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| lose its exaggerated proportions, and some of its fearful aspects. Being yourself as you really are with | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| They disquiet you; they make you restless and fearful until you have laboriously worked them out and | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| soul a foretaste of unity and teaches the fearful psyche the longing for it. The more strongly | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| love, fear of the life experience, but the fearful renunciation is rationalized as a sacrifice. To anyone | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| attempt to explain away the counter-currents of the fearful or greedy soul with good motives. There is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| with this situation that makes me angry or fearful now? I am angry because I want something | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| an extent that these selfish, proud, vain, and fearful motives cease to exist in you, the fact | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| in the measure you recognize the weak and fearful motives of your own law-upholding tendency. Thus you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to react that way; or denial -- the fearful refusal to look at imperfection which may not | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| at stake. Otherwise you would not be so fearful. This is the abyss into which you should | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| weakens you and is bound to make you fearful. It enchains you utterly. By seeing the connection | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| inadequacy and self-contempt that make you weak and fearful toward others. I cannot emphasize strongly enough that | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you, to upset you unduly, to make you fearful and worried. Gradually, little by little, you will | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| poor, you are separate; you are isolated and fearful. However, this knowledge cannot really help you until | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to determine where you are selfish and proud, fearful and withdrawn. Search deep within your inner conflicts | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| is not a matter of tuning into a fearful mood or a joyful mood. There is no | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| They disquiet you, they make you restless and fearful until you have laboriously worked them out and | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| as it truly is, once you dissolve the fearful and tense inner clamoring, I want, I must | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| created it. Not having this knowledge makes you fearful that more suffering may come from this hidden | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| not getting it. When you flee from love, fearful that you may not get it anyway, or | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| it. In a similar way, you reject love, fearful of being hurt, not getting it, or losing | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| unsuccessful, half-hearted attempt is made to obtain fulfillment, fearful souls will regard any minor rejection, criticism, or | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| struggle of life, they cringe like the predominantly fearful and appeasing type, but are ashamed of this | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| discovery by making yourself even more helpless, more fearful, and weaker. Once you truly see and understand | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| against God by appeasing Him even more with fearful obedience that is entirely on the surface and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and which makes you even more insecure and fearful of exposure. Deep inside you know of your | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| hurt is to be arrogant, rejecting, superior, and fearful. All these are traits which do not inspire | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| lack of acceptance makes you blind, self-centered, and fearful. Only in learning acceptance can you attain the | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| be safe. To give up being a helpless, fearful baby means to you that people will no | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| Or, if you happen to be a more fearful and pessimistic character, you will not admit their | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| to leave your inner isolation. You are too fearful and selfish, too self-centered in a negative sense | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| is possible that you are still self-involved, withdrawn, fearful, anxious, bound, and blind to the other person | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| your surroundings when you are no longer defensive, fearful, withdrawn, and falsely superior. You are then open | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| not good enough, your innermost self will be fearful, even if your actions are entirely proper and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| or wrong. Now, my friends, are you too fearful to love? Too withdrawn? Do you not dare | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| resigned and withdrawn, become apathetic and are too fearful to want to lead a meaningful life; if | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| But then, as he grows more conflicted and fearful, after his desires become more urgent, all these | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| made on you. You are often unconsciously so fearful of demands, or of your compulsion to give | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| considerable headway. Others are still too blocked and fearful. But even they will eventually muster the courage | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| onto the little self, may experience death as fearful seclusion and separateness, but for those who are | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| but distinct No to a cherished fulfillment, a fearful cringing from it that you cannot explain and | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| many times you were in a fierce and fearful No, but after you overcame it, the relief | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| misunderstood spirituality is a product of the greedy, fearful, weak, dependent child. The less the person is | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| forcing-current, childish greed, the inability to stand frustration, fearful withdrawal, tension, the compulsive need to manipulate, the | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| appear contradictory. It is much more that your fearful withdrawal from life causes a lack of understanding | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| accept what they observed. Due to your self-inflicted, fearful blindness, you are paralyzed; you do not move | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| she is at the moment least resisting, least fearful. One of her great stumbling blocks is a | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| be just that. Many of your victories over fearful resistance are the living proof of what it | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| rejected again, or a little rejected, or being fearful that rejection may occur. QUESTION: But they didn't | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| words cannot describe it. What was difficult, laborious, fearful, bleak, strained, and lonely will become easy, self-perpetuating | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| what is hopeless into bright hope, what is fearful into deep security and confidence. It will change | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| You do not stop this movement with your fearful mind, holding it in check and bringing it | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| positive position is only tentative, so uncertain, so fearful, so divided, so defensive and apprehensive that these | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| depends on the individual's state of development. The fearful person experiences this vibration as a terrifying dissolution | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| self, into truth that goes way beyond the fearful little ego's interests. When this truth is sought | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| does not mean resignation, nor does it mean fearful giving in or weakness. It means going with | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| In that opposition your soul is agitated and fearful, and in that state you can never attain | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| to stop doing so, but you are too fearful to risk. Hence you remain in the status | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| is spontaneously and honestly experienced, unhampered by the fearful, distrustful or cunning ego, can ever be a | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| foreign elements that seem more palatable to the fearful soul. The only way out is to understand | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| bound to outer rules and regulations, tight and fearful. Discipline is used against truth, not for truth | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| regular and rhythmic. A sick or disturbed and fearful heart automatically loses this rhythmic quality. On the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in their own natural way, uninfluenced by the fearful level of your consciousness. Allow the natural organism | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the physical pulsation happen without interference by a fearful, distrusting attitude. Cooperate with this inner lawfulness by | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| life when you do not cramp up against fearful experience, but allow your innermost soul movement to | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in one sweep. There is the old, childish, fearful self, geared to the old mechanisms of false | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| up the process to connect with the dissenting, fearful side -- the side that resists the liberation | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| energy is the result of holding back, of fearful denial of what is. The dissolution of this | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as much pain and shame as this inner, fearful, weak spot which makes them feel impotent and | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| blindly driven to act the way the unconscious, fearful, life-refusing part dictates. This is then rationalized and | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| it, is so great that when the distorted, fearful personality hinders this natural process, unnatural processes are | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| whose egotistical, sick interests play into your own fearful, dependent self, the part that wants to abdicate | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| autonomy to a mate because she is too fearful and lazy to assume the consequences for her | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| separately, with intelligence, whole investment and integrity. No fearful sentimentality must blur your view to your rights | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| you are weak and dependent, you must be fearful. Hence, you must lack the courage for the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| If you let go in a sense of fearful, resigned, obedient, sacrificial deprivation, you remain in duality | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| this belief, you will still feel hopeless, depressed, fearful or anxious, entangled in apparently insoluble conflicts with | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| it go at that. The meaning of such fearful, uncomfortable, anxious reaction is plainly an expression that | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| in revenge and spite. The person is also fearful of what life brings, for how could it | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| human beings are still in the state of fearful defense against living, even when there is no | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| action. It is only the passivity of the fearful self that creates frenzy as a counter-action against | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| still believes that the pseudo-safety of this cramped, fearful position is preferable to annihilation. Only after finally | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| by life, which cannot be manipulated by the fearful, small, controlling mind. When you substitute a forcing | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| state is the true isolation of the disunified, fearful being, who issues a forcing current into the | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| can come only when there is no tight, fearful attitude and when the readiness to deal with | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| fairness more than the apparent advantages of the fearful, holding, vain little ego, your liberation will truly | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| as you contain your positive forces in a fearful, untrusting and spiteful attitude. But when you can | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| state that often makes your life unbearably lonely, fearful, and meaningless. Unfathomable death is terrifying, and although | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| feelings are loving or hateful, angry or benign, fearful or peaceful, their energy must create according to | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| positive desire or greedy, distorted desire from a fearful rejection of life's pattern. As your meditation practice | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| the inner person is still too puzzled and fearful to do otherwise. The evil is denied and | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| of truth -- without struggle and panic, without fearful ideas of finality -- will make you aware | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| But the time must come when every last fearful individual will stand up and throw off the | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| deeper, longer lasting, and less fraught with subsequent fearful contraction. You become more capable of fulfillment because | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| directed by the real, divine self. Only the fearful, separated, fragmented and stubborn mind can halt the | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| QUESTION: What is the positive aspect of a fearful, anxious state? ANSWER: Fear, in general, is a | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| other things and other people in the same fearful way you do now. You can really learn | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| cleanse the residual little selfishnesses that make you fearful. You believe you cannot give all of yourself | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| comes when you do become conscious of this fearful thought. Then the first reaction is very often | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| division and self-denial, you must feel pessimistic and fearful about the world and see it only in | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| only in fragments, out of context, reaffirming your fearful visions. Thus the process of the pathwork is | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| self-devaluation into your inner being, you must become fearful, you avoid moving out, you prevent your heart | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| the real state of perfection. Such a prideful, fearful, untruthful attitude indicates lack of faith in your | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| misunderstood, misrepresented and misused by the prideful, domineering, fearful ego, so that perfection was forced, pretended, punitively | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| and loving or still unenlightened, defensive, hating, and fearful. So love is in everything. Thus we now | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| love and freedom. The first two alternatives of fearful acceptance and blind rebellion are obviously unloving and | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| to assume because he is too lazy, too fearful, too selfish, too self-indulgent, he commits as grave | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| ready on its evolutionary journey. When this separated, fearful, doubting part remains unconscious, the longing for eternal | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| in your daily meditations. When you are unhappy, fearful, discouraged, in darkness, know at least that you | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| one cannot exist without the other. Where distrustful, fearful holding back makes it impossible for the soul | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| should begin by pointing out how painful and fearful duality really is. For this is often so | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| mind becomes more firmly entrenched in the painful, fearful dualism through straining from the undesirable alternative, then | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| you can agree or disagree without rebellion or fearful submission. The road to the clarity and ability | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |