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| at certain times barring all divine protection, and resisting all evil and all temptation out of his | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| going on in you and how much these resisting parts of yours are responsible for your trials | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| good will and sometimes superficial good intentions, these resisting parts of yours are something to belittle. In | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| one's own ends often brings greater disadvantage than resisting such selfish impulses. At this level, the entity | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| It merely requires a little thinking through. The resisting emotions do not care whether the proper concept | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of your misconceptions, but inside there is a resisting block that you can feel if you look | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| resistance to finding out truth about themselves. That resisting part may interfere when your soul wants to | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| long as you get the message itself. The resisting part desires to cover up, to camouflage messages | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to liberate yourself from the responsible inner factors. Resisting evil, translated into terms of your personal life | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| due to failure to understand life's real meaning. Resisting evil means all that. As long as you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| prevent asking questions. It is as though the resisting psyche is so afraid to reveal the sore | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| work proceeds in the proper direction, then the resisting part sends out danger signals and sets up | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to give in to them. Another reason for resisting is that the full scope of one's repressed | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| always remains the same. Jesus spoke of not resisting evil. This is what he meant: If you | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| forcing, disciplinary action, slaying, are all forms of resisting. When you judge, you resist. When you justify | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| this hope. This is a main reason for resisting removal of the barrier. Once you remove it | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| is an invalid. Both depend on others. The resisting psyche is therefore not only the child that | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| more you hold on to destructive patterns, even resisting understanding their mechanism, the more painful these old | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| create the contradictions. The moment you give up resisting, two apparent contradictions unify into one whole truth | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| approach where she is at the moment least resisting, least fearful. One of her great stumbling blocks | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| goal. The pushing is also directed toward the resisting self which cannot be forced to feel differently | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| you realize the futility, the unnecessary waste of resisting this growth. May you become more and more | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| all the more or less obvious forms of resisting, by your terror of letting go of your | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the prerequisite for influencing it. Deal with your resisting unconscious in an intelligent way. Speak to it | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the aspects that resist union, gradually die off. Resisting growth is not necessarily a theoretical concept, but | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| were negative or dead. Rushing and pressuring the resisting part is as useless and ineffective as accepting | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| are bound and frozen into this position of resisting to let go of the negative intentionality is | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| personality is too entangled because it has been resisting for too long and still lacks sufficient impetus | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| energy movement that is almost impossible to describe. Resisting evil means not facing and accepting the evil | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| the process by your conscious determination to relinquish resisting the evil in you, which you mistakenly believe | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| then seep deeper and deeper into the still resisting layers of your consciousness. In that way the | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| come if you stop the inner fighting and resisting. Do not abandon the longing per se. Take | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| disturbed you really are by your disorder. The resisting part in you knows that if you free | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| inner work will be much easier. And the resisting part wants to avoid just that. The disorderly | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| from underground. When you find your inner voice resisting the creative thought process, this should be a | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| stuck here or there and find yourself consciously resisting positive creation. Nevertheless, this affords you the opportunity | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| wanting to move and follow the longing, or resisting movement and giving up what your heart knows | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| reality, the effort lies in staying behind and resisting the movement, while effortlessness, ease and inner relaxation | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| In such a conflict crisis is inevitable. The resisting part creates the crisis by obstructing the inexorable | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is one of the major inner reasons for resisting and distrusting change and growth. This illusion is | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| indeed the greatest evil. They are of matter, resisting the enlivening power of the spirit, of the | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
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| penetrated by it, maybe because something in you resists and clings to the comfortable, undisciplined old attitude | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| particular direction perhaps too forcefully. Your lower self resists that. Maybe I can help you by saying | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| lecture by saying that the lower self constantly resists your endeavors. Here you have a wonderful opportunity | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| could touch them. For the fear-ridden soul that resists the experience, this is good medicine regardless of | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| love of the parent, on the other, it resists and rebels against being restricted by authority. The | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| in which he or she openly fights and resists. This can take place from its mildest form | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is as wrong as that against which one resists. Both alternatives are wrong. Faith in God, faith | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| insight, you know that the child in you resists -- and you should know by now that | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| reconsideration, since anything activated out of the unconscious resists reality. While you may consciously have some new | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| stand, I know that something in me still resists, and then go about finding out why you | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feeling it only vaguely. The child in you resists growth, desires to remain immature, and is burdened | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the feeling of being unlovable that the soul resists facing. He fears that what he will find | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| on the lookout for signs that your psyche resists such change; the recognition of your fright of | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| by life, while still another part of you resists? If this is so, resentment against life itself | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| and denies the former direction, that fears and resists it. Therefore a particular pain exists, and the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| a truthful state. There are always areas one resists looking at that offer opportunities for self-deception. It | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| the dissenting, fearful side -- the side that resists the liberation -- is so much more effective | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not easily taken. Everyone who approaches this path resists finding the causes within. If all goes well | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| is overcome when the whole organism no longer resists life, truth, and love, so that it no | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| of the goodness of the universe. Because it resists trusting the life process, this consciousness generates ill | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| way is so often anti-life, anti- God. Self-will resists truth, love, union -- even if it appears | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| from others and elevates itself -- and thus resists the truth and love that are creative manifestations | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| of humility, not of humiliation. The person who resists humility must be humiliated because the resistance must | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| of this conflict. One part of the personality resists the truth that these negative feelings and attitudes | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| these negative feelings and attitudes are there and resists giving them up, while the other part strives | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| way. Even if some part of you still resists while you say these words, my friends, if | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| this crust is the refutation of pain. Evil resists what is and thus splits itself off from | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| being decides for death and the outer personality resists it. In this instance, the outer personality may | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| this earth. Let us say that your stubbornness resists dealing with this aspect of self-work; it resists | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| resists dealing with this aspect of self-work; it resists surrender to the divine kernel. Could this stubbornness | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| self obstructs this movement. It fears, distrusts, and resists such growth. Which part you ally yourself with | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is also ignorant with a vengeance. It totally resists the new consciousness the soul is ready for | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the enemy. But since humanity by and large resists this natural development, those who follow it necessarily | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the movement is hindered as the outer ego-consciousness resists the process, makes itself insensitive to it and | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| reality. Now, my friends, wherever the planet Earth resists the powerful energies and does not follow its | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| carry their distinct differences. But when the follower resists his -- or her -- talent to become | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| the hidden part of your lower self that resists exposure and transformation is unable to allow the | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |