| Encased.....................7 | |
| because even for that your thoughts are too encased in darkness. Only after you come out of | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| arise from the blindness in which you are encased and from your lack of understanding of the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| it that you hold the best in you encased, while you borrow a similar behavior pattern and | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| astray, cannot function as long as it is encased in the hardened, brittle structure of your defenses | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| it. It is the exact opposite of living encased in your defensive walls, which completely separate you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| sorts of ways. As long as you are encased in the ego's walls, you must fear death | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| as you live in the shell of matter, encased in time, there are many connections you can | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Enclose.....................3 | |
| This is one of the first obstructions which enclose you in an imaginary and unnecessary prison. This | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| for the asking. But as long as you enclose yourself within the narrow framework of your limited | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| blocks. These seem like walls of iron, which enclose you and prevent you from perceiving and experiencing | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Encompass...................8 | |
| within you, is your soul mature enough to encompass happiness. People often wonder about communication with God's | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| times and civilizations. Those which are universal and encompass all humanity are a product of a particular | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| suffering. You are now ready, my friends, to encompass an entirely new approach to yourselves. It is | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| of your influence and positive power widen and encompass more followers. A beautiful, harmonious, organic monarchy is | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| powers are by no means merely ethereal; they encompass the whole personality and certainly include the body | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| process continues organically and the mind begins to encompass other visions that were invisible before. To deal | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| trust to God. This trust may not yet encompass all areas of your being. But to whatever | 254 SURRENDER |
| hearing, perceiving, feeling, knowing are always all-inclusive. They encompass every capacity God has created. You can hardly | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Encompassed.................3 | |
| all of themselves to the process that has encompassed them will make their life as fulfilled and | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is of a grandeur that cannot yet be encompassed by your mind. But you can indeed sense | 228 BALANCE |
| made the world appear too vast to be encompassed. One's own tragedies seemed unique, hence a sense | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Encompasses.................10 | |
| not shirking from the sometimes necessary difficulties. It encompasses all that you are learning here. Only after | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| of the universe, the love that is here, encompasses and envelops all of you, wherever you may | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual experience. It encompasses the entire person. I shall try to describe | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| lukewarm, mild shadow of the cosmic feeling that encompasses everything. 3. Developing positive intentionality. You must develop | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| functioning, is an illusion, because true spiritual bliss encompasses the total personality. The personality must therefore learn | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| what is clear and truthful in you and encompasses limitless spans of being, of generosity, of love | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| the ultimate of all fulfillment that includes and encompasses and transcends all other desirable states and attainments | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| the fuller life becomes. This spirit of service encompasses more and more of my beloved friends and | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| an aura of fog, a darkness that gradually encompasses the best in a person. It is therefore | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| healing power that flows from the Source that encompasses all that ever was created and ever will | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Encompassing................8 | |
| separation from God -- all beings were unified, encompassing within themselves both the active and receptive, that | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| friends, for this predicament is universal and all- encompassing. The time has come now for all of | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| maturity, you will not immediately experience the great, encompassing love your soul strives for. For, it is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| already covered, the obstacles surmounted, and lose the encompassing view of the whole picture. It is very | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| when you wish to possess the larger, more encompassing truth, which transcends both of your little truths | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| universal power and beauty. This happens through the encompassing love for and acceptance of another sphere which | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| utter goodness. One cannot help discovering its all- encompassing love that knows no conflict. Divine will works | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| But because the whole movement has an all- encompassing meaning and purpose, the chaos and disintegration are | 228 BALANCE |
| Encountered.................17 | |
| push them ever upward regardless of the difficulties encountered. By such free choice, God's law concerning this | 21 THE FALL |
| feel that such behavior deserved shame if you encountered it in others. Once you have the courage | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| and the imperfect human authority you have often encountered in your life -- since humankind is imperfect | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| even though you may have seldom, or never, encountered the true one -- your resistance against authority | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| activity and passivity. Those of you who have encountered the tense nucleus which loudly claims, I want | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| unclean and worthless. Yet, the very next layer encountered may be the one that serves as catalyst | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which you need all your defensive equipment are encountered very rarely. You do not have to learn | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| lose oneself in love? Why must death be encountered without the help of instinctual drives, and why | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| although surely not often. Maybe you have occasionally encountered or observed such knowingness in another person. Perhaps | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| when you meet it. If you remember having encountered it in another person toward you, you will | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| path as this, many of my friends have encountered exactly this kind of attitude deep within themselves | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| working on their path of self-realization have recently encountered, or will soon encounter, something they may have | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| activity and passivity. Many of my friends have encountered in the course of their self-search a strange | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| incredible because he or she has not yet encountered the violence of the feelings I speak about | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| recognizes the true underlying significance of the difficulties encountered during the times of tentative relationships, the same | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| false needs. Since then, many of you have encountered your deepest feelings of fear, pain, guilt and | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| hold faith in ill repute because they have encountered the false version of it. But the real | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Encountering................14 | |
| healing may have caught a glimpse of it. Encountering these previously unconscious currents and tendencies feels as | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| life as much as possible not to postpone encountering the unconscious, but to face it right now | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| have not yet used this inner power when encountering the many particular details of the journey. There | 18 FREE WILL |
| be and must be differences, for only by encountering obstacles can you grow. This holds true for | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| though you are going around in circles, always encountering the same scenery, apparently not moving from the | 36 PRAYER |
| much freshness as you would if you were encountering them for the very first time. Remember this | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| of fear and aloneness, but recognizing and bravely encountering them. Only then can true religion and knowledge | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| can reach the basic point of unification when encountering inner divisions. The same applies to this triad | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| in the spirit of loving the truth of encountering yourself as you are more than anything else | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| self-discipline, there is no longer any danger in encountering the world of feelings. The fear that you | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| as an inevitable result of opening yourself and encountering first the negative emotions honestly. You did not | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| all found this resistance on your path when encountering your lower self. Since the planet also has | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the dark areas in your own soul; through encountering the temptation to remain in them and savor | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| has been completed before physical life is terminated. Encountering additional tasks which you were not certain you | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Encounters..................14 | |
| which I term the lower self. One also encounters the higher self. Sometimes it is way down | 18 FREE WILL |
| difficult to experience the divine within. The emotion-type encounters other difficulties. Furthermore, the reason-type has great difficulty | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| quite differently and much less rebellious when he encounters a law-upholder who is governed by healthy, conscious | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the path. It may sometimes happen that one encounters a delayed reaction from the past full force | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| these are even stronger than those that one encounters in others. One who is constantly haunted by | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| required momentum. But in its endless course it encounters all kinds of obstacles. Some are sandy. They | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| idealized self-image. As a child, the human being encounters disappointment, helplessness, and rejection -- both real and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| you will get more pleasure out of such encounters than before. Do not think that on the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| at war. It exists in all difficulties humanity encounters, individually and collectively. As long as you find | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| is one of the great difficulties each person encounters on the path to harmonious interaction. The way | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| set back considerably in this struggle whenever it encounters such a negative intentionality. This punishment often takes | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| -- can create the new-age marriage. Fleeting sexual encounters should not be looked upon as the final | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| same basic problem that humanity as a whole encounters in establishing a society. You clearly see that | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| it cannot be halted. The more opposition it encounters, the more painful the crisis will be. This | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |