| Chained.....................6 | |
| self-will, they become more and more bound and chained. For the more you live in divine law | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| free in this life. You will always be chained and bound. The price for freedom is the | 38 IMAGES |
| of life: you will be free instead of chained. Even those who have no more doubts about | 38 IMAGES |
| escape this in your inner life, the more chained you become. Straining in these chains, you kick | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| cannot give up the defense that keeps you chained to both tendencies. Or, if you are too | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| of your inner being where you are not chained in weakness and anxiety, or in fear and | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| Chain-reaction..............5 | |
| what first appeared to you to be a chain-reaction of coincidences, but which is nothing else than | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| accepted. When you do so, an entire benign chain-reaction is set in motion, replacing the vicious circle | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| in the human being are part of a chain-reaction. The core is the real self -- and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| of union, is determined directly by the following chain-reaction: facing the selfish, greedy child within you brings | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| highly charged with creative matter that a self-perpetuating chain-reaction of immense intensity follows inexorably. These points constitute | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| Chain-reactions.............5 | |
| consequences are that through a series of negative chain-reactions you actually are being damaged, so that it | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| and where everything proceeds easily, because the positive chain-reactions are self-perpetuating. At the same time, in their | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| be. It is always a complexity of interacting chain-reactions producing contradictory feelings and concepts, one overlapping the | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| keeps you from testing the reality of further chain-reactions and compulsive behavior patterns based on such assumptions | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| nucleus in its entirety, its connectedness, its cause-and-effect chain-reactions. As I said, this requires dedicated, committed, wholehearted | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Chains......................28 | |
| each individual. Only you yourself can break the chains that hold you, but first your wholehearted wish | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you proceed to free yourselves of your inner chains, the doubts will come less and less often | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| own truth, you can free yourself of all chains only by knowing, facing, and conquering yourself. Observe | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| that you have freed yourself of burdens and chains that were directly responsible for your unhappiness. Afterward | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| put yourself. It is a loosening of the chains you have put around yourself. As long as | 18 FREE WILL |
| do not begin to liberate yourself from these chains, you will feel frustrated, unhappy, and discontented with | 18 FREE WILL |
| your soul needs to struggle free of its chains. Or if it is difficult for you to | 21 THE FALL |
| whether you are really ready to overcome whatever chains you in this way, not only for the | 21 THE FALL |
| lower self you free yourself of your own chains, is something else again. But let us remain | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| is in your own power to break the chains of fear by following this path. It is | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| only there lies your liberation from your own chains. Now let us turn to pride. What does | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| means liberation; it means freedom from your inner chains. In order to find God, you must go | 36 PRAYER |
| a threat that liberates you from your own chains? You must not take it that way. You | 38 IMAGES |
| the more chained you become. Straining in these chains, you kick against the world, feeling it unjust | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| self-pity while you prevent yourself from breaking the chains. The first step to freedom is to recognize | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| the light of God, for liberation from your chains. But how many, many, people seek this liberation | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| spiritual evolvement, union, freedom from one's own inner chains. If you look at history from this angle | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| God you will truly free yourself from the chains of error caused by the egotism that is | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| and disharmony. You will free yourself from the chains of blindness and automatically increase your understanding for | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| so you cannot free yourself from the enslaving chains of the false belief. So the second step | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| my friends, before you can really outgrow your chains. Without recognizing this, you cannot recognize your desire | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| about your soul, freeing you forevermore of some chains of ignorance and darkness. The moment this recognition | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| grace. That it finally takes effect through various chains of instruments of grace -- also human instruments | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| when you find out that there are no chains, no fences, no prison walls, that you are | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| and also of yourself. You set up continuous chains of action and reaction of which you often | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| or dramatization. It is possible to recognize the chains you are forging with your negative attitudes and | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| vain and, in fact, you only tighten the chains that bind you. We come now to another | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| as you fight it, you only pull your chains tighter. Only when you relax your rebellion and | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Challenge...................51 | |
| that obviously must be hidden within me? I challenge each one of you to present me with | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| part of your path to begin with, a challenge you can learn from if you meet them | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| a way that they need very little outer challenge to come to the surface. The outer challenges | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| you can become aware of the image and challenge it if you so choose. So, karma and | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| more accurately, what would ordinarily be an exhilarating challenge becomes a strain. How can you resolve this | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| not said yes to the fight, to the challenge in a good sense, not in a hostile | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| this general observation applies specifically to you. Then challenge yourself to confront the issue of discussing it | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| become desirable and offer new vistas, experience and challenge. The physical system also undergoes crisis in growth | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the need for carrying responsibility and coping with challenge, the need for self-assertion, as well as the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| admit that things could be different. You must challenge an assumption, once it is put into precise | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| it would be much easier to question and challenge the premises that led to the distortions in | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| seems to conflict with all past endeavors. Every challenge to change direction appears to your unconscious as | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| as such. You will not escape until you challenge your silent assumption -- the assumption that life | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| like to say that relationship represents the greatest challenge for the individual, for it is only in | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| is why relationships are simultaneously a fulfillment, a challenge, and a gauge to one's inner state. The | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| inclined to use it. By withdrawing from this challenge and sacrificing the fulfillment of intimate contact, many | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| precise indicator that the self withdraws from the challenge of relationship, thereby sacrificing personal fulfillment, pleasure, love | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| you will face yourself in all honesty and challenge what life reveals to you, and change where | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| a tremendous amount of honesty is required to challenge one's tightly cherished convictions. Such challenge cuts out | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| required to challenge one's tightly cherished convictions. Such challenge cuts out the negative self-perpetuation, the motor force | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| give up what you hold on to, and challenge the limitations you place on the particular issue | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| determining, choosing self does not take up the challenge to confront the negative aspects. The demoniacal, destructive | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| those people who attempt to check, test, and challenge their concepts, who seek the truth and adjust | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| therefore, find life, even its problems, a joyful challenge. If your inner problems can become a challenge | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| challenge. If your inner problems can become a challenge that gives spice to your life, the ensuing | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| seemed a difficulty now begins to become a challenge, an exciting journey, and a process that makes | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| will learn to deal with such material, to challenge its accuracy and be open for other alternatives | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| what to the proper execution? Where may more challenge be needed and where less? The plan for | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| your production, of course -- is always a challenge. Imagine that you lived under circumstances so sublime | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| contact levels of unimagined inner reality. Question and challenge your negative voice. Confront it. Identify it without | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| tempted to rationalize it and do nothing to challenge its will. Now, in none of you does | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| be gone through. My advice is that you challenge that fear, and at the same time welcome | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| them for granted. The next step is to challenge them. This requires taking the trouble to walk | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the first myths you need to explore and challenge. So you create a new life for yourself | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| right to experience bliss? How can you even challenge the assumption of your worthlessness that you all | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| undesirable and limiting, you must look for and challenge the word responsible for this state. You must | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| thoughts, saying the words, but you do not challenge the words that are opposite. The only way | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| very clear to you, so that you can challenge and give up more false words. It seems | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| pessimism, where it may exist in you, you challenge it with your decision to find a new | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| your fear and anger about it, and to challenge and question this reaction, to consider it as | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| you know your fear and you question and challenge the fear, you create a strong new pulse | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| disappear as a result of your courage to challenge it, you liberate new energies in your inner | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| may first dislike or disdain, and learn to challenge them and deal with them. As this happens | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| worse. So I better stay where I am. Challenge this message that comes from a corner of | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| comes from a corner of your hidden being. Challenge it and replace it with the truth that | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| versa. Christian rebels fear that if they recognize, challenge and dissolve their image, they will have to | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| They can use existing family influences as a challenge and thus help dissolve the mass image. Or | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| really are images to investigate, to question, to challenge. It is necessary to consider the subject anew | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| merely a wrong interpretation. Wipe out your misunderstandings, challenge your assumptions, consider that truth may be totally | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| with the living God, will make you automatically challenge your fears, your doubts, your distrust and your | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| of these influences, and you desperately need to challenge and refute them. You have to choose new | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |