| Destructively...............24 | |
| There disharmonious forms build themselves every bit as destructively as from conscious thought. Diligent students of positive | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| of these extremes. If they think about others destructively, judgingly, they are apt to believe that they | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| also possible that a negative and weak person, destructively inclined, has incarnated sooner than was good for | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| compulsively seeking to hide it, or using it destructively out of an inner rebellion that is not | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| use. They are still preoccupied with using them destructively. As long as this is the case, their | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self-preservation is distorted, it fights against this feeling destructively. As you proceed with this work, you learn | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| whether to give in to resistance and act destructively, or choose constructive ways which call for meeting | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| Your belief that you must go on feeling destructively until something other than yourself liberates you is | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| you can observe yourself thinking, feeling, and acting destructively, while before you were at best only theoretically | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| you can see yourself think, feel, and act destructively; where you are furthermore aware that this causes | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the superimposed levels of falseness, neurotic needs, and destructively selfish and exploitative demands that hinder the unfoldment | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the process: fighting such a frustration blindly and destructively cannot eliminate its cause. Yet on the surface | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| and to which I choose to react negatively, destructively, making myself hopeless, complaining and feeling angry about | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| unknowingly used your mental processes negatively, thereby creating destructively. Then you can formulate what you now wish | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| your own life. Discovering how you have created destructively is never just a bad experience, for it | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| life as bleak and hopeless because someone acts destructively toward you. Therefore this responsive negativity must also | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| a reaction does not require you to act destructively against others, you will accept the anger without | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| walls, you must fear death, even as you destructively wish for it, motivated by hostility and the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| as self-caused and self- wanted, sometimes wisely, sometimes destructively. Exactly the same principle of cause and effect | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| personality which becomes confused, blind and caught in destructively acting out, something must give. Suppose you build | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| will either deny them or act them out destructively against others. Neither one of these two alternatives | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| self-discipline is lacking, where adults or children act destructively toward their environment or themselves. Children's self-destructive acts | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| that do have the power, either constructively or destructively. So the lightly uttered words, without impact, without | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Then, where formerly you would have blindly and destructively rebelled, you may now stand up, but this | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Destructiveness.............258 | |
| slowly but surely you will dissolve all the destructiveness of the forces of evil that rage in | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| on the psychological level as hostility, overactivity, quarreling, destructiveness, cruelty, impatience, thoughtlessness. The principle of restriction in | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| tendencies. Self-destructiveness will always know how to find destructiveness. If need be, it will manage to squeeze | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| only to your faults, your selfishness, and your destructiveness, which causes you to form images in your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| I have touched upon the subject of self- destructiveness in the past, but in the light of | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| life, in different emotions, for instance. Has the destructiveness of thoughts and feelings any reference to this | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| right place, with the right people, and the destructiveness of heedlessly letting go all control, of not | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| superfluous this protective measure is apart from its destructiveness -- will be to relax the hardened mass | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| used to them. You may have discovered their destructiveness, their artificiality, but you are as yet still | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| climax that is ultimately bound to dissolve the destructiveness, while non-relating, even under the guise of false | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| difficult, or even more so, than facing your destructiveness. This may be so for a variety of | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| If it is prohibited from manifestation, the inherent destructiveness is not eliminated: it festers underground while kept | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| breed love and unity. The no- current is destructiveness because it inadvertently deviates from truthfulness, thereby breeding | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| endeavors. This very same No has brought much destructiveness and misery, and I do not allow it | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| cruel acts. In these instances, all harm, all destructiveness, all evil results from denying the spontaneous real | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| must follow. The question is often asked why destructiveness, illness, war and cruelty exist. The answers that | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| attitude, has a much less destructive effect than destructiveness attached to and combined with the positive life | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| a destructive attitude, this combination creates evil. Real destructiveness is, therefore, not only a distortion of truth | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| not involved and inadvertently used, then evil, or destructiveness, would be of very short duration. The best | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| an illusion. You can be instantly liberated from destructiveness by desiring that which is most constructive at | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| fear, guilt, and helplessness. When you let your destructiveness control you, you move further and further away | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| to be a victim of your negativity and destructiveness. Simply declaring your vigorous intent to not let | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| dearest friends, the fear of your negativity and destructiveness is so heavy only because you believe that | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| and life. Then, when you uncover your unconscious destructiveness, you begin to fear your own unconscious, over | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| regions of conflict, error, separation, doubt, ignorance and destructiveness. There, if you use the key I give | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| of closeness as the simple common denominator. Your destructiveness and your insistence on holding on to both | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| nothing to fear from life except your own destructiveness. When this destructiveness is given up, the key | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| from life except your own destructiveness. When this destructiveness is given up, the key to life is | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| others concentrate on meeting themselves and their outer destructiveness so as to eliminate the latter. Both approaches | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| defend and assert your rights, while negation and destructiveness must weaken you and make you defenseless. When | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| are. See yourself being in the negation and destructiveness and set out to find what further undetected | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| further chain reactions of violation, error, confusion, and destructiveness? Fundamentally, it is ignorance of this process. When | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| You must use the power to switch from destructiveness to constructiveness, from separateness to inclusion. You must | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| become truly willing to give up negativity and destructiveness. In the last few lectures we discussed how | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| beginning, little by little, to discover your deliberate destructiveness; how you want to be destructive, how you | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| of my friends have already found this deliberate destructiveness. Those who have not still have to come | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| where you truly desire to give up the destructiveness and turn to a constructive, inclusive, friendly attitude | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| can make this essential decision to give up destructiveness, you will find a battle within you. You | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| having clearly defined the nature of your deliberate destructiveness, issue the following instruction into your psyche: I | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| psyche: I truly desire to give up my destructiveness. I want constructiveness. I choose this, not by | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| about to discover and bring into focus the destructiveness. Then the next point is: Why do you | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| that opens up when you let go of destructiveness, negation, denial, negativity? What is the fear? I | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| not want to see the deliberateness of your destructiveness, you are stuck. This is, basically, the most | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| through to become acutely aware of the deliberate destructiveness and avoidance of productive, positive unfoldment. Does anyone | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| realization, of a fear of letting go of destructiveness, of a fear of the positive? Does destructiveness | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| destructiveness, of a fear of the positive? Does destructiveness feel safer? Does anyone have a question in | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| I made the decision to give up my destructiveness and cruelty and enlisted my divine self. I | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| moment, is through constant awareness and meditation on destructiveness and the tremendous fear of joy and relaxed | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| must become more acutely aware of your deliberate destructiveness. For there is, of course, a direct tie | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| have already indicated. To the extent that deliberate destructiveness is unconscious, and therefore cannot be given up | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| cannot be embraced. When you comprehend your deliberate destructiveness in all its forms -- not necessarily in | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| The fear cannot be understood when the deliberate destructiveness is not conscious. This is what I advise | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| dears. QUESTION: I have become aware of this destructiveness quite recently. It is very clear to me | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| self grows commensurately with the giving up of destructiveness. The destructiveness has to be given up before | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| commensurately with the giving up of destructiveness. The destructiveness has to be given up before you can | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| go. Whether the letting go means giving up destructiveness, cruelty, evasion, or any other unproductive way of | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| field. As long as there is negativity and destructiveness within you, you must fear to let go | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| go of your outer, controlling ego. Since your destructiveness comes from a negative magnetic field and perpetuates | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| only be done when my own negativity and destructiveness in this particular area becomes conscious. Where in | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| respect is my pleasure principle attached to a destructiveness? I intend to see all this. This then | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| to mean that you should embrace injustice and destructiveness around you without a responsible attempt to eliminate | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| uncovering your defects and illusions, your negativity or destructiveness, which you deny and negate. This was very | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| you are face to face with your own destructiveness. And I am referring to more than the | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| hostility; I mean an overall, pervasive, essential, lingering destructiveness that has been dormant all along and merely | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| were at best only theoretically aware of such destructiveness and could merely surmise its presence by the | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| that this condition is useless and senseless, that destructiveness does not serve one good purpose. Nevertheless, you | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| of being unable to let go of this destructiveness. It is not easy to reach an awareness | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| of your evolution, namely the letting go of destructiveness, the nature of destructiveness must be better understood | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the letting go of destructiveness, the nature of destructiveness must be better understood. The whole human problem | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| with humanity's lack of comprehension of its own destructiveness. Human beings are geared to think of a | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| when you come to deal with your own destructiveness and negativity. There is one life force which | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| surface consciousness. The difficulty of ridding yourself of destructiveness is, of course, also due to other reasons | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| be aware of the pleasure attached to your destructiveness. Instead of feeling guilty about this pleasure and | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| The attachment of or connection between pleasure and destructiveness has been instrumental in the widespread guilt human | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| feelings. For how can pleasure be liberated from destructiveness if both are considered equally wrong? And yet | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| and the same. When pleasure is linked to destructiveness, destructiveness cannot be given up. It feels as | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the same. When pleasure is linked to destructiveness, destructiveness cannot be given up. It feels as if | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| life you hold on equally to pleasure and destructiveness, feeling guilty and at the same time afraid | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| development, to ascertain the pleasurable aspect in your destructiveness. You must feel the pleasure attached to the | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| conditions. The pain of this blockage has caused destructiveness which at the same time contains aspects of | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| permit yourself to feel the pleasure in the destructiveness. Then and only then will you truly comprehend | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| will enable you to dissolve the negativity, the destructiveness, and this of course is essential for the | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| You will understand and experience why and how destructiveness, in whatever shape or form it manifests in | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| will no longer be a problem to abandon destructiveness. For one cannot succeed by forcing it away | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| of the forces within that constitute this very destructiveness. Yes, the will must of course be there | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the development a natural, organic, harmonious process. Thus destructiveness dissolves itself. It is not deliberately dropped like | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| will be free from a specific strain of destructiveness. Once you comprehend the uniting principle, that good | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the personality is still geared to negativity and destructiveness. To put it differently, to the degree that | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| level and cannot help but create negativity and destructiveness. The way to eliminate the weakness is not | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| your misconceptions, false fears and guilts, negativity and destructiveness. Deep within, you know that you distrust the | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| reality of your instinctual life. The layer of destructiveness, blind selfishness, dishonesty, as well as the shameful | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| human life in positive ways equal to its destructiveness. Your attitude determines the direction this power takes | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| and expand, but deliberately hinders it by needless destructiveness and obstinacy. Today, humanity as a whole is | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| them more uniquely themselves by eliminating distortions, imbalance, destructiveness. The personality must become compatible with this power | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| deceits, your character defects, your illusions, pretenses and destructiveness. Then I discussed a third component which I | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| is not the shame of one's deceits and destructiveness, nor of one's compliance. This shame is on | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the one that covers up lack of integrity, destructiveness, and cruelty. This different kind of pretense is | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| result: fear, guilt, anger, hate, greed, cruelty, selfishness, destructiveness of self and others -- of life. All | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you are no longer frightened of your own destructiveness. You thus enter into a benign circle. When | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the word freedom is no different from expressing destructiveness and acting out of rebellion and spite. Only | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |