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| observing yourself with all your faults, conquering all resistance. The spiritual laws can, and should, be made | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| course, at first he will put up a resistance, because confusion feeds the lower self that prefers | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| lower self that prefers the road of least resistance and vanity, practices self-deception and thrives on discord | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| yourself, and acquire the discipline to overcome the resistance which is so difficult at the beginning. You | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| by your increasing self-awareness. Striving to overcome your resistance is the only way to sharpen your spiritual | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| and lures you toward the road of least resistance. When people live their whole lives avoiding decisions | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| pain, until eventually not even the struggle against resistance will be necessary. All of you can get | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| at the end of the road of least resistance. QUESTION: What is spiritual death? ANSWER: Spiritual death | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| they prefer to walk the road of least resistance and to give in to their weaknesses. Thus | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| to make the inner contradictions conscious, even if resistance has to be overcome. You often call an | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| will need all your willpower to conquer the resistance. The longing for God and for one's true | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| be in readiness; you must consciously conquer your resistance. Do not push it into unconsciousness. Then you | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| this, and liberate yourself from your feelings of resistance, which will certainly emerge, at least in the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the beginning. Do not believe the voice of resistance; it offers nice explanations to the intellect, which | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| beginning a seemingly great sacrifice: the overcoming of resistance to see oneself in truth, to open oneself | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| conscience. These feelings in turn will create a resistance against the recognitions. In this phase the battle | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| this phase the battle is to overcome the resistance and to nevertheless accept the self as it | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| this phase the person has to attack the resistance from several sides. He needs to pray for | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| to get to the truth. The greater your resistance, the likelier it is, my dear ones, that | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| first step, that of overcoming his or her resistance to change. The reward is great, because the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| attune to the vibration, wherever you sense a resistance, you can be sure of unrecognized violations of | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| real, complete and wholehearted. When you overcome a resistance you open yourself to God's will and truth | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| do not care for, toward whom you feel resistance, or with whom you just happen to be | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| this may at first be difficult and cause resistance, because your feelings are not always willing to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| be a tight inner knot. Take such a resistance as a signal that tells you how important | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| wrong within you. Contemplate what causes your inner resistance, and you can be sure that when you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| is a feeling of heaviness, of anger, of resistance, of fear, of any disharmony, you have a | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| oneself wide and be willing to overcome the resistance is a struggle. So people will be afraid | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| want to hear. If you overcome the natural resistance to hearing an unflattering or uncomfortable truth, your | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| path. If this test is passed and the resistance is overcome, the answer can be given from | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you should check whether there is a strong resistance in you to take this last and final | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| why you have such difficulties with the lower-self resistance, you have attained a great deal more than | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| is better to find out about this inner resistance and treat it methodically than to overcome a | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| honestly as to whether there still remains any resistance against accepting these truths. Again and again we | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| these truths. Again and again we observe the resistance. It may be, as I said before, that | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| that may be at the bottom of the resistance to accepting the greater reality. Both motivations can | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| these truths as well, so that all inner resistance will be overcome. This can be done only | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| your inclination to take the line of least resistance. You think that merely because your faults are | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| each individual, would follow the line of least resistance and give in to the lower self, and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| need to fight within yourself to overcome your resistance. There will always be the voice that says | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| squarely in the face. If you overcome the resistance to do so, which is only difficult at | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| your soul once you have overcome the initial resistance. So you must realize that first you have | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| have taken this step in spite of all resistance, you must see divine law working within you | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| quite so far; nevertheless, that slight feeling of resistance against Christ in a number of people represents | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| for you, if you do not feel resentment, resistance, or any kind of heaviness within, then it | 21 THE FALL |
| decide either to take the line of least resistance, which is always man's lower nature, or to | 22 SALVATION |
| laziness, the comfort, and the way of least resistance to give in to one's faults. Whether the | 22 SALVATION |
| who offended you. This may cause you inner resistance at first, but if you try again, you | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on the path of purification. Go with this resistance to the Father and ask Him to help | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the cause in you. If you overcome the resistance against finding out, if you keep awake through | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sincerely, with your whole heart, and disregard the resistance of your lower self that always lurks nearby | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| is one blind spot in them, a stubborn resistance to facing their outer and inner dilemmas. Oh | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| as you struggle with yourself and overcome your resistance by recognizing it and praying for help, then | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| truly desirous to find an answer, disregarding all resistance, must receive it, no matter what, without exception | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| self-will, your egotism, or a particular resentment or resistance to a person. To fulfill a task demands | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| disbelief, and this attitude is responsible for your resistance to delving into your own soul. You believe | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| doubt in you. But as long as your resistance against this way of working persists, no matter | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| will then want to interpret to fit the resistance of your lower self. The only way you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| decided for the right course and that the resistance and fight are over and done with. If | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| immediate comforts is choosing the line of least resistance. The disadvantage here is that your conflicts, hungers | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| the temptation of taking the line of least resistance, which shows lack of ambition. On the other | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| about the childhood incident but realizes intellectually that resistance to bathing is unreasonable. He will force himself | 38 IMAGES |
| not let yourself be dissuaded by your inner resistance. For that resistance is just as erroneous and | 38 IMAGES |
| be dissuaded by your inner resistance. For that resistance is just as erroneous and shortsighted as the | 38 IMAGES |
| for you, counteracting your conscious wishes. Indeed, your resistance causes you to lose what could be rightfully | 38 IMAGES |
| So have enough wisdom to see through your resistance and to evaluate it for what it is | 38 IMAGES |
| cowardice to face yourself and to overcome your resistance to developing yourself, there is nothing selfish in | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| bring it about myself? Anyone who has this resistance should pose that question. If you can answer | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| upheavals for a while and encounter reluctance and resistance. But these are the very causes you have | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| well-founded arguments. But once you have overcome the resistance for the sake of truth, in the spirit | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| personality is so reluctant and so full of resistance that he or she cannot see it. Then | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| but not half as bad as your unconscious resistance would have you believe. Do not heed it | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| must grow and mature, you can overcome your resistance to finding out the reality. You must know | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| to give you the incentive to overcome your resistance to taking the steps to reach your own | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| which is more comfortable. This accounts for much resistance. The motive for resistance, lack of self- honesty | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| This accounts for much resistance. The motive for resistance, lack of self- honesty, unconscious or half-conscious as | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| yourself fully and thoroughly. To do so without resistance or subterfuge, it is essential to have the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and rebellion. As a result, the rebellion and resistance in the law-breaker must become all the stronger | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| unaware of the fact that his or her resistance is not turned against the law as such | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| or never, encountered the true one -- your resistance against authority will automatically diminish. And after such | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| recognitions. You have passed the stage when your resistance to face yourself manifested in finding excuses and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| for it. Thus you have broken the first resistance and pushed the wall considerably into the background | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| it. But do not imagine that then all resistance is overcome for good. For as long as | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| For as long as you maintain the wall, resistance is inevitable, and only the form and manifestation | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and only the form and manifestation of the resistance will be different. While before you had all | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| wage a healthy battle with your ignorance and resistance. Only you yourself can find out when and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| The fact that you have overcome the initial resistance and won your first victory is, in most | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| whatever reasons that follow the line of least resistance, the result must be felt by the entity | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| experienced even a slight victory has overcome a resistance, found a truth or made a recognition, even | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| own efforts in facing yourself, in overcoming your resistance and sluggishness and self-pity. You should never believe | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| your intention and effort to break down your resistance to facing yourself. For only then can you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| can be solved only when you overcome your resistance to looking into yourself -- when you let | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Ask yourself such questions when you feel this resistance and this battle in you. I speak to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| if you fear them so, you lack healthy resistance. I mean resistance in the positive sense, as | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| them so, you lack healthy resistance. I mean resistance in the positive sense, as when you resist | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| as when you resist disease, and not the resistance that should disappear when you are on the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| wrong and the right concept. Observe also your resistance to change and growth. The lower self of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| discovery will mean to you. The greater the resistance to it at first, the greater the victory | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| by penetrating your own blocks, by overcoming your resistance, by knowing yourself in the deeper levels of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| say that there is a great fear and resistance regarding recognitions. There is an unjustified fear of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be interesting to find out. What is the resistance based on? Ask yourself these questions. It may | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may find the energy to overcome all possible resistance to your development and can make the best | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| rhythm and follow it without compulsion and without resistance. QUESTION: There is so much discussion, speculation and | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| a wonderful feeling it is. The greater the resistance you have to face from the material which | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the separating wall between reason and emotion. The resistance to face the fact that one holds an | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| in you, after some painful recognitions, overcoming the resistance to making them, you will find the confirmation | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and their personal inner misconceptions or images. Inner resistance blocks the way to truth. Also, one may | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only creates harmful reactions, such as compulsion, guilt, resistance or rebellion. All musts create situations which set | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| rebellion. All musts create situations which set up resistance to truth. Truth is abused by making it | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| senses it and then projects his or her resistance on the divine instead of the person. Often | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the divine instead of the person. Often the resistance is as wrong as that against which one | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| willingness has to be greater than the inner resistance. Otherwise success is impossible. To make it perfectly | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the innermost self. A certain amount of such resistance might also persist in this phase of the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| in order to camouflage his or her inner resistance. Only the inner will to face and change | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of facing that you set up a tight resistance against going deeper into your soul. It seems | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| is so often at the root of people's resistance to religion. Psychology, on the other hand, teaches | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| truth makes you free. This is why the resistance of the child in you when it comes | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| bound to bring you happiness and freedom. Your resistance to facing your unreality and to changing is | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| also express your intention to put aside all resistance toward facing yourself and changing where necessary. This | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| has to be a letting go of all resistance to facing yourself fully and honestly, without any | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| -- at the same time checking your inner resistance to receiving the answers -- you will make | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| of your self-will will produce an increasingly stronger resistance in the other person, along with an even | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| a heavy burden that it generates too much resistance to finding yourself. If you approach your inner | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| Try to find that unreasonable, irrational fear and resistance. It is right there in you. All you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| or deep to find the fear. The basic resistance to transition is expressed in innumerable little ways | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| your cowardice to face yourself, to overcome your resistance to developing yourself, there is nothing selfish in | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| element: Again, you all know that people have resistance to finding out truth about themselves. That resisting | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to pay the price by overcoming a special resistance. Such overcoming necessitates more movement or action than | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more and more to the fore, the subconscious resistance, being so afraid of discovery, may produce a | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| people have built for themselves, and in their resistance to reexamine the true motivation for their tenacity | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| psychoanalysis in any form knows it too. The resistance to change is one of the greatest hurdles | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| ways, but whatever the conscious reason for such resistance, deep down you all battle against giving up | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| This is always the underlying force of your resistance, no matter what the outer rationalizations are. To | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the outer rationalizations are. To find that the resistance exists is important enough. But then, the deep | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| As long as the real reason for the resistance to change is unconscious, it is not amenable | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| As you gradually learn this by decreasing your resistance through increased understanding, you will truly unfold layer | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| hostility, and aggression. This battle is caused by resistance to giving up the cherished self-image of the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| they find unpleasant. This would cause an inner resistance so strong that they could not hear your | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| issue. The more you want to penetrate the resistance, the more frustration and impatience you will feel | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to affect the other person and increase the resistance even more. Moreover, it will be extremely useful | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Most of you also know how great the resistance is to letting this happen. Some of you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| have to face in order to overcome the resistance. You all stand more or less at different | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of you recognize the signs of your own resistance and consciously battle against it. You recognize the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of you are still so involved in the resistance itself that you are unaware of the obstructions | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| necessary that I discuss the mechanism of this resistance. Let us first be clear about the unity | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| not grow. Strangely enough, there is much less resistance in human nature to the necessary growing pains | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| all do. That is the nature of your resistance to accepting and facing yourself. Only after you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| your own eyes. You will look upon your resistance to doing what is so necessary with a | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| helper. This in itself points to a strong resistance. It is the long, drawn-out result of consistent | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| them with a meaningful result. The state of resistance points to the fact that inward struggle and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and demand to come out in spite of resistance. Your awareness of this certainly means insight and | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| determined than ever to give up all inner resistance to face yourself to the utmost. You will | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| attempting perfect action, but by giving up the resistance to face what is usually right in front | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and even necessary. Once you free yourself of resistance and repression, it will be a great relief | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| facing it. Thus, the same process of overcoming resistance has to be gone through again. In this | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| will become aware of your escape mechanism and resistance at the moment it manifests, while previously you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of struggle are not due entirely to the resistance to growth and change and to the fear | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| By consulting his emotions very honestly, and without resistance, he will finally see that his need for | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you can receive something for nothing. The unconscious resistance to letting go is the strongest cause of | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| should also be easier to give up your resistance to relinquishing, because your own experience will teach | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| conscious at all, but it accounts for much resistance. Inwardly, you are confused and fluctuate between these | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| in constant flux. At the same time your resistance to change and growth where the hard work | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| This is where you put up the greatest resistance. You go through great pains to convince yourself | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| Once you change course and give up the resistance to seeing how you created this situation -- | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| If and when, in spite of all your resistance and rationalization, you finally allow repressed emotions to | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| even clear up by itself, simply because your resistance against it has disappeared. Accept also your still | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| more happiness. You will wish to override your resistance to facing that which you suspect is there | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| reality, you may find a certain fear and resistance to do so. Focus on it, and realize | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| it, and realize its significance. Understand that the resistance is the very indication that in it lies | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| Only after you come to terms with your resistance by strengthening and fortifying your will, and by | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| see the truth about your parents, will your resistance gradually weaken. There is no better way to | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| but not easily done. Apart from your own resistance, you may not have the necessary information and | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the issue, but in an organic way your resistance will weaken, provided you do not keep pushing | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| You see, there is often such a strong resistance to knowing the reality in this respect. Your | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| not help my problem is one form of resistance and amounts to saying, I have no way | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| work toward the understanding and recognition of your resistance to removing this wall, you will soon see | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| as a result of breaking through your inner resistance step by step. Your path will always lead | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| have to come back to this point of resistance at a later time. Perhaps by then the | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| at a later time. Perhaps by then the resistance will have given way, since the unnecessary pain | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to you, my friends, examine where you find resistance accompanied by the desire to avoid looking at | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| going through the temporary periods of discouragement and resistance, you will come to the point when this | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| light is in sight when you overcome your resistance to the process. The strength, the self-reliance, and | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| your inner will, and your overcoming the ever-present resistance which wears off only after you gain sufficient | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| another. According to individual makeup and the physical resistance of the various organs, damage will appear sooner | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| too often sloth takes the path of least resistance as long as circumstances are not too bad | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| unwillingness that is often unconscious. Overcoming the hidden resistance will make you understand yourself better and have | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Matter is one constant hindrance. It is one resistance. We talked about psychological resistance, but that is | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| It is one resistance. We talked about psychological resistance, but that is only one aspect, one small | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| is only one aspect, one small fragment of resistance as such. Earth life, life in matter, is | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| such. Earth life, life in matter, is one resistance. If you had no resistance whatsoever, you could | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| matter, is one resistance. If you had no resistance whatsoever, you could not live at all. Yet | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| between not too much and not too little resistance. The same thing is true of the will | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| will. Will is a force that overcomes the resistance of matter, the resistance of separation. If the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| force that overcomes the resistance of matter, the resistance of separation. If the will is too strong | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| too little it will not sufficiently overcome the resistance of matter. This is how you can grow | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you can grow much faster because of the resistance. By learning to go with the resistance, you | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| the resistance. By learning to go with the resistance, you develop inwardly to just the right degree | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| the right stream of the particular degree of resistance you need. It is not the same for | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| and inner. According to this personal vibration the resistance has to fit, as it were, to the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| to fit, as it were, to the general resistance of matter. To the degree that you live | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| vibration will be in harmony with the general resistance of matter. That is why development on earth | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| after perhaps overcoming a defense here and a resistance there, will penetrate deeper into emotional levels, so | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| your earth life. Only by conquering your own resistance and blindness, your lack of awareness of yourself | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| you have to do is face yourself without resistance, without the pretense of being more than you | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| Candor with oneself IS prayer; alertness to one's resistance is prayer; owning up to something that one | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| defenses; on his willingness to let go of resistance; on his willingness to see the truth within | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| more and more dissolve your pride, pretense and resistance, you will perceive what it means to be | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| to face some area of one's being. This resistance always applies to the area that would be | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| evading yourself. All those who overcome this universal resistance step by step do feel their own growing | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| degree that you recognize and humor your own resistance to self-awareness. Find your willingness to recognize your | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| fears, your guards, your shames, your embarrassment, your resistance against feelings. As you do so, this stream | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| are lacking when you put up a lazy resistance against assuming responsibility in your life, or do | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| good, even though it may mean overcoming a resistance. So begin to penetrate the wall of evasion | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| you know, there always is a lot of resistance to facing guilts. Whether they be guilts of | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| register your various reactions, which are symptoms of resistance. There are a few major blocks against recognizing | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| There are a few major blocks against recognizing resistance. One is dullness of mind, laziness of thinking | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| change, doing the hard work of overcoming the resistance; constantly being on the lookout for signs that | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| This thought may help greatly in overcoming any resistance. I said this before, but it needs repetition | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| find that this very softness, devoid of healthy resistance, cannot let go of impressions received. You mull | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| in many other connections. Here the too great resistance of the brittle pseudo-protective wall has similar effects | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| similar effects to that of the too little resistance in the over-malleable soul stuff. How can you | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| to be confused with the line of least resistance and the giving in to one's destructive instincts | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| emotions? Let us be very clear about what resistance really means. It does not merely indicate that | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| the barricade is not too strong and the resistance is not too difficult to overcome. But there | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| your even realizing what they are, will the resistance manifest. This happens with some people at the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| rather on false self-preservation. Putting it differently, the resistance is a defense against exposure, hurt, and vulnerability | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| the utmost importance to become aware of your resistance. If you look at certain past stages of | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| every major liberation was always preceded by a resistance to looking into yourself. No matter what form | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| looking into yourself. No matter what form the resistance may have taken, you always had to overcome | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| awareness. Learn to discover the signs of your resistance to removing the barricade. The signs may be | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| seemingly legitimate excuses with a grain of salt. Resistance exists not only because your idea of yourself | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| as the water mounts. Recognize the signs of resistance, my friends! Observe yourself. See how you are | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| admission? If I want to persist in my resistance, is it not better that at least I | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| not remove it. This is exactly what your resistance, your barricade, does. It is a pretense of | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| certain attitudes that you resist recognizing. Stop the resistance. Let the negative emotions float freely to the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| nothing to fear from them. Unhealthy struggle is resistance, and it is futile because you fight to | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| who have never found and consciously acknowledged a resistance in themselves still have much to learn. They | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| can freely admit, and thus cope with, their resistance. If there are spontaneous questions referring to this | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| become much better equipped to accept reality. Your resistance to accept what seems to you unpleasant reality | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| worked on this path have overcome the inherent resistance to face themselves and subsequently change. You have | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| you to muster the strength to overcome the resistance that always stands in the way of your | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the courage to overcome the fear that produces resistance. Only then will you convince yourself how useless | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| who make serious efforts to overcome your inborn resistance to facing and changing what is unrealistic and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| and liberating it was when you overcame your resistance to going deeper. The greater the struggle and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| to going deeper. The greater the struggle and resistance, the more meaningful was the insight and the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| significance, and by not shirking to overcome the resistance to do so, the negative periods will be | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| until you summon the strength to overcome the resistance. But if you give in to the blind | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| give in to the blind, faulty reasoning of resistance, you drag out the crisis. Gradually it becomes | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| are doing, being forever more determined to overcome resistance to facing the truth in yourself, the more | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| from the psyche are disregarded. The greater the resistance to openly face a problem, the more important | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| away from exploring and understanding. It indicates a resistance to fully grown selfhood and an insistence on | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| which is a product of duality. When all resistance to unknown areas in oneself has vanished so | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| of, or to use a more psychological term, resistance to, your innermost self, you can be sure | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| problem itself. The important no-current is also called resistance. But this word has lost its meaning for | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the moment they successfully fought and overcame their resistance against the work at a particular phase, they | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| it are worth all the effort of overcoming resistance. It alone can truly guide you. It not | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| is forgotten, as are your victories after overcoming resistance. Let this innermost self, this greater intelligence within | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| be done immediately, but if you tackle your resistance by constant honest self-observation, acknowledging the fact of | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| It demands fierce overcoming of stubborn, easily misleading resistance, and refusal to yield to temptation. There is | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| manifestation of the yes-current, to the liberation of resistance overcome. Do not forget the truth of your | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| that was in proportion to the fear and resistance that you had harbored. Make use of the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| it would seem like entering prison. If one's resistance, one's no-currents, existed in order to prevent something | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| ease following a breakthrough, following the overcoming of resistance. This fact is important to contemplate, because it | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| hold on to. Whenever you are aware of resistance and can pinpoint your exact misconceptions and confusions | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| in others you are still battling against the resistance to face what lies behind blind reflexes. The | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| matters. You often just say, I have a resistance, letting it go at that, as though you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| recourse and had to passively wait until the resistance vanished by itself. It seldom occurs to you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| occurs to you to add, Here is my resistance. Now that I know and see it, I | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |