| Externalized................5 | |
| are so strong that they have to be externalized and are then projected on the other person | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| an authority outside yourself and rely on an externalized God to take the place of a benign | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you be overpassive, entrusting yourself to a false, externalized God, who is supposed to do the work | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the only difference that the inner states are externalized on earth in a way that is often | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| of death, nonbeing, pain, injustice, insecurity, loneliness. The externalized life in the body, in spite of impending | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Extinction..................4 | |
| dark vacuum seems to threaten the individual with extinction. Giving up evil seems like voluntarily going into | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| of the worst punishments is the threat of extinction. Lack of self-forgiveness brings this threat into focus | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| illusion is perpetuated that physical death is an extinction of consciousness. The aspects that have not yet | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| of death makes dying traumatic. The threat of extinction prevents the entity from experiencing the sweetness of | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Extinguished................6 | |
| is so partly because the memory has been extinguished and needs to be regained, and partly because | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| the sense that clear vision is restored, the extinguished memory regained, and one understands what it is | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| fault that caused the sin, the sin is extinguished. Every karma can be erased. And this is | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| the memory of God and his worlds was extinguished to the degree that disharmony had set in | 21 THE FALL |
| used by the created beings. It cannot be extinguished. My dearest friends, specifically at this time of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| heart of all human beings can never be extinguished. And when you fragment your consciousness and create | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Extra.......................6 | |
| intentions is rather painful. It is just this extra effort that God wants everybody to make. The | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| and this path in particular, is not an extra activity in your life that you simply add | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| proper respect, you will cease to demand an extra position as, emotionally, you do at present. You | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| it amounts to pride, for you claim an extra special position for yourself that you are not | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feelings and defending against them creates a whole extra layer of experience that is alienated from your | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| understand that it is truly worth undertaking an extra task in the same incarnation. A long time | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Extract.....................4 | |
| to believe that personal happiness is selfish, will extract from you a price you are incapable of | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| from wanting to absolve yourself from blame or extract yourself from difficulty when establishing and maintaining a | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| nor honesty. But if these attributes seem to extract severe sacrifice, sacrifice must be experienced, for you | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| in turn, must come back to you and extract a price: positively, in a life-affirming way, or | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Extreme.....................182 | |
| Yet another is so scared that in his extreme fear he does not steer his boat at | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| evil spirits. And he who finds himself in extreme pain must come closer to God, since it | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| it is just as much at a false extreme as its opposite: wanting to see oneself as | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| yourself struggling not to fall into the opposite extreme of overdiscipline where prayer becomes a fetter. Then | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| tend to arrive at two very contrary and extreme conclusions, each equally wrong. One group finds it | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| is as insincere a mask as the other extreme. Such people want to accomplish by these means | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| is important to know your weaknesses, and which extreme you tend to, for only what is truly | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| or sins. These are the broader and more extreme cases. But those of you to whom such | 18 FREE WILL |
| But those of you to whom such more extreme laws may not apply anymore because you have | 18 FREE WILL |
| is very painful to them; it causes an extreme pain they cannot stand. Therefore, a human being | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| of which you can only vaguely appreciate the extreme difficulty, even with these explanations. To remain on | 22 SALVATION |
| good and evil in them is much more extreme than in others. They are much better than | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not mean that you should be careless. No extreme is ever right. But live in the now | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| but there is always the contrary to each extreme... ANSWER: Certainly the opposite of divine law exists | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| about them. This would be the wrong opposite extreme. To find the right middle path in everything | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| see that this is, of course, the opposite extreme, and you know that all extremes are wrong | 31 SHAME |
| you mention is not as much of an extreme as you think. Often a human being opens | 31 SHAME |
| hearing these words, and to forget the wrong extreme with its harmfulness. However, you should remember that | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to you; all faults are but distortions or extreme manifestations of a once good quality. Furthermore, remember | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| but also foolish. As far as the opposite extreme is concerned -- overambitiousness -- the original good | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| because then it would again become the opposite extreme of no ambition, and imbalance would result. The | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| not capable of making any decisions, because any extreme in character produces a lack of harmony, which | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| daily discipline must be careful of an opposite extreme -- the extreme of routine. Routine is always | 36 PRAYER |
| be careful of an opposite extreme -- the extreme of routine. Routine is always apt to become | 36 PRAYER |
| in creation has been perverted into its opposite extreme. This is easy to determine. Love has turned | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| There is, however, a hidden and distorted wrong extreme masked and covered over by many layers presented | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| is also possible to go to the opposite extreme, which is just as harmful as the old | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| the other person! There is another form of extreme subjectivity that comes from the same root although | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| to truly love, make you go from one extreme to the other. Either you refuse to see | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| stems from the same origin as the other extreme, namely, that you cannot accept imperfection and are | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| on people they derogatorily label intellectuals. Yet, the extreme of this type is not one iota less | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| from harmony and divine law than is the extreme reason-type. It is true that the emotion-type tends | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| will properly. Uncontrolled emotions bring havoc into the extreme emotion-person's life, as well as into his or | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| ceased to be an asset because of its extreme manifestation. This type must cultivate the faculty of | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| extremes, and therefore they remain in their own extreme. They thus act from a wrong conclusion. Led | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| they feel or unconsciously think that their own extreme is a better solution to life than the | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| more balanced, or even tend to the opposite extreme, in other aspects. Or, the person's true nature | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| types are wrong in believing that their own extreme is better than those extremes they look down | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| this is sacrilege. Others go to the opposite extreme and deny not only the purity of the | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| decision is too rigid and stringent, the opposite extreme will follow. In the next incarnation circumstances will | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| I will not discuss at this point the extreme cases where this is not so. I am | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the goal for which their soul strives. This extreme of hunting for romance is as wrong as | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| existence in the various religions, whether at one extreme or another, it is always a rationalization and | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| often in some measure, although it does seem extreme. Because of these distorted conditions and this vicious | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| connected with them was distorted to an opposite extreme. Humans put the responsibility for everything on influences | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| reaction may be predominant, at another, the opposite extreme, or a variation of it, may predominate. It | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| The belief in this apparent safety leads the extreme type in this category to become a strict | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the desirable one, simply because the other wrong extreme is also imperfect. Such misunderstandings occur so often | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is wrong, it swings over to the opposite extreme, which is equally wrong. These two opposite extremes | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| way to go about rectifying or balancing the extreme? ANSWER: Well, I already gave some indications of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| love and find the right middle path. One extreme is the inability to give up the self | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| from letting go of the self. The other extreme is an overdependency that arises from the tendency | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| But there are also cases where the opposite extreme exists. Yet the opposites are now more similar | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| self. And the fear of this creates the extreme of prohibiting the self from giving itself up | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| all the manifest cruelty and wickedness in their extreme forms. It is all ignorance, all error, all | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| now be tempted to go to the other extreme and act out the part you discover behind | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| but also in other respects. And he manifested extreme self-will. His self-will wanted to be already at | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| form, which become distorted when you embrace its extreme. Rightly understood, positive thinking means knowing that everything | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| fosters martyrdom, seeing oneself as the victim. One extreme always creates another. Thus the healthy way is | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| become disappointed and lose courage. At the other extreme, some people constantly assume a negative attitude because | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| danger that you will fall into the opposite extreme and give vent to the crude feelings. Having | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| away is just as erroneous as the opposite extreme of fearing a god who is severe, unjust | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| into an untruth by taking it to an extreme that must be wrong. This distortion usually happens | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| problem in one's soul by going to the extreme of a right idea. This has been the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| middle way between these wrong extremes. At one extreme is the person who plunges headlong into every | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| a negative and destructive way. At the other extreme is separateness, the attitude that makes one believe | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| middle way by testing yourself constantly. Whatever your extreme was so far, it might be wise to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| You should be aware that this is also extreme, but it will have to be that way | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| concept or idea can be distorted to the extreme point of nullification. It is so with self-love | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| and positive attitude. But beware of the opposite extreme, of feeling guilty when you gratefully enjoy life | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| mentioned before, but you go to the other extreme, putting yourself on another plane, separated from others | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| another person's sickness is wrong. Yet the other extreme is always so close at hand that it | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| against it, the nearer one is to the extreme of outright bondage. One more thing: Where bondage | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ANSWER: Humanity always tends to go from one extreme to the other. Knowing that one extreme is | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one extreme to the other. Knowing that one extreme is wrong, one wants to believe that the | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong, one wants to believe that the other extreme is right. This would be so much easier | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| conclusion and chose the wrong remedy. The opposite extreme is always the wrong remedy and much nearer | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| always the wrong remedy and much nearer the extreme one wants to avoid. The right alternative is | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| catering for approval, or going to the opposite extreme. I cannot see how to compromise. ANSWER: It | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| against this bondage and turn into the opposite extreme with a defiant I don't care attitude, then | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| reaction and counterreaction, through cause and effect, one extreme calling forth an opposite extreme, you will never | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and effect, one extreme calling forth an opposite extreme, you will never gain true insight. This applies | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you desire just that. This desire can be extreme, although it is often hidden and can only | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| different plane -- or to the exactly opposite extreme of the person who has provoked you. If | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| Then he or she goes to the other extreme. If a consciously chosen teacher or philosophy or | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| without exaggeration. They will cease going from one extreme to another. They will cease fearing forces, influences | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| where the scale swung strongly to the opposite extreme, as it happens today with some aspects, but | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| they only appear to be correct because an extreme, like the mass image, is never the solution | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| mass image, is never the solution. The opposite extreme, being a result of rebellion and revolution, ultimately | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| back to the distortions of the first wrong extreme. Rebellion and resentment cease automatically once the personal | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| the other, and vice versa. Freeing yourself of extreme mass images and misconceptions which, by the way | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| they now act out, going from one wrong extreme to another. In such cases the person does | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the situation with the parents is not so extreme, it is harder for you to get to | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| a tragedy, you then swing to the other extreme of locking your heart in fear of giving | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and discuss how you resort to one wrong extreme in the belief this is the only possible | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| more to do with love than the opposite extreme, or you withdraw into a shell in which | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| is so easy to go from one wrong extreme to the other. The best way of going | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is the way it should be. Or, in extreme cases, they feel especially isolated, believing their lot | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| genuine nor healthy, for it is a wrong extreme. To be fruitful and bring real results, the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| overcompensate for it by going in the opposite extreme outwardly. But since any ungenuine solution has a | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| This is just as damaging as the other extreme of childish craving and forcing. These are the | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| will not have to resort to the other extreme, which is to sabotage the very thing you | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| you may have an opposite outer reaction of extreme and ungenuine independence. Be on the lookout for | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| just as well get it over with. An extreme example of this is suicide. You are torn | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| power, then your reaction to defeat will be extreme humiliation that has to be hidden at any | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| different is taking place. Only in times of extreme crisis do these actual feelings reach the surface | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| compulsive, for reality cannot be evaluated in the extreme terms of good or bad. When these terms | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| intellectual, conscious judgement, but an emotional reaction. This extreme, negative view arising from certain negative instincts or | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| is destructive like vermin, for instance, would be extreme fanaticism, and an utter misunderstanding of truth. There | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| pattern without the necessary understanding, you would experience extreme anxiety. This, in turn, would produce other destructive | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will not lead you into the opposite wrong extreme of laziness, without the desire to change and | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as such understanding is lacking, you must experience extreme anxiety, because the twisted condition has a function | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| yourself, yet you cannot do so without experiencing extreme discomfort. This impatience at the delay engages you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| contains as hardened a defense structure as the extreme opposite. The defense structure is an invisible wall | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| in your brain. For the truth is the extreme opposite of what you stated here. It is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| goodness with goody-goodyness which, if analyzed, is the extreme opposite of the former. In essence, goody-goodyness is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| These two extremes are interdependent, as are all extreme attitudes. Only by letting go of both attitudes | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| super-creature or a monstrous animal. Many people have extreme attitudes toward their unconscious. The unconscious mind does | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| But even if the experience is not so extreme, the child focuses only on certain aspects or | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| hurt inflicted on you was unjust in the extreme, your own value will be diminished. There are | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| And then, man often turns to the other extreme and becomes an atheist. The state of atheism | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| or to end up in an equally evil extreme on the other side of the scale. The | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| it. Such an imbalance of going from one extreme to the other, in the attempt to eliminate | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| attempts to change superficially, he swings from one extreme to another. When he adopts one rule, good | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| This can be said only of the most extreme actions, and even then it is often misleading | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| the beauty of it. You go to the extreme of your unwillingness when you refuse to shoulder | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| for self-knowledge daily and mean it sincerely, your extreme reaction to certain destructive tendencies, which you have | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| to preserve the false picture of saintliness by extreme distress and sorrow, while in reality the psyche | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| real. There are, of course, many other less extreme symptoms that indicate your lack of self- identification | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| exists within you, waiting to be tapped. The extreme form of identification with others because of a | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| Do not apply my words only to the extreme outer manifestation of using others; try to see | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| of the actual lower-self in its distinct and extreme manifestations and character trends, as well as of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the result. This holds true not only in extreme cases such as are surely familiar to all | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| itself in wrong channels. It may be too extreme, or it may give in to apathy and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| fixation of the pleasure drive may take two extreme forms, with many degrees between them. At one | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| forms, with many degrees between them. At one extreme are superimposed rules, taboos, and false guilts, which | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| becomes destructive later in life. At the other extreme, guilt and fear thwart the unfoldment of the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| self-denial -- is equally unfair in the opposite extreme. Whether it concerns the aspect of giving and | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| one-sidedness often creates overt one-sidedness in the opposite extreme. This form of substituting the disapproved need or | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the deed and therefore denying both, results in extreme disturbance for the self, indirectly affecting others, with | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| it will be clear that numbness in its extreme becomes active cruelty. The difference between these two | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| evolutionary process. You have human beings, at one extreme, who cannot even have any direct relationship with | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| utterly attached to negative experiences. At the other extreme are those who, in the process of maturing | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| wonder and richness of the universe. The most extreme forms of releasing ego over-functioning are alcoholism and | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| ego over-functioning are alcoholism and drug addiction. Less extreme forms are self-alienation and mental states of disassociation | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| of letting go. Falling back into the other extreme of holding on too tight to the very | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| the two choices and are driven from one extreme to the other. For a false feeling creates | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| way. Or, perhaps, you have embraced the opposite extreme: resignation. It is simply the reverse of the | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| contact with the real self than the other extreme. It is important for every one of you | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| back and forth, although the tendency to one extreme may be stronger. Only when you look at | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| Doing this would merely lead to the opposite extreme, and both extremes are always equally wrong, damaging | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the psyche there also lurks the precise opposite extreme -- the assumption of your worthlessness. If you | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| are. At a certain stage between these two extreme poles is the phase in which the opening | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| tendency without going to the equally destructive opposite extreme of rebellious, hostile defiance. She will be able | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| into place without the pendulum swinging from one extreme to the other. Inessential goals fall away. Ignoring | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| eventually becomes superfluous. This may sound like an extreme statement especially to those who are still awed | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| divine help. Thus you go from one wrong extreme to the other. One extreme is that you | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| from one wrong extreme to the other. One extreme is that you think you are the one | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| be done and must prove a disappointment. This extreme reaction takes place in the innermost layer of | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| of the human psyche. So does the opposite extreme, in which you profess the belief in higher | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| up its resistance. In spite of the ego's extreme discomfort, it clings to that very condition, the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| pendulum must always temporarily swing to the opposite extreme, until the right balance of truth is found | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| the pendulum having swung away from the opposite extreme, makes all guilt appear neurotic. In fact, there | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| is a reaction to the equally distorted opposite extreme, which position claims that outer form is more | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| you have to immediately go to the opposite extreme of whitewashing your actual failings and faults, those | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| energy flow and thus act out often with extreme destructiveness, or to deaden these forces in order | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| that extremely destructive manifestations will take place. In extreme cases, this may lead to suicide. When the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| first go beyond the truth into the opposite extreme, so all concepts of sin, evil, and personal | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| view, especially if you pick representatives from either extreme of the scale. Nevertheless, neither the highest nor | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| life is missing the point. Being in either extreme, people are not full; they need all their | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| outer will that forces me from the one extreme of overindulgence to the other extreme of deprivation | 228 BALANCE |
| the one extreme of overindulgence to the other extreme of deprivation. This applies to a lot of | 228 BALANCE |
| identifying characteristic of specialness, to go from one extreme to the other and deny myself a sense | 228 BALANCE |
| of evolution the pendulum must swing from one extreme to its exact opposite, deeper insight into the | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| Temporarily, the pendulum has swung to the opposite extreme. The woman has become militant, thereby often forgetting | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| of help and truth exists without becoming an extreme position of punitive self- righteousness. Expanding, giving, joyful | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Those who follow tradition blindly and meaninglessly create extreme orthodoxies in religion and politics -- and of | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| movements the pendulum tends to swing from one extreme to another. This is at times inevitable, sometimes | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| develop exactly as they did at the opposite extreme. For example, today's sexual freedom is a reaction | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| too, had to go to some kind of extreme -- at least temporarily. So some women had | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| ultimate rage. Atheism itself is a manifestation of extreme bitterness against a creation that seems so utterly | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| as a helpful illustration. When people go through extreme states of pain, there comes a point when | 254 SURRENDER |