| Strengths...................9 | |
| their efforts to help others with their particular strengths. The plan of creation will only come to | 21 THE FALL |
| created His children. He created various powers and strengths and forces and He distributed them in such | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| weaknesses, as well as about your qualities and strengths. In the last analysis, the wrong inner impression | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| remain rigid. Therefore all these healthy and beautiful strengths and forces of the universe that the soul | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| basic factors to be considered. The characteristics, the strengths, and the tasks are different, according to former | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| done because people prefer to think of their strengths rather than of their weaknesses. QUESTION: Would you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| it, from without. Developing your own resources and strengths instead of obtaining them from a being outside | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the other's vulnerability and human needs. The other's strengths and weaknesses become distorted and discolored. Both come | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| pleasure, and fulfillment require the greatest of all strengths. Unhappiness requires much less strength than happiness. Strength | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Strenuous...................12 | |
| your thought process. The exercises need not be strenuous, nor will they have to take up much | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| restful and controlled -- not controlled by any strenuous discipline or outer willpower, but by your relaxed | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| be loved. But your desire will be less strenuous, less urgent, and therefore you will suffer correspondingly | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| would not resist. Moreover, maintaining your illusions requires strenuous effort on your part. Illusion always causes tension | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| self- realization. At that moment you understand how strenuous the pseudo-protections and pseudo- solutions are. How much | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| experience for evermore the truth that pseudo-solutions are strenuous and energy- consuming, while experiencing the real self | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| guilt and uncertainty are inevitable. The winner makes strenuous demands on the self which are not only | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| have often said that the more tense and strenuous your desire, the more an unconscious countercurrent must | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| inner and outer conditions -- is much more strenuous than the effort needed for the course I | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| relaxed and harmonious your movements are, the less strenuous moving is. Movement becomes effortless and self-perpetuating. A | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| not exist and thus live a life of strenuous pretense at the expense of all the vital | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| desires, feel it. As you feel the tight, strenuous current of the need to blame, experience and | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| Strenuously.................10 | |
| do not see the very trends you most strenuously object to in someone else. That is dangerous | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| brings problems and disappointments, they try even more strenuously to pursue what they regard as the solution | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| true that the criticism, against which you so strenuously defend yourself, often threatens to expose something you | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| may deceive yourself because that which you so strenuously desire may in itself be something constructive. Yet | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| these similar conditions within yourself that you so strenuously object to outwardly. They may exist in a | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the self into the harmonious flow unifies, while strenuously and fearfully holding the self together splits and | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| number of manifestations in your life that you strenuously struggle against. And that is exactly your pain | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| within that says no to what you most strenuously say yes to on the surface. It is | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| one hand, attempt to assuage your self-doubts by strenuously building cases; on the other hand, you will | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| not want and no longer reaching anxiously and strenuously for what you do want. You will know | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Stress......................35 | |
| first, does not walk this path. I must stress this again and again for certain friends. Furthermore | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| is called a miracle. Here I want to stress the point, although you all know it, that | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| circumstances. At this time, I would like to stress once again that even for the most regular | 18 FREE WILL |
| difficulty for you. Here I should like to stress that you did not choose to leave divine | 18 FREE WILL |
| consciousness. Any imperfection is a hindrance. I cannot stress emphatically enough that only those who crucify their | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| any of you can realize. I want to stress that there is no coincidence here; none of | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| supplementary details later on. I do wish to stress most emphatically that this lecture touches the greatest | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| yourself -- and that is pride. Let me stress once again: Intellectually you know that you are | 31 SHAME |
| at first, my friends. Again, I want to stress that you are not expected to tell your | 31 SHAME |
| is pride that makes you shy. I cannot stress it enough, my friends, and I cannot beg | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| are much more subtle and complicated. I cannot stress enough that you are no longer aware of | 38 IMAGES |
| work on this path, my friends. I cannot stress this enough. When you do this, you will | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| for a stringent path of self-development! I cannot stress this enough. So if you can leave psychic | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| but I must do so. I want to stress that it is an unjustified guilt feeling when | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| in outer deeds. But I would like to stress here that Jesus' crucifixion did not merely take | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your emotional reactions to specific desires. I cannot stress emphatically enough how important this will be for | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| accept a good part of it. Let me stress that this state of maturity does not have | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| particular phase of your development, to put less stress on the so-called spiritual, and more on the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| taken place has it become important not to stress sin and evil as much in order to | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| complete inner will to face everything within. To stress the outer actions may so easily lead to | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| all forms of self-centeredness as being destructive and stress the need to grow out of separateness. By | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| absent, the pleasure principle cannot manifest. I cannot stress sufficiently how important it is to look into | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| In this discussion I should particularly like to stress the relationship between the nature of life and | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| accord with your actual life experience. I cannot stress this emphatically enough, for it is constantly glossed | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| you distrust your innermost self. I wish to stress again that people who constrict their natural soul | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| from others because of them. I cannot sufficiently stress the difference between an apparent freedom from cruelty | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| into greater detail, let me, first of all, stress that humanity's unhappy condition is due primarily to | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| normal state of being. What I wish to stress here is perhaps somewhat confusing at first, since | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| creates deep entanglements and confusions. I must particularly stress once more that it creates dependency. If you | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| is between the eyes. Oriental philosophy puts great stress on this center. It is often called the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| I recommend the assertion, Here I am in stress and pain. I am in a situation that | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| contacted the negative inner will. I want to stress how important it is to realize that the | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| put yourself under great psychic, emotional, and spiritual stress. This must be avoided. On your path you | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| answers, enlightenment. This is why I so often stress in my guidance that your customary belief that | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| layers that need to be removed. I cannot stress emphatically enough that you are not to take | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Stressed....................12 | |
| actually still think or feel. It should be stressed that thoughts can be controlled by your conscious | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| so basic and important that it cannot be stressed enough. As you rightly say, before willpower and | 21 THE FALL |
| we turn to your other questions? QUESTION: You stressed the point that one should open up to | 31 SHAME |
| obvious that it does not need to be stressed again. Such self-development, in combination with awareness of | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| misconceptions, and your unconscious confusions and conflicts. I stressed the necessity of doing this work of self- | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| That is just one of the points I stressed in the last lecture. Now I will answer | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| be let free. Therefore obedience had to be stressed in order to protect society. Superficially this may | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| individuals. In tonight's lecture this point was again stressed from a new angle. You are under the | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| much about this before, yet it cannot be stressed enough that inner growth and freedom can come | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| really a kind of self-pity. It cannot be stressed enough how important it is to be on | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| of misinterpreted material from the past cannot be stressed enough. The majority of human beings go through | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Jesus Christ, in his life on earth, always stressed that the evildoer is nearer to God than | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |