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| then the love for this one person will weaken them. They may be so afraid to lose | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| your soul. All unclarified conflicts, big or small, weaken you. Therefore, it would be very advisable to | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| right to give you the answer. It would weaken you. It will serve your development to find | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and how you must do it, it would weaken you. What I always do, however, is to | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| pray and hope that these unruly currents will weaken with time. I cannot help feeling that way | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| again and again, the lower currents will indeed weaken until eventually they disappear. You will thus accomplish | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| negative experiences should make you stronger. If they weaken you, it is not the negative experience that | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| change, it is good. If shame does not weaken you, but if it strengthens you, it contains | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| not only be unethical, but they would also weaken you. There are certain exceptions, but how, when | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has to be kept from us, lest it weaken the instinct for survival. It seems to me | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| of these emotions and their deeper significance, you weaken their impact. In this way you keep moving | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| create fears and tensions. This is bound to weaken you first in your emotions, then, when a | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your reactions and feelings that cause provocation will weaken the habit of provocation sufficiently until you finally | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| that does not want to let down or weaken the disciples. But in fact it is the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| from the real self and the more you weaken and impoverish it. In the course of this | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| a most substantial insight that enables you to weaken the impact of the idealized self. Then, and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| insight. Merely by observing your reactions, you will weaken the defeat's negative impact. Beware of superimposing the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| rationalizing and explaining them away, they will eventually weaken, so that the other set of feelings will | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| instinctual urge to scream, would eventually damage and weaken the respective organs. The urge to indulge in | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| itself, it is a healthy pain that cannot weaken the soul, provided you go through it. But | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| suffered before such awareness. The unfulfillment will not weaken you. On the contrary, through gaining deeper, fuller | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| truth about your parents, will your resistance gradually weaken. There is no better way to pray than | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| but in an organic way your resistance will weaken, provided you do not keep pushing the matter | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| when you are not in the process will weaken it. So again I say to you, my | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to love enables you to help others to weaken their own defenses and destructive patterns, even if | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| you to justify yourself. Healthy anger will never weaken you. Any healthy feeling will give you strength | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| be negative, while an apparently positive feeling may weaken you if it is dishonest, if displacement and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| way -- in a way that does not weaken and confuse. This involvement is productive for all | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| to resort to all sorts of tactics that weaken your real self even more. It is so | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| of its values without guilt. It will not weaken when false accusations are made. This process is | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| closer you come to eliminating the no-current. You weaken it merely by observing it. When the petrified | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| continuously. Only then will the no- current slowly weaken. Each observation may bring deeper and wider understanding | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| assert your rights, while negation and destructiveness must weaken you and make you defenseless. When it is | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| are known and understood, they already begin to weaken in effect, and thereby a positive self-perpetuating magnetic | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| -- another, undesirable, side. This undesirable side may weaken the wish for the good -- entirely unconsciously | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| purpose of the specific real feeling. They never weaken the individual. They never drive the individual into | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| the result of a chain reaction that must weaken the self, waste life, and alienate the self | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| in this way of being, the more you weaken and then further alienate yourself from the center | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| precisely the compulsive need with which you enslave, weaken, and paralyze yourself. When you let go, you | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| comes along. As you discover this, you will weaken the rage with which you blame others, circumstances | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| always conflicts, contrary longings and will directions that weaken the force. In the constructive, expanding direction, this | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| where it seems most difficult at first, you weaken the bridge that allows the energies, consciousness and | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the force to strengthen the new and to weaken the old. I want that baby to grow | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| aware of these negative aspects, they will eventually weaken the organism and create either illness, or, perhaps | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| toward life intact, to not allow negative experiences weaken your inner pulse. Your inner will directly affects | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
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| of giving such help and will, instead, be weakened. Rather, they ought to seek out contacts which | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| same origins may prevail as for homosexuality, but weakened by the healthy opposite force, which may be | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| an event and will be strengthened rather than weakened. You will feel something very constructive about it | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| essential prerequisite for true inner strength, man has weakened himself at the core. By denying in himself | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| mean. You will know exactly when you have weakened your idealized self by fully understanding its function | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| tyranny and pride in your idealized self-image are weakened by this work. Proceed on this path of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| has to be fulfilled. If not, you feel weakened and humiliated. Since such fulfillment of every wish | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| clearly understood. A stronger no- current is constantly weakened by your awareness and is less harmful than | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| is attached to a negative situation. What has weakened you was that you lost awareness of your | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| your liberated true strength may win over the weakened negative self of another person -- whose projections | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| of your childhood the defenses cannot be sufficiently weakened for safe reexperiencing on the emotional level. When | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| blaming, arrogant, punitive attitude. Thus human beings are weakened and misled about their own potentialities. Psychology ignores | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| series of embodiments in which it has consistently weakened its connection to the real self by willfully | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| open a way for all creatures captivated and weakened by satanic influences. This has to do precisely | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
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| the wrong kind of love is weak and weakening, and will thus make you react in the | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| most difficult thing for you and the most weakening aspect of your life is that you cannot | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and furnishes all other divine aspects rather than weakening or excluding them. So it may be possible | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| be senseless, then you have the destructive and weakening kind of shame, which will never get you | 31 SHAME |
| to rationalize their wrong attitude. An unproductive and weakening kind of self- occupation also does exist and | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| with the knowledge that your love, instead of weakening, must grow and mature, you can overcome your | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the way one current strengthens another instead of weakening it, as happens in the disharmonious, unpurified being | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| negative experience that is the cause of your weakening, but your attitude to the experience. This does | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| becoming more hopeless than ever, is destructive and weakening. My dear friends, let these words give you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| with your inadequacy, but this encounter, instead of weakening you will make you strong and free. You | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| personality. Take the mass image that love is weakening and dangerous. Such an unconscious concept will affect | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| a lightning flash, sometimes stronger, at other times weakening. It is angular, pointed, it undulates in its | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| more constructively, and will be strengthening instead of weakening. I repeat, my friends, it is very necessary | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| resulting from tension and fear, indirectly creates a weakening of the physical body, and directly an unconscious | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| strengthening the healthy aspect of your psyche, and weakening the aspects that are unhealthy, childish, and resistant | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| it is entirely repressed and overcompensated by a weakening, unproductive pity. The pity, then, makes you feel | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| self-respect depend upon others. This dependency has a weakening effect, since it leads to submissiveness and allows | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| productive feelings be replaced by a false and weakening sentimentality. When fear of true deep feelings vanishes | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| some means, such as the numbing process, of weakening its impact. The helplessness continues to exist in | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| example, inner body processes -- you overexert yourself, weakening your energies and courting disappointment and frustration. If | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| relief from a cramped ego always mean the weakening of the ego. If, on the one hand | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| out has not yet been found. Rather than weakening you, the hopelessness can then be an incentive | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| of feeling. For example, loving no longer appears weakening and humiliating. On the contrary, it creates a | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| for you must create a real, permeating and weakening guilt. So much of your weakness, hesitation, self-doubt | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |