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| when I obtain this happiness, I want to maintain it by becoming a connecting link. What I | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| path is so difficult to attain and to maintain. The right middle path between extremes can be | 18 FREE WILL |
| the teachings of Jesus that Peter was to maintain, spread and organize, would also be bound to | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for love forces the subject to struggle to maintain the idealized image, fearing that if they fail | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| by the question of what to do to maintain the spark in the relationship which seems to | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| to love. Only in this way will you maintain the spark of eros in your love. Only | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| this way, my dear friends, you not only maintain eros, that vibrating life-force, but you also transform | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| this way, my dear friends, you not only maintain eros, that vibrating life force, but you also | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| habit and your surroundings have influenced you to maintain the opinion, so that it has never occurred | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| overcome for good. For as long as you maintain the wall, resistance is inevitable, and only the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| give you what you need so as to maintain your health. The same applies to any soul | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to slip out of reach if you cannot maintain the picture of your idealized self. This behavior | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| therefore in that sense it is easier to maintain. We might sum up by saying that marriage | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| it cannot stand by itself. The effort to maintain your illusions causes many vicious circles and chain | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| long as possible and strain even harder to maintain an illusion where none is necessary. You constantly | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| a way that makes your illusion impossible to maintain. The loss of your illusion causes an all-black | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| become aware of how you are struggling to maintain the isolated life, in which, at best, you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| dear friends, what humanity is actually struggling to maintain is a state of isolating darkness. It is | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| feel the superimposed hurts are sufficient reasons to maintain your resentment. In this way, you go around | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| requirements of self and others in order to maintain the illusion. Once you fully see that what | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| human beings good. This outlook is needed to maintain the submissive attitude. In reality, this type of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| wrong conclusion is also a pretense used to maintain a guise of decency, while underneath the pretense | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| function of the instinct of self-preservation is to maintain and safeguard life. It is concerned with avoiding | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| those tendencies that are exploited in order to maintain false religion. You know by now, because of | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| that you superimpose out of the need to maintain your idealized self-image: This is the way I | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| easier it will be to find that you maintain it because the child in you believes it | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| can acknowledge to yourself that you wish to maintain a falsified picture and that you do not | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| this stage, it is no longer possible to maintain the concept of atheism. The more any thought | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| and conclusion, the less is it possible to maintain an untruth or half-truth; or even a temporary | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| yourself in utter truthfulness. It requires you to maintain a sense of proportion, or even better, the | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| to preserve it. You have a right to maintain it. But, at least, understand it. Then make | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| bond, but instead will do its best to maintain it, often in precarious, hidden, and distorted ways | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| disruption of relationships; of never being able to maintain a relationship; or of never even fully establishing | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| only to a small degree at a time. Maintain your awareness. Do not force your self-revelation unduly | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| erotic or sexual pleasure, it is impossible to maintain a fruitful, dynamic relationship. It must always end | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| much of you have progressed, you there still maintain an imagined helplessness toward living, growing, and toward | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you may fear your inadequacy to obtain or maintain it. Wanting a goal does not exclude the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| selfwill. It is up to the ego to maintain or abandon either of these two. The ego | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| you unconsciously believe that it is possible to maintain these attitudes yet absolve yourself of the guilt | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| hand, you do everything in your power to maintain your unhappy state. In fact, you seek more | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| do you resist the good and battle to maintain painful struggle and insoluble conflict? Why do you | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| habits regarding food, sleep, exercise, in order to maintain the involuntary, self-regulating functions. The ego's task is | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| take care of the body so as to maintain health. It would be utter folly of the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| often make you vindictive and unloving and nevertheless maintain your self-respect? How can you avoid falling into | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| negative attitudes you actually enjoy and want to maintain. If you ascribe your frustrations, your unfulfillment, or | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| after some traumatic experiences in early life. You maintain negative responses which at one time in your | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| You are not easily threatened or frightened. You maintain a positive attitude, even if there are occasional | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| and frustration. But contact makes it difficult to maintain the illusion for too long that the inner | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| obstructions to true unity, rather than trying to maintain the false unity that comes from splitting off | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| easier to bear than the position you now maintain. In its flowing nature it will carry you | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and unrealistic. Such vague knowledge helps you to maintain an underlying belief which must be unearthed, reconsidered | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| intentionality. You admit that you deliberately wish to maintain and perpetuate a negative expression in some area | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| uses any number of tricks in order to maintain its separated, limited state and to avoid moving | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| pride; they are tricks of the ego to maintain its limited state. Selfwill comprises stubbornness, resistance, spite | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| life experience. Other ego tricks that serve to maintain its present safe position are: denying pleasure, bliss | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| others is another trick of the ego to maintain its isolation. The moment negativity appears, the energy | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of energy forcefully into something that you cannot maintain with a feeling of ease. It must eventually | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| a bit of energy so that you can maintain its fictional reality. Even so, the energy of | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| instead. You do this because you wish to maintain an illusion about yourself -- namely that you | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| close up the vessel of the mind and maintain the closed circuit. In other words, you, as | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Christ consciousness, find areas within where they still maintain the old, selfish, narrow vision. Those are the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| still prevail. Even more important, the will to maintain this state, the intention to perpetuate and hide | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| you must constantly worry about your ability to maintain the uncentered state of receiving self-value from outside | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| in positive manifestation, complementing one another, it cannot maintain the balance required for harmonious and full living | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| is not the struggling consciousness always straining to maintain an exaggerated independence and individualism at the expense | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| the physical body, yet they frantically strive to maintain it there. Religious people who deny the importance | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| rebellion against something new, when you endeavor to maintain the comfortable confines of this path as you | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| be ascribed to different causes. Such rationalizations only maintain the illusory picture of life and encourage the | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| their place. But by keeping the secret, you maintain and nurture negative thoughts, dishonest actions, and destructive | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| privacy. Look at the real reasons why you maintain this painful and unnecessary state of isolation and | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| of being. It is infinitely more difficult to maintain the same faith, the same knowing, when the | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| and pain, light and darkness. When you can maintain this vision even while in pain, when you | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| the smallest details designed to protect, sustain and maintain each species. The abundance, the beauty and the | 254 SURRENDER |
| minds could have devised the many systems that maintain life on earth. It also has become clear | 254 SURRENDER |
| example, one species may depend on another to maintain its very life, surviving at the expense of | 254 SURRENDER |
| teacher. If you constantly withhold your trust and maintain reservations, you do not allow a most important | 254 SURRENDER |
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| as Lucifer. Here more than in anything else, maintaining the divine principle was of utmost importance, for | 21 THE FALL |
| the beginning. Of course, you will have difficulty maintaining and focusing your attention, but that is the | 36 PRAYER |
| steps after eros is no longer capable of maintaining its own momentum. But both need to have | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| not believe this, you would not resist. Moreover, maintaining your illusions requires strenuous effort on your part | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| survival -- or self-preservation -- aims at gaining, maintaining, and improving life. By its very nature it | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| responsibility upon yourself, without any destructive guilt, for maintaining the pretenses that are always linked to pseudo-solutions | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| you believe an advantage exists for you in maintaining the twisted condition, and in what way do | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| Protecting yourself from facing this hate can mean maintaining the exaggerated glorification, not only because the world | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| and in a displaced way -- even now. Maintaining your glorified image of a parent can also | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| satisfactorily with other people's demands on you, thus maintaining good, deep relationships. And now my friends, to | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| This is too general. One hidden reason for maintaining the barricade is that deep in one's soul | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| able to convince yourself of the unreasonableness of maintaining the non- commitment. You are not a prey | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| are still a nice person, in spite of maintaining what is, in actuality, of no conceivable advantage | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| can and must go in the direction of maintaining and sustaining a pathwork such as this, which | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| indulging in a destructive line of least resistance, maintaining unhealthy attitudes. Then, letting go leads away from | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| or extract yourself from difficulty when establishing and maintaining a relationship. It seems so much easier to | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| together in a more enduring and committed relationship, maintaining and even increasing bliss depends entirely on how | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| and deliberate requests for help in awakening and maintaining awareness of these destructive aspects and of the | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| unconsciously blocking yourself, using a countertruth and therefore maintaining a hardened, unimpressionable soul substance, and/or weak thought-power | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| to find whether you have a stake in maintaining it, and what this stake might be. Since | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| but bring undesirable results, and yet insist on maintaining it. Why does this apparently senseless refusal exist | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| attitudes are pridefully put in the service of maintaining the ego's separation. It is always I versus | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| there be? When you have no stake in maintaining an illusory image of who the other person | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| these connections lessens. The stake you have in maintaining the fiction of being a victim of life | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| within you and can recognize your stake in maintaining an inner warfare, will give you an entirely | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| self-honesty. Do you have a personal stake in maintaining this or that tradition? Does living this tradition | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| the truth that you have a stake in maintaining your negative opinions, accusations, and suspicions, and that | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| to sustain the other. These conditions contribute to maintaining an overall balance in nature. Yet one animal | 254 SURRENDER |
| always means that you have a stake in maintaining a rotten structure, a structure that you need | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |