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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 |