| Tear........................18 | |
| inner conflicts have become so great that they tear the person apart, so that they feel miserable | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the lower self you must at all costs tear down the mask self. You can bring yourself | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| permanent cure and protection for you is to tear out the bad growths at their roots. This | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| in life will not have the power to tear you down. For you will thus be able | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| must again produce impure fruit. Only you can tear out the roots of your evil. Therefore, that | 22 SALVATION |
| churches and groups it would be impossible to tear down falsehoods. Truth has to grow slowly. Any | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| find along with it. You can never forcefully tear out the wrong reaction, once you have detected | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| person feels guilty and ashamed, trying, erroneously, to tear out the sex force. True, in the way | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one is standing now. First you have to tear down the old building and clear the foundations | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| bringing you to any goal: it will only tear you apart; it will destroy your inner strength | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| fulfilled, and therefore you believed that you could tear out your needs simply by not acknowledging them | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| pressure that is so painful. It seems to tear you apart. Do not believe, my friends, that | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| invariably rebel against, never knowing that you actually tear yourself apart even more. The rebellion may not | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| realizing these potentials is impossible. Only crisis can tear down a structure that is built on premises | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| eventually that all eruptions, breakdowns, crises, mean to tear down the old structure so as to reerect | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| by the suffering you had to endure. Every tear not shed is a stoppage. Every protest not | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| result of the past and the future that tear at you, as it were, from both directions | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| do not abide by truth and love. They tear you apart, but only as you gradually grow | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Tearing.....................14 | |
| others, is self-development, self-purification, and self-knowledge. It is tearing off your masks; tearing away all your self-delusions | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| and self-knowledge. It is tearing off your masks; tearing away all your self-delusions about yourself and your | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| and, perhaps, suffer some pain? Self-recognition and the tearing off of masks is always painful during the | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| combine prayer with the work of self-examination and tearing down your masks, His answer will become ever | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| find your way into the light is by tearing down the wall and looking at what is | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| love. But the remedy does not lie in tearing out a natural force that cannot be eliminated | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| peacefully side by side. Due to this conflict tearing you apart -- and the time has come | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fact so difficult, but because of inner problems tearing the person apart -- that self-estrangement increases steadily | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the previous two solutions fighting one another and tearing the personality in half. When the pressure of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| For others, both tendencies exist side by side, tearing the person apart in constant conflict. But even | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| is not eliminated by a forceful act of tearing it out. This only makes you repress the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| becomes a question of building up, for the tearing down is over. What must be torn down | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| for the faulty aspects can be extricated without tearing down the entire psychic edifice. By the same | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| If the rotten material can be extricated without tearing down the entire building, then profound shake-up of | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| Tears.......................12 | |
| the shame of loving. This conflict in itself tears apart the human heart. You try to force | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| wooden madonna and in kissing the upper half, tears started coming out of the eyes of the | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| you have the key to change. Your impatience tears out every seed you plant. Because you doubt | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| change. The positively and negatively oriented pleasure principle tears you apart. It inflicts pain on you by | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| will remain trapped in a painful struggle that tears you apart and for which you see no | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| habits so that new growth becomes possible. It tears down and breaks up, which is momentarily painful | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| that will enable you to integrate what now tears you asunder. By keeping both your beauty and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| gripped by strong feeling and it first elicits tears in you. It brings out as yet unexperienced | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| from the way you used to. Your very tears open the channels of joy. Some of you | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| pieces. The energy movement of the soul substance tears down the rotten structure, even if this means | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| kind of suffering comes only from concealment. It tears you apart, makes you suffer, searching blindly, like | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| becomes even more potent, creating a conflict that tears the soul apart. The soul does not develop | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Technical...................32 | |
| sickness of your times, it came about that technical and scientific progress has been achieved on earth | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| of spiritual development did not correspond to the technical progress and the destruction of the world, as | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| at all possible that in the incarnation a technical error may occur? ANSWER: No, no. This is | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| thing. The point is interesting only in a technical sense. The higher self certainly manifests itself. But | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| possibly give you in this short time a technical explanation of how these things work, but there | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in a way. I might say that the technical difficulty increases, for you have to work your | 18 FREE WILL |
| and is spiritual progress, but not measured by technical progress. The mere fact that technical and material | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| measured by technical progress. The mere fact that technical and material progress has been going on so | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is following this path. Now, as to the technical and practical procedure with regression in hypnosis: Here | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not atrophy. It is necessary, but merely a technical procedure, so to say. If such memories occur | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| human language and understanding. Before I explain the technical procedure of birth, I will have to talk | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| outlines to most of you. However, since the technical procedure of birth is directly connected with, and | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| lifetime--and that works hand in hand with the technical and scientific improvements which, in turn, will only | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| of manifestation, when you explore outer space by technical means, you approach the laws of the spirit | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| go of the old image or illusion, no technical improvement would have extended life. Another mass image | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| from the superconscious, if you want to be technical about it. Intuition has the further distinction of | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| and inadequacy is added to it. In society, technical advancement and overemphasis on science and intellect are | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| whole has come a long way. The very technical means -- often invented for the purpose of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| first glance, in spite of the fact that technical skill also becomes a necessity in order to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| suggestions? ANSWER: Yes. I will not go into technical details. This is something my friends can work | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| the power and energy necessary to operate your technical equipment. The manifold and complicated combination of conditions | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the laws governing these manifestations. Your electrical and technical equipment that is now so familiar would have | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| As to your second question: When material and technical means have been invented to leave this dimension | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| people to understand. I might add that the technical knowledge that brought this cosmic truth into your | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| compare. To get back to your question: The technical discoveries are one way of helping humanity to | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| to acquire a broader awareness. But if a technical discovery does not lead to broader and deeper | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| knowledge is not necessarily and exclusively of a technical nature. It can be an influx in art | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| in your second question is the same in technical terms as what I explained in philosophical and | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| the life force have resulted in intellectual and technical overdevelopment compared with the ability to love. The | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| have, unless you learn the craft and the technical dexterity. If the childish lower self wants to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| with and knowledge about potential leading figures. The technical advancements that make this possible are yet another | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| in previous lives need to be nurtured. The technical skills learned in this body need to be | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Technically.................3 | |
| how this error could have occurred. It is technically correct to say that God created evil, but | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| in former lives and are thus karmic too, technically speaking. But you can find a starting point | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| longer; it would be much harder to establish technically. But it may come too, eventually. Such a | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |