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| progress. You have to get acquainted with yourself, attend to yourself, examine yourself, and acquire the discipline | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| not do justice to all my friends who attend the lectures regularly. On the other hand, if | 18 FREE WILL |
| through which all my friends who do not attend private sessions will be able to proceed step | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| also be beneficial for those friends who cannot attend personally but read these lectures. So give up | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| this may not be conscious, but when you attend to your inner reactions, you are bound to | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| be made available to all who could not attend in person. Greetings, my dearest friends. May your | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Attention...................195 | |
| as their task anything that would create public attention. But quietly, for their own sake, everybody can | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| an atheist -- that you owe God some attention. And you can also give thanks to Christ | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| only too often that humans will pay no attention to the heavenly spirits around them and so | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| cannot urge you enough to devote all your attention to the discovery of the unconscious: get to | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| your question. And now let us turn our attention to the part of your question about the | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you know. We do not pay too much attention to the actual names, but in essence, in | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| own higher self that wishes to draw your attention to this wrong attitude. This holds true not | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| change your ideas. I want to draw your attention to this, my friends. This applies not only | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| desires are. Once you begin to focus your attention on the feelings, noticing what the desire is | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| hold on to. The moment you focus your attention on one complexity or problem, other things come | 36 PRAYER |
| Anyone on the path must learn to focus attention on what is really essential. Concentration on an | 36 PRAYER |
| you will have difficulty maintaining and focusing your attention, but that is the work to be done | 36 PRAYER |
| is vital that you learn to focus your attention on yourself -- not selfishly, but constructively. Your | 36 PRAYER |
| on yourself -- not selfishly, but constructively. Your attention should be focused as well on your problems | 36 PRAYER |
| your repeated mishaps. You therefore pay much more attention to the slight variations of each incident than | 38 IMAGES |
| something becomes a problem will the person pay attention to it instead of looking away. If the | 38 IMAGES |
| patterns may go right on and escape your attention. You are so used to shoving uncomfortable knowledge | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| equal importance I want to bring to your attention is that, strangely, everything connected with these distorted | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| mental picture you have of yourself. It calls attention to itself. To make the distorted emotions whole | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| must happen, otherwise you would never pay any attention to your inner disharmonies. Karma, as you all | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| or sadness, defiance or misery. Just turn your attention to your own inner reactions, my friends, when | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| deductions made with the reasoning process, seldom paying attention to the emotions or intuitions, which also should | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| that it represents authority. Unless you focus your attention on this whole problem, even if the right | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| approach the real affliction, instead of continuously paying attention to the symptoms only. Even my friends farthest | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| pattern created by your image conclusions. Focusing your attention on recognizing the inner roots of outer events | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| any stage of your present development, also paying attention to your present difficulties and inner obstacles. The | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| You are so conditioned not to pay any attention to how you react to people, or how | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| all unconscious. You merely did not pay any attention to it so far. Begin to pay attention | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| attention to it so far. Begin to pay attention to it now. From there on, you will | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| mistakenly, that this can be accomplished by receiving attention, admiration, and approval. Many of you have found | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| mass image is the following: If I receive attention or approval or admiration, all my worth is | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| our world, can hear your souls shrieking for attention. The earth sphere produces this loud noise for | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| group, but who read the lectures with interest. Attention has been brought to us that some of | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| its desires, feelings, and reactions, and focus your attention on this particular aspect of your personality. You | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| happens so subtly that it completely escapes your attention, unless you truly wish to notice it. I | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| a subtle way that this, too, escapes your attention. Or you might enjoy the self-pity that ensues | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to trace the basic condition brought to your attention tonight. With each one of you the way | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| for the Fall, brings several factors to our attention. Activity, as such, is not wrong for a | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of authority, whether or not one should pay attention to this material. ANSWER: That can never do | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this. All you need is to focus your attention to what is in you, view it, and | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on B and B will focus his entire attention on these faults, while overlooking the good qualities | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| moves the other. But if you focus your attention on one particular current, that current in itself | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| a distortion in itself. If we focus our attention on particular areas of your being, we will | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| However, we shall now begin also to pay attention to the thought process, as an additional help | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of self and to interfere with your concentrated attention on your task. Unvolitional background thoughts make you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| are responsible for your difficulty in focusing your attention on one particular thing. It is due to | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| certain activities which do not demand your entire attention. More and more self-awareness will come to you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| forth. The more background thoughts come, dispersing your attention in all directions because you do not control | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| ordinary pursuits. If he wishes to focus his attention on the inner life, he cannot possibly do | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the child in you is constantly clamoring for attention, it uses the dramatization either openly or subtly | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| force others to sympathize with you, to pay attention to you, to do your will or to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| who, you think, are despised by those whose attention you want so much. Often this is a | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| progresses very well, there may not be enough attention and curiosity left, temporarily, to inquire about general | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you believe you must have love, affection, and attention. It is not a question of desiring them | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| difficult; it is a matter of focusing your attention. By looking at your various moods, emotions, fears | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| reactions that will furnish the clue, once your attention is focused on them. This would be impossible | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| imbalance of inner weight. You focus your entire attention exclusively on yourself. You may not think so | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| But this is impossible if you focus your attention almost exclusively on yourself. Again, this process is | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| also through outer events that will focus your attention on the causal inner factors. Your inner will | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| secondary reaction, you focus your inner, often unconscious attention solely on responding to what you believe exists | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| God by not discussing Him, and that focusing attention on the distortions so as to be able | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| existence. It is there, if only you pay attention to it. Last, but not least, begin to | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| aware of your needs even superficially requires focused attention, considerable self-honesty, and much digging on your part | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| that becoming aware of them demands your full attention and focused inner will. Yet once you have | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| emotions that it will take considerable time and attention on your part to gradually realize how you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| a scar as the lack of love or attention. It causes as much frustration as the lack | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| where the problem really lies. You focus your attention on the root. You shift your emphasis from | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the cause. Now that humanity is evolving, more attention must be given to the inner causes. QUESTION | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| encouragement and preparation. It needs help to direct attention to his resistances. QUESTION: Will you please elaborate | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| your guilts, you have to learn to pay attention to and register your various reactions, which are | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| would normally need only a certain amount of attention and investment, and would leave part of your | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| body, you are bound to focus all your attention on the area, disregarding others. It is the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| work in this intensive study to devote some attention to the topic of demands. Look at your | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| and disharmony, and if you do not pay attention to them, finding the inner cause will become | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| blind to it. You do not focus your attention on it. You merely try to get out | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| seems obscure, but stands out clearly once one's attention is focused in the right direction. What you | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| may be manifold, but once you focus your attention on them you will not miss them. You | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| the limitations of such understanding and turn your attention to the things human beings can learn, namely | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| not do one thing without being divided in attention and motivation. There is rarely a full commitment | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| in this respect. First of all, keep your attention alert in this direction. The first stage on | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| of the opposite, the pleasure. This will require attention, concentration, and self-examination. When you make some headway | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| that are easily accessible when you focus your attention on them. There are the half-conscious thoughts, the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| areas. It is essential that you pay more attention to the no-current in its exact form. A | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the pathwork does not organically bring to your attention through your life circumstances. To realize and be | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| you now find suffices and needs no further attention; rather, it has to be observed continuously. Only | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| observe it calmly, with all the keen one-pointed attention you can muster, your efforts must be crowned | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| you bring what you know to another person's attention. Your knowing the truth behind the other person's | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| destructive aims must fall away. Paying only shallow attention to the self as it manifests in life | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| issue as it comes up and paying full attention to every aspect of it, including what your | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| follow this simple formula and give your total attention to what you feel and experience right now | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| followed through in more detail and with more attention of the self to the immediate situation. The | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| reasons for escape. Let us now pay specific attention to one aspect that I have only generally | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| will want to give your best and total attention to everything you experience, to all your undertakings | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| and fulfilling. There is no strain in this attention. You will be carried by a sweeping, marvelous | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| to be constructive. I want to give my attention to this situation and be governed by the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| are unaware of its mechanics. Once you pay attention to these areas, you will see that the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| degree and which you misuse in directing your attention and hopes to the dualistic plane, with its | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| so far, you have not seen because your attention was not even directed to this eventuality. This | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| all of you working on this path pay attention to the false emotions you initiate. Note how | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| them; to face where false feelings arise. The attention will then focus itself, with the help of | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| without any doubt. The awareness will grow, the attention will focus more clearly, and with more understanding | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| obstructions to the now are removed. Focus your attention on it and you will discover inconceivable riches | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| not taut can the personality give its total attention to what it is doing, thinking, feeling, and | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| experiencing. This means wholeness, integrity, undivided motives and attention. This state can be achieved only when there | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| set oneself off from the rest, to draw attention to the self by making everything seem so | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| that becomes observable only when you focus your attention on it. You are so used to a | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| at the self in truth; to give undivided attention to whatever it does; to renew itself with | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| on some level, and division of motives and attention, as well as a refusal to give of | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| real honesty with oneself and life, for undivided attention to every aspect of living. These afford the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| this very decisive step in your growth, pay attention to it. Long before you are actually capable | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| and an intensity that surpasses relaxed and natural attention, concentration, and fullness of experience. This intensity does | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| sense. Become aware of the difference. Focus your attention on the subtle variations -- where thoughts, feelings | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| whole physical being. When you thus focus your attention on these areas, you may detect a reluctance | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| out of long-standing habit! But once you pay attention to it and elicit the powers available in | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| seriously by giving them a great deal of attention with your innermost being, with the best intentions | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and constructiveness, all your most sincere and total attention. The more this becomes ingrained, the less there | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| question -- when you involve yourself constructively with attention and honesty by giving always the best of | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of your innermost self. Once you focus your attention on it, you will see to what degree | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| on your path -- provided you focus your attention and your awareness on your emotions and soul | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| who take these words in with their full attention. If you think about them and apply them | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| efforts to attain liberation and well-being require equal attention to the frustration of not giving and not | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| one-pointed effort, its most constructive attitude and undivided attention to the inner path. It must know its | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| me to this awareness. I wish to pay attention to it. With such a sincerely meant attitude | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| no predigested answers ready. If you give some attention to what you really believe causes the specific | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| feeling -- and usually this requires relatively little attention -- you find some answers quite easily. As | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| aspect that desires unreasonable and unrealizable love and attention, and the legitimate adult need for human warmth | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| express itself. Observe what comes forth with interest, attention, and noninterference. To make this possible, request the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| When you do not wish to pay close attention to your own unconscious and thus pull back | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| pull back from it or pay only superficial attention to it, you cannot help meeting their unconscious | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| to say that they resent this lack of attention -- often unconsciously. Every good, beautiful, and creative | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| principle. However, they must be brought to your attention again and again in new terms, with a | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| seems possible at first. When we focus our attention on these vague reactions, the contradictory wishes, hidden | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| not naturally aware. In fact, you must pay attention to it for a considerable time before you | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| we have done in the past concerned paying attention to all the errors that create negative feelings | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| untense, yet so poised and there with your attention and awareness, that the agitated mind processes will | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| becoming aware of states you have never paid attention to, you not only will recognize body tension | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| block can be distinctly felt when you pay attention to it. The oneness of the feeling with | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| here. May your heart be open, may your attention be focused, so that you can absorb as | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| old conditioned reflexes, your negative approach, without paying attention to what you are doing. Perhaps you moan | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| You begin with conscious thinking, which requires focusing attention on your thinking processes -- much too close | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| now: it is the life you lead. Paying attention to your inner processes will reveal that much | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| of the situation, expanding the range of your attention by finding a fresh approach, will bring the | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| room for them in your consciousness and pay attention to them in a relaxed and trusting way | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| hidden deliberate negativity must be recognized and paid attention to. It is the direct key to how | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| and a greater power of concentration with one-pointed attention. Second, you will cultivate a much greater self-acceptance | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| behind the word, so we must pay more attention to how this acceptance comes about. For only | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| new material that requires a great deal of attention. Bring it to bear on your own specific | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| But they will strengthen as you pay conscious attention to this new process and nurse it with | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| phase I am discussing here. This requires paying attention to your innermost soul reflexes. When you do | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| intrinsically possible at this stage. Pleasure, too, requires attention and understanding so that you can deal with | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| spiritual consciousness it is necessary to first pay attention to the not yet fully utilized material within | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| fear. My friends, this lecture also requires diligent attention. Much of the material cannot be taken in | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in mind will help you to focus your attention and awareness upon these defenses to overcome them | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| needs solely to receive care, nursing, good feelings, attention, and appreciation of its own uniqueness. If these | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| this is subtle and concealed, it requires specific attention in self-observation and self-honesty to see this process | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| it to give further guidance; when to pay attention to the lower self with its hidden evil | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| must first deal with your obstructions, and your attention should be turned, for instance, to uncovering unconscious | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| of you which needs your scrutiny and candid attention. By the same token, identification with your lower | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| It means, above all, a one- pointedness of attention; giving the self in a wholehearted way to | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| away from investing all your energies, all your attention. You will use your faculties of thinking, of | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| the best of my feelings, my efforts, my attention, my honesty, or whatever it may be. I | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| the link between cause and effect requires focused attention and awareness. Only when your consciousness expands can | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| that it hardly occurs to you to pay attention to them. Yet all the thought processes have | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the way and use all your resources and attention to go further in your self-understanding. Then your | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| hour of their lives. They do not pay attention to them, but these thoughts mean a lot | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Godself for help in this. Persevere. Give your attention and your goodwill to the practice. One day | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| goal, many spiritual disciplines do not pay sufficient attention to those areas of the ego self which | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| still need for quite a while to pay attention mainly to those areas within yourself which are | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| what you used to avoid, you focus your attention on whatever the moment may need. Then a | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| you, my friends, that you begin to pay attention to your outer life and habits from this | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| for so long to discuss this topic. Pay attention to how disturbed you really are by your | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| thoughts and attitudes, and you must focus your attention on them, too. Let us now deal with | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| their place. For only when you focus your attention on the reason for coming into this plane | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| is already free and neglects that which needs attention. In that state the use of power -- | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| You have to put into use and pay attention to very finely calibrated listening mechanisms in order | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| realistic, positive figures as signposts. You must pay attention to this necessity and conceive an inner vision | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| consciousness. At this stage the resistance to pay attention to everything that occurs is overcome; a new | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| to deal with but have refused to pay attention to until now. This ongoing refusal and self-imposed | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| then signposts for you, enabling you to pay attention to something in you that could otherwise never | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| affords you the opportunity to focus your efforts, attention, and energies on becoming conscious of further buried | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| to carry out. I want to draw your attention to another important point that often leads to | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| reactions to them, about whether to direct your attention in your daily life to the outer projections | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| Competitiveness? Self-centeredness, wanting to be the center of attention? ANSWER: Self-centeredness is a direct distortion of seeking | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| security. Try again and again. Listen, give it attention, take it seriously. Also, do not be gullible | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| organism. It merely means to see and pay attention and understand and proceed from there. So even | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| won't have to search and put energy and attention into whatever the issue may be, if you | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| and thus you create conflict. My friends, pay attention to your words. Observe the shallow ones. Observe | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| has passed when it was enough to give attention to the conscious level of being only. Much | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| being. This is easily verified if you pay attention to your own reactions. When you are in | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| step toward this particular state is to pay attention to the byproducts in your feelings, thoughts and | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| hurt or lonely, that it needs more love, attention or understanding. If this awareness were articulate in | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| still very obscure but once you focus your attention on it, it will reveal itself as clearly | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| serious effort, with a commitment to use your attention and your energies, to make yourself understood in | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| You still need to apply more awareness and attention to how you may use these aspects better | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| the Highest. I want also to call your attention to a specific observation: watch the parallels between | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |