| Deceptions..................3 | |
| is the most blissful experience imaginable. All self- deceptions must be eliminated before this truth can unfold | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| To do this, you must eliminate your self- deceptions and pretenses. They always block the way to | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| of your lower self, with its subterfuges and deceptions, mean that you have to express and live | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Deceptive...................6 | |
| way than before. But even that can be deceptive, for people are often quite shrewd in deceiving | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the truth in this respect about yourself. Most deceptive, however, are the cases in which apparently good | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| self-realized state, conveyed in human language, often sounds deceptive. Its properties may so easily be confused with | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| -- that is too easy and can be deceptive -- but specifically where the personal hurdles bar | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| with the previous efforts. This can be so deceptive that people believe it would have happened anyway | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| is much, much less loving and much more deceptive and harmful than when you admit your hate | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| Decide......................136 | |
| to strive for truth and knowingly and willingly decide not to make a decision until, after more | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| and what you stand to gain as you decide for one of them. In this case you | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| of the two alternatives. For instance, when you decide to withdraw and live a solitary life because | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| it: I go this or that way, I decide for this or for that. The choice can | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| that it has authority for all and can decide without consulting higher spirits should be enough proof | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| that comes when you conquer yourself, when you decide, I am no longer a slave. From now | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| really want to do it; first you must decide for it clearly and unconditionally, then God will | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| created beings with free will, they could so decide with this free will that misery could come | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| before. The temporary misery for those who might decide wrongly is nothing compared to the bliss and | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| easier if you meet them halfway, if you decide on your own accord, I want it because | 21 THE FALL |
| in you this might be connected. And then decide whether you are really ready to overcome whatever | 21 THE FALL |
| with your free will to develop and to decide which side to follow. In your own nature | 22 SALVATION |
| two currents the conscious self stands, able to decide either to take the line of least resistance | 22 SALVATION |
| outer personality, with its willpower and capability to decide one way or another, has the means one | 22 SALVATION |
| hands of God and ask Him. Let Him decide for you. But how very few people do | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| ground you walk on, symbolically speaking! When you decide to take it, you simply shift the tracks | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| your needs, spiritual and material, when you first decide to choose this path and trust God that | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| for Him to manifest first, and only then decide whether you will perhaps put your life into | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| questions. This is really very simple, once you decide to accept the unavoidable necessity of doing it | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| upon to make, do not expect God to decide for you or to alter an unpleasant situation | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and help. You must be the one to decide, I want to do it wholeheartedly. Then God | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| that you are not unfree creatures if you decide to fulfill the will of God -- quite | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the greatest and freest efforts of willpower to decide to live within spiritual law. In order to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| person can do that. Conversely, if people constantly decide to use their little self-will, they become more | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| a conflict involved. The right procedure is to decide wholeheartedly that you wish to find all the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| then left up to the spirits themselves to decide whether they want to believe what is communicated | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| afford you the opportunity. But you have to decide with your free will whether or not you | 31 SHAME |
| recognize the call, for it is a call! Decide, my friends. Do you want to take your | 31 SHAME |
| instances, it will not matter what you actually decide, provided the decision has been made wholeheartedly, awarely | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| the right and mature attitude with which to decide? The answer is simply to know what you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| result. The spiritual person in particular has to decide for what purpose and where to have ambition | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| by your change; he or she may then decide to change too. Your influence can only be | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| is already there for you. When you first decide to walk it, there is no path yet | 36 PRAYER |
| exist all over the universe. God does not decide to give or to withhold it, my friends | 36 PRAYER |
| ways than one. The simple fact that you decide to devote a certain period of every day | 36 PRAYER |
| emotions. You can certainly use your will to decide fully to follow this path. But your emotions | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| Or, after conscious and mature deliberation, you may decide the old opinion seems right. With emotions, which | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| will endure as long as you do not decide to face the real problem and decide for | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| not decide to face the real problem and decide for the operation. This advice does not only | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| of the roots of these conflicts until they decide to find out what is hidden in their | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| But at the breaking point -- once you decide through inner growth and understanding that you no | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| It is my desire to have God's will decide for me. I do not say that whenever | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| very natural way. You are not expected to decide what the right middle way is. You couldn't | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| desires to run away from himself. Whenever people decide to face themselves in truth and honesty, no | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more than a dozen people who seem to decide your fate. What comes forth from your soul | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be understood by another human being and may decide to hide behind a wall. This may not | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| would you be in a position to freely decide for some desires and against some others. In | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the desire and activate the free will to decide for the unselfish act rather than be driven | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| full and wholehearted decision for the unselfish act. Decide for it only because you are convinced it | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| going on cannot be avoided. You can then decide whether or not you wish to act as | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| basic conflicts with you. By the time you decide to work on this path of self-recognition, usually | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| exceeds your efforts, once you really and unconditionally decide for it. But your efforts must be wholehearted | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| giving up is something valuable, but once you decide to let it go you will see that | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you selfish. Thus, you feel you have to decide between pleasure and unselfishness, both of which are | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| this path will help you if you so decide. Help will come also through outer events that | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| you either to fulfill these demands because you decide they are worthwhile or abstain from them. But | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| God-image. It is not something you can simply decide in your mind. It does not work that | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| that you need another being to act and decide instead of you. This other being is often | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| impatience with yourself and others. Should you then decide to carry out the right act, it will | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so many factors we ignore. How can we decide which animal life is predominantly destructive and which | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| defend yourself. Or you will quickly judge and decide whether defense by counterattack or flight is the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| In actual danger, your heightened perception makes you decide whether to launch a counterattack, or, if this | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| be? You would simply evaluate the criticism and decide whether there may be some truth, a little | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| will take them on. Without the mind to decide and the will to go through with it | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| force them to run according to what you decide with your mind. Is that genuine? Can that | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to cope with people and their demands; to decide whether or not these demands are justified or | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| This will not harm you, even should you decide to postpone exposing yourself to what still seems | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| though some courage may be necessary. If you decide to wait, do not forget the issue; continue | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| forces help and guide me the moment I decide to do something about it. I will be | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| that it alone exists and determines. It must decide to let the greater brain determine your life | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| has created the suffering. The moment you truly decide to change -- and that requires the courage | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| mold for themselves, and that they, whenever they decide to, can mold a new destiny in which | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| your outer self which are to think, discriminate, decide, and act appropriately in any situation you encounter | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| anxious, grabbing, striving effort. Seemingly, you have to decide between these two alternatives. Whenever such alternatives exist | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| to guide me. I will let life itself decide how a fruitful interchange can take place between | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| to be brought to fruition, I request, I decide, and I desire that it be put to | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| step now in a very simple meditation: I decide to give up the error of 'me versus | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| only request help from deep within, but I decide to give the best I am to life | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| still lurks within me is error, and I decide to rid myself of this error and to | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| in this conflict, and about whom you cannot decide whether or not to love or to reject | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| yourself. For instance, the moment you say, I decide that I do not want to be in | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| how you believe, the attitude with which you decide to either believe or disbelieve in a superior | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| climate of helplessness and hopelessness, or whether you decide to clarify this inner climate by properly formulating | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| you see it, there is still time to decide whether or not you want to give it | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| person: body, mind, soul, and spirit. When you decide, This is what I want, this is what | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| it, mean it, and look at what is. Decide to call upon the subliminal forces lodged deep | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| this deep intelligence is left out, whatever you decide or do cannot possibly yield satisfactory answers or | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| because this is what you really want and decide. You will then discover the glory of living | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| you have to learn? How soon will you decide to go through it, in pulsating openness of | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in you so that you can see and decide, little by little, to relinquish everything that bars | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| help to guide me. This is what I decide to do. I will not run away from | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that its strength, potentiality, and function is to decide to seek contact, to request help from the | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| path. The ego must, again and again, select, decide, intend, in order to follow this development. It | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| all of you, no matter how far you decide to follow it, that the aim of the | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| pay for living life as if! Once you decide to meet yourself as you are and go | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| well as the opening. You do not simply decide to open up now. It seems to happen | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| listen, and work on the path. You can decide whether or not you want to be fully | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| activating this intuition, too. For the ego-intellect cannot decide when and how to use both forces harmoniously | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| weakness, paralysis, dependence, and destructiveness. Or we can decide to want to make the best of the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| pleasure, self-interest and love, you cannot ever fully decide, and you become so confused and disturbed that | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| make other areas of your body respond. You decide to move your hand, to get up, to | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| powers to think, will, feel, express, act, and decide are the earmarks of consciousness. They are vastly | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| negativity, self-rejection, and needless limitation. But once you decide to use your thinking in a new way | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| you become aware of the problem. When you decide to do something about it you begin a | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| of your illness. First, understand that when you decide to go off, you can make a different | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| to the point where you know that you decide, not some power over which you have no | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| new inner modality to meet life, to finally decide, I want to risk my good feelings. I | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| part of the self. The conscious ego-self must decide for this integration and fight for it, otherwise | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| the inspiration that will come. Only when you decide to go through and ask for help in | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| pain or discomfort that you suffer now and decide with all the vigor and determination of your | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| that part of you which can and does decide to make the acknowledgement. Then some other part | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| I can endure pain or disappointment. I now decide to no longer believe in the fallacy that | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| make yourself incapacitated for life, or you can decide not to feel it at all. Or you | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| you wish, to break this chain. When you decide to go into this area of your being | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| you are free to alter whenever you so decide. By assuming the sole blame, you give permission | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| with are much more flexible and can easily decide to be angry, sad, or be in whatever | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| to manifest. At other times your helper may decide to concentrate on certain feelings or your inspiration | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| and illusion, until the mind and the will decide to confront the issue profoundly, once and for | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| eliminate a lot of fear. The moment you decide this, the experience you are involved in begins | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| By more demands? Certainly not! Only when you decide that giving to the universe is worth risking | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| with, and also to the particular traits we decide to emulate or to discard. The ability to | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| what, and how will come not because you decide it with your mind, but as a manifestation | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| on the physical level. Let us suppose you decide to get up from your chair, to move | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| exist and must manifest, whether or not you decide to move in the direction of your own | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| is then up to the conscious mind to decide whether or not it will use the already | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| is impossible to establish, the inner being may decide to die. The higher self knows that to | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| of the potency of each thought that you decide to think, each attitude you decide to adopt | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that you decide to think, each attitude you decide to adopt. Thought will create experiences and responses | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| misplaced trust and misplaced distrust that make you decide to get off the train and stay behind | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| total entity that you are truly belongs, you decide upon a reappearance in this dimension. That is | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| will experience the aspect of yourself that can decide the course of your attitudes and can redirect | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| being and experiencing, your capacity to will and decide -- all that is the source. Non-life cannot | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| the risk of being resented. You may instead decide not to communicate your perceptions if that feels | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| false struggle of covering up your hidden insecurity. Decide, again and again and again, every day and | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| security make it possible for the entity to decide spontaneously when to be soft and when to | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| heed these periods of contact and fail to decide to make them a medicine. It is often | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |