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| and I tell every one of you to persevere on this path. As you do so, your | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| God's spirits you should not give up, but persevere in humility. Seek what is within you that | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| that we are happy if you progress and persevere on this path. All of you receive the | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| the concentration exercise another time. If you faithfully persevere, you will eventually get to the point when | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| should not discourage or deter you. If you persevere, you will eventually succeed, be it only for | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| will do so sooner or later, if you persevere in this work. Find the harsh, tense, rigid | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| wait -- the time will come if they persevere. They need it more than the others who | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| not immediately, but insights must come if you persevere. You will then see that the negative result | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| bring you to the desired goal. If you persevere in that, your entire being will become more | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| give up is always strongest. Pursue, persist, and persevere! This is my advice, my friends. I also | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| of it will be realized only much later. Persevere, my friends, and you will grow into human | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have apparently relapsed into the old way, but persevere instead, the periods of healthy, good feeling will | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| and warmth for others will come if you persevere on this road. In the past we have | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| feel a relapse or a stagnation. If you persevere, the light will become steadier and stronger. If | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| core will get there too, if only they persevere. But to force the facing of real guilt | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| when everything seems to go wrong. Those who persevere with a wholehearted desire to look at themselves | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| may have reached surface awareness already. If you persevere, you will find your fear of helplessness, since | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| grow out of it. All of you who persevere in the pathwork know that you indeed do | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| hopeless, must be crowned with success if you persevere. What may now appear as defeat will soon | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| first time will be difficult, but if you persevere, it will become easier and yield more and | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| to be crucial for any of you who persevere in the task of self- finding. Be blessed | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| in areas where it is most necessary to persevere. For purposeful activity the exact reverse is needed | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| exactly in the area where you need to persevere. You make a tremendous effort to escape the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| of the path, the timing, the strength to persevere in difficult times, and call upon the unlimited | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| too dulled, I will trust and wait and persevere. I want to give my very best to | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Ask your innermost Godself for help in this. Persevere. Give your attention and your goodwill to the | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| If you summon your courage and honesty and persevere with a minimum of faith, you will penetrate | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| of reality that can never perish. As you persevere on your genuine path, your growth becomes more | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| be there, to follow through with anything, to persevere. Such an individual may then begin many things | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| Persevering.................5 | |
| the self as it is in the moment. Persevering in this fight will eventually bring an immeasurable | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| carry the good intention through is sincere and persevering. But often you will not face the real | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| through the steady progress and organic growth that persevering work is bound to bring eventually, you will | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| capacity to be positive, committed, truthful, courageous and persevering in the struggle to find your identity, plus | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you do this, in a spirit of patient, persevering, positive expectancy, yet empty in mind and soul | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Persist.....................30 | |
| the path of perfection. But many do not persist on this path and get caught in a | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| that your conflicts, hungers, needs, and insecurities will persist as long as you do not fight the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| injure your dignity. How often do you stubbornly persist in holding a point of view simply because | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| you have no way of knowing. When you persist in being blind to the faults of your | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| A certain amount of such resistance might also persist in this phase of the work. But on | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| obstruction. In these areas, confusion and unreality will persist and hinder your full experience of life, the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| which does not mean that you have to persist in the same direction. You might have to | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Without your going through this path, it will persist in your soul and damage you, whether you | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| temptation to give up is always strongest. Pursue, persist, and persevere! This is my advice, my friends | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| of others, but all of you have to persist in working on this particular phase. You now | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| creation of an image. Can this need still persist after the image has been dissolved, and thereby | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| conditions change, the laws will be eliminated. To persist in keeping them without any purpose or reason | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| myself in this admission? If I want to persist in my resistance, is it not better that | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| twofold split that governs your life. This will persist until you resolve and mend it through insight | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| reasoning processes are! What a pity that you persist in poisoning your life with this falsity. A | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| And how can you trust yourself if you persist in blinding yourself to your real needs, to | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| be accepted, but only as long as you persist in retaining the particular ignorance or misconception that | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| it, for whatever motivations and reasons. If you persist in denying the fact that you reject your | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| wall begin to crumble while other parts still persist, occasional contact with the inner center gives the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| selfhood and safety, as long as destructive aims persist and preoccupy the psyche. Therefore, in order to | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| lives in this dualism, conflict and unhappiness must persist. Absolute, universal, cosmic truth is always unified and | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| They, too, may have blind spots. Perhaps they persist in overlooking what needs most to be faced | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| where the blocks, the blindness, the imagined helplessness persist, you cannot contact your universal self. 3) Your | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| ones. The voluntary faculties require effort. You must persist, groping and searching for new approaches. This calls | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| your old obstinacy, distrust, and forgetfulness where problems persist. Only little by little do you reach the | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| and here you are stuck. Why do you persist in a life-denying attitude? That attitude in you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| blind spots and a deep unawareness may still persist despite the commitment. But time is only an | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| truth has its laws and consequences. When you persist in viewing these historical consequences out of context | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| of human beings refuse to grow up and persist in remaining in a state of inner error | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| resistance and its negative pleasure which makes you persist in a destructive course bringing clouds of pain | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Persistence.................3 | |
| try to recognize more about yourself from the persistence of this aspect, you become calm and peaceful | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| will be inevitably fulfilled. When you discover the persistence of a subtle but distinct No to a | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| pain is not that. The cause is your persistence and insistence on staying hooked on needs that | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| Persistent..................10 | |
| in you wants an impossibility because of its persistent desire to cover up the nucleus of conflicting | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and should also like to know whether the persistent effort of humanity so far was in order | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| predominant, the childishly proud one, all the more persistent because one tries to superimpose on it and | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| and more into awareness, you will uncover your persistent clinging to illusion and false hope, your reluctance | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the state you describe, is due to your persistent inner conviction that you still need the defense | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| a negative feeling toward a person which is persistent and cannot be resolved by finding that you | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| as out of self-concern, the fear becomes increasingly persistent and disturbing. If you have the courage to | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| Whenever you find yourself disturbed because of a persistent unfulfillment, you can be sure that both currents | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| in the flow of the life force. People's persistent problems in life result from such blocked energy | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| is why transformation occurs and the deepest, most persistent problems become resolved with ever greater frequency. But | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |