| Positiveness................6 | |
| two sides: a kind of negation and a positiveness, both in a personal involvement with the self | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| is love, a fearless state of abundance, of positiveness, of productivity and expansion, of meaningful growth both | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| again take over after such periods of mutual positiveness, until the negative, destructive, and denying side is | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| because the hope will be justified by the positiveness and realism with which you approach yourself. In | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| evolution in order to eventually reestablish unity in positiveness. The in-between state is the disunity, where one | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| by being negative and hating -- and openness, positiveness and love. To find this new firm ground | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Positivity..................4 | |
| is exactly the opposite of what you think: positivity will set you free to have integrity, to | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| torn down are only illusions, falseness; never real positivity, affirmation, or constructiveness. Those who are most confused | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| mold itself in an entirely new way. 148. POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT Greetings, my dearest | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| that by giving up negativity you create a positivity that is something completely new. If this were | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| Possessed...................17 | |
| feel upset, rebellious, and torn in many directions, possessed by very disharmonious feelings. Therefore, the more the | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| step to the state of perfection you once possessed. Yet the further away you are from God | 18 FREE WILL |
| or sense of the light they had once possessed. Only after tasting the self-chosen medicine for a | 21 THE FALL |
| King of the Universe and as such Christ possessed not only the highest privileges, but also the | 22 SALVATION |
| them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| see, there are so many religions which originally possessed this truth when they taught the denial of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| or immature and destructive. As a child you possessed an immature body and mind and therefore, quite | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| let go of something you have never really possessed. Only when you can freely give up your | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| reaching the goal. Only when you are fully possessed of your outer self, your ego, can you | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| and adequacy -- qualities you never dreamed you possessed -- but you also begin to see that | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| will have a freedom of choice you never possessed before. The words given tonight, provided you truly | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| it wants to possess them and is thus possessed, as in Mother, you must do what I | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a piece of the world it has not possessed before. Growth brings expansion, increased capabilities, more power | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| For there was a state in which you possessed much less awareness, less power to create, less | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| also rediscover energy which you never knew you possessed. You have to allow yourself to express this | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| light and warmth. Strength you never knew you possessed will arise. From the point of view of | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| disintegrates, it has already been spiritualized by having possessed the kernel of life, even if only for | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| Possessing..................8 | |
| treatment. Of course, there may also be doctors possessing good intuition and a strong sense of guidance | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| attitude of each individual being on this plane possessing the power of free choice. Conditions and circumstances | 21 THE FALL |
| the idealized self-image denies all limitations. It pretends possessing all that the personality feels is lacking. The | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| If the child were self-sufficient and independent while possessing self-centered drives, you may imagine what would happen | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| accustomed and safe period of childhood behind, without possessing, as yet, the necessary equipment to be an | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| aliveness. You find yourself in the predicament of possessing an adult ego with all its faculties intact | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| with an ulterior motive. So your fear of possessing insufficient reason and will to control the feeling | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| you. Only as you abandon your insistence of possessing them right away will you even know what | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Possession..................40 | |
| so he or she could bring this valuable possession -- if I may call it that -- | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| with certain people. If the animal is in possession of senses that man often lacks, this is | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| not support them. The more such thoughts take possession of them, and the more they nourish them | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| inward joy that for a while completely takes possession of one. This wonderful feeling, though, does not | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| no spirit there as yet. The spirit takes possession the moment the first cry is uttered. QUESTION | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from others too -- that the spirit takes possession only after the first cry has been uttered | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a segment of truth. You may be in possession of a fact, but you ignore additional factors | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are in truth, when you are merely in possession of facts. This knowledge will increase your own | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you to become yourself, to be in full possession of the individual you are, with all the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| you may still shirk love, you gain full possession of yourself by not shirking truth. Thus you | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| conflict between giving up the self and full possession of the self, I would like to present | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| but dissolving in the life stream, in full possession of yourself, yet without fear of giving up | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| the more you are in contact with and possession of yourself, that is, the more you are | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| am in distortion. I wish to be in possession of the divine truth, where decisions are right | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| This, in turn, enables you to be in possession of the immeasurable wisdom, energy, and peace of | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| learn, step by step, to come into full possession of the meaning of these words, feeling the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| liberation. Knowing the truth means already being in possession of the key. It means mastery. In the | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| produce the answers, you must inevitably come into possession of this knowledge. In that moment, you will | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| completely. Hence the fear that to love means possession, submission and martyrdom. You yearn for love, yet | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| considerations, when judging according to appearances and in possession of fragmentary truths -- but, in the last | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| in which you are increasingly in the full possession of the vital energy and creative wisdom of | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| whatever distorted motives. If she is not in possession of her inherent powers, surrender must be debilitating | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| laboriously attain because you are not now in possession of it. It already exists, only you can | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| -- never when you are not in full possession of yourself. If you do not own yourself | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| reaction. What are the elements that determine self- possession? There are several, and we cannot examine them | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| thus blindly rebels, there is again no self- possession. You lose yourself when you follow either course | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| until the new thing becomes one's own natural possession, until it becomes part of the personality, second | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| love and compassion; then you are indeed in possession of yourself and can be moved from within | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| and as effectively if you were in full possession of your entire consciousness and your faculties, my | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| come, at least to a degree, into the possession of knowledge about negative feelings, negative intentions, about | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| of its divine nature, that is in total possession of divine wisdom and energy. You are all | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| really dead. Spiritual beings who are in greater possession of their innate divine faculties and not bound | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of becoming, though it is already fully in possession of self-awareness. On the highest rise of the | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your limited time-bound state you are not in possession of the connections. Were you thus aware, you | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| reason is different. Before the spiritual self takes possession of the human body in the birth process | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| The limited part of the entity that takes possession of the infant body finds itself awake to | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| not from an aspect outside itself already in possession of wisdom and light. So when the knowledge | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| you my friends, once you are in full possession of the tools that I am privileged to | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| unique personality at this point of evolution, takes possession of this shell. Each further incarnation represents a | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| the will of God unless you are in possession of yourself. Nor can you truly find and | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Possessions.................5 | |
| important. Of course, if someone has plenty of possessions and never gives anything to anybody, that is | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| away so as not to be burdened by possessions. You can enjoy wealth when you conquer the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| selfishness or ego-centeredness. You may give away your possessions, but you are afraid to love or risk | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| a smaller child because it wants the latter's possessions. To an infinitely greater degree, the identical tendency | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| way you arrange your time, your money, your possessions, your surroundings, your personal appearance. Arrange your day | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |