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| fate is great. To experience something difficult seems frightening to you. But as long as everything goes | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| of desirelessness or detachment is still a little frightening, do not think about it. It will come | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| feeling you have will not be half as frightening as you now believe once you do face | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the knots. At first, it may be most frightening to find out that you actually do not | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| not be rewarding and is bound to be frightening in some way. True satisfaction and safety, which | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| a healthy way. You sabotage communication either by frightening the tentative feelers of the other soul back | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| It is still a mystery, unknown, and therefore frightening, in spite of religious faith. It seems to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| letting go. When you struggle away from something frightening, you tense up and pull away. This very | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| own distortion, in which death seems bleak and frightening. Only after going through that will you come | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| always keep in mind that what seems most frightening -- death in all its aspects -- must | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| have sometimes come upon the puzzling and often frightening question: Who am I really? This is the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| solutions to cope with a seemingly hostile and frightening world is not equipped to find the real | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| that the actual suffering is not half as frightening as his fear of, and attitude towards it | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| that the event you fear is much less frightening than your helpless dependency on having to have | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| the death of others will diminish; the bitter frightening aspect of it will disappear, and you can | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| discover the strange, exciting, at times even slightly frightening and yet exhilarating reality of your unconscious, you | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| to live up to it will make it frightening. Once you find your particular No, and how | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| longer resisted. It is now welcome instead of frightening. Understanding the truth means a great deal, but | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| to die until dying is no longer a frightening experience. When the fear of dying is overcome | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| the end become one. This great possibility is frightening for the soul which is used to constantly | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| are not governed by outer control. This is frightening for you, because you do not understand it | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| spontaneous feeling reactions. This, too, can be quite frightening. You may want to feel one thing but | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| my own reactions and feelings; and if a frightening power which I do not know and cannot | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| often avoided altogether. Or you find it so frightening that you are puzzled. You then feel incapable | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| geared. In such a case union must be frightening and appear a question of me versus the | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| as the depth of your own psyche is frightening -- and it will feel frightening when you | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| psyche is frightening -- and it will feel frightening when you pursue negative, destructive aims -- free | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| You cannot think of anything worse, nothing more frightening than this aspect of yourself. A reliable gauge | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| light, into a world which is wonderful, not frightening. My dearest friends, may this lecture bring forth | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| your life needs to remain unresolved, unhappy, or frightening -- that you have within you everything you | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| let go of it. This letting go appears frightening. It is a question of trust. As long | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| letting go of your ego is naturally very frightening to you. It appears as if you were | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| from issues when they become really painful and frightening. This is your very stumbling block because your | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| shying away from what appears so painful and frightening makes it impossible to uncover the fallacy of | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| totally identified with your ego, action must be frightening because the ego is not equipped to undertake | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| False feelings are created because nothing is as frightening as numbness. Even though you created the numbness | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| false fear appears real and becomes much more frightening and peace-robbing than a real negative feeling. You | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| of the cosmic energy current must seem unbearable, frightening, overwhelming, and almost annihilating when the personality is | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| I want to ask about a strange and frightening experience I had lately. When I feel particularly | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| to the experience, no matter how painful or frightening it may appear, you allow it to happen | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is so staggering -- and, perhaps, first even frightening -- that the child shies away from it | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of this new freedom, although it is still frightening. QUESTION: Can you say something about this blissful | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ego dies indeed. This may sound like a frightening statement for those who have not experienced yet | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| and reality of their inner being. It is frightening precisely for the reason I just mentioned, namely | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| only real ones, cease to exist must seem frightening. But for those of you who have experienced | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the real self, this statement can never be frightening. You then know perfectly well how inferior, fleeting | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| faculties, giving up the ego must seem terribly frightening. And right here is where you are caught | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| life and death curve. It is the most frightening only because the blind little self cannot see | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the experience of it, it ceases to be frightening? ANSWER: Absolutely. This is quite true. QUESTION: Recently | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| feelings. Sometimes the expression of feelings may be frightening for those who are still immature. They recoil | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| such an insufficient life, so finite. This is frightening, for no one really wants to end being | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| your birthright. The good feelings must actually appear frightening as long as bad feelings are cherished. To | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| tendency of disliking people, almost inadvertently. It is frightening to me how this separating attitude makes it | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of the courage necessary to plunge into those frightening feelings. Without this second point of awareness it | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| outlook of limitless possibilities. Accepted pain is not frightening, confusing, or conflicting; it is enlivening. As you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| listen into nothingness -- that may even be frightening or disappointing. Finally, the universal spirit will begin | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| in your own unconscious estimation, but also actually frightening. It is too frightening for you to be | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| estimation, but also actually frightening. It is too frightening for you to be open to pleasure, for | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| that comes from mutuality. The evil is too frightening to be acknowledged, so that the rift between | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| with a No-current because mutuality still seems too frightening, one energy flow streams out but reverberates and | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| so, the pain will no longer appear so frightening or so deep or so unacceptable. You will | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| to experience the fear of deep, painful, hurtful, frightening feelings in you. I have often said to | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| apparent abyss of your blocked feelings -- painful, frightening feelings. Unless you do so, you will remain | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| and why it exists. What is unbearably painful, frightening, and hopeless is the inner struggle that the | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| For nothing outward can in itself be so frightening -- only what it will do to you | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| found that what appears first as a black, frightening abyss turns out to be a tunnel at | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| the scope of experience. Life is perceived as frightening. The more resistance, the more fear -- and | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| only where inner movement exists. It always seems frightening at first to go beyond the ego's present | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| them. Hence, you fear pleasure, which becomes more frightening than the grayness you still wish for and | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| to you appears undeserved and life becomes very frightening in its apparently unpredictable character. You truly seem | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| system going into a negative direction have become frightening. In the past your conscious mind was strong | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| consciousness. This is what makes life appear so frightening and why your outer consciousness is blindly groping | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| have not been worked out remain obscure and frightening, and the person starts feeling hopeless, without any | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| as isolated haphazard happenings, life must appear meaningless, frightening, confusing and burdensome. When you begin to perceive | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| What you experienced as senseless -- and therefore frightening and ugly -- suddenly becomes infused with divine | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| an upheaval it will cause and the more frightening the upheaval will appear. Conversely, the more you | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the new desperately wants to change. It is frightening and painful, but I know I will win | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| greater your insecurity will be, accompanied by a frightening sense of the meaninglessness of all life. Obviously | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| in hell because your life appears meaningless, boring, frightening, at loose ends, separate from all things in | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| and wrong parent is no protection against a frightening world. Submitting Christians accept their parents' doctrine unquestioningly | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| reestablished. In such a situation it is too frightening to admit the imbalance and mismanagement. When sufficient | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| self and give over, will at first seem frightening, but after you have summoned up the courage | 254 SURRENDER |
| and unfamiliar that it seems at first somewhat frightening. Is that really me? you ask. This is | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| why life is so frustrating, and often so frightening, for so many people. I can see that | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| void: this is what makes the attempt so frightening. It seems to confirm the suspicion that there | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| before. Nothing could be more painful and more frightening than the disconnectedness between a painful event in | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |