| Aggressions.................2 | |
| however, that the power to handle the remaining aggressions also enables him or her to use the | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| and negativity the masculine principle manifests as hostile aggressions, hitting rather than giving and reaching. The feminine | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Aggressive..................44 | |
| will be a masquerade. It is true that aggressive and hostile strength and activity in a woman | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| fore, preventing the active current from becoming too aggressive, rounding and mellowing it, taking the edges off | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| what your imagined advantage is when you are aggressive and hostile. QUESTION: An armor, so as not | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| immature. On the other hand, there is the aggressive tendency of desire for rulership, for mastery over | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| On the other hand, you unconsciously use the aggressive force to overcome your insecurity, your feelings of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| thereby you also gain love. In reality the aggressive force, in its healthy way, is supposed to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a painful process. For instance, the effect of aggressive communication must be that the other soul withdraws | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| and cannot be considered good, ethical, or moral. Aggressive, hostile, proud, overambitious trends are glorified, or idealized | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| a harder time finding the pride, while the aggressive type will have a harder time finding the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| denied, for to assert it seems brash and aggressive. This has to be avoided at all costs | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| an impulse of this sort is suspected, the aggressive type feels as deeply ashamed as the submissive | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| with each other. A further symptom of the aggressive type, who thinks that power is the solution | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| For such a goal one needs to be aggressive and often ruthless. An idealized self-image may therefore | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| for power glories in hostility and in an aggressive fighting spirit, the withdrawn type is entirely unaware | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| striving toward a distorted independence of either the aggressive or the withdrawn type. You also have to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| into a false serenity or into a domineering aggressive, forbidding attitude. This makes the attainment of love | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| excessive demands, no less than those in the aggressive, power-driven person. You will find that just because | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| will cease being -- inwardly or outwardly -- aggressive where it is unjustified; and you will be | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| where it is unjustified; and you will be aggressive where it is healthy and constructive. One imbalance | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| no further, since the submissive person also has aggressive power aspects. So then the solution of superior | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| seems so opposite to the arrogance of the aggressive success-seeker who denies needs, underneath the submissiveness as | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| could have enjoyed. QUESTION: If you have an aggressive feeling and you don't like it, but it | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| hurts others less than the outright domineering and aggressive person. All pseudo-solutions bring untold pain to the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| human nature, and thus hurt them. By the aggressive solution, you push people away and openly hurt | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| and place -- because he disapproves of his aggressive tendencies -- and asserting himself where reason indicates | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| -- and there are three basic ones: the aggressive, the submissive, and the withdrawal solutions -- they | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| to truth and peace, not one iota less aggressive than the submissive solution, whose hostility always smolders | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| therefore feel more themselves when they are hostile, aggressive, cruel. All human beings have a similar reaction | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| to be. The other seems to be too aggressive, vigorous, forbidden. Hence, the spiritual pleasure of knowing | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| a part of creation, difficulty in being healthily aggressive. Such an individual feels compelled to always submit | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| if you are not sufficiently outgoing and healthily aggressive, or if you do not activate your own | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the man who is not sufficiently active and aggressive is so throughout his total personality. He will | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| Let us say that you are outwardly forceful, aggressive, and temperamentally suited to get away with overriding | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| claim that the spiritual person must never be aggressive or that the strong person must never be | 228 BALANCE |
| call the balancing factor, for instance in the aggressive and receptive principles, a third force? ANSWER: No | 228 BALANCE |
| highly volatile creative expression, it is active and aggressive in the best sense of the word. It | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| are often assumed to be victims of the aggressive, bold ones. Thus, on some irrational level of | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| active and potent evil as the more obvious aggressive acting out of cruel, self-serving, dishonest malice. It | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| who risk themselves and their personal advantages by aggressive goodness and positive assertion. What happens when you | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| the appropriate act will flow. The positive, energetic, aggressive movement will replace childish and destructive rebellion and | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| angry and to express my energies in an aggressive way, for all aggression must be bad. I | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| secrecy. They may merely mean that hostile and aggressive motives supersede secrecy. The new man and the | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| to negative influences without using any of your aggressive aspects to either dispel them or to assert | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| to the next step and visualize putting your aggressive forces into the service of positive aims. You | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Aggressively................3 | |
| withdraws into a shell of isolation, or who aggressively antagonizes people, shows an unhealthy, uncaring, false independence | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| hostile -- perhaps again unconsciously. When you are aggressively arrogant, denying your own need to find love | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| aspects that respond to it need to be aggressively activated by your dedication to your path, by | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Aggressiveness..............33 | |
| for it -- self-punishment or a form of aggressiveness toward others, punishing them by one's own unhappiness | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| growing child in you keeps producing hostility and aggressiveness, even if ever so subtly, when it feels | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| pseudo-positive emotions, they will manufacture a hardness and aggressiveness inside themselves that is no more real than | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| solution of life's problems. The attitudes of submissiveness, aggressiveness, and withdrawal are the distortions of love, power | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| their pride; they may be proud of their aggressiveness and cynicism, but once they have seen it | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| self-assertive qualities that smolder underneath. Power drive and aggressiveness can manifest in many ways and in many | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| this in the last lecture. These tendencies include aggressiveness, hostility, power drive, a need to triumph over | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| quest for power may predominate without any apparent aggressiveness or hostility. The possibilities are manifold. Integration and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| a quest for power, with all its demands, aggressiveness, and power drive. The psyche thinks: If I | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and, if need be, to adopt a healthy aggressiveness, which is altogether different from the distorted one | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| care of. When you find manifest rebellion and aggressiveness, a drive for overindependence, try to find deep | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| definite individual negative emotions, such as hostility, resentment, aggressiveness, and envy, but also certain psychological conditions. It | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| In this category belong the attitudes of submissiveness, aggressiveness, and withdrawal. These three aspects, as well as | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the pull into the opposite direction of arrogant aggressiveness and superiority. Whether you manifest it outwardly, or | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| it outwardly, or whether it smolders hidden, your aggressiveness has its effect on others. However, you confuse | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| of your denial and shame of them. Your aggressiveness is a defense, not so much against outer | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| Only by accepting your human limitations will the aggressiveness and hostility vanish; because underneath you will discover | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| the hard and much more unpleasant feelings of aggressiveness. Once you become aware of the hurt, which | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| it has disappeared. Accept also your still existing aggressiveness, asking yourself whether it is not a distortion | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| that says that you already should not have aggressiveness. Do you understand that? QUESTIONER: Yes. QUESTION: Isn't | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| unreal situation. You choose either the pseudo-solution of aggressiveness, or withdrawal from life, or appeasement, which robs | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| other people. But whether the defense is outer aggressiveness or withdrawal and flight, both are equally damaging | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| a martyr. There exists a proper and healthy aggressiveness and assertiveness. When aggressiveness is healthy and when | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| a proper and healthy aggressiveness and assertiveness. When aggressiveness is healthy and when not cannot be determined | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| in a double bind. The real, healthy male aggressiveness is confused with hostility for which he feels | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| man feels guilty about expressing his healthy, masculine aggressiveness, confusing it with unhealthy, hostile aggressiveness. He finds | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| healthy, masculine aggressiveness, confusing it with unhealthy, hostile aggressiveness. He finds himself in the following predicament and | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| unpleasant results of his weakness. Or, he expresses aggressiveness, and because he vaguely feels that this is | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the expression of self-assertion -- independence, natural healthy aggressiveness -- problematic because his own attitude toward it | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| resentments -- the result of suppressing his natural aggressiveness -- now mingle with the confusion. He no | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| denied their original need to express natural masculine aggressiveness, out of ignorance that it is a healthy | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| it is a healthy need. When you give aggressiveness a right to exist, you will have no | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| be demonstrating healthy assertion without deviating into unhealthy aggressiveness or hostility. Nor will you be confused between | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |