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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

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