| Seriously...................57 | |
| what could happen to your own self so seriously, you can give your love freely. Then your | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| in some respect, when you take yourself too seriously, when you are too concerned about your own | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| take its vanity, pride, and personal advantages so seriously. Such an emotional current comes from the higher | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| friends, every single one of you; take it seriously, not superficially, and then you will feel a | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| But those who do not take themselves so seriously, whose comfort and everything pertaining to the ego | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the future. However, any of you who are seriously interested can find out about the mechanics of | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| certain emotional currents. If you go about it seriously and not expect a result tomorrow or next | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| follow the divine laws. And anyone who is seriously trying to learn and keep the divine laws | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| That cannot happen very easily. But when people seriously work on the mystic path, the time comes | 18 FREE WILL |
| begins much before ecstasy is reached. Anyone who seriously walks the path of purification and perfection must | 18 FREE WILL |
| wrong conceptions of some of these points may seriously hinder your development. This is why I have | 21 THE FALL |
| bar your vision by too hasty conclusions; think seriously and carefully, and do not let your unconscious | 21 THE FALL |
| a little and not taking yourself so deadly seriously in this respect, you will gain another step | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| with the foregoing. Many of my friends here seriously desire to fulfill a task in God's vineyard | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| of discussing your problems with friends who are seriously endeavoring to advance on this path of purification | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| of my friends are far enough advanced yet seriously to live a prayer. When you are that | 36 PRAYER |
| in your life. Those of you who are seriously working in this vein advance a great deal | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| of salt. I do not take it too seriously. The danger is when you are convinced that | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| positive, creative impulse because, as you are now seriously convinced, it was wrong for you? If it | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you who still feel this shyness, question yourselves seriously and as honestly as you know how. If | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as long as they somehow get by. They seriously settle down to changing only when life is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| any of the particles destroys, or at least seriously impedes, the organization as a whole. Think, for | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to a philosophical concept. But when you are seriously engaged in doing the pathwork, you will fill | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| of being looked down upon or not taken seriously. Whether or not you consciously consider this as | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| that your assumption might be false must be seriously considered. At the same time, expand your view | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| part. But resolution can come only when you seriously question your conclusions and admit that things could | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the universal power available is the inability to seriously and openly question and make oneself available to | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| takes his or her person and life too seriously is unable to partake of the cosmic flow | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| not have to take life and yourself so seriously, in such a negative, despairing, heavy way. You | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| way. You can take life and the self seriously through the honesty you accord to both and | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| an occasion for expansion and growth. Anyone who seriously pursues this path can corroborate this. You can | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| one who can determine it is you, by seriously probing and, first of all, considering the possibility | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| these words. They need to be taken very seriously by giving them a great deal of attention | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and see how you do not take life seriously, how you do not lend yourself wholly and | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| not take themselves, their growth and happiness sufficiently seriously, as real factors to be reckoned with, experience | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| All of my friends should, once again, consider seriously what this path is. Why are they involved | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| love and fulfillment you take this sentence very seriously and contemplate its meaning, where there is darkness | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| all the good imaginable? By raising these questions seriously, you will get an answer on a deeply | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| a path as this. But once you are seriously involved in it, you must come to see | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| is certainly possible on this path. Anyone who seriously desires it can bring what is unconscious into | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| contact. This can be resolved only when you seriously settle down to seek the cause for this | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| fear and living fearlessly. As you who are seriously involved in this pathwork know, the road is | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| you are concerned? When all these questions are seriously confronted, you will see that it is not | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| tremendous dividends, my friends. If you do this seriously, just becoming still and expressing your intent to | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| not abandon the longing per se. Take it seriously. In fact, cultivate it and learn to understand | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| and again. Listen, give it attention, take it seriously. Also, do not be gullible. Realize that tests | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| and clarifications. They must be asked and taken seriously. They puzzle all those who arrive at this | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| cheated. When you cheat, the personality may become seriously doubtful that anything beyond the mind exists, because | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| with it. And when you do, take it seriously, do not push it aside as an illusion | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| fail to take the questions and the questioner seriously. It is extremely important to cultivate this curiosity | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Unless they are encouraged to take these perceptions seriously, they cannot learn two important lessons. One is | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| are. Still all too often you take them seriously, you do not acknowledge them as illusions and | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| must take the existence of your lower self seriously -- not in the wrong way by fearing | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| such a thing. But the more individuals are seriously motivated to choose their leaders according to this | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| a better way only when all participants are seriously filled with the purest of motives and directly | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| can conceive of and believe in. If you seriously long, pray, and search for a realization of | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| that are negative and divisive in any way. Seriously question any thoughts that seem correct but fail | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Seriousness.................8 | |
| then the second. Take up this task in seriousness; do not make a half-hearted attempt. Try to | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| appear in the areas where conflicts of lesser seriousness have been resolved. The next step will be | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| relatively short time, especially in view of the seriousness of your problems when you entered this path | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| words, intensity is not only supposed to connote seriousness and concentration, but also pleasure. This is not | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| faulty attitudes. However, the lightness and lack of seriousness of a self-realized person is completely different. Let | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| brings laughter and humor and a lack of seriousness or heaviness. But this does not in the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| power. The cramping is then often confused with seriousness, concentration, wholeness of purpose and being, as well | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the self must result in accountability and the seriousness of choosing thoughts, attitudes, actions and responses. This | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Servant.....................10 | |
| admiration for itself. It will be a humble servant and will always give God the honor. It | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| ever glorify me. For I am only a servant of the Lord, happy in my task. When | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| on the situation. The will should be a servant both to reason and emotion. It will be | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| altogether different. Will is supposed to be a servant, never a master. Ideally the will should serve | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| faculties. The will-type makes a master of the servant. This brings the personality out of focus in | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| upon. The person of will, for whom the servant is the master, is out for achievement and | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| ego must know that it is only a servant to the greater being within. Its main function | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| in honesty, the discriminating mind will be the servant it is supposed to be, not the master | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| femininity blossoms when the woman is just a servant to the man, feelings can actually blossom only | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| yourself and others. You then truly become a servant to God's plan. Desist from yielding to the | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Service.....................78 | |
| to do to contribute your energy to the service of the good only when you go on | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| to put to spiritual use and into the service of God's Plan of Salvation all that they | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| right balance and placed their intellect into the service of a higher end. This, too, will happen | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| Then you will be ready to offer your service to God's great plan, to become His co-worker | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| A medium should have given his or her service for free for at least three to five | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| expect the medium to give her time and service for free, unless the medium is still in | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| of the true mystic in our eyes is service. To reach perfection and to reach that state | 18 FREE WILL |
| of happiness where you can be of best service to your fellow-creatures is the goal. And only | 18 FREE WILL |
| a wonderful byproduct, so to speak -- but service to God through service to one's fellow-creatures through | 18 FREE WILL |
| to speak -- but service to God through service to one's fellow-creatures through the utter fulfillment of | 18 FREE WILL |
| purpose is not your own happiness, but the service you give and are to others. But do | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| between incarnations can also include a time of service and the fulfilling of certain tasks in the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| wish for the proper organization of such a service. We spirits of the world of God encourage | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| the person who seeks this help. Such regular service will strengthen the group as a whole tremendously | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| the impulses and drives you employ in their service are equally unreal, imaginary, and therefore ineffective and | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| will now detect the destructive feelings in the service of the no-current: fear, guilt, anger, frustration, hostility | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| that newly acquired faculties are put into the service of escaping, instead of being used for self-detection | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| to respond if you choose to request its service. It never pushes itself on you, but it | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| erotic, or pleasure principle, was put in the service of your hurt, your suffering, your pain. All | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| experienced truth. It cannot happen by paying lip service to the principle behind them, even if you | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| many people know this and pay it lip service frequently. But to understand this theoretically and to | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| moral issue as such. You may pay lip service to the feelings and rights of others or | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| the real self, no matter how much lip service they may pay it, they must fear all | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| what one thinks one believes and pays lip service to, and what one believes deep down in | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| significance of the transition is always in the service of growth, completion, perfection, additional creation, pleasure supreme | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| occurs when the omnipotence is put into the service of the self-willed little ego. The latter must | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| theoretically a long, long time, and paid lip service to it. But there is a world of | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| ignores these principles, or who pays only lip service to them, is emotionally not ready to assume | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| consciousness that contradict what you may pay lip service to on the conscious level. This is why | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| This strength and power is put in the service of evil, but the total personality rejects evil | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| far from being perfect, and you pay lip service to this truth. But do you really accept | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| your own part, even if you pay lip service to the idea that you also contributed to | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| of its power is not put into the service of this struggle about identity. When the entity | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| with a positive goal. Many may pay lip service to the positive goal of total self-purification and | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| already manifest higher self. You may pay lip service to the fact that you must be an | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| experience. It is much more like paying lip service to a philosophy you believe in on the | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| highly developed and can be put into the service of the purification process. Only then can feelings | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| subtle. Every truth can be put into the service of a distortion. This is why so much | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| All these attitudes are pridefully put in the service of maintaining the ego's separation. It is always | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| anything can be misused and put into the service of the life-negating ego tricks. If you have | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| is natural and cannot be abused in the service of power drives and negativity. What now seems | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| want to be. No matter how much lip service you may pay to the theory of your | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| indeed holy. When sexuality is used in the service of ego aggrandizement and lust for power, it | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| really exist, in spite of having given lip service to the words you have been hearing from | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| of strength that you partially put into the service of the forcing current, then for a long | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| that always seeks expression toward the divine, toward service, toward truth, toward love, toward being -- even | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| because they perform well and give you good service, or beauty, or joy. But it is one | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Even though you may no longer pay lip service to coincidence, your emotional reactions are still geared | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| can be. But, again, when put into the service of the separated ego, it becomes an endeavor | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| and doubt as one complementing whole in the service of truth and love. Now I shall leave | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| or my fear and put them into the service of God. That is what is so puzzling | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| put all of your conscious being into the service of the divine consciousness that dwells deep within | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| fulfill yourself. You have found that this very service enhances your fulfillment, just as this service requires | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| very service enhances your fulfillment, just as this service requires you to be a fulfilled and happy | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| experience that fulfillment of the self lies in service. And service can be executed only through self-fulfillment | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| fulfillment of the self lies in service. And service can be executed only through self-fulfillment. In other | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| perceive more consciously and deliberately the importance of service to the entire Christ consciousness that is infiltrating | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this not out of the pure spirit of service but by design. You always wanted this authority | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| relinquish the secret hope, to cease the false service, to become more self-responsible and consequently more self-assertive | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the consequent submission and lack of selfhood exist, service to a greater cause is premature, because you | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| best, the happiest and most fulfilled person. Then service will no longer be compensating for guilt. On | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to let go of the mask of false service and to expose the short-sighted selfishness of the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it. When people follow spiritual teachings which emphasize service too soon, there is a danger that they | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| hidden inward selfishness. Thus they will cultivate a service through martyrdom that is not wholesome for the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to meet their hidden selfishness, and therefore their service will also be distorted. In this light, you | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| beauty and the excitement of it. To give service to a greater cause will cleanse the residual | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this will not work. You constantly pay lip service to many truths in your mind and in | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| a fitting receptacle for truth, love, wisdom and service. At times you concentrated more on spiritual understanding | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| must become, at one point along the way, service to the greater cause. When this happens, the | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| and the fuller life becomes. This spirit of service encompasses more and more of my beloved friends | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| takes deeper roots in your hearts. When such service spreads, a great light springs up from your | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| as embodying love, truth, wisdom, salvation, goodness and service to the Creator and His plan, and on | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| one soul current is put secretly into the service of another, both become negative. If love, eros | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| mundane undertakings, for they are put into the service of the divine cause. Let your inner joy | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| follow this through painstakingly, in the spirit of service to fulfilling God's will, then evil forces cannot | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| inner conviction that it is done in the service of a larger cause--in other words, in love | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| By habit, you put all aggression into the service of lower-self aims, while keeping an apathetic, passive | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| and visualize putting your aggressive forces into the service of positive aims. You can refute negative influences | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |