| Adventurous.................6 | |
| Since men are by nature more active and adventurous, they tend to be polygamous and are therefore | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| You may discover your fear of the great adventurous journey with another, which will explain why you | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| In cases like this, the one with an adventurous personality is looking and looking, always finding another | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| block to self-facing, to living in the dynamic, adventurous beauty of each Now. It is also the | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| Childlikeness means the capacity to be joyous and adventurous and to find out the excitement of new | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| learning. Education can be intrinsically exciting, enjoyable and adventurous. Instead humans attach to it a mass image | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Adversary...................3 | |
| will be able to talk freely to your adversary, explaining calmly what you feel has been a | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| respective spheres of influence and to frustrate the adversary. The cold war is on. The Iron Curtain | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| again and again: that Christ is the great adversary of Satan. What exists in microcosm within the | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Adverse.....................10 | |
| consciously be in good faith -- the more adverse will be the effect on the law-breaker. The | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| be able to truly convince yourself that nothing adverse happens to you. As long as this abyss | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| handle the good happenings no better than the adverse ones. Both need wisdom, maturity, and the spiritual | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| resentful. All this struggle contributes strongly to the adverse result of people not loving you, whereas you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you are thinking of affects them, it has adverse results for you, whether you realize it now | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| to pleasurable overindulgence. It too will have no adverse effect on the child's psyche if no corresponding | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| confront them, that is effective. It has no adverse effect on you. It must, in the long | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| on it goes. These inner impurities have no adverse effect on you if you are truly conscious | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| repressed -- and this repressed terror has additional adverse effects on the personality, which becomes more and | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to self-realization, just as dealing with the outer adverse conditions in your world must never be the | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Adversely...................10 | |
| extent you understand why you have reacted so adversely to certain subtle manifestations of the wrong kind | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you. On the contrary, it will affect you adversely because something like a short circuit occurs when | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| are inverted by suppression and therefore affect you adversely, but meanwhile you also overcultivate another part in | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| in yourself. This explains how you could be adversely affected. Even those of my friends who have | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| Such an unconscious concept will affect marriage more adversely than any other human relationship. Some of the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| selfish motives induce you to act them out, adversely affecting your surroundings. The guilt then may make | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| or you can allow it to influence you adversely. This applies not only to unhappy incidents, but | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| vice versa. It is unthinkable that anything that adversely affects you does not affect others as well | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| care if their actions and attitudes affect others adversely. The abuse of the laws may be on | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| negative action and reaction pattern which affects others adversely. The misconception is fixed and frozen in the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Adversities.................3 | |
| up to the Divine Law of accepting life's adversities without becoming pessimistic and negative. There is a | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| be practiced within one's soul. To accept life's adversities does not mean to take a dark view | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| disharmonious feeling you have in connection with the adversities in your personal life will prove to you | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| Adversity...................5 | |
| testing, trials, faith in God in times of adversity, crucifixion of the personal ego with its vanity | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| not fear the darkness. Only by going through adversity courageously will I be able to bear happiness | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| experienced. The healthy soul will not call forth adversity because it has the inner will to be | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| wish to escape from life in any way. Adversity in any form is in reality a response | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| notion that you are helpless and beaten by adversity. Even the popular belief in God can contribute | 254 SURRENDER |
| Advertising.................5 | |
| my friends? QUESTION: How would that apply to advertising? ANSWER: This does not exactly fit into the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| If an individual takes what he learns from advertising as reality, then what might happen is that | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| about, although it can also be influenced by advertising, is something that existed long before advertising. In | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| by advertising, is something that existed long before advertising. In other words, advertising is not actually the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| that existed long before advertising. In other words, advertising is not actually the cause of it, but | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| Advice......................101 | |
| this path, you also need outside help and advice so that you can remove the first stones | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| this way every day, with outer help and advice without which the work cannot progress at first | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| rather to develop spiritually and to accept spirit advice when you know without doubt that it is | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| higher beings, speaks its wishes and listens to advice. Then there are the different spheres of purification | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| wish to give you, my friends, some simple advice, in order that you may know how to | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| escape in this seemingly harmless way, but my advice is not to let yourselves be tempted, because | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| selection of a lecture subject and for the advice given to certain individuals, as well as for | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| also take my opinions, my experiences, and my advice into consideration. I have a number of helpers | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| if these initial steps are taken. So my advice is this: First, think about what, in relation | 21 THE FALL |
| Here it is my very strong and definite advice that it should never be undertaken without God | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I would be very happy, occasionally, to give advice in a more specific form. Thank you. QUESTION | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| case I would like to give you special advice and I will need a little time -- | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| possibly be solved by one answer or simple advice I could give you now. This you must | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for yourself by trying and by following my advice. My advice to begin with is: Meditate upon | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| by trying and by following my advice. My advice to begin with is: Meditate upon the words | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| there can be no further success. Therefore, my advice is to not try for the moment to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you have kept to yourself without hearing good advice, will cause it to all of a sudden | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| higher spirits may be trying to give certain advice or hints about personal errors, as well as | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| open for such words and will reject all advice and hints as untrue. Since free will is | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| this path, simply by following some of my advice, simply by reading these lectures, or simply by | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| and I have given you various tasks and advice on how to go about it and how | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| of you who have followed through with my advice concerning the first conscious layer, try now to | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| few are chosen. Here is another bit of advice, my friends, on an outer detail. When you | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| one person who cannot put into practice this advice in a thousand little ways every day. This | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| comparatively easily. I have often given you the advice to listen within you where your solar plexus | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| earth sphere, you will receive instruction, guidance, and advice in the spirit world when your body is | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| does not give you a single piece of advice. Your spirit suffers when you act against its | 31 SHAME |
| things become difficult for you. This is my advice for my dear, beloved friends. I should like | 31 SHAME |
| sort of preoccupation should not only heed the advice of shifting the emphasis from the self to | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| acknowledged in yourself the doubting part, follow this advice: Know that it is God's grace when this | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| the right to accept or to reject the advice according to its own free will. Should the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| own free will. Should the entity reject the advice and then, after the next incarnation, find out | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| an unnecessarily difficult life, perhaps even against the advice of an angel of God. Consider that, my | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Whenever a friend has a problem and needs advice, offer your help regardless of whether this person | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| yourselves, I shall be willing to give you advice to show you the way. Such an activity | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| world that advise particular, separate concentration exercises. My advice however is that prayer and concentration exercises can | 36 PRAYER |
| make your images conscious. I can give you advice on how to begin, but you will not | 38 IMAGES |
| will facilitate matters greatly. And now some further advice about finding your images. The task is hard | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| independence as free children of God. My first advice, my dear friends, is, once you have found | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| would be much further advanced. It is my advice for all those who are still struggling on | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| may even lack the courage to ask for advice and help. Therefore it may be wise to | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| so. I would like to give the following advice to you, my friends: Think of the people | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| more on the side of the law-upholder, my advice is this, my friends: think back to your | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| not deal with the question of asking the advice or the opinion of other people. That also | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| lecture on authority, could you give any further advice to a person who finds that with a | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| real problem and decide for the operation. This advice does not only apply to taking this path | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| my dear friends. And now a little more advice for your work on image-finding. What I have | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| and one of your brothers or sisters, my advice is that you become an advocate in his | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| one, instead of for yourself. That is my advice. It will be a very good exercise, the | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| to lose your fear and your selfishness. My advice, dear friends, is that when you have a | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| bondage principle is at work. It is my advice for anyone on this path to look for | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| how and why. Then they may accept the advice or they may not. Still, their wish is | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| causes. If an entity stubbornly refuses to take advice, he will just naturally fall into the channels | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do it now and sometimes they accept the advice. If they do not, they are allowed some | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and they may or may not accept the advice. Only when their choice is too obviously against | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| joyful event. Now just one more word of advice concerning your work in self-search. Many of you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| at a certain place, receiving certain information, or advice, or teaching. In fact, it rarely happens that | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you will choose to accept part of the advice of one physician and reject another part. You | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and reject another part. You will interpret the advice in the right way. Lack of intellectual understanding | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on this subject. Most of the help and advice is rather superficial because the basic realities are | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| I was wondering if there is some general advice you could give to those who, before coming | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| different matter. Spirits are often inclined to take advice from their dear ones on earth rather than | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in our work together. Try to follow my advice and do this exercise. Also try to think | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| do. I should like to give some further advice about the concentration exercises. I must observe that | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| there also be physical causes? ANSWER: No. My advice here is not to work and concentrate on | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| purity adopts the childlike attitude Jesus recommended. Jesus' advice to become as little children praises children's willingness | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| has to be individually found and applied. My advice is to ask yourself, How do I really | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| strongest. Pursue, persist, and persevere! This is my advice, my friends. I also advise you to ask | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| able to handle them. This is the best advice for you in this respect. Find in yourself | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| indirectly, requiring a keen eye for detection. My advice is: do not labor to find this phenomenon | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| but you will also trust God. So my advice is, do not search for God in churches | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a general answer. It is completely individual. My advice is, in order to determine whether or not | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| of your daydreaming can bring many benefits. My advice to you on this path is that whenever | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| that has much more value than simply following advice. Then your spirit will be in it. This | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| a warding off against further insight. If this advice is followed, the hurt will diminish, while a | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| your real reactions to them. It is my advice to my friends who work in this intensive | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Yes. That is right. But, my friends, my advice is: Do not try to label it. Labeling | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the self. I should like to give specific advice in this respect. First of all, keep your | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| He confuses flexibility, adjustability, the ability to take advice with weakness, and rigid stubbornness with strength. He | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| will be experienced by anyone who follows this advice. Again, I emphasize, no one needs to blindly | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| inner enemy -- the No. As for immediate advice on how to proceed: Take any of the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| and liberation so far! When you follow this advice, you will truly make the transformation from a | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| deeply right from any point of view. Its advice leaves in you no trace of doubt or | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| further help. Last summer you helped with some advice concerning her guilts. She has found it to | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| This is what makes her so frantic. The advice that may help her over the present muddle | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| change into one of fullness and inclusiveness. My advice is to examine your winner/loser conflict as your | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| an ultimate fate of suffering and deprivation. The advice to learn to let go of control implies | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| You may pull yourself together and follow this advice and, indeed, experience the most favorable result. But | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| you could be helped by following other people's advice and authority so that heavenly bliss will descend | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the positive aspect of this threefold principle. My advice is to acknowledge this fact and let go | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| having already made substantial progress in self-discovery, my advice to all of you is: to the degree | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| neither submissive nor rebellious. You consider ideas or advice from others for what they are and either | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Repeat such experiences at intervals. This is my advice. And now we shall start with tonight's lecture | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| so that it can send forth warnings, disagreement, advice -- and then leave the decision of whether | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| decision of whether or not to follow such advice to the outer personality. This is already a | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| must, like everything else, be gone through. My advice is that you challenge that fear, and at | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| it. For this particular juncture, I have special advice. I suggest you take two approaches, both of | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| and on helping you through guidance, inspiration and advice, to alternate from level to level. At one | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| His presence, nor can you hear His guidance, advice and loving inspiration. Thus you cannot summon up | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| lecture goes, of course, way beyond the factual advice at the end of it. You need to | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| call the opening of your channel. You receive advice, encouragement, words intended to give you courage and | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |