| Decided.....................35 | |
| special treasure from God. And once you have decided, I will no longer want to be the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| choose to follow this voice, if you have decided to take this path and remain on it | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| want to know His will; whether you have decided that you will fulfill His will, even against | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| afterward. In other words, until you have completely decided to do the will of God, whatever this | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| and how to do it, once you have decided to ask God for His help. All of | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| spirits involved with this work, each subject is decided upon, and so are the limits of how | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| a state of eternal bliss or, if they decided otherwise, they would finally come to comprehend all | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| free will and the choice of those who decided to use the given power in their own | 21 THE FALL |
| friends here are? And then, if you have decided with a big and wholehearted Yes, you will | 21 THE FALL |
| will already bring you, provided you have wholeheartedly decided to do so, without any subterfuges. You will | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| part of yourself, provided you have once wholeheartedly decided for the right course and that the resistance | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| fact and go on working if you have decided to do so. One day God's grace and | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| away from them as you did before you decided to go on this path. And there are | 36 PRAYER |
| path of development, and the spirit world has decided that you are ready for stronger medicine. So | 38 IMAGES |
| the psyche wishes to avoid. When you have decided for this path, you are obligated to think | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| had seemed so risky and dangerous that they decided to join the enemy camp. The fear of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| feeling, but nevertheless remember -- just when you decided to turn around and become one with what | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| duty without compulsion, you do so because you decided it. It may be something that life seems | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| will happen will not be what God has decided but the result of their own weakness, unwillingness | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| something wholeheartedly gives added self-respect that is a decided advantage manifesting in many ways. It will give | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| small attendance on account of the storm, we decided to have, instead of a lecture, another question | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you could get for yourself if only you decided to become free and mature. Find in yourself | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| boredom is sadness. Be clear about the very decided difference between these entirely contrary feelings: sadness, and | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| change wherever it is possible. This is a decided difference. As I said, this is the only | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| time, to get a fuller comprehension about the decided difference between these two emotions. If the case | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| closed. This is not because some forbidding authority decided that you are not worthy of this or | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| to search within and ask, Where have I decided not to feel? The moment you become acutely | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| rage that develops as a consequence, you have decided, deep inside of you, to turn away from | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| referred to spiritual laws. In February 1969, Eva decided to compile some of the basic laws to | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| not know this, at one point you have decided not to know it. This dishonesty must be | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| your guilt, this is only because you have decided to opt for this reaction, my friends. Whenever | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| pointed no movement. The no is not a decided, harmonious, firm strength that grows out of true | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| and connection, long before your inner being has decided that your time is up because you have | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| comes when, in spite of the fear, you decided calmly and quietly to go into the emptiness | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| was given in whispers, over the microphone. Eva decided to give it in spite of her severe | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Decidedly...................3 | |
| not giving love. On the other hand, you decidedly give love in the deepest sense when you | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| danger signal you would be destroyed. This is decidedly different from the psychological, unhealthy, destructive fears we | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| this be true? ANSWER: Yes, of course. Most decidedly yes. Because it is unimaginable for human nature | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| Decides.....................13 | |
| from what you have imagined, but whatever God decides will ultimately be best for you. So when | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| there is a clean slate. Whatever this being decides, it can do. Is that somehow clearer? Yes | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in the spirit world that governs you and decides who should be chosen and who should be | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| about God as a person who acts, chooses, decides, disposes arbitrarily and at will. On top of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| convey and to understand. When the spirit entity decides to let go of the fluids, expanding them | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wants an authority who thinks for him, who decides for him and is thus responsible for him | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| is the part that thinks, acts, discriminates, and decides. The person whose ego has not sufficiently grown | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| will begin to manifest -- not because it decides to reward you for having been a good | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| that he can begin to live. Once he decides for life, self-responsibility will no longer seem undesirable | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| you keep avoiding. Anyone of you who truly decides to go into the nucleus of your being | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| the guidance of the inner, divine consciousness, and decides to rationalize and follow the line of least | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| of the case in which the inner being decides for death and the outer personality resists it | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| that God-consciousness is within everything. The ego only decides which way to turn. Right now, within your | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Deciding....................16 | |
| inner, emotional reactions make them completely incapable of deciding inwardly, and they do not even know it | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| doubts that may stand in the way when deciding on the path of perfection and purification. For | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the spirit world is helping and guiding you, deciding many factors in connection with all of you | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| earth. Only with self-awareness, which includes thinking and deciding, can development take place. All the forms of | 21 THE FALL |
| willpower, here too, it is a question of deciding, of making up one's mind once and for | 21 THE FALL |
| no difference in principle. Anyone truly declaring and deciding and remaining with the decision to follow the | 22 SALVATION |
| taking on a needlessly more difficult alternative. By deciding with the right attitude, you responsibly accept the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| constantly vacillate between these various measures, never fully deciding for either, and simultaneously pursuing contradictory ones. It | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| to be fought for constantly through accounting, thinking, deciding, weighing. It requires a sense of self- responsibility | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for your physical life, for outer actions, for deciding to know the truth about yourself. But they | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| desire. After it has fulfilled its task of deciding for truthfulness, integrity, honesty, effort, and good will | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| of you which managed this integration by determining, deciding, acting, thinking, and willing, so that you could | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| wait for change to take place without your deciding for a new thought process about the issue | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| by moving your mind into new directions; by deciding to move on all levels, so that your | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| and eliminate disturbing self-doubts. Probe with your active, deciding faculty to envisage alternatives other than the one | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| make the transition to the next step -- deciding whether or not you want to open up | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| Decipher....................5 | |
| anxiety and guilt. Its messages become harder to decipher because these pseudo-solutions only abet self-alienation. It is | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| and again; until you interpret its messages and decipher its codes. Before you can discover the no-current | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| have learned to become aware of, observe, and decipher the petrified and destructive part of the unconscious | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| inner reality, you will not be able to decipher its meaning. You need help and guidance from | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| inner self to trust in its guidance and decipher its messages. Resistance to creating inner order is | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Decision....................209 | |
| and reactions. Those who will not make a decision are often the same who most sincerely strive | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| do not understand that by not making a decision they also make a decision. The world, and | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| not making a decision they also make a decision. The world, and what you call time, never | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| consequence. When you shy away from making a decision, it means you have not yet found a | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| -- that God or fate will make the decision for you. Once in a while this may | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| you are not yet capable of making a decision because you are not yet able to perceive | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| endeavors. It is one thing to avoid a decision, cover up everything that relates to it, and | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| knowingly and willingly decide not to make a decision until, after more personal effort, you are ready | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| to take the right course. And when the decision is truly the right one, no shadow of | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| the spiritual laws to the full. Without this decision there can be no benefit. Now, are there | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| of understanding, of knowledge, and of the corresponding decision. For every human being has a certain amount | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| decisions that follow from them. It is a decision and an inner reorientation when a person can | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| the emphasis. When a person finally makes this decision and abides by it -- a decision that | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| this decision and abides by it -- a decision that is not too difficult or too much | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| about inner decisions in my last lecture. The decision to develop your willpower is such a decision | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| decision to develop your willpower is such a decision, which has to be made at one time | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| to, first, gain understanding and, second, make the decision that follows from it. Therefore, if you feel | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| and time -- you will certainly make the decision and have the willpower to direct your life | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| conclusion and will have to make the right decision, so that their lives become living religion and | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| choice. This is an example of an inner decision which I have mentioned previously. Inner decisions can | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| to mention that when you make a negative decision in the full knowledge and acceptance of all | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| up, not reluctantly, but completely. Even a negative decision, if it is truly meant to be carried | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| inner contradictions. In order to reach a negative decision at all, you must take pains to honestly | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| that is necessary to make even a negative decision honestly. Thus they will enable themselves to come | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| Those who are truly willing to make the decision to purify their souls will be helped to | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| and will bestow happiness on you. And the decision must be made by you; it cannot be | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| come from your free will, and a free decision comes from the intellect. When such a decision | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| decision comes from the intellect. When such a decision is made in the right way, the faculties | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the inner help. Once you have made the decision to walk this path and commit yourself totally | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| both inner and outer, that follow from the decision, you will be guided to the outer help | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| in their lives. All who make such a decision will be given everything they need. Those who | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| given everything they need. Those who make the decision to seek the contact and walk the path | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| perfection. I addressed the problem of making the decision and committing yourself to it without reservations. I | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| the first step has been taken and the decision made. Today I would like to tell you | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| who hear and read these words avoid the decision and believe it has nothing to do with | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| beings. Yet this was not my meaning. The decision I was referring to means more. Therefore, I | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| wish you were. Those who have made the decision and given themselves into the hands of God | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| return, there is no point in making the decision in the first place. But I say to | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| that a human being is serious about the decision and does not stay with the good intent | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| thing. The split happened because of their own decision at the time of the Fall, so far | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| change can only be accomplished through her deliberate decision to go this way. She has the choice | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| being can participate in the planning -- the decision of how to enjoy the fruits of the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| opportunities offered to you in this direction. The decision must be made by you, the struggle must | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| you events like wars, in which, through the decision of a few, many who seem innocent have | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| for truth. Ask for His will when a decision is to be made. Thus you will reach | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| guided and helped. But first this will and decision must be clearly formulated within you; then it | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| will of God, which is the most difficult decision of all. That they asked, concerning the welfare | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| you have not actually won this victory, the decision and its consequences will appear to you to | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| do or what the practical consequences of your decision will be. What follows next will be made | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| yourself that enables you to make the great decision. Only then can you cross the first threshold | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| of you are still not ready for this decision and other things are still to be accomplished | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| clearly understand this, you can make the proper decision. You will gain clear understanding if you set | 21 THE FALL |
| truly declaring and deciding and remaining with the decision to follow the path to God -- hence | 22 SALVATION |
| So the first step, my friends, in your decision to walk the path of self-development and purification | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| become clear about this. It is the greatest decision a human being can ever make. It is | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and what you must expect. Then make your decision. Are you willing to take this path? Oh | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is another thought, my friends, for this initial decision which you must approach with open eyes: distinguish | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| to you about this phase of preparation and decision: expect to have a fight with yourself. It | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| are all very quick to make your own decision, albeit a temporary one in many cases, that | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| So I ask you not to consider the decision to take this path as some additional activity | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| Some of you have really made this wholehearted decision. Some of you have not. But for both | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| If you are in a dilemma about a decision, or if there is a continuing disharmony in | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| Take whatever it is -- your problem, your decision, your excessive attachment -- and present it to | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| Him. Before I consider letting Him make my decision, I will ask God himself whether He exists | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| be easier to start with a really big decision. It may feel as though you were about | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| their lives. This is so untrue, for every decision, no matter how small, and every deed or | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you want to change, or face a difficult decision, you will of course not know what God's | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| or if you are not clear about a decision you are called upon to make, do not | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you one thing. After you have made the decision to take this path, you will already feel | 31 SHAME |
| day, whenever you are faced with such a decision. We deal not only with what you consciously | 31 SHAME |
| important in everyone's life, for everything is a decision. This is true not only of your deeds | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| choices, but also of every emotional attitude a decision holds. The majority of human beings are incapable | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| are living in this sphere of matter, every decision offers two and sometimes more alternatives. In some | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| not matter what you actually decide, provided the decision has been made wholeheartedly, awarely, responsibly, not shirking | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| laws is that the disadvantageous side of each decision has to be faced and accepted. To make | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| be faced and accepted. To make a mature decision means therefore to deliberate each alternative thoroughly; to | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| benefit from it. No one who makes a decision in this way will ever come to grief | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| because of a possible wrong or less advantageous decision, but because you go into the decision blindly | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| advantageous decision, but because you go into the decision blindly, not ready and willing to pay the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| that you have somehow not made a whole decision; you had somehow hoped to gain the advantage | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| needs were unfulfilled; instead, realize clearly what your decision has been in this case. On the one | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| Divine Order or not must be considered. This decision influences to a great extent not only the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| plan for every alternative, every possibility of free-will decision. Let us say, an entity fulfills the most | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| and have you coming to us with every decision you have to make. Opening a channel requires | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| made some half-hearted compromises. What is a wholehearted decision for God? It always involves giving up something | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| have mistakenly interpreted the law that governs a decision for God to mean giving up the world | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| liberation. Each soul who makes such a vital decision creates rejoicing in the spirit world, rejoicing you | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| overcome. You can be sure that your final decision to walk on this path of self-development, as | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| have chosen to be more careful. If this decision is too rigid and stringent, the opposite extreme | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| right to prevent a mistake in judgment or decision. They cannot prevent mishaps, which may be good | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| free will, the guardian cannot force the right decision on the protege. The more a person turns | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| maturity means being able to make a full decision and to accept that you cannot have your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| weigh carefully, asking God for enlightenment about which decision will bring less hurt all around. As you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| be liberated, my friends, regardless of whether your decision turns out to be what your emotions desire | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| with yourself and with the world, whatever the decision, whatever the outcome, whatever the difficulties may be | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| self-love. People often agonize about making the proper decision when they have to consider their own selves | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| mass image hinders their ability to make a decision at all. Of course, all their personal fears | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| times it may; at other times, the wise decision is that it be not you. This may | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| this earth sphere. When you stand before a decision in which anyone has to be hurt, you | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| you benefit if you refrain from making any decision. Either you are being selfish or masochistic, because | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| life without making decisions. Actually, you make a decision every time you breathe. Not making a decision | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| decision every time you breathe. Not making a decision is a decision too, although a wrong or | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you breathe. Not making a decision is a decision too, although a wrong or unfavorable one. It | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| point of view? If you wait for God's decision and it turns out badly, isn't it much | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sickness of the soul. QUESTION: Is making a decision a manifestation of free will or the natural | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will not be called upon to make the decision yourself when to change from one phase into | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| unnatural. The necessity for you to make a decision does not apply to weighing and measuring the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of the people in question, or the negative decision would turn out to be positive for you | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a wall. This may not be a wise decision, but it has to be respected. Another reason | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you think you should; as long as the decision is not wholly your own and therefore free | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| if you have made a full and wholehearted decision for the unselfish act. Decide for it only | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| your advantage, provided your motives are right, your decision free, your reactions mature. This will free you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| a silver platter, without the necessary responsibility, work, decision, and cost. When mature, you accept all these | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| anything, and is capable of making a mature decision, there will be no such guilt. Whenever such | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| that your reaction, or your knowledge, or your decision is right, feeling neither guilt nor pride nor | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| tried to change it by a mere outer decision. In order to make an inner decision, the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| outer decision. In order to make an inner decision, the procedure has to be the same it | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| through a process of will, an outer mental decision which represses what is still a part of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| more mature intellect be able to make the decision as to whether these inner behavior patterns are | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| happen to be, and have made the inner decision to part with the illusion of yourself, you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| anxiety about the issue. It is a clear decision without pressure which makes you feel thoroughly good | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong course, that you may make a wrong decision and thereby incur criticism or frustration, will plunge | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself and for others, as long as the decision is not fully yours but based on outside | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| to misinterpretation. If you force discipline, without independent decision and full conviction, the motives are unhealthy and | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| difficult phase. If you then make the inner decision of dispensing with such pretense, taking what first | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| find real security in your real self. The decision must be made to take the chance of | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| It is not necessary that you approach this decision by asking yourself which is which, because as | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| religion teaches the latter, it simultaneously cripples free decision and self-responsibility by forcing man to obey certain | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| any case, they are nearer that point of decision -- which they may reach only in the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| But, at least, understand it. Then make your decision freely. This thought may help greatly in overcoming | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| superimposed conscience, and the result of such a decision is not to your liking, the corroding effects | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| way prescribed. They wish to avoid confrontation and decision between the two sources of knowledge. They fear | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| at peace with yourself. Any personal choice and decision, any action or emotional direction or attitude, is | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| attitude, is dependent on whether or not the decision derives from one or the other value system | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| friends, there is no such thing as a decision that is good on the one hand and | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| clearly: As long as I believe that any decision must result in disadvantage or harm to any | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| has brought the effect of unhappiness. When this decision is fully made, then further removed cause-and-effect connections | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| two it is impossible to find the right decision. Neither alternative is preferable. To discover that this | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| into the universe must be done by a decision of the ego, but not with ego limitations | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| concept, people have to cope with making the decision between good and evil. Some philosophies postulate that | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| consciously, find themselves on the brink of a decision: Either I allow my feelings to reach out | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| next moment such reasoning is gone, the conscious decision forgotten, and what remains is a compelling force | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| A battle rages in the face of this decision. It is exceedingly important now to discuss where | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| self-government rather than strained superimposition. This deep inner decision can be made at any moment. But you | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| nothing to hide, when you make the great decision not to be ruled by your negativity, regardless | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| that level. When you can make this essential decision to give up destructiveness, you will find a | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| experience along these lines where I made the decision to give up my destructiveness and cruelty and | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| Only those who consciously and deliberately make the decision and commit themselves once and for all to | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| this respect will set the stage for the decision for transformation which can again be tested for | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| believe that some disadvantage will result from your decision. That you are capable of reaching for and | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| to come out, and I know that this decision must bear its fruits, I know it will | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| and liberation are determined by the individual's free decision to adopt natural, universal laws and standards, taking | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| laws and standards, taking full responsibility for this decision upon oneself. This means being true to the | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| life when they stand at a point of decision whether to hold back the self or give | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| follow it. Needless to say, the point of decision must be noticed. It is never unconscious the | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| allow themselves to acknowledge the tiny points of decision about so many issues in daily living. When | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| time at this cusp, at this point of decision, and then do not pressure yourself but simply | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| and resources to make and follow through the decision to adopt the new way. All fear of | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| formulate the thought, the intent, the desire, the decision. But its limitation is in the execution of | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| -- then you have to make a vital decision: to bring your reason to bear on the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| If you have not yet made a deliberate decision to develop and to find your true self | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| may help you toward such a vital inner decision. This lecture continues to address where most of | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| with having the desire. It is a conscious decision directed toward the inner feeling self, in which | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| as you feel obliged to make the tragic decision between goodness and joy, morality and pleasure, self-interest | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| currents and interactions. It also means that the decision to sever the connection has been made because | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| your increased understanding that leads you to a decision about a new approach to your complaints: I | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| The I that is able to make a decision, for instance, to truly face this conflict and | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| true nucleus. When you finally make the full decision and commitment to face your fears, the terror | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| do so at any time. It requires your decision to look, feel, and experience, to no longer | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| mind. Like all acts, it follows from a decision of will and intent. The concepts and thoughts | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| this inner guidance becomes instrumental for an outer decision and commitment to a real path, with all | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| and the conscious personality shall make the final decision. We have discussed various false reasons for one's | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| would soon form all over again. For your decision to remain static would be based on a | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| and be with them without fear. The initial decision to enter a path such as this must | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| the principle is the same. One makes a decision to devote time, effort and care to the | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| warnings, disagreement, advice -- and then leave the decision of whether or not to follow such advice | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| way. Your inner creative intelligence must make the decision for you, for only you know how you | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| It can never be done in one single decision. It is a decision and commitment that must | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| done in one single decision. It is a decision and commitment that must be repeated many, many | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| even more effort to follow through with the decision to break the cycle there. The explosion or | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| the hardship appears to be created by the decision to turn inward into the direction of the | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| task fulfillment. The conscious ego must make this decision. The higher self will not and cannot force | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| The conscious mind may battle against the inner decision and contract against its own disposition, widening the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| personality is totally unaware of the inner self's decision and that makes the process of dying all | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the outer personality fights against the inner being's decision, a tremendous struggle ensues. That struggle may continue | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| uses its life force to battle the inner decision. At times, the decision of the inner entity | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| to battle the inner decision. At times, the decision of the inner entity may deliberately outweigh the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| exist, I can think, I can make a decision, My decisions have impact, My thoughts have effect | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| event, this process, is a result of your decision to follow such a path, a path in | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| brain can think of, you make a weighty decision. It is important for you to understand what | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| is important for you to understand what that decision means. What does it imply? And, also, what | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| ramifications? I want to say here that the decision in question is more than just whether or | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| a path as this. Even if the general decision for such a path has been made, there | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| is only at the beginning of each such decision that making it seems an effort. But that | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| and the inner process of movement through the decision to follow at the same speed, to discover | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| as if they were valid reasons for the decision, then the soul will remain in confusion. Now | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Christ consciousness into the new era. Their ever-renewed decision to devote all of themselves to the process | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in every issue, in every venture, in every decision you undertake, even in the opinions you choose | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you need more is the guidance for every decision about what opinion or attitude to adopt in | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| This perfect balance cannot occur through an intellectual decision. It can be found organically only through the | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| exist in you, you challenge it with your decision to find a new pathway to your mind's | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| apply it, you can very easily make the decision again and again: I will let go and | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| intentions on the surface of your being. The decision must penetrate the most hidden levels of your | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| up your path. But you must make the decision whether you wish the Christ light to shine | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| feelings and the real reasons for making a decision. It registers which alternative the individual or the | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| every single created conscious entity, on each entity's decision, in every fraction of time, which way to | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| feelings and attitudes that are contained behind the decision not to act. Since you are consciousness, since | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| in motion. Next, you need to make the decision on the voluntary level. It is not difficult | 254 SURRENDER |
| consciously and deliberately, deny this movement. The conscious decision, to deliberately let go of self and give | 254 SURRENDER |