| Challenged..................19 | |
| certainly overcome your weaknesses faster if they are challenged. And this they are, by the frictions and | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| conflicts and the subsequent basic split must be challenged most dramatically in this relationship. The double relationship | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| without quite knowing why. And if you are challenged, you feel cornered and lean on authority; you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| ideas. You ignore that once the ideas are challenged and found to be untrue, the same self-operative | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of false doom. The false doom must be challenged, and only you can do it. The more | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| a negative chain reaction. But once you have challenged your negative outlook and begin to envisage new | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| very definite motives that must be unearthed, explored, challenged, and held up against reality -- the reality | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| for personal unhappiness. This is what must be challenged. The only way you can avoid becoming a | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| fear could easily be overcome if it were challenged and its underlying misunderstanding and mishandling exposed. Many | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| you are no good. This misconception must be challenged and replaced. If it is not, you will | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| they are hopelessly bad. This error should be challenged, examined, and worked with. If you do this | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| in effect, your life-blood. This fear must be challenged. If you are willing and prepared to discover | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| long as these self-conditioning processes are not being challenged or questioned. But as long as these conditioned | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| one of those beliefs that need to be challenged. Envisage that in the idea of forever meeting | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| a creation that is taken for granted, never challenged, never debated and therefore uncorrected. And in that | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| a question. All preconceived notions need to be challenged and examined -- this means openness to change | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| application and combination. When your mental processes were challenged, there were always those who did not want | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| soul substance because it is never questioned or challenged. The personality reacts blindly in a conditioned reflex | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| in its entirety is not acceptable must be challenged again and again. You need to take the | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Challenges..................8 | |
| and in addition having to resist all attacks, challenges, hardships, and temptations that the powers of darkness | 22 SALVATION |
| each individual and thus responds to different outer challenges. With one person, the cosmic influences affect the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| challenge to come to the surface. The outer challenges are provided for in the choice of parents | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| your personal vicious circle. And life will bring challenges and experiences for you -- big or small | 36 PRAYER |
| is sometimes advisable to use an expression that challenges you to try to reexperience the meaning behind | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| by struggling toward these unifications. The most difficult challenges are on the most hidden emotional levels, since | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| of pleasure, and depths of unifying relationships, new challenges mastered, new fascinations, and deeper well-being and peace | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| working season. Much expansion, excitement, fulfillment and many challenges await you. Even the unavoidable hardships must ultimately | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Challenging.................12 | |
| contacted. It will fill you with new, stimulating, challenging thoughts, outlooks and ideas. It will lead you | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| is part of life, you will find it challenging and pleasurable. Within this attitude you will find | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| life is pleasurable in itself, however difficult and challenging. Each completed unification brings further pleasure. Further pleasure | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| for them in yourselves, my friends. The most challenging, beautiful, spiritually important and growth-producing kind of relationship | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| you feel a strength growing from tackling and challenging the self-produced difficulties, you will experience an inner | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| Making use of this creative power is a challenging and fascinating undertaking. Right now you can explore | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| delude yourself that you can attain results without challenging your resistances. Understand that you can never connect | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| a source of creative energy. Being honest includes challenging your conscious or unconscious assumption that if you | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| deal with this fear by recognizing, accepting and challenging it, then you give in to the false | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| You have, often painstakingly, learned the importance of challenging and dissolving your images. There is only one | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| to annihilate the other for being different, thus challenging your insecurity about your spirituality and your religious | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| they are questioned do they lose their energy. Challenging them is like pulling out poisonous weeds and | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Chamber.....................4 | |
| and the vital energies cannot reach the secret chamber. Since the self is felt as finite and | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| attitude toward what you find in the hidden chamber of your psyche, you need not even wait | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| right now, even in your soul's most secret chamber, is so much better to bear than what | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| the frantic struggle to guard your inner secret chamber. As long as you struggle to keep your | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| Chance......................108 | |
| for when these come, I have a better chance to wake up and look at my life | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| in a worldly way, almost as though by chance -- naturally, not supernaturally. And that is why | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| you have been drawn to this community by chance, not even those who come here once and | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| change. So you see, it is not mere chance that at the beginning the majority of people | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| necessary spiritual maturity to accept help. Nevertheless, the chance should be offered them. If they grasp it | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| of you who think you come here by chance, just for the experience or even out of | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| you or at least should be given the chance to, then these spirit scouts get in touch | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| more people the possibility, just on the remotest chance, than there are people who take the opportunity | 21 THE FALL |
| can choose. This gives you a much greater chance for faster development. At the same time, you | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| was weak and he did not take this chance. He used his powers first only a little | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this incarnation and who have been given a chance to prove what they can do with an | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and true. Each one of you has the chance to find out for yourself by trying and | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| in a while there seems to be a chance to actually realize such happiness, you then shrink | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| to change before the vexing conditions have a chance to change too. Thus you find yourself at | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| that this is a world of coincidence and chance, or even a world of injustice. Though you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| spirit world. There you will still have a chance to make modifications although the chances are smaller | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| trained and highly developed spirit offer a stronger chance for advancement. So, there is a schooling connected | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| has been considered, the entity is given the chance to make its own choice in certain respects | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| karma specifies that people are always given the chance to solve their problems in the easiest circumstances | 38 IMAGES |
| other people's faults more objectively. And, if by chance the outcome of the evaluation turns out to | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| a whole, the more each individual has the chance for fulfillment in one lifetime. But there will | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| never receive love in return, even if by chance you come across a person who would basically | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| unjust, a world in which you have no chance, in which you have to be afraid and | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the coming life would not offer them any chance of growth. Again they are advised and shown | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a considerable degree. Also, there is a good chance that no further betrayal and accusation will occur | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| The world becomes bleak and hopeless with no chance for happiness, because your concept of happiness in | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| present stage of development, affording them the greatest chance to grow out of the particular inner obstacles | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong conclusions. Therefore you have less of a chance to bring them out into the light. The | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or a woman, the more you have a chance to understand and thus to solve your own | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| a more casual relationship has less of a chance to bring out frictions, therefore in that sense | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| But the conflicts would have more of a chance to be resolved peacefully and constructively for both | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| is attained when the mind is given a chance to be quite calm. Background thought material makes | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| rooted that you did not yet have a chance to examine it. But you will have a | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| to examine it. But you will have a chance to do so when the manifestation occurs. Now | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| loves you freely. However, you can have the chance of experiencing this free gift only if you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| understand that you had been denying yourself the chance of receiving the only true and valuable love | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| and unrealities if you are to have any chance of approaching reality and you may not be | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to circumstances beyond your control, you grasp for chance and luck. You feel like a lost little | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| unique individual do you have dignity and a chance for happiness. You also feel -- often unconsciously | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| prejudices and images have not yet had a chance to work and build such a wall. That | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| in self-evaluation, each soul is always given the chance to pass judgment on itself first -- to | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the dosage or proportion, as to how much chance can be taken, how much can be revealed | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to hurt oneself before anyone else has the chance. But there is a deeper and more important | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| inflict hurt upon yourself rather than taking the chance of being hurt by others can be much | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are negative. Therefore you do not give the chance for growth to the parts of your intuitive | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| adhering to certain rules do you have a chance to feel safe and gain a minimal amount | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of you gave your body and mind a chance to grow out of the immaturity and to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| something that does not exist and forfeit the chance of fulfilling your good and healthy needs. For | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| find your way. If your way should, by chance, appear similar to the world's demands, you are | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| up their false security, do you have a chance of finding truth -- that is, your real | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| The decision must be made to take the chance of living on your own merits, rather than | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| is unjustified before you even give yourself the chance to find the possible grain of truth in | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| to life, to yourself, or to others, a chance. Such life- negation cannot ever be resolved unless | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| course not. Now at least, there is a chance of understanding, of grasping, of sensing, be it | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| or other truthful messages, it is given a chance to assimilate such helpful influences. Whether or not | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| your helplessness and do not give yourself the chance not to be helpless, nor to test whether | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| inner levels -- or have at least a chance of doing so. It is therefore important to | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to become creative and constructive if given a chance to grow. It is important to make the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the superimposed conscience, instead of giving yourself the chance to finally contact the inner conscience which is | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| yourself, because you do not give yourself the chance. Healthy self-respect can come only from your real | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| acting them out. Then you will have a chance to win in this tragic battle. You will | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| you might fare better than by taking the chance of entering the unknown, creates walls of fear | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| and made you more hopeless now has a chance to do so because you begin to envision | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| idea. The winner believes that there is a chance to win at the cost of crippling one's | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| one is not even willing to take a chance. The doubt means, I pretend to expect a | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| your doubt. It is necessary to take the chance of finding out the truth, even if the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| unknown element about them. Then you have a chance of making that element a little less unknown | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| as the disappointment. You do not take a chance of being disappointed and, therefore, you cannot find | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| Ask yourself: Am I willing to take a chance? I cannot be worse off than I am | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| and do not give the positive side a chance, you do not honestly commit yourself to the | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| dissolved, if one does not give it every chance through a full commitment to it? The full | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| fears clog up the channel. Giving a full chance means deliberately reaching inside to contact the source | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| an attitude of I give the possibility every chance. It does not say no to it before | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| not say no to it before such a chance is extended, in the false assumption that disappointment | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| or is it not? I will take the chance of finding out, for only such clarity will | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| to cooperate if you only give it a chance. When you make an effort to comprehend the | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| of personality, which function autonomously when given a chance and with which the outer ego must eventually | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| to what you consider most undesirable. Now, this chance must be taken in order to find out | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| a larger reality and do not take a chance on it, you stay in a world of | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| yourself up, tentatively at least; give yourself the chance to experience the benign nature of life, and | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| intelligence, feeling, and harmony by giving it every chance. You must commit yourself to this possibility, even | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| but the best course is to take a chance and find out. You are bound to discover | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| causes within yourself. It presupposes that others, circumstances, chance have brought this experience to you. Therefore, whenever | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| highly worthy. You have to give them a chance to transform back into their original state of | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are invited and advised to give yourself the chance to confirm the truth of my words by | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as a reality when you give yourself the chance to do so. Your reason will also tell | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| -- be it on another authority or on chance -- and autonomy, between living in fear and | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| blame the outside world -- God, fate, life, chance, or other people -- but you are equally | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| crisis. They are willing, deep within themselves, to chance temporary upheaval for the sake of reaching a | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| within yourself. You are not even taking a chance because you are unable to accept yourself. Hence | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| person can open only when there is no chance of mutuality, or when a Yes-current must be | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| requires effort and the willingness to change and chance unknown modes of living and being. What is | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| experienced. You must then give this possibility a chance -- an honest chance. The wisdom of patience | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| give this possibility a chance -- an honest chance. The wisdom of patience, the intelligence to know | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| true. Yet I will give it a further chance. Right here at this point, where you are | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| can come only when you give yourself the chance, when you keep an open mind and are | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| you envy, see how you deliberately destroy your chance of realizing your happiness by a particular attitude | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| way. They do not wish to take a chance on themselves or on finding the way through | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| interpretation, every mode of reacting is given a chance to be permeated by the greater consciousness. At | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| come to you as a result of pure chance, luck, or misfortune. But along the curve of | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| out all these details. Nothing is left to chance. The total plan surpasses human understanding and expertise | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| your process. You never even give yourself the chance to find out how much God, the process | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| you. Through being overwhelmed there may be a chance for you to discover you have created the | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| of consciousness, it can never be given a chance to transform itself. In this case you fear | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Maligners expose their evil and thus take the chance of being rebuked and having to face the | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| act. Therefore the act is never given the chance to become the medicine that would, in time | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| can have what you may call a sporting chance, on a grand scale one species serves to | 254 SURRENDER |
| neutral, at least temporarily, until you have the chance of finding out what the truth is. Do | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |