| Admonish....................3 | |
| another step up on the ladder. But I admonish you not to expect this awareness to happen | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| will perhaps understand a little better when I admonish you not to judge, not to compare, and | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| happiness, and your safety. Again I have to admonish you that identifying these prohibitions is not easy | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| Admonishing.................3 | |
| not use the word in a moralizing, blaming, admonishing way, but philosophically. It indicates one basic state | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| discipline of a sort is necessary. For instance, admonishing yourself to face yourself honestly, again and again | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| now understand the reason why I have been admonishing you to become aware of what you really | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Admonition..................4 | |
| regard a conscientious objector who sincerely follows the admonition not to kill and considers the whole of | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| rigid rule out of this wise provision and admonition. With rigidity, the inner meaning gets lost. People | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| emotions and cannot be eliminated by a direct admonition not to fear. Fear can only be tackled | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| that fear is unnecessary. When you hear the admonition that it is necessary to learn acceptance, you | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| Adolescence.................12 | |
| from this particular point of view, covering childhood, adolescence, young adult life, and so on. Let that | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the period that was missed in childhood and adolescence, the emotions will finally mature and you will | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| childhood. It is just about coming through its adolescence, but is not yet a mature, adult entity | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| entity. If you compare the individual's period of adolescence with humankind's present development, you will see that | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| so does humanity -- over and over again. Adolescence is a particularly painful and trying period because | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| child, and hardly even as an adolescent. In adolescence you could, with proper guidance and education, begin | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| existence, it is only now about to leave adolescence, so what will happen at maturity is not | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| races if you generalize now the state of adolescence? Did they rise and die? ANSWER: Part of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| in history -- a shift between childhood and adolescence. It may seem disproportionate that so much more | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| infancy to childhood, and again from childhood to adolescence, while only two thousand years have gone by | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| tremendous milestone on the road from infanthood, childhood, adolescence, into maturity. As to the problem of the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of an infant growing into childhood, then into adolescence, and later into adulthood. Think of how the | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| Adolescent..................7 | |
| the world outside the family circle. The early adolescent is most preoccupied with companions of the same | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| and wasteful. Humanity is beginning to leave the adolescent stage. This does not necessarily mean that its | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the past, while in the child and young adolescent stage, it was often difficult for humankind to | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| necessary equipment to be an adult. A similar adolescent crisis has especially marked the last hundred or | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| as a child, and hardly even as an adolescent. In adolescence you could, with proper guidance and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| just past, which we can call the early adolescent stage of planetary consciousness, humanity had to learn | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| whole appearance change from infant to child to adolescent to adult to old age, after which a | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| Adopt.......................75 | |
| to God. I ask all of you to adopt the same attitude toward all aspects of the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| a general question, however, it is wise to adopt a patiently detached and humble attitude, because all | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| your personal responsibility. So certainly, you should never adopt the point of view that what happens to | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself. All you have to do is to adopt a realistic and constructive attitude toward your imperfections | 31 SHAME |
| clear before. It may be very good to adopt right now the idea that each human being | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| for the sake of truth. Hence you quickly adopt the opinions of others. It is one thing | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| despise yourself, the greater the apparent need to adopt other people's opinions. Thus you see can how | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| subjects. And therefore one is compelled, consciously, to adopt an opinion on an emotional basis. ANSWER: In | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| emotionally involved. And this will lead you to adopt an opinion you know nothing or too little | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the most constructive inner action you can possibly adopt. After you have made a recognition of importance | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| fault, not your innermost conflicts which make you adopt the wrong attitude to the actual problem that | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| what defense mechanism and rationalization has made you adopt them. What does the word prejudice mean to | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| that you never will, and causes you to adopt means which are so defeatist and negative that | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| We have to keep this in consideration, and adopt the attitude that words are merely an expediency | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| give us some sort of formula we might adopt for interpreting dream symbols? ANSWER: Yes, my friends | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| have to uncover first. Only then can you adopt a healthy attitude toward death. Outwardly, you may | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the instinct of self-preservation leads the soul to adopt the quest for power. The distorted instinct of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to assert yourself and, if need be, to adopt a healthy aggressiveness, which is altogether different from | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| also cover up the helplessness of having to adopt rules one inwardly rebels against. This holds true | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to ideal plans. On the contrary, if you adopt the pseudo-solution of power, you are more dependent | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| not one-dimensional, one level of the personality may adopt an attitude that is contradictory to another level | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| be the same as the superimposed standards you adopt from the outside. Yet there is a world | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| you no longer deal with concepts which you adopt or reject, which you agree or disagree with | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| In doing so, he believes he has to adopt the standards of the parents. As I said | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| us assume that as a young person, you adopt a way of life, an attitude to life | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| words. So you discard it in order to adopt a new way of life, perhaps still distorted | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| be. The importance of being admired makes you adopt the standards and values of others whose approval | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| of growth and development. It is impossible to adopt a truthful concept and to replace the old | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| move toward, the new way of life you adopt, is much easier than what you so tightly | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| and your mind to find out why you adopt or reject, why you condone, and why you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| self- sacrificing, good, kind, and considerate. Some people adopt one alternative, some the other, but all fear | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| on a conscious level to force yourself to adopt truths your psyche is, as yet, unable to | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| mental and emotional faculties. You human beings often adopt the wrong approach by exerting your outer will | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| are determined by the individual's free decision to adopt natural, universal laws and standards, taking full responsibility | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| human peculiarity to find it very difficult to adopt this attitude. Therefore, one of the hindrances to | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| this is the case, a person will instantly adopt an open attitude whenever the opportunity in life | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| this material. Therefore, it cannot relax, it cannot adopt the flexible, unafraid attitude that is essential to | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| to make and follow through the decision to adopt the new way. All fear of self will | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| time goes by and you grow up, you adopt the same attitude the parents had. You feel | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| using the wrong way before you can gradually adopt the right one. How often are humans lazy | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the other. You would be totally mistaken to adopt the affirmative principle as an overall attitude for | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the most real attitude a human being can adopt. With it your split soul will reunite. Again | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| they experience, they put away such thoughts and adopt a cynical, resigned philosophy of life. But you | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| organism knows truth, the little units will eventually adopt it and will know their origin and connect | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| you close up against life, that make you adopt unproductive and often even destructive attitudes? Tension must | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| of your life. The role or game you adopt in the illusion that it eliminates your deliberate | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| be deliberately activated. Here the consciousness must again adopt a twofold approach: one is activity that asserts | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| for two reasons: either they are unwilling to adopt the necessary self-discipline to follow through on their | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| which also has the power to recognize and adopt new attitudes, without devastating self-judgement. It is also | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| admitted, and finally given up. You need then adopt the attitude of openness, of honest questioning. Openness | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| constructive or destructive attitudes. You can choose to adopt truthful or erroneous ones, divine or demonic ones | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| shed all defenses and are thus free to adopt positive intent: to express the best in life | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| As mentioned before, the ego must learn and adopt attitudes compatible with the universal, divine ones. This | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| In order to do this, the ego must adopt attitudes compatible with its original nature. All the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| other areas of your ego consciousness can you adopt healthy, truthful attitudes. Only a healthy ego can | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| about your current situations. What happens is you adopt certain opinions and judgments and then invest so | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| more you rebel and the less do you adopt attitudes that would make you capable of fulfilling | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| but few have truly experienced it. When you adopt a human body and the ego state in | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| and circumstances, and of life experiences. When humans adopt the limited ego state, they do so for | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| opinions can influence others enough to make them adopt the same opinions. This entire process of influence | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| what figures are chosen to identify with, to adopt from, or to emulate as prototypes for a | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| becomes. Only when you take the courage and adopt the humility to again and again acknowledge and | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| decide to think, each attitude you decide to adopt. Thought will create experiences and responses, and will | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| undertake, even in the opinions you choose to adopt. With the new consciousness you will not make | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| contains what you have chosen to learn and adopt as knowledge, both as part of the group | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| every decision about what opinion or attitude to adopt in a given situation. That instruction is truly | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| to give up the old, obsolete attitude and adopt a new, more appropriate one, the painful crises | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| and deeper inward into the real universe and adopt a new balancing structure that may manifest at | 228 BALANCE |
| and important aspect of the value system you adopt. When you function in your giving mode in | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| you do, of everything you think. You may adopt an artificial brittle security that is not built | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| about it. Appearance values, as long as you adopt them, always disconnect you from your true desires | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| unconscious processes. It is a philosophy, for you adopt new ways of seeing the world. It is | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Can you find within yourself the willingness to adopt the same attitude toward whatever universal issue comes | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| lies only in the form of government you adopt or the outer measures you institute, although admittedly | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| has accrued for them. When more of you adopt this spirit, more abundance will be created for | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |