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| and now, when he is innocent, he is forced to pay. The more obstinate such a person | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| may appear. Yet here, too, nothing should be forced. Ask for guidance, will this guidance, and it | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| perfection. Yet, if any creature were to be forced to stay within the framework of these laws | 18 FREE WILL |
| be if the experience of these states is forced on the individual against his or her will | 18 FREE WILL |
| to go to war like sheep. Their rulers forced them and they had absolutely no idea why | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| connected with your emotions and cannot be directly forced to respond to your wishes. The world of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| not having enough love. And no outer and forced kindliness to make up for this lack will | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you can succeed in this, without too much forced concentration, you should be entirely relaxed and should | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| ways. As it stands now, humanity is often forced to battle against forces that abuse free will | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| feel free of your expectations and not be forced or burdened in any way. Remember, my friends | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| Anything can be perverted, especially when it is forced. So beware of forcibly assuming the states which | 36 PRAYER |
| the going gets really hard, you will be forced to face your troubles instead of fleeing them | 38 IMAGES |
| deeper levels of consciousness. This feeling cannot be forced; it cannot be controlled. It is grace, my | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| dear ones, and not before! If you have forced yourself into a state of resignation, you have | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| do not vibrate with it. This cannot be forced by your will. But what you can and | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| is there any human being who is not forced into reactions and decisions by his or her | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| against his will, like a child who is forced to obey. The mature attitude is the free | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| inevitable duty, or struggling against it and being forced to accept it against one's will. The difference | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you -- often unconsciously -- something you are forced, or compelled to obey, an authority that is | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| of others for real or imagined wrongs that forced you to react that way; or denial -- | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to choose as you wish. You are not forced to live in bliss and light. You can | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| in the other direction. This would be something forced and unnatural. The necessity for you to make | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| justice on this earth plane. Woman was long forced to suppress her intelligence and creativity that could | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| in marriage. Union cannot and should not be forced. A conscious desire should not be enforced because | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| union can be achieved. But love cannot be forced. Love can only be gained by removing all | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| is a natural growth that can never be forced directly. When your earthly religious teachers drum into | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| clue may lie in the factor of being forced into something against one's will, against God's will | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| want to force people to love you. And forced love is no love. The child in you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of love. You all know, love cannot be forced, but love will grow organically as you remove | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can be a hindrance and lead to a forced, insincere reaction and self-deception. Allow yourself to have | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| are worth keeping or not. You are not forced to give up what seems a protection to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| which the psyche says, You see, you have forced me to do this, and now see where | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the right thing. This would produce only a forced, insincere response on your part. Instead, you should | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| handle these emotions, and that you will be forced to give in to them. Another reason for | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| automatic, spontaneous new reaction. It is never a forced and deliberate thing. If it is, it is | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| how genuine, warm, constructive feelings can never be forced on you, either by others or by yourself | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| to be gone through thoroughly. One cannot be forced to skip a stage, otherwise something unassimilated will | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| aspect is a fear that you may be forced to do something you do not want to | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| allow yourself these natural feelings, you would be forced to give in. You see no other alternative | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| remember again and again that you are not forced to take any action, or to make any | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| you tell us something about role-playing? People are forced to take on multiple roles in their lives | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| also desiring to do so, you are not forced to give it up simply because you understand | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| freely with penetrating, realistic awareness, rather than being forced into patterns. Going with the life stream can | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| they could not survive. Thus, primitive people were forced to develop some mental processes which immediately reduced | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| can no longer bear it, and you are forced to take yourself in hand, discard worn out | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| love. You are afraid that you will be forced to plunge yourself into it when you recognize | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| of spiritual awakening. Effort made against one's will, forced on the individual because life requires it, is | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| truth to be laborious and fraught with the forced effort they are used to. They hanker after | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| it is the same benign force which was forced to make a detour. The principle of indirect | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| to the true life -- not by following forced, artificial, superimposed commands from the intellect, but the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| and superimposition of feelings that cannot ever be forced. The next stage will gradually lead you to | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| It, too, comes spontaneously. It, too, cannot be forced. Trying to force or deny any emotion leads | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| self and in others. Real feelings cannot be forced, commanded, or superimposed. They are a spontaneous expression | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| directed toward the resisting self which cannot be forced to feel differently as long as the personality | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| be included with and by others, you are forced to deny the best in you. This can | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| despair that unselfishness brings deprivation, so one is forced to hold back the total desire to love | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| your access to transforming the negative pleasure and forced you to reject pleasure that is unhampered by | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| promises to feel good. If self-realization is arduously forced and looked for, it cannot come. It comes | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| life experience. Yet it cannot be pushed and forced. It happens exactly to the degree that you | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| and shrink back, even if what they are forced to do is for their own benefit and | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| the willingness to let go. This cannot be forced upon one who has not been made aware | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| itself. Anyone knows that this process cannot be forced either. It can only be encouraged or discouraged | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| And only in this separation are you practically forced to ascribe your unhappiness to dark powers that | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| job. It has prevented me from sleep and forced me to resort again to taking tranquilizers. Second | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| growth is a spontaneous process that cannot be forced. But they use the principle wrongly and neglect | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| you, to do this. The danger of being forced into actions against your reason and will is | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| refrains from assuming the false responsibility. Such a forced act would be unnatural and incompatible with organic | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| how it manifests. In other words, you are forced to act out the destructiveness indirectly -- with | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| this condition. Such a person or entity is forced by its own choice to live in a | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| where movement is possible only when it is forced painfully by the outer will. This explains the | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| momentary despair, I do not mean the subtly forced hopelessness that results from a forcing current. The | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| should be receptive and passive, it is tight, forced, and active. Balance is re-established as purification of | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| a mere word, a mere mental concept, a forced try, or a sentimentalized emoting that covers up | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| best relationship, if the most genuine love is forced and coerced, it will automatically be withheld. Your | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| in truth with yourself. Balance can never be forced from outside. Neither can love or wisdom or | 228 BALANCE |
| prideful, domineering, fearful ego, so that perfection was forced, pretended, punitively dictated, in order to allay the | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| his state of crisis, it should not be forced upon him. At the same time it would | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| the movement, damage follows. The entity is being forced by the ignorant personality into a narrow space | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| mutual consent where no one is harmed or forced, they can lead to a more cohesive, connected | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |