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| period very similar to a doctor or a teacher who attends a university for years. A physician | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| to God with the help of a different teacher. Still, each one of you might find tonight | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| it, will definitely be guided to the very teacher, the one best for his or her particular | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| just a wise man, a sage, a great teacher with great wisdom, not unlike a few others | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| be through a church, or through a particular teacher, or through a spirit, or through a very | 21 THE FALL |
| and truly take this path. Every great person, teacher, priest -- any communication with the world of | 21 THE FALL |
| well as can be done without a personal teacher. I will show you exactly how to go | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ought to know but yourself and your spiritual teacher. And if you can really give up without | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and God must know, and perhaps your spiritual teacher if you need help with it. It should | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| vague impression of a very strict, pedantic school teacher who shakes His finger at you and does | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| even have two indulgent parents, but a severe teacher instills fear in you and has a greater | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| human beings, or onto a philosophy, creed, or teacher. It does not matter who or what. At | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| to the other extreme. If a consciously chosen teacher or philosophy or physician could harm you as | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| how much more could a parent or a teacher harm you in your youth! A child is | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is just as important with any kind of teacher or person who has influence over others. And | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to ask a question about creativity. As a teacher, I find that some of my students show | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| I would like to know also what a teacher, as an individual, could do to promote creativity | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| are not really his children? ANSWER: What the teacher can do, above all, is to gain awareness | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the need for self-search and development in the teacher, because this is so obvious that it does | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| with what they should be, will give the teacher sufficient intuitive insight into what the individual students | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| One of the most important motives for a teacher, if he or she truly wants to make | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| perhaps a seed can be sown, and the teacher who tries to work in this way will | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| same person may use the difficulty in another teacher as an excuse not to work spiritually. By | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| token, the relative perfection and love of one teacher may be used as an excuse not to | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| such objections may use the imperfection of another teacher as an excuse. Excuses are always handy. You | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| even in his last moment. Many a spiritual teacher or authority would hesitate to admit moments of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| fear is often rationalized by acceptable explanations. The teacher may excuse this untruthfulness by the seemingly commendable | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| they are. Whether you are a doctor, a teacher, or a shoemaker, makes no difference. You will | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| a school where each person is pupil and teacher at the same time. If you keep this | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| its meaning and allowing it to be your teacher and your therapist, as it were. This will | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| leadership or statesmanship. You can be a school teacher, you can supervise others in an office, you | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| truth. You surely need to surrender to a teacher in any field you wish to learn. If | 254 SURRENDER |
| surrender is lacking, no matter how much the teacher is capable and willing to give you, you | 254 SURRENDER |
| if anything. This applies also to a spiritual teacher. If you constantly withhold your trust and maintain | 254 SURRENDER |
| that you can absorb mental knowledge from a teacher from whom you inwardly keep aloof, and this | 254 SURRENDER |
| can be absorbed unless you surrender to the teacher. This rule applies to the most mundane things | 254 SURRENDER |
| When you choose a mate, a friend, a teacher, or someone with whom trust and at least | 254 SURRENDER |
| they may ask you to risk following a teacher or loving a mate. This never means closing | 254 SURRENDER |
| yourself and your feelings to a leader, a teacher, a helper, a mate, and to certain conditions | 254 SURRENDER |
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| of all kinds, as well as for all teachers and parents. It will help a great deal | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| be easy for you to recognize that Eastern teachers and philosophers have experienced God in the female | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| from influences in the home or from religious teachers who are also infected with such ideas. This | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| However, this is not the only way. Human teachers also can help you remove your inner obstructions | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| your inner obstructions. There have always been great teachers who have done just that. In your time | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| consciousness. Elders, parents or parent-substitutes, and later on teachers represent authority for the child. This authority denies | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| up, authority merely changes: instead of parents and teachers, authority is now represented by society, government, law-enforcing | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| not be given on an outer level. Many teachers and teachings remain on the outer level, on | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| never be forced directly. When your earthly religious teachers drum into you that you must have faith | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| security you still are searching for. All great teachers and sages have spoken, in various ways, about | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| words, as explained to you before, great religious teachers took suffering upon themselves not because it was | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| way they are not able to. Great religious teachers want to set an example. This is very | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is very important. If all spiritual leaders and teachers had a perfectly easy life, people would say | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| this stage yourselves. There are all kinds of teachers and leaders, each working in his or her | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| as well as in words of other great teachers, you will find words in support of this | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| find words in support of this lecture. These teachers used their own terminology, fitting their time, but | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| profound understanding has come to you. Those spiritual teachers who have made the statements you mentioned have | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Perhaps first only in individual homes, by individual teachers, but gradually change will become general. Until such | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| has said these words, and other great spiritual teachers have said it in different words. It is | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the way I describe and all true spiritual teachers point out. Then inevitably conflicts and tensions arise | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| from limitation and from frozen feelings. When religious teachers preach about the importance of love, they are | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| them is of primary significance. Others, such as teachers, siblings, or anyone closely related, also play a | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the universe -- the inner universe. Many spiritual teachers and channels know this, but many have misinterpreted | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| age. You all know that. Usually parents and teachers become annoyed, bored and impatient. At best they | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| understand is very important. You can go to teachers or other people equipped to answer the child's | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| the parents who are here and for the teachers, even if you cannot as yet create a | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| on your own path as either parents or teachers. True freedom, with all its joy and liberating | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| determination in reserve, of probing, not only with teachers and parents, but with other children too. All | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| mind, particularly among spiritual aspirants. If, as spiritual teachers and seers claim, God's will is your happiness | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
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| what you have long recognized as being right teaches you humility. To accept yourself as an imperfect | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| ever exist. QUESTION: Is it true what Theosophy teaches, that the reservoir of spirits to be incarnated | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| after incarnation with the same images until life teaches the entity and thus gradually dissolves them. But | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| gives the soul a foretaste of unity and teaches the fearful psyche the longing for it. The | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| when we are asleep, often the Spirit World teaches us or communicates with us. Is there any | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| resistance to religion. Psychology, on the other hand, teaches the opposite. When psychological understanding is properly applied | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| extensively in the previous lecture. Jesus Christ's resurrection teaches symbolically that if you do not flee from | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| at large. Obedience, as false religion encourages and teaches it, is completely incompatible with the idea that | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| he is responsible for his life. While religion teaches the latter, it simultaneously cripples free decision and | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| existence. On the other hand, every enlightened philosophy teaches that men and women are the masters of | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| understood them, you create a bottleneck. The pathwork teaches you how to accept our unwelcome feelings, not | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| their development has a beneficial influence and thus teaches others, whether they realize it or not. Tonight's | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| be purified on your evolutionary road. This path teaches you to contact all these hidden layers and | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| imbalance comes about. This is why your path teaches primarily, and with an apparent overemphasis, self-discipline. True | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| mind alone cannot bring about. All this also teaches you the wisdom to distinguish between where the | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |