| Efficiency..................3 | |
| order and organization God's spirit world is! The efficiency of the spirits who are trained expertly for | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| you may attain a comparatively high degree of efficiency in these exercises by mere discipline, while neglecting | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| faculties only -- and they are secondary in efficiency. When healthy emotions make your intuition reliable, there | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| Efficient...................5 | |
| way, it is not a thorough or an efficient way. There is then always a discrepancy that | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| recognition of a fact. Outer reforms, regardless how efficient, will work lastingly only when more people do | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| As such you protect yourself in an incredibly efficient way against the onslaught of the countermovement. You | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| yourself and then become resentful. You are quite efficient in creating cases that are supposed to substantiate | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| undertaken without God, no matter how intelligent and efficient it may seem at first, is bound to | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Efficiently.................5 | |
| as a sideline you might say, but more efficiently than you can imagine. You will get exactly | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| development and what serves the Great Plan most efficiently and not what may be sensational and phenomenal | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| Plan of Salvation could not function properly or efficiently. By the same token, very high spirits also | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| work can be done mechanically and yet relatively efficiently, though it can also be a creative act | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| People learned to take care of themselves more efficiently. The need then arose to widen the circle | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Effort......................372 | |
| and often it takes a great deal of effort to find the truth at all. For a | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| is rather painful. It is just this extra effort that God wants everybody to make. The last | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| inner search and also true inner will and effort. For if you lack happiness in any area | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| confusion. You must do so by your own effort, by your personal spiritual endeavor, by your increasing | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| to make a decision until, after more personal effort, you are ready to take the right course | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| earth. The spirit knows that only through spiritual effort can its spiritual knowledge penetrate its intellect; but | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| the reward is great and truly blissful; the effort is worth it. When the spirit world recognizes | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| I will take the time and the little effort to reflect upon these things and open myself | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| too much to devote a little time and effort every day to look into yourself, to find | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| currents to mingle in the unconscious, without the effort to really getting to know oneself. Such state | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| not cost you personal sacrifice or any great effort -- and this is the crux of the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| be for you to exert a greater spiritual effort and, if you do, you will receive the | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| way that will require from you greater spiritual effort to understand it; the purpose may be for | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| of something, to overcome something with a great effort. You see this in the beginning only as | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| over to humans easily and simply, without any effort on their part. God's spirit world must test | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| more important. First you need to make the effort to receive spiritual nourishment: desire it. That is | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| and partly because it takes too great an effort to bring about inner change. Deep inside you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| to the other; neither can it happen without effort. The spiritual core gives out signals, spurring you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| enough. You need the willpower, you need unceasing effort, but your power alone is just as insufficient | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| invested in her profession just as much time, effort, and energy as any other professional person -- | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| avail themselves of the medium's help, time, and effort, should, as a matter of course, wish to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| to help you avoid a little bit of effort to find out. They answer only those questions | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| human beings do not want to make the effort involved in developing yourselves and often you, or | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| and other sudden measures supposed to eliminate the effort of slow growth are in accordance with the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| permanent grows slowly with a maximum of personal effort, little by little. As the process unfolds, you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| paid for happiness. The price is all the effort one has to make on the path: self-knowledge | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| quite a long time and a combination of effort and patience, you can become aware of your | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| lower self does not want to make any effort, it does not want any change, and it | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| it means that I have to use willpower, effort, patience -- and, perhaps, suffer some pain? Self-recognition | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to let it out. It takes time and effort before you can deal with it properly in | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| it takes a great deal of time and effort to uncover them. It would not occur to | 18 FREE WILL |
| these data demands trained experts, working with unceasing effort, foresight, and thorough knowledge of divine law, as | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| But at the beginning it will require considerable effort to guard against your lower self that tries | 21 THE FALL |
| the temptations of Lucifer, who put the greatest effort imaginable into his goal to cause Christ to | 22 SALVATION |
| can only grow in constant endeavor, in constant effort. Nothing can be accomplished any other way, nothing | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| perfection quickly without having spent much time and effort. This search is the first and most important | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| self-delusion, utter severance with the little ego, time, effort, patience, perseverance, and courage. What you will receive | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you all you have in honesty, willpower, and effort. I want to say something else to you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| your inability to change something by a mere effort of will. All this is necessary on your | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| if you are still weak, perhaps the smallest effort will be sufficient for you. At any rate | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| believe that a certain amount of time and effort for your spiritual development will take too much | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| your other activities, thus diminishing the strength, time, effort, and zest that would otherwise be available to | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| lessons that might rob you of time and effort you could give to other necessary of desirable | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| certainly not happen when you merely put more effort and concentration on the outer problem alone, instead | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| courage to do that. Consider this your first effort to overcome a little bit of your pride | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of higher development acquire. What counts is the effort to overcome one's lower self. Whether the lower | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| that any of you possess, is immaterial. The effort counts. Therefore, atheistic souls such as the ones | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| one day to another or without making an effort on your own behalf. If your present situation | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| in the same way. The same work or effort is not expected of everyone. But the one | 31 SHAME |
| into concise thoughts, but it needs a little effort. Your emotions claim perfection before this perfection can | 31 SHAME |
| you are and refuse to make the inner effort to become what you want to be. So | 31 SHAME |
| a certain phase is reached. The greater the effort and the apparent difficulty of recognizing the call | 31 SHAME |
| affect you so that what was once an effort will cease to be one. This will be | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| shown you here. Realize that you must put effort into anything when you want to reap the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| course you do. You should not muster this effort because you are being told to do so | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| willpower, a readiness to pay the price in effort, a desire to work, to serve in the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to a human being if he makes an effort to attain a personal contact with the Spirit | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| in this case the scientists, make the necessary effort. Effort is always an integral part and constitutes | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| this case the scientists, make the necessary effort. Effort is always an integral part and constitutes the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| by an individual or a group. If the effort is not made on the human side, if | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| World of God. You yourself should make an effort to remain in touch with it in your | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| fulfill for this group, but also through every effort you make toward your own purification process. So | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| it would if you were to make the effort to overcome such vanity and pride. All faults | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| faults bar the way to divine grace; every effort to overcome the slightest fault opens a door | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| of every day to prayer, making a disciplined effort to concentrate on others and expressing unselfish desires | 36 PRAYER |
| This, of course, is unconscious reasoning. The conscious effort to overcome the fault remains fruitless because the | 38 IMAGES |
| never too late and always well worth the effort! Your remaining years will mean a different kind | 38 IMAGES |
| emotions, long-conditioned to follow a distortion, takes time, effort, and patience. So, as one school of thought | 38 IMAGES |
| requires a great deal of training, concentration, and effort. New habit patterns have to be established until | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| come to you cheaply. It is worth every effort, every conceivable sacrifice, for then you truly master | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| inertia. The routine-bound person will naturally and without effort get rid of static habits. The erotic force | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| makes good sense. Changing even superficial opinions requires effort and humility. Changing thoughts that have no emotional | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| that it will take quite a bit of effort and searching on your part to begin to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| up what would take much more time and effort to eliminate. You are too impatient and also | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| can be expected. It requires all of their effort to do just that. It is all they | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| does so because it does not entail personal effort. Wouldn't that be easy! But no, such salvation | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| be an incentive to redoubling your intention and effort to break down your resistance to facing yourself | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| personally is not important enough to make an effort for - - in this case the effort | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| effort for - - in this case the effort to think independently for the sake of truth | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| find your part. If you make half the effort you usually make when finding other's faults to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| in your inner growth. When you make an effort to go forward, to use your energy, to | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| be for you until the next period of effort and outgoing movement is to start again. But | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| on a path of self-finding. It takes time, effort, and extremely good intent to bring what is | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| The first time it may call for great effort on your part, but each time you try | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| a time, it takes a great deal of effort indeed to bring the connection out into the | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| A part of the price is the constant effort you waste in trying to force life into | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| you could but see all the inner, emotional effort, you would shudder, because all this strength could | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| of a guilt feeling, which stifles your determined effort to find out more about yourself, seems to | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| that salvation comes through work, through self-search, through effort and through the finding of images to be | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Christ exempted the individual from personal work and effort. Quite the contrary is true. It is very | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will will function. You will let go without effort. You will find that the defense mechanism, the | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the patience, the perseverance and the relaxed, continued effort in this direction, you do the only thing | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have to take up much time. Some regular effort is necessary, however. To become master over your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| to them that so much time, strength, and effort is wasted. If your time, strength, and effort | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| effort is wasted. If your time, strength, and effort are not utilized in constructive thoughts or occupation | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| that are unconsciously set up in a deliberate effort to prevent real insight. You allow yourself to | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| it possibly be that by a comparatively superficial effort your inner life would so change that outer | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| change you wish. To determine the relationship of effort to desired change, you need maximum honesty with | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| deceive the self by shifting the emphasis of effort into another direction. For instance, some people put | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| instance, some people put a great deal of effort into some work they may do for others | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| someone may use a great deal of outer effort in order to camouflage his or her inner | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| Hence, any theories which proclaim that a little effort of spiritual and psychological work will either exempt | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| favorable change in return for a minimum of effort in facing yourself and in the willingness to | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| thinking, and a wishful thinking that with minimum effort, maximum effect can be had. Many people belong | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not resist. Moreover, maintaining your illusions requires strenuous effort on your part. Illusion always causes tension and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| strain, for it cannot stand by itself. The effort to maintain your illusions causes many vicious circles | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| should also like to know whether the persistent effort of humanity so far was in order to | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| lectures. This means, of course, a very serious effort in self-search. It is not enough to hear | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| similarity of the pain. However, this requires considerable effort, for there are many overlaying emotions that cover | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| world thank each human being who makes an effort toward purification and development. Every effort in this | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| makes an effort toward purification and development. Every effort in this direction counts in the total plan | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| and knowledge of self-search should make an honest effort to find his or her own obstructions. In | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| separateness they are turned back. After the initial effort of streaming out, reaching the cosmos, and teaching | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| sometimes be a difficult, laborious task. It needs effort. You have to think. Perhaps you have to | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| wish its perfected state without the labor and effort of cultivating it. Insight into one's hidden desires | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a certain way. Further insight resulting from uninterrupted effort and perseverance will eventually change this. All that | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| prove tedious, but it certainly is worth the effort because it helps to liberate the spring of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| dreams, and if you take the time and effort, you can find out sometimes even by yourself | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| be impatient if it takes time and relaxed effort. One more word: The difference between the real | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| or because everything that comes naturally and without effort does not appear real. You are so conditioned | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| self -- which comes only after the sustained effort of discovering and understanding your idealized self -- | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| However, since feelings cannot be controlled by an effort of will, you cannot simply influence and control | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for all of you. Throughout the ages divine effort was focused on conveying true religion to humankind | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| stronger authority than yourself in order to avoid effort and responsibility, you cannot help feeling self-hate and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| will be paved by your own attitude and effort. This is the only way you can let | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| proposition. It takes a great deal more time, effort and pain to achieve the latter. Unfortunately, this | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| thorny and involved and it takes all your effort to work yourself out of the thick shrubbery | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| logical and reasonable that the struggle and the effort have to be yours, if you wish to | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| easy to read -- it may take time, effort, patience, and a great deal of real inner | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| you have for this language and how much effort you make. QUESTION: In our last session, a | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| the more feeling will quite naturally, and without effort, go to the other person and thus convey | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| -- in other words, by outer authority. This effort, be it ever so subtle, causes and leads | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| in a state of half-sleep. It takes time, effort, concentration, and training to wake up and become | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| about, then such answers cannot come. Hence conscious effort has to be made most of the time | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| they can feel. But they can make an effort to pinpoint them. In such cases the predominant | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| you do have, and on the will and effort that is put into the relationship. But, generally | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| certain ways in order to take away the effort of man. He realizes that God is. This | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| sense of utter drabness, where everything becomes an effort and you would rather do nothing at all | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| look at your reactions. You can make the effort to use will, concentration, and acute self-observation to | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| your heart cannot feel for them. Therefore any effort at atonement is dutiful, something you do because | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| really were. This often took considerable time and effort on your part, and you were probably shocked | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| this experience whenever you do not shirk the effort of looking deep into yourselves until you discover | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| to clarify them further, provided you take the effort of searching together for what you wish to | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| than the one who may actually exert less effort in the direction of individual development, but is | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| not consume you and leave you depleted. No effort is required to allow what is in you | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| be happy and secure. They can avoid the effort of obtaining it themselves. The illusion is very | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| did not want to go through all the effort of becoming responsible for your life, and that | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| easier to cope with because they require less effort for the truth to penetrate. But the seemingly | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| rationalizations pose the real dangers: they require sincere effort and the cultivation of truthfulness. Each one of | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| pondering what the other's needs are, or the effort to establish mutual understanding. Though to a very | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the most fulfilling one. But it does require effort, thought, the willingness to sacrifice, activity, and many | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |