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| order, has a definite task. Many spirits' tasks relate to human beings. It is advisable for people | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| resentment we feel. But how are we to relate the kind of thinking we should have to | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| in your life and your reactions to them relate to your inner vicious circle. You can thus | 36 PRAYER |
| including the discussions that follow, especially as they relate to the purification of the participants, should be | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| within yourself, and in all probability it will relate to your own fear, unwillingness, and your ignorance | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| in understanding the medium so that he can relate the relative truths of the material world to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be made. You will then be able to relate more and more the relative truths of the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| through disease and aging, and how we may relate the work on the path to preserve and | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| longer feel yourself isolated. You will begin to relate to others in truth and reality, not in | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| energy, strength, and self-respect, influences your ability to relate and to react. This is obvious, if you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| You cannot express yourself. You cannot communicate and relate either to others or to yourself. You are | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| and be free from compulsion and anxiety. They relate to themselves, are in touch with the core | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the core of their beings, and thus can relate to others. All this happens without overestimating themselves | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| once you truly see how you do not relate to yourself and to others, how you are | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| enters more into your consciousness. The need to relate to and to understand others, rather than being | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| real self, the less you can express yourself, relate and communicate with others. This we know already | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| you will find the following: The more you relate to your real self and identify with it | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| reality causes distortions which influence the way you relate later to others and to yourself. You can | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| your creativity, your spiritual life, your ability to relate to others, your inner freedom, your concern with | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| feel and understand others -- and cannot, therefore, relate to them. Nothing produces more waste than sloth | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| way of faith in God. How would you relate that to our teachings? ANSWER: As you all | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| in different degrees for different people. They will relate to many people in different ways. But in | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| predominantly withdrawn, who are eager to give and relate, and yet constantly find themselves hindered because the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| infinite superiority, wisdom, intelligence, he feels he must relate to this supreme Being. But simultaneously, man's spiritual | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| else, life is relationship! If you do not relate at all, you do not live. Life, or | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| relative -- relative to your attitude. You may relate positively or negatively. But the moment you relate | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| relate positively or negatively. But the moment you relate, you live. That is why the person who | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| your thoughts and attitudes. To the degree you relate, you will no longer experience frustration but have | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| consciousness you may believe that it does not relate. That is untrue. Since it lives, it relates | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| human beings. The scale of the capacity to relate is much wider among human beings than you | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| in outer and inner isolation. They can hardly relate to other human beings. But since they are | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| they are still alive, they must continue to relate somehow. They relate to other aspects of life | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| alive, they must continue to relate somehow. They relate to other aspects of life: to things, to | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| form of human beings. These are people who relate beautifully; who are deeply involved with others; who | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| emotions too. But, on the whole, they love, relate, and do not fear involvement. They have freed | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| manifold. A person may be relatively free and relate well in certain areas of life and be | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| good or that you are truly willing to relate. You cannot be lonely and unhappy if your | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| relationships are genuine. The way in which you relate may fulfill a superficial function. It may be | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| from yourself, how can you be willing to relate to others what you do not dare to | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| are proof of your openness and willingness to relate. In reality this merely covers up your withdrawal | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| often diagnose people according to their ability to relate, and the depth and meaningfulness of their relationships | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| clear concept of what it is to really relate or love. Your concern is still mainly centered | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| and grasping; due to being unable to genuinely relate to any one person, and therefore supplementing this | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| QUESTION: Between two human beings who want to relate, but both, for various reasons manipulate, or one | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| as easy as all that. Your ability to relate is actually simple to measure: your outer life | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| judge. QUESTION: Isn't it sometimes much easier to relate to somebody one is not too close to | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| right at your disposal. You will communicate and relate, and assert your rights without the gnawing feeling | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| made, the greater the capacity to love, to relate. It should be easy to see the interaction | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| with whom one is able to communicate and relate. This, in turn, cannot happen unless you overcome | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to receive and to give; the ability to relate harmoniously and to create a life which is | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| fulfillment hindered and impaired, and the ability to relate hampered by it, but a paralysis of the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the unconscious psychic life; it becomes impossible to relate to others without the influence of these early | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| path, it has become increasingly obvious that you relate to your parents in your other relationships, particularly | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| and reach out further. Then you will truly relate. The new person will no longer be a | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| vocational abilities but also through their ability to relate to other human beings and have fruitful contacts | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| strength which, in turn, makes it possible to relate in the most satisfying way. Thus you will | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| can indeed trust life, and therefore you can relate well to others and fulfill yourself. What is | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| you want and do not want, alternately, to relate and love on the one hand, and to | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| where it exists. Only the total self can relate to and unite with total good. You can | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| person, also in your physical body. QUESTION: You relate death to a lack of love. How can | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| or himself. Only then is it possible to relate genuinely to others. In distortion, these two aspects | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| the deeper perception more quickly accessible. When you relate in a natural, spontaneous, organic way to the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| others and gives you a greater capacity to relate to others. For your relatedness with others can | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| who have obtained a certain superficial ability to relate but who still withdraw from a more meaningful | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| a truly mutual growth process. When two equals relate, both carry the full responsibility for the relationship | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| increasing bliss depends entirely on how the two relate to one another. Are they aware of the | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| joyous relating. When you are inwardly ready to relate to another human being in such a fashion | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| others, and therefore your infinitely greater power to relate to others, comprehend and be with them without | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| feelings, and the ability to live with and relate to others. You find the treasure of your | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| avoid taking responsibility for them. You refuse to relate outer events to your own inner state. You | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| that your own being is also nonmaterial. You relate to, are affected by and create nonmaterial nuclear | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| ways. In this lecture however, I want to relate to the process of connection to birth and | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| you that removes all dissension. You experience and relate in a new way. But this comes only | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that you question yourself deeply about how you relate to your own process and what that means | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| questions. QUESTION: I find it very difficult to relate to people my own age. I can relate | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| relate to people my own age. I can relate to older or younger people, but never to | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| your own self and are not able to relate to the other sex and fulfill yourself. To | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| member of the team. He can afford to relate from the heart, on the feeling level, to | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| feeling level, to his partner. He can likewise relate intellectually on a level of equality with her | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| previously trapped energies, and people can begin to relate to the opposite sex in an entirely new | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| and someone's genuine concern and honest desire to relate to the real you. As long as you | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| those around you with whom you long to relate. It is an art that can and needs | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |