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| seems to me that the emotions are the builders. Am I correct? ANSWER: Both are builders. Both | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the builders. Am I correct? ANSWER: Both are builders. Both can be builders for something constructive or | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| correct? ANSWER: Both are builders. Both can be builders for something constructive or destructive. If they are | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
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| the knowledge thus acquired as material, as the building blocks, with which you build your life in | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| principle, is what dissolves itself, slowly and continuously building, growing. It exists in nature as the mothering | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| each 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 |
| group to which I manifest myself here is building such a temple, stone by stone. It is | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| helping with other tasks in connection with the building of your community. After considering all these reports | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| and the state of slow growth and organic building. Whenever God wills it so, the fluids may | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| goal not by trying to destroy, but by building upon that which counts. In God's world, therefore | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| they try to slowly eliminate these limitations by building upon what is constructive. However, in the spheres | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| however, be found outside of yourself, in some building or up in the sky. You all know | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| present, not fleeing from your reality, and thus building up from there -- slowly, step by step | 31 SHAME |
| recognition and acceptance of what you are, without building up a different personality for the outside world | 31 SHAME |
| striving sincerely to get nearer to God is building a veritable temple in the spirit world. By | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| still missing, as were various other details. The building of this temple has been continued by all | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| of a single shortcoming, contributes more to the building of your temple and the Plan of Salvation | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| conclusion lies in failing to realize that by building these defenses you not only do not avoid | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| life you could enjoy and could use for building up your spiritual strength. I am continuing this | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| abused the beauty of the erotic force without building it into love. In either case, the personality | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| reason. For life is eternal, and you are building your eternal abode in this your life, on | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| behind the wall. All these trends are the building materials of the wall in your soul. As | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| her own road and thus producing and slowly building up the conditions that finally appear like tragedy | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| pure and harmonious form manifests as creativity, growth, building, forward movement, search, activity, the outgoing quality necessary | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| First you have to tear down the old building and clear the foundations before you can build | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not knowing all these circumstances, just seeing a building being torn down, may think this is destruction | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not wish to go to the trouble of building up into ability, into accomplishment. In other words | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| genuine self-improvement, self-purification and growth, because you started building an unreal self on a false foundation and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| and stability in the wrong way. Instead of building the healthy self- respect that comes naturally as | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| real self? Is there a continuing fusion without building a strong mask personality? ANSWER: Of course, the | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| is unrealistic. It is just as illusory as building a tower that reaches the heavens. It cannot | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| established. The God-image plays a major role in building these defenses, whether as a vague authority or | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are exaggerated because you tend very much toward building up emotions out of all proportion. It would | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| constructive results. If the mind is used for building material things, it is constructive, because this is | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| living human being is fundamentally endowed. It requires building up the personality and integrating the parts which | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| the most constructive elements in the universe, constantly building them with unending creativity and love. These wells | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| a downward curve, from the no-current, to a building up, to the upward life-giving stream, to the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| You will be able to use it by building molds for it with your conscious mind. As | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| individuality, the only available way appears to be building up barriers around the self. Only this seems | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| in a fruitless and futile way, such as building up walls that keep out the best of | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| From then the work becomes a question of building up, for the tearing down is over. What | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| fearing to be touched by experience and therefore building a defensive wall against it. In order to | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| an irrationality, or talking yourself into it by building a case. Both imply too active a mind | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| a power exists to release untold energies for building or destroying, how infinitely more is this the | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| otherwise you will block what you want. By building thought forms of creative unfoldment you can tap | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| emotions and attitudes corresponds to sustained practice in building new physical or mental skills. The first appearance | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| compatibility with life lies in trusting it and building on this trust; in knowing that it is | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the personality defends itself by closing up, by building a protective armor -- which is the closed | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| will not be deterred by the fact that building a beautiful edifice requires patience. I will not | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to feel sad. You may do this by building cases against people who make you sad. Your | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| incapable of reacting differently to pain than by building its numbing defenses. This is true only when | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| Suppose you build a house. Some of the building material is solid, beautiful, and of excellent quality | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| can be extricated without tearing down the entire building, then profound shake-up of the inhabitants' present life | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| hand, attempt to assuage your self-doubts by strenuously building cases; on the other hand, you will be | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| spiritual form, materializing into an earthly form. The building of this is indeed a beautiful venture, with | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| to avoid all risks, discomforts and pains by building an illusion into which you invest quite a | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| new culture that is slowly growing. The forces building this new reality are, at the same time | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| lecture be a foundation stone for another new building, in a spiritual sense and later even in | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| agent. Each word is a blueprint essential for building the structure. The word is both expression and | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| new society you are in the process of building that will be, as I have often said | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the great light is always available for the building of a tunnel to the world of light | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| rationalize and justify -- you build on deficit. Building on deficit can appear to succeed for a | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| picture of life and encourage the tendency of building on deficit. The methods I have given you | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| These types of lower-self giving are manifestations of building on deficit. False ways of giving may temporarily | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| shame of showing your deficits, you finally desist building on them, and you sail through the fear | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
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| any other quality, has to be engendered and built up by yourself. It cannot be otherwise. A | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| but for us they are solid forms, walls built of granite. When, however, a medium fulfills most | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| again and again; thought forms have to be built and rebuilt. With time, they will affect the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| will find constant strength and happiness that is built on a rock and can never be pulled | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| realize they are living a lie. They have built a layer of unreality that has nothing to | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| world? We see a very beautiful temple being built in the world of spirit. This group to | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the high place you consciously or unconsciously have built for yourself. Once you have taken this step | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| with whom not only great happiness can be built, but also with whom other duties may be | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| also the worst of that which you have built. Any relatively highly developed human being might thus | 22 SALVATION |
| the sphere that belongs to them. They have built with their feelings, with their thoughts, and with | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| creations. You build them, and whatever you have built is your sphere, your temporary home. QUESTION: I | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| how faulty your defense mechanism was when you built your image, if you will think it through | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| you would have had if you had not built the defenses of this image. It is very | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| imagine quite easily that a heavier karma is built on the same principle as in the cause | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| cause and effect of image-conclusions. Both draw events built on wrong conclusions which are always violations of | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the root is in yourself, where you have built the wall that stands between you and the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the soul is prepared to love and has built the foundation for it will eros be the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| enter. There are also a few who have built such a tight wall of fear and pride | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| to do with the other. The sphere is built up by the person's deeds, thoughts, attitudes and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the falseness of the mask layer you have built on wrong conclusions. Then you can be true | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| in your soul. Hence a vicious circle, always built on a false premise, is activated within you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| woman is more spiritually inclined. This has been built up by society. But both elements exist in | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or should be. In other words, the rigidly built, imagined situations that prohibit reality also prohibit your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| not even be what the child who has built this unreal form wants. The unreal form is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| psychological problems, in the false safeguards people have built for themselves, and in their resistance to reexamine | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| that death is an illusion, your faith is built on sand. But if you take the great | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| a strong facade of false serenity has been built that, as long as life's circumstances permit, this | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| be borne out that the edifice was indeed built on sand. The withdrawn type and the seeker | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| wrong approach. This kind of faith is truly built on sand. It is false religion that leads | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| human terminology, a neurotic situation. All neurosis is built around a nucleus of repressed needs and contains | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| pseudo- solutions and defense-mechanisms that you have laboriously built up over the course of years. So many | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| approaching life. Your mode of operation is often built on a subtle pretense. Once you are aware | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| form the intent to remove what it has built up negatively. There is no strict borderline between | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| as the illusory crutches that the psyche has built up as a substitute for true self-confidence; if | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| an unrealistic expectation that when the new is built, the old, obsolete attitudes disappear. The degree of | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| you will see that it was all painstakingly built up to lead to this point: the mending | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| escape must disappear first. Then the experience is built on a rock. And so, my dearest friends | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| of birth is as if a body were built by forces outside the personality. This creates confusion | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| foundation of truthful concepts can be erected. Structures built on erroneous concepts must inevitably be destroyed. This | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| to destroy your life just because you have built general concepts around these early experiences. The existence | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| nature. The latter feelings have the self-regulating wisdom built into their very existence, just as the destructive | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| for this would make the structure they mutually built collapse -- and they do not want to | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| you cannot see beyond the form you have built according to your belief. Your actions then are | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| is approached in that way, it will be built on rock, not sand. No fear will ever | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| experience now is the result of what you built yesterday, last year, decades, or even centuries ago | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| crisis can tear down a structure that is built on premises which contradict the laws of cosmic | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| of human existence, theories and philosophies have been built around it. Your search has always been concerned | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| assumption would then be that the world is built on deceit, pretense, negation. Even though such thoughts | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| also require your active engagement. The gift has built itself from your progress in awareness and acceptance | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| this path have made possible, that you have built yourselves, as it were. By fulfilling your part | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| that can take place and that can be built later into further and further extensions of this | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| you. After all, one reason these defenses are built is to ward off the pain of other | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| often the venom with which cases are being built against life and others -- increase one's sense | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| your life. Look at the construct you have built in your mind with your tightly fixed conclusion | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| when your ego stands on the firm ground built by self-discipline. Create a new climate in your | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| From that solid basis a feeling-exchange can be built. If you perceive in reality, you are free | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| There is an innate system of divine justice built into all consciousness. Whenever a life expression is | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| abundance you create out of fear is not built on reality, and its flimsy structure must be | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| interpretations you harbor, to ignore seeing the deliberately built up stake you have in seeking justification for | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| establish trust. But trust and faith cannot be built on the rotten foundation of distrust and lack | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| cannot make choices. It blindly follows the in- built pattern implanted in its substance. The human state | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| feel a temporary exhilaration -- but that is built on a shaky ground. When that admiration and | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| adopt an artificial brittle security that is not built on sound and deep self-esteem. However, the groping | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| as a result of true self-esteem that is built on sincere giving and commitment, on the being | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| little ways. Leadership in its real sense is built on the love of true giving and on | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| self-created -- poverty by pretending a false wealth, built on deficit. Your spiritual and emotional finances often | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| same patterns. They are sound when government is built on assets, not on deficit; on reserves, not | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| the appropriate words, and the walls you have built around you will dissolve. Let us examine the | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |