| Upsets......................3 | |
| the illusion, split concepts begin to mend; psychic upsets begin to balance; confusion, disorder, conflict, make way | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| hope a human being could have... ANSWER: It upsets you because you are not yet quite ready | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| exactly to the extent that it no longer upsets you. You will find a new realm of | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| Upsetting...................4 | |
| what you want. This is puzzling and often upsetting. There is so much confusion in your soul | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| to your character and that are therefore doubly upsetting. With this penetration, although unpleasant at first, you | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| longer experience the rhythmic downward curve as depressing, upsetting, or disadvantageous. For each living moment, fully experienced | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| yet quite ready to trust it. It is upsetting in a sense that one knows these possibilities | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| Upward......................67 | |
| a powerful energy that all the subsequent steps upward on the path will become easier and easier | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| being bound inside. Giving energy to further the upward development of human consciousness, this person will be | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| of the unconscious, the higher self, also strives upward. But in every human being another part of | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| -- human or spirit -- takes on the upward path. When the highest steps are reached, the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| you will, if you continue to follow this upward path. Self-examination about your own happiness is a | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| who have reached a certain height on this upward path. You cannot overcome what you do not | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| spark is the part of you that strives upward; it is the part of you that wishes | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| by remote control, so to speak. With every upward step you take on the path, your feelings | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| senses by observation and awareness. Thus you work upward, using everything given to you from the spirit | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the side that seemed to push them ever upward regardless of the difficulties encountered. By such free | 21 THE FALL |
| inclination existed -- comparatively speaking -- to strive upward, to reach into the world of God. If | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the earth sphere. The higher the curve goes upward, the more these particle-souls unite again. For instance | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| existence on the downward curve as on the upward curve, but sometimes it must go through the | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- whether on the downward or on the upward curve -- are expressions of the parts of | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| embrace the incident, knowing that it helped you upward, forward, nearer to God, to perfection, to happiness | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| near every one of God's children who strive upward with a truly sincere desire. Therefore, rejoice in | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sincere desire. Therefore, rejoice in this knowledge, rejoice upward with a truly sincere desire. Rejoice that God | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| arms crossed. Hold your hands with the palms upward, for in a good meditation, whether it is | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| evolutionary drive in all living creatures to strive upward to God. Though your yearning for God is | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| crossing that great dividing line on your road upward. Let go, my dear ones! Of course God | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| as people do not purify themselves and strive upward to God, and as long as people cannot | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| thus proceed a step further on the ladder upward. But you must have the courage to search | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| them, you will have taken a further step upward. As long as these words remain just words | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| light. Thus the circle becomes a spiral leading upward very gradually. Some of you may think you | 36 PRAYER |
| follow an upward-winding spiral. At the beginning the upward slant is so slight that you do not | 36 PRAYER |
| the place of surrender on the long road upward. Others think they have done so merely because | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| This is when the person begins to turn upward and inward. The only solution to your life's | 38 IMAGES |
| a little bit at the beginning of your upward climb, recognize this, but do not mind it | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| all know that your development does not proceed upward or downward along a steady line. It fluctuates | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| you are a step higher than the last upward curve you were on. Although the last upward | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| upward curve you were on. Although the last upward curve was, on the whole, lower than the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| whole, lower than the present downward curve, every upward curve feels better. You felt an elation and | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to you now. When this is done, the upward curve sets in again, and you enjoy the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| attain victory again. Every victory means a new upward curve. It is quite natural that in such | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| soul has reached a significant milestone on the upward road. At that point you step across the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| can take place. Such pain is on the upward curve. Before undergoing an operation, for instance, first | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| shall we say the low point, before the upward curve can begin. By visualizing this, it may | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| good enough. Then you are on the road upward. May these words be the beginning of a | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the sentence: Then you are on the road upward. I would now like to ask you to | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| like to ask you to describe that road upward, the right way, the healthy approach that should | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them. It is, therefore, part of the road upward to observe them as they live in you | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| their impact. In this way you keep moving upward toward the solution of the problem. You will | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spells terror. Broadly speaking, this is the way upward. Of course, there are many details which I | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| outside. It will launch you on the ladder upward to the heights that can one day be | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| evolution begins. Here is the start of the upward turn toward God. The awareness of God is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| a little at the beginning in your striving upward, recognize this, but do not mind it too | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| development does not go in a steady line upward, or let us say, to speak in the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| curve is a step higher than the last upward curve you were on. Although the last upward | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| upward curve you were on. Although the last upward curve was, on the whole, lower than the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| curve is a step higher than the last upward curve you were on. You felt an elation | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| you now. When you have done this, the upward curve sets in again, and you enjoy the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| attain victory again. Every victory means a new upward curve. It is quite natural that in such | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| may occur at various high points on the upward path. At every few hundred incarnations or so | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| determines whether or not you choose the way upward with all that this calls for in order | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to this. For then the road, or curve upward can begin. Until you find this particular prohibition | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| human being is the first creature in the upward scale of life that possesses self-consciousness, awareness of | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the no-current, to a building up, to the upward life-giving stream, to the yes- current. My dearest | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| come from you, at each stage of your upward journey. There are many means of working toward | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| is the growth process. The joy during the upward curve can never be full and carefree, without | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| Dualistic growth is a cyclic movement, with an upward curve, a peak, and a downward curve that | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| to go up again. There can be no upward movement unless there is first a downward one | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| -- represents one side of the dualism, the upward movement -- life -- the other. Conciliation takes | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| and thus transcended. The change of downward and upward curves manifests in millions of ways. The crassest | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| as the downward curve that presages the next upward curve. Make the best of both by tuning | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| best of both by tuning into the next upward curve. Make the best of both by tuning | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| human being is the first entity on the upward evolutionary scale who can deliberately create with consciousness | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| create a conscience will disunity manifest on the upward scale. Thus very undeveloped individuals are unified, however | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| Urgent......................30 | |
| outer will can also feel so impatient, so urgent, so tense that you are all tied up | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| But your desire will be less strenuous, less urgent, and therefore you will suffer correspondingly less tension | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| The more your fear of loving produces the urgent desire to be loved, approved of, and so | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| subjectivity, and therefore unreality, through your strong and urgent need to nourish your illusion. This urgent need | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| and urgent need to nourish your illusion. This urgent need for illusion comes from the forcing current | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| desires are fulfilled is an expression of an urgent need to become the idealized self-image. QUESTION: Isn't | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| frustration. You will be capable of relinquishing the urgent pressure for immediate gratification if you keep in | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and the more you say no, the more urgent they become. The other part in you battles | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| if you think about it. For, the more urgent your needs while you are unaware of them | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| is. The more repressed, and therefore the more urgent your natural needs are, the more blind you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| person, or at the expense of a more urgent need of yours. On the other hand, the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| one danger. In order to deal with an urgent issue at the moment, you need all your | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| conflicted and fearful, after his desires become more urgent, all these emotions and attitudes color this first | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| perceptions are dulled by your fears, shame, and urgent wishes, and by your defenses, all of them | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| love and affection and understanding, without your own urgent needs blurring the realistic perception of others. If | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| the inner noise of fears, shames, defenses, and urgent needs and come directly to the well of | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| you cannot reach out without grabbing and without urgent demands. You cannot give without fear. When you | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| their self-search. Chances are that underneath the conscious urgent need, they will find a reason for prohibiting | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| affection for others. The latter are much less urgent, much calmer emotions, not at all self-centered, the | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| do not ask for, their demands become more urgent, while you become more guilty and resentful. Whenever | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| work. And the more this happens, the more urgent and frantic the yes-current becomes. The two currents | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| be puzzled because the yes-current is so desperately urgent. Instead of letting this mislead you into assuming | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| in general. While on a conscious level an urgent, frantic, hopeless Yes -- not the yes-current -- | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| as a protective device. It has become increasingly urgent to comprehend this point, for the majority of | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| unfulfilled. The more unfulfilled it is, the more urgent the need becomes. The more urgent the need | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| the more urgent the need becomes. The more urgent the need, the greater your dependency, your hope | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| The more strained, the more compulsive, the more urgent, the more impatient the outer striving for fulfillment | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| just as rigid a no as the surface, urgent, yes. The surface urge is just as much | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| fulfillment and self-expression. But if desire is tense, urgent, and contracted, it forms a block. Such desire | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| closed to one thing, which creates a tense, urgent grabbing movement in the opposite direction, which in | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |