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that any question, no matter how remote, may threaten to break down fences. This produces a paralysis 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
life. But the small daily rejections and failures threaten your security and belief in yourself. They cause 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
If you know that the pain will not threaten your safety, you can bear it in a 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
control, your destructive aims could take over and threaten annihilation. Giving up control must appear as death 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
and rejecting of new ideas that seem to threaten you. When ego control is too tight, such 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
that a different mode of approach appears to threaten you. But you do not realize that it 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
the struggle against the dark vacuum seems to threaten the individual with extinction. Giving up evil seems 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
of being unknown and new -- does not threaten you. Imagine a life in which there is 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
 
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see the weaknesses of people, without being personally threatened, and without generalizing this human aspect. Right now 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
that your idealized self may feel questioned and threatened, either by your own limitations, by others, or 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
often entirely untrue. Yet, you cannot help feeling threatened, endangered. Deep within, you panic as though your 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
imagined and unrealistic. When a human being feels threatened by not being loved, admired, approved of or 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
me. As a result, I will not be threatened by the dangers of a hostile world, which 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
see this discrepancy, you will no longer feel threatened by the negative emotions. You will be able 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
you that without it you would somehow be threatened or annihilated. Make conscious what it is you 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
that comes to you. You feel attacked and threatened. The feeling in you, coming as a reaction 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
on the defensive, you are frightened; you feel threatened and endangered. There certainly are realistic dangers, and 101 THE DEFENSE
of the matter. Are you really endangered or threatened because of hurt, frustration, or criticism? You, yourself 101 THE DEFENSE
is a very distinct reason that you feel threatened and truly endangered without the doubt. It is 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
means death to you because you feel nonexistent. Threatened by this I am not, you tightly hold 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
appears like annihilation, because your very existence seems threatened. Humanity's separateness is the result of this threat 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
bad. On the unitive plane, growth is not threatened by an opposite; hence it need not be 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
because in the unitive state they are never threatened by an opposite. The two ways of growing 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
in a new land where light is never threatened by darkness. You have constructed the old state 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
your life may be upset. You feel inwardly threatened and at a loss. Outwardly, even the apparently 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
impossible because the experience of pleasure is always threatened by the attached negativity. The individual thus becomes 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
is not as strong, but you also feel threatened by natural feelings in yourself and you pay 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
struggles in her or his own development feels threatened by any display of the unchanneled primitive self 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
to give anything of myself. Whenever I feel threatened by rejection, criticism, frustration of my immediate desires 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
world lends itself well to attracting enraged and threatened feelings. Thus the expression becomes one of hostility 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
will know what I mean. You have been threatened by abandonment every day since your childhood. Until 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
without exaggerating its impact on you, without feeling threatened by it. As long as you want to 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
will ease up and feel less and less threatened. Instead you will become open to pleasure in 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
are relaxed, unfearful, trusting. You are not easily threatened or frightened. You maintain a positive attitude, even 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
incapable of forming any relationships. He felt constantly threatened by people, by anything and everything. However, despite 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
approaches to evil. You have all experienced how threatened, anxious, and uncomfortable you feel when you are 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
this intent is not maintained, the personality feels threatened: the child equates giving up the resistance with 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
yourself of guilt, you will become anxious, afraid, threatened with having your defenses penetrated -- so you 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
to look fully at yourself. You are still threatened by what you may see. In the last 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
On the other hand, if you are very threatened by and defended against pain -- the pain 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
exists in him. The man is then not threatened by an equal. He does not require an 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
is truly one of equality; he is not threatened by someone who is as creative, as adequate 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
negativities filled you with anxiety and discomfort. It threatened you the way your own lower self threatened 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
threatened you the way your own lower self threatened you. Your perceptions may have been only partially 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
we shall start with the feeling of being threatened if Jesus Christ is indeed a manifestation of 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
submitting Christian, Jews who deny Christ feel immensely threatened about their parents being wrong. If they are 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
up for it. The Jews in power felt threatened -- unjustly so -- by Jesus Christ. They 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
unjustly so -- by Jesus Christ. They were threatened only insofar as they wished to deny divine 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
 
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And also how we should feel toward the threatening Russians and Chinese? ANSWER: The most important preliminary 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
or refuse to comply will no longer be threatening. You can do it in a relaxed, easy 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
to postpone exposing yourself to what still seems threatening to you. Then at least you will not 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
with the feared circumstances until they lose their threatening aspect. As long as you want the positive 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
danger falsely believed to be unavoidable seems less threatening when it is quickly brought about by themselves 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
Loving seems such a risk, so dangerous, so threatening, so irrevocable. Nothing could be further from the 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
freedom, right, beauty, love, truth, life, without a threatening opposite, but when you apply this on the 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
is too tight, such words may indeed seem threatening. That which is salvation appears like your undoing 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
mind that trusts what was hitherto the most threatening thing of all -- life's involuntary processes within 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
The good feelings seem to be even more threatening than the negative ones regarding the loss of 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
fear, and fear makes expansion appear painful and threatening. Fear contracts into unpleasure. Hence the disturbed organism 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
of having to hide the underlying shameful and threatening forcing-current. It is threatening because you know quite 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
the underlying shameful and threatening forcing-current. It is threatening because you know quite well that if it 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
Subsequently, you must unearth that rejection is so threatening because you feel worthless and do not wish 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
believe exists. Truth is never anywhere near as threatening as the foggy half-truths and evasions, no matter 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
way must be taken. This new way seems threatening; it seems to conflict with all past endeavors 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
are truly infinite. The path ceases to be threatening or laborious when you meet your obstructions and 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
in the fresh air of truth, all these threatening feelings become more and more aggrandized, exaggerated and 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
the experience of them. Such an experience is threatening only before you enter into it. Once you 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
hard to conceal these feelings, because it is threatening to hate the person one needs and depends 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
apprehensive of your own evil, regardless of how threatening another person or an outside event appears. If 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
Whenever you are in an unpleasant mood, a threatening situation, confusion and darkness, you can be sure 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
becomes forever more difficult and exposure forever more threatening. Fear of truth -- hence resistance -- negates 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
appear desirable and makes open, flexible movement appear threatening and/or humiliating. Pride and fear are necessarily coupled 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
The ego's trick is to make change appear threatening and life-annihilating. Worrying and anxiety also prevent you 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
in not letting in anything that might seem threatening to you. To the degree you can acknowledge 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
of values, while anything new they regard as threatening, disrupting, wrong, bad. These people are, of course 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
restraint, strong impulses exist, but they are very threatening. Such submitting Christians feel themselves to be sinners 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
of expressing the rebellion openly is much too threatening. So, the rebellion, too, must be repressed and 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
the spiritual forces seems to be the most threatening and dangerous experience of all. These powers are 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
unfathomable, that is totally unknown, that is deeply threatening because it may be the end of one's 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE

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