| Stating.....................15 | |
| your willpower in the right direction is in stating first: Once and for all, I will use | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| to recognize these trends in you. I am stating a fact, and one of the basic requirements | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| has come up. Would I be correct in stating that detachment is just another way of expressing | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| your growth. I sometimes have to refrain from stating a spiritual truth directly because your subconscious would | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to yourself. If you can acknowledge this, calmly stating to yourself, I'm too nervous and restless to | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| be emptied out, constant interaction between impressing -- stating truth and formulating constructive intent -- and expressing | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| inside, the nature of impression becomes that of stating the truthful concept as opposed to the false | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| inner climate by properly formulating it and subsequently stating your desire to change it by creating a | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| feel such a hurt, simply and without adornment, stating the fact and why it hurts you, you | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| do this by creating the thought forms, by stating that this is possible, and by perceiving, knowing | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| leads into your innermost being. The second step, stating and clarifying your conflict -- as two of | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| prerequisite to change. The dialogue should consist of stating and acknowledging in clear-cut words your contracting reaction | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| activate the guiding wisdom of your spiritual self. Stating in your meditation your intent and wish to | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| You can immediately create a new condition by stating into yourself: Is it really necessary to be | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you can create this capacity in yourself by stating the desire and intent, by being willing to | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| Station.....................5 | |
| your own happiness will merely be a way station, so to speak. Your happiness will be given | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| energy field, which is its antenna, its receiving station, so that it must become a reactor. Its | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| my friends, and perhaps dwell in an interim station and then try to get on again? Don't | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| Imagine stepping into a train. It leaves the station. There is an interim period before you arrive | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| have the inborn ability to be a relay station of creative forces, if only you knew this | 254 SURRENDER |
| Stature.....................6 | |
| and your love will mature and grow in stature. Thus you will grow out of the immature | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| believe that material wealth will gain him greater stature in the eyes of the world. With someone | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| negative aspects of the child, you gain in stature, in certainty, in clear-cut, realistic concepts that you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| innate talents and fulfill your task. As your stature grows due to your ongoing development, so does | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| will become comfortable as the soul grows in stature. This happens through a process of development over | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| flesh. You will see, as you grow in stature through gaining selfhood, that more of your real | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Status......................12 | |
| without it you could never attain a godlike status. However, it has to be distinguished from self-will | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| more fulfillment and simply wishing to accept the status quo because this is the easier way. Deep | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| use all your defense mechanisms to preserve your status as a lovable human being. You use such | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| they are once, or several times, removed, the status quo must be temporarily accepted -- but only | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| fulfillment and thus also the feared opposite. The status quo, stagnation, creates agitation, or movement in the | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| fearful to risk. Hence you remain in the status quo and cling to an illusory life, not | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| possibly be otherwise, you must remain in the status quo. So it is with many of you | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| then becomes the excuse for the artificially maintained status quo. This is the sin against life, defeating | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the excuse to remain still longer in the status quo. The ego uses the results of its | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| letting go is so strong. You prefer the status quo in which you avoid falling into those | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| create and expand your life. You prefer the status quo, even though the state of letting loose | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| the illusion of stopping time and sustaining the status quo. This is one of the major inner | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| Stays.......................4 | |
| might be hindrance for development. But inner knowledge stays. That is not blurred. That would never be | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| line and what is the law regulating what stays down and what comes up? ANSWER: There is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| with the whole takes place. Then the entity stays at the point of fusion in unending spiritual | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| through the human instrumentality. The blessing lasts; it stays and slowly awaits your readiness. It will come | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Steadily....................32 | |
| not giving up, but continuing to press on steadily. That has to be the price. Today I | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| decent people. However, they do not develop themselves steadily in the sense necessary to heal the sick | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| of the requirements, when he or she develops steadily and does not think of having reached the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| become ever more solid; your recognitions will increase steadily. You will come to know God's will not | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| the understanding for the other party will increase steadily because you have experienced it yourself and it | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| appeared at first sight. With this influence growing steadily through the ages, the fallen spirits during their | 21 THE FALL |
| the understanding you have gained, quietly, patiently, and steadily accepting your temporary inability to react differently, knowing | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| inviting pain in an unhealthy way, and thus steadily, though slowly, you will approach the point where | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| love. Your capacity to love, in turn, increases steadily as your willingness to love increases. The willingness | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the child in you requests. But as you steadily convince yourself that not receiving it is no | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and exploring the subconscious is indicative of the steadily increasing general development, despite the pitfalls, misunderstandings, and | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| in your mind. You do not have to steadily concentrate on a particular subject. That is not | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| circle operating from one to the other, and steadily worsening as time goes on. Yet it suffices | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| stop overnight, but the desire for it may steadily diminish. Then there is something else which, too | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| you. But your work on the path progresses steadily, and if you train your inner perception by | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| away by the establishment of the idealized self, steadily increases. It snowballs, and becomes worse and worse | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| tearing the person apart -- that self-estrangement increases steadily, and therefore reality becomes not only more ugly | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the path I advocate and along which I steadily lead you. Allow your emotions to come to | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| reason, my friends, is that the former develop steadily, according to their potentiality. Their life is on | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| live fully, to increase your awareness, to grow steadily in your capacity for full emotional experience. All | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| sense of strength, adequacy, and resourcefulness will grow steadily -- with occasional relapses, of course -- but | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| what misconceptions it is based. Your unconscious speaks steadily, my friends. It speaks without your hearing it | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| without feeling harassed, and the bliss of effortlessly, steadily growing. This happiness cannot be described. All this | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| understanding that includes others. The new way increases steadily, provided you do not stop the flow. The | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| to render you more alive, more fulfilled, and steadily stronger. Certainly, none of this can be said | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| knowing what their inner unrest signifies. Those who steadily disregard the clamoring of their inner voice may | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| If you work toward this goal, you will steadily move closer to unifying the ego level and | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| that crisis, eruption, breakdown, are inevitable and are steadily drawing nearer. Yet you resist doing what could | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| group venture are so wonderful. The power grows steadily through your progress and liberation and the faith | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| still removed. I mean that the manifestation moves steadily closer to an overlap with your inner state | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| The number of friends reaching these stages increases steadily and they help transmute the energies of new | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| find that outer infringements of your freedom diminish steadily. When you are without childish temper tantrums and | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Steady......................30 | |
| cannot see and touch. Such an answer will steady your weak faith. Consider it as the first | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| one another; they can only be integrated by steady inner development. The experience of absolute truth is | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| moment's satisfaction, but never peace of mind, serenity, steady happiness that can never be lost and that | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| Isn't the proof of the real ecstasy a steady and permanent improvement of the life of the | 18 FREE WILL |
| unavoidable at the beginning. On the whole, a steady, permanent, and very real improvement must be noticeable | 18 FREE WILL |
| one foot after another in a slow but steady process. In this jungle you constantly create soul | 36 PRAYER |
| does not proceed upward or downward along a steady line. It fluctuates, going up and down in | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| their soul development. They find refuge in the steady comfort of their relationship. They may even believe | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| all this without haste, without tension, but with steady perseverance, you will see all the wrong conclusions | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| harmoniously. All healthy growth is organic, slow and steady. Here the principle of restriction is at work | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| that your development does not go in a steady line upward, or let us say, to speak | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| true that nothing has more power than the steady stream of water. It can move rocks and | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It does not come overnight. It comes from steady self-search and analysis of your problems, your attitudes | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| wish-capacity. These four aspects prohibit a healthy, relaxed steady flow of your will and your wish capacity | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| these insightful levels have been reached through the steady progress and organic growth that persevering work is | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the natural movement of time which is a steady, harmonious flow. If you can feel into its | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| intellectual understanding of one-time misconceptions, thereby overlooking the steady flow of the no-current, and how it works | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| Again, the truthful answer to these questions, through steady observation, formulation of vague feelings, and meditation exercises | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| rare moments, but more and more as a steady companion. It will be your way of living | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| truly find your own rights. It is a steady growing process to find these rights. The process | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| the innermost being can this state become a steady condition of the soul. To extend your understanding | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| only. Eventually it will manifest itself as your steady inner climate. Before you can live in this | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| inner climate. Before you can live in this steady climate, you will have to go through two | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| false self- humiliation and shame disappear. Through the steady activation of the higher powers, the self feels | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| activity and passivity. When this balance becomes a steady state, the destructive infant grows up. It is | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| generate. It is an ongoing, never-ending process of steady expansion and self-expression. The principle is exactly the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| for the sake of reaching a more desirable steady state. They want to realize their potential for | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| as if situation. Needless to say that all steady relationships on this earth do not indicate real | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| the other is closed, and vice versa. Only steady development and growth changes this so that both | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| the nucleus of this path has kept a steady balance. We pray to the Lord for His | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |