| Fearfully...................13 | |
| They are all one stream. If human consciousness fearfully watches over every stream of feeling, anxiously cutting | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| by blind reflexes, which may either make you fearfully overmodest or tempt you into self-glorification. Listen deeply | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| so there is no longer any need to fearfully hold on. When the soul is sufficiently experienced | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| is no necessity for groping in the dark, fearfully half-trusting, half- distrusting, thrown between one's needs and | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| into the harmonious flow unifies, while strenuously and fearfully holding the self together splits and disintegrates the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| no longer fear one opposite, no longer cling fearfully to the other, then, and only then, can | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| brittleness and a need to withdraw, to be fearfully separate, over-controlled, and rigid. When the heaviness of | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| person glorifies his way. The person who is fearfully overcontrolled and rigid will use the example of | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and natural flow of your feelings, where you fearfully, anxiously, and suspiciously hold back. It also exists | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| it nevertheless is what we childishly, blindly, or fearfully express into life. Not knowing this principle -- | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| differently in areas where they have blocks. They fearfully cling to unchanging conditions inside and outside themselves | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| you blindly ward off as long as you fearfully deny your negativity. Let us now also discuss | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| position. There is no maudlin sentimentality that shrinks fearfully from confrontation. The courage to risk rejection for | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Fearfulness.................6 | |
| or disapproval. You will detect a hardening, a fearfulness, an apprehension, a desire to reject whatever it | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| obstructions in the psyche, such as selfishness, egocentricity, fearfulness and cowardice. Every time even a particle of | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| is at least a slight element of rejection, fearfulness, insecurity, or pain. When these negative emotions are | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| and your old, habit-bound emotions revert to their fearfulness of long standing, in blind automatism. Only knowing | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| path, constantly encounter in yourself this tightness, this fearfulness, this holding. You may call it resistance or | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| after you let go of the tightness and fearfulness of your opinion, you will find out whether | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Fearing.....................56 | |
| subject to struggle to maintain the idealized image, fearing that if they fail to do so, the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| What is the connection, and the difference, between fearing disapproval and wanting approval, as against fearing public | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| between fearing disapproval and wanting approval, as against fearing public opinion? ANSWER: There isn't necessarily any difference | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| person of will also neglects the emotional side, fearing emotion as much as the reason- type does | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| openly rebelling against the restrictions; on the other, fearing the stigma of being ostracized, despised, of not | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| just as erroneous as the opposite extreme of fearing a god who is severe, unjust, pious, self-righteous | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| from one extreme to another. They will cease fearing forces, influences, people and happenings outside themselves, in | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to free yourself of this unnecessary burden of fearing love and life. Go in peace, my dearest | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| suffering -- denying, never facing it, and irrationally fearing it beyond its true proportions -- is inevitably | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| frightened to let go of the false ones fearing that then you will have nothing. Thus your | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| becoming frantic. Yet understanding its harm, but not fearing it, he will then see that not the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| outer happening in terms of either needing or fearing. In neither alternative do they see the reality | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| demands from others to avoid feeling guilty or fearing unwelcome consequences. In both cases the result is | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| nature? The same applies to your soul-currents. By fearing and not looking at the debris of your | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| inner security by pursuing wrong values and by fearing uncertainty that need not be feared. You often | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of your being, it is organic. But people fearing themselves, the other, and therefore the stream of | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| that they so arduously struggle against happiness by fearing truth and holding onto misconceptions. Liberation as a | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| demands the fulfillment of all its desires, while fearing the opposite, or you harbor the false idea | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| destructive part may rule you unbeknownst to yourself. Fearing your darker side, you do not dare to | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| fears impulses of genuine affection as much as fearing weakness and desire for dependency. The loser fears | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| If you desire health in a spirit of fearing sickness, you prevent health. If you fear the | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| of self-discipline. It is rather a state of fearing nothing in the self and therefore dispensing with | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| the personality, you would say, Here I am, fearing the cruelty from the outside, fearing the rage | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| I am, fearing the cruelty from the outside, fearing the rage and the indifference of the world | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| be eternally in the whirlpool of wanting and fearing the same thing. And this truly is torture | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| the real key. The struggle of wanting and fearing closeness with others, as well as of wanting | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| with others, as well as of wanting and fearing intimate contact with one's innermost self, cannot be | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| brought down to the simple common denominator of fearing to give of yourself and of cultivating a | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| in the tremendous struggle between longing for and fearing happiness and the healthy letting go, although it | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| The often experienced fear of failure results from fearing success. Success seems as vaguely dangerous as any | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| for the fruits of these involuntary processes, yet fearing and battling them. The conflict is terrible and | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| a little more light on the process of fearing oneself. The fear makes itself known in indirect | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| and confusions -- such as wanting closeness and fearing it, therefore becoming more deprived and consequently more | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You miss the creative process of living by fearing this process. I now wish to discuss some | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| anxiety you experience is exclusively a result of fearing pleasure, as well as unpleasure -- fearing to | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| of fearing pleasure, as well as unpleasure -- fearing to be touched by experience and therefore building | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| manner. Say to it: I am wrong in fearing experience. Nothing bad can happen to me if | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| -- of wanting the thing you fear and fearing the thing you want -- can only mend | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| another facet that will help you to stop fearing the realm of feelings. I will explain how | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| than if you fear yourself and know it. Fearing yourself and not knowing it makes you dead | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| reality and there will be no question of fearing bottomless negativity and destructiveness. This is possibly one | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| it, the less severe it will be. By fearing the pain, you shrink from and reject it | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| of no longer needing and therefore no longer fearing the destructive forces, it also begins to know | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| established between them. As man is justified in fearing the activating forces as long as he is | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| cannot control it, so is woman justified in fearing self-surrender as long as she makes herself helpless | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| true, you cannot ever end your frustration by fearing it and thus cramping up against it. You | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| is bound in the struggle of wanting and fearing the same thing. Unawareness of this struggle leads | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| indeed remove the wall. You can live without fearing death. You can experience the truth of eternal | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| process. Hating and rejecting your present state means fearing yourself, which means obstructing your journey and movement | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| of aliveness. But lack of aliveness comes from fearing it. You can make the fear give way | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| are regressive and try to halt the movement, fearing it, and believing it is bad. But they | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| also trust the unknown future. As you cease fearing future death, this new attitude becomes more known | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| trance. She had hesitated before giving this lecture, fearing that her laryngitis would make it difficult if | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| seriously -- not in the wrong way by fearing it, but meeting it in trust, knowing that | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| these unattended parts of your soul. Instead of fearing the devils or denying their existence so you | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| some time the incomparable peace of no longer fearing what you do not want and no longer | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Fearless....................33 | |
| for it can come only out of a fearless soul. It will have the strength to react | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| moment. Only if and when you are completely fearless of hurts and disappointments is the time ripe | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| in truth. Thus, the personality lives in a fearless world. The illusions, being untrue, in the last | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so. Realism, objectivity, the ability to relinquish, and fearless willingness to enter love are not only compatible | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| and more in the technique that establishes a fearless relationship with others. Are there any questions now | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| of these disturbances. Its nature is love, a fearless state of abundance, of positiveness, of productivity and | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| new wisdom, strength, serenity, and dynamic vitality. A fearless love for all creation, a security, an understanding | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| from self-expression, from union, from experience, from a fearless state of self-realization with a kindred spirit? Now | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| When you let go and vibrate unchecked in fearless expansion, fulfillment becomes a state of being in | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| apparent opposites. The state of unity is a fearless state, but fear cannot be relinquished by insisting | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| it keeps you from the transition into the fearless unitive state. You keep stemming against the flow | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| life's benign nature; it is impossible to be fearless about loving; and it is impossible to establish | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| in any given area of life, they are fearless, trustful, and positive, and to the extent they | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| experience is doubtful and not necessarily desirable. This fearless meeting of it enables you to transcend the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| love, can only come when your soul is fearless, and you know that the strength of your | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| your life. Whatever was truly pleasurable, inspired, effortless, fearless, creative, and deeply joyful was precisely due to | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| fulfills. The reconciliation of all duality is the fearless pleasure supreme that comes from the floating state | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the unitive principle will reveal itself in its fearless, conflict- free state. Then a harmonious soul movement | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| levels of your being, and a meaningful and fearless existence. All this and more can never be | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| such conditions, to find bliss and closeness -- fearless closeness. So you see, my friends, it is | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| of your focus to inner living. Only a fearless soul can experience bliss, pleasure, joy, and peace | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| of your spiritual being only when you are fearless and relaxed. If no part of your inner | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| not feeling below them will indeed make you fearless. For your fear is conditioned by your ego | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| a production of illusion, then you cannot fear. Fearless love and joy is a feeling-experience that transcends | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| commensurately. By willingly experiencing your fear, you grow fearless and secure. This is so because the apparently | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| but quite the contrary. True resilient strength and fearless self-assertion rest upon the ability to accept what | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| to the devil in you, in faith and fearless confidence in the inner guidance, you will in | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| now are you truly in bliss, truly secure, fearless, and absolutely certain -- not as wishful thinking | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| let me describe what I mean. A completely fearless state, without contraction and tension, is the state | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| glorious. That state of consciousness will make life fearless because there is nothing to fear in dying | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| fear of death would mean unending joy, a fearless existence in which you bring your innate divine | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| goodness, of singing joy, of eternal life, of fearless existence. This world can exist only in a | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| individual joining this venture, on all levels. Be fearless in your trust and faith that you are | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |