| Believed....................49 | |
| about your happiness. It is not, as often believed, that finding God is giving to Him. I | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| yours. Yet, emotionally you react as if you believed that you know better than God what is | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| God's truth, even when up to now I believed its opposite. Open-mindedness has to be always present | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| and valuable reason: the people might not have believed their leader if he had told them he | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| told them he received answers directly. These people believed very much in the spirits of God and | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| to be so easily available should not be believed, my friends. It is one of the hardest | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the case of human beings who have fervently believed in one particular religion. In many ways they | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| with love. Out of ignorance, humanity has long believed that sex as such is sinful. It was | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| a different motive behind it. Unconsciously, you have believed you could not afford to become aware of | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| against authority was impossible -- or so you believed. As an adult you still suffer from the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| unconsciously be felt toward God. God is then believed to be punishing and severe, often even an | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| thereby guarding her own interests, or so she believed. She feared that open acknowledgement of these traits | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| 4:32-34-35: And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| its seeming so crassly contradictory to what people believed of, and wanted to see in, Jesus Christ | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| truthful to himself and therefore to all who believed in him. He was truthful even in his | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| these needs cannot be fulfilled, and therefore you believed that you could tear out your needs simply | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| to it only because the child in you believed there was nothing else. But the moment you | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| LUST. Lust is so often misunderstood. It is believed to refer to sexuality, but this is not | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| is not negative or morbid, as is commonly believed. A realistic sense of one's own mortality is | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| rules as they may actually exist or are believed to exist. It is noteworthy that you adhere | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| may often be the case that you merely believed these standards were expected of you by this | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| so much the opposite of what is currently believed. But let us look a little closer at | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| as a sort of superstition, as though you believed that you can ward off real unhappiness by | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| nonfulfillment, pain, and deprivation. The great danger falsely believed to be unavoidable seems less threatening when it | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| you find within you that which you falsely believed to be far away. My dearest friends, be | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| true, as possibly opposed to what you heretofore believed -- you must begin to experience genuine and | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| least. Quite the contrary. Why, then, is it believed that not needing to be special means giving | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| You will rid yourself of many ideas you believed were indispensable; you will discover natural laws and | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| is favorable also applies to pleasure. It is believed, half- consciously, half-unconsciously, that the more tautly intense | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| It is not true, as it might be believed offhand, that only the former is feared. Fear | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| that which destroys true growth and happiness is believed to be the right way. It lends false | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| is completely misunderstood. The bliss of being is believed to be a state totally different from the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| much more to you than you have secretly believed. In using this key, you do not act | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| is too painful to face when it is believed to be real, the entire issue is put | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| therefore helplessly controlled by them, indicating that you believed them to be you. You could not afford | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the concept of expanding consciousness. Often this is believed to be a magical process that suddenly occurs | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a child, and for a long time you believed just the opposite about your childhood. Gaining this | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| and when this unhappy state of existence is believed to be the only reality, apprehension, fear, and | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| can also exist this time with the ego believed to be the only valid, reliable function. This | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| This process is so often misunderstood. It is believed to be a supernatural, mysterious manifestation. All sorts | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| first time connected in a way you never believed possible and doubted could really exist, in spite | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| renewed in a way you would never have believed possible. Life, inwardly and outwardly, is an entirely | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| with the greater consciousness. For many ages people believed that the intellectual faculties were the highest form | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| imaginary desires and goals, acting as if you believed in them. But sooner or later you find | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| cannot exist without a word spoken, known, held, believed in and committed to, in each area of | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| harmony, peace, joy and richness that you never believed possible -- generally and specifically in the areas | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| movement as enjoyable, life-giving, and relaxing. Inertia is believed to be restful, while activity is believed to | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| is believed to be restful, while activity is believed to be exhausting. This illusion is a distortion | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| a deeper level of consciousness, what was first believed to be good can often be seen as | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Believes....................78 | |
| not describe now, that come when a medium believes she can help others without entering this path | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| view of absolute reality. For a person who believes only in this present life, and not in | 18 FREE WILL |
| He exists. Dear God, one side of me believes in you; another side does not. Which is | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| The blind, unconscious, and immature side of you believes that if you receive sufficient appreciation from others | 31 SHAME |
| vanity, pride, fear, and ambition. This ego layer believes that the best thing is to receive love | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| who has a lower degree of consciousness, however, believes that happiness results from giving in to all | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| become an adult so that what it erroneously believes to be restricting walls will cease to exist | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| -- at least as long as the person believes his conduct to be an expression of his | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| making decisions are necessary in life. This person believes that this would be self-will and pride and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You may ask anyone, at random, whether he believes in his intellect that his life and happiness | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| mistakes. The child in you, clinging to Utopia, believes you must never make a mistake. Making a | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| matters, and not what one outwardly accepts and believes. Why and how a belief has come about | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way. It is possible that part of you believes in all the truths while another part has | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| real sense. Find in you the part which believes that strength is aloofness or coldness. When you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| dangerous in two ways: first, the person who believes that one creates one's own fate may, due | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| person who has a lower degree of consciousness believes that happiness results from giving in to all | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the answer is that the child in you believes that you will avoid the abyss of unhappiness | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| represents the opposite of what he or she believes to be the solution to the great problem | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| experience. But it often happens that the former believes to be above the latter, whom he or | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and weakness, and not through inner knowledge. Another believes to be stronger than the former because he | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| up. And the atheist says, The person who believes is just weak. I am so much stronger | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| is not what one professes and thinks one believes that determines a healthy attitude; that is only | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| less self-confident you can be. The idealized self believes just the opposite. Its claims for perfection are | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| from being who one truly is. One then believes that the world prevents self-realization and abuses and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the other two attitudes. Here the growing child believes that the only way it can be safe | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| a distortion of this unification itself where one believes one can combine them, but do it in | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| a wrong channel and manifests erroneously. Your soul believes that in order to preserve its life and | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| all the more tragic because the psyche falsely believes that being self-centered will preserve its safety, or | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| attitude actually brings dignity. The child in you believes that the less defeat you suffer, the greater | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| comes not in the sense that the psyche believes, but in a very different sense: from continued | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| must mean that a part of you still believes that its existence provides you with some advantage | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| you maintain it because the child in you believes it will provide you with more happiness. Only | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the pseudo-solutions and defenses, a part of you believes itself lost and endangered. To let go of | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| Man fears pain and suffering mainly because he believes he has nothing to do with it; that | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| impossible, to get rid of it if one believes it fulfills a vital function. Such a conviction | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| made of it. So often, a rebellious minority believes they are free, and, according to all appearances | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| oneself as well as of the way one believes one would have to be. It creates self-punishment | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| acceptance by his parents. In doing so, he believes he has to adopt the standards of the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| those of the parents or the child merely believes that. So the child begins a process of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the privilege of being loved, which he erroneously believes is given only to women or children. In | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| his need for affection and love, for he believes them to be unmanly. And at the same | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| out of the life stream that which it believes to be wrong, the capacity to love must | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| or harmony. No matter how much truth one believes one sees, disturbance, chaos, and destruction remain. You | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| ego-mind so often stands in the way. It believes that it alone exists and determines. It must | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| to prevent the catastrophe which, as he mistakenly believes, will overtake him. Therefore, the struggle against what | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| is motivated by a false idea. The winner believes that there is a chance to win at | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| this conflict. But when your psyche no longer believes in me versus the other, but in me | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| absence as a negative sign. But when one believes that If I were where I should be | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| life and of the universe. Therefore the individual believes life to be dangerous, hostile, a force against | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| face with the discrepancy between what one consciously believes or what one thinks one believes and pays | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| one consciously believes or what one thinks one believes and pays lip service to, and what one | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| and pays lip service to, and what one believes deep down in one's soul where the emotions | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| that pretends the world is bad when one believes that one's feelings are unacceptable or dangerous; the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| greed, self-centeredness, blindness, and fear. The person who believes himself enlightened without really being so, falsely postulates | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| to a specific group of people the individual believes he or she desperately needs and cannot afford | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| covers and barricades the cosmic force. The mind believes it is expedient to block off this material | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| negativity in the world stems from something one believes in that is not according to reality. No | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| helpless child still exists within you. Your adult believes that you have grown up entirely. Yet on | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| they are a product of what the consciousness believes. It is impossible to discover your own creative | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| error of not knowing what he or she believes. That is truly the most alienating state -- | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| most alienating state -- not knowing what one believes, assumes and concludes. As I keep saying, you | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| own laws. When a person consciously or unconsciously believes one of these two attitudes or ways of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| all the good of life when an entity believes itself in danger. Since all opposites are constantly | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| which is not half as easy as one believes before one starts -- is the most essential | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| self leads to despair. If the personality blindly believes it actually is nothing but its own destructive | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| very, very miserable in this state, but still believes that the pseudo-safety of this cramped, fearful position | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| be examined. Such confrontation with what one truly believes versus what one thinks one believes must always | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| one truly believes versus what one thinks one believes must always be honestly worked through. This is | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| experience, joy, and creation of the self. Humanity believes that this split-off ego-consciousness is the real self | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| me give you an example. A small child believes that it is omnipotent. Psychology designates this very | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| nuclear point so much that the personality finally believes in its hopelessness. Thus the outer personality finds | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the personality cannot feel its intrinsic connectedness and believes itself to be a totally separate being. This | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| not care about others. That part of you believes in a mutual exclusivity, in a division of | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| doubt is right. The two factions quarrel. Each believes it is right; it has the truth. Yet | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| It becomes reality for the narrow consciousness that believes that the illusion is real. As you grow | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| inner God. However, if the conscious personality then believes that he or she is now truly safe | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| because the petty heart in its negativity still believes that when you give you will lose and | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| not your true personality, your real being, who believes this distortion. What does the law of giving | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |