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| many feelings are unconscious and you need work, willpower, and patience to make them conscious, and furthermore | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| to meditate will come by itself. It needs willpower, perseverance; you have to fight your negative currents | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| For all this, my dear ones, you need willpower. Many of you, my friends, will say: That's | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| person is born with a strong portion of willpower, and another is not. So how can someone | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| So how can someone who hasn't got any willpower make use of it? Let me explain. Willpower | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| willpower make use of it? Let me explain. Willpower, just as any other quality, has to be | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| you how each one of you can acquire willpower. For God never asks for the impossible from | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| the impossible from anyone, my dear ones, ever. Willpower is a direct result of understanding, of knowledge | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| without sufficient renewal. Thus the first step toward willpower is thinking, or, as you also call it | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| for a certain reason. Maybe I lack the willpower to fulfill the purpose of my existence as | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| resistances, but I will ask God for this willpower, for basically I do want what is good | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| find that at first I still lack the willpower, then I will take this problem into my | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| insights, and thus to help my still weak willpower to grow. Everybody can do that. This much | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| to grow. Everybody can do that. This much willpower, this much self-discipline is available to everyone. You | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| will also help to strengthen his or her willpower, so that the further and actually more difficult | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| even the person who initially was lacking in willpower will, in due course, have just as much | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| my last lecture. The decision to develop your willpower is such a decision, which has to be | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| one time or another. To summarize: To obtain willpower you have to, first, gain understanding and, second | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| you feel that you do not have enough willpower, you lack the illuminating understanding of what it | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| will certainly make the decision and have the willpower to direct your life and your energies toward | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| people who believe they do not have enough willpower would have it if they directed the available | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| to improve your spiritual awareness? And when the willpower is not there and it is so difficult | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| unconscious currents, and you will need all your willpower to conquer the resistance. The longing for God | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| have karmic reasons, yet quite often courage and willpower could relieve them if only you opened the | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| have this fault. I know it takes struggle, willpower and patience to eradicate it, but I can | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| sides. He needs to pray for strength and willpower to see himself as he really is. He | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| your resolve, but to recommit both time and willpower again and again. If you do this, the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| path. A person has to devote much work, willpower, and time to reach this state of mind | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| a full heart, without self-deception, rooted in sincere willpower. This is the first step on this particular | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| you are not strong enough. You need the willpower, you need unceasing effort, but your power alone | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| will to free yourself. You need both your willpower and the help of God. You must approach | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| I shall have to have patience and the willpower to work unceasingly, for otherwise I cannot expect | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| God is with you. 16. SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER Greetings in the name of the Lord. Blessed | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| have much more power than you realize. The willpower that lies enfolded within you is something you | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| something you do not realize, my friends. Since willpower is of great importance in the life of | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| There is no person alive who has no willpower. Whoever says, I am weak, I have no | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| Whoever says, I am weak, I have no willpower, is fooling himself because it appears much easier | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| It is only a question of unfolding the willpower which you already have. Now, how can you | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| already have. Now, how can you unfold your willpower in the right direction? For all of you | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| you who say you do not have any willpower, constantly use this willpower without realizing that you | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| do not have any willpower, constantly use this willpower without realizing that you do so. You are | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| self. Now here is a good example, because willpower in itself is a most valuable asset; without | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| indeed, there can never be any spiritual progress. Willpower comes from the higher self; it will remain | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| take, for example, a criminal. He uses his willpower very obviously and noticeably in a wrong direction | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| sin. And yet, he too may use his willpower in the wrong direction, though unconsciously and, of | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| give it up; he wants it nevertheless. The willpower continues to flow in the wrong direction without | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| thing to do. Now if he uses his willpower blindly, he will become a writer, but he | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| assure you. Coming back to the question of willpower: The most important step to channeling your willpower | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| willpower: The most important step to channeling your willpower in the right direction is in stating first | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| God. When you do that, my friends, the willpower already alive within you will often change direction | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| will disappear, I can promise you that. Your willpower, even if it has been dormant to a | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| keep this promise and actually live it. Whatever willpower I have, I use it according to Thy | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| if it means that I have to use willpower, effort, patience -- and, perhaps, suffer some pain | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| lower self; you have to enlist your conscious willpower to conquer your lower self. Combined with your | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| this can be done if you penetrate your willpower into all layers of consciousness -- you should | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| me to the subject of will direction and willpower: where to employ willpower and where not. Let | 18 FREE WILL |
| of will direction and willpower: where to employ willpower and where not. Let us start out from | 18 FREE WILL |
| be in any given circumstance. Apart from the willpower to make single decisions or take a certain | 18 FREE WILL |
| claim, that you can accomplish almost anything by willpower. The inner psychic forces, once utilized, are much | 18 FREE WILL |
| your spiritual progress and self-purification, you could use willpower more often or with greater strength. A number | 18 FREE WILL |
| intellect and out of your soul. The intellectual willpower may be a strong one, but it will | 18 FREE WILL |
| never have the strong effect of the soul's willpower. You can use your willpower in two very | 18 FREE WILL |
| of the soul's willpower. You can use your willpower in two very distinct ways. One creates a | 18 FREE WILL |
| redirect your motivation in consciousness and the inner willpower can flow freely. Once your motives are clean | 18 FREE WILL |
| pangs which hamper the free flow of your willpower. The higher your development, the stronger your subconscious | 18 FREE WILL |
| your development, the stronger your subconscious handicaps your willpower if your desire is not clean and right | 18 FREE WILL |
| examine where to let go and relinquish your willpower, and where you can and should use much | 18 FREE WILL |
| it may be -- you can develop the willpower in the right direction, for then you are | 18 FREE WILL |
| masks and wrong motives. You can train your willpower to flow out of your solar plexus and | 18 FREE WILL |
| disharmony. Revive the vital spark and revive the willpower deep within your soul, so that the clean | 18 FREE WILL |
| coming from the brain. The same applies to willpower. Will coming from the brain region will lead | 18 FREE WILL |
| QUESTION: Last time, you answered the question about willpower and self-control. I think it is important to | 21 THE FALL |
| be stressed enough. As you rightly say, before willpower and self-control can be strengthened, you have to | 21 THE FALL |
| is your goal, and in what direction should willpower and self-control be utilized. In order to have | 21 THE FALL |
| and self-control be utilized. In order to have willpower, the goal has to be clear in your | 21 THE FALL |
| all, to gain self-knowledge, you definitely need some willpower already to begin with. Thus the process works | 21 THE FALL |
| letting it come to the surface. As with willpower, here too, it is a question of deciding | 21 THE FALL |
| big and wholehearted Yes, you will need your willpower, my dear ones. You will need willpower and | 21 THE FALL |
| your willpower, my dear ones. You will need willpower and self-discipline to battle all your faults, which | 21 THE FALL |
| of lives to awaken sufficiently to strengthen one's willpower for the all-important process of self-purification. Only then | 22 SALVATION |
| the divine world. The outer personality, with its willpower and capability to decide one way or another | 22 SALVATION |
| demanding from you all you have in honesty, willpower, and effort. I want to say something else | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| emotions not influenced by an act of direct willpower. This cannot be emphasized enough. It often takes | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you without exception are capable, with a little willpower and determination and proper organization of your everyday | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of time every day, a certain amount of willpower, and a certain amount of detached and reasonable | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you need a great deal of activity and willpower. When the active forces are used in the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| at all times be active and use your willpower -- which does not mean self-will, for these | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| do just that, you certainly do need your willpower. However, where the passive forces should hold sway | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| free of self-will, but your active and clean willpower must be used, first, for the desire to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| aside; and third, for preparation to use your willpower even more actively to follow the will of | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| it needs the greatest and freest efforts of willpower to decide to live within spiritual law. In | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| I cannot do it with enthusiasm and real willpower; and if I still desire that which is | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| -- the original good quality is a strong willpower, a readiness to pay the price in effort | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| you wish to change them with all the willpower at your disposal. Yet you must face the | 38 IMAGES |
| you must face the fact that the outer willpower is insufficient to do so. No matter how | 38 IMAGES |
| easiest circumstances possible. When not enough courage and willpower are mustered in easy circumstances, the life that | 38 IMAGES |
| difficult. And if again the courage, humility, and willpower are not mustered, the life afterward will be | 38 IMAGES |
| guilt mingles with their devotion. QUESTION: You mentioned willpower and courage twice tonight. Are the batteries of | 38 IMAGES |
| ANSWER: Of course! If you pray specifically for willpower and courage for a good purpose, as outlined | 38 IMAGES |
| with the tools of patience, sound endeavor, and willpower is, in truth, the only way to ascend | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| type is carried away by emotions and uses willpower unconsciously and erratically. The harmonious personality finds the | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| predominantly with emotion to some people and with willpower toward others? I mean, can the same individual | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| know a lot of people who have no willpower but who are very courageous. ANSWER: That has | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| be quite cold. A person who has no willpower and yet has courage may summon this courage | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| himself and others that he or she has willpower. QUESTION: Is there also a certain courage that | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| fact that inborn courage, which is based on willpower, cannot function because of other deviations in the | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| is the purification process. Often the person whose willpower is crippled, yet who displays courage in some | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| you, let them strengthen your courage and your willpower on the path of self-finding. This is the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| rest find new strength in your soul, new willpower, new understanding, and new desire for your inner | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| blessed is this hour. Tonight we will discuss willpower. One often hears that with the proper application | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| often hears that with the proper application of willpower practically anything can be achieved. Yet you all | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| of you has surely experienced both kinds of willpower, but without awareness that there is a definite | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| success will result. If the degree of inner willpower is small in relation to the outer will | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| gravest hindrance to the functioning of your inner willpower. The more the inner will is hindered, the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| that you can move mountains with strong enough willpower, that will has to come from within, and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| and by finely tuning in to how your willpower feels, try to determine which will it is | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| not controlled by any strenuous discipline or outer willpower, but by your relaxed summoning of your calm | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| these elements takes time, perseverance, and very effective willpower to face anything that is within yourself, without | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| easy to bring into awareness. It takes considerable willpower, self-honesty, and patience to become aware of how | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| of relinquishing simply means discovery of where your willpower has no jurisdiction, adjusting to that which is | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and the various manifestations of healthy and unhealthy willpower. Let us now see another of the negative | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| suppress, and ultimately repress, your wish capacity, your willpower. You may transform it so that it reappears | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| are unaware of it. (2) Another reason why willpower or wish capacity becomes unproductive is that you | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| give it to you, then you cripple your willpower and wish-capacity. These four aspects prohibit a healthy | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| to have peace. You must not have any willpower. You must let go. And there is another | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| do not need it. You cannot use direct willpower to make yourself feel what you do not | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| an overemphasis on thought process, intellect, mind, and willpower, that you believe you can somehow become yourself | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| by controlling your thoughts, and by directing your willpower to be so. From all our previous work | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to cultivate and develop intellect, memory, discrimination, and willpower. Without these qualities, as I said, matter could | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| using the tools of intellect, thought process, or willpower, they construct what we call images of themselves | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| and spiritual growth. When used wrongly, thought and willpower create confusion and suffering. When you consider what | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| are and what you feel. Both thought and willpower belong in the category of becoming, but are | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| require a certain discipline, as well as unflagging willpower. The difficulty is that behind the lack of | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| The difficulty is that behind the lack of willpower needed on your path is the very no-current | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| would only create harm. You would waste your willpower, your energy, to exert a pressure that would | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| that you do not have to exert any willpower, any pressure with your outer ego faculties, in | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| your understanding. For this understanding will release more willpower in the right direction, more energy, more outlook | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| more difficult to move. Such inertia requires more willpower, more meaningful mental work and activity. Now let | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| follows: the outer, deliberate, conscious ego and its willpower must be poised in a firm but relaxed | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| reason, to use the mind, and by the willpower to hold back, to discipline all spontaneous impulses | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| organically strengthened by the courage, honesty, self-discipline and willpower necessary to reach this juncture. That is why | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| the feeling. You can now execute your relaxed willpower. This is where you are, my friends, or | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| often requires, at first, a great amount of willpower to reject the line of least resistance, which | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| so successfully that nothing touches you. And your willpower may build an eventful outer life that fills | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| outer will must have its effects accordingly. A willpower construction conflicts with the inner denial and obstruction | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| the inner being, the results must be disappointing. Willpower, the outer will, can indeed be effective up | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |