| Theoretically...............20 | |
| at face value. You must understand, at least theoretically, how living in reality depends on maturity, and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| misconceptions exist. As you all know, at least theoretically and intellectually, love is the greatest power in | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| not suffice to be aware of your fear theoretically. You must actually experience the fear. Most people | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| motives of such behavior truly -- not just theoretically -- only with the inner understanding which alone | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| understand exactly what I mean -- not only theoretically, but through having experienced this truth. Your real | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| other ways in which one could, at least theoretically, learn through other people's experiences, if one is | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| as more conducive to learn from than another. Theoretically, one could learn from any occurrence in life | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| is subtle and hard to detect. Even though, theoretically, you may understand it quite well and believe | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| and others that this situation is different. Although theoretically you may be convinced that no one is | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| I change? When you finally see -- not theoretically and intellectually, but actually -- your selfish withdrawal | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| imagine, or fear it. But let us suppose, theoretically, that it were possible to imagine the future | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| it lip service frequently. But to understand this theoretically and to live it are two entirely different | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| destructively, while before you were at best only theoretically aware of such destructiveness and could merely surmise | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| a constructive force. Even those of you who theoretically know quite well that there is no such | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| it. You fear and distrust it, although you theoretically understand the truth. You may recognize quite clearly | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| use of it, not only by understanding it theoretically, but by truly seeking that part of yourself | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| than the self. You may have known this theoretically a long, long time, and paid lip service | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| to you. It is one thing to know theoretically that every No you experience in life, no | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| applying this material. Do not apply it only theoretically, in general terms, but see really where you | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| practice something very beautiful. You know, at least theoretically, that the reality of God exists in every | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Theories....................39 | |
| ANSWER: Just so. In most cases, when human theories about Creation diverge and contradict each other, each | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| and contradict each other, each of the conflicting theories can contain a kernel of truth. This also | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| will reap the fruits. QUESTION: There are some theories that say that in order to achieve the | 36 PRAYER |
| an intellectual who talks well and has wonderful theories, but it is all in the abstract. Nothing | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| implications; it may be psychology, or psychoanalysis. Many theories, terms, and expressions that you use are true | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| with the divine, by outer means, by religious theories, theological interpretations -- thereby forcing themselves to live | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| would be entirely constructive. QUESTION: There are two theories in the world today. They are in a | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that applies to all beings alike. Hence, any theories which proclaim that a little effort of spiritual | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| Oh, you know all the right answers and theories; you know all the truth teachings. You may | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| rule or formula. You may develop the best theories and believe them with your mind, but your | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| In this case I may say that both theories are true to some degree. It is true | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your emotions. It is one thing to understand theories, but it is altogether different to experience these | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| to accept imperfection -- not in words or theories, but in your emotional experience. As you well | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| right or wrong, good or bad. So many theories -- spiritual, religious, philosophical or psychological -- exist | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| does not mean the learning of principles, philosophies, theories. You have to begin with yourself. If your | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the subject of pleasant or unpleasant assumptions or theories, but will be seen as a logical sequence | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| form of outside search may be looking for theories and answers in philosophy, religion, science. You may | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| be lost by collecting outside knowledge of spiritual theories and doctrines, without taking the decisive step within | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| there can be no question of adhering to theories or creeds. God becomes a personal experience that | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| it through insight and understanding. At this point theories cease to matter. It is not necessary to | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| successfully. Finding God cannot be done by discussing theories on an intellectual level. Keep the problem shelved | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the way to that particular truth. By studying theories, or reading even the greatest literature on earth | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| relationship to each other? There are many confusing theories about the function of the ego. According to | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| goal is to get rid of it. Other theories, particularly those that characterize psychoanalytic thinking, say that | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| to find salvation and solace through adopting rules, theories, teachings, knowledge. They have it all up in | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| My friends, these are not mere words or theories you can vaguely believe to be meant for | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| that are partly valid but also partly glib theories that may strike you as cliched. Perhaps the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| salvation than those who cling to the false theories about life -- false because in their hearts | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| theorizing -- no matter how correct these general theories would prove to be -- it will be | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| I mean more than the superficial beliefs and theories, of course. When your mind can truly and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| More often than not, these are ideals and theories, a philosophy you adhere to in principle rather | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| to fit your feelings into pictures, to build theories about why you feel a certain way. The | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| fitting the hurtful event into fixed images and theories. Let it be! Feel what you feel, without | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| for ever since the beginning of human existence, theories and philosophies have been built around it. Your | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| fear in turn requires the person to concoct theories to justify the fear. If people convince themselves | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| of other explanations for unhappiness. Some of these theories may be valid as far as they go | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| far as they go. The mind has created theories about sickness, or neurosis which, though quite correct | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| discussed and taken for granted. There are many theories about it. As you know, I am usually | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| but if the system is based on abstract theories and governed by the mind only, the possibility | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Theorize....................3 | |
| You would not really need meetings to just theorize, which comes easily for most of you anyway | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| to keep it constantly in abeyance. You vacillate, theorize, stay on the edge before going into the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| and experienced and about which you can only theorize at best. Theory is not the same as | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Theorizing..................6 | |
| Such knowledge can never come to you by theorizing about it. The only way is by finding | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of that, it will keep you from abstract theorizing. You would not really need meetings to just | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| says no. Ask yourself why not. Instead of theorizing -- no matter how correct these general theories | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| also denied. You explain the anger away by theorizing about what caused the hurtful action. All the | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| caused the hurtful action. All the explanations and theorizing make it impossible to really experience the hurt | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| prepared to do this and content yourself with theorizing sophistry, living by proxy in as-if land, you | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| Theory......................116 | |
| lives become living religion and not just a theory. Do you think that we expect too much | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| a very low level of development, will in theory feel glad when good things happen to another | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| really perfect -- and this is merely a theory, for if this kind of perfection is reached | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| human surroundings. It will no longer be a theory, mere intellectual knowledge. You will live in this | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| its laws is a reality and not a theory. This will make you very happy indeed. The | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| be tempted to use, prompted by a misunderstood theory of positive thinking. This is much more than | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| has really, wholeheartedly, not only in thought and theory but in practice, given his or her life | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| must be the very last to incarnate, in theory. In practice, of course, since he would be | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and the opposite one, where you know in theory how you would like to feel and react | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| development. Everything up to that point is mere theory or preparation for crossing that great dividing line | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| one crucial step turns your spiritual life from theory into practice and from unreality into reality. Once | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| truth that is so far merely a nice theory for you but has as yet no reality | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| your shortcomings, even if you do know in theory and in principle that a connection exists? How | 36 PRAYER |
| into its opposite -- at this point in theory only. For, of course, emotionally you are not | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| reexperience the wrong emotions and compare them, in theory, with the right principles. And that is as | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| a beautiful story or a remote and abstract theory without any bearing on the now. It is | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| fate. You will deeply understand, not only in theory but in practice, that everything happening to you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| their presence ceases to be a mere intellectual theory. As long as it is a theory only | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| intellectual theory. As long as it is a theory only, their discovery will not help you one | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in your most deeply-seated emotions, not merely in theory and with your intellect -- as one in | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| years of developing life on earth. The other theory, which is still held by orthodox religious people | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can be said about this matter will be theory. But to fear does not make sense. The | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| what the wrong assumptions are and what, in theory, the right reaction should be, or one day | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| fact must become quite clear to you, in theory as well as personally and particularly. Find out | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| experience personally -- and not just recognize in theory -- how strong this link is. Full awareness | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| have already stopped regarding these words as mere theory, but the better you progress, the more will | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| words in a deeper sense than just as theory. There were those moments of finding the truth | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fate. As you proceeded, you found, not as theory but as fact, how reactions or attitudes of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| anyone. Jesus' reappearance could not be more than theory for those who were not present, and for | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| come to see the wrong conclusion of this theory. Once you go a step still further and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| it as the burden it is. No conviction, theory, or words you hear will make you give | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you nothing. As long as these words remain theory you will not be helped by them. When | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you have to deal with, not only in theory, but understanding them emotionally. But this is impossible | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| know and experience the conflict, not as a theory, but as an observable battle within yourself. You | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| aware of any particular needs. Of course, in theory you know that everyone has needs, physical and | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| say what the right feeling should be in theory, it would not help you at all. All | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| may acknowledge accountability for your own misery in theory, but when it comes to practical living, you | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| slumber. All this you know, at least in theory. Is it so difficult to understand that to | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| followed through in practice, rather than remaining a theory only. Highest on the scale is the love | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you truly realize their significance. They remain a theory that has no real impact on you, in | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| If they recognize these, it is only in theory, and they hope such defects to be dissolved | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| is one, but let this not be mere theory. Experience it by uncovering the center of your | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| own lower self. They may do so in theory, but are not reconciled to actually owning up | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| know very well by now, not as mere theory, but from personal discovery. The parent one feels | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| many people, is but a vague belief, a theory. Everyone who has profoundly experienced the reincarnational aspect | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| your true experience and is no longer a theory or a philosophical postulate, you will also understand | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| gain a little more understanding, at least in theory, as to what this continual process of transferring | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| the role of Egypt? I can see the theory of pseudo-solutions where Greece and other cultures are | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| as merely interesting or self-evident material, or far-fetched theory. When you allow yourself to be deeply affected | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| idea. It will cease to be an arresting theory, however, once you experience the connection yourself, in | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| words become real. Until then, they represent a theory and no more. Little by little, as you | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| be more than words, may they remain not theory, but become the tools they are meant to | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| this topic before was then only a beautiful theory to you, but many of you today are | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| to see that this is not merely a theory or an abstract philosophical principle: it is a | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| this is familiar territory -- at least in theory, if not always, as yet, in inner experience | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| and truthfully. Such a person continually dabbles in theory, rather than putting theory into practice. Commitment is | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| person continually dabbles in theory, rather than putting theory into practice. Commitment is a very important topic | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| constantly to keep this possibility dangling as a theory I do not ever dare explore. In other | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| At first, this cannot be more than a theory you must test with good faith, willingness, and | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| with good faith, willingness, and openness. Later, the theory is bound to turn into fact, into experienced | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| of these facts in principle -- as a theory and philosophy -- many times these same people | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| -- even if it is accepted as a theory, its living reality will be doubted as long | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| further come to see -- not as a theory, but as a reality -- that your life | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| coped with, that one remains essentially intact. No theory can bring about this safe state. Only one | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| can it become an experienced reality? Not by theory or by anything that happens from outside or | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| misconception within yourself -- not as a psychological theory, but as a personal conviction -- will eventually | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| alienating processes remove them by creating a vague theory. They wish to find a compromise between their | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| life could be. This is not only a theory but a directly available and accessible experience deep | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| have their doubts about accepting them even in theory. Let us now try to overcome some of | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| your own inner consciousness. You know this in theory as well as in practice. At least those | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| are enriching. You may already accept this in theory, but when the emotional awakening comes, it is | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| still perceive this as a faraway, abstract, unreal theory, and you experience yourself as an isolated particle | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| personal experience, and most certainly as a valid theory, none of you are fully aware to what | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| have admitted this in general and as a theory, but to do so specifically is still extremely | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| divine kernel. And this is not merely a theory. It is indeed possible, right here and right | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| certain way, until no feeling remains -- only theory and explanation. This is so important, my friends | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| a few of you, what you know in theory is now a felt reality. You have experienced | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you who know it as more than a theory have perhaps come to think of it as | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| use, not just reading this as a beautiful theory, but deeply knowing its immediate value and applying | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| is only one example. This is not a theory; you will discover its truth, but only as | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| desirable that it remains at best a vague theory. In truth, there is essentially no difference between | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| This basic metaphysical concept may seem acceptable in theory, but it is at first extremely difficult to | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| We recently saw more explicit proof that the theory of self-determination and self-choice is true. One of | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the following words, which are still only a theory for you: The life stuff that surrounds and | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| will no longer sound like a vague, faraway theory that you cannot put into personal action. Instead | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| off. The first step must be applying the theory that destructiveness, evil, is not a final separate | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| is inevitable. What I say is no mere theory. Many of you have experienced this conversion of | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| years ago, these ideas were at best a theory for those who listened to me then or | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| or later read these words. Some found the theory acceptable, to others it may have appeared nonsensical | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| your innermost spiritual consciousness remains a principle, a theory and a potential to be realized only in | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this is experienced instead of being a mere theory. The process of expanding the mind beyond its | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| commitment to test the truth. Staying with the theory may sometimes last for many lifetimes. To risk | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| to muster your courage. Then truth will prevail. Theory allows only illusory faith, never the real. Real | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| validity of this pathwork is no longer a theory or a philosophy. It has become a reality | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| In the past you may have accepted the theory that you, too, have a lower self, that | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| law. This is why the rules and the theory of truth and law have always been distorted | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| of both, as you know at least in theory. Also see the fear in terms of distrust | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| about which you can only theorize at best. Theory is not the same as experience, and letting | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| much lip service you may pay to the theory of your human limitations, you have a great | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| You will discover what you now know in theory but still cannot practice, as is evident in | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| their lives. Some may believe in it in theory, but few have truly experienced it. When you | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| intuitively understand cosmic reality from experience rather than theory, so will you learn to avail yourself of | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| universe can be experienced as reality rather than theory only when you work your way through your | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| All this will then no longer be a theory or belief that you cling to or deny | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| aware of your higher self, not as a theory or a philosophical premise, but as stark reality | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| matter how right these ideas may be in theory. Humanity is caught in this conflict: You either | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| anything else to go by except a lofty theory, is absolutely impossible for you. Therefore, you need | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| followed the path, and what was a beautiful-sounding theory or philosophy for you, has now become a | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| for you, has now become a reality. The theory has indeed been put to the test, and | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| can be taught to children, not only as theory but as practical experience. Education must be a | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| versus the other, it does so only in theory. This is very different from the live experience | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| natural course. So, by abandoning temporarily the outer theory of immortality and accepting your fear of mortality | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| time, it could not be more than a theory and a faraway goal. This truth was then | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| It is not enough to be unselfish in theory, while you continue to practice pettiness, ungivingness and | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| into place. You have a notion of the theory, but in your habitual thinking you resist its | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| will forever remain elusive and only a beautiful theory. In effect, the voice of the higher self | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |