| Serene......................14 | |
| patiently aware of it in a relaxed and serene way and go about your business. The truth | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| in a state of serenity, you will be serene afterward. Whatever you are at the time of | 18 FREE WILL |
| the quick. You will remain quite calm and serene inside during outer hardships. Only after this condition | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the ultimate goal. The outer will must be serene and give leeway for life's hindrances and imperfections | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and doing so in all humility. The more serene you remain in the face of other people's | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| influenced. Your security will lie in the calm, serene deliberation, be it accepting or rejecting. You may | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| stronger and freer person, a happier and more serene human being. The time will come when what | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| one reacts toward life's downs in a more serene and constructive way than before. But even that | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| enough. By doing so, you will become more serene, less subject to fluctuations, and as a result | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| this earth. No older person who is really serene and is fulfilling all he or she has | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| But no human being is ever quite as serene. Hence such dictates are unrealistic and unrealizable. They | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| may be completely resigned to a life of serene detachment, while underneath craving and dissatisfaction do a | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| down your violent emotions. You genuinely feel more serene. But you should always keep in mind that | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| feel what is there to feel. The true, serene state of being which every soul unconsciously longs | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| Serenity....................53 | |
| are controlled by them and you lose your serenity, or what you thought was serenity when things | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| lose your serenity, or what you thought was serenity when things went well. However, being detached in | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| a moment's satisfaction, but never peace of mind, serenity, steady happiness that can never be lost and | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| strongly, and vitally and will never hamper your serenity; it works deep inside and yet quite consciously | 18 FREE WILL |
| afterward. If you die in a state of serenity, you will be serene afterward. Whatever you are | 18 FREE WILL |
| no qualms; you will feel a very calm serenity in your wish. You will also feel the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you apart; it will destroy your inner strength, serenity, and peace. Try, all of you, to recognize | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| into a more secure state of happiness and serenity? If the forcing current is absent, you are | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| which is unnecessary, without fear and worry. This serenity sounds like an ideal impossible to attain on | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| heights and depths than to falsely construct a serenity that is rarely a true detachment. Detachment is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| through the feared experience will arrive at true serenity. The soul whose serenity is not real, or | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| will arrive at true serenity. The soul whose serenity is not real, or is artificially cultivated, is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| way to find your true self, to find serenity and self-respect, and to live your life fully | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| in peace, be in God! 84. LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS Greetings, my | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| discuss three major divine attributes: love, power, and serenity, and how they manifest in their distorted forms | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| withdrawal are the distortions of love, power, and serenity. I would now like to speak in detail | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| Let us now consider the third divine attribute, serenity, chosen as a solution and being thereby distorted | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| life as such. Underneath the withdrawal, or false serenity, that soul is still torn in half, but | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| of it. Such a strong facade of false serenity has been built that, as long as life's | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| this person is convinced of having attained true serenity. But let life's storms touch him or her | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| emerge, and it will show how false this serenity was. It will be borne out that the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| by either. This, if true, would indeed be serenity. But no human being is ever quite as | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| combine the divine attitudes of love, power, and serenity in a healthy way, as opposed to a | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| own capacity to love will combine power and serenity. Or, to put it differently, you will communicate | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| understanding while being truly independent. Love, power, and serenity will not be used to furnish you with | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| not be any distorted ambitiousness, compulsion, and haste. Serenity in the healthy way will not cause you | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| that you will truly become more objective. True serenity is not avoiding experience and emotions which may | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| find what is behind them. Love, power, and serenity can go hand in hand. In fact, when | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| strength coming through love, and both together producing serenity. Now my question is: Is there a distortion | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| yourself. If your pseudo-solution is the quest for serenity, you will deny the very existence of defeat | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you should always keep in mind that such serenity may be artificial, if actually, unconsciously, you are | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the leveling off of negative emotions. Eventually true serenity will bring this about. But I might say | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| gradually can further goals be envisaged, until true serenity will come by itself. The view of the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| quest for power, and (3) the quest for serenity. The misconception behind each one is that living | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| The third pseudo-solution, namely, withdrawal, the quest for serenity, is secondary. It is the result of the | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| alone with the rationalization that this will bring serenity. In actuality, you cannot satisfy both instincts any | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| will again quickly withdraw either into a false serenity or into a domineering aggressive, forbidding attitude. This | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| too much to bear, they establish a false serenity by withdrawing from life. But what I would | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| submissive people, as well as those seeking false serenity, may not even allow themselves to become aware | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| such feelings away and deceive yourself into a serenity that is not genuine, but to acknowledge all | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| is connected with the pseudo-solution of withdrawal, false serenity, escape from living and experiencing. Both alternatives lead | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| while non-relating, even under the guise of false serenity, is further down the scale. You are used | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| of the forcing current, the wild struggling, a serenity is generated which brings the person closer to | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| a less evolved human being than the apparent serenity of a person who does many good works | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the same time, vibrancy; there is stimulation and serenity. As I have mentioned in the past, the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| peace of mind. If they want peace and serenity, they feel they must sacrifice their dynamic, stimulating | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| of your solar plexus flow new wisdom, strength, serenity, and dynamic vitality. A fearless love for all | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| not have to be merely this one way. Serenity and joy, which come when the constantly open | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| yourself in forever new ways, in excitement and serenity, as you relinquish your negative attitudes and defensive | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| unfold qualities of peace, coupled with excitement, of serenity coupled with adventure, through which life becomes a | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| feeling capacity, more creative self-expression, more joy and serenity. All this exists in truly limitless abundance in | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| victimization, this may lead to a false, superimposed serenity that covers up a great deal of negative | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| The divine original aspect is self-containment, self-sufficiency, impartiality, serenity. In every healthy life there must exist a | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
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| spiritual world recognizes that a human being is serious about the decision and does not stay with | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| down completely, leave therapy, and suffer even more serious consequences. On the other hand, if this person | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| only be accomplished by your very personal and serious endeavors. This is the path to God. This | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you an idea of how extremely grave and serious the task was. Only understanding this will keep | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| development and thus peace of mind without making serious efforts to overcome this basic hindrance, you are | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| the seeker: Do you mean it? Are you serious in your belief? Do I matter more to | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| my dear friends. Most of you have made serious efforts on your path of development, and the | 38 IMAGES |
| yourself. You will need help. If you are serious in your desire to find and dissolve the | 38 IMAGES |
| the events in your life. In meditation, in serious self-probing, in checking your emotional reactions about the | 38 IMAGES |
| my friends, for most of you have made serious efforts. Your efforts have borne fruit, although you | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| lesser faults mean nothing! But if you make serious endeavors in that direction, God will help you | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| ego and proving that what you mean is serious. For only here and now, right where you | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| war, injustices of any kind, disease, and other serious problems, are the result of faults of long | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| on this earth sphere. Learn to enjoy the serious and honest labor too that leads to it | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the image is usually completely unconscious until a serious self-search is undertaken in this direction. QUESTIONER: I | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of weak motivations. This lack of discrimination has serious consequences for the human personality. The lack of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| these lectures. This means, of course, a very serious effort in self-search. It is not enough to | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| the resulting hurts will no longer be so serious and tragic. You will accept them as a | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| hidden. This double hiding causes inversion and has serious repercussions on the personality, also manifesting in physical | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| of how much real talent, healthy desire, or serious striving you show, the severity of your conflicts | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an experience is almost always the result of serious efforts in the right direction, and these in | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| next step will be to resolve the more serious problems which reveal the existence of a deep | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| self-realization and self-unfoldment. All of you who make serious efforts to overcome your inborn resistance to facing | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of being and living, never settling down to serious living, to confronting any issue wholly and truthfully | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| suspects something dangerous in it, such as a serious disease and finally death. If you know that | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| makes negative manifestations on this earth plane particularly serious or severe. In other words, when a positive | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| Only then can you get down to the serious business of self and of living. When I | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| of self and of living. When I say serious business, I mean this in the positive sense | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| question it and consider the possibility in a serious way. What you believe people feel and think | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| a co-production, then you can begin to make serious headway in the right direction. The second thing | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| that the more intense you are, the more serious, responsible, and focused you are; conversely, the less | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| easy answer, which may sound exceedingly plausible and serious in a world that shies away from a | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| approach in the fashion suggested here and conduct serious investigation, when you take nothing for granted and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| contributing to the processes of evolution by your serious and total involvement with your growth. The passive | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| creating is given up. Even the sincere and serious desire to do so will bring relief. Still | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| form radical assumptions, to which they temporarily give serious consideration. If their hypotheses turn out wrong, they | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| The momentary relief is illusion of the most serious nature. It is so because the crisis inevitably | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| wrong or the other is. This creates a serious predicament, making it impossible to be in truth | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| mind, will never take on deeper meaning without serious effort and commitment. To the degree you do | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| to communicate itself on the one hand, and serious commitment, endeavor, focused will and healthy aggression on | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| that this is the indispensable attitude that every serious scientist pursues. Yet it is precisely the scientifically-minded | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| are the pitter-patter of thoughts, have nevertheless a serious effect on the creative process that each human | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| the remaining stagnancies have heavier impact and more serious repercussions. This is a law of growth. Can | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| to expect from doing so. Your goodwill, your serious attempt to become who you are already in | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| This question may occupy you over years of serious and beautiful struggle, the most noble struggle in | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| of communication. And communication is a result of serious effort, with a commitment to use your attention | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |