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their development; their area of activity increases and expands continuously, and they can, to a certain degree 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
living prayer, when the meaning of each word expands as the interpretations become clearer to you and 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
outer life circumstances. You realize that your control expands. You experience how the areas where you lack 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
cause and effect. Growth in the unitive state expands infinitely. It never repeats and never needs an 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
not breathe, move, respond. Quite the contrary. It expands and contracts like breathing -- is rhythmic and 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
sudden manifestation. It reveals itself gradually, as consciousness expands and as time expands from one dimension to 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
itself gradually, as consciousness expands and as time expands from one dimension to the other. Within three-dimensional 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
itself the sense of eternality grows, life itself expands. As a person becomes healthier and more whole 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
experienced, nay must be experienced, as the being expands and grows into further dimensions. The truth of 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
current represents the affirmative principle, the principle that expands, embraces, is open and receptive to life. The 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
the destructive urges in check. Only when consciousness expands in bliss and truth can the structure be 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
faculties. Eventually you attain a new unity that expands your power over life. You convert territory that 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
create bliss by spreading unity. As your life expands, you become the master where you are now 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
choices of attitude are made, consciousness awakens and expands. The immediately available consciousness of every living human 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the problem, to exactly that degree your consciousness expands and becomes increasingly more infiltrated by spiritual consciousness 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
focused attention and awareness. Only when your consciousness expands can you sense the oneness of this tremendous 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
appropriate and therefore harmonious. But when the business expands, the organization created for a small establishment no 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
own lawful cycles by which the organism lives, expands, dies, reincorporates itself, gives birth to itself, expresses 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
phase -- often overlapping with the first -- expands into knowledge of others. The third phase leads 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
first foothold in that cosmic current, which constantly expands, will know that the group will never eliminate 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
now. As these potentialities increasingly animate matter, self-awareness expands and you then know the truth about your 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
to face his weakness. That is how he expands the real values and the real power in 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
feeling self, and in the spiritual push that expands into the void and thus makes the void 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION
manifest life lasts, the pulse of universal life expands into this particular organism. It is one single 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION
As this happens, an entirely new pulse beat expands into your total organism, filling you with new 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION
and acclimatized to the new environment, your safety expands into a greater sphere of self-expression. You have 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
what you may call spirit. All life pulsates, expands and contracts. Matter comes into existence by spiritual 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
both. It takes the truth from both and expands it, filtering it through the newly evolving and 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
unity comes about temporarily. Only as consciousness gradually expands does the other positive polarity appear on the 254 SURRENDER
 
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dislike. This loving connection will, in ever growing expansion, include more and more brothers and sisters. So 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
Once the Plan of Salvation is fulfilled, further expansion toward perfection will continue. As it is now 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR
as in their negative aspects. The principle of expansion in its pure and harmonious form manifests as 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
it. In its negative aspect, the principle of expansion manifests as aggression, war, on the material level 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
for it is this principle that balances the expansion and thus creates harmony, preventing the outgoing movement 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
the other you that characterizes the principle of expansion. You all know that you cannot truly find 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
Thus you can see how the principles of expansion and restriction have to work in harmony and 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
the confining walls of your ego, so that expansion can be harmonious and healthy, you have to 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
say, your overemphasis is on the principle of expansion, which works both positively and negatively in you 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
the Creator, therefore stands for the principle of expansion. The Son has come to earth. He has 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
the exhalation the natural restriction? ANSWER: Exhalation is expansion; inhalation is restriction -- backward movement. And then 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
your energy, to search for truth, that is expansion. And when the necessary time comes to assimilate 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
QUESTION: Is the static sort of halfway in-between expansion and restriction? ANSWER: Such terms as halfway in-between 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
the cosmic forces, the life force, strain toward expansion, growth, union, and integration. Each individual entity, being 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
harmony with the universal forces, from moving toward expansion and union. Your world on earth is indeed 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
inwardly lived, there is no limit to your expansion, your freedom, your experience of the glory of 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
powers within you, destined for your pleasure and expansion, for your growth and experience. Not making use 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
to step outside and move freely toward further expansion, joyful mastery of self, and universal bliss. In 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
fullness of living. In order to realize personal expansion and self- expression with its concomitant bliss, it 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
excessive. Happiness must further not only individual self-expression, expansion, and the inner manifestation of the divine, but 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
individual re-establishes the balance, fences dissolve, and the expansion of the self becomes as limitless as you 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
and what is error. Personal fulfillment and full expansion are waiting for all of you. This is 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
merely means going through a phase of lesser expansion, comfort, and bliss, accepting responsibility for this state 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
does exist, attainable for each individual; that unlimited expansion of faculties and forces, in the universe as 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
state of abundance, of positiveness, of productivity and expansion, of meaningful growth both in and with the 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
the ability, versatility, scope, and variety of its expansion and creativeness can be. Let us imagine a 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
current or the vast possibilities for creation and expansion. Human beings are so used to holding their 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
to holding their forces together, afraid of this expansion. They fear it will pull them apart. In 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
it will pull them apart. In truth the expansion does not pull you apart, it unifies you 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
as something negative. Healthy desire is a relaxed expansion, a reaching for ever new possibilities and fulfillment 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
you let go and vibrate unchecked in fearless expansion, fulfillment becomes a state of being in the 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
infinite possibilities for bliss, for good, for limitless expansion, they seem to be totally unconnected with the 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
will be filled with productive thoughts of truth, expansion and a wider vision. Each situation will offer 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
variety and limitless possibility for fruitful experience and expansion -- is a reality that exists permanently within 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
positive, conflictless, agreeable. They will lead to further expansion, constructiveness, agreeableness, and so on, since the self-perpetuating 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
level where no conflict exists and where fruitful expansion is a reality. On this level, fearlessness, peace 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
powers exist. These powers strive toward wholeness, constructiveness, expansion, fulfillment. If you allow them to operate -- 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
original level of perfection, of limitless possibilities, meaningful expansion and experience, of pleasure supreme, is knowing that 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
you actually find it safer than the limitless expansion of good that opens up when you let 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
you. It can indeed enrich you in your expansion, enabling you to find and determine where positive 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
anyone willing to expand his or her consciousness. Expansion is a very simple process of questioning the 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
the unitive state means forever increasing unfolding and expansion. It means a widening experience of the infinite 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
which is that there is no limit to expansion. Through this unfoldment your intuition will become strong 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
useful definition is that whatever furthers unity, inclusion, expansion, union, and manifests the benign nature of the 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
possible to find the abundance and wide open expansion of life that is originally and essentially available 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
of the possibilities that exist for good, for expansion, for unfoldment, for pleasure. The human scope is 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
do so because they deeply sense that more expansion is possible than they avail themselves of. And 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
by pain. QUESTION: Would you define pleasure as expansion and pain as contraction? ANSWER: Yes, that is 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
a life offers the opportunity for unfoldment and expansion of awareness. It is also quite true that 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
every living second of life an occasion for expansion and growth. Anyone who seriously pursues this path 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
determines whether it will help or hinder the expansion of perception. People have a tendency to consider 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
appear rhythmic. They appear irregular and haphazard. The expansion cycle, for example, may be longer or shorter 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
or shorter than the restricting cycle. Or one expansion cycle may last longer than the next. Yet 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
obscure. Let us now try to understand what expansion, restriction, and the static principle mean in terms 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the pulsating movement of consciousness. The movement of expansion expresses reaching out; the restricting movement means bringing 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
are one. One cannot exist without the other. Expansion represents the direct expression of development, while the 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
disturbed organism is in fear, and fear makes expansion appear painful and threatening. Fear contracts into unpleasure 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the natural organism to continue the pulsation of expansion, restriction, and static movements uninterfered. The natural restricting 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
what was painful on the first pulsebeat of expansion diminishes with each pulsebeat. Each set of movements 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
cannot and will not experience by a further expansion of consciousness into different dimensions -- whether or 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the afflictions have been overcome, the possibilities of expansion of the real self, the degrees of pleasure 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
vast difference between conceiving of further possibilities of expansion or happiness on the one hand, and daydreaming 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
really envisage the infinite vistas of experience, of expansion, of stimulation, of all sorts of wondrous and 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
purpose. Fear of happiness, of pleasure, of wide expansion into one's life experiences is based on ignorance 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
first, a deeply meaningful stepping stone toward further expansion. It increases the experience of life and the 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
again and again on your path. No new expansion can come unless it follows the downward movement 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
spiritual power and wealth of love, truth, peace, expansion, creativity, bliss, and the knowledge that the self 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
truth and love, ecstasy and possibility of creative expansion which you could posses and manifest and which 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
to the great freedom of co-creation, to unlimited expansion. I might say here that in mundane psychotherapy 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
However, if you strive unconsciously for the limitless expansion as the child strives for magical omnipotence because 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
of these two forces creates renewal, new forms, expansion; it bubbles forth more and greater life; it 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
reality, health, the unfoldment of universal bliss, and expansion of consciousness. This has been underlying all my 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
path needs to stop -- for anyone. The expansion of creative living and the capacity to experience 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
that the obstructing mechanism weakens and the creative expansion process becomes stronger. The human consciousness is a 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
a fact of life, ever-increasing possibilities of new expansion will dawn upon you as the starkest reality 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
defenses and fears that shut off their further expansion into blissful being. The majority of people, however 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
areas in their life where they experience abundance, expansion, success, and fulfillment, but there will be other 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
your most subtle reactions to fulfillment, pleasure, and expansion, you will find that wherever there is the 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
not use the powerful substance to create more expansion but, rather, more tightly shut defenses. Bliss is 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
defenses. Bliss is a necessity, for bliss is expansion. You cannot expand and use your inherent potentials 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
unless you are in a state of joyousness. Expansion and bliss belong together, as stagnation and frustration 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
belong together, as stagnation and frustration belong together. Expansion is a self-activating process that combines the masculine 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
perfect harmony. If you fear bliss, and therefore expansion, you will also fear growth and change. People 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
sets in that subtly but definitely prohibits your expansion. As you become more aware of yourself in 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
reactions that indicate how you prevent yourself from expansion and delightful experience. You detect your fear of 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
them. When the resistances finally give way, your expansion becomes mainly a joyful expression of living. One 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
limited inner concepts and closed-up energy centers prohibit expansion. You still suffer from the results of your 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
destined, which is utter bliss and forever greater expansion. Then the energy centers will function in harmony 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
life is its untold potentiality for change and expansion. To be more specific: Once you perceive life 174 SELF-ESTEEM
life itself? Because you believe the possibilities for expansion and happiness are too limited to give you 174 SELF-ESTEEM
it. You sacrifice joy, peace, self-esteem, inner security, expansion and growth, pleasure on all levels of your 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
merely an organism becoming bigger. It is an expansion, but in a particular sense. It implies mastering 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
world it has not possessed before. Growth brings expansion, increased capabilities, more power and unity where there 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
is always painful. Pleasure always depends on unity. Expansion into life is a constant forward movement that 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
you are sacrifices happiness, pleasure, wholeness, love and expansion, yet it appears to make you safe. Seeking 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
error. Commit yourself to pleasure, growth, unification and expansion, to that which is truth, to that which 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
may be, by establishing your own resistance to expansion, you have made a major step toward the 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
are unwilling to accept the possibility of happy expansion, then this indicates that there are hidden layers 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
beauty, its joyousness, its unending possibility for blissful expansion -- and the dark, constricted, hopeless negativity and 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
the fourth aspect of meditation. This is the expansion of your conscious concepts in order to create 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
It is an ongoing, never-ending process of steady expansion and self-expression. The principle is exactly the same 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
a creative power to build happiness, pleasure, love, expansion, for yourself and others around you. The list 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
the duality can you truly transcend it. No expansion of consciousness, no integration and transcendence is possible 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
be irresponsible is a legitimate yearning for pleasure, expansion and new experience, this predicament will cease to 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
is able to expand only very little. Since expansion and mutuality are interdependent, mutuality is impossible on 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
impossible on this level to the degree that expansion is denied. All human beings are afraid of 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
their inner truth will deny any kind of expansion and therefore any mutuality. However, this does not 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
that entities manage to squelch the longing for expansion and mutuality perhaps through entire incarnations without becoming 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
The only way the bliss and pleasure of expansion and union can be experienced for people at 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
open to mutuality and fulfillment, to interplay and expansion, to cooperation and positive pleasure. This always requires 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
strives for what is healthy, furthering pleasure, love, expansion, growth, fulfillment; while the destructive, ignorant part negates 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
or she is free from fear and resistance, expansion may never be possible. Often the person must 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
the movement of life is the alternation of expansion and contraction. You also know, to some extent 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
briefly recapitulate the meaning of the movements of expansion and contraction. Expansion takes place when a positive 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
meaning of the movements of expansion and contraction. Expansion takes place when a positive, open, committed, honest 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
In this world, in this sphere of consciousness, expansion and contraction create opposite experiences: pleasure and pain 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
when you transcend the level of duality, do expansion and contraction both become blissful experiences of different 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
you will lag behind and obstruct a greater expansion that is intrinsically possible at this stage. Pleasure 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
due to the inability of enduring a greater expansion of positive experience. This exists in exact proportion 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
to bliss, to pleasure, to abundance, to true expansion, to the joyousness of the living energy and 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
You can fulfill your potential for creativity and expansion of your spiritual being only when you are 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
accuracy of knowledge, visualization of new possibilities of expansion and experience, and correct concepts and, on the 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
life, new attitudes, better experiences and events, infinite expansion. When the mind remains within the narrow framework 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
within the narrow framework of its present state, expansion and creation are impossible. Meditation therefore requires that 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
process is set in motion because the inner expansion pushes forward and the outer blocks stifle it 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
may cause a breakdown if the pull into expansion on the one hand and obstruction on the 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
freedom, you build another bridge to a greater expansion of the self. Little by little you can 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
than to bestow upon you the greatest fulfillment, expansion, and joyful self-expression. You willfully doubt and negate 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
present safe position are: denying pleasure, bliss, joy, expansion, and creative movement into life. The fear of 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
system begins to function to deny the ego's expansion, which would effect self-transcendence. The ego denies the 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
voluntary self-discipline, which goes together with self-responsibility. Every expansion must be fought for with self-discipline, by overcoming 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
with self-discipline, by overcoming the embedded resistance against expansion. The discipline must be used for stringent recognition 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
tricks and against giving in to them. This expansion is always a step beyond a known territory 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
this new faculty into the personality is the expansion I talked about in the last lecture. Everyone 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
same law, my friends, applies to your inner expansion. As you grow and learn about yourself, and 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
attitudes toward life. Yet they can impede this expansion by their refusal to give up certain attitudes 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
want to see this. The more you resist expansion into a new mode of operation when you 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
fulfillment, perfection and happiness, or pleasure and creative expansion without paying the price of strictest self- confrontation 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
or exists at the expense of feelings, of expansion, of relaxation, of freedom, then the innermost being 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
life experience, will come as an intuitive, spontaneous expansion of your consciousness. Just as you will intuitively 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
individualized personality in the process of growth and expansion must always evolve toward new states of consciousness 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
the same human mind is capable of infinite expansion and of transcending its present limitation. The specific 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
warmth, love, confidence, soft flow, joy, and creative expansion. This process takes place, again and again, until 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
work is largely responsible for the exhilarating movement, expansion and growth, individually and in your group as 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
narrow limitations. The mind holds this potential for expansion; even in its disconnected state it contains every 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
if there is no desire, there cannot be expansion. There cannot be venturing out into new ground 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
mentioned. If consciousness could expand without the simultaneous expansion of the self-purifying agents, evil could destroy the 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Yet, unless you leap into the unknown, no expansion and no change can ever come to pass 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
the meaning of life, to beauty, love, truth, expansion, joy and peace. It refuses to surrender to 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
spirit world has been preparing for this new expansion for many centuries with a great deal of 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
new phase has arisen where your own inner expansion has readied you to realize that individual fulfillment 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
personality. And you must also understand that this expansion will lead to happiness, even though happiness is 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
also its prerequisite. There is no division between expansion and happiness. To follow the will of God 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
made yourself available. You experience hitherto undreamed of expansion and joy, resolutions of problems that you never 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
your present limited manifestation lie unlimited possibilities of expansion of your consciousness, of your experience, of your 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
the physical level. The next major phase of expansion occurs when the child is ready to leave 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
to school. This is not only a physical expansion, but also an inner expansion, a step out 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
only a physical expansion, but also an inner expansion, a step out into the world. The child 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
aid the process of growth, of change, of expansion, of reaching into new dimensions from within, of 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
individual and the planetary entity, each period of expansion is quite distinct. The energies that need to 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
need to be released to make possible the expansion inherent in the seed plan must be strong 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
Age, which is one of the stages of expansion? If an individual is ready to reach adulthood 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
problems. They express a rhythm of growth and expansion. Some people are already prepared for this New 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
This universal need is the constant movement toward expansion. All organisms in the universe move toward an 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
All organisms in the universe move toward an expansion, which follows the seedplan within the organism. What 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
-- as the fear of movement. Movement toward expansion implies a willingness to change. And this is 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
that prevents the human organism from its natural expansion. The space provided by the image is so 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
half asleep and therefore fear universal life, or expansion into universal life, then absence of the fear 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
to give all of itself to its own expansion and to fulfilling a seedplan that ordinarily would 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
you see the fruits in the growth and expansion in depth and width of the community as 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
more, you can only stand in awe. The expansion and transformation that you witness is only a 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
of the apparently final tunnel. When you embrace expansion into new territory in your daily life -- 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
daily life -- when you stop hindering your expansion because you have the basic faith and courage 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
I gave a lecture about the principles of expansion, contraction, and what I called static principle. It 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
You imagine that contraction is negative, bad, while expansion is positive and good. While this may be 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
development of a human consciousness, the states of expansion and contraction are both equally painful and negative 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
new spiral phase or round. On that level, expansion may become positive and contraction negative. Gradually the 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
level, or even simultaneously, this can be reversed. Expansion can then have a negative manifestation and contraction 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
positive one. In still further evolutionary states, both expansion and contraction become positive. Let me show you 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
contraction become positive. Let me show you how expansion and contraction can be both positive and negative 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
quite clearly that in the positive manifestation of expansion the outgoing movement is reaching, giving, making yourself 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
void. What would be the negative facets of expansion? When expansion manifests as negative aggression, as a 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
would be the negative facets of expansion? When expansion manifests as negative aggression, as a hostile, conquering 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
rather than less, and thus contrasts with positive expansion. Contraction is negative when there is a tight 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
to do so, positive contraction must occur first. Expansion means gathering the riches of divine creation in 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
love just as pure as does the positive expansion. It is a going into the self for 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
be a momentary pause between every alteration of expansion and contraction. We call it the static principle 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
of your development, to expand. But for the expansion to be truly meaningful and cohesive with the 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
simultaneity of two levels, where on one level expansion, on the other contraction exists. You only connect 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
the spiral movement of the contraction and the expansion harmoniously, you will see what was, in one 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
harmony of life. Contraction is as necessary as expansion. It is part of the pulsatory movement that 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
an idea about the rhythmical state of the expansion, contraction and the static? In terms of our 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
anchor that holds you back from this flowing expansion. Allow the involuntary processes with their limitless creative 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
forth into the void, expanding and contracting. Each expansion moves the eternal life forward and enlivens the 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION
in a time of great meaning and inner expansion and purpose. Each of you can be, and 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION
frustration can become a threshold to freedom and expansion for you. Think about this, my friends. Relinquish 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
psychic space your inner train reaches is an expansion, a deeper and wider expression of divine life 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
essential than on your outer journey. The inner expansion and movement toward an ever-greater unfoldment is your 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
of the infinite nature of life, the infinite expansion that is every living being's destiny. When you 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
greater reality than what you can perceive. Every expansion you have ever experienced on this path -- 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
entity. Yet there was also great resistance to expansion of thinking, to each innovation, each new approach 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
concept I gave you. Each new approach or expansion of seeing -- witnessing the world in a 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
myself more specifically to the new phase of expansion you are going through and the attitudes in 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
and the attitudes in you that make this expansion unnecessarily painful. In your fear you confuse issues 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
antagonizing those who obstruct further movement, change and expansion. They lacked the vitality to withstand opposition to 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
lacked the vitality to withstand opposition to further expansion and movement. This is why so many seemingly 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
renewal of this kind brings about an untold expansion of personal happiness and fulfillment. Yet personal happiness 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
understand what you said about the fear of expansion that applies to all phases of expansion. But 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
of expansion that applies to all phases of expansion. But the reaction to your emphasis of the 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
there is more to it than resistance to expansion. Could you comment on this? Answer: My beloved 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
a step in its growth process, in the expansion of its collective consciousness, but parts of the 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
which you manifest on this level of reality. Expansion, growth, development -- all these terms mean only 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
from fulfilling all your needs and attaining true expansion. It also makes closeness and intimacy impossible, and 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
Now we begin a new working season. Much expansion, excitement, fulfillment and many challenges await you. Even 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
way out of the mazes, your growth and expansion, is a golden light that illuminates the universe 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
no consciousness, no being. Each breath consists of expansion, contraction, and the static moment in-between. Each of 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
influx. In fact, without them the growth and expansion of consciousness inherent in this New Age could 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE
with the ever-necessary self-honesty that fosters development and expansion of individual consciousness. The more people nurture this 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE
the collective level and this will help your expansion as an individual. By seeing the same principle 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE
of developing and cleansing itself, of growing and expansion, with no purpose? The more you establish your 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION

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