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| and fulfillment. What appears to be an unimportant detail is often the root of all unhealthy currents | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| One person, at one particular time, sees one detail behind the veil; another, at another time, or | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| exercise a cramped, overintense will on a specific detail could be a great obstacle. Illness has different | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| other types who cannot. Everything else is mere detail and unimportant. A spirit of God will always | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| how wonderfully everything is fitted together, every smallest detail that is visible to you. Then consider how | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| The God in you shall manifest in every detail in your spiritual as well as in your | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| a future date I will describe in greater detail how his main task meant salvation, for he | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| the future I will explain it in more detail. For the present this should suffice to give | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| and care is involved concerning even the smallest detail. The choice of lecture subjects also necessitates a | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| you. Next time, I will go into greater detail concerning the Plan of Salvation in which Jesus | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| role. I will talk about this in more detail the next time. The spheres of darkness first | 21 THE FALL |
| will continue from here and talk in greater detail about the part Jesus Christ has played in | 21 THE FALL |
| which I described some time ago in greater detail, God's plan was ultimately that every single one | 22 SALVATION |
| bit of advice, my friends, on an outer detail. When you sit here or at any time | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| fear. I do not have to go into detail to show you the connection between self-will and | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| understand it in this sense. For every smallest detail has to correspond, because it has a meaning | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| not arbitrary or left to coincidence. For every detail there is a reason. The physical shell grows | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| point I would like to add one more detail. During the time of pregnancy, the attitude of | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| You concentrate, perhaps to excess, on a minor detail, overemphasizing the effect instead of going to the | 36 PRAYER |
| is not merely procreation. That is only one detail. The spiritual idea of marriage is to enable | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| be a temporary crutch, it may be one detail; or rather it may be simply a tool | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| doing is only an incidental result, a mere detail which is part of the outer manifestation. Is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| have discussed tonight. But this is merely a detail of the basic question and attitude. The first | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| each sex. I will explain this in greater detail in the lecture I will give on the | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| main factor is responsible, which varies in extent, detail and manifestation with every individual. When a child | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| development. This may apply to a seemingly unimportant detail, but what is apparently insignificant may be the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| shall attempt to teach this to you in detail next season. In the meantime I will give | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| it was something important or an apparently insignificant detail about your way of life. Did you desist | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| Therefore I shall try to explain this in detail. In previous talks, we discussed the legitimate desire | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| we shall go into that subject in greater detail and discuss how you resort to one wrong | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| is a good reason and purpose for every detail, my friends. The purpose may be a symbol | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| also have to recognize most particularly and in detail what your specific demands and standards are, and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| serenity. I would now like to speak in detail about how they work in the psyche, how | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| I shall take up this subject in more detail now and show you connections you would not | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the wrong attitude we have just discussed in detail. It is a different way of saying that | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| far astray now to go into this in detail. Perhaps at this point the answer can best | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| feelings. About this we shall talk in greater detail a little later. If your pseudo-solution is submissiveness | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| of cause and effect is to the finest detail an organic, infinitely just and harmonious process, a | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| possible to go into the subject in more detail, because you were not ready then, my friends | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| have under control. All other atonement is mere detail in comparison to the atonement of inner change | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| I do not wish to go into more detail on what I said on this subject before | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| often not recognized in its full significance and detail. Displaced needs are transferred just as one might | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| I want to discuss this subject in more detail. These lectures are predominantly destined for those of | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| of daily living, reactions, thoughts, and feelings. This detail work is the most important aspect of the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| as you avoid looking at it closely, in detail. It is always your choice. As long as | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| exist if this were followed through in more detail and with more attention of the self to | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| of your indoctrination. Before we discuss in greater detail why you cling to the painful dualistic state | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| to the other. I discussed this in greater detail several years ago. The significance of this threefold | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| facts, my friends. Before we go into greater detail, let me, first of all, stress that humanity's | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| ego's limitations are. We shall go into greater detail in the future; all I want to say | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| a considerable time before discussing this topic in detail. Most of you, my friends, have sufficiently progressed | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| He may come to understand clearly and in detail that he does so, what the ramifications are | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| But before I will discuss this in greater detail and offer you a key that will make | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| of all life supplies you with every smallest detail of living that is important to you. The | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| course, they are inverted, manifesting negatively. Considering every detail of the situation, expanding the range of your | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| love, growth, both in general and in particular detail. The climate of this may first seem strange | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| of your negative production, without glossing over any detail, any effect, or side-effect. The realization and precise | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| must analyze it exactly and comprehend it in detail to see that it is none of what | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| awareness, and acknowledges it in all its specific detail. This alone will prevent a dangerous indirect manifestation | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| convictions and attitudes must be exposed in exact detail. It seems hard to accept that there is | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| straightened out on all levels and in exact detail: on the levels of conceptualization, perception, and finally | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| is too vast a subject to include in detail in this summary. I have spoken about it | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| In this lecture we shall deal in more detail with the process I recommend in order to | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the secondary guilt. The more you expose every detail of the disparity between your demands, your own | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| into place, as creation does in every tiniest detail, then your creative expression will be less hampered | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| exacting way that you cannot even imagine. Every detail is part of an exacting and intricate equation | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| self-purification. I wish to discuss this now in detail, for there is a great need for it | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| I do not have to go into much detail to show how these roles were not always | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| pathwork. When prayer and meditation were explained in detail and its dynamics taught so that you could | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| image. We shall examine the mass image in detail, from the point of view of our understanding | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| make yourselves channels for God's will in every detail. But some outer guidelines are also necessary. I | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| you, His deep, abiding interest in every smallest detail of your life. As you thus proceed on | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
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| be able to find many more specific and detailed answers. QUESTION: If a person wants to know | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| But I will purposely not give you more detailed information on this. For, on the one hand | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| can give you. Any description, no matter how detailed, would not do it justice. It would be | 101 THE DEFENSE |
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| But even quite developed people, if honest, often detect in themselves some envy, or a slightly malicious | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to avoid self-search. Use your critical faculties to detect the excuses you make only too easily, or | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| therefore the predominant type is more difficult to detect. In the ideal personality, each of the three | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| or bring you a reward. If you can detect this basic error in your images, you will | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| goodwill to apply them to yourself -- to detect the slight emotional flavor in your reactions to | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| Try to see it. And then try to detect how subjective you may have been so far | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| is not genuine. It then becomes difficult to detect by others as well as by the self-searcher | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| when you gratefully enjoy life, because you also detect a slight streak of self-love in this particular | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| ashamed to ask for something, or when you detect an acute feeling of shame about showing your | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| many other conflicts that it is hard to detect. Nevertheless, some of this basic conflict exists in | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you set out to prove. You will also detect that subtle little tendency which strives for conformity | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| But as you recognize these currents, you will detect the current within yourself that says quite clearly | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| emotions will not disappear the moment you first detect them. It is, therefore, part of the road | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the latter, it is much more difficult to detect because the trend is so hidden, so well | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| subtle way that is not always easy to detect, in your marital partners, in your friendships, or | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| self-honesty and awareness to understand this phenomenon and detect the inner error of action and reaction responsible | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| your pleasure drive. Your first step is to detect how much you struggle against death. Become fully | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| If one is honest with oneself, one can detect that little hurtful truths come from a personal | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you are doing. It is not easy to detect them since these attitudes are deeply ingrained and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| but the dishonesty will be less easy to detect, because such a type hides under the rationalization | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| Again, this process is subtle and hard to detect. Even though, theoretically, you may understand it quite | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| wake. This phenomenon may often be difficult to detect. It may also exist only in certain isolated | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| insights will lead to it, so be watchful. Detect where you have an unforgiving attitude that makes | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the other person. This is so hard to detect because intellectually, as you well know, it is | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| learn to do on this path, you will detect the kind of feeling that can best be | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| when you encounter criticism or disapproval. You will detect a hardening, a fearfulness, an apprehension, a desire | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| It may be subtle and not easy to detect, but once you are on the right track | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| will become different. If you can learn to detect, observe, and understand -- and therefore eventually eliminate | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| would be useless, as you know. Strive to detect that fine and subtle current, often at first | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| each one of you. Make yourselves inwardly calm. Detect your fears, your guards, your shames, your embarrassment | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| to use will, concentration, and acute self-observation to detect the subtle -- and sometimes not so subtle | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| first step in such a case is to detect the reaction of fright, or anxiety, or feelings | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| few symptoms by which you may begin to detect the lack of living in the now and | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| In such a moment of discovery, you will detect that you shift your sense of identity from | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| in a subtle way that is difficult to detect. That certainly does not mean that it is | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| cannot fill your being if you do not detect your wrong perceptions. No amount of knowledge you | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| apathy and stagnation. On this path, you often detect how your emotional life either stagnates or is | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| one unit will facilitate matters greatly. Try to detect the hidden fear of your feelings that stems | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| it. Hence it is of utmost importance to detect such hidden erroneous outlooks. It is often forgotten | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| So we must strive on this path to detect as much as possible not only what is | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| creation. It is easy and absolutely feasible to detect the yes-and no-currents within yourself, in your daily | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| When you do so, you are bound to detect the yes-and the no-currents. The yes-current is often | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| inactivate them. Most of you have begun to detect them at least in part. Any goal you | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| playful fantasy, all may be well. You may detect a vague feeling of familiar uneasiness which you | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| of images and childhood lessons. You will now detect the destructive feelings in the service of the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| a substantial part of you is eager to detect, to grow out of, to change the problems | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| does it manifest there? (5) How can I detect the various forms and manifestations of the no-current | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| importance in this phase of the pathwork to detect the subtle climate which causes you to assume | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| be verified by all of you when you detect a slight feeling of anxiety and discomfort at | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| focus your attention on these areas, you may detect a reluctance to let go. What is this | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| flow in the great cosmic stream. You will detect the wonder of life and the wonder of | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| brought this experience to you. Therefore, whenever you detect the shrinking back movement of your soul currents | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| cramp up and shrink into itself, you cannot detect the free-flowing beat of the universe behind your | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the course of self-confrontation, you also begin to detect those subtle little reactions that indicate how you | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| prevent yourself from expansion and delightful experience. You detect your fear of using your potential to the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| cramps will follow quite naturally. You will suddenly detect what you have never felt before: that although | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| perceived at times, once you set out to detect such things. Perhaps you are aware that you | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| are meant to convey. See if you can detect how the role which is supposed to be | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| pitfall, which is all the more difficult to detect because guilt projection is so widespread. Also, the | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| and commit yourself to this truth, you will detect an ugly side in you, which until this | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| were too resistant to see. Simultaneously, you also detect this great, universal, spiritual power that is in | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| already existed long before you were able to detect them. But now, effects become realities in your | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| you listen into your unfeeling numbness, you will detect painful longing and other undesirable feelings. As you | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| focusing within. You must also practice focusing to detect the presence of those soul movements even to | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| the course of your development, turn inward to detect the nature of your soul movements. Determine what | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| listen into your inner self, and if you detect obstructions, you will heed and then deal with | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| and more experiences where this is easy to detect, and fewer and fewer experiences that are a | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| the familiar spiral movement of creation that you detect so often, in many individual forms, on your | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| quite subtle and covert, not so easy to detect. Inwardly, in many activities and directions you subtly | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| is not something easily discovered. You have to detect and then eliminate the places where you eat | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |