| Extremes....................69 | |
| ground from under their feet. Both groups represent extremes; both are in untruth and miss the point | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| because its opposite is wrong. And yet both extremes are wrong, precisely because they are extremes. Here | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| both extremes are wrong, precisely because they are extremes. Here is an example: The higher a person's | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| and without any pretense. No sickly exaggerations! No extremes! As in everything else, here too you find | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in everything else, here too you find two extremes. A number of people indulge in self-debasement, pulling | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| think about this question, think of the two extremes. It is important to know your weaknesses, and | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| and to maintain. The right middle path between extremes can be found and adhered to if you | 18 FREE WILL |
| the opposite extreme, and you know that all extremes are wrong. Such a person has a deep | 31 SHAME |
| quality. I will do it here with both extremes. I will then show you the harm the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| themselves when they are in either of these extremes. If they think about others destructively, judgingly, they | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| you are. You will find two entirely wrong extremes as well as the one most difficult right | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| whether the middle path between the two wrong extremes is found determines whether you are on the | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| the happy medium in everything and to resist extremes which are always temptations. You have to find | 36 PRAYER |
| created being no longer in deepest darkness, these extremes represent no danger. There is, however, a hidden | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| exist in your images. The child knows only extremes: good or bad, perfection or imperfection, omnipotence that | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| You must know which one of the two extremes of subjectivity is more important for you to | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| way. Both are subconsciously afraid of their opposite extremes, and therefore they remain in their own extreme | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| are right in their judgments about the other extremes. But all the types are wrong in believing | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| that their own extreme is better than those extremes they look down upon. The person of will | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| assertions. They cannot find the truth between these extremes. QUESTION: If you break a divine law in | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| a harmonious state wherein there are no more extremes. This balancing in future incarnations always applies to | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| other religions another. Here you simply have two extremes. When such dogmas or rules come into existence | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| extreme, which is equally wrong. These two opposite extremes set a vicious circle in motion: the greater | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| until you recognize either of these two wrong extremes. The more frequent tendency is to not give | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| have a good example of the two opposite extremes, both of which lack truth to an equal | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| find the right middle way between these wrong extremes. At one extreme is the person who plunges | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| by realizing toward which one of these two extremes you are inclined to lean. QUESTION: What would | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the other causes fluctuation between the two wrong extremes. People cannot find a way out as long | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| is the negative side of the issue. Many extremes have to be experienced before the healthy middle | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| attitude, then you prove something to yourself. Both extremes come from an attempt to prove something. When | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| it happens today with some aspects, but all extremes come out of rebellion and misunderstanding and must | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| in psychological currents and how they lead to extremes on which various religions base their doctrines. This | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| human being to find the truth between two extremes -- or between two truths which apparently cancel | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| evaluate the manifestation of your love-capacity. The two extremes are always close by. You either withdraw completely | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| love altogether. So you fluctuate between the two extremes. Either you are submissive, which you feel is | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| in fear. The child in you knows only extremes. It is either the great height, the final | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| inner reactions, that you constantly fluctuate between the extremes of over-eagerness coming from an exaggerated need, and | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| so subtle. If you let go of both extremes, out of your center of being, the soul | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| the latter, the more you invite and court extremes that should be avoided. Only by a very | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| order to discover that they are not the extremes of death or suffering that were feared. Often | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the more one sees life in terms of extremes, such as happiness versus unhappiness, with happiness standing | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| even attempt any growth and change. These two extremes are interdependent, as are all extreme attitudes. Only | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| mind have dispensed with the falsity of both extremes. In this second stage of atheism, man learns | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| person? It is a combination of the two extremes. The possibilities are manifold. A person may be | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| opposite in some respects. You fluctuate between the extremes of either being good or bad, rather than | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| growing process. Usually, there are stages between these extremes, either overt or unconscious, so that the personality | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| so that the personality battles blindly against both extremes, fluctuating but never being enlightened and freed. Consequently | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| to the real self. In other words, both extremes of the ego's weakness and its inflation must | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| personality will find the fine borderline between apparent extremes, and will recognize the difference between the healthy | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| through love that this precarious balance of opposite extremes is achieved. This fine balance comes automatically through | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| demands, or renunciation of happiness and fulfillment. Both extremes are equally erroneous, leading to very similar results | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| effect, an outer immobility, paralysis, excessive passivity. These extremes are always the result of an intensity of | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| much aware of this internal see-saw. Realize the extremes of the heavily guarded, overcontrolled, rigid, unspontaneous, unfeeling | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| an unpleasant duty. Humanity fluctuates between these two extremes: either to remain the greedy, selfish child, demanding | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| merely lead to the opposite extreme, and both extremes are always equally wrong, damaging, and dangerous. People | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| actions and attitudes. You can see how the extremes and distortions are quite similar and ultimately bring | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| Such pessimism makes you fluctuate between two damaging extremes: either resignation or compulsive, blind, and consequently inappropriate | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| are many degrees of contact between the crass extremes of total outer and inner isolation, at one | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| present-day human being fluctuates somewhere between the two extremes. It is also possible to measure one's personal | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| hopelessness and unrealistic magical hope are the two extremes which lead to a vicious circle. But do | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| darkness, to plough your way between the two extremes. These extremes are the blind, wishful thinking that | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| plough your way between the two extremes. These extremes are the blind, wishful thinking that listens only | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| have to search your way between these two extremes. When you go deep into your innermost feelings | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| center is the self. Neither of these two extremes exists in the human consciousness. In the present | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| it creates splits rather than unification. Both these extremes are half-truths, though they can have relative validity | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| less greedy are victimized by the greedy. Both extremes can abuse this system. The socialistically-minded can become | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| in hell. You represent a combination of both extremes. Many of you doubt that there are other | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| see the positive and negative possibilities in both extremes. On a level of deeper spiritual reality, neither | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| If this world reflects the combination of both extremes creating this polarity, there must also exist other | 254 SURRENDER |
| Extricate...................10 | |
| open, you cannot master it. You cannot possibly extricate yourself from both these unrealities. You cling to | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| disturbing emotions, the impasses from which you cannot extricate yourself because the alternatives available to you -- | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the tragedy of this senseless struggle. You cannot extricate yourself from its meshes as long as you | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| It then becomes more and more difficult to extricate yourself from this pattern of inner behavior. Blaming | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| which are much more confusing and difficult to extricate yourself from then untruths. Therefore various negative emotions | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| life, until it becomes increasingly more difficult to extricate themselves from the maze. I will demonstrate this | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| circle, from which it is always difficult to extricate oneself. Another part of the vicious circle is | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| answer the question, How am I going to extricate myself from my identification with my lower self | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| in the sequence I outlined, so you can extricate yourself from the incredibly painful and hopeless dichotomy | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| and you find it ever more difficult to extricate yourself. You swing back and forth from the | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |