| Stagnates...................10 | |
| exist. At the same time, your spiritual growth stagnates because your perfectionism keeps you from changing to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| not trained to think -- to move -- stagnates. It loses the capacity for thinking. It atrophies | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| you often detect how your emotional life either stagnates or is uncontrolled. Your awareness gradually regulates this | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| questions will determine whether the relationship falters, dissolves, stagnates -- or blossoms. When you look at the | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| From stagnation, putrefaction follows. Matter putrefies when it stagnates, when it can no longer move. The same | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| is true of consciousness: it putrefies when it stagnates. Life is a continuously flowing process. When it | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| defending against experiencing painful, undesirable feelings. This denial stagnates energy. When feelings stagnate, energy stagnates; and if | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| This denial stagnates energy. When feelings stagnate, energy stagnates; and if energy stagnates, you cannot move. As | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| When feelings stagnate, energy stagnates; and if energy stagnates, you cannot move. As you know, feelings are | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| does not want to give it up, and stagnates inwardly as a result of it. Consequently a | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| Stagnating..................7 | |
| universe, when the soul is growing rather than stagnating, spring revives and strengthens. But it cannot do | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| say to those friends who feel discouraged and stagnating to ask themselves very truthfully: Is there not | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| final goal of fulfillment, is non-effort, in a stagnating sense. Their outlook amounts to a belief that | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| Relaxation can exist only in non-movement, that is stagnating passivity, as opposed to a movement that is | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| such misconceptions, all forward movement appears dangerous. The stagnating, restricting, limiting life in which one dares not | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| way. So, my friends, when you find yourself stagnating, lazy, passive, or inert, and when you desire | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| greater motivation to request guidance so that your stagnating parts will yield to the moving parts. Little | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Stagnation..................95 | |
| not be congestion, but rather a standstill or stagnation. The sluggishness brought about by the wrong use | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| from what angle to approach yourselves to avoid stagnation. Is this clear, my friends? Think well about | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| static principle in its negative aspect manifests as stagnation, putrefaction, lifelessness, inertia. It is important to realize | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| interesting speculation and meditation, my friends. For where stagnation exists, progress cannot occur. Thus, backward movement -- | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| direction. But in the negative static state, in stagnation, there is no movement. Without movement, there can | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| person, because the easy and pleasant conditions cause stagnation, while an unpleasant condition may shake the entire | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| negative in the sense of a standstill, or stagnation. The feet involve the entire body -- or | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| term or word. It helps you to avoid stagnation in your concepts. It avoids clinging to ready-made | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| soul between construction and creativity versus destruction and stagnation. All these, and many more, indicate a person's | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| exist. Additional reasons may be, for instance, a stagnation in a certain way, even if not in | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the other is the supposed safety in sameness. Stagnation is a distortion of the timeless element of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| imprisoned. It prevents growth, produces some form of stagnation on all levels of the personality. Only the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| an inverted, restricting movement that finally leads to stagnation and inner starvation. This may not affect the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| its nature. It is static and tends toward stagnation. All of you who do this work have | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| and in private work as a period of stagnation. It need not be that, but it depends | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| having conscious daydreams may also indicate resignation or stagnation. This may sound paradoxical, because I just finished | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| The second point is that when one experiences stagnation, this is always due to an inner, perhaps | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| very carefully and you will see that your stagnation is bound to be an avoidance of inner | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| take many forms. I repeat, wherever there is stagnation, discouragement, and depression about the validity of your | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| the worse does not necessarily indicate relapse or stagnation. It may be a necessary, temporary reaction to | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| or it may take shape as sloth, apathy, stagnation or a sense of utter drabness, where everything | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| times you may feel a relapse or a stagnation. If you persevere, the light will become steadier | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| to work in opposing directions. The result is stagnation of growth, as well as lack of the | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| stagnate with all the destructive results of such stagnation. It is exactly the same process with an | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| goals. This leads to indifference and sloth, to stagnation and even masochism. It leads to the cruelty | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| regions of your personality. Considered superficially, growth and stagnation often seem similar, because both follow circular movements | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| or it may give in to apathy and stagnation. On this path, you often detect how your | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| movement is only too often due to emotional stagnation. The effort to increase consciousness is itself movement | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| close up, leaving you once again separate. Then stagnation and gray hopelessness set in again. But when | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| and error, the result must be separateness and stagnation. These two principles might be visualized as the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| freedom from fear, distrust, insecurity, isolation, separateness, and stagnation. Such objectivity must open the door to full | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| area is diverted into other channels, disorder and stagnation follow. The momentary relief from having to deal | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| force. If your now is confusion, depression, and stagnation, and you face these feelings fully, formulating their | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| Dissensions are reconciled, sickness healed, and growth overcomes stagnation; calm prevails where frantic unrest created excessive movement | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| to. They hanker after a state of complete stagnation, of non-movement. This would, indeed, be death. People | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| activate the necessary inner powers. This will prevent stagnation and the possibility of giving up in despair | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| see the way in which to search. This stagnation is a result of your energies being geared | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| one hand, relaxation is viewed as non-movement or stagnation, on the other, mobility is viewed as tense | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| tension and anxiety, and relaxation will exist without stagnation. All of you, my friends, try to find | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| and tension? Where do you have relaxation and stagnation, immobility? Observe them in your mental makeup, in | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| QUESTION: Do mobility and tension, and relaxation and stagnation lessen as you remove the pleasure principle from | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| of the pleasure principle, that in itself is stagnation. It is a non-movement, whereas the whole cosmos | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| of losing out in the process -- hence stagnation. As I said at the beginning of this | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| unwelcome. Similarly, in distortion, fulfillment turns into satiation, stagnation -- a dead-end street. The individual then fluctuates | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| thus also the feared opposite. The status quo, stagnation, creates agitation, or movement in the distorted sense | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| that is, love. When this movement is lacking, stagnation, stasis and nonlife ensue -- that is, death | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| life's traumas do. Favorable events may encourage laziness, stagnation, and illusion. What you make of anything that | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| curve means fear of change, thus you seek stagnation as a means of safety, as a means | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| self-interest can, however, be against the interest of stagnation and non-growth of yourself and others. Once you | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| many people find themselves paralyzed in inactivity and stagnation. Temporarily, people will hold themselves back to prevent | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| their own time and rhythm without danger of stagnation. You will now learn to let fruition take | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| of joyousness. Expansion and bliss belong together, as stagnation and frustration belong together. Expansion is a self-activating | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| opposing forces that pull toward a state of stagnation. First let us clarify the real meaning of | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| and invest in stirring up your areas of stagnation if spontaneous unification is to occur. Where emotional | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| the whole cosmos will be one. Constriction and stagnation connote that you are content with a very | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| of life, it is still preferable to total stagnation. Human beings go through several stages in their | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| nothing remains. Either overt friction and dissension or stagnation and boredom will wreck what was once so | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| energies and creative forces, so they stagnate. From stagnation, putrefaction follows. Matter putrefies when it stagnates, when | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| direct expression, or indirectly, through denial, that is stagnation, to a negation of life. This is why | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| love, cruelty into healthy aggression and self- assertion, stagnation into joy and pleasure. This is inevitable. What | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| again, must wake up out of its own stagnation. Stagnant, fixed energy/consciousness needs its own loosening up | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| influx of energy can help you to overcome stagnation and transform a negative condition. Let those come | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| commit themselves to wanting to overcome their present stagnation, to wanting additional help. Four people came forth | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| at all. Laziness is a manifestation of apathy, stagnation and paralysis, a result of stagnant energy in | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| were loath to experience and acknowledge them. The stagnation of energy currents traps not only feelings but | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| will and intent toward overcoming this self-induced protective stagnation, by mustering the courage to feel what is | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| that creates frenzy as a counter-action against the stagnation. It is as though the personality fought hard | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| as though the personality fought hard against the stagnation by superimposing compulsive action, and then became more | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| became more alienated from the truth of its stagnation, and from the reason for the stagnation, which | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| its stagnation, and from the reason for the stagnation, which is the fear of feeling all feelings | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| lies in laziness and in all types of stagnation. This fear sits in everyone, even in those | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| feeling self is spiritual hygiene and prevents the stagnation of your soul. It is the metabolism of | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| will, and stagnant, denied feelings. Tensions and energy stagnation caused by distortions on any of the other | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| appear safe and easy, but it leads to stagnation and death -- ever recurring death. The ego | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| ultimate reality, of the totally unified entity. The stagnation is really very effortful, because it requires an | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| an uncontrolled, destructive acting out, or in the stagnation of all creative energies, potentials and capacity for | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| light into the darkness and movement into the stagnation. If you stop moving, you begin to die | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| have no intention to move out of their stagnation. They are then surprised when their yearning for | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| way it now manifests. The current predominance of stagnation, low vitality, and frequent sexual problems are a | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| energy itself is feared and a state of stagnation becomes preferred as the lesser evil. This numbness | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| scale of the inner battle between movement and stagnation, between reality and illusion, between fulfillment and despair | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| and resist anything, it is the non-movement, the stagnation, the denial of going with the process that | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| beauty of the inner movement, and you trust stagnation. You distrust the truth and trust the denial | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| you to not stay behind in a useless stagnation, to give you the incentive, if you only | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| important function. At other periods living alone represents stagnation and a refusal to follow the organic movement | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| other periods where staying within that framework represents stagnation. But one cannot generalize about when one or | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| at a later period be a sign of stagnation and inadvisable for you. So you have to | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and deep change, and because this fear causes stagnation, you seek change on a more superficial level | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| not be thought of in the sense of stagnation. It is static rather in the sense of | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| believe yourself safe in, though you also feel stagnation. You feel you are missing out on your | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| sense -- always support indifference, selfishness, nonparticipation, promoting stagnation and hindering growth and change in the self | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| in order to establish harmony in your soul. Stagnation and inertia are indeed the greatest evil. They | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| to a halt when the movement is obstructed. Stagnation was the fate of many spiritual, religious, psychological | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| been filtering through into your world of matter. Stagnation has been the fate of so much that | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| may be any number of reasons for the stagnation, none of them necessarily bad or shameful. When | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |