| Touches.....................24 | |
| fulfillment, light, brotherhood and fusion with another being touches them, they will confront this longing and tell | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| meditation, or simply when the breath of God touches the human being. Then you really feel that | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| that is inherent in human understanding. It also touches on the subject of dualism and monism. People | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| your sense of truth that every so often touches your heart. Be in God. 15. INFLUENCE BETWEEN | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| your questions, I want to mention something that touches a more psychological aspect of the human being | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| wish to stress most emphatically that this lecture touches the greatest questions in existence and therefore it | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| a very rough outline of all this. This touches the very greatest questions, which cannot be fully | 21 THE FALL |
| and dealing with them properly. Your question now touches merely a symptom of an entire psychological block | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| happen as long as you allow anything that touches you personally to influence your course of action | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| fight against something evil, whether or not it touches your life. To come that far, you have | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| continued development of this beautiful temple, perhaps finishing touches can be added, all in the honor of | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| accept it now willingly. The love of God touches all of you, my dear ones. Be in | 38 IMAGES |
| is one important aspect of God where it touches you most. This may lead you to think | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of a lecture in the near future. It touches a mass image which says, Selfishness is pleasant | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| we really feel like being. ANSWER: This question touches a subject that I will, in all probability | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an additional conflict in the human soul. It touches a very basic problem of humanity, namely that | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| much you grow after each mishap, whether it touches a big and important issue or a rather | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| funny to you, my friends, and yet, it touches a very basic problem which I have mentioned | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| just registering such impressions mentally, emotional experience really touches you. Since your struggle is primarily for happiness | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| now. ANSWER: This recognition is very good. It touches upon the age-old alternatives of taking refuge or | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| defenses shut off life so successfully that nothing touches you. And your willpower may build an eventful | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| they occur close together. Suppose the small child touches fire and burns itself. It will comprehend that | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| under the feet of the child/adult. This fear touches those who outwardly rebel against their parents and | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| And this is indeed an important lever that touches an inexorable law of life. For only as | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Touching....................12 | |
| ear. For you, the ultimate criterion is in touching, hearing, or seeing, because you have no basis | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| Christ is spreading all over and is also touching this earth sphere. Imbibe of this light, of | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| when one tries to get into a conversation touching the emotional understanding. That makes it very, very | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the poison may even affect you temporarily while touching it, but this cannot be avoided. It is | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| That takes effect. It is like your love touching the heart of another person. When you pray | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your question may reveal a basic earnestness, a touching humility, a desire toward the best in life | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are ashamed as much of these endearing and touching struggles in themselves as they are ashamed of | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| advantage of childhood combines with the fear of touching the afflicted areas where the past hurts are | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| life. But he feels himself near it, almost touching the water of life, as he put it | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| experience the painful burning sensation, it must avoid touching fires. Here, cause and effect are close together | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| body is influenced by the sights, sounds, odors, touching, and many other sense perceptions of others. There | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| in the same life is very moving, very touching. What I want to ask you is, in | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| Tough.......................4 | |
| world happens to be unfeeling, undemonstrative, or even tough, you do not dare to let yourself feel | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| In order not to lose, I must be tough and disregard others. The latter is convinced of | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| be overly sentimental, still others may be overly tough and indifferent toward the existence of evil. Any | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| more and more overlaid, hidden and covered by tough substances. Without an adult and realistic understanding -- | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| Toughen.....................4 | |
| the events around them -- they proceed to toughen this vulnerable spot to defend themselves against its | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| mechanics by which you discourage its manifestations and toughen the vulnerable spot; 3) deliberately stop the mechanics | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| is true. Then you will not need to toughen the vulnerable spot, which is the essence of | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| you, to reject and humiliate you, you must toughen yourself. Cruelty is almost the only weapon with | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| Toughness...................4 | |
| attitude toward people in general. Artificially cultivating a toughness that is no more real than the helpless | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| human being overemphasis on independence, hostile domineering tendencies, toughness, and denial of all laws and rules, you | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| goodness, and appeasement; or overindependence, rebellion, and false toughness; or a combination of both. In both instances | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| discouraging your natural, warm feelings and artificially producing toughness. Again, all this is not conscious. You may | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| Tower.......................14 | |
| to interpret. It is the one about the Tower of Babel, especially now when we are living | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| said...Let us build a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven...lest we | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Lord came...to see the city and the tower which the children of men had builded. 6 | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| left off to build the city and the tower: 9:...because the Lord did... confound the language | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| meaning of your previously unconscious emotions. Since this Tower of Babel exists within your own soul, it | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and outer world of humanity. This is the Tower of Babel. If you cannot understand yourself, how | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| make them understand you. This, too, is the Tower of Babel. It symbolizes your inner world and | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| removal of your own inner barriers, your own Tower of Babel; the dismantling of your own defense | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| says that these people tried to build the tower so high that it would reach the heavens | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It is just as illusory as building a tower that reaches the heavens. It cannot be done | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| means than constructing the idealized self-image or the Tower of Babel. It is your idealized self-image, your | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of Babel. It is your idealized self-image, your Tower of Babel, that divides you within and estranges | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this is symbolized in the story of the Tower of Babel. Here you have just a few | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| claims of the little ego which wants to tower above others, needing admiration; needing to compare and | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Trace.......................31 | |
| occur quickly, so their causes are easier to trace. Others take a longer route, but the fact | 18 FREE WILL |
| one by one, pull them apart, and then trace their directions. Each of the little strings in | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| life. You are convinced that there is no trace of cowardice in you. So that when you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| person's life. However, you are not able to trace the connection between the two, and probably the | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| They are entirely unconscious arguments. You can only trace the emotions and reactions by applying certain methods | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| glad to help all of you individually to trace the basic condition brought to your attention tonight | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| attitudes. But you will encounter them without a trace of guilt. With the proper attitude, you accept | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| purification. Two: you would recognize, without the slightest trace of guilt, how you personally contribute to and | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| strong, but hidden, and therefore infinitely harder to trace. If you had a parent who smothered you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| that at first it would seem impossible to trace. In fact, often the stronger the hostile attitude | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| the world. That again may be difficult to trace. While a submissive person is obviously dependent, the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| of truth in it. If there is no trace of truth in it, why would you have | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| of view. Its advice leaves in you no trace of doubt or uneasy feelings; rather, it gives | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the infinite intelligence manifest in yourself. The slightest trace of guilt about still not being further developed | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| your whole psyche to positive experience, without a trace of fear of the negative, then the unknown | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| You are in harmony, and there is no trace of destructive motivation in the remotest recesses of | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| He or she is open, joyful, without a trace of apprehension, and therefore can expand in a | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| -- physical, emotional, mental, spiritual -- without a trace of apprehension, tension, tight greed or separateness. It | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| find yourself in strife. Pleasure supreme without a trace of anxiety is an ever-existing reality in you | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| expresses itself guiltlessly and does not leave a trace of inner confusion and pain. I mean the | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| are not sufficiently aware to be able to trace cause and effect relationships realistically. They are incapable | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| make new positive commitments. Whenever you find another trace of still lingering negative intentionality, make the corresponding | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| you fear. It is absolutely necessary that you trace all the connecting links between cause and effect | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| fulfilled. If you can strongly desire, without a trace of a must, but with an attitude of | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| in which there is not even the slightest trace of anxiety or doubt. You must wait and | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| advantage of. There will be order without a trace of compulsiveness, order in all things of your | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| patterns you do not understand, and you cannot trace them to their origins unless and until you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| blame for it onto others, yet without a trace of self-hate. That attitude becomes available to the | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| in the healthiest, most divine way, without a trace of self-indulgence or denial of what is true | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| fulfilled. On your evolutionary path you need to trace your steps back through the outer mazes, level | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| will to live in the body, without a trace of fear of physical death. The personality fully | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |