| Thought-splits..............1 | |
| a limited aspect. You have created artifacts, artificial thought-splits that confuse your mind. They are as much | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| Thought-world...............1 | |
| into your hands through learning to control your thought-world. Thought control increases awareness and raises consciousness. Instead | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| Thousand....................4 | |
| direction of eliminating racial differences. In a few thousand years from now, perhaps in about fifteen hundred | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| cannot put into practice this advice in a thousand little ways every day. This is as true | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| If you have the courage to stumble a thousand times over the same faults and forever lift | 31 SHAME |
| again from childhood to adolescence, while only two thousand years have gone by and humankind is now | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| Thousands...................9 | |
| was definitely known at that time, hundreds of thousands of years ago, when the world was destroyed | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| distance, these very radiant spheres are hundreds of thousands of miles away. And wherever the lower self | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| worse than the wars you had hundreds and thousands of years ago, because it is not a | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not exist if the many little issues in thousands of individual cases were not a precedent to | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for universal success in its real sense than thousands of people going to a church. Be blessed | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the masses understand much more than they did thousands of years ago, truth can be given more | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| key to the universe. But preaching it for thousands of years has not really helped and has | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| lifetime upon lifetime -- and it indeed takes thousands of lifetimes, not hundreds -- to purify the | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| phase that may last many hundreds or even thousands of years, but each individual life must still | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Threads.....................12 | |
| does not follow divine law. Spiritual material resembles threads, fine, ray-like threads -- in this case of | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| divine law. Spiritual material resembles threads, fine, ray-like threads -- in this case of somber color and | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| clouds, then you can untangle the ball of threads, knot by knot. For only those who courageously | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| Everybody adds his share to the tangle of threads, woven by the dark forces; and often one | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| is so much easier to see the connecting threads and thus recognize ultimate justice, even when it | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| outer or inner reaction, also create such luminous threads. Wherever your personal rays agree with those of | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| different direction. They cannot harmonize with the luminous threads of the greater reality, and so beneficial influence | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| it. And it can also reconstitute these fluid threads so that it again becomes an entity of | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| said before, those beings will contract the fluidal threads and from the state of pure being move | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| visible in the form of rays or fine threads running through the atmosphere. They are noticeable not | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| levels of action, reaction and interaction until the threads become so enmeshed that it seems impossible to | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| and uses them as pointing arrows, as red threads leading to the source. You are in illusion | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Threat......................63 | |
| one. This should not be taken as a threat, my friends. It is just a logical consequence | 38 IMAGES |
| logical consequence. Besides, how can anything be a threat that liberates you from your own chains? You | 38 IMAGES |
| also build defenses against what it considers a threat. Whether it happened suddenly or in a slow | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| happened suddenly or in a slow realization, this threat is the shock referred to. You all know | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the Russians and Chinese, seems such a terrifying threat, also for spiritual development. Would you discuss the | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to yield to, what seems like a personal threat, is really no threat at all. If someone | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| seems like a personal threat, is really no threat at all. If someone else does not accept | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| your expectation, this in itself is not a threat. Neither is it a disaster if you have | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| have mastered life's problems, there will be no threat in them. That is the reality, my friends | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| always flexible. This very flexibility appears as a threat to people. They want the fixed pseudo-safety of | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| of conflict. You seek ways to overcome the threat of not getting your will, but since the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| afraid to let go. A personal fear or threat is involved here. They feel, If I have | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| cannot afford to face what they consider a threat to their security. So the core of the | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| have the mastery occasionally will not present a threat as it did while you were in distortion | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| to become increasingly aware of feelings of utter threat, even though your reason knows that they are | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| - - not only physical ones, but any threat to the healthy growth of the individual -- | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to your wishes. All this represents, unconsciously, a threat to your safety, which in reality is null | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| often incapable of coping with real attack and threat. He or she is paralyzed, helpless, and actually | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| love that non-fulfillment presents a special fear and threat. Their remedy is a strong forcing current. Needless | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| development. The unknown will no longer pose a threat. The path of self-discovery embodies this struggle, my | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| come only when life is no longer a threat and no longer needs to be fled so | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| The no-current is used to avoid the imagined threat. When the pathwork demolishes this pretense and the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| realizes that the fears are unfounded, and the threat is not the event itself but the attitude | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| If she truly desires to remove the imaginary threat, to concisely formulate what it is she fears | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| threatened. Humanity's separateness is the result of this threat; it is the deepest root of your fear | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| and the other side is seen as a threat and is fought against. As long as you | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| you, where you can move and grow without threat, finding your own real being. Without activating the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| By the same token, passivity will hold no threat of helplessness, since you trust yourself and life | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| occurs frequently, which does not alter its real threat to you. The child in you is governed | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| it is because you still believe in the threat: Your misconception is that the hope of new | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| to truly assimilate it. In that way, the threat soon vanishes. The restricting movement does not cramp | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| see how what seemed at first like dire threat or unbearable pain, to be avoided at all | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| became more of an abstraction and contained the threat of forcing upon individuals certain actions that went | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| can fully face the sadistic feelings, without the threat and terror you still experience about them -- | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| experience and pleasure. You aim to avoid the threat of expressing your own negative feelings because they | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| physical life. Rejection itself would not be the threat it is for most people if there were | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| worth nothing; what makes rejection such a great threat is that it seems to confirm the fact | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| of pleasure. Unless frustration ceases to be a threat so that the personality does not cramp up | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| direction appears to your unconscious as an enormous threat. Activating the realm of feelings seems entirely too | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| explains, in the deepest possible way, the enormous threat all individuals experience when they come to a | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| certain crossroads in their development. With some, the threat may be so great that they go on | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| shrinks from living, especially when faced with the threat of new painful experience or disappointment. This shrinking | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| the pain of abandonment, even if only the threat of it is being repeated. As you experience | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| As you experience it in this way, the threat is already much less painful. As you do | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| his activation because it no longer is a threat. Her receptivity should not be confused with paralyzed | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| you purify yourself, there must always be a threat when it comes to intimacy: that one or | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| could be a purely positive power without any threat if these snares were looked at, discovered, and | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| of separateness and aloneness, for this offers less threat, or so it seems. However, when development proceeds | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| to you, it will cease to be a threat. In this lecture I shall point out further | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| no longer a desire, but a demand, a threat, a forcing-current that says: I must have or | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| will be unfairly treated. This voice indicates a threat containing the message that if life does not | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| to the truth of being, creates a constant threat that the untruthful, the unrealistic will sooner or | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| because one of the worst punishments is the threat of extinction. Lack of self-forgiveness brings this threat | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| threat of extinction. Lack of self-forgiveness brings this threat into focus. It triggers it. Fear of death | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| desirable, more alive, more fascinating. And, as the threat of tomorrow is taken away by your new | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| distorts vision; then being is fraught with the threat of nonbeing. On the level of your consciousness | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| light -- has always created a sense of threat. You wish to hold on to the old | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| for. On a very primitive, childish level the threat the rebelling Christian experiences now, when Jesus Christ | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| was wrong, therefore I am bad. This stronger threat reinforces the rebellion against such thoughts which seem | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| image. The submitter exists only as an underlying threat and fear that can be dissolved when the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| than the truth itself? Observe the feeling of threat in you now, when these words are being | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| moment, and then consider that the feeling of threat may be a distortion, may be irrational, may | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| beings fear of death makes dying traumatic. The threat of extinction prevents the entity from experiencing the | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |