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| planned, it is often allowed to bring the past incarnation to completion in the spirit state, to | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| worked to acquire it some time in the past, so he or she could bring this valuable | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| inner door. Regardless of the burden of your past lives, regardless of what you need to experience | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| are really paying for lies buried in the past. What it is can be found out only | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| have to pay now was committed in a past life, the insight can come, provided you follow | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| you yourselves have set in motion by your past actions or attitudes. Your difficulties will substantially diminish | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| intellect is neglected, as has happened in the past and still happens with certain people. If the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| liberation, because I have done so in the past. I will rather speak about something I have | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| teachings a person can incarnate again into a past lifetime. Is this correct? ANSWER: No, this is | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| enjoy the fruits of the merits of the past lifetime in the next incarnation is entrusted to | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| in the next life on the basis of past merits. When the desire has a positive result | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| and the residue, the outside manifestation of the past remains, inside there will be a deep and | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| have complete understanding about all your inner motives, past and present. When you know all your emotions | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| higher beings know exactly the laws and the past incarnations of an individual soul, have studied the | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| the human spirit sees the picture of the past life almost indifferently, so to speak. It seems | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| So in the purification sphere you see your past life from a point of view which is | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| consequences of what you have done in the past, whether they concern a previous incarnation or this | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| in the present. You sometimes live in the past -- and this is bad. And it is | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| on certain facts that occurred in the distant past, because the reason of existence on earth, the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| They will interfere only to protect according to past merits, following exact spiritual laws about which they | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| Sometimes enlightenment is given on the subject of past lives. The country is rarely important, but other | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| may not have had their justification in the past but they are completely obsolete at the present | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| you have broken some spiritual law in the past, quite unconsciously, by your wrong inner direction. When | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| more you are capable to know about your past incarnations. Then such knowledge will be used for | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| ignores the connections and chain reactions from the past. The past action that has led him into | 18 FREE WILL |
| connections and chain reactions from the past. The past action that has led him into the present | 18 FREE WILL |
| or lack of freedom, depends entirely on your past actions, thoughts, and inner reactions. The fact that | 18 FREE WILL |
| of it than you have done in the past. When you encounter the strong pressing of your | 18 FREE WILL |
| because you have overcome these trends during your past incarnations, must begin to apply divine law within | 18 FREE WILL |
| not very developed yet, often hold onto their past earthly bondages, whether this bondage concerns a fanatic | 18 FREE WILL |
| You do not know their overall development, their past lives, their present inner and outer obstacles, their | 18 FREE WILL |
| for not having seen all this in the past. Making the connection between your troubles and their | 21 THE FALL |
| particular subject, as I have done in the past. It may appear to you, at first, as | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is why you have to find out. Your past endeavors of concentration were going in a wrong | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you have a free moment, think about the past few hours and think what your feelings actually | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is the highest gift. If knowledge of your past lives and the beyond were just put into | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| troubles of your life up to now -- past and present. If you can find some good | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| is compared with the original plan for the past incarnation, as well as with the overall plan | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| self-probing, in checking your emotional reactions about the past and present, and through prayer, you will find | 38 IMAGES |
| a subject I touched upon occasionally in the past. Objectivity is essential for the free and harmonious | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| have disappointed and hurt you, but your own past deliberate blindness. In such a crisis, the blindness | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| willing. One can learn a lot from one's past and present mistakes. To generalize that divorce is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| by trying to make the best of your past mistakes and learn from them. My dearest friends | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| present life circumstances, as well as in the past. Think how different you are and how differently | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| have already spoken about this subject in the past. Let me say this now: There is no | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| of the wrong kind of authority in the past. Furthermore, you will become increasingly aware of the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| yourself, I could not help it in the past. I was ignorant and blind and selfish. I | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| do away with the effects of your own past and present errors. On whatever level of your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| undertake, then I can make good for my past hatred and resentment. And since the little voice | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| If it were really a matter of the past, you would not feel this acute guilt all | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| love: first, be honest with yourself about your past and present motives. Second, continue the right act | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| other. We are told in one of the past lectures that no human being can love completely | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| that way. As I often said in the past: you cannot get around it, you have to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of deviated reactions and chain reactions from the past. The past you cannot change, and therefore you | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| reactions and chain reactions from the past. The past you cannot change, and therefore you cannot avoid | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| answer within yourself and not outwardly. Then your past experience will take on new meaning. It will | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| for your life and seeking the remedy for past erroneous attitudes and concepts is an utterly constructive | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| this path. You can find them by observing past and present reactions, by analyzing them from the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in the Spirit World is due to your past good efforts. It is a positive chain reaction | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| terms with it. If you can reconstruct the past and endeavor to remember the moment when the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| attitude prevails. When one changes one's attitude, the past experience will then become valuable retrospectively. If a | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in complying with the unselfish acts in the past, as well as with the guilt of your | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the wrong alternative now, simply because in the past you performed the right actions out of the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| talk not only as the end of the past term, but also as a preface to the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| done in the new working season. In the past, I discussed first certain general facts about the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| a new approach does not mean that the past approach will now be discarded. Quite the contrary | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| may certainly not have done so in the past; it will be important to learn why. It | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| this exercise. Also try to think about your past desires from the point of view I introduced | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| result of your wrong reactions, maybe from the past, but only manifesting at a later period. Cause | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| that one encounters a delayed reaction from the past full force, at the very time one starts | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| so much so that you wonder if the past peace was an illusion. The confusion will provide | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| moment almost like an animal. It knows no past and no future and therefore lacks the judgment | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| at great length and from various angles in past sessions. You will remember that I frequently mentioned | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| child in you cannot let go of the past, cannot come to terms with it, cannot forgive | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the childish compulsion to recreate and correct the past. You have no idea how preoccupied your subconscious | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| cover the present pain as well as the past one. Before you have succeeded in crystallizing the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| people are not even aware of any pain, past or present. They busily push it out of | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| people. It was felt by millions in the past and will be felt by millions in the | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| on the case. They may also see the past life plan and how this is connected with | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| higher spirits step in. For this purpose, certain past lives have to be uncovered. Whatever is uncovered | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| upon the subject of self- destructiveness in the past, but in the light of our new knowledge | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| insight. You do not have to look to past incarnations, for if you really want to, you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will prove very beneficial for you. In the past, before you really penetrated the hidden regions and | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| time. To learn this, you have to connect past and present causes and effects. You learn this | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| happiness and fulfillment. A few times in the past I mentioned fear of happiness and fulfillment. Many | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| death as well as the results of your past wrong attitudes -- in a spirit of relaxed | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of which I have commented on in the past. About the first aspect I repeat, briefly, that | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| after death, and do not consciously desire existence past death very much, like to enjoy and take | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| occasionally used the term mask self in the past. The mask self and the idealized self- image | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| what is right before your eyes. You look past the seemingly unimportant emotional reactions to certain situations | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| conditions. You will see your life, and your past and present difficulties, with a new outlook. You | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| Think back to recent happenings or into the past. When did something occur that was a defeat | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| Blessed is this hour. Looking back at the past working season, we recognize that it was indeed | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| pain and the experience of unhappiness. In the past we have discussed why this is a wrong | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| how you often over-dramatize yourself. But in the past I referred mainly to crass outer manifestations, particularly | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| links between these various tendencies that, in the past, could be discussed only as unconnected trends. First | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| conscience and, say, guilt feelings? ANSWER: In a past lecture I discussed two kinds of conscience, but | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to observe what you have done in the past to sabotage them; how you have done so | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| to suffer from depression and confusion. In the past, you may have gathered a considerable amount of | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you can make an interesting experiment. Observe your past life from the point of view of relinquishing | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| respect, your real self was manifest in the past, you will also see that it is not | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| you find growth and change pleasurable because of past development that has already freed you of shackles | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| Why is it that all spiritual teachings in past ages speak of sin instead of sickness or | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| out emotions and self-alienation. When much of the past material is forgotten and thus cannot be linked | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| discussed this subject in many connections in the past, but consider it necessary to connect it now | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| we begin to see causes, while in the past we dealt much more with effects. But you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| angle, one we have touched upon in the past only in a cursory way. We all know | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| you could not have acted otherwise in the past, although you may now recognize your error. The | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| and defense mechanisms begin to form. In the past we have examined the various defense mechanisms rather | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| come your way, as a result of your past ingrained patterns, but you will encounter them in | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| opportunities for happiness that you ignored in the past. In this way, you begin to change the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| yourself and with life now, not in the past. The past is important only because it caused | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| with life now, not in the past. The past is important only because it caused you to | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| about which I have spoken considerably in the past, and also in answer to a recent question | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| already so considerable that the results of the past cannot be entirely eliminated from the body. Whether | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| is PRIDE. I have discussed this in the past. You all know its origin, reason, effects, and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| greed. Again, you know its deeper meaning from past lectures. If you covet something you do not | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| We have discussed some of them in the past. Let us now consider these subjects with a | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| of will. We have discussed it in the past from many different points of view: self-will, the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| number of other reasons that you know from past lectures and from your work. Therefore a productive | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| frequently. Even your own personal experiences of the past may be misleading because they are conditioned by | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| right, or even according to your own limited past experiences, cripples the spontaneity of the real self | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| of them. All this I explained in the past. In spiritual spheres where you live without your | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| and images of life according to their limited past experiences. Again and again we have discussed this | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of life. It is never governed by the past. Therefore, its way of experiencing life is as | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| new is limited by its tie to the past experience. The freshness goes out of it, and | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| present has, in reality, no resemblance to the past, or would not have any if you did | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| all this time. The only way to dissolve past experiences which are deeply imprinted on your conscious | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| have discussed this at such length in the past that I really do not have to repeat | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| free of all preconceived ideas. Perhaps also the past experience of the real self causes one to | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| opposite of what brings out the real self. Past experience cannot be duplicated in a direct way | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| have made progress in this respect in the past year. Each one of you has gained a | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| in reality, future does not exist. Just as past does not exist. I realize that this is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| mind, there is being -- that is, no past, present nor future, only now. This can, at | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| if you persevere on this road. In the past we have discussed the wall that you keep | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| due to reasons we have discussed in the past. Thus you color your real impressions and experiences | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| As you know from our work in the past, almost everyone has the wish to be accepted | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| this topic has been repeatedly discussed in the past. However, if I were to say what the | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| by communicating your true feelings. QUESTION: In the past you discussed the close connection between cause and | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| go through the action that makes restitution for past guilt. What I will say now is applicable | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| They came to fulfill a mission. Others, through past development, were already very much freed. Whether you | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| and want to leave it behind in the past. Your vague hopes for the future and the | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| things: the fulfillment of the future in the past or, at least, in the present. This wish | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| into the future. They pull back into the past. Often these two contradictory movements happen simultaneously. In | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |