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Such an inner power can be developed and cultivated just as the intellect can. Do I limit 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
The kind of meditation that should be mostly cultivated is always the one which you find more 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
because this indicates that the quality to be cultivated is lacking for the ultimate merging. QUESTION: I 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
the spiritual core. The latter has to be cultivated, of course, and cannot function unless the person 18 FREE WILL
exist. Only after the passive force has been cultivated can a different kind of active current be 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
is to stop the pretense you have laboriously cultivated all your life. This seems a hard step 31 SHAME
a waste of strength. But when ambitiousness is cultivated, it should be kept in mind that one 32 DECISION-MAKING
relative, and your sense of it can be cultivated. You asked, Can we expect to be loved 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
the other two are unduly neglected and not cultivated enough while the one overemphasized is not used 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
more direct way, however, which should also be cultivated in conjunction with the emphasis on the unity 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
must be the dominant, clear-cut, unselfish motive, consciously cultivated, checked when it is diluted or weak, and 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
whose serenity is not real, or is artificially cultivated, is much less developed than those who are 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
that power is the solution, is the artificially cultivated view of how bad the world and people 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
real self in another person cannot be simply cultivated and learned. It is a natural byproduct of 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
want and cultivate it. Before such awareness is cultivated, the average person experiences life in a very 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
what you really feel. This is to be cultivated by prayer, meditation, and a daily resolution of 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
to go through your pain must always be cultivated anew. The inner will to face the truth 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
great deal of inner awareness has to be cultivated. This is best done by working on the 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
your real self, but artificial traits you have cultivated for so long that they have become your 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
desire to see the truth has to be cultivated. Determine first whether or not you inwardly desire 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
the goodwill remains. This goodwill has to be cultivated anew, over and over. When you have it 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
the inner, free will that has to be cultivated to bring about fulfillment indirectly. The direct approach 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
anything you wish, the will has to be cultivated again and again in a relaxed, generous way 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
and the honest facing of what is, were cultivated in the child, there would be no conflict 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
relationship to God. During this stage, faculties are cultivated in man that are of utmost importance for 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
and reason to do so, has to be cultivated and does not come easily. This is why 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
the aspects of your lower self can be cultivated even before your personal pathwork leads you to 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
face very unflattering truths. Such strength can be cultivated by the right kind of meditation and thought 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
consciously. It needs the increased awareness that is cultivated on a path such as this that will 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
before you have made sufficient inroads and have cultivated self-awareness. Then it becomes abundantly obvious. As long 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
others. This awareness has to be more fully cultivated. You have to understand better and more deeply 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
the more can the will to change be cultivated. Before you gain a clear vision of the 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
being part of the great yes-current, must be cultivated in the details of daily living, reactions, thoughts 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
more sincere, more fair. If this approach is cultivated, then the outer you will be compatible with 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
is to apply both approaches. If both are cultivated, and if simultaneously you truly desire to contribute 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
are not the same. This knowledge must be cultivated. The awareness that your immediate problem can be 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
of life has to be actively wanted, embraced, cultivated. It does not happen otherwise; it does not 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
in total truth about the self must be cultivated and summoned -- daily. I am not afraid 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
-- artificial intensity, which is, half- consciously, deliberately cultivated and nursed. This cuts you off from the 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
the best of yourself: when this discipline is cultivated, then you have nothing to fear of letting 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
Both are equally important and both should be cultivated. Some schools of thought concentrate on one aspect 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the cause within. The more this thought is cultivated, the more something happens inside. Therein lies all 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
to change it. Seeing reality can then be cultivated. Whatever you see in someone or in a 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
is within you unless this inner attitude is cultivated. When people are too impatient, their pathwork is 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
sufficiently at play -- it must now be cultivated so as to round out not only your 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
they are not real at all. They are cultivated habits. So are the roles you play. Each 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
approaching the self. Only then can relationship be cultivated in a meaningful and effective way. I shall 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
call for contact, and the less contact is cultivated, the more acute the longing becomes. This then 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
with the inner willingness to change, must be cultivated in order to escape the painful dilemma in 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
you had to suffer. If such meditation is cultivated, you will discover a side of yourself that 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
proceed separately. The sensitivity for this must be cultivated; no rules can be made to relieve you 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
giving up pet attitudes and ideas must be cultivated. Then the painful, disruptive crisis can be avoided 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
wayside. First consciousness, feeling and awareness must be cultivated. Then everything else follows naturally and organically. The 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
or not sufficiently so. Unless this awareness is cultivated, it is impossible to free the innermost center 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
the capacity for inner experience has not been cultivated or, worse, it has been inadvertently eliminated. Inner 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
even have been so-called masters, but who have cultivated their beauty and disregarded their ugliness. They have 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
voice of truth should at all times be cultivated. It will speak louder and clearer as you 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
the heart and this good will must be cultivated again and again. It comes from the spiritual 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
I have received. This attitude can now be cultivated and pursued, my friends. You do have the 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
unless contact with the spiritual self is regularly cultivated and used. However, when and how this may 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
For many centuries the intellect had to be cultivated to fulfill its role as an important stepping 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
lovingness. Only when that attitude of lovingness is cultivated can guiltlessness exist and therefore the full capacity 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975
But as long as this vision is not cultivated, these truths cannot reveal themselves to you. Perhaps 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
the awareness, the faith. The knowledge must be cultivated; it has to begin in your outer brain 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
of being, a habit that needs to be cultivated with patience, devotion, and perseverance; it is of 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
Society could not exist unless group consciousness were cultivated to some degree. But until now individuals were 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE
 
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and remain healthy. A good portion of humanity cultivates the mental side. In order to do so 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
would not be answered? The inner person often cultivates such a desire without being consciously aware of 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
to look at and into himself. Thus he cultivates awareness by facing the reality within. As he 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
process, he grows out of it. As man cultivates this attitude, he makes a genuine experience of 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
To the extent that she fights it and cultivates masculine trends as a weapon against her femininity 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
drive these instincts underground, if the growing person cultivates mental and spiritual awareness and the entire personality 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
permanently through a changed personality that no longer cultivates attitudes which obstruct the power. This energy works 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
still exist. Conversely, to the degree a person cultivates the attitude, I want to look the truth 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
be right and the other wrong, and thus cultivates only one or the other, distortions and imbalances 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
the tremendous preoccupation with everything that sustains and cultivates the ego: pride, selfwill, fear, vanity, separateness, duality 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)

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