| Built-in....................5 | |
| power. This energy works according to its own built-in law. As you know, it is totally impersonal | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| expect. The energy flows according to immutable, impersonal, built-in laws. The second aspect of this power is | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the ingrained fear and consequent resistance are a built-in safety measure of the path. Even if reason | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| periods of aloneness and relating have their own, built-in safety valves: each preserves the self in its | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| mean in reality? Every human being contains a built-in mechanism that makes receiving quite impossible when the | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Burden......................96 | |
| of. When you can no longer bear the burden of the conflicts which are really the symptoms | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| you opened the inner door. Regardless of the burden of your past lives, regardless of what you | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| should not be glad to accept such a burden; that would be impossible. Yet one can resign | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| fall is the one who carries the heaviest burden. When some teachings say that there are three | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| for that person this gift will be a burden and a trial. The spiritual world intends this | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| as if you had been freed of a burden. Try it also another way: Bypass everything that | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| forgiven and liberated and will know that a burden has been lifted from your shoulders. This happens | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| Healthy sorrow does not feel like a heavy burden. On the contrary, it lifts you up, it | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| great liberation. You will free yourself of a burden. So try not always to focus on yourself | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| misunderstanding that the person who carries the heaviest burden on earth can experience great joy in the | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| to undertake your further development with a diminished burden. So in the purification sphere you see your | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| to give up, will then appear like a burden you have carried around, which it indeed was | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| which it indeed was! For everything is a burden that separates you from God, my friends. And | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| also the strongest responsibilities. By carrying the heaviest burden alongside His exalted position, He gave another example | 22 SALVATION |
| to start on a clean slate, without any burden. According to your merits on this earth sphere | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| This is not true. It must be a burden to the loved one to be overestimated. Sometimes | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to love, their love was more of a burden than a cause for happiness? Something within you | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| not necessary, my dear ones. Self-responsibility represents a burden to you as long as you feel guilt | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| truth and divine law. This is a heavy burden. By taking the cross upon yourself you say | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| lighten your soul and help you lighten your burden. Do not ever forget it is your own | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| forget it is your own attitude toward your burden that determines its heaviness or lightness. Go in | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| but reap the fruits by losing the inner burden that you still may carry within yourself. It | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| of imbalance and disharmony is engendered, and a burden of guilt and inadequacy is added to it | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| unselfishness is considered virtuous, but is really a burden and does not make one happy. This is | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| insight, unselfishness will no longer be a compulsive burden one unconsciously struggles against, sacrificing one's happiness, in | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| something shameful. You will see what an unnecessary burden it was to keep your real self hidden | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| more about your inner conflicts and errors that burden you so unnecessarily -- you do not know | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| know how useless it is to carry this burden if you but turn inward and look into | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| will feel that you have shed a cumbersome burden you need no longer carry. As your fight | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| current. You will feel as though a heavy burden were removed from your soul. The next step | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| the courage to free yourself of this unnecessary burden of fearing love and life. Go in peace | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| destructive guilt is in itself such a heavy burden that it generates too much resistance to finding | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| just said that. QUESTION: But isn't that a burden? ANSWER: No, it is not a burden, because | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| a burden? ANSWER: No, it is not a burden, because only what will be productive and helpful | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| helpful will be revealed. What would be a burden remains hidden. And the more one advances, the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to convey in words. The relief of a burden you have unnecessarily carried will be so tremendous | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| futility, and you will shed it as the burden it is. Thus you will become real. This | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your life, you will shed it as the burden it is. No conviction, theory, or words you | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| therefore weakens you. The freedom of shedding this burden cannot be described in words. But, my friends | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| an indescribable sense of liberation, of shedding a burden so heavy that you have never quite realized | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| work out the existing problems without this added burden. May you all absorb the powerful rays of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| love when it comes so as not to burden yourself with the guilt of rejecting what you | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you are now aware of it. Hence you burden yourself with attitudes and behaviors that are infinitely | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| the lower self, and its consequence: carrying the burden of unrestituted real guilt. Certain people tend to | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| not utilize time well and it becomes a burden and a source of conflict. If you use | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| sense of one's own mortality is never a burden. It is never depressing or fear-producing. It never | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| ANSWER: Your subtle bodies need to shed the burden of the physical body, of gross physical matter | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| lifetime without this rest. Physical matter is a burden to the real personality. I mean that literally | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| that literally. You need a respite from this burden in a different dimension where you can move | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| now you did not want to shoulder the burden of having failed in this respect. Depending on | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| true that this actual childhood hurt need not burden you for life, but your defense against it | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Your inner conscience conveys the truth without the burden of destructive guilt feelings, showing a way to | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| out of fear of carrying too great a burden, he burdens himself more and simultaneously isolates himself | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| without the need to be isolated, without the burden of hiding your true self. Do not dissipate | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| absent. If you continue to live with the burden of error, you gradually come to the point | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| were -- who is supposed to take the burden of adulthood away from you, but to the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| not want responsibility because it still appears a burden to you. In a corner of your being | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| a flat, accomplished end and must become a burden. It also appears futile, leaving a confused feeling | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| to false means to liberate themselves from the burden of the too tight control. They cannot stand | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| individual possesses, without ever making this power a burden. When you consider those areas of your life | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| Such evasion always causes needless suffering, an oppressive burden, fears, and escape from the self. Once this | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| abandons another misconception, and each misconception represents another burden. The giving up of what first seemed like | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| now be disclosed as what it really is: burden, suffering, imprisonment. You then comprehend the preposterous fact | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the best. Moreover, obtaining the best is a burden one fears when one is not willing to | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| decency and goodness, or having to bear the burden of badness for the sake of tasting some | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| It is as though you have shed the burden of unnecessary shackles and discovered the great freedom | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| but that does not alter the fact. The burden of the encrustations is heavy, and everyone feels | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| reality in you. This heavy mass is the burden you carry around. It imprisons you to the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| a woman wants to be a parasite and burden her partner with the brunt of her responsibilities | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| abandoning negativity becomes a relief from a heavy burden that has pulled you down all your life | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| in which you want others to carry the burden of responsibility for your mistakes? How can you | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| which makes you keenly suffer. The deep inner burden of being puzzled and hopeless about attaining what | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| what you deeply yearn for will dissolve. This burden is subtle and unpronounced. Once you can ascertain | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| so much easier to shift most of this burden to others. But what a price to pay | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| that another human being can ever carry the burden for the actual difficulties of others. This can | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| then will you be able to refuse a burden that is being placed on you. Only then | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| These blessings can reach you and lighten your burden by making your own stagnancy fluid again. But | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| such a responsibility. Such responsibility is never a burden; it is the greatest privilege a human being | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| if one's attitude toward responsibility is considered a burden and an unwelcome, undesirable constriction. The more mature | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| weigh heavily on everyone's soul. It is a burden that consumes much vital life energy. Your denial | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| the quicker you will free yourself of a burden that causes depression, anxiety, worry, hopelessness, and often | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| you are the one to assume the sole burden of the blame, you surely expect to be | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| sign of inner disorderliness. If orderliness becomes a burden in a person's life, or exists at the | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| knows that if you free yourself of the burden of disorder, your inner work will be much | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| once you free yourself of the additional, unnecessary burden and negativity of the denial of your present | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| carry your mind with you almost as a burden because it has become a closed circuit. Inside | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| see how untrue this is. Such artificial divisions burden your soul substance, your inner consciousness, your entire | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| own two feet and you don't become a burden on your fellow-citizens. This temptation always exists, both | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| degree you will free yourself of an immeasurable burden and will gain a deep new security: the | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| emerging consciousness. They are experienced as an unbearable burden, which they actually are. The spiritual form of | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| of a secret is exactly that: a heavy burden. The more consciousness becomes enlightened, the more it | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| infused with the Christ spirit, the faster the burden will be dissolved in the most productive and | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| the relief of ridding yourself of an unbearable burden. The clarity, the lightness, and the freedom of | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| picture. Not that it will place all the burden of guilt on you now and necessarily make | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| be enlightened and you will lose a tremendous burden. The relief and liberation are enormous, especially if | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| real being, free from all the encumbrances that burden you now. It does not matter whether these | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |