| Overtook....................4 | |
| will and desire. It was not fate that overtook him, as happens to human beings where an | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| days in terms of the various moods that overtook you during this specific day. Now I say | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| you during this specific day. Now I say overtook in quotation marks because this feeling is again | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| the mood makes it appear as if it overtook you, just as the outer event appears to | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Overwhelmed.................3 | |
| know how to accept them. It fears being overwhelmed by the destructive energies just because it has | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| once you want to awaken, you must be overwhelmed by the grandeur of this divine scheme in | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| and significance until they overwhelm you. Through being overwhelmed there may be a chance for you to | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Overwhelming................12 | |
| life on earth until the conflicts become so overwhelming that outside factors can no longer be blamed | 38 IMAGES |
| areas where the self is not accepted are overwhelming. For a more normal person who can function | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| produce artistic truth. There is no separation. The overwhelming existence of truthfulness will produce an overwhelming result | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The overwhelming existence of truthfulness will produce an overwhelming result of artistic truthfulness. QUESTION: What is the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the cosmic energy current must seem unbearable, frightening, overwhelming, and almost annihilating when the personality is still | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| anger and sarcasm are displaced positive feelings, especially overwhelming feelings of love. I am terrified of expressing | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| us be clear, by the way, that the overwhelming majority of people live in an abnormal state | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the following: life's basic abundance and generosity; its overwhelming givingness; humanity's similar and hence compatible attitude; self-possession | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| acknowledgement of the ugliness will make this ugliness overwhelming. So fear also denies the justified faith in | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and unrecognized. I advise you not to let overwhelming guilt dissuade you from this course. Recognize it | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| process of self-creation. The feeling of helplessness is overwhelming at this stage. Only when you begin to | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| the illusion that frustration is an enemy. The overwhelming experience has the capacity to loosen up the | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Overwhelms..................3 | |
| deviations are recognized. If a real outer fear overwhelms you, then you struggle against a part of | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| the strength of the mass image that again overwhelms the individual. It happens frequently that an individual | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| up new barriers because the fear of closeness overwhelms them. This fear comes from the false negative | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| Owe.........................3 | |
| you are not an atheist -- that you owe God some attention. And you can also give | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| aside completely the one person to whom you owe most next to God. Do not disregard Christ | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| again, then you pay God the debt you owe Him; then you are worthy of His grace | 31 SHAME |
| Owned.......................6 | |
| feeling is often one of hurt. If you owned up to the original feeling, you would not | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| tight control and pressure. You therefore cannot be owned or controlled either. Hence, you need not fear | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| this natural life. Each moment can therefore be owned up to only when courage and humility exist | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| All negative energy currents must be experienced and owned up to. They must be allowed to exist | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| consciousness, will grow as a result of having owned up, and continuing to own up, to the | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| rule the consciousness. The moment you have exposed, owned, and realistically evaluated those negative aspects you had | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Owning......................10 | |
| accepting its existence at the present time and owning up to it. Then and then only can | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| shallow living -- no emotional depth and not owning up to your real feelings -- with its | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| displacement. Thus, the lie causes negative effects, while owning up to your feelings does not. Hurt, free | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| IS prayer; alertness to one's resistance is prayer; owning up to something that one has hidden from | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| in theory, but are not reconciled to actually owning up to certain facets of it in themselves | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| your inborn strength and richness of feeling. By owning up I do not mean merely an intellectual | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| real thoughts and feelings, experiencing all your feelings, owning up to them on all levels. Then you | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| feeling your anxiety and your pain, to avoid owning up to your dishonesties, your cheating, your spitefulness | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| search for your conscious and unconscious negativities. Second, owning up to them in a spirit of truthfulness | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| still struggling, who are in the phase of owning up to the lower self, laboriously getting to | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Pace........................4 | |
| feel I can't progress more now than the pace of my work allows, and my still-existing problems | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| new working season, the first lecture sets the pace and stage, so to speak. It heralds the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| with its intuition and inspiration that set the pace and direct the individual path. The ego must | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| visions in several areas. These visions set the pace and the climate of the work we shall | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Package.....................3 | |
| a one-time nucleus, as it were, like a package of disturbance. But it rarely occurs to my | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| it rarely occurs to my friends that this package continues to send forth its expressions in spite | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| to hold the self together in a tight package of ungiving. All feelings will stream forth generously | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Packed......................3 | |
| have to dissolve the hard mass of tightly packed feelings of violence and pain. The bottomlessness of | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| of your energy and feelings becomes a tightly packed, hardened mass behind which your spirit seems to | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| And in that conditioning you have tightened and packed up that inner tube that will fill you | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Pagans......................5 | |
| Jewish community and faith. Jews looked down on pagans as inferior. They saw themselves as the aristocrats | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the separation became a reality, more of the pagans turned to the New Message and embraced it | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| hungered for it. As time went on, more pagans than Jews turned to Christ. The pagans' attitude | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| and saw themselves as the victims of the pagans, that is, of the Christians, even while continuing | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| prophet, that He was a fake, that the pagans and Christians are lying, are deluded, are inferior | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Paid........................35 | |
| is difficult, only that for which we have paid the price, brings lasting happiness. It cannot be | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| any money. After all, even when not being paid, a medium can have contact with spirits who | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| years. A physician treats patients also without being paid, for instance in a hospital while still in | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| work for quite a long time without being paid. God's world will give help and guidance, so | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| attain. For that a price has to be paid. When you buy a house the price will | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| knows that there is a price to be paid for happiness. The price is all the effort | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| with whom other duties may be fulfilled, karma paid off, and so on. So if you pass | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| says that there is a price to be paid for everything. Whoever tries to avoid this will | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and speaking symbolically, your money must first be paid in full. I know, my friends, that my | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| unaware that there is a price to be paid for each desired gratification, does not alter the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| treasure of knowledge must be fought for and paid for with the price of self- development and | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| attitude, you responsibly accept the price to be paid. So beware of making your decisions half-heartedly like | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| you choose there is a price to be paid, you can ask yourself which price you prefer | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| pay a price that could perhaps only be paid by efforts that needed ambition. Spiritually, a lack | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| your last incarnation. Furthermore, a demerit may be paid off in one lifetime by a zealous person | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| entity, so that a karmic debt may be paid off. Difficulties and advantages in the life to | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| image. Because if a karma has not been paid off it must mean that the root is | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| is still within the self. If you had paid off the karma, you would not have the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| be certain karmic debts which have to be paid off. In most cases -- and here I | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| soul to realize that the price must be paid. That is the way. It is not easy | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| as follows: If I am loved, I am paid homage, I possess a subject, as a ruler | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| by the words honor or respect. The respect paid to the highest intelligence, wisdom and love is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| be that a karma is still to be paid off and these two tasks -- the teaching | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is not accepted as a price to be paid. Rather, it came as a necessary byproduct of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| cannot manifest. So far, the price you have paid for holding on where you should have relinquished | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and becoming aware of states you have never paid attention to, you not only will recognize body | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| known this theoretically a long, long time, and paid lip service to it. But there is a | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| fosters the helpful attitude that mistakes must be paid for and that the payment is not an | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Your hidden deliberate negativity must be recognized and paid attention to. It is the direct key to | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| of the underlying misconceptions and the heavy price paid for them. The universal self can help -- | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| effects, the meaning and the price to be paid for the present destructive attitudes. The third phase | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| learning and homework is the price to be paid before pleasure can begin can guarantee a hatred | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| envied only when the price is not being paid. Those who fully give to their tasks as | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| you believe that this price has to be paid. When someone in your presence maligns another, for | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| outweighs the personal price that needs to be paid for infringement of divine law. Even if negative | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |