| Noticeably..................5 | |
| criminal. He uses his willpower very obviously and noticeably in a wrong direction. He wants to have | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| will appear sooner or later, more or less noticeably, in this or that part of the body | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| that this is actually where it manifests most noticeably, but only because this is where you are | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| because the other also exists -- perhaps less noticeably. The outer impatience with oneself connotes an inner | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| tasks are becoming more joyful, more fulfilling, more noticeably meaningful. Your inner paths bring outer meaning to | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Noticing....................8 | |
| of the effect in their immediate surroundings by noticing how all of a sudden their fellow-creatures begin | 21 THE FALL |
| begin to focus your attention on the feelings, noticing what the desire is behind them, recognition becomes | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| in this case indicates the deep fear that noticing the faults would mean to stop loving the | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| that its symptoms are not conspicuous. You miss noticing them because they are so general that you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| will be to be angry at yourself for noticing only so much later what you should have | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| untruthful, deviating aspects remains basically intact, even while noticing that something is amiss. So do make the | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| again regardless of others' opinions or even their noticing the effort and the effect. Whether you make | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| indulging considerably in daydreaming. Perhaps even without really noticing it or intentionally trying to stop it, you | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Notions.....................12 | |
| the beginning. You have to observe all your notions about yourself which flatter you and with which | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| I have a good reason to mention these notions of time and measurement tonight. Scientists have sensed | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| are conditioned by your patterns, images, and preconceived notions. The limited scope of experiences, as well as | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| objective factors, or on personal, colored, and subjective notions. May these words help you again toward a | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| does negative involvement mean? It means, primarily, confused notions of reality, confused concepts. Where confusion, and therefore | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| their experience varies so much from their conscious notions. The real is denied and the false substituted | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| wide open. Do not close doors with preconceived notions, but let life present its own manifold possibilities | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| way the help might manifest. The fewer preconceived notions one has, the faster help will come forth | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| substitute parents, ideal and perfect according to the notions of the deprived child, for the adult all | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| positive expectancy that is yet free from preconceived notions of how and what should happen. Still another | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| answer I gave to a question. All preconceived notions need to be challenged and examined -- this | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| are undesirable, springing from negative beliefs and distorted notions. If you could only see the immense power | 254 SURRENDER |
| Nourish.....................10 | |
| take possession of them, and the more they nourish them through their intellectual channels only, the more | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| happen. You might use the word self-responsibility to nourish your guilt and your inferiority feelings. You might | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| Let me assure you that Planet Earth could nourish and accommodate many many more people than you | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unreality, through your strong and urgent need to nourish your illusion. This urgent need for illusion comes | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| inner, real self which has the power to nourish you constantly, to sustain and to guide you | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| consequent hiding of it, you do everything to nourish its continuance with dire effects on your personality | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| It will flow forth at all times and nourish and replenish you wherever you have freed yourself | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| words I have given you. Let these words nourish and strengthen you where you need it most | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| inner universe, and brings back these forces to nourish the inner. Thus the inner and outer universe | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| the inner. Thus the inner and outer universe nourish each other, back and forth. As you know | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Nourished...................13 | |
| other. Of course, such thoughts have to be nourished so that they penetrate the feelings; they have | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| badly you need spiritual nourishment. Your body is nourished, as is your intellect and even your emotional | 31 SHAME |
| for instance. It is easier because it is nourished by eros and the sex impulse. Without these | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| the inner center from which you could be nourished with constantly renewed vigor. Then there would be | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| layer is soaked through with truth, it is nourished with a new vitality flowing through the organism | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| and this negativity is somehow activated, enforced, and nourished by the life force. But degrees exist, and | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| your inner being from which you can be nourished, from which you can draw. Therefore, you fear | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| most completely of universal reality. Then you are nourished with the creative substance in all its splendor | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the wall around the kernel. Rather than being nourished by the source, the newly separated layer of | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| newly separated layer of consciousness functioned by itself, nourished by the error that brought about the overlayers | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| hope with which you are all familiar is nourished by the truthful concept that it is indeed | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| taken for a general rebelliousness coupled with and nourished by a childish will to refute genuine authority | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| choosing mates. Mass images, appearances, idealized self-images were nourished; pride and vanity were elevated into false moral | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Nourishes...................4 | |
| if you discard all self-flattering disguises, everything that nourishes complacency and lures you toward the road of | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| based on the nature of the consciousness that nourishes and directs the energy current in question. Hence | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| a strong flow of good, warm feelings, and nourishes the desire to share them rather than spitefully | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| give up your fixed ideas. The new light nourishes and strengthens you, all of you. It accelerates | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Nourishing..................4 | |
| a sexual experience as complete, fulfilling, rich, joyous, nourishing, sustaining, furthering and reminiscent of spiritual reality as | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| ripen in-between and reaching out and reaching in, nourishing the reaching out from within, and nourishing the | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| in, nourishing the reaching out from within, and nourishing the reaching in from without. This is the | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| and expressions are as painful as they are nourishing for the more enlightened spirits. This is why | 254 SURRENDER |
| Nourishment.................27 | |
| need to make the effort to receive spiritual nourishment: desire it. That is the gateway through which | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| in peace. God is with you. 16. SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER Greetings in the name of the | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| a tremendous discrepancy between the concern for material nourishment and the lack of spiritual nourishment. The latter | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| for material nourishment and the lack of spiritual nourishment. The latter is every bit as important as | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| how this cleansing of the soul or the nourishment of the spirit is to be accomplished. What | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| accomplished. What has to be done practically? Spiritual nourishment is the regular intake of spiritual truths; even | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| day your outlook will change accordingly. Taking spiritual nourishment has to become a regular habit, for it | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| way that you have to get your physical nourishment. You have to earn your bread, buy it | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| change for the better within you. Therefore, spiritual nourishment is, in part, listening to lectures, reading the | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| with people who know more than oneself. Spiritual nourishment is also prayer and meditation in the right | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| be able, with the help of the spiritual nourishment that you take in, to see whether these | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| you be open and receptive to the proper nourishment with which you can grow spiritually every day | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| people who do not receive the proper spiritual nourishment may still intend to follow the will of | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| we can see how badly you need spiritual nourishment. Your body is nourished, as is your intellect | 31 SHAME |
| possible food. But when it comes to spiritual nourishment, most human beings starve themselves. There is a | 31 SHAME |
| There is a great confusion about what spiritual nourishment really means. It does not merely mean to | 31 SHAME |
| is also a very important part of spiritual nourishment. However, the most important substance of spiritual food | 31 SHAME |
| you have denied your spirit some of the nourishment it craves -- most probably in the right | 31 SHAME |
| be able to partake of this wonderful spiritual nourishment. It could fill your heart, and every particle | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| process by cultivating certain thoughts, by obtaining spiritual nourishment, and by using this lecture as additional material | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| Everyone understands this dependency. Children are dependent for nourishment, for protection against danger, for shelter. But the | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| seeing that it has sufficient light, moisture, and nourishment. The gardener thus fulfills his job, calling the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| friends here who are gathered together to obtain nourishment and truth, in whatever way they need it | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| these, you already feel the liberation, the spiritual nourishment, the joyfulness, the exaltation and the love that | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| experience: the child takes in, receives, soaks up nourishment and affection as a merely receptive organism, thus | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| into fruition what the plan is. A mutual nourishment can come about that is of utmost importance | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| nature. Yet one animal killing another for its nourishment appears cruel and seems to deny God's presence | 254 SURRENDER |