage for being made sad by life and by others. Now let us 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
flexible and can easily decide to be angry, sad, or be in whatever emotional state they wish 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
happens with each individual. It may make you sad at first, but how can true purification take 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION
the pain of untruth and confusion! This is sad because it is unnecessary. If God, the creative 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
 
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latent -- a certain amount of masochism and sadism must always exist. Masochism arises out of the 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to get something, such as love or approval. Sadism is the consequence of detesting one's submissiveness and 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
masochism. It is the very same resentment: in sadism it reaches out to the other self, whereas 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Along with it comes the opposite term of sadism. Modern schools of psychology rather use the word 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
use the word algolagnia to refer to both sadism and masochism, calling one positive, the other negative 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
that masochism indicates a better character trend than sadism. I bless each and every one of you 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
topic? QUESTION: Can this compulsive over-giving lead to sadism? And, on the other hand, is it typical 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
incorrect to say that this would lead to sadism. No. But since everything in the human psyche 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
token, it may be connected with masochism. Both sadism and masochism, which, as you know, are only 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
or hostility. This is then called masochism or sadism. Do you understand now? ANSWER: Yes, I think 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
path the necessity of contacting hidden cruelty, brutality, sadism, vindictiveness, and malice. As you learn to see 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
impotence, frigidity, or with negative expression as in sadism, masochism, fetishism. To a degree, it may be 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE

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