| Tooth.......................13 | |
| shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this from your own experience in this work. Tooth: What is a tooth? You need your teeth | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| experience in this work. Tooth: What is a tooth? You need your teeth to bite, to chew | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can assimilate it. The intrinsic meaning of a tooth is that of an instrument of assimilation. As | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with the eye -- seeing, understanding. But the tooth refers specifically to the process that makes it | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for an eye and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, that you resist | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with, it is understandable that unconsciously you fight tooth and nail against giving up what seems to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| never an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Here we have a vicious | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Here we have a vicious circle: Believing totally | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Judaism, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth makes admitting a sin impossible | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| for an eye and a tooth for a tooth makes admitting a sin impossible. The punishment is | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Torment.....................3 | |
| inner disharmony. There will be in them no torment, no bitterness, no tension, nor any sadness or | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| It never produces anxiety, tension, hopelessness, bitterness, or torment. It never puts you into a trap from | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| bitterness, anger, and defiance. The resulting confusion is torment for the soul. As I said, the realization | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Torn........................47 | |
| really in pain but feel upset, rebellious, and torn in many directions, possessed by very disharmonious feelings | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| unify yourself inwardly and will no longer be torn by inner contradictions. In order to reach a | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| gained. As long as an evil is not torn out by its roots it can always reappear | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| so strongly. But when the mask has been torn down and the patient is confronted with the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| is that very often the human soul is torn apart by conflicting desires -- one part of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| As long as the evil root is not torn out, it must again produce impure fruit. Only | 22 SALVATION |
| time you will struggle, but after you have torn down the first few stones of the wall | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| You can start rebuilding only after you have torn down the false edifice. If you have the | 31 SHAME |
| in different ways: as a child you were torn between the desire to be loved and accepted | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| force as a living reality that cannot be torn out without grave harm to the human personality | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all these circumstances, just seeing a building being torn down, may think this is destruction, chaos and | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you try to emulate in the other, being torn apart by the very fact that you are | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| The greater the discrepancy, the more you are torn in this conflict -- and in other conflicts | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| of the truth, you will never be again torn by the old conflict that either you can | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| serve the same end, you must inwardly be torn apart. Only conscious awareness of this conflict will | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the safe side. No wonder your soul is torn in half and that your strength evaporates. No | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| way or another, you find that you are torn between several alternatives. By stripping away any superimposed | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| this level of duality on which you are torn between the opposites is still not the core | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| extreme example of this is suicide. You are torn between two unsatisfactory and damaging attempts to negate | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| a conflict this is in the soul? How torn the soul must be! Whatever it does is | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| distorted. Originally a person may have been so torn between the first two aspects that a way | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| withdrawal, or false serenity, that soul is still torn in half, but no longer aware of it | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| seeing only two equally dissatisfying alternatives. You are torn in half by this very condition. If one | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| only two equally dissatisfying alternatives, and you are torn between them. On the one hand, you give | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| for warmth, love, and affection cannot really be torn out, he will seek a remedy against the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| sinfulness within you. You will no longer be torn between the alternatives of either self-acceptance and self- | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| loves one, the other withdraws. He is constantly torn. I wonder if you could show me some | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| will happen to them, nothing else. They are torn between these two alternatives, interpreting every outer happening | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| evasion cripples its unfoldment. Therefore, you are inwardly torn. The inner conflict confuses you because you are | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| self-centered child you still harbor within, you are torn apart in the storm raging inside of you | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| is such an unhappy place because people are torn; they do not do one thing without being | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| everything so easy and simple. You still are torn and paralyzed by the fight between the primitive | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| having ignored the period of growth, you have torn out the seed you have planted. The mutual | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| use this solution or not, you will be torn between fighting or submitting. Both create tension, anxiety | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the tearing down is over. What must be torn down are only illusions, falseness; never real positivity | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| and frustrated, or even produce pain, expresses the torn state of your inner direction. You want the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| come into existence. All the while you are torn between the force of the deeply hidden original | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| in two opposite directions make you feel literally torn apart. The pain of not understanding what goes | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| you to make satisfying choices. You are then torn in inner dissension and painful confusion. In this | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| And can you perceive the pain of being torn apart by going into two opposing directions? This | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| effort into the new way. While you are torn by the apparent futility of equally undesirable alternatives | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| shore, to the false structure that must be torn down. You will soon know that there is | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| and implode and destroy themselves. Soul substance is torn apart and rebuilds itself simultaneously. Creation is taking | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| into others, to no longer be confused and torn! This ability grows from giving up your stake | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| also resent them for it. Thus you are torn by many conflicts. The question is, are you | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| of your consciousness you exist in a world torn between the forces of good and the forces | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| unification of your split, where you are still torn between belief and unbelief, trust and fear, hate | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Torture.....................7 | |
| can a hardship not be a hardship? Take torture, for instance. I'm not afraid of death, but | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| fearing the same thing. And this truly is torture. At times you desire more: at other times | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| reacting -- where you fluctuate between twisted anxiety, torture and hopelessness, on the one hand, and numbness | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| that comes more easily and naturally, without the torture inherent in negative creation. The more consciousness has | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| the inner universe in unison. Loneliness and the torture of conflict about the need for and fear | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| phenomenon is known to the devilish practitioners who torture human beings for political and other power reasons | 254 SURRENDER |
| they see this transformation happen, they stop their torture, allowing their victims to regain once more a | 254 SURRENDER |
| Tortured....................9 | |
| of his power, until he himself will be tortured by his fellow evil spirits. And he who | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| a sick and masochistic way, wanting to be tortured or wronged just to satisfy your guilt feelings | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| to express healthy anger as opposed to twisted, tortured anger. When insecurity makes a person too anxious | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| see and admire it or not. False, damaging, tortured moralizing and self-accusation always hides a deep inner | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| insistence not to change. Hence, moralizing is a tortured inner movement; recognizing the fault in question is | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| eternal within yourself, what is never conflicted or tortured. You will learn to experience it as a | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| -- underneath the level on which you are tortured, anxious, numb, hopeless, and twisted in pain -- | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| Later, it will become more frequent. Underneath the tortured level a new way of being evolves. You | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| much more, that you could live without painful tortured confusions and function on a level of inner | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Touched.....................34 | |
| own way. In my last lecture I briefly touched upon the subject of decision-making. I was asked | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| and touch; feeling states cannot be seen or touched. When we explain to you that thoughts and | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| have been, the moment you have been negatively touched by it, there must be something wrong within | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| will continue to increase until you can be touched only by love and brotherly understanding. Then you | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| now I will discuss objectivity, a subject I touched upon occasionally in the past. Objectivity is essential | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| is unimportant only when you cannot be emotionally touched. There are many questions that cannot touch you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| always tries to harmonize and establish balance, also touched man. He was swept into it, but half-heartedly | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| flat understanding of the intellect alone. I have touched upon this vast subject only in the broadest | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| she is capable of because it has been touched off by the self-destructiveness. These are the seemingly | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the meaning of mature love. Although we have touched on some points of it in this and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| may often be the case too. I have touched upon the subject of self- destructiveness in the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| to admit that an exalted one can be touched by human weaknesses, such a person tries to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| me. QUESTION: In a previous lecture you briefly touched on the subject of myth, which you defined | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| after the lecture, the subject of reincarnation was touched again. Reincarnation as a hypothesis was doubted and | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hour. We began to discuss needs, but we touched only the very surface of this all-important subject | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| another person and certain areas in you are touched, or when you encounter criticism or disapproval. You | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| reactions. COMMENT: Often in our discussions topics are touched that we have great difficulty defining and expressing | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| capacity from still another angle, one we have touched upon in the past only in a cursory | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| realize that this forbidden area has to be touched, because its existence has been totally ignored. Only | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| some streams, before the forbidden areas can be touched. The areas you do not want to look | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| discuss a topic that I have, so far, touched upon only indirectly: the concept of evil. Traditional | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| that many of you here have been immediately touched by what I said. Some may even feel | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| aspect that I have only generally and vaguely touched upon, for the simple reason that none of | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| wall separates you from the ability to be touched by experience. This does not apply only to | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| as well as unpleasure -- fearing to be touched by experience and therefore building a defensive wall | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the course of our work together we have touched on this topic in various ways. Now I | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| who are here for the first time be touched by some of the things I have said | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| materialistic blindness, where only what is seen and touched exists, while all occurrences outside one's control seem | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| you have inflicted, or are still inflicting. I touched upon this subject before, but the time has | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| platform from which only what can be seen, touched, known and proven seems real. And you never | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| require at this point. Others may immediately be touched by it and know that this is exactly | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| for it is a concept I have not touched upon before, and it is time for you | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| it with His magnificent reality. You will be touched by His breath more frequently, you will sense | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| note of another dimension that has not been touched upon previously. I have opened new vistas for | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |