| Badness.....................15 | |
| guilt feelings that make you exaggerate your own badness and lead you to feel hopeless about yourself | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| that there is no such thing as evil, badness, sin, malice. All this prevails only as long | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| impression you were no longer loved. No wonder badness associated itself with punishment and unhappiness, goodness with | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you. You will not need to exaggerate the badness of the trait in question, nor will you | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| bad, as long as you battle against this badness and believe you cannot tolerate it, duality exists | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| pleasure, and wit. You ascribe all that to badness. How wrong you are! Goodness is as diversified | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| wrong you are! Goodness is as diversified as badness. Only it has more humor, individuality, pleasure, because | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| In essence, goody-goodyness is another facet of the badness that seems so desirable to you. In this | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| without others who also contribute, and not by badness, but by ignorance, distorted concepts, and shortsighted defenses | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| without losing a sense of proportion about its badness determines the degree to which you are able | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| hidden self is not the actual measure of badness -- if there were such a thing -- | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| try to exonerate yourself because you sense a badness in yourself. Actually your contribution may not be | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| current, as though they were proof of its badness. Thus people have preached through the centuries that | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| goodness, or having to bear the burden of badness for the sake of tasting some of the | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| exist entities who manifest total goodness and total badness? In the latter instance you may say that | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Balance.....................251 | |
| days. It would be necessary to establish a balance. When this does not happen, the consequences are | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| of these faculties if they created the right balance and placed their intellect into the service of | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the following: First, do I keep a harmonious balance within myself between instinct and intellect? Do I | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| incarnate as a man to establish the original balance. If you knew how many incarnations you lived | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| split we have just discussed is not in balance and therefore people have to live contrary to | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| can ever touch you or throw you off balance. The price is: no self-pity, no self-delusion, utter | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| always temptations. You have to find a proper balance. By routine I mean that you go on | 36 PRAYER |
| rather than constructive intuition, such a person loses balance in life, just as the reason-type does in | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| until starting to work toward achieving a proper balance. In the third category is the will-type who | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| it be ideal to have all three in balance? ANSWER: The ideal form is in balance, but | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| in balance? ANSWER: The ideal form is in balance, but that does not mean that they are | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| mean that they are distributed in equal measure. Balance and harmony do not always mean an equal | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| always mean an equal measure of each current. Balance depends on the way the currents are distributed | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| really just that. The true reason-type will learn balance, so that reason will function properly in the | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| be chosen in such a way that a balance is established until the soul reaches a harmonious | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| harmony to some extent at least, the proper balance between reason, emotion, and will has to be | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| feelings take their course. Discretion, and a healthy balance between reason, emotion, and will are necessary to | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| although you may do so quite unconsciously. This balance is very, very subtle, my friends, and it | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| in the wrong direction. Wherever such lack of balance exists, other unhealthy and harmful currents prevail, and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| other unhealthy and harmful currents prevail, and the balance has to be established by becoming aware of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| same. For the life plan works to establish balance and harmony. The more ignorantly the personality works | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| The more ignorantly the personality works against the balance and harmony, the more disharmonious the process of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| harmony, the more disharmonious the process of establishing balance and harmony must be, but come it must | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| seeks to bring the universal forces out of balance, the healing forces of nature step in to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| of nature step in to bring back the balance. But this very balancing out may often seem | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| or an earthquake. But in the end the balance is reestablished. For nothing else can make you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| that which knows how to keep the proper balance. Your true self is neither as good as | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| such a way as to restore order and balance in your life. Situations will occur that seem | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| right track. Wherever and whenever you deviate, the balance must be reestablished, so that through your difficulties | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| a while until you can reach the right balance. In this discussion you both have the right | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| each of you has to find the proper balance in yourselves by realizing toward which one of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| that it is difficult to find the correct balance. Today's trend does have its drawbacks. It causes | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| of restriction in its positive aspect means equilibrium, balance -- for it is this principle that balances | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| you on this earth sphere cannot see the balance and harmonization that take place constantly. In fact | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| remedy the world situation until and unless a balance of these forces is established in individual souls | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| plane, which always tries to harmonize and establish balance, also touched man. He was swept into it | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| It is only a question of the proper balance and distribution. I might add here that the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| the flowing state of being for purposes of balance until after the Plan of Salvation has found | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| On a deeper level, this commandment means a balance of one's activities. Part of one's life must | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| judgment and common sense to find the proper balance between work, spiritual unfoldment, rest and pleasure. You | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You should all be able to arrange this balance individually and not stick to rules and regulations | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to your unwillingness to love, which you would balance by making others love you. For all these | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| in this work is to achieve a proper balance. In many instances a person is more developed | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| it does not bring the desired harmony and balance. It is done because people prefer to think | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| ever doing anything. It automatically creates the right balance between activity and passivity. Those of you who | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| who derive real understanding from revealed truth will balance it out. This is why there must be | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| too strong. The whole universe is based on balance, and whenever balance is upset, the universal forces | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| whole universe is based on balance, and whenever balance is upset, the universal forces work toward reestablishing | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| must respond according to the law that reestablishes balance. To better understand this process we have to | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| it cannot or should not upset the natural balance. But this is not so. You will now | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| with knowledge of the laws of communication and balance, you will gain even deeper insights. They will | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| from the distorted one. Thus a proper inner balance will begin to take place. You will cease | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| constructive. One imbalance always causes another. Thus, establishing balance comes from facing truth and changing whenever possible | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| facing truth and changing whenever possible. This new balance comes automatically and is unattainable by deliberately initiated | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| one. But even that is geared to establishing balance eventually. QUESTION: Sometimes when one has an unresolved | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| not, your entire system is put out of balance. Your faculties are limited to a degree you | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| human psyche is distorted and put out of balance. Looking now at the spiritual side of your | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| to just the right degree, to the proper balance. Needless to say, this cannot be learned by | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| level. You put the entire relationship out of balance. Since the other people receive what they really | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| also be introspective. Any healthy person creates a balance between these two directions of being. A preponderance | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| areas, the movement of the emotions is off balance -- in part blindly wild, manifesting, for example | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| or yourself, you have not attained a harmonious balance between the three elements of life. Harming oneself | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| in experiencing pleasure, your inner being is off balance. In a balanced, integrated, full personality, one activity | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| one is out of kilter, one's entire inner balance must be upset. To the degree a man | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| destruction have made this fact familiar to you. Balance is upset; conflict and confusion perpetuate the chain | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| concepts begin to mend; psychic upsets begin to balance; confusion, disorder, conflict, make way for order and | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| real self. This organically results in the proper balance between self-and other-centeredness. Others deserve the same consideration | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| have reached the fine point of a proper balance of control, and gain forever greater powers over | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| am speaking of inner soul movements. In proper balance there is calmness; without strain, you let the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| is important to understand and express the proper balance between the self and the universal powers that | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| to either trust the self or God. The balance between the self-directing mind and the creative universal | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the other. In order to comprehend the proper balance, it is necessary to understand the function of | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| self and the creative forces establishes a perfect balance between the activity of the self -- fulfilling | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| in total commitment. When you find the right balance, there will be no fulfillment missing in your | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| to do the work for you. The proper balance is perfect activity in a relaxed, unstrained, stimulating | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| a tight knot. When the individual re-establishes the balance, fences dissolve, and the expansion of the self | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| with others. This is the fine point of balance where it is not mutually exclusive to stand | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| to relinquish it, to flexibly adjust. The fine balance between steering one's ship through the river of | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| self. The only way you can discover this balance is by feeling into yourself and listening to | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| innermost self is finding the proper rhythm and balance between impressing and expressing, finding which kind of | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| perfect source, help is necessary. Since a healthy balance between expressing and impressing does not mean one | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| mean one versus the other, so a healthy balance between accepting help and accepting self-responsibility does not | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| another. In this way nature tries to reestablish balance. The overdevelopment may be nature's attempt to straighten | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| It is only through love that this precarious balance of opposite extremes is achieved. This fine balance | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| balance of opposite extremes is achieved. This fine balance comes automatically through the heart's ability to love | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| place on the outer levels. But where a balance is established, life continues, and death is an | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| not shirking this truth. Be in God! 137. BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL Greetings, my dearest | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| each specific problem. The reestablishment of the correct balance of control can best be demonstrated with the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| being needs and wants love. When a proper balance of control exists in this respect, you give | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| and will, these faculties cannot find the delicate balance of allowing your self-expression and also receiving the | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| the outer brain is unable to effect the balance. Nor can the ego-mind find the balance between | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| the balance. Nor can the ego-mind find the balance between self- assertion and giving in, between giving | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| personality cripples itself and puts itself out of balance. Bring together the manifestation of the live center | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| of both positive and negative desires, and the balance between the two. You may gain an inkling | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| to reject them. If they were perfectly in balance and free from such an inner division, they | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| occurs in other areas. Nature tries to reestablish balance when the natural order is disturbed. This balance | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| balance when the natural order is disturbed. This balance must be reestablished for the personality to be | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| your inner self. You must learn the fine balance between when and how to use the outer | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| too tightly until it learns to reestablish the balance. In the more recent course of its evolution | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| valid, constructive, meaningful experience comes from a perfect balance between the volitional ego and the non- volitional | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| must neither be shoved aside nor overburdened. The balance cannot be established until people realize that they | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| power. There is a strange and apparently paradoxical balance: the more egocentric the little child within a | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| 146. THE POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-THE BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY Greetings, my dearest friends | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| freedom and fearlessness to love, and a healthy balance between activity and passivity. All these form a | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| and it is impossible to establish a healthy balance between activity and passivity. Let us look at | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| third member of this triad is the healthy balance between activity and passivity. Many of my friends | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| unstrained motion of peace. The principle of active-passive balance must reign in every creative process. A creative | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| function. Even the crasser manifestations, such as the balance between work and leisure, are regulated by this | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| acknowledgement in order to bring the personality into balance and truth. It means more than denial and | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| the other. This imbalance must give way to balance on both sides. Where division of direction existed | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| in a direction that is opposed to inner balance -- to the realization of their best potentials | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| ego control must be relinquished. This is how balance can be reestablished in the personality. The cultivation | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| experience deep within yourself, once you reestablish the balance between the involuntary processes and the ego functions | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and thereby help to reestablish the beautiful cosmic balance. This will also affect the availability of the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you contain forces that can establish a new balance; but this can be done only when you | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| be stepped on and abused. The often fine balance in these forces of communication cannot be taught | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| growth. The child is incapable of achieving this balance. It is rigidly one-sided in its insistence to | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| occur to bring about a change in the balance structure of soul forces so that benign circles | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| water and the body. There is a wonderful balance between the active and passive forces of the | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| person swimming, which determines the harmonious relationship, or balance, between the human body and the body of | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| human being can truly be healthy and in balance within themselves and the forces around them unless | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| The process is always an automatic reestablishment of balance. The best thing you could do in such | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| obstruction will vanish. The process requires a fine balance between the masculine and feminine principles. The firmness | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| mind is constantly groping to find the right balance of these all-important attitudes. Finding this balance is | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| right balance of these all-important attitudes. Finding this balance is one of the great difficulties each person | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| allow them to take their course. Find the balance. It is a constantly changing rhythm or cycle | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| and relaxation in your approach to yourself. Such balance can change your attitude toward yourself and teach | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| If self-realization is to be attained, a new balance must be found in which the ego assumes | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| make you capable of acknowledging this without losing balance within yourself, without losing sight of the fact | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| It requires a continuous groping for the right balance of letting the destructive, ignorant, irrational child in | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| Law of Compensation Wherever a misconception exists, your balance structure has been disturbed, and an opposite misconception | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| healthy version of these opposites is a harmonious balance of proper self-responsibility and a freedom from assuming | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| self- assertion and flexible giving in constitute a balance, which is disturbed by immature self- centeredness. The | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| which is disturbed by immature self- centeredness. The balance will be effortlessly achieved when the see-saw law | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| not always easy to find the constantly fluctuating balance between inner action and the conscious ego-mind. You | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| therefore possesses special centers that convert, assimilate and balance the power that streams into it. The centers | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| invisible belief creates the predicament of having to balance your advantage with that of others, you will | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the chair but held up by its own balance. Close your eyes and feel every part of | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| these two sides of the growth process. The balance of conscious effort and relaxation applies to the | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| right distribution of effort and effortlessness, the right balance of voluntary and involuntary faculties. When the involuntary | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| psychological, and therefore spiritual rifts, hold the inner balance and harmony out of which grow intuitive guidance | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| deal with the mutually arising problems, to find balance between self-assertion and giving in, to give and | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| and detachment; between activity and passivity. When this balance becomes a steady state, the destructive infant grows | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| Without such structural change in the entity, no balance can be attained. Every crisis ultimately means such | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| on others, without violating your own laws of balance. You will not have to pay the needless | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| lack inspiration. Both of these lopsided attitudes gradually balance themselves out when individuals grow on the path | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| and most effective beginning. In addition to right balance and timing, inner and outer guidance will be | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the forces of the will are out of balance. Where the will should be active, it is | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| and passive, it is tight, forced, and active. Balance is re-established as purification of the self proceeds | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| swing to the opposite extreme, until the right balance of truth is found. I make a clear | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| can let go and give in. The proper balance will come from your core in specific ways | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| the grace and poise of your movements, the balance and coordination you express, in the tone of | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| process of actualizing divine life is the proper balance of everything: the balance of assertion and giving | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| life is the proper balance of everything: the balance of assertion and giving in, for instance. The | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| appropriate comes from within. Or consider the proper balance of right selflessness and right selfishness, as opposed | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| left behind so that a new and better balance can come about. Thus the past century, whose | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| spiritually matured and are ready to find the balance, the love, and the truth of creative self-responsibility | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| every healthy life there must exist a harmonious balance between sharing intimately with others in a dynamic | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| lacking, the other must also be lacking, until balance is reestablished. If you are frightened by intimate | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| given out again. That would be the right balance. December 24, 1973 II. GUIDE SESSION AT THE | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| in a constructive way, finding the often precarious balance between patience and humility for the grace of | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| counter-reaction had to set in to reestablish the balance. However, any counter-reaction will first go beyond the | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| self-responsible and consequently more self-assertive. You find a balance: The more you stop cheating in ways which | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| passively receptive. It is simply a shift of balance: where you have been overactive with your mind | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| self. The new person has established a new balance in the inner system. The intellect must not | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| truth and in love. Be your God. 228. BALANCE Greetings, my very dearest friends. Blessings for every | 228 BALANCE |
| to make it so. This lecture is about balance. Balance is what keeps the universe intact. If | 228 BALANCE |
| make it so. This lecture is about balance. Balance is what keeps the universe intact. If there | 228 BALANCE |
| keeps the universe intact. If there were no balance, no balancing consciousness, no balancing law, everything would | 228 BALANCE |
| you do not know them, are laws of balance. They come from balance and lead to balance | 228 BALANCE |
| them, are laws of balance. They come from balance and lead to balance. Balance is not a | 228 BALANCE |
| balance. They come from balance and lead to balance. Balance is not a cold, mechanical, coincidental factor | 228 BALANCE |
| They come from balance and lead to balance. Balance is not a cold, mechanical, coincidental factor, but | 228 BALANCE |
| and purpose. Every aspect of the law of balance is meaningful and has its own consciousness. It | 228 BALANCE |
| It is possible to find the law of balance in the physical laws, but only to a | 228 BALANCE |
| is held together by a supreme law of balance of which you human beings as yet know | 228 BALANCE |
| -- are governed by the great law of balance. Some of these laws are obvious to your | 228 BALANCE |
| key to the universe, the key to creation. Balance exists on all levels. On the physical level | 228 BALANCE |
| exists on all levels. On the physical level, balance is order and creates order. Imbalance is disorder | 228 BALANCE |
| a much higher organization. On the emotional level balance means harmony -- the harmony of feelings. It | 228 BALANCE |
| of a higher order. On the mental level, balance means sanity and must lead to more balance | 228 BALANCE |
| balance means sanity and must lead to more balance and more sanity. Imbalance, on the mental level | 228 BALANCE |
| Everything leads inexorably to integration, order, harmony, light, balance, love, intelligence and health. The law of balance | 228 BALANCE |
| balance, love, intelligence and health. The law of balance is therefore always integrating. Balance means the right | 228 BALANCE |
| The law of balance is therefore always integrating. Balance means the right measure. Consider any manifestation in | 228 BALANCE |
| rain may be as cold as required to balance out the stifling heat of the climate. The | 228 BALANCE |
| mild arctic sunshine may provide the warmth and balance just sufficient to sustain life. In imbalance, pleasurable | 228 BALANCE |
| the physical level. Take light and darkness. The balance between them creates a beautiful harmony and provides | 228 BALANCE |
| of the inner level where you need a balance between activity and rest. When either goes out | 228 BALANCE |
| activity and rest. When either goes out of balance and becomes overemphasized or underemphasized, chaos and temporary | 228 BALANCE |
| within itself the intuitive ability to discover the balance that holds everything together. As the creative light | 228 BALANCE |
| imbalance is simply a step toward a greater balance. It is very important for you to understand | 228 BALANCE |
| the areas in you that are out of balance. The purification process of this path is, of | 228 BALANCE |
| is, of course, an expedient way of reestablishing balance. You find the measure intuitively. Look for an | 228 BALANCE |
| Look for an intuitive measure of how to balance certain expressions: how and when to be outgoing | 228 BALANCE |
| stilted. When you try to establish the longed-for balance with the surface personality, the result will be | 228 BALANCE |
| divine center. A truly satisfying and fulfilling inner balance comes only through the arduous path of self- | 228 BALANCE |
| to love, to be in truth and in balance. Nevertheless you cannot will them directly. They manifest | 228 BALANCE |
| and sincerity in being in truth with yourself. Balance can never be forced from outside. Neither can | 228 BALANCE |
| can love or wisdom or enlightenment or peace. Balance is a divine and spontaneous manifestation. Balance is | 228 BALANCE |
| peace. Balance is a divine and spontaneous manifestation. Balance is sanity. Within every particle of your being | 228 BALANCE |
| well as the energy body -- you need balance to be healthy. Illness of any kind is | 228 BALANCE |
| through a positive will. True, deep, meaningful personal balance cannot be measured with figures and equations of | 228 BALANCE |
| not a fifty-fifty proposition. Take for example the balance between rest and wakefulness. The proper personal balance | 228 BALANCE |
| balance between rest and wakefulness. The proper personal balance may vary from individual to individual, but nobody | 228 BALANCE |
| and wakefulness. From an outer point of view balance is lacking when you sleep eight hours and | 228 BALANCE |
| active sixteen hours. Yet in terms of inner balance this may be exactly the right measurement for | 228 BALANCE |
| not necessarily express the inner measure of right balance. This principle becomes more apparent when we try | 228 BALANCE |
| you must look for it within. The inner balance comes from a different mathematics, a measurement that | 228 BALANCE |
| unevenness of the inner reality lies the real balance. There you will discover a completely different way | 228 BALANCE |
| and what is uneven. In other words, the balance of the inner reality is not stilted or | 228 BALANCE |
| inner dimension needs to delegate all rhythm, all balance, all measurements to the outer mind. This often | 228 BALANCE |
| meaningless, stilted and self-defeating. It breaks the real balance. The measurements of the outer mind are contrary | 228 BALANCE |
| and to go into an inner order and balance. Make room for it, have faith in it | 228 BALANCE |
| therefore destroy the old order -- the old balance system and its obsolete measurements -- as it | 228 BALANCE |
| in this light will you find a truer balance that is much more profound and meaningful than | 228 BALANCE |
| example -- the active and receptive principles. The balance is not a third factor, but the conciliation | 228 BALANCE |
| them. If you combine the two in proper balance, then you have action and effort that are | 228 BALANCE |
| force, it is the proportion that keeps the balance. QUESTION: I have a personal question that is | 228 BALANCE |
| your higher self and request guidance for the balance. As I said in the lecture, this cannot | 228 BALANCE |
| to ignorance of the reality and importance of balance. Perhaps we can combine these two levels: The | 228 BALANCE |
| awareness, in your thought processes, the concept of balance, of manifesting both sides of what now appear | 228 BALANCE |
| only half, it is impossible to right the balance. Although in the course of evolution the pendulum | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| they are, at times, also parallel. This perfect balance cannot occur through an intellectual decision. It can | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| still experience a difficulty in finding the fine balance between freedom and self- discipline. This applies equally | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| devastated and totally rejected, by holding your inner balance and knowing of your fundamental divine nature, so | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| new light on everything you experience. A true balance will be established in that way. It is | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| can go wrong when that attitude exists. Perfect balance will be attained in all the many dichotomies | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| it will come. You will find the right balance between giving, reaching out and moving, between spontaneity | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| when you search arduously to attain a truthful balance in facing your lower self honestly and -- | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| is absolutely necessary to ascertain that you lack balance, that you are on the wrong road to | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| can also be tender with yourself. A beautiful balance will emerge clearly: self-discipline, strict honesty with the | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| appreciation for the self. The distortion of this balance is self-indulgence at the expense of others and | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| when you seek and gradually attain the right balance can you be receptive to your own divinity | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| his or her domination. Neither can find the balance between discipline and relaxation and the intuitive knowing | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| manifestation, complementing one another, it cannot maintain the balance required for harmonious and full living. Such a | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| with more silence and receptivity, to establish more balance. But do not forget that an inherent wisdom | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| this will the pendulum swing into a new balance. The overemphasis on activity now is the balance | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| balance. The overemphasis on activity now is the balance that you need in order to establish harmony | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| proper perspective. This will bring a wonderful new balance and harmony into your life and lead you | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| God means fulfilling your destiny. It brings about balance and harmony in your entire organism. Your mental | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| therefore always be coupled with change. The healthy balance of the soul of the earth can be | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| nucleus of this path has kept a steady balance. We pray to the Lord for His grace | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| You, and those like you, will shift the balance. Humanity will begin to grow into its innate | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| hidden motives, the most secret intention, the exact balance of ambivalent feelings and the real reasons for | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| become clear to many human beings that the balance of nature is being disturbed through humanity's thoughtlessness | 254 SURRENDER |
| other. These conditions contribute to maintaining an overall balance in nature. Yet one animal killing another for | 254 SURRENDER |
| will eventually enable you to find this fine balance. For a dependent ego that denies self-responsibility it | 254 SURRENDER |
| and demonstrate it? There is a finely calibrated balance between the active movement of the personality -- | 254 SURRENDER |
| say. In your era, there is a new balance between developed and undeveloped souls. As there are | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| At other times it is reversed. A certain balance should be maintained, though it can never be | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |