| Purposeful..................18 | |
| be. For there is nothing more worthwhile and purposeful that you could possibly do, as long as | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| an outlet without aim or meaning, and the purposeful activity of reexperiencing all the feelings that once | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| moments of actual danger, it is good and purposeful. When the actual, realistic danger is over, you | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| a tremendous power, continuously creating life in a purposeful way. Look around and open your eyes. In | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| where it is most necessary to persevere. For purposeful activity the exact reverse is needed: Where the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| to this: You do not do the only purposeful thing, to activate the divine nucleus within yourself | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the situation, then you will do what is purposeful and constructive, what is necessary. Everything else will | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| is unthinkable. This applies to every healthy and purposeful activity in your life on the plane of | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| because the ego is not equipped to undertake purposeful action without being motivated, carried, and guided by | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| will clear the air. Real fear is a purposeful warning that serves to make the individual cope | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| activate the creative force in a deliberate and purposeful way when his unconscious is still steeped in | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| of creation. The pathwork itself is such a purposeful creative act of using the two principles in | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| available reaction that wards off pleasure. Cultivate a purposeful willingness to see whatever still eludes you. And | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| new creation is, for example, very strong, unified, purposeful in terms of the creative plan of evolution | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| be, a creation within itself, quite different and purposeful within its more narrow framework. Yet, at the | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| it is part of a larger scheme of purposeful patterns of creation. Let me give you a | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| nuclear construct, containing meaning and consciousness, containing a purposeful design. Each fragmentary second is that. If you | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| particular organism follows through in a deeply meaningful, purposeful way, always compatible with its particular lawfulness. These | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Purposefully................7 | |
| do not imagine that such insight is always purposefully given from the spirit world. This may occasionally | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a direct result. If you do not act purposefully, in the best interest of the universal laws | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| seems better than deadness. Although it is initiated purposefully, playfully, deliberately, this is soon forgotten, pushed away | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| direction, and your life will truly be lived purposefully. It will not be lived in vain. It | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| in your own ability to move smoothly and purposefully. The more rhythmic, relaxed and harmonious your movements | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| Coming into your own means deliberately, consciously, and purposefully using the creative power which you are in | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| sets in motion, moves toward, causes, determines, or purposefully uses these forces by calling them into action | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| Purposefulness..............3 | |
| personality, which is at one with truth, love, purposefulness, creation -- with all the universal forces which | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| plan. Trying to imagine the unimaginable meaning and purposefulness behind these plannings may give you an inkling | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| great joyous truth and aliveness and meaningfulness and purposefulness lives in everything that is, that ever was | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Purposes....................26 | |
| contact. Anything else would be secondary. If other purposes seem to you also worthy reasons, never insist | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| God. If God finds it useful that other purposes should also be fulfilled, then it will happen | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| only learn languages for very definite and good purposes. In other words, if we have a task | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| laws, and accomplish just as much for their purposes as, let us say, a spirit of murder | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the main and most important one. The two purposes mentioned here can be considered as accompaniments to | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| many factors play a role and many good purposes are fulfilled with one divine deed. This again | 22 SALVATION |
| to higher spiritual spheres. One of the particular purposes of this world of matter is that on | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unless special measures are being taken for special purposes -- alters and assimilates the appearances of the | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| important. You cannot say it serves only good purposes, for, as just said, it can be used | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| just said, it can be used for evil purposes as well. However, it is certain that self-development | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| used for good or for evil, selfish, destructive purposes. In the latter case, material progress will ultimately | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| and one abroad. This endeavor will serve many purposes, not only when the training is terminated, but | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| although then the courage is used for wrong purposes. Courage cannot exist without activity; courage appears in | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| use it. You can use electricity for constructive purposes, even for healing; or you can use it | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| people who certainly desire money for very unsavory purposes and yet they are successful. They use their | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| that are now used for unnecessary and destructive purposes. Moreover, they would discover many resources and possibilities | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It will release heretofore wasted forces for constructive purposes and it will bring forth in you a | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| retract their fluids at will and, for certain purposes, become entities, spirit beings, when they so choose | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| remain in the flowing state of being for purposes of balance until after the Plan of Salvation | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a person's twofold being. You are at cross- purposes with yourself. This is the great struggle to | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cannot activate the limitless power you have for purposes outside of yourself if you have not mastered | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| ego state, they do so for very specific purposes. You manifest and express yourself in this limited | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| be used by consciousness for life-affirming and positive purposes. Free consciousness can thus communicate with the life-substance | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| fit to be influenced and used for higher purposes to enrich the world and the self. At | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| selfishly, distort them according to their own, self-serving purposes -- individually or in political life -- and | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| way, and to understand the other. For both purposes, you need to empty your mind of all | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Pursue......................61 | |
| because they love the arts or because they pursue intellectual interests. This, however, does not make them | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| and self-love can only come forth if you pursue and accomplish the spiritual development you have planned | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| Many people are sincere in their endeavors to pursue spiritual development, yet their faith is not whole | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| of the inner will. Even if both will-currents pursue the same goal, even if the outer and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| weakness in the other. Many who do not pursue a path such as yours continue to nurse | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| ANSWER: It becomes an automatic process when you pursue this work of self-search while also envisaging the | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| submissive type, only they choose different means to pursue their conviction that they must get what they | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| toward you, even though they themselves did not pursue such a path. The mere fact of your | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all that this calls for in order to pursue it, willing to pay the price by overcoming | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| obstacles which make it appear that what we pursue is undesirable or unattainable. But if we know | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| withdrawal. Strange as this may sound, sometimes you pursue both alternatives simultaneously; at least you try to | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| sabotage your heart's desire. But when you simultaneously pursue several mutually exclusive alternatives, you bring such disharmony | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| which cause you the slightest disharmony. When you pursue this self-questioning to the point of asking, Why | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and disappointments, they try even more strenuously to pursue what they regard as the solution. The less | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the temptation to give up is always strongest. Pursue, persist, and persevere! This is my advice, my | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| aware of the real aims you wish to pursue with your desire for spiritual perfection, then, and | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is stunned and confused even more. If you pursue a goal, believing that its attainment will solve | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more into hiding and that causes you to pursue gratification compulsively. Under the accompanying self-castigation, the urgency | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and of their legitimacy makes it possible to pursue their gratification. In order to do so, frustration | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| relinquish illusion, so as to be free to pursue the real fulfillment of your needs. I realize | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| category of approval -- you are bound to pursue the very behavior pattern that will push love | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| confidence, and made it impossible for you to pursue and fulfill a real need for the doubtful | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| school of thought that says you must not pursue results in order to have peace. You must | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| seems to disappear. Why can one then not pursue any creative work? ANSWER: Creativity comes from the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| prove tremendously helpful. Think and feel these words. Pursue these thoughts on your own so that you | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| gradually, and only after you have started to pursue this path of self-knowledge. Psychiatrists often diagnose people | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| very reason just mentioned. Even those who already pursue this path are not always able to really | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| love and blessings. You have nothing to fear. Pursue this work and you will become forever stronger | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| topic from a very specific perspective. When you pursue this path, you discover certain areas in yourself | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| degrees. People such as you, my friends, who pursue a path of increasing self-awareness, raise their level | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| a great deal of material. If you truly pursue your inner development, not just in outer gestures | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| who was stronger and therefore better equipped to pursue selfish drives at the expense of others. This | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| of resolving dualities. There are many who ardently pursue a path of self-exploration yet shy away from | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| reveal itself if you ignore its existence or pursue blind, rigid practices. People have too ingrained a | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| very subtle, and still vastly undetected way, you pursue even such a liberating activity as the pathwork | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| last line of action that anyone wishes to pursue. People use or even unconsciously abuse every truth | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| -- and it will feel frightening when you pursue negative, destructive aims -- free self-expression is dangerous | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| in any form, and you will want to pursue your inner truth. You will begin to feel | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| sufficient relief and replenishment -- is compelled to pursue self-destructive aims. Every act of self-destructiveness is a | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| have your key. In other words, wherever you pursue and hold onto destructiveness, it becomes absolutely impossible | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| my friends. Even among those of you who pursue this path and have made great progress in | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| result of the decentralization of your being, you pursue a path in which unhappiness is equated with | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| individuals, with the exception of the few who pursue such a path as yours, are not aware | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| you, my friends, that those of you who pursue this very taxing but very real pathwork, will | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| time and concentration in a relaxed manner to pursue this aspect of the pathwork. Doubt can only | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| point, the position seems right. Thus when you pursue your negative intentionality, you are also responsible for | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| but is too blind to understand and to pursue. The pursuing of full union with another soul | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| desire because you miss it. Yet as you pursue that self- expression, you experience an inexplicable resistance | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| cosmic knowledge about creative processes will, when you pursue it and follow me all the way, become | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| It is only temporarily made absent. If you pursue the state of boredom deeper into the recesses | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| face a lower-self aspect. You have forgotten to pursue this approach, so you often dwell longer than | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| healthy selfishness that you have every right to pursue and that does not exclude loving and being | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| a less developed state of consciousness, but to pursue them now makes no sense. You all know | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| this stage. Only when you begin to clearly pursue the chain of cause and effect between your | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| the superstition of your negative beliefs. You can pursue this thought and discover yourself hoping, in a | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| another way that may possibly turn out better. Pursue the truth of your potential and state, I | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| the self-esteem that can never develop when you pursue a road of blind selfwill and accusing fury | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| illusion that there are no effects. If you pursue this line of inner, unconscious reasoning to its | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| people are beginning to see that if they pursue nothing but their self-interest to the detriment of | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| through your universe. Be blessed, my beloved ones. Pursue your commitment to the end, never let up | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| will have less of a tight urge to pursue, often with undue aggression, untruthful and therefore negative | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |