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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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

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