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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

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