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| first the Ten Commandments. They deal with actions. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not lie, and | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| They deal with actions. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not lie, and so on. This was | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| your love is pristine and unadulterated, because the thou, with everything that you miss and long for | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| up its self-importance for the sake of the Thou. Then you seek happiness not only because you | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| of brotherhood, of love, of at-oneness with the Thou, every Thou, is so complete that each soul | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| of love, of at-oneness with the Thou, every Thou, is so complete that each soul vibrates in | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| body anymore, has merged so completely with the Thou that, as I said before, everything is felt | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| yourself from your suffering by concentrating on the thou instead of the I and by asking God | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| what Jesus meant when he said to Peter, Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever thou shalt loose on earth shall be bound in | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| let me be Thy instrument in any way Thou choosest, not the way I choose. I know | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| Does that mean in essence the change from thou must not to thou canst not? ANSWER: That | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| essence the change from thou must not to thou canst not? ANSWER: That would be included in | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| The word of God was given to Moses: Thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| negative sense. We read in the Ten Commandments, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I would like to know about the commandment, Thou shalt not kill in everyday life, in different | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Thought.....................554 | |
| and taught that you can sin also in thought. At his time humanity was beginning to become | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| the gain. This should give you food for thought. I suggest to each one of you, my | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| build your future life on earth. Every act, thought, feeling has its form, which then builds the | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| When one just drifts along, without giving a thought to the true meaning of life, much of | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| this is just an occasional and rather superficial thought, formed out of a sense of duty, or | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| you immerse yourself again and again into this thought, until it takes root in your soul, until | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| I bring you God's blessings. Each emotional reaction, thought, opinion or tendency, even the smallest personality trait | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| not enough -- and it must not be thought to be enough; it is only an impetus | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| By visualizing the positive you create a new thought form and direct your will toward it. As | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| done by first recognizing it, by accepting the thought that there is a crust that takes such | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| such an attitude is, how mistaken both in thought and feeling. It is much better to start | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| they have to be formulated again and again; thought forms have to be built and rebuilt. With | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| only as a training but also because each thought builds a form. With the thoughts of prayer | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| you have learned the feeling-prayer or meditation. Yet thought forms, though they may not have the power | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| segment of the path: the pure power of thought through concentration in prayer, and the liberation of | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| You always think, if you give it a thought at all, that God's kingdom is somewhere outside | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| vague ideas about the kingdom of God, false thought forms that you erect in your imagination. God's | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| in error, the truth cannot penetrate. When the thought forms are false, God's kingdom cannot come to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| even if they do not clearly formulate the thought, that earning one's daily bread has nothing to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| outside, it could not touch you. Put this thought into your prayer. Ask Christ to help you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| and mingle with it. Perhaps you have never thought of it in these terms, but you probably | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| The one is intellectually active and involved with thought, therefore masculine; the other is emotional and flowing | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| only truth and God's will, suddenly a new thought comes to you. This thought will grow, and | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| suddenly a new thought comes to you. This thought will grow, and the more it grows the | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| doubt about the rightness and truth of this thought no matter whatever angle you consider it from | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| but it does not speak coherently. It inspires thought, but it does not speak the way I | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| this, one day, must have its effect. Each thought of hate, of separation, of egoism, of injustice | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| oneself than for one's neighbor, in short, each thought that breaks God's laws, is a building block | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| of these violate the law of brotherhood. Each thought of this kind, each emotion is a significant | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| but because in your own blind insecurity you thought that this was the best way to protect | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| into quietness. Formulate this argument in clear-cut, concise thought and ask God the simple question: Which is | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| it does infinitely more harm that any conscious thought, even the worst one. Everything can be dealt | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| themselves every bit as destructively as from conscious thought. Diligent students of positive thinking are therefore often | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| outer perfection often too quickly, merely by learning thought control. This is not enough. Your lower nature | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| not trying to escape the effect by mere thought control. Happiness cannot come to you as long | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| pain, if everything cringes in you at the thought of it, you very much desire not to | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| and you lose your serenity, or what you thought was serenity when things went well. However, being | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| all of you, my friends, to whom the thought of desirelessness or detachment is still a little | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| since a feeling is really just an unthought thought not yet made conscious. Although thought creates a | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| an unthought thought not yet made conscious. Although thought creates a different form than a feeling does | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| a doctor who rigidly follows a school of thought that does not admit to any spiritual truth | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the spiritual language. As I have explained, each thought creates automatically a form and becomes apparent. So | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| language its protege knows, although we see the thought of the respective human being too. Now, it | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| their roots. As you know, there is no thought without substance and form. Daydreams create their forms | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| form. Daydreams create their forms, too, and these thought forms stand in the way of any fulfillment | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| not to let yourselves be tempted, because these thought forms prevent your true fulfillment. In addition, you | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| they use up their energy to build these thought forms. In this way, they withdraw from the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| if they would not indulge in these particular thought forms. Are there any questions in connection with | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| to read? ANSWER: It is possible because the thought contained in the written word is a form | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| in the written word is a form. Every thought is form, whether it is written, spoken, designed | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| does not make any difference. We see the thought forms. QUESTION: In other words, you do not | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| a person has really, wholeheartedly, not only in thought and theory but in practice, given his or | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| back many millions of years just as the thought of the spirit who is wherever he thinks | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| answered in a very different way than you thought, my dear! QUESTION: To what extent can we | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| help in that way. As you know, each thought and feeling is a substantial form in the | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| substantial form in the spirit world, and no thought is ever lost, especially not a constructive and | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to the forces of evil, for each evil thought is added to that reservoir and furnishes it | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| and all-pervading knowledge while listening to the same thought twenty-five times perhaps, even if it is tackled | 18 FREE WILL |
| about a certain result. There is no action, thought, or even feeling that does not produce a | 18 FREE WILL |
| experienced this will confirm it. Whoever has a thought, an idea, or a wish evolving from the | 18 FREE WILL |
| beyond the shadow of a doubt that the thought is true and that truth is living within | 18 FREE WILL |
| of the Fall of the Angels. This very thought or attitude, which started long before the material | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| evil. Certainly, no one who had such a thought at the time realized the danger or the | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| a stronger incentive to return to God. This thought also lends itself very well to deep meditations | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| your belief is feeble, but you follow the thought to the end, the understanding must come that | 21 THE FALL |
| spiritual worlds -- for as you know, every thought, every feeling, every ambition, and every act is | 22 SALVATION |
| is a form. When you have a beautiful thought it will create one form. When you have | 22 SALVATION |
| create one form. When you have a wicked thought, it will create another form, a concrete form | 22 SALVATION |
| this earth sphere came into existence. I always thought God created the world -- not the lower | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spheres of light. When I read that, I thought, is anybody now able to produce only spheres | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| arguments about various matters, where one school of thought claims one thing and another the opposite and | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| get away from unpleasant reality. Remember that! Another thought for meditation: when you go on this path | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| conquering of your lower self. Here is another thought, my friends, for this initial decision which you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| which are sometimes persecuted. That is also a thought upon which you can now meditate. QUESTION: Is | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| out that I am less perfect than I thought, I will accept this too, in order to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| path is too much for you, and the thought does not even occur to you to ask | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| will be. It will give you food for thought; you will help each other and you will | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| your sphere, your temporary home. QUESTION: I always thought that atheists remained in darkness because they are | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| You could do this by teaching him in thought. But first think what lack of spiritual knowledge | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| Perhaps one day, all of a sudden, a thought will be in you in the form of | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| him by having a conversation with him in thought. QUESTIONER: Do I have to keep thinking of | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| God to be so much nearer than you thought. But if you try any other way, He | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| first completely ready and willing in your every thought and intention to relinquish your self-will and your | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| God -- which is, of course, not a thought or an idea but a feeling -- is | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| wrong is not necessarily a sinful action or thought, but an unrecognized emotion that surges in a | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| are not as objective as they may have thought at first. If you dig deeply and honestly | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| discover yourself to be more imperfect than you thought you were; nor does it mean to want | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| a difficult situation. Just hold on to this thought: Father, give me a clear outlook, even though | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| compare. All this should be both food for thought and material for meditation. The meditation should make | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| ago, people killed each other just because they thought differently. Yesterday, they hated each other but did | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| of more and more individuals. Concentrate on the thought forms of everything you have learned: the necessity | 36 PRAYER |
| prayer by every breath you take, by every thought passing through your mind; even your unconscious feelings | 36 PRAYER |
| clear-cut and concise expression -- at least in thought forms and clear statements -- will you reach | 36 PRAYER |
| unconscious with these new insights by forming the thought form from various angles. Ask God each day | 36 PRAYER |
| themselves as preconceived ideas. The conclusions are not thought out; rather they are emotional reactions, general attitudes | 38 IMAGES |
| an image, since we spirits see the whole thought process as a spiritual form -- or image | 38 IMAGES |
| to tests, trials, and hardships. One school of thought claims God does not send tests. God is | 38 IMAGES |
| is true, my friends. The other school of thought says that it is necessary that we experience | 38 IMAGES |
| effort, and patience. So, as one school of thought says, patience and humility are absolutely necessary. You | 38 IMAGES |
| you are not deliberately dishonest. Nevertheless, an untrue thought, innocent and in good faith as it may | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| is. The formulation of your feelings into concise thought is a major part of the work on | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| that I actually feel this way when I thought that my motives were different? You must not | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| or life, are not the way the child thought them to be. Although the impression that created | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| ashamed that your parents were not what you thought they should be. In your child's mind you | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| that your case was unique, and the whole thought and emotional process had to be hidden away | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| sphere he has created for himself with his thought forms, the forms of his emotions, as well | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| at length. My dear friends, have you ever thought about the deed of Jesus Christ as the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| ANSWER: Silent prayer, if the words are concisely thought, is, of course, just as effective. There is | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| There is no doubt about it. For the thought is a form, just as much as the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| much weaker form than the word that is thought and deeply felt. However, if in a group | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| I have said. There is much food for thought in what I told you, for each of | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| feeling is more potent and intense than any thought you can harbor. Convictions and opinions unfortified by | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| principle applies to positive as well as negative thought forms. The strongest conscious conviction or thought is | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| negative thought forms. The strongest conscious conviction or thought is nothing compared to an utterly unconscious emotional | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| deep-rooted emotions are involved. Not even a mere thought can be changed by force. No one can | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and often more. By hiding this conflict, you thought that you would rid yourself of it. In | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| now like to give you further food for thought. Not only personal and individual images but mass | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the law of affinity, because the forms of thought, feeling, and desire attract that which corresponds. The | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| does this happen? It happens when a true thought, teaching, philosophy or recognition serves as a camouflage | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| soul -- if not in deed, word or thought, at least in your unconscious emotions. Whenever such | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| whether I inflicted the hurt by deed, word, thought, or emotional reaction; by what I have done | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| mask has not brought you the gratification you thought to obtain through it. Finally, this made you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| fully absorbed all that, and after you have thought about the irrationality of certain hitherto hidden emotions | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| So you see, both the cleansing of the thought process as it happens in prayer, and concentration | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| will find that it exists because it is thought to be protective and advantageous. In truth it | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and selfish decisions that are made without further thought. It is a complete error to believe that | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| particular human language. I see the forms of thought in picture language and try to express it | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| translate from the picture language and use her thought process which I influence through her subtle bodies | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to do so rhythmically. The different schools of thought have just perceived one aspect of the universe | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| say to yourself -- though not in conscious thought -- I do not deserve that which I | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| is a wrong conclusion and not a conscious thought, but an unconscious emotional attitude. None of you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| quick results as outer actions do. Nevertheless, every thought and attitude, whether conscious or unconscious, is a | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| people think of him. Everyone prefers to be thought well of by others. That is natural. But | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| able to think about it objectively. QUESTIONER: I thought it is more difficult if a wrong conclusion | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| felt according to the right concept -- or thought you felt that way. Yet I ask you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| but also to other trends that may be thought of as typically male or typically female. There | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Eve as the symbol of woman. But I thought that the actual symbolism was not of a | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your question? QUESTION: There was just one other thought in my mind. The great materialism of this | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in them. In the final analysis this unconscious thought or attitude amounts to just that: you wish | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| often taken to mean grace. It is often thought that when grace is extended, a person does | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| denying in himself that which he erroneously had thought to be unmanly and feminine, he became less | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| only briefly, to give you some food for thought and to urge you to continue these deliberations | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| on the other side, even though you never thought it possible that anything could be amiss with | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| so often misunderstood about this state is the thought that consciousness ceases, individual will ceases. This is | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spiritually. How do we reconcile that with the thought that sickness is the result of our breaking | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that it is no real solution, but you thought or felt that it was. You chose sickness | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| aware of the existence of God to whom thought and feeling should be devoted, at least to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on one's obligations. God is not to be thought of only on one particular day. Nothing must | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| our group, one of our friends expressed the thought that prayer was indicative of weakness and he | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not necessarily answered exactly in the way you thought, or as the person involved may desire it | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are exhausted. If you try to comprehend the thought I present here, you will gain a great | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an attitude, an emotion, an action or a thought causes guilt, one has not found the roots | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You will inevitably find that the failing is thought to be a defense against your uncertainties, your | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in truth. If you can but retain this thought, it will help you in difficult times. Know | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| bound to be that way! Take along this thought. May it strengthen you. Be blessed, my dear | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a doubt that it was wrong to have thought that you have to hide the best in | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| symptoms and problems -- not by a laborious thought process, but because everything is falling into place | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| right now in your life. Go with this thought in mind, try to use your inner will | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| 68. SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES Greetings, my dearest friends. I bring you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| now begin also to pay attention to the thought process, as an additional help yielding other benefits | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| interplay, a difference actually does exist. Understanding the thought process leads to mastery over your self, just | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| over your life. The same applies to your thought process. If you become master over your thoughts | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| careful not to fall into the same error. Thought control can be mastered without rigidity and suppression | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| evaluate them. The understanding and control of the thought process is a very important aspect of personality | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| significance, as well as their lack of significance. Thought process also occurs on different levels. Broadly speaking | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| for you in more ways than one. Foreground thought is voluntary, background thought is involuntary. What I | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| ways than one. Foreground thought is voluntary, background thought is involuntary. What I now tell you, you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you learn proper self-observation. Foreground, that is, voluntary thought, is always clear-cut and concise as long as | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| foreground and does not slide unnoticed into background thought. If you want to think something -- whether | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| as you follow it through, it is foreground thought. When you become calm and observe your thought | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| thought. When you become calm and observe your thought process, you will soon begin to notice the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| to notice the importance of background thoughts. Background thought comes unbidden; it is disorganized and mainly unconstructive | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| mainly unconstructive. You will also notice that background thought material consists mainly of the following: (1) Symptoms | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| your hands through learning to control your thought-world. Thought control increases awareness and raises consciousness. Instead of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| yourself to think, do the opposite: transfer background thought material into conscious foreground thought. First learn to | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| opposite: transfer background thought material into conscious foreground thought. First learn to evaluate the content of the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the observation and, later, the control of your thought process. The exercises need not be strenuous, nor | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| is necessary, however. To become master over your thought process by learning to make foreground thoughts from | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you elect to, undisturbed by the wasteful, fluctuating thought material that has no importance, and serves only | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| stronger foreground thoughts. By learning to observe your thought process, you will discover how often these weaker | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| a sudden you find yourself involved in background thought material that you can only now begin to | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| given a chance to be quite calm. Background thought material makes this impossible. It disperses the mind | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| these exceptions people have learned to control their thought process at the expense of emotional awareness, so | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| Understanding of, and gradually learning to control the thought process. These three approaches will interact and overlap | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| order to become conscious of the mechanism of thought process. You will then become aware that you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| think of nothing but your breath movements. Uninvited thought fragments will constantly rush in. Most of the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| with your concentration and defer to analyze the thought materials until after, or you may do so | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| You will learn the ability to direct your thought process and attain calmness of mind as the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| when both approaches are followed through properly. Background thought material appears to us in the spirit world | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| a compass needle. The compass needle represents your thought movements. Watch the needle sway back and forth | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| will. The more detachedly you observe the involuntary thought process, the more you will succeed in staying | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| to feel the difference between volitional and unvolitional thought processes, you can very well prepare for our | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| than facing something you have suppressed because you thought erroneously that you must be guilty and ashamed | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| way. Both errors are represented by schools of thought on your earth plane. Life in itself is | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| back, my friends. It merely means that you thought you had learned the whole of this particular | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| float away into the unreality of your uncontrolled thought process, you are not in full awareness of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| are aware of it. In the conscious, concise thought I do not know lies the possibility of | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is clear. I should like to add a thought that is related and which supports what you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| not as faultless and perfect as the child thought and hoped, yet they are not to be | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you will slowly come to understand how you thought you had to choose the current situation because | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| mature aspects. QUESTION: I am very confused about thought control. I find it terribly tiring to be | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the feelings. Try to bring them into concise thought. That is surely the hardest and the most | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| very beginning of your work and which you thought you had overcome, or perhaps variations of them | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| Earlier Lectures) QUESTION: Are you able to receive thought messages from us at any time? ANSWER: At | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| motive of a person sending a message by thought instead of pronouncing it aloud. If the motive | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| not commit a deliberate lie. Nevertheless, an untrue thought, as innocent and in good faith as it | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of death can in younger years push this thought away. The nearer the time comes, the less | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| has sometimes been distorted by well-meaning people who thought that the birth of Christ would be slighted | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| self- responsibility and of divine justice, without any thought of punishment and retribution. You begin to understand | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you put into the pseudo-solution that you unconsciously thought would work for you. And only then will | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in mind that other people or schools of thought think of something different. This will retain flexibility | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of God. I have given you food for thought that can become very fruitful for you if | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| since I was a very young child. I thought I really felt this emotion. But then, in | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| did not really feel that way myself, but thought I had to for various outer reasons. Immediately | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in that instance. You found that what you thought had hurt you was not really so. After | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| friends. It will give you much food for thought and material for progress. Be blessed, each one | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| case stands for itself. Discrimination and an active thought process are necessary all the way through, in | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| started to build a false self. This, you thought, was your protection and your means of attaining | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| more you invest your energies, your personality, your thought processes, concepts, ideas, and ideals into it, the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| in such substances. QUESTION: We are surrounded by thought forms of different quality and strength. In what | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| our different selves? ANSWER: The negative or distorted thought and feeling forms emanating from others will affect | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| levels in you which also harbor distortions. The thought and feeling forms, emanating from the real self | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| problems. As to the effect of your own thought and feeling forms on yourself, it would be | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| matter. You must not think it is the thought forms which interfere. They exist, but the actual | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| wrong attitude. Your own or other people's distorted thought forms can only bring out your underlying problems | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| again give you food, not only for further thought, but for insight and understanding. May you thus | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| action that in itself could be constructive is thought to be dangerous and is therefore not attempted | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| become aware of emotions you may never have thought you had. QUESTION: My question was really whether | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| truly is the opposite of what you always thought. You are deeply convinced despite occasional appearances to | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feel not so different than before when you thought that attaining the goal would make all the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the psyche feels, I have received what I thought I needed and I am still unhappy, alone | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your error lies in the conscious or unconscious thought that to be aware of what you feel | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| compassion, and good involvement such as you never thought possible. You will no longer feel yourself isolated | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| with the practice of false, rigid moralizing. Whoever thought that my discussion contained the message of discarding | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| You will feel fear and anxiety at the thought that you act according to the child in | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| anything by giving up whatever it was you thought you could not live without, but are only | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| their lack of intensity compared to what you thought you felt before, you will get a good | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| to find meaning in your life, cultivate the thought: I wish to serve not only my own | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| help and happiness as well. If such a thought is sincere, what better prayer could there be | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| am confused about harmony and happiness. I always thought they were the same. Also, it is said | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| ways to unclog this channel. These processes are thought by some of you to mean something other | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| and many of its problems you probably never thought could have any connection whatsoever. Only after you | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to your ending these unproductive patterns. Your next thought may very well be: This is easily said | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| reactions, are investigated and then interpreted into concise thought. It is fallacious to think that the weak | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| over, you can return to normal, and your thought processes can again concentrate on the many aspects | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| physical body. You are limiting your range of thought and feeling and you short circuit your creative | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the contradictoriness, the unlimited possibilities and potentials of thought, and the range of feelings in every human | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| is the outer manifestation, either in deed or thought, of psychological deviation and immaturity. In other words | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| words, outer behavior will influence outer behavior, while thought influences thought, and unconscious feelings influence unconscious feelings | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| behavior will influence outer behavior, while thought influences thought, and unconscious feelings influence unconscious feelings. The contagious | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| that topic. The difference between action, feeling, or thought is not half as great as human beings | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| experience the same with thoughts, as though a thought is thought in you, as though it is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| same with thoughts, as though a thought is thought in you, as though it is not your | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| you, as though it is not your own thought process that thinks, and yet it is very | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| considerable insight to find out that what you thought was love was no such thing. Many of | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| use of will. There is the school of thought that says you must not pursue results in | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| let go. And there is another school of thought that says that without will there can be | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| world, are so conditioned to an overemphasis on thought process, intellect, mind, and willpower, that you believe | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |