| Struggled...................3 | |
| could experience some kind of gratification, provided he struggled hard enough to be successful. This situation will | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| This is a subject with which I have struggled for a long time, and I am well | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| aspects you had exclusively identified with and therefore struggled against seeing, this shameful isolation ceases and the | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Struggles...................33 | |
| start and not be dismayed by the first struggles, you would finally succeed in setting the inner | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| eyes, but there is something in you that struggles against hearing the truth, and so you busily | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| there is also another part of you that struggles violently against it. If you can bring yourself | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| is detached from your problems and your inner struggles may see things in the right light. As | 31 SHAME |
| and fear. Isn't the seeker who kicks and struggles against unhappiness acting out of pride? Doesn't the | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| the right one, the personality only too often struggles against the tide, trying to force life into | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| no longer be a compulsive burden one unconsciously struggles against, sacrificing one's happiness, in the belief that | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ashamed as much of these endearing and touching struggles in themselves as they are ashamed of their | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is bound to come. How the human soul struggles against this, the ultimate fate of every being | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| every day, in all your little ordeals and struggles. The manner in which you meet these determines | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| be yours. If you meet these ordeals and struggles in a similar spirit of truthfulness, you will | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| avoid at all costs. So the immature soul struggles to get both safety and pleasure without daring | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| on this path, that one of your great struggles is overcoming the unconscious desire to remain a | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| complex beings with their own vulnerabilities, their own struggles, or are they for you -- emotionally -- | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| has developed more than the other, due to struggles already overcome, it does not mean that communication | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| being. Understand their lives, their inner and outer struggles, their own childhood -- from whatever you know | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| unpleasant that the entity pulls itself together and struggles out of it. Unfortunately, only too often sloth | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| mind does not translate this message properly and struggles to be correct, good, right. But what is | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| But acceptance is impossible as long as one struggles. The mind is divided. Part of it says | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| to your inner causes, but the human being struggles against this truth often more than reason warrants | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| justified. But the tragedy is that one often struggles with all one's might against that which makes | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| fruition and which wants to envelop him. He struggles against the cosmic force as though it were | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| already liberated yourselves from some of the false struggles. You have understood them to some extent, but | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| of you who reads these words -- still struggles against a problem that does not exist. Let | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| indulge in negativity, while the outer will fights, struggles and presses for a desired result that cannot | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the self. When one fears the down curve, struggles and fights against it, one fights against one's | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| eventually notices that when one no longer fights, struggles against, avoids and fears the pain, it becomes | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| insignificant, subjective experiences and reactions in your daily struggles, the better it is. Examine your problematic reactions | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| bears witness to this fact, and everyone who struggles in her or his own development feels threatened | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| here, groping to solve your inner problems and struggles, are still often caught unconsciously in the old | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| it constitute one of your most basic inner struggles. You know this from your own experience. Tonight | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| and blessings for every individual who searches and struggles for inner unity. Everyone here is motivated by | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| aspects of their souls together and therefore their struggles may sometimes be much fiercer. Also, the less | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Struggling..................62 | |
| bring you over those hurdles where you are struggling with the difficulties in your spiritual development on | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| you have progressed so far, you find yourself struggling not to fall into the opposite extreme of | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| world often become sad. We see so many struggling men and women longing to be loved who | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| wants this; another part of me is still struggling against good wishes for certain people. In this | 36 PRAYER |
| mean by feeling as I do? Am I struggling against life's realities? Does my struggle mean that | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| attitudes are just another way of kicking and struggling -- and refusing life's lessons. Another distortion of | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| before it is out, while you are still struggling with it, you will feel the shame very | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| my advice for all those who are still struggling on this threshold to ask themselves, What do | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| the path itself, while previously you were only struggling to get on it. But do not imagine | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| yes to an imposed or inevitable duty, or struggling against it and being forced to accept it | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| that you become aware of how you are struggling to maintain the isolated life, in which, at | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| see, my dear friends, what humanity is actually struggling to maintain is a state of isolating darkness | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| yourself. The blind and ignorant human ego is struggling against the unknown new state of pure happiness | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| is no longer a question of preventing the struggling soul from gaining harmful and hindering knowledge, or | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| for life and unhappiness for death. While still struggling in this duality, it is impossible to accept | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| is gradually decreased until it disappears altogether. By struggling against death, as you struggle against your lower | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| did not cling to the idealized self while struggling to give it up. Once you have accepted | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| harmony, while much more highly developed people are struggling, disharmonious, unhappy. The reason, my friends, is that | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| beings groping to solve their own problems and struggling with their own puzzlement about life. When this | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the overactivity of the forcing current, the wild struggling, a serenity is generated which brings the person | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| their real guilt, while others may still be struggling to recognize their false guilt. They are still | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| philosophies and religions ask that you give up struggling. This is a true teaching, but it is | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| yourself. Overcoming impurities and immaturity does not mean struggling against yourself, but rather allowing these aspects reach | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| overcome what is disturbing and destructive, not by struggling against it. Healthy struggle will always make you | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| on. In some hidden way you must be struggling against yourself -- perhaps against a doubt or | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| you feel them it is time to stop struggling and allow your hidden emotions to reach the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| you had never dared to face. So by struggling to repress your insecurity, you actually increase it | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| attitude is the unhealthy struggle against the fear. Struggling in the sense of telling yourself that I | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| hiding, with all its ramifications. If you stop struggling against the fear, if you can say, I | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| a very different way. Immersion is due to struggling against the wave. The fear of drowning prevents | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| proper self-evaluation. It means that you can stop struggling, because you are engaged in fighting illusion -- | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| illusion -- will make you stop running and struggling against what is. Gradually, a new understanding will | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| unhappiness and happiness become one. Because you cease struggling against the now, you are in the now | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| enlightened. The combination of facing the now without struggling against yourself and desiring the greater truth will | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| eliminate your imperfections much more effectively than by struggling against them. Working this out in a more | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| Some of my friends have made their first struggling attempts on this path to comprehend the principle | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| has yet to get disentangled from such predicaments: struggling and defending against false assumptions, nonexistent dangers. You | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| false struggle. Now what to do? Give up struggling on a conscious level to force yourself to | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| being in the immediate now, your fighting and struggling against it in an unconstructive way, causes so | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| live it through, not by denying it or struggling away from it, but by seeing and accepting | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| you have done so already; others are still struggling with it and have only half-heartedly admitted its | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| experiences anger in a totally different way from struggling against the anger and letting it out in | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| in consciousness. Usually the mind makes such frantic, struggling movements against the pain and frustration that it | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| to find the right answers and attitudes, of struggling and not struggling, both in the right way | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| right answers and attitudes, of struggling and not struggling, both in the right way and the right | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| ultimately brings liberation, but even while you are struggling, and each time you win, such a path | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| you. Again you venture forth into new territory, struggling to unify the discovered disunity. And so it | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| every single entity's destiny to bridge ignorance by struggling toward these unifications. The most difficult challenges are | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| catch me. Suppose the other person is inwardly struggling with giving up a similar defense. Their resistance | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| of consciousness, thrown into the outer darkness and struggling against being swallowed up by it. This struggle | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| disorder interact as you grope in the dark, struggling to make a patchwork of the half-truths at | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| into the cold means for you. Instead of struggling against the darkness, accept it as a temporary | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| still go through processes of growing, searching, and struggling before the inner knowledge penetrate every particle of | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| those others working diligently on the path, still struggling, who are in the phase of owning up | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a temptation to avoid thinking for oneself and struggling with the often more complex issues of inner | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| deeply involved in their darkness and who are struggling for their supremacy. They want to use all | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| reference to one word you used that I'm struggling with -- can you amplify what the elements | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| is no longer possible, you often keep frantically struggling, not understanding why you feel so constricted within | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| within the individual? For example, is not the struggling consciousness always straining to maintain an exaggerated independence | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| as individuals, are already beyond that and are struggling to eliminate the mask self that is now | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| exist in the record. Much argument, dissension, painful struggling in dark and confused states of mind, is | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| in your innermost being. Many of you are struggling in your growth and, as I said before | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |