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a way that God speaks clearly to the seeker: Do you mean it? Are you serious in 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
difficulty about pride, self-will, and fear. Isn't the seeker who kicks and struggles against unhappiness acting out 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
be genuine. In the second category is the seeker for power. This person thinks that power and 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
built on sand. The withdrawn type and the seeker for power seem to have something in common 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
these two types are very different. While the seeker for power glories in hostility and in an 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
attitudes are adapted to the uniqueness of the seeker who incorporates these universal aspects into his or 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
 
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known by all the sages and great truth seekers of all times. It is represented in many 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
how the other person relates to the submitter. Seekers for power must never fail in anything. Contrary 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
others to give them love and protection, the seekers for power take pride in never failing in 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
spark of recognition in the mind of the seekers. This then creates a vibrant energy field whose 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
creative power molds the soul substance of the seekers who have finally recognized the true examples. When 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
around this aspect of spiritual development. All the seekers of spiritual growth who avoid this delude themselves 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
 
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will ultimately be best for you. So when seeking such personal contact, this should be your motive 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
real security. For otherwise the security you are seeking is always dependent on things outside your control 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
bliss and joy! Be joyful, for whoever is seeking God through his own good and sincere will 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
this hurdle can ever be really successful, for seeking such shortcuts violates a spiritual law. All of 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
dear friends, as usual. Every living creature is seeking God; every human being is consciously or unconsciously 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
God; every human being is consciously or unconsciously seeking God. Even those you call atheists; they, too 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
Even those you call atheists; they, too, are seeking God. Everyone seeks happiness, love, and security, and 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
your heart. I have said that everyone is seeking God, though oftentimes without knowing it. Just as 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
Just as plants are leaning toward the sun seeking light and warmth, so is the human being 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
God. Perhaps you hope to do this by seeking general, abstract knowledge of God or by doing 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
are actually a pathfinder in an unexplored jungle, seeking the way through wild shrubbery and growth, setting 36 PRAYER
unconscious. On this path we are concerned with seeking out the wrong images that the human soul 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
explain harboring such evil or unkind desires, while seeking self-justification in the shortcomings of others. This you 47 THE WALL WITHIN
deliberately overlook certain sick points in your soul, seeking the remedy from the outer world. This again 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
reason. Here again we have a case of seeking the wrong remedy. For such artificial means, sought 53 SELF-LOVE
of giving oneself, of revealing the self and seeking the other self. This always seems to entail 53 SELF-LOVE
a constructive and positive way -- which includes seeking and understanding the inner block and the prohibition 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
difference. Declaring yourself responsible for your life and seeking the remedy for past erroneous attitudes and concepts 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
able to use it constructively instead of compulsively seeking to hide it, or using it destructively out 62 MAN AND WOMAN
this does not alter what I said about seeking contact with the Spirit World in which spirits 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
I say that perhaps the impatience is in seeking a shortcut, which is unrealistic. The goal is 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
always a grasping at straws because the child, seeking solutions to cope with a seemingly hostile and 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
instance, that submissive people, as well as those seeking false serenity, may not even allow themselves to 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
at all, it will lead you away from seeking such experience for the sake of an unconsciously 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
your insistence on remaining at the periphery and seeking a solution from there. People who are not 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
well as others in your family. QUESTION: In seeking to communicate we must resort to words, of 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
about a relationship that changes? Also, what about seeking variety and flow? Is it a manifestation of 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
rooted and ever more fruitful. As far as seeking variety is concerned, that too depends on the 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
reaction to previous withdrawal, and, as such, the seeking of variety may be a step toward health 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
loving as it exists specifically within yourself, your seeking and finding within your soul will often appear 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
when people are unmarried and unattached and are seeking a happy relationship, how much promiscuity do you 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
your being would begin to meet through your seeking the truth of the now and requesting the 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
In this struggle you go back and forth, seeking a solution. The more you believe in the 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
natural flow is interfered with, the energy current seeking expression is blocked and prohibited from flowing to 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
using a hidden, emotional forcing-current, you go about seeking satisfaction in the wrong way and not granting 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
only by understanding it theoretically, but by truly seeking that part of yourself that is eternal, that 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
are not only truth, but they also mean seeking all causes in the self, where they really 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
may even be driven to destructive actions, to seeking troublesome life situations that seem to explain your 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
happiness. Such prayer is just as important as seeking contact with the divine powers when you are 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
expansion, yet it appears to make you safe. Seeking a tiny point of security within a narrow 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
force of love and truth, elicited by your seeking, is pouring forth to forge another link in 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
of the resistance. These parts can meditate on seeking a deeper understanding of your task in life 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
Then the real self is betrayed and the seeking of recognition defeats itself. This path is geared 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
of that other person's self who is also seeking to know you. This mutual desire which is 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
be drawn into this circle -- perhaps first seeking to work on themselves -- and thus bring 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
So the difficulty is in initially creating fullness. Seeking the opposite of what you fear is an 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
the deliberately built up stake you have in seeking justification for your faults, for your spite, and 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
The price is the labor of searching, of seeking and finding, of learning, of growing, of changing 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
they most need to look at is by seeking spiritual paths that do not emphasize this aspect 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
attention? ANSWER: Self-centeredness is a direct distortion of seeking your inner center. If you are centered within 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
is spreading throughout your world. New values are seeking to push through old resistances. I will speak 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
is very familiar to you. It is a seeking of safety through isolation and separateness. It is 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
specifically unfulfilled. You may even have been consciously seeking the spiritual meaning of life. But none of 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
tradition, or totally disrupted by the distortion of seeking change, seeking the new. So far we have 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
totally disrupted by the distortion of seeking change, seeking the new. So far we have succeeded in 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
 
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divine spark manifests through them. Always remember, whoever seeks, will find. You will discover qualities in them 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
Whoever follows the real teachings of Christ and seeks the development and purification through which it is 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
reasons than the higher self. Your higher self seeks to advance for the love of God by 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
call atheists; they, too, are seeking God. Everyone seeks happiness, love, and security, and that is God 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
be deceived by the part of you that seeks God in truth; look for the hidden part 35 TURNING TO GOD
in that way and to the person who seeks this help. Such regular service will strengthen the 35 TURNING TO GOD
to forfeit the very result he or she seeks. It cripples the reasoning process, which, joined with 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
as well as in the soul. Whenever something seeks to bring the universal forces out of balance 47 THE WALL WITHIN
but sickly. It fosters wrong guilt feelings and seeks to punish the self for them. You must 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
distortion usually happens quite deliberately, although unconsciously. One seeks to find justification for the problem in one's 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
motives are not entirely healthy. If however, one seeks contact, if it is God's will, in order 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
small manifestation but an important one, if one seeks self-knowledge and self-recognition and the other one does 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
insecurity and lack of self-confidence, which the person seeks to overcome, unfortunately often in the wrong way 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
such mutually exclusive aims and solutions, the psyche seeks compromise solutions. Such compromise may assume various forms 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
a few general examples of the compromise that seeks to combine the mutually exclusive pseudo-solutions. Many more 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
defenses exist? They exist because the troubled psyche seeks a solution, but the message is misunderstood by 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
disease of soul. As long as worldly psychology seeks for other causes than impaired integrity, real cures 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
effect is bound to be detrimental, the psyche seeks a remedy. Such unconsciously sought remedies are often 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
pleasurable state it once enjoyed. He or she seeks what was experienced as love during childhood, over 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
not the erroneous kinds that the ego personality seeks when true awareness is lacking and you therefore 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
dissolve into thin air. Like a stream, it seeks an outlet. The original energy converts into a 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
birth does not yet possess an ego. It seeks omnipotence, pleasure supreme, the ultimate bliss that knows 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
as the clutching becomes a strain. Your psyche seeks to loosen up again in the wrong way 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
misunderstood, inadvertent ways in which the self vainly seeks to liberate itself. When a person experiences the 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
at the blissful state one consciously or unconsciously seeks depends directly on one's self-esteem, the ability to 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
it. Death is the great relief the personality seeks when all other avenues of relief from ego 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
confusion, helplessness increases, the thus mounting inner tension seeks an outlet. To look for scapegoats who can 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
its vision to what is in you and seeks others as scapegoats? How can your perception of 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
the results are so unpleasant that the consciousness seeks to get a hold on itself and counteract 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
through this now, prolongs the agony. This attitude seeks to avoid the necessary eruption of the boil 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
by this process of avoidance when a person seeks ready explanations for what cannot be understood unless 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
material into the next incarnation. The embedded material seeks out circumstances and people for the next incarnation 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
these false and dangerous attempts, the entity always seeks to avoid effort, pain, inconvenience, and those aspects 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
agree or which it does not understand. It seeks to cheat, using shortcuts, which can never work 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
even further away from what your innermost self seeks. The pull may be subtle or strongly noticeable 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
because the infant within the adult personality still seeks its own mode of fulfillment. It seeks a 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
still seeks its own mode of fulfillment. It seeks a nurturing parent rather than the specific other 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
rather than the specific other person, and it seeks the merely receptive, in-taking kind of closeness. The 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
identify, is an aspect that your total entity seeks to reunite with. This can happen only when 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
process, a ceaseless movement, a flowing energy that seeks to spread out and, at the same time 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
task. Its innermost nucleus of consciousness that always seeks expression toward the divine, toward service, toward truth 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
inner spirit. In these dreams a diminished ego seeks a false medicine against its own underdevelopment. For 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
denied, an imbalance often accrues. The denied movement seeks an outlet and then manifests as a compulsion 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
and fear. You also contain a part that seeks reasons to stop this process. Humanity as a 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY

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