| Energy/consciousness........4 | |
| not contain consciousness. The universe is permeated with energy/consciousness, but not as separate entities existing side by | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| up out of its own stagnation. Stagnant, fixed energy/consciousness needs its own loosening up. Fluid consciousness and | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| awakening must happen within the dormant part. Free-flowing energy/consciousness is therefore always repulsed by the fixed state | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| principle, can only be indirectly experienced by personalized energy/consciousness units. The great light of the cosmic Christ | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Energy-current..............3 | |
| energy to cope with life, but if this energy-current were reversed, life would become very different. You | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| seems to you unpleasant reality is the same energy-current that, if released, is the power of love | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| each thought, each attitude, each need is an energy-current. There are many different types of energy, corresponding | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| Energy-mass.................3 | |
| no chaos in this process. Wherever this creative energy-mass appears, it brings into the organism the very | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| that they express part of this ever-exploding, ever-increasing energy-mass of consciousness and power. They may know certain | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| state in which the organic process of the energy-mass takes place without obstruction. The human state of | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| Enfolded....................3 | |
| power than you realize. The willpower that lies enfolded within you is something you do not realize | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| in the depth of your soul, and certainly enfolded in your image. QUESTION: This means that karma | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| every single one gathered here. May you be enfolded by the force of the love and the | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| Enforce.....................8 | |
| God. Yet, whoever was in power would still enforce his belief and prohibit the others. Today, humanity | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| ANSWER: Of course. You must not try to enforce such feeling. It will come by itself if | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| idealized version of the self one tries to enforce. These are healthful habits, necessary for the involuntary | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| The actualized universal powers will not, by themselves, enforce an integration with the undeveloped part of the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| faith by an honestly experimental attitude. You cannot enforce faith as an act of will. That would | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| because you know you would not have to enforce anything if it were indeed freely given you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| create a new energy field or it will enforce, reaffirm and fasten an old one, depending on | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| attitudes are destructive and erroneous. The attempt to enforce an ideal standard that individuals cannot possibly live | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Enforced....................6 | |
| if His creatures could be happy in an enforced system. Thus each creature -- human or spirit | 18 FREE WILL |
| be forced. A conscious desire should not be enforced because of my words, while unconscious fears and | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| of diplomacy or flattery, it would be an enforced and ungenuine reaction. Nothing ungenuine and manipulative could | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| has negativity, and this negativity is somehow activated, enforced, and nourished by the life force. But degrees | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| outer change could be -- for example, change enforced in order to cover up an inner fixedness | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| courageous ones turned to Christ. The separation was enforced by those who refused to consider that He | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Engage......................6 | |
| the noblest of all fights humanity can ever engage in. But you must do so with open | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| for instance, for your loved ones. First, you engage in the mental process of thinking of them | 36 PRAYER |
| about it. If you can bring yourself to engage in this five-minute exercise every day in the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| human communication, and your fright and refusal to engage are unjustified. Such reaction indicates an excessive demand | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| a much more subtle form. Outwardly you may engage in contacts but inwardly you remain uninvolved, isolated | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| denial. Often you admit your behavior but simultaneously engage in it as if the admission invalidated the | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| Engaged.....................28 | |
| growing process at work, because you are actively engaged in it with your innermost self, not merely | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| this path is that whenever you find yourself engaged in such fantasizing, develop a new approach. Observe | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| negative effect. QUESTION: But what if you are engaged in creative work and then, suddenly, you cannot | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| kind of active self- finding that you are engaged in. Let us speak of flexibility versus rigidity | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| can never leave you. But while you are engaged in this struggle, your overall view of your | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and the superimposed conscience. If you were not engaged in this fight, such questions could not even | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| a philosophical concept. But when you are seriously engaged in doing the pathwork, you will fill in | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| and yourself. Even those who are most actively engaged in the work of this path and have | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| that you can stop struggling, because you are engaged in fighting illusion -- the appropriate kind of | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the self? To what extent is the self engaged? To what extent are universal powers engaged? This | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| self engaged? To what extent are universal powers engaged? This equilibrium is essential for the creative process | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| your own life right now. When you are engaged in intense self-search, when you vigorously confront yourself | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| own innermost nature from spiritual trust, you are engaged in the greatest error, leading to the greatest | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| It also applies to those who are effectively engaged in such pathwork. They, too, may have blind | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| Not even those of you who have been engaged in this pathwork for some time and have | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| current sequence for my friends who are actively engaged in this particular pathwork, and also to reach | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| a number of my friends who are actively engaged in this work have recently become acutely aware | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| same direction. At least now you are meaningfully engaged in ascertaining this fact about yourself. The human | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| does not make it possible. Your energy is engaged in negative inner activities. By the same token | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| even those of you who are very actively engaged in your work of self-confrontation, every so often | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| many of you, my friends, who are actively engaged in this pathwork today have made contact with | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| search really means. Most of you who are engaged in this pathwork of self-development start out in | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| you can love, you are really still ardently engaged in trying to fulfill the childhood need with | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| negativity is possible only when you are totally engaged in and committed to seeing yourself truthfully. The | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| of yourself to a cause beyond. You are engaged in the most noble cause an entity can | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| lack of trust. The venture you are now engaged in gives you a wonderful opportunity to help | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| conscious aspect of your being. You are now engaged in a positive momentum that is the stronger | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| forces of good and the forces of evil engaged in the gradual penetration of life into the | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Engages.....................4 | |
| of thinking, meditation is prayer with feeling, it engages the soul forces as compared to the thinking | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| experiencing extreme discomfort. This impatience at the delay engages you in a battle with yourself which heightens | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| such a case is so slow that it engages all your faculties, thus arresting the growth and | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| is faithful to a wife with whom he engages in surreptitious mating as a marital duty. Both | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Engendered..................3 | |
| just as any other quality, has to be engendered and built up by yourself. It cannot be | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| personality a state of imbalance and disharmony is engendered, and a burden of guilt and inadequacy is | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| truths of the universe. More separation is thus engendered. Mental noise creates more disconnection from the feelings | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| English.....................4 | |
| that my next lecture will also be in English, in order that more of you can profit | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| Is the next lecture going to be in English? ANSWER: Yes, they will all be in English | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| English? ANSWER: Yes, they will all be in English now. QUESTION: I have a question about distances | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| us consider compassion. As it happens, in the English language you actually have another term to designate | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| Engraved....................8 | |
| that people can also have positive, healthy images engraved on their soul. That is seldom true because | 38 IMAGES |
| is supposed to be martyrdom. This image is engraved in humanity as a whole. No, my friends | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| cycle of incarnations into this life. Everything is engraved in its soul, what kind of life it | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are also partly derived from mass images firmly engraved in many an individual personality. Take the mass | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| to be unhappy and severe. This image is engraved in humankind. This is supposed to be martyrdom | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| you to the test. Changing from a deeply engraved no-current to a yes-current can occur only when | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| by neurotic behavior patterns, and misconceptions so deeply engraved that you require more extended and patient work | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| is quite possible to change a groove deeply engraved over considerable time, even in advanced human age | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |