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| as belonging to a whole. So humanity is fighting because their various interpretations sound like contradictions. In | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| Let us take an example. A person is fighting his selfishness. This fault is in almost everybody | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| disharmony, it means that your two natures are fighting. Whenever doubt reappears, it is your lower self | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the lower self, and nurse it instead of fighting it. What would happen from our point of | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| your ego prevents your seeing the truth. The fighting spirit that then arises should be curbed and | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| far you have always rationalized the conflicting or fighting part. You were so affected by this negative | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| unfortunately, war often is still your means of fighting evil. As spiritual development grows, you will learn | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| knowledge, as well as for spiritual development. By fighting, of course, I mean fighting your lower self | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| spiritual development. By fighting, of course, I mean fighting your lower self. Also, if someone is already | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| some of your own mistakes, while so busily fighting those of others. I can assure you that | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| your erroneous emotional conclusions, you will discover that fighting your imagined shames and resistances with the tools | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| and a wish for peace rather than for fighting, along with many other tendencies, which will then | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| apply this truth. If the battle you are fighting is not consciously understood in its full significance | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| voice that can never be stilled goes on fighting in its own erroneous way, with the very | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| in yourself, you will understand that you are fighting for something you do not really want and | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you will learn to let go of the fighting current to prove yourself. Your emotions will learn | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you. Or let us consider showing off, or fighting for approval. If the other person does it | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| this misunderstanding is within you, you are unconsciously fighting an unnecessary and tragic battle. You think you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| important. If the inner error, that you are fighting for your individuality and happiness when in fact | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| he or she is independent, standing alone and fighting alone, never bending to the will of others | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| is another way of clinging to life and fighting against death. This type of person is so | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| power glories in hostility and in an aggressive fighting spirit, the withdrawn type is entirely unaware of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| is your distorted instinct of self-preservation at work, fighting for soul-safety or, as it is more commonly | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| is the result of the previous two solutions fighting one another and tearing the personality in half | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| of which require a certain amount of healthy fighting spirit -- then there is something wrong that | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and going with the stream, as well as fighting, are healthy processes, but both can be distorted | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| their wrong conclusions you seek a way of fighting against the unwelcome influences that have created the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| a lovable human being. You use such heavy fighting equipment only to your own detriment, for it | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| quietly preserve their integrity. Only when both are fighting as to who is the stronger one -- | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| is given only to women or children. In fighting against independence, he fights against his manhood. But | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Such anger and rebellion are the result of fighting against what one partly accepts. They do not | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| patient to give in to relief, instead of fighting against it in shame spurred on by a | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| a vacuum which one often unwittingly prolongs by fighting against going forward. Truthful concepts cannot mold life | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| But those of you who steadfastly make progress, fighting against the No within, doing the work day | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| can stop struggling, because you are engaged in fighting illusion -- the appropriate kind of fighting -- | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| in fighting illusion -- the appropriate kind of fighting -- rather than fighting illusion with illusion, which | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the appropriate kind of fighting -- rather than fighting illusion with illusion, which cannot be successful. You | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| it will do more toward its elimination than fighting against it would. A long time ago we | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| Your not being in the immediate now, your fighting and struggling against it in an unconstructive way | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| disturbance. QUESTION: How can we fight it? ANSWER: Fighting implies a forcing away by suppression, and this | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| avoid further damage to yourself, or to continue fighting. Since you are still convinced that there is | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| solution or not, you will be torn between fighting or submitting. Both create tension, anxiety, and inner | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| constant struggle of the ego until it ceases fighting against an opposite through repeated recognitions of a | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| in the unpleasure is the result of your fighting against yourself and not liking yourself for this | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| is an aspect of an existing condition within, fighting against it amounts to fighting against the self | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| existing condition within, fighting against it amounts to fighting against the self. To restrict the pulsation of | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| undesirable, dangerous, is fleeing from yourself, just as fighting it means fighting yourself. Giving in to the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| fleeing from yourself, just as fighting it means fighting yourself. Giving in to the fear of the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| life itself. Do not fight the pain; in fighting it, you avoid the experience whose full acceptance | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| one feels and experiences creates self-division and inner fighting against the self. One side is dead, the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| it for as long as you keep on fighting it. Let us take the simple experience of | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you fight against it in an ineffectual way. Fighting against anything in life, you also fight against | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| There is, of course, a healthy way of fighting for something, which is entirely different from fighting | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| fighting for something, which is entirely different from fighting against something. The former occurs out of strength | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| fear and weakness and cringes from experience. By fighting against the undesirable experience, you deaden an integral | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you have a good illustration of the process: fighting such a frustration blindly and destructively cannot eliminate | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| will endure what I feel. I will stop fighting against emotions that are vital life energy and | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| quite naturally. A new and productive way of fighting for love and closeness will come to you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| not have now. You can then see how fighting against your own creations augments the pain and | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| it but explore it. Hold still instead of fighting against it with your subterfuges, negativities, with your | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| accept it in the right way. For both fighting against and accepting can exist in both constructive | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| widens the split and the pain of disunity. Fighting against the destructive side must not be done | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| then do you reconcile the right way of fighting your evil and the right way of accepting | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| obstructed, when one goes with it, instead of fighting it, relief will come comparatively quickly. Once the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| emotion be, you are carried by it without fighting it, and you become capable of the identical | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| going on and accept the momentary state, without fighting yourself. For the more your fight, even for | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| more you perpetuate the negative cycle. But not fighting must never mean giving in to resistance and | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| is fully felt and understood, when you stop fighting against it and dissolve what causes it by | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| of the accumulated waste energy of denied feelings. Fighting your feelings and defending against them creates a | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| fear, your shame, your pain. When you stop fighting this, you will become real, open, and truly | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| energy current. Hard pain is a result of fighting against what is. Soft pain is a result | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| ability to experience what one has produced, without fighting it. The mature soul makes itself light and | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| it will come if you stop the inner fighting and resisting. Do not abandon the longing per | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| a temporary state and move with it. By fighting it, you only stop the movement. By accepting | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| happen in a state of holding on and fighting against this same innermost negative belief. If you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| is an illusion, and that you are actually fighting an already existing state of emptiness which is | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| succeed, it means little because you are constantly fighting against those reactions for which you are co-responsible | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| is a spirit of courage and independence, a fighting spirit against submission to conformity. Only in its | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| degree that they needed others to cooperate in fighting the enemy, whether this was the elements, beasts | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| suspicion, and negative aggression, not so much by fighting between individuals within the tribe -- although this | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and perhaps are even more spiritual than the fighting spirit of those who risk themselves and their | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| when you collude with it and refrain from fighting for the truth? You encourage evil, you sustain | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| may be directed to many areas, apart from fighting the obvious resistance to your growth process. Such | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| carry out as part of the great army fighting for the forces of good. Meditate on these | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| see that after all the situation requires not fighting but giving in, that it is fair, right | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you give in when the situation requires a fighting spirit to stay in truth? The need to | 254 SURRENDER |
| as well as that you become capable of fighting and standing firm. As you grow in autonomy | 254 SURRENDER |
| standing firm, yielding and self-assertion, giving in and fighting for the good cause of truth. As you | 254 SURRENDER |