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| short duration. Only those who keep the cycle actively flowing by being constantly conscious of and inspired | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| lecture, no one can help others unless most actively pursuing this path of perfection and being solidly | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| during periods of good fortune, working even more actively on her spiritual development. But this is rarer | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| the people belonging to the inner circle who actively help to build this community have proven themselves | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| ones. All those who really walk the path actively and with open eyes will observe and test | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| spirit world of God. This communication existed very actively at that time, the time of the first | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| how strongly and resourcefully God's Spirit World has actively helped to create this marvel, already foreseeing the | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| lower self. At another stage, you have to actively enlist God's help, even though due to your | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| should be passive, you are active because you actively desire a change that you cannot bring about | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| for preparation to use your willpower even more actively to follow the will of God once you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| but express a sluggishness that prohibits your working actively on the elimination of that which is wrong | 31 SHAME |
| being imperfect, and you need to vigorously and actively direct yourself into the channel of self-knowledge. You | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| An instrument is something passive. But the mind actively produces currents. QUESTION: Where does a must end | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is your protection -- whether you hurt them actively or passively, by commission or omission -- then | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| hope that my words will help you to actively participate in such a mutual exchange. QUESTION: Could | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| fulfillment. The newly- created spirit life will not actively affect and participate in the Plan of Salvation | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not always be so crass that a person actively withdraws. It may be more subtle; you may | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the growing process at work, because you are actively engaged in it with your innermost self, not | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| emotions only come out when one is not actively doing this work with the so-called helper. This | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| way. The knowledge and intent to live life actively does not include inner unrest. When the feeling | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| endeavors. The only difference between those who work actively toward finding themselves and those who do not | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| self. No such self-finding can occur unless you actively change something in you. Basically this path can | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| these words help you to continue your self-realization actively, to bring out all the wondrous strength, reason | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| even be felt for people who do not actively love this mature person in return. Yet, this | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| may even go through a stage of not actively praying at all, in the usual sense. But | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| of an animal is already more dynamic. It actively responds to other animals, to nature, and to | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| truthfulness, the self-honesty, the humility of those who actively participate. This will make the venture blossom. QUESTION | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| others and yourself. Even those who are most actively engaged in the work of this path and | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| would be useful if my friends participated more actively in the discussions following the lectures. That you | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| the causes and effects of your life, you actively seek enlightenment through the greater intelligence that exists | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| to others. Even comparatively evolved people, who are actively concerned with their development, have areas in which | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| without open detection. Indifference may not be as actively evil as cruelty acted out, but it is | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| long run. The third stage of numbness is actively inflicted cruelty. This stage arises from fear of | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| tendencies. The indifference or numbness may not be actively executed; it is possible to experience this nonparticipation | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| integrate the outer and the inner being, through actively establishing contact between them, life can be infinitely | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| the pleasure principle and cruelty can exist either actively or passively. That is, pleasure is experienced either | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| attitude and way of life has to be actively wanted, embraced, cultivated. It does not happen otherwise | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| strong. You will feel floating, being carried, yet actively participating and self-determining. This is a wonderful way | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the realization of your true being. The more actively you seek this realization, the more blessings are | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| these two approaches. On the one hand, you actively formulate your attitude, goal, and intents -- your | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the current sequence for my friends who are actively engaged in this particular pathwork, and also to | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| come truly into your birthright. The Pathwork is actively concerned with fulfilling this longing. After all the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| But a number of my friends who are actively engaged in this work have recently become acutely | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| The action following the driving force or impetus actively builds, affects, causes, and determines. When the personality | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| you become thoroughly conscious of your misconceptions and actively experience your negative emotions without acting out the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| picture of benign circles; and (2) it must actively call upon the greater inner power and become | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| of what I have said here. I mean actively make use, not just reading this as a | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| that even those of you who are very actively engaged in your work of self-confrontation, every so | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| that many of you, my friends, who are actively engaged in this pathwork today have made contact | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| exist which have practices, teachings, and exercises which actively and effectively help you reach this goal. All | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| manifestation. Once the misconceptions are eliminated, you can actively create more desirable experiences, better and deeper feeling | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| come forth. Still another possibility is that you actively use your conscious ego-mind, but address it this | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| consciousness in your being. The ego can then actively ally itself with the divine self. Or the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| appropriate state of receptivity. If your consciousness then actively prepares for the riches of the universe and | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the experience is mutual -- when both participants actively reach out, give, sustain, nurture, receive, and take | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| parties involved must be highly developed spiritual beings, actively working on and involved in a spiritual path | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| it may hardly even occur to you to actively sow the seed in meditation -- which means | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| others, you now need to take over and actively nurture the principles that help to establish the | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| to your inner God. You also need to actively express its messages in life. Thus activity and | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| a mental and emotional position of dependency, thus actively choosing enslavement, no matter how much she tried | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| kind of giving too -- where you give actively from your resources. Speak the appropriate word to | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| on the self that the self does not actively seek. This is a law that is never | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| to meditate, to claim and feel into yourself actively. The intent to let go, even of this | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| a new society. You may have to deal actively with apparently menial, mundane issues. You may have | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| menial, mundane issues. You may have to confront actively the resistance to changes that are so necessary | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| acts, you have no impact. Even when you actively choose, you often doubt that your decisions have | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| lukewarm withholding or not taking a stand, not actively searching for truth at all times! The reality | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| about the nature of life. Our world is actively involved with awakening this new awareness and encouraging | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| see before. Perhaps you will see how you actively contributed to the situation that seemed to place | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
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| divine laws must be observed in exactitude, the activities of the powers of darkness are limited and | 22 SALVATION |
| that you simply add on to your other activities, thus diminishing the strength, time, effort, and zest | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| How do the different main religions continue their activities in the spiritual world? Do they fight each | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| not only the earth incarnations, but also all activities in-between. Each incarnation is planned carefully and meticulously | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| to a great extent not only the entity's activities in the beyond, but also its incarnations. As | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| life--subject to change according to the attitudes and activities of the being since the plan was constructed | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| may use this expression, before they begin their activities in the spirit world. This is just one | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| is the most glorious and gratifying of all activities. To find God is perforce a slow and | 36 PRAYER |
| makes it rigid and devoid of aliveness. Different activities and attitudes apply to different phases of one's | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| considered a male element, manifesting constructively in the activities of a scientist, for instance, while woman is | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| level, this commandment means a balance of one's activities. Part of one's life must be devoted to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| harmonious also in the attempt to distribute your activities evenly, not to become one-sided. This is healthy | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| people would believe, of not participating in political activities, but in the sense that your personal conflicts | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| 2) Finding your suppressed creative forces, directions, and activities and unfolding your nature as it was meant | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| your background thoughts during the day, during certain activities which do not demand your entire attention. More | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| on itself first -- to form plans for activities, for learning and purification in the Spirit World | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the actions of the hand symbolize your everyday activities and reactions -- the outer and the inner | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the severity of your conflicts proportionately influences your activities, thoughts, feelings, and motives. This may occur through | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your own healthy inner, and therefore also outer, activities. False needs, even if gratified occasionally, leave you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| this nucleus of division, repression, and therefore self-destructive activities and undesired results, you are caught as in | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| is senseless, regardless of the worthiness of your activities. Only when this channel to love is unclogged | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to call it a sin. There are many activities in a person's life which are undesirable and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| on your path, in your work, in your activities, in your human relationships. May you all learn | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| We believe that, after this short interruption of activities, the year to come will bring still further | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| it will find expression, spontaneously, creatively, in your activities, whatever they are. Whether you are a doctor | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| really fulfilled, no matter how worthy your various activities may be otherwise. The fear says always, But | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| truth. QUESTION: You have told us about certain activities that cause justified guilt feelings. How can we | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the maximum possible self- honesty? Which of my activities can help me most in this? Do I | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| summer months in which there are no group activities. It may give you an excellent preparation for | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| respect. Such healthy union does not exclude productive activities or rewarding relationships with others. On the contrary | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| fullness of living and bliss, but your productive activities will also reach a new height, being executed | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of lack of self-awareness. Look at your present activities and relationships in this light. Ascertain any possible | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| isolated behind barriers also practices both these inner activities of discipline and letting go, but in reverse | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| to see what is inside me. Continue your activities in this direction, and what had seemed impossible | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| it openly. The effect of these two important activities will be experienced by anyone who follows this | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| When there is no harmony between these two activities, there must be confusion and darkness. No matter | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| be a mistake to assume that these two activities follow each other consecutively on this path - | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| must exist throughout, from the beginning onward. Both activities are always necessary. At the very beginning of | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| essential that a harmonious interplay between the two activities exist. The correct timing of when one or | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| of being, all of humanity's outer and inner activities -- especially the permanent and repetitive ones -- | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| to reinforce your ego-identification: more outer ways, outer activities, outer beliefs, and outer escapes. At times you | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| a greater wisdom within. All these are truly activities, each in its own fashion. But after these | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| determining, formulating, knowing it, and perceiving these inner activities are the tools of your creative consciousness. Humanity | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| possible. Your energy is engaged in negative inner activities. By the same token, to the degree that | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| outlet for itself, for legitimate hostile feelings and activities. This is why you often see individuals who | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| self-discipline. Unless the creative idea and all those activities which are more mechanical and ego-determined work together | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| and friends and go through all sorts of activities, but their real pleasure in life lies in | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| you spend a lot of energy on other activities which may well seem more important at the | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| moment. No matter how vitally important the other activities are, they can never be more important than | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| first as a gradual change of attitudes, interests, activities, environment, or expression. Later on, retrospectively, you see | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| not so easy to detect. Inwardly, in many activities and directions you subtly focus on secret, semi-conscious | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| every day and every hour, in all your activities, to give your very best in truth whether | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Such openings occur through specific mental attitudes and activities, and are the result of the struggle to | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| projecting, and thereby increasing the lower-self energies and activities. This part of you fights the path process | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| It requires the trust that higher-self goals and activities will provide much better what you need. If | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| compatible with your life of matter, your daily activities and your goals. The path is not only | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |