| Attaining...................44 | |
| understood this has made the first step toward attaining true, genuine love, and thus also toward lifting | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| human soul -- is a major obstacle to attaining real love; and fear can be present only | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| for the attainment of a higher consciousness. The attaining of a higher state of consciousness is the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to overcome certain faults, and find help in attaining purification. If that knowledge from without is not | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| from the state of detachment so necessary for attaining spiritual and emotional maturity. The other flows freely | 18 FREE WILL |
| strong desire current that they become ruthless in attaining their goal at the expense of others. Again | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| are: This implies having no illusions about yourself; attaining a healthy attitude toward your shortcomings, and learning | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| of pure love, they are also incapable of attaining ideal marriage. Eros seems in many ways similar | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| realized, neither is the second one, that of attaining perfection in order to obtain the first desire | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| yet know that no one is capable of attaining such perfection. It thinks itself unique in having | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| hearts, that in leaving the old world and attaining the new you have to leave something precious | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| But a leader who sets the example of attaining his goal on the path of development while | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| In this case, people are convinced of never attaining happiness, and this seems to be such a | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| many who desire it are terrified of not attaining it. Therefore they rush right into the negation | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| thought, was your protection and your means of attaining what you desperately wanted -- life, happiness, security | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| that reaches the heavens. It cannot be done. Attaining development and growth requires much less pretentious and | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one reason or another, you were prevented from attaining it. On the other hand, if you actually | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so different than before when you thought that attaining the goal would make all the difference in | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| inner conflicts arise from the infant's struggle between attaining pleasure and avoiding pain. The infant's fusing of | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| be so. Such knowingness can come only through attaining it for yourself, from yourself, through yourself, and | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| or not you believe in the possibility of attaining the goal. If not, why do you doubt | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| are an obstruction rather than a help toward attaining what is beneficial. This is what I explained | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| problem, or a link in the chain toward attaining any of these results, the finding and dissolving | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| and lacks awareness, the self-willed, wrong way of attaining selfhood is chosen, instead of true independence. Concomitantly | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| a state beyond your physical life, not in attaining something through arduous means. It lies solely in | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| and powers you have at your disposal for attaining a full, rich life. The imbalance this failure | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| because you fear the bad and fear not attaining the good. Anything you intensely avoid you must | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| everything that life could ever be. It means attaining one's full selfhood as it is meant to | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| The meaning of all life is concerned with attaining the state in which the organic process of | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| inner burden of being puzzled and hopeless about attaining what you deeply yearn for will dissolve. This | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| that the more frustrated you feel for not attaining what you so ardently desire, the greater your | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| life-annihilating. Worrying and anxiety also prevent you from attaining joyousness, peace, and freedom -- the cosmic reality | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| language. Then I shall explain the prerequisites for attaining this cosmic feeling, the four keys which make | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| it is sought as a cheap way of attaining a semblance of universal bliss, which the heart | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| two sides leads to such false ways of attaining the now point. The fall from the bliss | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| the life task is not necessarily contingent on attaining a high state of development. It is quite | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| of desire contains faith in the possibility of attaining a better state, courage, patience and commitment. Here | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| will create a relaxed inner climate so that attaining the result will not be a question of | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| you wish to pay in the hope of attaining self-love through others, or placating a benign authority | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| -- whatever it is, it prevents you from attaining the new freedom and joy, the new fulfillment | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| prevents you from fulfilling all your needs and attaining true expansion. It also makes closeness and intimacy | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| your thirst for being open with others, for attaining intimacy? This longing can never be fulfilled, no | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| attempt to be a little more specific about attaining the new consciousness in which creation is no | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| yet be capable of taking direct steps toward attaining these states. But the knowledge of their reality | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Attainment..................20 | |
| it would be meaningless to strive for the attainment of a higher consciousness. The attaining of a | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| is an instrument of great importance for the attainment of the highest spiritual levels. Do not minimize | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| to others who are still battling for the attainment of this divine grace -- complete faith. Each | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| self; the rechanneling of wrong currents, and the attainment of love, brotherhood, humility, and the union and | 36 PRAYER |
| marriage, the love between two people makes the attainment of union easier than in other relationships such | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| it source in God. In this regard, the attainment of self-mastery...there is a confusion here, I | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| given moment, and why. Moreover, why does the attainment seem so important? Consider whether it is really | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| to see how you prohibit or sabotage the attainment of the very thing you desire so much | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| call their goal union, but unification -- the attainment of which is a step closer to union | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| a domineering aggressive, forbidding attitude. This makes the attainment of love impossible. The venture does not seem | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| If you pursue a goal, believing that its attainment will solve your problems, in a sense it | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you will see how your defense-mechanism prohibits the attainment of your deepest goals and desires. You will | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you fear its absence, nothing will block its attainment. And this is an enormous difference. As long | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| strive for, either because their very striving makes attainment impossible, or, even when they succeed, their inner | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| It is possible right here, right now. Its attainment does not depend on some complicated feat or | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| Each battle indicates another milestone that makes the attainment of the real state of life more secure | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| is, I must attain a new state. Such attainment would be impossible if it did not already | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| blind, and consequently inappropriate overactivity. This obstructs the attainment of pleasure to a considerable degree. Fear of | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| and your escapes. Truly look at yourself. The attainment of pleasure and the state of being in | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of life. There are some steps in the attainment of this state. The first step on this | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Attains.....................3 | |
| to describe in theoretical terms, but one who attains a deep understanding will have no difficulty seeing | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| you to a state where the higher self attains these initially childish wishes on a different level | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| can be overcome only when the total personality attains harmony with the energy streamings of cosmic origin | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Attempts....................60 | |
| cheap if a mere list of faults and attempts to overcome them were all that comprised it | 38 IMAGES |
| on you, and that you have made some attempts in the right direction. It is sufficient to | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| a woman strives for the same end and attempts to achieve it to some degree inwardly. In | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| out of this conflict by blind and unconscious attempts to make two mutually exclusive forces serve the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to what measures you have resorted in your attempts to deal with the need. I have discussed | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| unity of the Christian churches. There have been attempts made by the Pope and his ecumenical call | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| hope of becoming united. In spite of these attempts, the battle still rages between fundamentalism and liberalism | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| as long as it has existed. Unfortunately, these attempts were unsatisfactory and were bound to fail, just | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| were bound to fail, just as your unconscious attempts to solve psychological problems by shortcuts and evasions | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| are two major ways in which the unconscious attempts to cope with death. Both are based on | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| You are torn between two unsatisfactory and damaging attempts to negate death. These artificial, forceful, and cramped | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| to negate death. These artificial, forceful, and cramped attempts bring you so much nearer to what you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| unconsciously, to find out, you sabotage all your attempts to get to the cause. What is done | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| a sign that the person has made wrong attempts to solve his or her life. When the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| or her life. When the effects of these attempts and distorted attitudes are sufficiently analyzed, it will | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the idealized self-image we have discussed are unconscious attempts to cope with life. Because they are erroneous | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| too are trying to serve both needs with attempts that do not even work for one basic | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| as you try to gratify them. Therefore your attempts produce experiences that starve these needs even more | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| are often confused about this. The human struggle attempts to overcome the obstructions that come from unawareness | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| a modified form. You may even have made attempts to compromise between the old and the new | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| what happens in the individual soul. When man attempts to change superficially, he swings from one extreme | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| present society and civilization derive from these first attempts of primitive man to find a mode of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| end, disappointing. It cannot be otherwise if one attempts to solve a problem by false means. Nevertheless | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| concepts. But concepts, even if they result from attempts of one individual to pass on a true | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| of my friends have made their first struggling attempts on this path to comprehend the principle or | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| reality of the immediate now and therefore new attempts have to be made to get back to | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| and spiritual science have not merged sufficiently. Vague attempts have been made by psychology to grasp this | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| to camouflage this simple process, my friends. Make attempts to find the two factors I have discussed | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| separate, foreign consciousness dwelling within. In the first attempts to bring hitherto unconscious destructive material to the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| pain of isolation will always push people into attempts to escape from it. When such attempts look | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| into attempts to escape from it. When such attempts look like succeeding, the fear of closeness induces | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| thrown into disorder. Overexertion of the will and attempts to direct it to areas which cannot be | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| of life hinders and confuses you. If one attempts to solve such a problem in an attitude | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| who work with this -- are they really attempts in that direction? ANSWER: Yes, they are. These | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| you renewed insight and strength, so that your attempts to find yourself -- who you are, where | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| in life. Honesty must prevail to stop one's attempts to cheat life, no matter how subtly. All | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the condition is inevitable. Even purely chemical medication attempts to artificially loosen up the cramp and reestablish | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| most difficult barrier to overcome. Once the first attempts are made and the initial inertia overcome, it | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| dependency, your hope, and the more frantic your attempts to please the other who is supposed to | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| less you fulfill your need precisely because your attempts are unrealistic. Consciously you know none of this | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| is all going, my friends. Part of your attempts must therefore go in the direction of bringing | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| up a familiar one. Crisis in any form attempts to break down old structures based on false | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| these apparently opposite truths only by your honest attempts to make your own destructiveness conscious without justifying | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| against people who make you sad. Your mind attempts to justify why you should not have to | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| and its laws and will make easier your attempts to put meditation into practice. Meditation is conscious | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| intellectual, will be very helpful for your further attempts at meditation. Creative meditation thus consists of the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| daydreaming, fantasizing, illusory hope. All of these are attempts to whisk away hopelessness, which, in turn, exists | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| bear itself. In all these false and dangerous attempts, the entity always seeks to avoid effort, pain | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and paralyzed feelings, all of which psychotherapy also attempts to do and even posits as its ultimate | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| still not been fulfilled, in spite of ardent attempts on your part, investigate how tight this current | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| the more recent lectures I described how creation attempts to fill the void. Every human being helps | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| on the other person's freedom, or at least attempts to do so. The free, loving attitude characteristic | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| the future, displacement, projection, and denial -- are attempts to get away from the now point, in | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| happens through an often laborious groping search, through attempts of the mind to expand its own narrow | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| being in their outer consciousness. The personality then attempts to squelch this voice, to escape from it | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| individual. The new cosmic force has made many attempts to come through, but its meaning is poorly | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Whenever her sexuality manifested in spite of all attempts to deny it, she experienced it with guilt | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| distinct difference between using this model and forceful attempts to be what you have not yet organically | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| difficult to truly distinguish between actual prying and attempts to violate your privacy, and someone's genuine concern | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| your mind will be stilled. The struggle that attempts to find a way out of the pain | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |