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| even without pain. Later, the overcoming of various resistances will replace the pain, until eventually not even | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| it could be possible by overcoming all my resistances, but I will ask God for this willpower | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| not possible when there are personal, inner, unconscious resistances to it. All the truths of Creation, all | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| mask. And you need help to meet your resistances and to accomplish the inner change. So pray | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| developing themselves on the path, and overcoming their resistances. They rather push away what is unpleasant to | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| out to think about it objectively, disregarding the resistances of your lower nature. All you have to | 21 THE FALL |
| a number of interacting subconscious tendencies, fears and resistances. These use up your inner strength and, among | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the will of God means overcoming your inner resistances and for that you do need activity, although | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| used, first, for the desire to meet your resistances without any wishful thinking and self-deception; second, for | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| certain patterns in your life; and fears and resistances on specific occasions. The harder you try to | 38 IMAGES |
| will discover that fighting your imagined shames and resistances with the tools of patience, sound endeavor, and | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| it only after the first few obstacles and resistances have been overcome. You can be sure that | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| quite obvious if they would but examine their resistances. They use all kinds of pretexts, which they | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| again. But this does not mean that other resistances do not lie in wait, that other victories | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| or her strength to overcome inner blocks and resistances. You who have the noble courage for this | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| full understanding, but until such time, your unconscious resistances often impair your joy in your self-work. You | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| responsible for so many of your conflicts and resistances, as well as for your various faults. Yet | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| better way to pray than using your current resistances and stumbling blocks in a most specific way | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| It needs help to direct attention to his resistances. QUESTION: Will you please elaborate on the meaning | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| for instant gratification of all your wishes. These resistances cut you off from your life-stream, even if | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| complete candor, through dispensing with all defenses and resistances, you reach a point of love-capacity, you simultaneously | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| perish, and can be pried loose of their resistances only with the greatest of difficulties. This is | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| This is difficult only because you coddle your resistances and fears, and because you are so reluctant | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| is important to distinguish which of the two resistances applies to you first. Is it the denial | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| of having to do without any pleasure? Both resistances are the result of misconceptions. These particular resistances | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| resistances are the result of misconceptions. These particular resistances, for example, create a confusion of motions: either | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| to make the decisive step to overcome their resistances to meeting their inner fears are caught in | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| overcome a number of these deep obstructions and resistances before you can come to feel that the | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| self- knowledge has been obtained; after certain basic resistances, fears, mental, emotional, and physical blocks have been | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| from a certain moment on, after the main resistances are overcome. And you can overcome them only | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| by becoming fully aware of them. When the resistances finally give way, your expansion becomes mainly a | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| deal with your defenses and undissolved negativities, your resistances, distortions, and darkness. Hence we must plough ahead | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| remains. It is therefore foolish to indulge your resistances in the pathwork and to act as if | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| would not really matter -- as if your resistances were based on some valid reasons peculiarly suited | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| that you can attain results without challenging your resistances. Understand that you can never connect with your | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| expression. For example, you may look into existing resistances and problems contained within your desire. How strong | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| involved in the pathwork, after much overcoming of resistances and blocks in yourselves, actually begin to occasionally | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| innermost attitudes, when you dissolve your blocks and resistances against taking stock of yourself truthfully -- and | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| stages, my friends, you have often found peculiar resistances. You have found, contrary to your intellectual understanding | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| worked sufficiently on the path to admit these resistances, to question the misconceptions, to work on them | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| in their own way. As you overcome your resistances and learn not to give in to the | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| New values are seeking to push through old resistances. I will speak in this lecture about the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the best to your own evolution and overcome resistances and fear. You also contain a part that | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| life that remain inaccessible as long as strong resistances are not overcome. Love of and trust in | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| of the entity hindered it through succumbing to resistances. These resistances came from quarters that either deliberately | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| entity hindered it through succumbing to resistances. These resistances came from quarters that either deliberately or unwittingly | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| along. Although there are still some obstructions and resistances, in principle you are reconciled with this process | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
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| weakening the aspects that are unhealthy, childish, and resistant. After all, God lives deep down within yourself | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you attempt such commands, it will be very resistant. Or it may deceive you, so that you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| right. The perversion of the self-preservation instinct is resistant to any change or growth. That is its | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| being, regardless of intelligence, that wherever one is resistant to understand something, not only does one not | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| elastic -- a mixture of resilient and healthily resistant softness. This combination produces the ideal conditions that | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| your problems; in what respect you still feel resistant to change in spite of the understanding gained | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| knowledge and finally penetrate the more hidden and resistant layers of your psyche. It is entirely mistaken | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| allow it to act, regardless of how doubtful, resistant or frightened you may be. This is the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| everything, even the areas where I am most resistant. Then, and only then, can all the difficulties | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| are born with some organs that are more resistant to abuse. In spite of consistent abuse, they | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| poised in a firm but relaxed way. The resistant and destructive unconscious must be neither yielded to | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| you, which until this point you were too resistant to see. Simultaneously, you also detect this great | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| but avoided. The ego must change its lazy, resistant attitudes in order to transcend itself to become | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| inner self. The outer self is still too resistant to communicate with the inner self to trust | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Sometimes you are just too lazy and too resistant by habit to deal with the real situation | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| cast it out, you will not be so resistant because you may use this transformed stubbornness in | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| to unfold it. Yet the planet also harbors resistant elements that fear, resist and want to ignore | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| that is coming, that is pushing into the resistant matter of the old. The old, stagnant age | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| those of its aspects which are not too resistant to embrace the movement of the Christ consciousness | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| in the personality. Where the personality is still resistant, blocked, defended, and has a stake in not | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| of its meaningfulness for you and much less resistant to repeat the steps. It will give you | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| visualization in exactly the areas you find most resistant. This is very important for you, my friends | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
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| the truth coming through is one that you resisted, because it will be a greater confirmation of | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| wishful thinking. When, however, something that has been resisted comes through, then, my dear ones, you will | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| has taken place, because it is no longer resisted. It is now welcome instead of frightening. Understanding | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| one's own innermost nature were not feared and resisted. Try, my friends, to feel these things in | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| perceive change as something that ought to be resisted. They resist life itself, and suffering closes in | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| an influx of divine forces and are therefore resisted as if they were a hostile force. All | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| on the level where movement is not being resisted. Movement is an innate expression of life. Let | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| did not want to tamper with them and resisted. When it came to working with your emotional | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| your emotional processes, there were always those who resisted psychological therapy. When spiritual truths were discussed, there | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| as human form. Why is this fact being resisted so? At one time the resistance was entirely | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| just as new and honest political approaches are resisted now. Those in power would be disadvantaged by | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| forces contained in dynamic love are more feared, resisted, and maligned than lukewarm currents. This is the | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |