| Thinks......................64 | |
| can discern very accurately, when he or she thinks back on his or her life, what had | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| I wanted to know what the spiritual world thinks about this new planet Sputnik? ANSWER: That, my | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| indulge in what is called daydreaming. No one thinks that there is anything wrong with that. You | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| thought of the spirit who is wherever he thinks he wants to be? ANSWER: Yes, yes. But | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| higher self. Then you will feel that something thinks within you, directs you, sends you messages, gives | 21 THE FALL |
| to tell you what he or she honestly thinks about you. I know that it takes courage | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| development. I know, my friends, that no one thinks these thoughts consciously, but if you would test | 31 SHAME |
| self is done or in what way one thinks about other people. It is wrong to think | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| the Father; he is something quite unique and thinks he can possess God for himself. This is | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| imagine. Symbolism does not work the way humanity thinks it does. It is mostly the other way | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| without taking the risk of getting wounded; it thinks remaining aloof is a desirable state. In other | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| about his intelligence. This is manifest. This he thinks he knows. In reality he covers up a | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| down on both of the others. The will-type thinks or feels something to the effect of, The | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| No, it certainly is not. And when someone thinks it may be within the scheme of spiritual | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| further and more complicated reaction. The unconscious mind thinks, I am afraid to be punished by others | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| who have slighted him. The child feels and thinks somewhat like this: Now they will be sorry | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| so that you can collect whatever your soul thinks it needs. In order to reach that special | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| a cruel world which denies it what it thinks it needs and could have if the world | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| one is capable of attaining such perfection. It thinks itself unique in having failed and has to | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| tragedy to have made a mistake. The infant thinks you must perish if you do, and therefore | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| you must perish if you do, and therefore thinks that independent decisions for which one is responsible | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| aware of what the inner person, your psyche, thinks, wants and feels. This is often contrary to | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to what extent a part in you still thinks that going after your original selfish desire would | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| person may be all those because he mistakenly thinks it serves him as a protection. The more | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| not what one really wants but what one thinks one wants. When this is the case, it | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| half as tragic as the child in you thinks. The difficulty here is that in your intellect | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| deliberately remain blind, because the child in you thinks that by willing something you will make it | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| feel the reality of the morrow, therefore it thinks that what is not accomplished now does not | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| ignorant way, yes. A spiritually blind person always thinks that being unduly selfish preserves the self. But | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| pursuing a certain aim. The child in you thinks that this prevents your happiness. You emerge from | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| ANSWER: All these alternatives are possible. Humanity always thinks in terms of either/or. I have no way | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| that. But this person, too, wants immortality and thinks it is a show of strength to seek | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| attitudes. It is not what one professes and thinks one believes that determines a healthy attitude; that | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| category is the seeker for power. This person thinks that power and independence from others will solve | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| A further symptom of the aggressive type, who thinks that power is the solution, is the artificially | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| may be just as colored by what another thinks, as is the case with the submissive type | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| its demands, aggressiveness, and power drive. The psyche thinks: If I assert myself and my power, my | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| In order to get what he wants and thinks he needs, he will call upon his submissiveness | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| true or false -- of how another person thinks or feels about you. In the first case | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| split also makes communication difficult because one person thinks of the constructive side of a trend, while | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| realism of accepting oneself as one is. Another thinks of the destructive kind of rebellion with its | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| it is not your own thought process that thinks, and yet it is very much your own | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| being. It is something calmer and wiser that thinks and feels through you. This is what I | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the one hand he wants an authority who thinks for him, who decides for him and is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| QUESTION: In the same connection, when a person thinks that he relates instantaneously to other people is | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| of it. The ego is the part that thinks, acts, discriminates, and decides. The person whose ego | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| intellect is an instrument that prescribes, predetermines, and thinks mechanically; it determines rules and laws. By itself | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| is why self-confrontation and seeing what one actually thinks, feels, and does is of such tremendous importance | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| than you can imagine. But the separated ego thinks this development means annihilation. In its ignorant, limited | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| guarantee to assuage your existential fears. The ego thinks, If everyone around me considers me special, better | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| between what one consciously believes or what one thinks one believes and pays lip service to, and | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| order to avoid revealing the negative traits. He thinks that in this way he can learn the | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| a violation of integrity. As long as one thinks fear is the obstacle to self- responsible inner | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| one gets used to it, the more one thinks one needs it. When you go into the | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| resistance, the desire to punish those who one thinks are responsible for one's unhappiness, and even some | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| tension of impatience, anxiety, and ego pride which thinks it can do it all alone, by sheer | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| to hide the inner alienation and who therefore thinks that he or she does not need to | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| feels a victim of hazard, against which one thinks one must defend the self, becoming still further | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| among other things, a thinking apparatus. Thus it thinks -- and, lo, something comes into existence. It | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| with what one truly believes versus what one thinks one believes must always be honestly worked through | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the self -- what it really feels and thinks and is. If commitment to the self is | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| to express the inner knowing in thoughts: It thinks in you, instructs you, or perhaps writes through | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| his closets and drawers, never cleans out, and thinks he can superimpose a functional order, lives in | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| to have a set mind in which one thinks one knows everything. That is being childlike and | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Thirty......................3 | |
| enlightenment and devote regularly, daily, about twenty to thirty minutes to my spiritual life. And when I | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| are cases where a soul is reincarnated after thirty years. There are others who wait 1,000 | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ago in your history, the average age was thirty years. Now it is seventy. In the not | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Thomas......................2 | |
| about the newly discovered Gospel According to St. Thomas. Are you willing to answer that question? He | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has merit. In the Gospel According to St. Thomas there are a few statements allegedly spoken by | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Thorough....................16 | |
| work on the spiritual level, self-analysis, and the thorough absorption of spiritual laws before the emotions can | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| indirectly, by starting with yourself, that is, by thorough self- examination, without self-deceit. Find the extent of | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| trained experts, working with unceasing effort, foresight, and thorough knowledge of divine law, as well as with | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| on in some way, it is not a thorough or an efficient way. There is then always | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is always so. I could give a more thorough explanation why it would be impossible for a | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| get the recognitions you need for a more thorough self-understanding. Whatever happens to you now is mostly | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| than your own inner conviction, arrived at through thorough investigation of the situation and your role in | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| of symptoms. The first necessary step is a thorough understanding of what disregarding your lower-self trends does | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| that is the result of a full and thorough will to face oneself. Then the interconnections will | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| with previously. At the beginning, when deep and thorough understanding is still lacking or is only partial | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| my friends have already experienced this phenomenon. After thorough exploration and self-confrontation about a problem in which | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| outer manifestations of your problems. This relief of thorough understanding can come about only when you have | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| direct help to one's self-purification. Conversely, only by thorough self-honesty and self-facing can relationships be sustained, can | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| of others is the daily, direct, determined and thorough confrontation of your own. The signs of your | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| to deal with the defense in a most thorough way. The defense is always a negative intentionality | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| forth from within your own limitations, purification is thorough, reliable and real. Then true independence from one's | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |