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| other people, but more so in one's inner attitudes, feelings, and reactions. Those who will not make | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| person. Now perhaps you can change these emotional attitudes. Of course you cannot make yourselves desire not | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| set in motion by your past actions or attitudes. Your difficulties will substantially diminish when you know | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| you know all your emotions, shortcomings, and wrong attitudes, you will be able to connect all outer | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| weaknesses but also your ignorance and all the attitudes by which you consciously or unconsciously break divine | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| temporary reality you have created by your previous attitudes. If you do just this for some time | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| who are very similar to yourselves in their attitudes. They may be deceased people who mean well | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| is inevitably called forth by your own inner attitudes. If you meditate about this, about yourself, your | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| times a person is unaware of certain faults, attitudes, opinions, emotional reactions. People carry many of these | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| surroundings and certain happenings in their lives. These attitudes may or may not have had their justification | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| in you of the various feelings, desires, and attitudes. Then you will be able, with the help | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| does not alter its shape according to people's attitudes. In other words, you see this room the | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| world is the outpicturing of the spirit's ideas, attitudes, thoughts, and mentality. There, everything is the result | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| your world because your thoughts, opinions, feelings, and attitudes create the world around you. I might say | 18 FREE WILL |
| development. When you keep in mind that your attitudes, your thoughts, your feelings, your opinions, and your | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| all beings, spirit or human -- that your attitudes, your opinions, your feelings, and your thoughts create | 21 THE FALL |
| Fall created new worlds according to their changing attitudes, dark worlds often referred to as Hell. The | 21 THE FALL |
| dark worlds often referred to as Hell. The attitudes of disharmony and hatred created such forms. There | 21 THE FALL |
| set in, but it was revived again as attitudes changed. The latter could only occur as an | 21 THE FALL |
| there were still too many unpurified currents and attitudes in the soul, too many evil desires and | 22 SALVATION |
| are nothing else but the expression of their attitudes, their mentality, their longing, their goals, their feelings | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is what the motive is, how the spiritual attitudes of everyone involved look to us. Also, you | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are always inspired according to your aims and attitudes. In the highest spheres the spirits plan with | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| their thoughts, and with their general and particular attitudes. You tend to forget, my friends, that the | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you have known some of his opinions, his attitudes, that may indicate his spiritual foundation. That will | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| what you cannot change, namely the actions and attitudes of other people and circumstances outside your control | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| rationalizing it away by thinking of the wrong attitudes of others. Instead, ask yourself, What do I | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the self, of learning humility, and other positive attitudes. Then the obstacles will cease to be obstacles | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| against him. What counts is a person's inner attitudes, feelings, reactions, motives, and sense of responsibility. QUESTION | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| unless they are supported by the right spiritual attitudes. The cure has to start from within by | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| In my previous lectures I have mentioned several attitudes in the human soul which are what you | 31 SHAME |
| as contagious, my friends, as emotions, thoughts, and attitudes, conscious or unconscious. This, too, is a universal | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| do, but always and solely your own wrong attitudes and inner fights against conditions you cannot change | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| your thoughts, your feelings, your reactions and your attitudes create definite forms that are as substantial and | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the next life--subject to change according to the attitudes and activities of the being since the plan | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| help you change your inner and often unconscious attitudes rooted in pride, self-will, fear, and error. They | 36 PRAYER |
| that they are accepting life's lessons. Actually negative attitudes are just another way of kicking and struggling | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| small measure. You recognize some of your wrong attitudes, and you wish to change them with all | 38 IMAGES |
| or to sudden, unexpected experiences. These impressions or attitudes usually take the form of conclusions in the | 38 IMAGES |
| thought out; rather they are emotional reactions, general attitudes toward life. They are not completely devoid of | 38 IMAGES |
| As the years go by, these conclusions and attitudes sink more and more into the unconscious. From | 38 IMAGES |
| a number of divine forces. Thoughts, feelings, and attitudes that are unconnected with an image flow harmoniously | 38 IMAGES |
| include your inability to overcome certain faults and attitudes; your lack of control over certain patterns in | 38 IMAGES |
| a day, an hour exist independently of personal attitudes. The same applies to distance. You also have | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| hurts, conflicts, and problems. Regard your wrong inner attitudes as ignorance and error. Actually, that is what | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| your motive that counts in all desires and attitudes. Selfishness always depends on the how. To determine | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| understand how your hitherto unconscious desires, trends, and attitudes have governed your life. But now that so | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| you said, but how do you justify these attitudes on the part of people who are supposed | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| reaction toward authority remains childish because unconscious compulsive attitudes prevail, then this milestone remains to be reached | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| from its mildest form of personal and private attitudes, spanning the whole scale, up to overt social | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| other words, if you are driven into certain attitudes by your unrecognized fears, the effect will be | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the same act, have the same motives and attitudes, but recognize your own inner tendencies and currents | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| of course, opposed to their acts and wrong attitudes. He could even laugh with them, and also | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| slowly begins to take out certain trends and attitudes from behind the wall and transpose them into | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a result of your feelings, your thoughts, emotions, attitudes. It is the sum total of your conscious | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is built up by the person's deeds, thoughts, attitudes and feelings. It does not change quickly, because | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the wrong conclusions that are connected with such attitudes. The important thing is then to think these | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a role in the human psyche. Therefore general attitudes need to be investigated. An attitude to a | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| to acceptance? ANSWER: Each of these basic religious attitudes has a healthy form, which become distorted when | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| and wrong forms of both these basic religious attitudes. The wrong kind of positive thinking is self-willed | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| attitude. So underneath both the positive and negative attitudes something else may be hidden. The important point | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| child you were justified in having certain feelings, attitudes, needs and incapacities which are now obsolete. You | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| In this body are all your emotions, impressions, attitudes and trends, in other words, your true, inner | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| rigid and devoid of aliveness. Different activities and attitudes apply to different phases of one's development. Once | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| This image is basic and determines all other attitudes, images and patterns throughout your life. You should | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| is a direct or indirect result of your attitudes, deeds, thoughts and emotions. As far as the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| your life force consists of all actions, thoughts, attitudes and emotions that deviate from divine truth, that | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| exists in the mature soul. But wherever unconscious attitudes and currents are distorted, healthy self-love will be | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| of not being accepted and loved. All these attitudes cause self- contempt and feelings of inferiority. You | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| that your wrong thinking, your wrong trends and attitudes, your twisted emotions that have brought you nothing | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life and seeking the remedy for past erroneous attitudes and concepts is an utterly constructive and strengthening | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| to say to yourself, Yes, these motives or attitudes are wrong, in further honesty you will know | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| to see that there are wrong motives and attitudes in you, but also the additional honesty of | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| so you sabotage it by all these negative attitudes. If you truly wanted a happy outcome, you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the Catholic Church, for instance, confused the two attitudes? ANSWER: Very often, indeed. QUESTION: In other words | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| You all know, my friends, that thoughts, feelings, attitudes and convictions create forms -- forms that are | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| world of the spirit. If you harbor truthful attitudes, opinions, convictions and emotions, these forms will exist | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| limited to the length of time that these attitudes in the personality prevail. The stronger these convictions | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the personality prevail. The stronger these convictions and attitudes, thoughts, and emotions are, the greater is their | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| exist. They are the product of your inner attitudes and convictions, thoughts and emotions. Many of these | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| to grope your way. The more unconscious such attitudes, convictions, and erroneous conclusions are, the more powerful | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| such a happening and your own actions and attitudes. You are so successful in covering up these | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| up all unfavorable incidents with your own wrong attitudes, no matter how wrong the other people may | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| such a wonderful way that all your wrong attitudes will come to the fore, more strongly at | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| misdeeds of others will affect your own wrong attitudes and inner errors. You cannot be affected by | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the connection between your inner wrong currents and attitudes and the outer unwelcome occurrence, you will come | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| errors, many wrong conclusions, many faults and faulty attitudes. But you will encounter them without a trace | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| at times not even really faults, but mere attitudes, such as a certain shame, a kind of | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| sufficient to see the connection between your erroneous attitudes and outer happenings that heretofore seemed arbitrary. Once | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| heal your soul of all unhealthy and erroneous attitudes and reactions. It is important for your happiness | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the same with the inner and outer actions, attitudes, and reactions of the human being. By considering | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| discriminate, judge, and choose your own actions and attitudes. You will then be able to re-form your | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you. Once you find your emotions, reactions, and attitudes that correspond to this misconception, you can reconsider | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| meant in the Scriptures, because the basic spiritual attitudes and laws are completely lacking in what is | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| mechanism of the soul, with all its currents, attitudes and trends, there is no one separate thing | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| are bound gradually to change these elements and attitudes, slowly but surely. You will realize that you | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourselves, proving again how contrary your unconscious concepts, attitudes, and ideas may be to your conscious ones | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| their lot is like no one else's. Both attitudes deviate from the truth. In both cases the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| kinds fall short as parents, and their wrong attitudes, absorbed by the child, will cause hurt and | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the tool with which to correct the wrong attitudes which create both the inner and the outer | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| in this world than emotions, thoughts, reactions, and attitudes. You can observe that in your everyday life | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the understanding of your unconscious problems, concepts, and attitudes. Self- knowledge and self-acceptance are the prerequisites. Everything | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| for crass acts. In all your desires and attitudes it is the motive that counts. It always | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the sphere that is the outpicturing of those attitudes and trends. And therefore the other spheres are | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| will eventually affect your life, your endeavors, your attitudes. But often it is helpful and more effective | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| not getting it. I have often mentioned certain attitudes, which also apply here. So far, you may | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| far, you may not have understood that these attitudes are the result of the forcing current. One | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| real feelings. This also happens with the three attitudes described before. You never allow your feelings to | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| time ago, I mentioned the contagiousness of inner attitudes and reactions. All this is an explanation of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of this evasion, you create conflicts and wrong attitudes which result in bringing more misery than you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| movement of your feet symbolizes major changes, decisions, attitudes. All life is differentiated between these two kinds | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you now know, there are two predominant inner attitudes, currents or forces in the human being. On | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and learn to understand your inner reactions and attitudes, you no longer need to think in terms | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will shed the pretense of positive and negative attitudes, trends, desires and motivations. Instead you will assume | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| desires and motivations. Instead you will assume genuine attitudes, desires and motivations. These words will make sense | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| produces impatience. It causes you to assume artificial attitudes and emotions. Since neither this desirable world, nor | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| find that if we do shed some negative attitudes, it is so gradual that, even after three | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| bargaining and the interplay of submissive and domineering attitudes. Either attitude can be dominant in one partner | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| as theory but as fact, how reactions or attitudes of your own were responsible for such occurrences | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| face to face in your innermost, hidden conflicts, attitudes, and beliefs, and comprehend the real meaning of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| well as the results of your past wrong attitudes -- in a spirit of relaxed passivity, while | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| time, if a person heals unhealthy aspects and attitudes of the personality, that person not only becomes | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| manifest the flight from death in their innermost attitudes. It is not what one professes and thinks | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| general. This is sometimes lived out in external attitudes, but most often it is an inner quality | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| through wrong values, wrong systems, wrong education, wrong attitudes. With that recognition the weight will be shifted | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| use for the solution of life's problems. The attitudes of submissiveness, aggressiveness, and withdrawal are the distortions | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| is not easy to detect them since these attitudes are deeply ingrained and seem to have become | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |