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| one they know. They yearn for the freedom, blissfulness and mastery of life that the unified state | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| is the state of being in all its blissfulness. Once fragmentation has occurred, lost consciousness gradually works | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| surrender, even if you have already experienced the blissfulness of it. But your forgetting is not really | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| have to make you miss out on the blissfulness of eternal life that increasingly filters into your | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
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| lack is directly connected with a specific inner block. Were your wishes simply granted without your first | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| process centers around the ego, and that must block the stream of genuine love, having a contrary | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| that you can remove the first stones which block your way to contacting God's world. The purpose | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| us spirits. Each rigid opinion is such a block. We cannot push the truth through when the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| development is far enough advanced to eliminate the block. QUESTION: Does this mean that one is quite | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| in the way; this is the greatest stumbling block on the spiritual path. If this test is | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| thought that breaks God's laws, is a building block in that enormous spiritual structure -- war -- | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| touches merely a symptom of an entire psychological block and this cannot possibly be solved by one | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| exactly to go about dissolving this clot or block, step by step. You cannot do it by | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| realize that you cannot dissolve such a psychological block in any other way than the one I | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self-knowledge, you may occasionally come to feel this block very clearly and what its real significance is | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| clearly and what its real significance is. This block does not merely consist of one thing, but | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you have violated some spiritual law. Therefore a block exists in you that does not allow the | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| something to look into, for that means a block. What does the block mean? It often indicates | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| for that means a block. What does the block mean? It often indicates pride. Yes, my friends | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| state of mind. Bitterness, anger, self-pity, all these block the life force. Remember that. So try to | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| your misconceptions, but inside there is a resisting block that you can feel if you look for | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| a future time. If there is a real block, however, this should certainly be considered in the | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Because here we are dealing with an inner block and that is much more difficult to eliminate | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- which includes seeking and understanding the inner block and the prohibition you set up. Only then | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| materialism of this tremendous power might be a block to the spiritual development. It might hinder the | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| out why, and investigate what motives and uncertainties block your inner will. This will shed an additional | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| strong outer will, but their inner unconscious limitations block real progress. For them, a few years of | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| recognize these reactions, but also see how they block you from receiving that which you yearn for | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Then it is a question of finding the block that causes this particular obstruction. When this happens | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| will prevent you from making them a stumbling block or a rigid factor that stands in your | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| disappointment and discouragement may be a greater stumbling block than the problem itself. Therefore, I cannot impress | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| no questions. Is it conceit, is it a block, or is it a lack of imagination? ANSWER | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| create anxiety in you. All these seem to block the way toward the gratification of your wish | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| it may well be real. But some inner block must have made it impossible to obtain fulfillment | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| rules. The rules standing in front of you block your view of the real issue. As long | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and push against it, which only strengthens the block. You want to remove it without seeing what | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| awareness of what is in you and constantly block the flow of your emotions. This is unhealthy | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| fear, certain feelings and attitudes in yourself, you block awareness of them. This amounts to obstructing the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| life. When you fail to resolve fixations, you block the life force, and this blockage has consequences | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| others whose approval you seek. This creates a block of pride, a wall, a cloud that hinders | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| go through life desiring to love, you still block it and find ways to compromise with the | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| love are not only compatible but interdependent. You block the experience out of fear of losing your | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| necessary. Because you unconsciously know all that, you block the fulfillment, somehow waiting for the impossible. When | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| not because you fear its absence, nothing will block its attainment. And this is an enormous difference | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| forces within yourself. You will see why you block out feelings, sometimes with a great amount of | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| And love is yours because you do not block it, fear or resist it. Love is a | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| faced and examined. Cruelty is the greatest stumbling block to self-facing, to living in the dynamic, adventurous | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| where you have to go. When you unwittingly block your way to your destiny because your fears | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| an overall larger negative energy field which you block because you evade the truth. Such evasion always | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| direct recourse to your outer will faculties. This block is not completely out of your reach; hence | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| only you could quickly get rid of this block, you too would be among the privileged ones | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| painful and frightening. This is your very stumbling block because your shying away from what appears so | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| evolving into a new reality, but you still block it out because you ferociously refuse to allow | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| to, wherever appropriate and truthful concepts do not block the way. This life is a continuum, an | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| with you and your destiny. Even though you block and oppose the pull, you nevertheless cannot avoid | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| directly linked with our first topic. When you block the stream of the creative principle, which brings | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| frustration, unfulfillment, or emptiness. Since you fear and block the fulfillment of the cosmic stream, you must | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the major happiness. When individuals fear fulfillment, they block it, so they will justifiably fear nonfulfillment. Consequently | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| thoughts and feelings. This discrepancy presents a major block, for the unconsciously held material covers and barricades | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| force. The mind believes it is expedient to block off this material. Therefore, it cannot relax, it | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| truly to love. When fear, pride, and selfwill block off this direction, loving is impossible and outgoingness | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| unfold, expand, unify, and correct the areas that block you from life, from all that is good | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| inner self. In other respects they, too, may block it out. The manifestation of the real self | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| forgiving. Many such little incidents loosen up the block of withholding that causes more pain than any | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the ultimate you. This is the greatest stumbling block, the fear that blocks you, for, quite naturally | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| resort to sleeping pills rather than remove the block of the ego and transcend it. This is | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| pleasure is the first step to removing this block. Yet, invariably, you fight this truth with all | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| does not imply the absence of an unconscious block. This may merely imply a different personality structure | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| patterns and drastically change them. Stepping-Stone or Stumbling Block? Personal freedom is at once relative, limited, and | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| we choose such an attitude, the apparent stumbling block assumes a new meaning and becomes vital, strengthening | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| and liberating. When we see that the stumbling block was the direct result of our distortions, we | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| can clearly distinguish the area and feel the block, or the lump, or the congestion, question the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| of pleasure and energy, as opposed to the block that hardens and prohibits the flow. The block | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| block that hardens and prohibits the flow. The block can be distinctly felt when you pay attention | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| you alone harbor forever. It is a temporary block to loving, based on some false premises, which | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| and dishonest inner attitudes, for otherwise you will block what you want. By building thought forms of | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| it differently, whoever blocks pleasure must, perforce, also block the deep connection with the spiritual self. Conversely | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| could be overcome. Finally the entity confronts the block and makes an effort to overcome it. This | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| is tense, urgent, and contracted, it forms a block. Such desire implies, I do not believe that | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| false ideas, or even vagueness, will create a block. If, for example, you conceive of the greater | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| hazily misconceived process will set up a stumbling block. Most religions take a dualistic approach to the | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you be whole. Only then can you not block the expansive movement and let yourself flow out | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| tension and frenzy to overcome what appears to block you from outside yourself, you would be better | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| level. When the defenses are still strong they block the path to the emotional experience so that | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| fully experienced and thus lie stagnant, forming a block in your system. When you fear a feeling | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| your system. When you fear a feeling, you block the experience. You anesthetize yourself. Numbing and denying | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| numbed and deadened, you create a magnetic energy block within your psychic system. This magnetic block is | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| energy block within your psychic system. This magnetic block is a powerful force that inevitably draws to | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| overcoming it. Then the energy of the magnetic block dissolves, entering into the general flow of life | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| feared feeling, the more potent the magnetic energy block becomes, and the more certainly you attract the | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| suffered in previous lives. Your accumulated residual energy block not only attracts the same events over again | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| When fear of your feelings induces you to block off your capacity to feel, the impoverishment creates | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| pain makes the pain pleasure. The less you block pain, the more and the sooner will pain | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| and of the body also create a spiritual block, so that meditation cannot be practiced. Again, you | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| what is in you. Through such endeavor the block to meditation will also loosen up. You can | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| any meditation whatever, for his outer consciousness may block off this approach. When sufficient unblocking has been | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| place, and every step becomes easier. A spiritual block can be the result of either adopting a | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| sufficiently strong, and yet the resistance continues to block the movement of the whole personality which becomes | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| you cannot feel deserving, and hence you must block the contact with God in you. So this | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| eliminate your self- deceptions and pretenses. They always block the way to God in you. Those of | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| do this, you will eliminate an important stumbling block. Make room for the possibility that these are | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| -- pain. Any such demand is a creative block. It hinders the very fulfillment you insist upon | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| This short-circuit is then experienced as an involuntary block, inhibition, and deadness. On the emotional level, the | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| very thing you most desire. What is this block? Let us suppose you are lonely. Let us | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| is your task to find out where you block the charge of creative influx and how you | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| overcome the hurdles, the temptations to self-deceit, which block the way to the abstract knowledge of the | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| yet the negative self still exists. The ego's block against recognition of the negative makes it impossible | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| before, but it is still a major stumbling block for many of you. You stumble over this | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| of God and therefore essentially eternal. The stumbling block of not recognizing this fact is very prevalent | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| the expressions of this specific confusion and stumbling block. They are the distortion and inversion of the | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| you realize your God-nature, and you do not block the change which is joyfully waiting within every | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| your being? Then you can only continue to block this knowledge and defend against it. As you | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| does not require you to remove the very block that prevents the desirable event or state. The | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| an unbearable tension that is often a direct block to the fulfillment of the desire. A relaxed | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| where you find a misconception, a negativity, a block, a destructiveness, a problem, an ignorance, you find | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| new woman are free of emotional involvements that block truth. There is no stake in holding on | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| will find the key to where you still block the fulfillment that awaits you. When you look | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| felt and so can His absence when you block it out. One of the earthly manifestations in | 254 SURRENDER |
| still needs to be discovered. There is a block to this discovery. You often wallow in the | 254 SURRENDER |
| you knew this and used it wisely. The block exists on the one hand because the limited | 254 SURRENDER |