| Concentrated................35 | |
| few beloved people, their love would not be concentrated on just a small number of people, but | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| scheme of the Pistis Sophia, these forces are concentrated in the highest realm of light and conducted | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| sphere of the Highest Lightworld, where they are concentrated, into all spheres below, in decreasing strength, of | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| Middle Lightworld, where these lightforces are gathered again, concentrated and condensed into a slightly coarser texture that | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| used for this life that would have been concentrated on in a later incarnation if the first | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| awareness of self and to interfere with your concentrated attention on your task. Unvolitional background thoughts make | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| time ago. While in the previous phase we concentrated mostly on obstacles that eclipsed or prohibited healthy | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| will prevail also during the time of most concentrated activity, because it is really an inner state | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| work I am entirely submerged, absorbed, and wholly concentrated. I can remain concentrated even for hours. But | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| submerged, absorbed, and wholly concentrated. I can remain concentrated even for hours. But afterwards I find it | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| automatically and without strain be more alert and concentrated without fatigue. You will then begin to function | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| not to speak. You will be relaxed and concentrated at the same time, fully aware and alive | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| usual preoccupations and will be directed to and concentrated on this one danger. In order to deal | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| why at one time the effect was more concentrated on than the cause. Now that humanity is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| short, everything breeding problems in your life, we concentrated on unhappy, painful childhood events and conditions. We | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| your life. For the longest time we have concentrated on finding the errors, misconceptions, and defects which | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| well-being can be reestablished. Until now we have concentrated on the mental activity involved in your search | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the other. Only when your pathwork has become concentrated and your awareness has sufficiently increased do you | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the first step. In recent lectures I have concentrated, in one form or another, on helping you | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| effect of your sudden openings and closings. This concentrated aspect of self-analysis develops gradually. The predominant emotions | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| and reactions. So the work is long and concentrated. But it becomes joyful from a certain moment | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| that has become negative and destructive. We have concentrated heavily on accomplishing this in our pathwork. But | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| At other times the positive aspects should be concentrated on. Do not overlook the fact that it | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| If the energy of the life force is concentrated in unrecognized and unfaced evil, then the energy | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| meditation. When you meditate, you create. In this concentrated, relaxed state, energy and consciousness focus in such | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| is tremendous. They come together in a highly concentrated form and converge at a single point. We | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| lowest state of development, evil is so strongly concentrated on the surface that it is completely unaware | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| each of your lives. Universal love is highly concentrated here, at our meetings, so that you do | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| numb yourselves are indeed aware of this very concentrated love force penetrating and enveloping you. You feel | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and truth, there are certain high points, very concentrated focal points, whose task it is to connect | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| more realistic thoughts. At yet other times you concentrated more on your body, to make it a | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| truth, love, wisdom and service. At times you concentrated more on spiritual understanding, on a new outlook | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| I have emphasized this alternation systematically. I have concentrated on different levels and different aspects at different | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| with you began, for a considerable time we concentrated mostly on your own inner being with all | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| are the final stages. Focused emptiness is extremely concentrated, aware, and fully there. If you focus on | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
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| Up to a certain point, a person's pathwork concentrates on bringing out what is inside. Only then | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| something in terms of your evolution. Each phase concentrates on certain aspects of your being, and each | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| has to be different from the one that concentrates solely on the higher self and disregards the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| Concentrating...............24 | |
| rule, regularity is advantageous. Human beings have difficulty concentrating. Time and again my friends have experienced that | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| the capacity to channel, but, most of all, concentrating on walking the spiritual path of development in | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| You can liberate yourself from your suffering by concentrating on the thou instead of the I and | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| some small degree, begin to work very conscientiously concentrating on your relationship with your fellow-creatures. You will | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| the benefit of prayer without losing time by concentrating on some non-essentials. Anyone on the path must | 36 PRAYER |
| little grain of imperfection in yourself instead of concentrating on the mountain in the other. For it | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| them always stands in the foreground. Start by concentrating on that one. Objectivity needs courage too, my | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| up the battle against it, relaxing inwardly, and concentrating on the cause in you that brought it | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| better to think of other people instead of concentrating so much on myself. It is true that | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| conditioned to the habit of going through life concentrating on the apparent wrong of the other person | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| leave such unanswered questions aside for the moment, concentrating on what the contact has to offer you | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| nature, of things. You will be capable of concentrating on those thoughts and occupations that you elect | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the abdominal movements of your breath or of concentrating on the imaginary point between your eyes, all | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the now. I told you various methods of concentrating on a state of nonthinking, not by letting | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the fog. You cannot gain this consciousness by concentrating on things you learn with your brain alone | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| ripe. Because you use all your efforts in concentrating on these false or unripe values, you do | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| certain states of relaxation and concentration, such as concentrating on the will to find a solution before | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| untouched. Important also is the negative insistence on concentrating on issues that the pathwork does not organically | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| self, without totally becoming it, renders you free. Concentrating on the ills of others is a destructive | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| of meditation, in the sense of thinking and concentrating, consolidating your thoughts and listening, shutting out the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| effortless and quite natural, without deliberate focusing and concentrating. This new emphasis doesn't imply that you are | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| You have come to fulfill your task by concentrating on those very aspects you feel least inclined | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| and follow its guidance as a result of concentrating on the aspect of the soul that needs | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| unite this duality. After a long period of concentrating on the self at the expense of invisible | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Concentration...............85 | |
| and to what area to shift their main concentration, and who bring this understanding from a superficial | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| further step you need a certain discipline and concentration which you learn through prayer. Most people are | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| one has first learned the preliminary state of concentration. The person who has walked through this first | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| will succeed in achieving a certain continuity and concentration. This is prayer. Do not forget, as humans | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| holds true: Knock and it shall be opened. Concentration in prayer is beneficial not only as a | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| the path: the pure power of thought through concentration in prayer, and the liberation of the feeling | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| This then is meditation. Once you have learned concentration in prayer to some degree, practicing regular self- | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| you. QUESTION: How can a dormant power of concentration be revived? ANSWER: This is very individual, but | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have to find out. Your past endeavors of concentration were going in a wrong direction, my friend | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| happen when you merely put more effort and concentration on the outer problem alone, instead of finding | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| for you now to devote less time and concentration to general deliberations, and instead ask God for | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| can succeed in this, without too much forced concentration, you should be entirely relaxed and should feel | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| and might make you overlook where exactly this concentration and work is most necessary. Then recognize the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| place, prayer is the best exercise for learning concentration. Without the ability to concentrate you cannot achieve | 36 PRAYER |
| exist in your world that advise particular, separate concentration exercises. My advice however is that prayer and | 36 PRAYER |
| exercises. My advice however is that prayer and concentration exercises can be combined. There is no better | 36 PRAYER |
| focusing on an object you will not learn concentration any better than you will by zeroing in | 36 PRAYER |
| to focus attention on what is really essential. Concentration on an object is not essential, but may | 36 PRAYER |
| no belief in God may at least learn concentration. Daily prayer is important because of the concentration | 36 PRAYER |
| concentration. Daily prayer is important because of the concentration and the discipline that are prerequisites for the | 36 PRAYER |
| part of your development. In addition to the concentration and discipline prayer helps you achieve, you benefit | 36 PRAYER |
| a few major issues in the vicious circle. Concentration on the overall picture can be practiced occasionally | 36 PRAYER |
| constantly. And you surely cannot pray with equal concentration on everything at once. QUESTION: Are all our | 38 IMAGES |
| the habit requires a great deal of training, concentration, and effort. New habit patterns have to be | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| QUESTION: If, for instance, somebody dies in a concentration camp, which is a karmic effect, how does | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| responsible for many cruel deaths, like in a concentration camp. Since this example was chosen before, we | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| of many individuals, like for instance in a concentration camp, and that such a large group is | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| development and is not used to prayer or concentration at all, such meditation is a good discipline | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| a good discipline. It is favorable to learn concentration through prayer and meditation, since your thoughts go | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| constructive and unselfish thoughts, as in prayer. Certainly, concentration could be learned in connection with any subject | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| thought process as it happens in prayer, and concentration is necessary on this path. Both could be | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| present difficulties and inner obstacles. The power of concentration you have learned can then be used for | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| subdivisions and many layers. By proper observation and concentration, you will gradually learn to become aware of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| physical -- strength they consume. Some exercise and concentration is necessary to learn first the observation and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| wanderings have. The background thoughts are what makes concentration so hard and thus are responsible for your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| You may then either go on with your concentration and defer to analyze the thought materials until | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| if you feel the urge, and resume the concentration exercise another time. If you faithfully persevere, you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| to function better to the extent you learn concentration. You will learn the ability to direct your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you, be in God! 71. REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES Greetings, my dear friends. God bless all | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| are completely in the moment. Here! Now! The concentration exercises I discussed a while back can be | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| like to give some further advice about the concentration exercises. I must observe that, unfortunately, my friends | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| state your question, your confusion, is after these concentration exercises. This is always the first step toward | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| last lecture. In the second part, about the concentration exercises, you repeat the term instructing the subconscious | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| I never said that you should do these concentration exercises for twenty-four hours a day. I said | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| natural process which develops organically. In doing the concentration exercises, you will eventually discover a very gradual | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the inner work. Maybe just because all the concentration is focused on the inner work which progresses | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| means in terms of self-alienation. You focus your concentration on something unreal and unreasonable, something foreign to | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| that cannot be helpful to genuine growth. Your concentration and determination should go rather in the direction | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| a state of half-sleep. It takes time, effort, concentration, and training to wake up and become acutely | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| not aware. In certain states of relaxation and concentration, such as concentrating on the will to find | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| You can easily see that such powerfully one-pointed concentration is only necessary in the rare instances of | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| enables you to protect your physical safety. Such concentration does not leave room for feelings of love | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| In order to muster the necessary courage and concentration, you have to understand fully its corroding effect | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| You can make the effort to use will, concentration, and acute self-observation to detect the subtle -- | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| real self calls for all of one's efforts, concentration, and will power? How then, is it possible | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the opposite, the pleasure. This will require attention, concentration, and self-examination. When you make some headway in | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| seemed impossible will suddenly become feasible. Relaxed meditation, concentration, and a minimum of daily self-observation cannot possibly | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| you go into your periods of meditation and concentration in this work, listen into yourself, into your | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| is not only supposed to connote seriousness and concentration, but also pleasure. This is not true at | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| intense on the one hand, while they lack concentration, are divided in their motivations and desires and | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| The cramping is then often confused with seriousness, concentration, wholeness of purpose and being, as well as | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| an intensity that surpasses relaxed and natural attention, concentration, and fullness of experience. This intensity does not | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| is mechanical, that deals merely with exercises of concentration, breathing, and so on, cannot possibly fulfill its | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| base of the spine has other projections, or concentration points, in the pelvis and genitalia. The next | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| practices are more or less mechanical, such as concentration and breathing exercises. As I have indicated before | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| been there, only you have not noticed them. Concentration exercises to observe your state of tension in | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| It is extremely alert and awake, a sharp concentration without the least bit of tension. You will | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| that intervals of seclusion are necessary for inner concentration and self-confrontation, however. But these periods should always | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| faults of others, because at first glance such concentration appears justified to you. You may subtly overemphasize | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| awareness, meaningful directedness and a greater power of concentration with one-pointed attention. Second, you will cultivate a | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| emphasis is put on increasing the powers of concentration. In another type of meditation spiritual laws are | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| find yourself in a joyful state, let your concentration and meditation be particularly concerned with observing your | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| you reach this goal. All the energy and concentration is directed toward cultivating, enhancing, manifesting, and expressing | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| rhythm. During certain periods and phases the main concentration should be on facing one's negative aspects, distortions | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| guidance and inspiration to find the right topic, concentration, concern, word and attitude at any given phase | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| do not pass them by. Use time and concentration in a relaxed manner to pursue this aspect | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| tricks of the ego are: inattentiveness, lack of concentration, abstractedness, absent-mindedness. These attitudes prevent the focusing necessary | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| was established. I have given exercises for learning concentration and ways to still the mind. Yet many | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| matter how much you sit in meditation and concentration. Such practices can only be helpful tools when | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| merely compensates for the inner disorder. Disorder makes concentration and focusing impossible. The mind must wander, preoccupied | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| a few minutes' exercise daily. I have given concentration exercises several times over the years. Now I | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| out jumbled. Since the ego state is a concentration of the less purified state -- in combination | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| it almost always entails a lengthy practice of concentration exercises and sometimes even a quite ascetic way | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| is every so often an illusion. Extended fasting, concentration exercises, chanting and self-hypnotic reiteration of meditational phrases | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| manifestation through this instrumentality. I also explained that concentration on these various levels of being will alternate | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |