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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
 
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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

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