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| independently. Thus your spiritual life will become more productive, because it will be alive, and therefore also | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| knowledge and so be applied in a personal, productive way. Only by following such a path as | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| and stimulate each other and make the contact productive. These contacts will not harm the soul, as | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| I can and will do so. This is productive. For when you look closer, you will realize | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| used productively -- and there is nothing more productive than prayer -- then you would add a | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to receive unpleasant truth from others in a productive way. If you start in this way, you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| self- occupation into a different direction, namely a productive one. For those who cannot do the latter | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| change too. Your influence can only be truly productive if you set the example first. When other | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| group was formed. And it has been a productive year, from our spiritual point of view. Since | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| your emotions, dissolve your images and create new, productive forms in your soul that correspond to divine | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| do on this path. That is much more productive than rattling off in one's mind the same | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| through as a consequence a very constructive and productive medicine for yourself. This will serve to liberate | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| into concrete language. Then you do the most productive thing. It is not a question of worrying | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| negative occasions will prove to be the most productive. QUESTION: In the last lecture you stated that | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| present them anyway. Will praying for others be productive of constructive results in securing peace. ANSWER: Oh | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| discussion after the last session was a very productive one. All the spirits who attended then are | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| not a burden, because only what will be productive and helpful will be revealed. What would be | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| more positive experience. In your soul-sickness and error, productive of fear, pride, arrogance, ignorance, darkness, confusion, you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of applying the outer knowledge that goodness means productive living to your specific inner problem. No real | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| constant joy and makes life truly meaningful and productive. Only then will you find the activity that | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| Why do I want what I want? What productive effect does it have on others and on | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| When you perceive a much more constructive and productive voice of love that sometimes says momentarily not | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| and, unfortunately, that is not always the truth. Productive love sometimes has to criticize. Whether this applies | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| barricade behind a solid wall many of your productive, genuine feelings whose guidance you need in order | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| of both attitudes can the healthy, constructive, and productive attitude become an integral part of one's being | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| subtle, causes and leads to further self-alienation. The productive approach is to make conscious what you feel | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| person creates a state of inner openness where productive universal forces of truth can get to work | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| to unclog the love channel and live a productive life in which you feel useful and know | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| as to gain light, safety, freedom, and a productive life. It is right there for the asking | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| creating it by learning and experiencing in a productive way. First you need to see your possibilities | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| before crossing the threshold into emotional maturity and productive patterns, you have the possibility, if you so | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| get to this point of growth, maturity, and productive living, is by simply observing your emotions. Note | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| my work that mixed in with healthy and productive pleasure is also destructive or self-destructive pleasure. The | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| betrayal without doing whatever is necessary, constructive, and productive to ward it off. There are many instances | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| only theoretical -- of the realistic, truthful, and productive reactions, without trying to force yourself to feel | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| is unproductive and unrealistic, while the other is productive and realistic. Fully acknowledge that you are not | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| not make the feeling itself positive, healthy, or productive. The seventh cardinal sin is SLOTH. Sloth is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| perfectionistic demands of your idealized self, and the productive life that your real self wants you to | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| does not weaken and confuse. This involvement is productive for all concerned and fills you and those | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| If one functions independently in a healthy and productive way, the other two are bound to function | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| what you want is in itself healthy and productive, the very fact that you are unaware of | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| past lectures and from your work. Therefore a productive wish proves to be unproductive, or even destructive | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| Something is imprinted in the soul that is productive and lasting, long after the superficial layers of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| of habit patterns that hold you back from productive living; from true experience, whether this is God | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| take on an entirely new aspect and become productive. This then, will make man see that the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| entire universe, that is meaningless, that cannot be productive. There is no waste. The waste exists only | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| and so become evil all over again. The productive approach would be, after discovering and removing the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| new working year that promises to be as productive as each former year, you may surely expect | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| one feels pity instead of the much more productive feeling of compassion. Whenever you are crushed by | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| and paralysis and the subsequent impairment of inherent productive faculties. It has not yet, or not fully | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| instances, in addition to talking it out, certain productive actions on your part may be indicated. What | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| that only the real self is capable of productive true experience? And hasn't this work so far | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| -- as well as faith, or any other productive attitude or feeling -- can grow on firm | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| By the same token, your good deeds, your productive attitudes, your genuine feelings affect all those who | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the energy where it is useful, meaningful, and productive. Whenever energy is used in its proper channel | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| as possible, and so you cannot feel the productive warm feelings of love that create a benign | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this is the case, the less can such productive feelings be replaced by a false and weakening | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| mere misunderstanding. Impulses and instincts which are potentially productive and life-giving, if they are not allowed to | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| all other interests; (2) repression of creative and productive aspects and trends; (3) repression of instincts which | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Whenever a life activity, no matter how useful, productive, or creative in itself, seems to hinder the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| other respect. Such healthy union does not exclude productive activities or rewarding relationships with others. On the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the duality and, as such, not real and productive. On your further steps on the path, my | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| new fullness of living and bliss, but your productive activities will also reach a new height, being | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| will it become to make disturbances and crises productive experiences of short duration. All this is not | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| He holds on where letting go would be productive and harmonious and he refuses discipline and self-responsibility | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| you to what extent it is reasonable and productive in any given instance to have expectations, and | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| unconscious. Then, and then only, will all the productive elements which are still hidden rise to the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| only what is erroneous, but also all the productive elements behind the errors. They all lie deep | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| and misconceptions that divide you, the constructive, creative, productive elements you never knew existed will be freed | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| ways are open for the experience of a productive life. Let us now be more specific about | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| endeavors; of tackling these No's in the only productive way, namely with the intent of wanting to | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| to transform your self into a more truthful, productive person. Utilize this contact more and more, let | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| begin to act in a new and more productive way, and are geared to accomplish your goal | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to see whether or not it is constructive, productive, life-affirming and growth-producing for all concerned -- and | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| into actions and feelings that are good and productive in this moment. And then, let go and | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| As a result you will be filled with productive thoughts of truth, expansion and a wider vision | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| yourself. It is the only real, relaxed and productive control. For this inner center can indeed solve | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| aware of the deliberate destructiveness and avoidance of productive, positive unfoldment. Does anyone here have any inkling | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| it brings you all that is safe, good, productive, and joyful? This is the tragic battle of | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| benign nature of the creative forces within you. Productive, creative involuntary processes cannot become operative as long | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| its exaggerated strength, is the greatest hindrance to productive living. And it is equally true when one | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| itself to you quite naturally. A new and productive way of fighting for love and closeness will | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| create a clear vision of how the healthy, productive personality would function, as opposed to the past | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| be either. Each alternative may be healthy and productive or unhealthy and destructive. The following examples will | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| will affect the other end. Introspection can be productive and growth-bringing or self-centered and separating. Its opposite | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| time, the frustration must be borne in a productive way. There is a right and productive way | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| a productive way. There is a right and productive way, and also a wrong and destructive way | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| of your inner being. If your thoughts are productive and positive, but the feeling tone is depressed | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| fight cannot be effective. To make this fight productive, to create proper self-acceptance that does not deteriorate | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| you want right away generates, then the healthy, productive version of involvement is inverted. I will choose | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| to make the alternation of life movements a productive, growing process toward increasing transcendence of the opposites | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| those areas where you are not expanding and productive. As long as human beings are unable, or | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| living. In addition, it is the key to productive living for you right now. The second important | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| ideas and to consequent experience which is either productive and blissful or destructive and painful. It is | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| and feelings have become sufficiently purified, realistic, and productive for you to now create a mostly positive | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| of course, not at all like the harmonious, productive and meaningful process I described, which is the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| faculties of intelligence, resourcefulness, creativity, psychic strength, and productive self-expression as man. To claim that she does | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| conflict for the new-age woman between being a productive, creative, contributing member of society, and being a | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| Individuals of both sexes will function as equally productive human beings in the new universe, complementing and | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| For example, rather than visualizing yourself in a productive vocation, joyfully and meaningfully contributing to life, or | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| has limited me. ANSWER: It has. The most productive attitude about the possibility of not getting the | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| the burden will be dissolved in the most productive and creative way possible. You have begun to | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| to assert justified claims, is indispensable in any productive, healthy life. The need to discriminate when to | 254 SURRENDER |
| accept and to create it in the most productive, constructive way. This can only be done when | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| You may do it in a healthy and productive way that you therefore generally enjoy. In this | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |