| Restore.....................4 | |
| you inexorably in such a way as to restore order and balance in your life. Situations will | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to reorient the soul forces toward health and restore their true nature, the following has to happen | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you and in your relationship to God -- restore your faith in Christ, in love, in goodness | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| the world as it is created. It will restore your soul, your faith in yourself and in | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Restored....................5 | |
| easier in the sense that clear vision is restored, the extinguished memory regained, and one understands what | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| and pleasure that you had lost will be restored to you. As with happiness in general, so | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| important spiritual law. Thus health will be gradually restored. This law has to do with the giving | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| fully understood. Wherever the higher self has been restored to its original state by shedding the surrounding | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| union is blocked until the harmonious laws are restored within the entity. If you review earlier lectures | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| Restrain....................6 | |
| part of your personality. With these reactions you restrain the natural movement and create tension, setting your | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| whose inner conscience is not sufficiently developed to restrain them from committing destructive acts, the mere existence | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| having to hold on to yourself and thus restrain your best qualities and outgoing forces. Once you | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| long eras when spiritual exercises were used to restrain natural instincts. On the one hand, spiritual development | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| watchfulness, awareness, readiness to dismiss wishful thinking and restrain pride will protect you from illusion -- and | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| in humbleness there will be no need to restrain your greatness. There will be no pushing, no | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Restraint...................7 | |
| shame and pretense? Come to terms with your restraint and inhibition, and tell yourself that perhaps in | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| the less you will feel or think that restraint is due to outer demands, outer authority. With | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| you are making a free choice, rebellion against restraint becomes superfluous. There is a great difference if | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| becomes superfluous. There is a great difference if restraint is exercised because of demands from the outer | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| this may seem again, the more you choose restraint willingly, with alert reasoning and constructive motivation, the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| rights and needed no excuses. The ability for restraint and discipline was practically non-existent. The capacity for | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| aggression, which they identify with evil. Underneath this restraint, strong impulses exist, but they are very threatening | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Restrict....................7 | |
| other soul withdraws, because the corresponding inner forces restrict, and seem to reject, the overeager attempt at | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| by love and are not farsighted enough to restrict the child, if necessary, then their guilt, confusion | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| be right to be lenient, in another to restrict and even punish. Those who depend on outer | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| it amounts to fighting against the self. To restrict the pulsation of consciousness by hardening up and | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you exclude yourself, how, by holding on, you restrict the cosmic forces within your soul and constrict | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| flow, the first instant reaction will be to restrict it -- and that in itself causes anxiety | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| present, even if this seems at first to restrict personal desires. This is the act of love | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Restricted..................6 | |
| the other, it resists and rebels against being restricted by authority. The child feels the authority as | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| human blindness of this earth sphere, due to restricted sight, to the fact that you only see | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| instituted in human living. Because positive forces are restricted, negative forces grow. Or, to put it more | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the preposterous predicament of holding themselves tight and restricted, guarded and overwatchful, unable to be spontaneous, always | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| to see that people who are very contracted, restricted, and alienated from their core are unable to | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| physical level will then not only become severely restricted, but the nature of your sexual drive must | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Restricting.................21 | |
| so that what it erroneously believes to be restricting walls will cease to exist. But when the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| only that which emotionally represents the enemy, the restricting forces that prohibit your doing what you wish | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| God! 55. THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES Greetings! God bless all | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| the entire universe. They are the expanding, the restricting, and the static principles. They manifest in nature | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| outgoing person does not learn to cultivate the restricting forces, he or she will never really succeed | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| sight it may seem the same as the restricting principle, but it is not. The restrictive principle | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| with two of the principles, the expanding and restricting, though perhaps calling them by different names. But | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| longer experience life within the confines of your restricting, separating barriers of false beliefs and misconceptions. Then | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| that should be fluid. It is an inverted, restricting movement that finally leads to stagnation and inner | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| ago I gave a lecture on the expanding, restricting, and static principle, describing the movements of the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| outlined a while back -- namely, the expanding, restricting, and static principles. Everything that lives must follow | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| example, may be longer or shorter than the restricting cycle. Or one expansion cycle may last longer | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| The movement of expansion expresses reaching out; the restricting movement means bringing or gathering into the organism | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| represents the direct expression of development, while the restricting and static movements indirectly further organic growth -- | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| In that way, the threat soon vanishes. The restricting movement does not cramp up and congest. It | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| outer organism vibrantly alive and growing. When the restricting, tense, congested movement pulls in automatically where it | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| when you notice the shrinking back of the restricting movement, try to remain open. Let the inner | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| expansion, restriction, and static movements uninterfered. The natural restricting movement will open up by itself. It will | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this choice: to stick with the old, excluding, restricting way, or to allow for a new strength | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| of activity and passivity -- the expanding and restricting principles, initiating and being receptive -- to refer | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| misconceptions, all forward movement appears dangerous. The stagnating, restricting, limiting life in which one dares not venture | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| Restriction.................27 | |
| quarreling, destructiveness, cruelty, impatience, thoughtlessness. The principle of restriction in its positive aspect means equilibrium, balance -- | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| can see how the principles of expansion and restriction have to work in harmony and complement one | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| organic, slow and steady. Here the principle of restriction is at work. Unchecked growth cannot be assimilated | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| more harmful than constructive. So the principle of restriction also stands for assimilation. Unassimilated growth must, eventually | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| well. In its negative sense, the principle of restriction stands for regression, going backward instead of forward | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| occur. Thus, backward movement -- the principle of restriction in its negative aspect -- is better than | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| expression of the misunderstood and misapplied principle of restriction or introspection. Correctly understood, the purpose of introspection | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| die. In other words, it is a certain restriction represented in the Christ principle. ANSWER: Quite right | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| to earth. He has been incarnated. Incarnation is restriction, an apparent going back, although for the good | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| regard to breathing. Is the exhalation the natural restriction? ANSWER: Exhalation is expansion; inhalation is restriction -- | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| natural restriction? ANSWER: Exhalation is expansion; inhalation is restriction -- backward movement. And then there is -- | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| yourself, when you search within yourself, that is restriction. You cannot develop without both outgoing and ingoing | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| the static sort of halfway in-between expansion and restriction? ANSWER: Such terms as halfway in-between cannot be | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| you do not desire completely, without doubt and restriction, without misgivings and compromises. A part in you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| through his suffering to the full extent, without restriction, without shame in admitting his doubt and fear | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the distortion exists and to what degree. The restriction prevents assimilation of new ideas and attitudes. It | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| May you thus free yourself of constriction and restriction so as to free your best inherent faculties | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| recent times. Until a relatively short time ago, restriction and severity were generally accepted as the right | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| actually felt and experienced. You must remove the restriction, to allow this into your consciousness. Realize that | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| pleasures flow from giving oneself to life without restriction. The refusal to give yourself freely, the involvement | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| Let us now try to understand what expansion, restriction, and the static principle mean in terms of | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| through hardening, refusal of the experience, and unnatural restriction. The better you are attuned to your inner | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| natural organism to continue the pulsation of expansion, restriction, and static movements uninterfered. The natural restricting movement | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| feel obliged to submit to senseless rules of restriction. The moment you let be what there is | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| shies away from it, preferring the pseudo-safety of restriction, inhibition, dependency, pleasurelessness. When that state worsens, the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| force, thwarts life and produces displeasure, frustration, and restriction. When men and women have not established both | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| in the human psyche, similar to a physical restriction, that prevents the human organism from its natural | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |