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| at all, in the usual sense. But he meditates -- and that is often the best prayer | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| and that is often the best prayer! He meditates by looking at his real motivations; by allowing | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| its unreality, the answer must come. Whenever one meditates in such a fashion, in good faith and | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
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| perhaps be overcome to a certain degree by meditating on my words. Is there a question on | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| spiritually active and another, more emotional? For example, meditating on Be still and know that I am | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| pray to have the will for it by meditating on these words. For instance, since you cannot | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| yourself what you have heard or read, by meditating about it, by trying to apply it to | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| is mastered, the next one can begin: by meditating on what the opposite of any particular fault | 21 THE FALL |
| simply by reading these lectures, or simply by meditating and praying every day you have a guarantee | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| you can make further connections if you start meditating on the violation of the spiritual law by | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| that they cannot dissolve. Then you can start meditating on how these wrong conclusions have influenced your | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| cause of sickness is in ourselves. I am meditating on this subject and I can't figure it | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| concept that has to be formed mentally, by meditating on it in the way I taught you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and if you train your inner perception by meditating and trying to feel these words, you may | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| it, see it, and let go of it. Meditating on your intent to face it and give | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| harmony, in rightness, without strain and effort. Anyone meditating in such a way increases the power, the | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| to this path, are not always capable of meditating, for the very blocks of the mind, of | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| use meditation to eliminate whatever prevents you from meditating. This sounds like a paradox, but it is | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| maybe one of you will spontaneously feel like meditating aloud and little by little others can participate | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
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| is thinking, or, as you also call it, meditation, in the right way. Because for someone who | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| then I will take this problem into my meditation, into my dialogue with God and with Christ | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| happens through the regular practice of the correct meditation, which of course has to be learned as | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| out only by summoning the inner will in meditation. And even if the action for which you | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to know the unconscious, make it conscious in meditation, in prayer, in all your striving. Without this | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| been a number of people who, through certain meditation exercises -- similar to what I will eventually | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| certain time these efforts of daily self-finding, retrospection, meditation, prayer, and resolutions will enable the person to | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| or she will be led to it in meditation. But more often than not a person whose | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| and far. Be with God. 9. PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER Greetings. I bring you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| I would like to speak about prayer and meditation. What is the difference between the two? Many | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| following distinction: Prayer is a preliminary step to meditation. Prayer is a matter of thinking, meditation is | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| to meditation. Prayer is a matter of thinking, meditation is prayer with feeling, it engages the soul | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| and mentally active, yet one cannot enter into meditation unless one has first learned the preliminary state | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| Help me to learn real prayer, or real meditation. At any moment, when you are confused, ask | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| even before you have learned the feeling-prayer or meditation. Yet thought forms, though they may not have | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| some loosening of the spirit. This then is meditation. Once you have learned concentration in prayer to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| comes from here pointing to the head, while meditation comes from here pointing to the chest, what | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| and causes a wonderful vibration that leads to meditation, even though in the beginning it cannot be | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| I will talk more about the soul-prayer, or meditation. Today I would like to fulfill the promise | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| share with you a further interpretation of, or meditation on, the Lord's Prayer. I talked about the | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| whatever way this may happen, through nature, music, meditation, or simply when the breath of God touches | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| generalize. It depends totally on the individual. A meditation like that can be a key for a | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| particular individual. However, if one gave such a meditation to a person who has not reached a | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| else is of a different character type, the meditation would not be of any real help. Here | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| the person's problems are. One should never assign meditation on a rigid pattern rather than considering what | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| their astrological chart can tolerate this kind of meditation better than people who have more water or | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| too much of air, water, and fire, this meditation will be wrong. Is this correct? ANSWER: Yes | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| sexual identity can become aware of this through meditation. Of course, experience has to be gathered, but | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| beautiful. QUESTION: Are there not two kinds of meditation, the spiritually active and another, more emotional? For | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| talked about before. Even in the form of meditation we find the masculine and the feminine principles | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| take place even in this. The kind of meditation that should be mostly cultivated is always the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| honesty can be overcome first by the proper meditation about self-honesty, then by asking yourself why it | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| again, if it is recognized and treated by meditation, than to act unsustained by your inner nature | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| give oneself, from within. QUESTION: You speak of meditation as though it were something very easy. ANSWER | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the outside. You will thus learn what particular meditation is best to use for your problem. Hate | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| pastime could and should be utilized for true meditation, self- recognition, and development. Daydreaming can be compared | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| unless you sense it, you feel it in meditation. But then you will find you cannot express | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| than oneself. Spiritual nourishment is also prayer and meditation in the right way. Here again you need | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| we expect to help heal our friends through meditation and prayer? ANSWER: Very few people, indeed, have | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| friends, or of anyone for that matter, in meditation, is of tremendous help. You cannot even begin | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| All this represents a very good subject for meditation. Think of the many people who live in | 18 FREE WILL |
| yourself each day in your hour of prayer, meditation and daily review, when something like this comes | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| these particular lectures can be treated as a meditation. You should retain these words and not just | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| from unpleasant reality. Remember that! Another thought for meditation: when you go on this path, you must | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| work daily on your quota of self-observation and meditation in a detached way. By doing so, you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and you are trying to overcome it through meditation and prayer and yet you don't seem to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| wonderful if it manifests in beautiful prayer and meditation. But the work has to be done too | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you say your daily prayer and do your meditation, this is what you should concentrate on. Perhaps | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| recognize more and more clearly into your daily meditation, and if your wish is truly sincere, you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| And this will then give you the proper meditation how to handle the fault. And so you | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| with the palms upward, for in a good meditation, whether it is a trance session or simply | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| it is a trance session or simply a meditation, strong forces are present. You are most receptive | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| one of these lightforces and Orders. In deep meditation, if a certain degree of development has been | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| may give some of you good material for meditation. At the present stage of your development you | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| do yourself. You may use that as a meditation exercise. However, do not do it abstractly or | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| creation. It does not even mean prayer and meditation which, of course, if done in the right | 31 SHAME |
| self-purification, it may be an excellent exercise and meditation to think of all the tragedies, difficulties, and | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| think carefully about this subject. In your next meditation, ask yourself whether you are too critical about | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| be both food for thought and material for meditation. The meditation should make it clear that you | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| food for thought and material for meditation. The meditation should make it clear that you have many | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| prayer. You can, if you prefer, call it meditation. It is the same. Through meditation you take | 36 PRAYER |
| call it meditation. It is the same. Through meditation you take the trouble to clarify and to | 36 PRAYER |
| the right way is not easy. Self-testing and meditation will open you to the answers that you | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| judgments about the events in your life. In meditation, in serious self-probing, in checking your emotional reactions | 38 IMAGES |
| it would be a very good exercise in meditation to think about what your next karma may | 38 IMAGES |
| you also have to learn depth prayer, depth meditation, and depth thinking, my friends. At first your | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| thinking, my friends. At first your prayer or meditation is an intellectual pursuit, but when you arrive | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| What I mean by depth prayer or depth meditation or depth thinking is that you take everything | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| begins after such recognition. And that is the meditation in depth, on the deep emotional level you | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| you have discovered. If you do neglect this meditation, you may retain what you have found, but | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| may also have established habits in prayer and meditation. They were useful in the last phase of | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| much. QUESTION: I find it hard to understand meditation and prayer in depth. If you have approached | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| you in this lecture. You can expand your meditation and pray in your own words, asking God | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| wall within yourselves. You can find it in meditation, you will sense it by observing your reactions | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| good to have a very long prayer and meditation. After some years this became very much a | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| used to prayer or concentration at all, such meditation is a good discipline. It is favorable to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| is favorable to learn concentration through prayer and meditation, since your thoughts go through a certain cleansing | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| fact should lend itself for interesting speculation and meditation, my friends. For where stagnation exists, progress cannot | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| strive for, you have to go into deep meditation. The idea that because you started to work | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| will have a wonderful opportunity for prayer or meditation, or to instruct your subconscious. For then you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| about that, my friends. It is substance for meditation. When you consciously consult your intuition, free from | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| deeper meaning of these words. Through study and meditation, through trying to feel and use your own | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| feel. This is to be cultivated by prayer, meditation, and a daily resolution of intent. In this | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Yes. But, for instance, in prayer and in meditation one gets, at times, such inner peace and | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your will, and by asking in prayer and meditation to see the truth about your parents, will | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| fill him, this, in itself, is prayer or meditation. The next stage may be the realization of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| outside and inside. Every day, enter into a meditation to become very still so that the inner | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| After translating this noise into concise thoughts, such meditation will finally bring out of that well of | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| can be cultivated by the right kind of meditation and thought process, and the proper observation of | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| then that very desire, uttered in prayer and meditation, will make you find the way. Even if | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| recognizable. Their reality is perceived only in deep meditation. These particular blessings are coming forth tonight to | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| your disposal. This may be a very good meditation exercise and well lend itself to deeper exploration | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| use your new understanding in conjunction with proper meditation. These lectures can be regarded as meditations. People | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| find themselves in a more than twofold split. Meditation on abstractions cannot bring forth a profound understanding | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| way to understand fully the state of duality. Meditation on abstractions can never accomplish that. When you | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| in its exact form. A certain type of meditation can help. Become very quiet and relaxed and | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| through steady observation, formulation of vague feelings, and meditation exercises, cannot be a permanent one. Do not | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| past victory; of the proper procedure of prayer, meditation, and daily review; of formulating confusions, unanswered questions | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| heart. I have nothing to fear from it. Meditation on why there is nothing to fear, why | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| a yes-current. This should be done as daily meditation work, creating a new mold in the soul | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| had seemed impossible will suddenly become feasible. Relaxed meditation, concentration, and a minimum of daily self-observation cannot | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| your daily life and enter into your private meditation, all alone, peaceful and relaxed. Such meditation might | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| private meditation, all alone, peaceful and relaxed. Such meditation might be somewhat like this, but use your | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| a virtue. To correct this, I advise this meditation: My happiness cannot possibly detract from another person's | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| person's. However, my unhappiness adds to theirs. This meditation will help you to develop a strong, full | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| spiritual reality of eternal, unchanging bliss. In her meditation she should work on this factor, expressing the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| juncture. When you go into your periods of meditation and concentration in this work, listen into yourself | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| a specific hardship, difficulty, or void. When such meditation is used, you will see that you become | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| truth is stronger than my resistance. Such a meditation, my friends, will give you the results you | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| it ineffective. Please repeat this in your daily meditation -- all of you: Awareness of what I | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| will withhold it knowingly and without self-deception. Such meditation will strengthen the knowledge and finally penetrate the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| These words should also be used in daily meditation because they are a key for all of | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| understood, the true significance of life, and of meditation, will be absorbed, lived, experienced. There will no | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| finish this lecture with the following suggestion for meditation. Let us combine control through the inner being | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| pathwork -- I say, try it. Use the meditation I have suggested. Mean it! And when you | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| the longest time, I have had difficulties with meditation. Now that I have overcome some of them | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| it to inspire you with the most effective meditation at any given moment, so that even your | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the other person. I therefore recommend a deep meditation in which you primarily set out to determine | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| the first step now in a very simple meditation: I decide to give up the error of | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| to spend energy on any deliberate kind of meditation. By themselves, your positive thoughts, attitudes, and feelings | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| at the moment, is through constant awareness and meditation on destructiveness and the tremendous fear of joy | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| be tested for its inner sincerity by your meditation. How deeply do you want this transformation? Why | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |