| Society's...................6 | |
| Only in its immature manifestation is it self-centered. Society's emphasis on its sinfulness so often causes this | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| often very much unaware of such emotions. If society's rules were, at least, directed to the real | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| crisis and conflict of the personality must be. Society's taboos regarding the erotic and sexual forces contained | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| and loving. Such people believe they give into society's demands and they thereby lose the integrity of | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| need to be covered up to conform with society's standards. Thus you become further alienated from what | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| clearly influenced by and also reflect a specific society's attitude to tradition. There are those who put | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Soft........................32 | |
| The answer will come with a very small soft voice that will not be pushing or pressing | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| own higher self is so far away and soft, sometimes so inaccessible, that it does not speak | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| dominate, although such domination must always manifest in soft, weak helplessness. It is no wonder that a | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| this earth, its soul-stuff is very malleable, very soft. Within this soul- stuff lie all the potentials | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| negative -- that the entity grows. The malleable, soft substance of the soul is, by its very | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| very opposite of rigidity, because it is overly soft in substance. But upon closer inspection you will | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| very aliveness comes forth from a tender and soft center. When children are hurt and puzzled -- | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| this vulnerable spot to defend themselves against its soft openness. By these various defense mechanisms, the live | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| mature ego -- the child cannot handle this soft, malleable live center in which the most powerful | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| will become strong and resilient without losing its soft aliveness. You find yourself in the predicament of | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| satisfactory conclusion. The real hurt is a gentle, soft experience, never unbearable, always leaving the essence of | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| gentle hurt. No destructiveness will arise when the soft and gentle original hurt is accepted. Out of | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| gentle original hurt is accepted. Out of it soft and gentle good feelings will arise, swelling stronger | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| is a result of fighting against what is. Soft pain is a result of acceptance. Once the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| feelings, real and false needs, and the resulting soft and hard pains. To find your way further | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| is much less due to the real pain. Soft pain due to unfulfilled real needs may momentarily | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| complaining bitterness to the real pain that is soft, melting, and joyous -- yes, joyous. The real | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| disharmonious and raw? Is it a smooth, enlivening, soft flow? When you feel good, happy, open and | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| alive, the soul movements are very smooth and soft, yet in this very softness lies an enormous | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| wanting and not wanting can be harmonious and soft or disharmonious and pointed. It would be a | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| soul currents. Creative receptivity arises out of a soft, relaxed, flowing movement. The pain of taking in | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| state of flexible desire, in a stream of soft trustful waiting, for the truth to reveal itself | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| whole creative universe. A new freedom to be soft and vulnerable will make you truly strong and | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| Then you are infused with warmth, love, confidence, soft flow, joy, and creative expansion. This process takes | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| you secretly expect. If you are by nature soft and pliant, but use these assets in order | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| energy of the higher self is felt as soft, nurturing, vitalizing; you bathe in the energy emanation | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| the strong person must never be receptive and soft. The balancing measurement is beyond your intellectual calculations | 228 BALANCE |
| the entity to decide spontaneously when to be soft and when to strongly assert a position. There | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| aggression, as well as in the state of soft receptivity and acceptance. Perfection is a breathing, living | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| occasion. The self then becomes at times wrongly soft where confrontation and assertion would be appropriate and | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| with it sweetly, as it were. In this soft, yielding, life-accepting, life-affirming attitude, your own strength grows | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| free from armoring, who does not deny the soft vulnerability that can experience the pain of all | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Softness....................12 | |
| her true creative powers. It is true that softness in a man, based on his immature dependency | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| reject emotions, affection, and what they may consider softness. To them all this represents danger. Instead of | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| that is no more real than the helpless softness of the submissive person, the power type is | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| closer inspection you will find that this very softness, devoid of healthy resistance, cannot let go of | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| -- a mixture of resilient and healthily resistant softness. This combination produces the ideal conditions that enable | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| different characteristic. It will soon turn into a softness that can dissolve more easily. It will transform | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| alternation of tension and relaxation, of firmness and softness. The fertile soil of life, growth, peace, pleasure | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| need to fear, and a new gentleness and softness that does not need hostility or other defenses | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| very smooth and soft, yet in this very softness lies an enormous strength. When the movement is | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| effectively, powerfully, and yet so softly. Conversely, your softness can manifest in strong assertion and determination. But | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| combines independence, self- responsibility, full-fledged adulthood with the softness and yieldingness that was previously associated exclusively with | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| The new-age man combines his heart feelings, his softness, his gentleness with his strength and abilities, not | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Soil........................20 | |
| you have a treasure hidden deep in the soil, the only way you can get to that | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| then do you grow, only then is the soil fertile for growth. QUESTION: May I ask about | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| dearest friends, may these words fall on fruitful soil. May you all come a tiny little step | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| yourself with a gardener who must prepare the soil, but who does not make the plant grow | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| own consciousness is like the gardener preparing the soil. Eliminating wrong concepts is analogous to the gardener | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| your blocks is like removing rocks in the soil that hinder the spreading of the roots and | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| can sprout compares to the gardener tending the soil, seeing that it has sufficient light, moisture, and | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| your life and that how you prepare the soil depends on you. This goes with a proper | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| illusion. Love can flower only on the substantial soil of reality and fearlessness. Where one perceives reality | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| Only its dormant life potential slumbers in the soil, waiting for the seed to grow again in | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| and relaxation, of firmness and softness. The fertile soil of life, growth, peace, pleasure is the resilience | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| function. When a seed is sown into the soil, it cannot at once be pulled out as | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| what is already there. Perceive yourself as fertile soil before the seeds are planted. Fertile soil contains | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| fertile soil before the seeds are planted. Fertile soil contains incredible power to bring about new expressions | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| entire consciousness and aliveness is the most fertile soil imaginable. The fertile soil is constantly there with | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| is the most fertile soil imaginable. The fertile soil is constantly there with incredible power to bring | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| being and plant a seed in the fertile soil of the creative substance of which you are | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| you, like a seed that falls into the soil to germinate. With no defenses, you will let | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| thoughts, to sending your thoughts into the fertile soil of the creative substance, or what I call | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| plant new creative thought material into the rich soil of your soul substance. You cannot create anything | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Sojourn.....................3 | |
| Spirit World is really a memory of your sojourn in the Spirit World while your body was | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| as in other symbolic language is that one's sojourn in a human body is a journey. This | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| developed aspects of your being. Then indeed the sojourn in the lower worlds of those aspects seems | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Solar.......................29 | |
| spiritual field of the human being. In the solar plexus, a person's entire spiritual picture is imprinted | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| train your willpower to flow out of your solar plexus and not out of your brain. There | 18 FREE WILL |
| of view. QUESTION: What do you mean by solar plexus as opposed to the brain? ANSWER: A | 18 FREE WILL |
| as the soul. In the region of the solar plexus, in radiant matter not visible with your | 18 FREE WILL |
| takes place, but from the region of your solar plexus. Your soul, however, manifests in your emotional | 21 THE FALL |
| the advice to listen within you where your solar plexus or spiritual field is. You may receive | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| be realized. The inner will comes from the solar plexus. The outer will comes partly from the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| -- not in your brain but in your solar plexus -- that your reaction, or your knowledge | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| inner brain, so to speak, located in the solar plexus, gives you the most enlightening guidance, wisdom | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| that happens from deep inside -- from the solar plexus, rather than from the upper mind. And | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| less obstructed than ever before. Out of your solar plexus flow new wisdom, strength, serenity, and dynamic | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| center seems to be located deep within the solar plexus. This is not a complete illusion in | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| will come from the deepest resources of the solar plexus, rather than the volitional, artificial thought processes | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| In the middle of the body is the solar plexus. For years and years I have spoken | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the center of your body, around the solar plexus. From this area new life flows -- | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| of the spine. There is another in the solar plexus region. A third center is at the | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| feelings -- sexuality, partnership love, personal love. The solar plexus center opens the way to the connection | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| are recognized and the vaster brain in the solar plexus is consulted. The ego must learn to | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| quite activated. The second center is in the solar plexus. Its opening creates a connection with spiritual | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| beloved other human being. The opening of the solar plexus channel connects you with the ongoing, ever-present | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| where you find solutions for everything. In the solar plexus is the center that connects you with | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| as being somewhere in the region of your solar plexus. This is so, because, as outlined last | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| as outlined last time, the center in the solar plexus region is the channel of communication with | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| mean that cosmic truth is located in the solar plexus. Your inner wisdom provides down-to-earth answers when | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| to reside in a special area within the solar plexus. This view is no more true than | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| messages come out through this center in the solar plexus -- which is, perhaps, no more than | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| resides neither in the brain nor in the solar plexus. Where does it reside, then? It is | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| busy, agitated mind. Therefore the center at the solar plexus will open. Through this exercise, a channel | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| your innermost being, from the center of your solar plexus, the voice of wisdom will guide you | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |