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of this experience comes to them by some staggering proof which they expect to receive personally. But 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
a loss. Also, you expect to find something staggering. Yes, this may happen once in a while 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
and others total freedom. The effect has been staggering. It is like being on a new planet 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
every possible fulfillment available. That freedom is so staggering -- and, perhaps, first even frightening -- that 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 
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Her activity will prevent her passivity from becoming stagnant or stale, will keep it fluid, flowing in 62 MAN AND WOMAN
Wrong conclusions are always the result of stale, stagnant, obsolete ideas that remain unquestioned. If you dare 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
and you mean it, you cannot feel lost, stagnant, or disharmonious with yourself or with others. There 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
passivity. Because you cannot distinguish between healthy and stagnant passivity, you become overactive and alienated from your 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
It is easy to look past what is stagnant in you. Even if the first meditational approach 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
assert its benign dominion over violently destructive and stagnant psychic matter. As I have said many times 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
has fully expressed itself. You can reform, reorient stagnant psychic energy with your willingness to be totally 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
Crisis is necessary because human negativity is a stagnant mass that needs to be shaken up in 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
off this undesirable part causes it to remain stagnant and paralyzed so that it cannot change. The 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
truly undesirable, destructive way, or become frozen and stagnant. Articulate clearly the insight that these ugly traits 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
will be overcome, when energy is no longer stagnant, when it is allowed to move. This can 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
you. The power given to you will influence stagnant soul substance and can go to work within 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
Soul substance trapped in error and negativity is stagnant and fixed. The difficulty is making that fixedness 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
must wake up out of its own stagnation. Stagnant, fixed energy/consciousness needs its own loosening up. Fluid 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
up. Fluid consciousness and energy can affect the stagnant, fixed parts only with the greatest difficulty, because 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
the mind being lost in its own maze. Stagnant consciousness must somehow find the way to let 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
only little by little, influencing and affecting the stagnant, entrapped energy/consciousness/substance, which is what is called neurosis 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
allowing the fluid, flowing energy to influence the stagnant mass. For if free enlightened consciousness and fluid 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
way. It will more and more prevail upon stagnant energy and consciousness and make them light again 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
life within yourself, which converge together onto the stagnant matter, to loosen it up more and more 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
more. Maybe you can visualize the difference between stagnant matter, stagnant energy and consciousness that without change 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
you can visualize the difference between stagnant matter, stagnant energy and consciousness that without change hates and 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
of apathy, stagnation and paralysis, a result of stagnant energy in the soul substance. Stagnant soul substance 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
result of stagnant energy in the soul substance. Stagnant soul substance is the result of feelings that 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
the resulting false beliefs. It is rare that stagnant feelings do not also include stagnant conceptualizations of 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
rare that stagnant feelings do not also include stagnant conceptualizations of life. These may exist in the 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
how you were compelled to reexperience misconceptions and stagnant feelings. Over and over again you are entrapped 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
full intensity, the inner life flow must become stagnant. People will find themselves inexplicably paralyzed. Their actions 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
as a defense. Movement stirs up what lies stagnant. By fully understanding this, you can redirect your 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
which will immediately loosen up some of the stagnant matter. The laziness that makes you avoid, postpone 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
have not been fully experienced and thus lie stagnant, forming a block in your system. When you 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
should be active, it is often paralyzed and stagnant. Where it should be receptive and passive, it 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
the inner and outer will, feelings are destructive, stagnant and painful. The energy of the feeling body 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
expresses conceptual errors, imbalances of the will, and stagnant, denied feelings. Tensions and energy stagnation caused by 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
growth and truth is considerably weaker than the stagnant, resistive, evil one, major crisis may again be 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
under the illusion that to stay in the stagnant, narrow confines of the already known territory -- 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
terribly tiresome. This feeling is illusory because the stagnant state is really a contraction, and contraction is 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
Many of you already see that releasing the stagnant, sick energy of hidden, distorted feelings transforms it 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
feelings. We must make a clear distinction between stagnant, residual feelings the personality is unaware of holding 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
movement is a chore, the temptation to become stagnant and give in to the vacuum is great 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
where evil and destructive, and where stuck and stagnant because the destructiveness is hidden and not dealt 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
understood. This is the only way to bring stagnant sexual energy back into a flowing state, even 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
emotional matter -- spite, stubbornness, rigidity, inertia -- stagnant energy exists that must create disturbance and negative 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
energy that permeates you when you release the stagnant matter of pent-up negative feelings. When you physically 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
where the psyche is stuck, self-creation is blocked. Stagnant energy becomes even more potent, creating a conflict 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
and release a lot of pent-up energy and stagnant feelings before you begin to recreate your life 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
force that can transform the negative material, the stagnant attitude into an entirely new expression. Do not 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
hardly needs to be emphasized here that remaining stagnant is courting the cessation of the manifest level 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
within itself the active principle, it creates a stagnant deadening state. The activity and movement contained within 228 BALANCE
the resistant matter of the old. The old, stagnant age does not want to yield easily, yet 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
my dearest ones, at whatever part is still stagnant in you, still feels, I would like to 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
desires to penetrate the void that is totally stagnant and inert. False receptivity is masked inertia. The 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
 
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beautiful, harmonious motion, and also show how they stagnate and congest where the hardened image exists. Out 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
the situation where compromise is chosen, both people stagnate, at least in one very important aspect of 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
is maintained so that the relationship can never stagnate and degenerate into a dead end. For you 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
It will never be static; it will never stagnate. You will never have to search elsewhere. There 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
It will never be static; it will never stagnate. You will never have to search elsewhere. There 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
may even appear comfortable if you live and stagnate in it long enough. One should not wait 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
he or she unconsciously encourages a tendency to stagnate, which is hidden underneath the good motives. Again 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
will to seek contact with them or to stagnate, remaining in the old blindness. I have shown 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
vital part of the soul will starve and stagnate. If the distorted instinct of procreation and its 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
are not experienced consciously, they are allowed to stagnate in a vague, dull climate you cannot even 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
entirely. To accept imperfection would then mean to stagnate and not even attempt any growth and change 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
still being far away from perfection, you cannot stagnate. Acceptance of imperfection does not mean the wish 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
learn the deeper meaning from it, it will stagnate with all the destructive results of such stagnation 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
must sacrifice their dynamic, stimulating life, they must stagnate and be secluded. These false alternatives lead to 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
will find this distortion of movement where you stagnate because non-movement seems so tempting. It appears to 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
seems so necessary because you don't want to stagnate and guilt whips you into a striving, overly 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
which are truly infinite. However, where negative attitudes stagnate, realizing these potentials is impossible. Only crisis can 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
of your energies and creative forces, so they stagnate. From stagnation, putrefaction follows. Matter putrefies when it 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
do express evil. By denying its existence, you stagnate vital creative energy, which putrefies in you. By 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
undesirable feelings. This denial stagnates energy. When feelings stagnate, energy stagnates; and if energy stagnates, you cannot 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
feelings are not consciously dealt with, they will stagnate on an unconscious level and prevent the personality 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
again be avoided for awhile; the personality may stagnate for long periods. But when the movement toward 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
the cosmic movement; other parts still resist and stagnate. Your moving parts are the aware parts. These 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
movement is halted by the ever-existing tendency to stagnate, it creates a painful crisis. You may look 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS

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