| Effortful...................5 | |
| totally unified entity. The stagnation is really very effortful, because it requires an enormous and often unconscious | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| All life is movement, and movement is not effortful when the entity is in harmony with life | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| in harmony with life. But movement seems temporarily effortful until this harmony has been established by reorienting | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| a strained effort. Activity is strained, tiring and effortful only if it does not contain the receptive | 228 BALANCE |
| healthy, organic way, it is neither depleting nor effortful. It is a release and a liberation that | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Effortless..................38 | |
| next incarnation would say, We cannot give you effortless unfolding of the spirit. On the basis of | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| were not so unreasonable that it wished for effortless change, you would be much further advanced. It | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| not wish it. At this stage effort becomes effortless. It is joyful movement in beautiful rhythm. It | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| your own momentum, so that you swing into effortless effort to further your development, the removal of | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| removal of your fences, your self-unfoldment and self-expression. Effortless effort should become the movement of this path | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| a lot of effort, but it was not effortless -- I can see that. She was frantic | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| it your own, for this strength is an effortless strength. By knowing the truth, you must discover | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| seems so tempting. It appears to be the effortless state that the soul longs for. Or movement | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| and anxious holding on but through a harmonious, effortless movement which increases awareness of the power each | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| from your center, where love is a natural, effortless stream that flows as gracefully as any natural | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| healthy activity you undertake is relaxed, easy, and effortless, which seem to be passive qualities. In healthy | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| contracts like breathing -- is rhythmic and relaxed, effortless yet vibrating with power, poised and calm, peaceful | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| into it. In fact, the real self is effortless. Wherever it manifests, effort exists, but it is | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| it manifests, effort exists, but it is always effortless effort. This, too, may appear a contradiction. Let | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| in your life. Whatever was truly pleasurable, inspired, effortless, fearless, creative, and deeply joyful was precisely due | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| are, the less strenuous moving is. Movement becomes effortless and self-perpetuating. A very secure and pleasurable relationship | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| inner guidance will manifest itself as a natural, effortless phenomenon. What are the three levels of reality | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| in to the compulsion. Real growth leads to effortless, spontaneous change that comes so naturally that it | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| that they seem more natural. The positive is effortless. Offhand it seems that to abandon the negative | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| faculties finally manifest, the new skill becomes an effortless, natural part of you. On the physical level | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| physical or mental skills. The first appearance of effortless, spontaneous unification will be incomplete. It will disappear | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| to understand all this, my friends. To recapitulate, effortless and spontaneous unification is the result of effort | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| that life gives you becomes more and more effortless and self-perpetuating. When you look closely, you will | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| but once the process is flowing, it is effortless. The more you bring forth of the universal | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| It has totally different characteristics from the spontaneous, effortless influx of creative ideas. Human beings are uncreative | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| the area of human relationships. The creative, spontaneous, effortless experience that initially brings two people together in | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| universe consists of the harmonious mutual interplay between effortless creative imagination and execution, which always requires labor | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| self make the new acquisitions a spontaneous, living, effortless experience. Ego means effort; spiritual self means effortlessness | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| faith, courage, and humility until the effort becomes effortless. Spiritual movement is effortless. By spiritual movement I | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| until the effort becomes effortless. Spiritual movement is effortless. By spiritual movement I mean the movement of | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| by the spirit. Your living becomes a spontaneous, effortless flow. QUESTION: In what way was this path | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| recognizing these soul movements, such recognition will be effortless and quite natural, without deliberate focusing and concentrating | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| falsity -- in this case that non-movement is effortless and movement is struggle. In reality, the effort | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| hours of practice that make his playing finally effortless, so must God-inspired people work on their purification | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| action. But this putting into action is harmonious, effortless, not like a cramp. When your mind is | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the active movement becomes what I sometimes term effortless effort. It is not a strained effort. Activity | 228 BALANCE |
| if they could think of effort in this effortless way, coming through the cohesion and conciliation with | 228 BALANCE |
| you have action and effort that are relaxed, effortless and calm. And you have receptivity that is | 228 BALANCE |
| Effortlessly................14 | |
| experience without feeling harassed, and the bliss of effortlessly, steadily growing. This happiness cannot be described. All | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| This is a spontaneous process that comes quite effortlessly. But first you must pull your thoughts together | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| life is most successful. Things go smoothly and effortlessly. In fact, you no longer have to make | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| have to struggle. Desirable results come by themselves, effortlessly and harmoniously, never creating problems or conflict. The | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| an indirect way. In this indirection life happens effortlessly, yet you are not a passive recipient. Things | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| Work coming forth from a healthy organism flows effortlessly, while leisure cannot possibly be invigorating and revitalizing | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| obstructions dissolve so that things fall naturally and effortlessly into place and a meaningful life establishes itself | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| If the ego does not interfere, self-regulation occurs effortlessly and naturally. Again, the ego has its role | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| -- in the misapplied knowledge that growth manifests effortlessly as if by itself -- they too are | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| hostile defiance. She will be able to change effortlessly when she finds that, perhaps in a concealed | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| by immature self- centeredness. The balance will be effortlessly achieved when the see-saw law is deeply experienced | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| the emphasis is not balanced. The result appears effortlessly, a manifestation of involuntary faculties responding to voluntary | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| confused mind. True restfulness is always alive and effortlessly moving. This is impossible in a state of | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| will a new sense of timelessness evolve spontaneously, effortlessly, when you least expect it. It will come | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Effortlessness..............4 | |
| will find the right distribution of effort and effortlessness, the right balance of voluntary and involuntary faculties | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| effortless experience. Ego means effort; spiritual self means effortlessness. This desirable effortlessness is not given by magic | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| means effort; spiritual self means effortlessness. This desirable effortlessness is not given by magic, however, for this | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| in staying behind and resisting the movement, while effortlessness, ease and inner relaxation lie in the harmony | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| Efforts.....................143 | |
| Many people waste this strength either in useless efforts which build nothing that is of spiritual value | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| unconscious emotional currents. After a certain time these efforts of daily self-finding, retrospection, meditation, prayer, and resolutions | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| with courage and the knowledge that all your efforts are of the greatest benefit. Nothing that you | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| reaches its completion, the pure beings use their efforts to help others with their particular strengths. The | 21 THE FALL |
| you now have the possibility by your own efforts and development to cross the threshold. In that | 22 SALVATION |
| goes on and you do not lessen your efforts -- which should never be tense -- you | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so far incapable of feeling. Instead, use your efforts in the direction of making that part of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| not have enough strength left for your professional efforts and thus fear that your finances may suffer | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| your daily prayer to help you further. These efforts are a wonderful beginning for everyone. They will | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| need a particular revelation, but with your good efforts and God's help enlisted in prayer, you will | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| contrary. For it needs the greatest and freest efforts of willpower to decide to live within spiritual | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| be yours. You place yourself higher than the efforts you have so far taken would warrant. At | 31 SHAME |
| price that could perhaps only be paid by efforts that needed ambition. Spiritually, a lack of ambition | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| and thus peace of mind without making serious efforts to overcome this basic hindrance, you are actually | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| Spiritually highly developed people may use all their efforts in self-sacrifice for others, helping them to the | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| spiritual law that demands that you direct your efforts where they can bring true results: toward yourself | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| change. You can never change another; therefore, your efforts are lost in this direction. You can, however | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| in soul development by his or her own efforts. Another aspect of faith is this: There are | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| through this human person only because of her efforts. If she refused to sit down here, I | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| in touch with it in your thoughts, your efforts, and in your times of inner quietness. Continue | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| soul that cannot be maintained without your unceasing efforts. You will then learn to realize, deeply, that | 36 PRAYER |
| to make this inflow possible through your own efforts. Just as your negative reactions and thoughts create | 36 PRAYER |
| not hurry. Results develop organically out of immediate efforts and needs. If you pray for all this | 36 PRAYER |
| dear friends. Most of you have made serious efforts on your path of development, and the spirit | 38 IMAGES |
| the more you will exhaust yourself in useless efforts. The symptoms are merely one part of the | 38 IMAGES |
| are so elusive that in spite of your efforts, your old patterns may go right on and | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| most perfect treasure can come easily. But your efforts, as many of my friends have already found | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| friends, for most of you have made serious efforts. Your efforts have borne fruit, although you cannot | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| most of you have made serious efforts. Your efforts have borne fruit, although you cannot always fully | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| short a time, due to your very real efforts. Do not let up. By all means continue | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| are deeply grateful to God for your good efforts, for your growth. It is our greatest joy | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| be brought forth is the result of important efforts, which in turn are a sign that a | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| destroyed has to be regenerated by your own efforts in facing yourself, in overcoming your resistance and | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| light should realize that every one of your efforts helps us in turn, and for this we | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| aware of your pride before, but after some efforts on this path you discover, perhaps with a | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| rebel. Nor do you have to make painful efforts in an attempt to gain something that is | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| Spirit World is due to your past good efforts. It is a positive chain reaction. If your | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You will earn this privilege by your own efforts in this direction, for, as you well know | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has not been really successful. Since then, woman's efforts to assert her equality with man have often | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| of a Savior or through a person's own efforts? ANSWER: I answered that. I said it cannot | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of separation. It must happen through your own efforts. If the spirits were to do what you | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hindrance. Once you have gained it through your efforts, it remains with you at all times. It | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| new approach does not mean lessening of one's efforts in the old direction. You are all fully | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| without simply because you have made some small efforts? Doesn't it seem more realistic, and therefore more | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| major changes from within? To accomplish that, your efforts must be directly related to the change you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| gives you in finding yourself always exceeds your efforts, once you really and unconditionally decide for it | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| really and unconditionally decide for it. But your efforts must be wholehearted and transcendent. If the difficulties | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of the work, nor the value of your efforts can be determined by the fact that troubles | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| characteristics. And also, they emerge out of your efforts on the path. As to your second question | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| stubborn. If it continues to resist your good efforts, there must be something present that you have | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| forces. You have no idea how important the efforts and endeavors of every single human being are | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| in the spirit world thank you for your efforts, not only on our behalf, but on behalf | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| cannot be measured by the human eye. The efforts and understanding of a handful of such people | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| already fully ripe. Because you use all your efforts in concentrating on these false or unripe values | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| what you could easily obtain by your own efforts. When religion is a substitute, it may help | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| renewed strength you receive, mainly due to your efforts, enable you to know, accept, and like yourself | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| actions and attitude to obtain improvement through one's efforts, courage, and humility. There is a subtle but | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| experience is almost always the result of serious efforts in the right direction, and these in turn | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| direction, and these in turn must produce further efforts. Moreover, it is certainly not easy to judge | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| amount of understanding; or not letting up on efforts of self- observation and taking account of one's | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a good way not to give up one's efforts in the right direction. QUESTION: How does a | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| see the truth, that it depends on your efforts and willingness, then prayer is very useful. There | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| could have to some degree if he made efforts in certain directions. The real need for being | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| be so frantic. Do not believe that your efforts, commendable and advisable as they are, depend on | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| the availability of such relief will hamper your efforts at finding the cause and effect of your | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| every one of you. Blessed are your wonderful efforts. Rejoice in the knowledge that whatever you do | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| and later to increase it, depends on your efforts, your inner will, and your overcoming the ever-present | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| you. Blessed is your path. Blessed are your efforts. We have discussed your defense mechanisms repeatedly. We | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| where you experience, as the result of your efforts, the manifestation of the real self. Yet, you | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| negative result. You will be stymied in your efforts, and will experience failure and frustration. Often you | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you. Blessed is this hour. Blessed are your efforts. Blessed is your work. Before I turn to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| suffering and confusion so much as your own efforts in this direction. The sincere desire to face | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| human being helps toward that end. No one's efforts at self-honesty are beneficial only for himself. Incidentally | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| it does not wish to overcome, to make efforts, to cope with people and their demands; to | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| you. Blessed is this evening. Blessed are your efforts. Since you have many questions prepared, the short | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the real self calls for all of one's efforts, concentration, and will power? How then, is it | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| know that they were always connected with such efforts on your part. And to those of you | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| gradually and systematically remove it by your own efforts: this is the conscious process of self-confrontation. Waiting | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| a moment believe that because of these past efforts you will not have to go through the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| development? Is growth possible without it? Are my efforts sufficient, or could I do more? If I | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| Blessings for all of you. Blessed be your efforts, your progress, and your life as a whole | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| May all of you who make such valiant efforts in self-confrontation realize how meaningful and significant these | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| in self-confrontation realize how meaningful and significant these efforts are. Continue -- all of you! Life will | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| every one of you, so that your continuous efforts will be strengthened, so as to become freer | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| and self-unfoldment. All of you who make serious efforts to overcome your inborn resistance to facing and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| all this, it is necessary to renew your efforts in daily detection of the no-current at work | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the keen one-pointed attention you can muster, your efforts must be crowned with success, and eventually you | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| cries and trembles, the underlying No defeats all efforts and makes the entire process truly hopeless. Many | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| from self-delusion. He or she may make good efforts in areas of lesser importance, but refuses to | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| you, present and absent. Blessed are your further efforts on this path, now and in the times | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| your personal world falls into disorder. Our common efforts to uncover the untruth that caused the disorder | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| must do no more than sustain your own efforts. The initiative toward growth must always come from | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| without strain, you let the result of your efforts come to you. A major distinguishing point in | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| hopeless, at the point of giving up your efforts because your struggle does not bring relief. You | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| not. For if the ego is underdeveloped, your efforts to compensate create a weakness and evasion that | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| are the universal love, responding to your valiant efforts of self-expansion. Be in peace, be in God | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| though it had nothing to do with these efforts, as if it were a byproduct, an unconnected | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| within you that will help you in your efforts. Go on, do not let up in this | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| here. This blessing is the result of your efforts, your growth, your struggle in the right direction | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| wrong conviction, you do not understand why your efforts do not work out. You become more and | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| to unveil, in spite of all your good efforts. Yet, as long as you cannot meet yourself | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| make yourself noticed than when you make positive efforts. So your salvation seems to lie in others | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| of trying to love with your ego. These efforts exhaust you, and the more exhausted you are | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| I mean that you must, of course, make efforts. You must overcome resistance in order to face | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| for this hour, but for all the subsequent efforts, endeavors, and steps on your path. Provided these | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| endeavors, and steps on your path. Provided these efforts are sincere and whole, they must lead you | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| from others. It cannot work that way. All efforts to attain liberation and well-being require equal attention | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| though something were holding you back, paralyzing your efforts. Although there are often a number of other | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you are able to find through your own efforts and resources your own shelter, food, affection, and | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| by pressuring an outer source with all your efforts. The emphasis must shift. If you insist that | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| the result of the unstrained, natural, poised outer efforts. But when people expect direct and visible manifestations | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| people expect direct and visible manifestations of their efforts to come immediately, they misunderstand the process. Such | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| are partly the result of your sincere good efforts and of the love feelings that are here | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| change and give up dishonest patterns. All these efforts and attitudes bring a result -- but the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| in the most vital way in your further efforts to find your true nature and thus your | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| life. This will never mean giving up your efforts; on the contrary. But your efforts will be | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| up your efforts; on the contrary. But your efforts will be more relaxed, more meaningful, more harmonious | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| it had nothing to do with the previous efforts. This can be so deceptive that people believe | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| Once you realize that the result of your efforts will be unexpected and spontaneous rather than direct | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| cannot measure them in terms of your volitional efforts. Harmony between the voluntary and involuntary faculties exists | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| it had nothing to do with your deliberate efforts. This happens when you are reconciled to rooting | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| and have a totally positive response to your efforts and investment in the elimination of negativity, will | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| exploring its deeper meaning. Reeducation depends on the efforts of both the conscious ego, with its instructions | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| if it had nothing to do with your efforts, a new gift arises in you: You see | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| a greater influx of energy to facilitate your efforts and make them increasingly more effective. The new | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| either be disappointed or experience delusions. No exercises, efforts, or hope for grace intervening from outside can | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| have done before. It is as though the efforts of others have paved your way to some | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| at times even a cessation of any further efforts in the right inner direction. In other words | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| of outer numbness has been removed by your efforts on your path, and the defensive layer insulating | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| powerful new energy has been generated by the efforts of each individual as well as by the | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| now so great as a result of your efforts and progress, that even the most skeptical among | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| to give the best of my feelings, my efforts, my attention, my honesty, or whatever it may | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| in a most concrete way. The greater your efforts become, the more of a spiritual force you | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| this affords you the opportunity to focus your efforts, attention, and energies on becoming conscious of further | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| poured forth as a result of your combined efforts and commitments to your innermost being. In this | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| difficult: The outer personality must make all the efforts; it has to gather its own forces in | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| this process increasingly as you grow, through your efforts on your path, as an organic reality that | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| are in. To the degree you make deliberate efforts to do so, you will succeed, though not | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| you can truly enjoy the fruits of your efforts and feel deserving of them. QUESTION: All my | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| universes, as the opponent against whom all his efforts and warfare are directed. Satan, the ultimate personification | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| you discover the real wealth behind the frantic efforts to hide the assumed -- and hence self-created | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| way. Yet it is a direct result of efforts, positive intentions, and commitment to God's will. Cause | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| understanding. Through this understanding and through your ever-intensified efforts toward self- exposure and communication with your immediate | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |