| Committing..................23 | |
| addressed the problem of making the decision and committing yourself to it without reservations. I explained how | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| of self-purification which alone will protect you from committing sins again. As long as the evil root | 22 SALVATION |
| be able by voluntary action to refrain from committing a crime such as stealing or killing, but | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| development if they can be brought to not committing wrong deeds, but this is certainly not sufficient | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| wrong. Since none of you would ever consider committing an antisocial or sinful act, the decisions you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| that you would not longer be capable of committing because of your development. Nevertheless, the same root | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| through affiliation with minority parties, anarchist groups, or committing crime. The strongest form of this attitude will | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| your inability? It could be a fear of committing yourself. It could be that a person constantly | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| want to believe. This happens especially when not committing the act is due to fear and not | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| is not sufficiently developed to restrain them from committing destructive acts, the mere existence of social laws | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| then often driven into acts you cannot help committing if only because you have too long used | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| a fear more profoundly, with all its consequences. Committing and entrusting oneself to the universal powers -- | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| this means shaping and creating your life by committing yourself to the universal forces to cooperate with | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| to cooperate with you, or whether this means committing to an undertaking, to a person, or to | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| of life. Why do you resist so much committing yourself to this deep inner center, which unifies | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| camps. If many people were capable of totally committing themselves to a life of selfishness, they would | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| pleasure principle. You must look beyond it by committing to search with an open attitude for your | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the negative inner child by wanting this and committing itself to it. This is its task. Full | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| Any profound change comes about by the ego committing itself to wanting the change, and trusting in | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| dangerous for you and for others. But totally committing to the path into your own inner regions | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| higher self. You are increasingly capable of totally committing yourself to the will of God and of | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this, you will make yet another step toward committing yourself to being values -- not just generally | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| creation, without contributing to the evolutionary process by committing to your purification. Wishful thinking is a passive | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Communicate.................70 | |
| exist! If so, it should be possible to communicate with them. A hundred years ago it would | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| mechanics of mediumship, of what is necessary to communicate with divine spheres, what the difference is between | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| new. Then it was impossible for humans to communicate with God's world because there were still too | 22 SALVATION |
| sphere, but because of their nature they could communicate with angels of God. This is briefly what | 22 SALVATION |
| you have the grace and the privilege to communicate with God's world, this method should be best | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| why it is so difficult for men to communicate when there is an emotional problem between two | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| in question. QUESTION: But if a man doesn't communicate with a woman out of cowardice, what would | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| observation of human souls, the strong desire to communicate with departed loved ones almost always has at | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you to withdraw into isolation; you refuse to communicate. When you make no attempt to initiate contact | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| strength and perseverance to learn gradually how to communicate without exaggerated need. As you know from my | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| always occurs in their lives. They begin to communicate truly instead of merely subsisting on mutual dependency | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| craving instead of free readiness to love and communicate. Since you are new in this group, it | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| serenity. Or, to put it differently, you will communicate in love and understanding while being truly independent | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| healthy form, it makes you reach out and communicate. You are ready for new eventualities, ready to | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you, the less you will be able to communicate with others. You cannot understand them, reach them | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is very easy for one subconscious to communicate with another. But there are times when there | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| believe it possible to unite with others, to communicate in a rewarding and satisfying way with the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| answer will always be because I wanted to communicate with God. I wanted it in order to | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are inhibited. You cannot express yourself. You cannot communicate and relate either to others or to yourself | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| according to your own problems. You cannot possibly communicate in this condition, yet communication is often essential | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| So we all have the same organs to communicate with. If one being has developed more than | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| any of you ever found me difficult to communicate with. I would then suggest that you ask | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the less you can express yourself, relate and communicate with others. This we know already. But there | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| it, the more you will be able to communicate to others what you experience. The words will | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| so much understanding is lost. How can you communicate if your emotions are not functioning? And how | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| real substance and is therefore untrustworthy. You cannot communicate from within if this process has not been | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| old tie, you may even bring yourself to communicate, in a spirit of truth, with a still | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| others in your family. QUESTION: In seeking to communicate we must resort to words, of course, and | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| your ability to reach out into life and communicate with others, to love and to understand, and | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| are not in reality, and you cannot really communicate. Your system is focused on one small point | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| else can you, best and fastest, learn to communicate on a deeper level of your being, rather | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| out of it through this work. They will communicate with them and will thus be helped. This | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| It prohibits, impairs, or dilutes your capacity to communicate and to love. This capacity is there by | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| best faculties right at your disposal. You will communicate and relate, and assert your rights without the | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| for others with whom one is able to communicate and relate. This, in turn, cannot happen unless | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| mean that the parents' pent-up hostility does not communicate itself to the child. They follow the new | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| without your hearing it, so you do not communicate with it and therefore miss a very important | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| calm detachment, you will not only learn to communicate consciously with the constructive part of your unconscious | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| part of your unconscious, but will also consciously communicate with the unconscious of other people. This means | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| and paralyzed. You may be perfectly able to communicate with your inner nucleus and be guided and | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| good. Good cannot exist by itself. It must communicate itself to others; it always includes others. Hence | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| to exist. Reach into your inner being and communicate with it for the purpose of eliminating this | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| my best in finding the right expressions to communicate to you what I mean. You can do | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| yardsticks for their own inner difficulties? Do they communicate in the deepest, most truthful, self-revealing way, sharing | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| know two aspects: the highest universal powers will communicate themselves to you to help you discover your | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| still react to it negatively. I do not communicate and open up; I do not let go | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the other person is at all willing to communicate honestly. If the other person is not willing | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| of the real world, which constantly tries to communicate itself to you and which you blindly ward | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| will receive them, and the true universe will communicate itself to you. When you cultivate this attitude | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| Focus on the dimension which now wants to communicate its fullness and richness to you. You can | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| The outer self is still too resistant to communicate with the inner self to trust in its | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| life-affirming and positive purposes. Free consciousness can thus communicate with the life-substance and consciousness within the hardened | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| beauty! You will know its language that will communicate itself to you and through which you will | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| up to receiving the answer, the meaning will communicate itself to you, sooner or later. As the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| and humility for the grace of knowledge to communicate itself on the one hand, and serious commitment | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| first appear, are channels that in some way communicate divine truth to humanity. They are later often | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| in our world is great. This rejoicing can communicate itself to you if you open yourself to | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| too often this self-expression is curtailed. Encouragement to communicate feelings and thoughts -- as well as being | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| state you can choose when and how to communicate your perceptions -- if that is appropriate and | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| being resented. You may instead decide not to communicate your perceptions if that feels more appropriate. In | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| limitation of language. Language is your vehicle to communicate, not only with others but also within yourself | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| turn, will expand your ability to convey and communicate it and make your experience comprehensible to yourself | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| the nuances, you will make the effort to communicate and you will be surprised to what extent | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| that development of spirit exists, the ability to communicate, to listen and express adequately and appropriately also | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| that development is still impaired, the ability to communicate is limited. So you see innumerable people who | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| byproduct of advanced spiritual states. The ability to communicate on more subtle and personal levels has also | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| to express oneself to others, and thereby to communicate. Before this particular influx, most human beings were | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| the foundation, for you cannot convey, explain and communicate something you do not know. So a path | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| were previously only secretly and inwardly, and to communicate this state to others. Just use your imagination | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| expose your lower self, you share it, you communicate it to others. Can you think of a | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |