| Adulthood...................21 | |
| your life, in childhood as well as in adulthood. If these injustices are perpetrated by people who | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| grow up inwardly. The very reluctance to assume adulthood and self-responsibility makes a person prey to the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| make you free. If you do not choose adulthood by adopting such an attitude toward life, you | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the child, but if it is maintained into adulthood, this need is no longer valid. In the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| protected child, to refuse the apparent hardship of adulthood, self-responsibility, and independence. To the child in you | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| thinking in your unconscious that the disadvantages of adulthood can be avoided by remaining a child, who | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| independence and self-responsibility. Both indicate spiritual and emotional adulthood, freedom, growth, creativity, strength, trust in the self | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| still holds on frantically to childhood and fears adulthood with its responsibilities and what seems like activity | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| are finally ready to pass from childhood into adulthood. Even if you die in this life as | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the pain of crossing the threshold into emotional adulthood. Can you imagine being spared experiencing the pain | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| normal. If it is a constant practice in adulthood, it is certainly related to gluttony, although the | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the world. The average individual who grows into adulthood may have a number of aspects which are | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| be relatively much longer than growth periods of adulthood. The time element cannot be compared to the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| it were true, for instance, that self-responsibility and adulthood are more painful than the position of the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| who is supposed to take the burden of adulthood away from you, but to the vaster self | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| assume what initially appears as the hardship of adulthood with all that this implies, something in you | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| expansion? If an individual is ready to reach adulthood but blocks it, the adult energies released into | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| of the planet. Your planet is ready for adulthood and strives to unfold it. Yet the planet | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| The man also shrinks from the responsibility of adulthood and envies the woman her socially sanctioned position | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| into childhood, then into adolescence, and later into adulthood. Think of how the physical organs, the body | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| The new-age woman combines independence, self- responsibility, full-fledged adulthood with the softness and yieldingness that was previously | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Adults......................24 | |
| over it. If people continue to daydream as adults, however, it is another thing. It means that | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| -- will remain immature. There are very few adults who are as mature emotionally as they are | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| recognized and properly dealt with. If not, as adults they will go through life unconsciously crying out | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| aims and needs of the psyche. Since most adults live in daydreams in one form or another | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| their needs fulfilled. The difference between children and adults is that children are actually dependent on others | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| child is dependent on the interpretation given by adults. Such interpretation may not even occur in words | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| from the fruits of their own resources. Mature adults do not wait helplessly to be loved, however | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| for those who pride themselves on being mature adults. Most people wish to be regarded as mature | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| widen your understanding. Many individuals who grow into adults are not mature. Their body has grown up | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| its impact. The helplessness continues to exist in adults whose psyches have remained childish or immature. The | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| that anyone can do without others, but for adults the emphasis is shifted. Mature adults find within | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| but for adults the emphasis is shifted. Mature adults find within themselves an inexhaustible well of wonderful | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| their parents or with their siblings and peers. Adults suffer from them with much of their environment | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| formulate. To explain things is difficult even to adults. But it is particularly difficult when I speak | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| grow a little older. For you must know, adults are as confused as you are. The confusion | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| a result of something you misunderstand somewhere. All adults have such misunderstandings. Again, this is not peculiarly | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| no whip behind it if at all possible. Adults who harbor an image that learning is a | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| fact mutually interactive, interconnected and interdependent. Since most adults suffer from the duality that freedom and self-discipline | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| must exist only where self-discipline is lacking, where adults or children act destructively toward their environment or | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| elders. This is hardly possible or desirable for adults, but we shall not go into this topic | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| a destructive way -- children as well as adults. The time will come -- not in your | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| beings, whether they start on the path as adults or begin it in childhood in a new | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Even you who have started this path as adults already have a very different approach to life | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| in infants and in the infantile aspects of adults as well. In that distorted, immature state the | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Adult's.....................3 | |
| formed, and whatever the child's, and later the adult's, relationship to authority is, his or her attitude | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| between the child's longing and unfulfillment and the adult's present difficulties and problems, because only very few | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| emanates from the telling of the story. The adult's feelings have a much stronger influence on the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Advance.....................38 | |
| attain right away. On this path you will advance to a point where you determine yourself when | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| they could exchange the knowledge each has in advance of the other. QUESTION: Does that mean in | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the reason for his present incarnation, may still advance spiritually in some respects of his personality, though | 18 FREE WILL |
| reaction to it. Those who are ready to advance spiritually will welcome the light and will follow | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| with that of the Creator Himself. People often advance the idea that God should not have endowed | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| answer to people who claim there is no advance in spiritual development. For there is! And this | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| course. For many friends here sincerely wish to advance spiritually and yet do not quite know how | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| divine blessing, all the material you need to advance spiritually, to find yourself and God. With the | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the higher self. Your higher self seeks to advance for the love of God by way of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| various other categories, humanity can become stronger and advance faster in spiritual development precisely because frictions exist | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| That diminishes friction, but also the possibility to advance. Let us take the case of human beings | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| way they think if they are trying to advance in a certain way, the outer conflict will | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| one part of you that truly desires to advance and to sacrifice the comfort of self-deception. But | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| wrong kind of shame in you, you cannot advance on this path; you have to exchange it | 31 SHAME |
| hands, or do you think that you can advance on this path without summoning the courage to | 31 SHAME |
| try to concentrate on this. If you cannot advance, although you are working and doing your best | 31 SHAME |
| doing your best -- and many do not advance because they are not working the way they | 31 SHAME |
| for your overall development. If you do not advance this time at all or do so only | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| problems with friends who are seriously endeavoring to advance on this path of purification and who honestly | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| of the most essential requisites to develop and advance on the path. Without prayer -- and putting | 36 PRAYER |
| spiritual point of view, if you want to advance on your path. In prayer you will automatically | 36 PRAYER |
| and yourself in particular, will help you to advance a step further. Let us first take the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| you who are seriously working in this vein advance a great deal. I would now like to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the impulse which is unconscious. The more you advance on this path, the more you will see | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| another. In such cases the person does not advance. It is not necessary to act out selfish | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| remains as your asset. It is better to advance by degrees than to give up in despair | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| in the Spirit World, as well as for advance planning for the next incarnation. Only when proper | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the part of your personality that wishes to advance and become more aware and conscious, or memories | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| darken and deaden life itself. The more you advance in this work, the more you realize how | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| very process supposed to obtain it. Until you advance to these soul areas and understand their full | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| It is just the opposite, and as you advance in your own growth and development, you will | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| while to truly assimilate it. The faster you advance in your personal work on this path, the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| a whole. May tonight's lecture again help you advance a step forward on your path. Perhaps it | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| intent -- and expressing must prevail. As you advance on the path and make progress, the inner | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| mind and your vision so that you all advance a further step in your self-realization. One of | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| you issue forth grows likewise. The more you advance, the stronger the impact of your remaining negativity | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| spiritual development has advanced and still continues to advance. Such a state is maintained to the degree | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| yourself to the cause of helping other souls advance to higher states of inner truth. Perhaps by | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |