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eventually have. QUESTION: Why is it that one feels abandoned by God, that one finds oneself without 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS
the feelings of world weariness. Wallowing in woes feels so good to you, and you convince yourself 4 WORLD WEARINESS
it. Encountering these previously unconscious currents and tendencies feels as if you met a total stranger who 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
yourself as you still are is unhealthy. Whoever feels the truth of these words should think and 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
of course, but in addition a commitment which feels burdensome. It feels like a sacrifice to let 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
in addition a commitment which feels burdensome. It feels like a sacrifice to let go of something 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
the reality of which you are not conscious feels to the touch, looks to the eye, and 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
a person is incarnated as a female, but feels herself more masculine, is it a sin against 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
thinking about facing the lower self. The subconscious feels it necessary to present a different picture of 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
self cannot immediately interpret. The conscious self just feels a certain longing, a certain dissatisfaction with the 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
span will unfold. However, for the person who feels, knows, and has experienced the truth of the 18 FREE WILL
right way does not diminish the love one feels for a few. And then you must consider 18 FREE WILL
on your own behalf. If your present situation feels unsatisfactory in any way, or if you are 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
love given on false premises. So the person feels compelled to create a mask self in which 32 DECISION-MAKING
someone else whose faith is strong and who feels, as mentioned before, that she holds a special 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
than the present downward curve, every upward curve feels better. You felt an elation and a liberation 39 IMAGE-FINDING
unpleasant knowledge into the unconscious and, because it feels guilty, will also build defenses against what it 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
only the most primitive emotions. It knows what feels good or bad. It knows love and pleasure 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
who is getting close to nearing an image-recognition feels a profound shame. You do not feel shame 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
the parent and begins to hate and resent, feels let down and disappointed, or else hides the 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
is awake and free. It is happy. It feels light. And it may live for a while 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
wants the approval of public opinion. Then he feels safe, because he is not criticized. Also, he 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
to be separate. A child suffers whenever it feels different from other children. For the child, being 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
both of the others. The will-type thinks or feels something to the effect of, The reason-type is 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
right. QUESTION: About the hidden desires. One sometimes feels joy, which also contains a desire. Isn't it 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
a desire. Isn't it possible that one sometimes feels joyous because one has come a little nearer 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
rebels against being restricted by authority. The child feels the authority as a hostile force, an enemy 47 THE WALL WITHIN
that locks it behind prison bars where it feels frustrated. There is often but one impatient longing 47 THE WALL WITHIN
particularly bad effect on the law-breaker. The latter feels quite differently and much less rebellious when he 47 THE WALL WITHIN
to your sexual drive. Each one of you feels guilty about it, if not on the surface 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
of loving more than one person. The child feels excluded and rejected if the parent also loves 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
human psyche. It is self-evident that the child feels ashamed of these negative emotions, and therefore it 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
of anything good, joyful, or pleasurable. The child feels that if it were ever to become happy 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
the stronger one desires happiness, the guiltier one feels. Many personal as well as mass images are 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
but in a different sense. The personality unconsciously feels that if such love does exist at all 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
For instance, the child or the immature person feels different from her or his surroundings, has a 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
self, the divine being living within yourself, registers, feels, and sees, but as differently as your feeling 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
-- usually the conscious side -- another part feels deflated and lifeless. This indicates that the distortion 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
have stated. She is pleased about them and feels them to be something admirable, although intellectually she 53 SELF-LOVE
punish those who have slighted him. The child feels and thinks somewhat like this: Now they will 53 SELF-LOVE
integrate with love. Whenever it manifests, the person feels guilty and ashamed, trying, erroneously, to tear out 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
goes on underneath. Find out why the person feels that way. Where is the misconception? There must 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
Because of religious mass images about God, one feels all the more guilty and inferior. Guilt cannot 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
hopeless, the mood becomes desperate. The undeveloped being feels in terms of black and white. It knows 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
of happiness it wants is unattainable. The child feels dependent on a cruel world which denies it 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
may be due to unhappiness, to predicaments one feels hopeless about. This creates the desire which may 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the inner person, your psyche, thinks, wants and feels. This is often contrary to your outer personality 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
that deviates from the right principle. One vaguely feels one's inner deviations and tries to superimpose the 62 MAN AND WOMAN
by finely tuning in to how your willpower feels, try to determine which will it is. If 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
your will; where it comes from, how it feels. If and when you find the inner will 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
everything. What you said about a friend who feels prayer to be a weakness is, of course 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
You will also find that quite often one feels guilty about a common human failure or fault 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is another alternative regarding guilt feelings: One often feels guilty when that feeling is unjustified, as I 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
camouflage for the real reason about which one feels guilty. As I said some time ago, often 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and manifestation with every individual. When a child feels rejected -- and you know that every child 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
makes no difference -- in most instances it feels more rejected by one of the parents than 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
the other parent. But the way the child feels is what counts as the inner impressions accumulate 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
tenderness and affection is not forthcoming, the child feels it as a rejection, and a confusion arises 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
life. Deep in the unconscious, he or she feels that it is undesirable, and therefore shameful, to 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
ashamed to love. Consider also that the child feels deeply humiliated when it yearns for love and 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
makes no difference, as long as the child feels it to be so. Then, in addition to 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
can change it all into true concepts, it feels certainly more painful than facing something you have 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
exclusive and limitless love is wrong; therefore it feels guilty about it. It is true that exclusive 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
aggressiveness, even if ever so subtly, when it feels slighted. You will, moreover, see that these emanations 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
is indeed the tragedy that your subconscious still feels it to be. The only tragedy lies in 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
screaming of the other? Is that why one feels the hostility emanating from the other person? ANSWER 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
at those around you. The child in you feels itself entirely different from others, in a world 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
unwilling to assume mature responsibility, then one naturally feels guilty for desiring the goal. If a person 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
struggle, and doubt. A part of you deeply feels that you have nothing secure to hold on 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
experience as drastic unhappiness, another temperament and character feels to be dismal woe. At any rate, unhappiness 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
nevertheless, they come to the fore, the child feels deeply ashamed and considers any emotion as weakness 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
of this sort is suspected, the aggressive type feels as deeply ashamed as the submissive type is 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
stands the superiority of the power type, who feels particularly humiliated and exposed by this dependency on 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
security, although the personality going through the process feels acute insecurity and anxiety when called upon to 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
are imagined and unrealistic. When a human being feels threatened by not being loved, admired, approved of 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
will solve your problems, in a sense it feels better to believe the goal itself is still 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
make you restless and disharmonious. Now the psyche feels, I have received what I thought I needed 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
false -- of how another person thinks or feels about you. In the first case, emotionally, you 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
and do not give love. Therefore the child feels apprehension and anxiety toward women when he becomes 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
Only by repeatedly observing how your destructive defense feels in you, what it makes you do, feel 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
Doesn't it often happen that a person actually feels pity while being convinced that what he or 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
while being convinced that what he or she feels is compassion? It is always tempting to pride 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
life. If you feel impoverished, if your personality feels impoverished by such a separation, then there must 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
and involved search of the subconscious when he feels he is doing God's work and has fulfillment 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
or perhaps real, feeling of rejection, the child feels unworthy of love and therefore establishes a pattern 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
of the child prevails. The child in you feels that if you are in pursuit of pleasure 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
the principle of either/or. The child in you feels that if you are happy, you must be 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
of your nature, when faced with actual danger, feels only fright and anger. In the rare instances 101 THE DEFENSE
looking only at the issue itself. Healthy anger feels very different from the unhealthy kind. Unhealthy anger 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
person comes into contact with someone whom he feels compelled to envy and thus may be pulled 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
is something calmer and wiser that thinks and feels through you. This is what I talk about 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
someone of such infinite superiority, wisdom, intelligence, he feels he must relate to this supreme Being. But 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
and wishful-thinking. He no longer acts because he feels God demands or expects it of him. He 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
the supposed arbitrariness of life against which he feels helpless. Thus, his suffering will take on an 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
has not attempted to investigate what he really feels. This, as you encounter so often in this 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
the manipulation? ANSWER: To the degree a person feels the need for manipulation -- which is an 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
want to present an explanation indicating why one feels pity instead of the much more productive feeling 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
which one unconsciously holds onto it because one feels the habit is a protection, a solution, a 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
undertakes during good times has good results. One feels freer than usual, in spite of problematic conditions 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
theory, but from personal discovery. The parent one feels uncertain of, in awe or fear of, usually 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
thereby becomes weaker. He becomes doubly resentful and feels cheated when this mode of living and being 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
out in a self-centered way, while the person feels guilty and sinful -- often very much unaware 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
aggressiveness is confused with hostility for which he feels guilty. So he feels guilty also for healthy 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
hostility for which he feels guilty. So he feels guilty also for healthy male aggression and energy 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
similar struggle exists with woman. When the girl-child feels rejected, she feels passive and helpless. The passivity 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
with woman. When the girl-child feels rejected, she feels passive and helpless. The passivity and helplessness, as 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
with a state of humiliating helplessness. She erroneously feels that being hurt and being helpless against it 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
against it. At the same time, she also feels that all her creative, active trends are considered 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
negative currents in the parents that it unconsciously feels -- and sometimes even consciously experiences. It is 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
When the child receives an allowance and he feels guilty for keeping it, while not actually deserving 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
it, while not actually deserving it, he later feels shame for receiving a salary. GUIDE: Such a 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
limitations. It pretends possessing all that the personality feels is lacking. The pretense of the idealized self 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
aspect of its development. It is frustrated and feels a void, for the deep longing for happiness 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
inadequacy, to feel wanted and desired because one feels insecure and helpless. Often aggression and hostility are 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
may be comparatively easy to recognize. The person feels unfairly treated, exploited, victimized, resentful, while still being 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
take another current problem: self-assertion. Suppose a man feels guilty about expressing his healthy, masculine aggressiveness, confusing 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
Or, he expresses aggressiveness, and because he vaguely feels that this is unkind or unspiritual, he wavers 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
in union with the other sex. Each sex feels unfairly put upon and resents its own supposed 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
has to in order to survive. A man feels that his responsibilities are heavier, that his failure 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
something whose existence one consciously ignores and only feels it as a dull, vague force. The minute 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
certain other people may represent the security one feels lacking in oneself. One may fear loneliness, lack 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
is panic. One fights for one's life, and feels losing ground, rather than gaining, because the old 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
instead of true independence. Concomitantly, your deep psyche feels that there should be a loosening up as 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
resistance are the living proof of what it feels to function out of your vital, live center 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
clearly that one resents in others what one feels compelled to perpetuate, in the misunderstanding that a 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
preventing negative occurrences in the future. When one feels one is a victim of fate, of powers 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
not alienated from his or her real self, feels no pang or conflict about either. The self- 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
alternative, whatever negativity exists in you no longer feels disastrous, because then you know that it is 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
intelligence other than your usual conscious mind, which feels as though it were a separate being. A 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
destructive material to the surface, the individual often feels as though an indwelling destructive entity, over which 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
why self-confrontation and seeing what one actually thinks, feels, and does is of such tremendous importance. When 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
create a psychic climate in which the individual feels singled out as a victim. It is inevitable 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
further notice that relinquishing ideals and convictions also feels like annihilation, for being wrong means dying, and 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
this particular moment. Your gauge is always what feels most uncomfortable, what you are most tempted to 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
the character structure. Hence, the deep inner conscience feels undeserving of all good and cringes from it 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
This hankering for passivity means that the person feels passivity to be a desirable state. It seems 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
illusion that says, I am fulfilled when one feels unfulfilled; the illusion that pretends the world is 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
to destructiveness, destructiveness cannot be given up. It feels as if life were given up. This brings 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
humility it is easy to question what one feels, where one is, why one reacts in the 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
results when real feelings are blocked. The personality feels guilty for hindering the natural flow of feelings 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
what one wants to be, or what one feels one ought to be in order to be 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
superficial level. The specific personality I then discussed feels this shame primarily about good qualities, about giving 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
is to say that what one really is feels shamefully naked -- regardless of your good or 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
feel love, but to show this real love feels naked, so you create a false love. You 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
as you are now. But this real anger feels naked, so you create false anger. You may 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
is what induces the change in how one feels about oneself. A reasonable attitude to what seems 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
everyone does to the extent he or she feels discontented with life. To the extent life begins 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
lost. Your new freedom no longer acts and feels according to such dictates. And that is a 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you become -- first of the compression that feels almost like a foreign body, as I said 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
with the universe. It is totally safe. Everything feels home and peaceful and so intensely pleasurable that 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
daily reality is ever afraid of death. One feels and knows one's immortal nature, one is filled 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
or less than a rediscovery. It usually even feels as though one had known it all along 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
of weakness and helplessness, because he or she feels remotely as though this were the more decent' 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
This is why it is so painful and feels so insecure and why in no state could 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
be confusion about what the other person really feels. Your own confusion inevitably breeds confusion about what 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
tension is not the painful tension a person feels when the two forces are in disharmony. This 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
difficulty in being healthily aggressive. Such an individual feels compelled to always submit, to never say No 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
who struggles in her or his own development feels threatened by any display of the unchanneled primitive 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
one does not flinch from what one really feels. They come gradually, to the degree that you 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
burden of the encrustations is heavy, and everyone feels the heaviness. All of you long for the 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
of dividing yourself. Any rejection of what one feels and experiences creates self-division and inner fighting against 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
an integral part of life -- something that feels. When you deaden something that feels -- even 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
something that feels. When you deaden something that feels -- even if it be negative now -- 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
of letting be, and a simultaneous activation. It feels very creative. Things I can't believe are happening 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
makes the tension and suffering infinitely greater. One feels a victim of hazard, against which one thinks 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
may happen in a subtle way, or he feels extremely uncomfortable and strongly compelled when he refrains 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
more he tries to be masculine and thus feels guilty, the less love feelings he can express 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
and consequently the more insecure and inferior he feels. He must hide his insecurity and sense of 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
never felt before: that although your outer body feels well, coordinated, without pains or tensions, there are 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
inner body blocks is to say that it feels as if there were static, congested areas in 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
person is, the more alienated he or she feels from it. Thus, in primitive religion, humans believe 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
right now in relation to my self-esteem. It feels like an atomic explosion. I realize I'm stuck 174 SELF-ESTEEM
I do it? Why can't I want what feels good for me? This question has been asked 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
of you knows this quite accurately and justifiably feels guilty for it, makes you hate and punish 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
well as mental and emotional pleasure. It simply feels good in itself. Love opens you up. You 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
destruction. His hatred grows to the extent he feels victimized and helplessly entrapped in his own prison 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
of this session, our friend said that he feels as yet unable to relinquish this terrible game 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
terrible game he plays with life. But he feels himself near it, almost touching the water of 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
problems arise from the other person when one feels disturbance only in his or her presence, and 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
The point in both instances is that one feels helpless and not responsible for one's own experiences 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
with the result that secretly the whole personality feels fraudulent and terrified of exposure. It is a 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
steady activation of the higher powers, the self feels less and less forlorn, helpless, lost, hopeless, or 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
what he or she consciously desires, and yet feels strangely paralyzed, is eligible to benefit from this 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
emotions and thoughts. More specifically, the personality invariably feels unjustly victimized, blames others or life, is resentful 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
wanting to make this step. But this brink feels like a precipice which brings hesitation and a 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
inner journey. You have already tasted how it feels when you release the waste material of years 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
of this intent is not maintained, the personality feels threatened: the child equates giving up the resistance 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
truth of the self -- what it really feels and thinks and is. If commitment to the 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
thought-direction seem less final. Just investigate how it feels to set a positive intentionality in motion. As 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
are irrational, but a part of you still feels entitled to have these feelings because that part 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
entitled to have these feelings because that part feels unjustly treated. You still react to the past 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
your demands and responses are unjustified; another part feels so deprived and demanding that it reacts as 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
and have nothing to give. The one who feels empty gives nothing. You can feel rich and 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
everyone who admits the worst in themselves inevitably feels elation, liberation, energy, hope, and light as the 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
avoid, you dwell in a dark mire which feels very uncomfortable. A third aspect of order is 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
the state of letting loose and letting God feels wonderful, rich, light, joyful, and safe. Many of 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
may feel very secure in that area, but feels very doubtful about ever having abundance and security 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
are more than the part of you that feels this hopelessness. So when you feel hopeless it 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
divine self within, how it is, how it feels, how it operates. Then you will forget again 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
be confused with true intuition and perception, which feels very differently and leads to a very different 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
a true state of equality. The moment one feels superior to the other, one's respect is lowered 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
lowered and the feelings close. The moment one feels inferior to the other, resentment, fear, envy become 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
decide not to communicate your perceptions if that feels more appropriate. In this free perception the responsibility 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
security takes on a very different form. It feels different. Honest searching need not be covered up 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
are still blocked you reject pleasure because it feels uncomfortable. At least you are now fully aware 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
something that seems momentarily to your disadvantage or feels unwelcome. You are no longer in a state 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
whatever part is still stagnant in you, still feels, I would like to move more on my 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
has not rightfully earned these privileges; he either feels too guilty to even really want them, or 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
of the eternal, fuller, deeper life and thus feels very secure in the physical life. Yet physical 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
standards, your overall personality, but the former anger feels very irrational and unreasonable. An ordinary person may 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
that the line of least resistance and what feels momentarily most pleasurable is tantamount to your autonomy 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS

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