| Spirituality................67 | |
| not necessarily be connected with a gift for spirituality. As this entity enters the spirit world, the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| a fact that in times to come, when spirituality will have developed so much more, many people | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| be expected. Then there is the level of spirituality and symbolism -- the level that you might | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wonderful and an expression of one's devotion and spirituality. Here we have one of those cases where | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| change inner currents indicates the true and mature spirituality that we want for you. Only in this | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| law is a must and therefore not real spirituality. But outer law is a necessity for those | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for the good of the community, one's personal spirituality is an eminently private affair. The maximum growth | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| do they ignore the difference between true, individual spirituality and the escape into a pseudo-religion out of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| distinct from and in addition to the original spirituality and karma and the plan? ANSWER: Heredity can | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| a danger that, to one born with afflictions, spirituality serves as an escape? ANSWER: You cannot do | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| discover the old, old truths of metaphysics and spirituality. The more successful your earth methods become, the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| most of you connotes such vague and distant spirituality, let us use the phrase pleasure supreme on | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| a moment believe that you move away from spirituality by our emphasis on psychological work. The one | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for a number of individuals. True religion, genuine spirituality, aims primarily to make you free, to make | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| happiness -- not accepting death with a wishful-thinking spirituality, by avoiding your fears and doubts; not by | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of you are free of the distortion of spirituality; namely, its use as escape, as a substitute | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| conclusions, the false solutions -- directly contradict the spirituality that you all aim for. Then, and only | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| us consider this subject in the light of spirituality. You all have come originally with the idea | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| from it? How can you hope to gain spirituality -- and spirituality, religion, and love are one | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| can you hope to gain spirituality -- and spirituality, religion, and love are one -- by neglecting | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you all sit back, hoping for a comfortable spirituality that leaves out your personal involvement in the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| able to change would lead you away from spirituality, is utterly untrue, of course. Common sense will | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| inner change that brings you closer to true spirituality than all the words you hear in the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| it shows a gross misunderstanding of what true spirituality is. It shows the superficial approach of humanity | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| about yourself. But they cannot be used for spirituality. Spirituality is, above all things, love, with all | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| yourself. But they cannot be used for spirituality. Spirituality is, above all things, love, with all its | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| if people are still so crude in their spirituality that they have no conscience, nothing will interfere | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| self- knowledge is the prerequisite to love, to spirituality. There is no way around that. No matter | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a creative talent. An unbalanced, one-sided need for spirituality and seclusion may be the manifestation of displaced | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| combination of these two aspects, for the misunderstood spirituality is a product of the greedy, fearful, weak | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| being can manifest: not by escaping into cut-off spirituality, but by complete integration of the ego with | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| to come through, having found my misconception about spirituality and the physical body. But it is still | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| world. In reality it is not so. True spirituality is not a state up in heaven. This | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| than positive. Even your preaching about love and spirituality generally has little to do with true emotional | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| come into your divine nature, must not confuse spirituality with mere spiritual ideas. You must bring your | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| must be particularly concerned with this topic. True spirituality must make fuller men and women out of | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| have emotional and mental integrity. Therefore pleasure and spirituality, pleasure and decency, pleasure and emotional maturity, pleasure | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the whole of your personality, to your manifest spirituality, than you realize. For by denying it, you | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| guidance. There are two basic approaches to human spirituality. One is to emphasize and concentrate on the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| to do this, the second approach to human spirituality must be adopted. It means shedding the light | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| this path that the second way of approaching spirituality and realizing the spiritual self is the approach | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| When sufficient unblocking has been done and false spirituality has been sufficiently cleared up, then a new | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| result of either adopting a false, escaping, separating spirituality, or negating the greater reality altogether. In both | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| channel for the real spiritual influx. Often real spirituality is rejected by people meaning to reject the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| by people meaning to reject the false, escapist spirituality, and confusing the two. As the blocks to | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| in religions, with very undesirable results. It discredits spirituality itself among those who cannot distinguish between superimposition | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| regions. The more life on earth progresses in spirituality, justice, love, truth and oneness, the more it | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| the whole. Forsaking everyday living is not true spirituality. In most cases, it is merely another kind | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| processes safe. The self-disciplined person can surrender to spirituality, to sexuality, to the deeper feelings and processes | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| do with the important questions of creativity, or spirituality, or life. But it is a fact that | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| say that having desires is a hindrance to spirituality. Eastern philosophy expounds on desirelessness as a necessary | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| it is still inconceivable to combine sexuality with spirituality. This concept is bound to change soon; the | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| a new era. In former times, sexuality and spirituality were considered antithetical. It was not known that | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| and oneness must bring sexuality into alignment with spirituality. The realization of your spiritual life is possible | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| part from the other. The real meaning of spirituality is oneness and wholeness, and that means it | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| yourself. The difficulty human beings have in unifying spirituality and sexuality, even in a concept, is due | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| in sexuality, sexuality becomes vicious and antagonistic to spirituality. This is why people acted out for millennia | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| emphasis on the negative is necessary for genuine spirituality to be reached. Some of you may have | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| the deepest, most honest level, who fuse their spirituality, their emotional selves, their minds, and their physical | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| your work on the Path, you are using spirituality as an escape from self, an avoidance of | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| then often came to mean an opposition to spirituality, a contradiction which, of course, is utterly false | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| being different, thus challenging your insecurity about your spirituality and your religious background. Some of you have | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| leads to further separation -- the duality of spirituality versus practical life -- and therefore ultimately to | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| life -- and therefore ultimately to a delusionary spirituality that is not grounded in the Now. This | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| never fleeing it, never denying it, never using spirituality as a means to escape from it. All | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| the underpinning of spiritual self-realization. Without this state, spirituality must, sooner or later, bend into some distortion | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| therefore it is seen as an obstacle to spirituality. This again shows how everything in the universe | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Spiritualization............1 | |
| needs this approach particularly to complete the total spiritualization of the inner personality. Then the power of | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| Spiritualize................3 | |
| quiet within, to turn to God, and to spiritualize her whole being and attitude during pregnancy. When | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| therefore I must sublimate my fleshly impulses and spiritualize them. This leads to repression, and when you | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the most dominant factor when you attempt to spiritualize your being in ways which avoid taking cognizance | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| Spiritualized...............7 | |
| in spite of yearning for it. The more spiritualized the soul, the less it will stem against | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| find the necessary fulfillment with parents having a spiritualized outlook. Enough parents are available whose attitude would | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| fulfill. Such worthiness is often determined by the spiritualized way of looking at life. So, last-minute changes | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| one: Celibacy is supposed to be a highly spiritualized form of development in certain religious sects. On | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| conducive to the pleasure principle than is the spiritualized rejection of bodily pleasure. In a mature and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| manifestation. As matter disintegrates, it has already been spiritualized by having possessed the kernel of life, even | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| to spirit so much that matter will have spiritualized completely. Matter will no longer be an obstruction | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |