| Europe......................8 | |
| hay fever, but the moment he goes to Europe the hay fever is completely gone. The moment | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| his subconscious; what he is reminded of in Europe, what he associates with his surroundings here, or | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| prevail at the places he goes to in Europe, while he is unaffected by them? Or would | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by them? Or would you say that in Europe it just happens that the climatic conditions are | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to hay fever? Yes, absolutely. Well, if in Europe the climatic conditions are not conducive to hay | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| then it is evident the question is not Europe versus America, but one condition in the atmosphere | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| exist as at the places he visits in Europe, and he would then also be free of | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| does not apply to feelings he experiences in Europe or America, but rather to the entirely unconscious | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Eva.........................4 | |
| often referred to spiritual laws. In February 1969, Eva decided to compile some of the basic laws | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| of the Guide's offer; they came close to Eva and stated their specific, personal negations and affirmations | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| lecture was given in whispers, over the microphone. Eva decided to give it in spite of her | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| than ever. At the end of the lecture Eva shared with us the anxiety she had felt | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Evade.......................17 | |
| these influences are rare. A person should not evade the issue by saying, I am not always | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| friends, you have to try hard not to evade the issue any more, and yet this is | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| words, secretly thinking that if you manage to evade the issue the situation will cease to exist | 31 SHAME |
| is extremely high. The more you want to evade paying the natural and fair price -- in | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| Women try to talk it over and men evade it. Is that the shame of the emotional | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| momentary helplessness about finding relief, the temptation to evade yet again. As you battle through this phase | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| than the milder neurotic person who continues to evade. As long as you cannot admit that you | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| defense. You artificially overproduce sensitivity in order to evade something. You may evade insight and self-facing, or | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| sensitivity in order to evade something. You may evade insight and self-facing, or you may overcome the | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| and face those feelings that you would rather evade -- doubts, aggression, jealousy, possessiveness, self- centeredness, and | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| negative energy field which you block because you evade the truth. Such evasion always causes needless suffering | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| self-regulating nature can reveal itself. The temptation to evade the truth of the self must be as | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| go becomes destructive when it is used to evade the truth, when it is a result of | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| really their responsibility is one such way to evade accountability. Both men and women therefore have to | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| solve the problem. You begin to negate, deny, evade, repress whatever is destructive in you. Consequently, you | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| seek an understanding of these connections, or to evade it. Your ego consciousness is the borderline between | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| go through your lower self and do not evade it by wishful thinking. Your distrust is an | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Evaded......................4 | |
| eyes, wishfully thinking that the price can be evaded. Each alternative will have an advantage and also | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| your innermost being. When this inner you is evaded, real contact with others is impossible. You also | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| nor is its true meaning understood. It is evaded, so that depression about being depressed will be | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| more light as you face what you had evaded. You literally feel in your being an inner | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Evading.....................8 | |
| However, you must face the question instead of evading it. Then you may say: And if I | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you have chosen to cope with death -- evading it, or rushing into it. Both are present | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| in some corner of your being you are evading yourself. All those who overcome this universal resistance | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| unless the personality persists in disregarding them and evading the issues. This, unfortunately, happens only too frequently | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| and work and pleasure will become one. But evading this work leaves important potentials in the psyche | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| cramp. Meet the fear head on instead of evading it. Fear is maintained when it is not | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| love, or it can be a means of evading the self. If introspection is healthy, a healthy | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| this later. From now on, instead of habitually evading, which breeds emotional illness, problems, and suffering, catch | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Evaluate....................79 | |
| well as around you. You must learn to evaluate even very complicated situations, and understand what is | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| in the way. Of course, no one can evaluate the situation from the outside, unless he or | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| reasonably about it, however because you do not evaluate these doubts as to their proper merit. Instead | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| that the criticism is an injustice, try to evaluate it nonetheless. There may be only one grain | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you need to recognize your hidden emotions and evaluate them in the light of divine law. Acknowledge | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| First, you have to meditate to recognize and evaluate your own imperfections, and then build a bridge | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| wisdom to see through your resistance and to evaluate it for what it is worth. Do not | 38 IMAGES |
| But you who are on this path can evaluate these currents, viewing them from a distance and | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| much later in life does one learn to evaluate more objectively and not according to one's own | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| to another, but you also should begin to evaluate everything that happened in your life; things that | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| will also be able to better understand and evaluate yourself, which means that you will be more | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| some of my friends. You will learn to evaluate the people you love, and your love will | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| a selfish one. You will know how to evaluate it. The mere discovery and knowledge of the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| emotions simply because now you can see and evaluate them clearly. Have the further honesty and wisdom | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| what should be encouraged is to learn to evaluate something as to what was said, rather than | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the fore so that you can observe and evaluate them. The understanding and control of the thought | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| material into conscious foreground thought. First learn to evaluate the content of the vague background thoughts, and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| material that you can only now begin to evaluate. When you say that your mind is wandering | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| In this process, you will also learn to evaluate the manifestation of your love-capacity. The two extremes | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you learn to understand your emotions, you will evaluate outer happenings differently. The outer happenings are real | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| no future and therefore lacks the judgment to evaluate the true significance or, to put it differently | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| good demonstration of how unrealistic it is to evaluate the importance of any happening by relating it | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| simultaneously will perceive its passing nature and genuinely evaluate its overall significance. Therefore the hardship will not | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| is your capacity to think, to judge, to evaluate, to discriminate, to form concepts, to plan, to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| an ethical standpoint. Rather, I told you to evaluate these findings as to how correct your thinking | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| inner problems, it will become necessary to now evaluate your hidden images and complexes with a focus | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| both the good and the bad, and will evaluate them from a completely new point of view | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| to see a few incarnations in order to evaluate the task and the cause and effect going | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| be of substantial benefit that you cannot yet evaluate. QUESTION: Isn't it that sometimes we want to | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| and matters a great deal. This you can evaluate only when you gain a retrospective, overall view | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such great importance only because you do not evaluate yourself honestly. Thus validation by others becomes a | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| of at this time. If you try to evaluate where you stood a year ago and where | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| QUESTION: Can I do it in trying to evaluate the words? ANSWER: Certainly. That would be part | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| discover what needs you have. You will then evaluate what has kept you from fulfilling your own | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| he needed. As a child, he could not evaluate that his mother might have been incapable of | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| to do is to see into yourself and evaluate what you see, then make inner choices, which | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you are conscious of them, you do not evaluate them. You allow yourself to feel these needs | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| in such fantasizing, develop a new approach. Observe, evaluate, weigh and determine -- without strain, compulsion or | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| the child's life. Since the child's capacity to evaluate is limited, its emotional experience gleaned from the | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| take on a new meaning, enabling you to evaluate their personalities in a different way, with the | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to someone who criticizes? ANSWER: Calmly listen and evaluate: Could there be some truth in the criticism | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| annoyed. How could you be? You would simply evaluate the criticism and decide whether there may be | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| involvement makes it impossible for you to rightly evaluate the situation, and therefore you cannot deal with | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| by separateness, selfishness, fear, or pride. You still evaluate yourself and others by an act, by an | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| adjusting to ever-changing circumstances. You cannot see and evaluate them for you are conditioned to react only | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the ever-changing flux of life? How can you evaluate objectively and perceive in truth? None of these | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| on you -- when you cannot healthily assimilate, evaluate, and come to terms with the effect that | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| would warn you against trying to adjudge or evaluate how you identify with others merely with your | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| happen unless you first learn to understand and evaluate your negativity and thus your bad times. Then | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| degree that you are aware of and properly evaluate the distortion, the true picture can be assimilated | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| us now connect inner security with love and evaluate various stages on the scale of love- capacity | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| then the way will be open to properly evaluate and assimilate it, to sort out error from | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| path may be befogged. It is difficult to evaluate, at such times, what you have accomplished, what | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| about your own state of development and you evaluate all its dictates without acting them out. Then | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| it, rebel against it, but a child cannot evaluate its life circumstances in objective terms. The same | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| indicates faulty awareness, insufficient consciousness. The ability to evaluate an experience determines the maximum of pleasure and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| whose mechanism you cannot possibly see, understand, or evaluate. Therefore you cannot compare the growth processes of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| will, as well as your capacity to objectively evaluate the unreasonableness of your demands, will open the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| result of your blindness and unwillingness to objectively evaluate others and yourself. Even those who are most | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| laughter at your childishness, you can begin to evaluate the situation in relation to reason, justice, and | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| enumerate. Only by your unceasing willingness to see, evaluate, comprehend, and unify yourself by ruthless truthfulness will | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| misconceptions. Do not superimpose the right concepts, but evaluate and compare, using your own thinking capacity, what | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| fear blurs one's view and one's capacity to evaluate it objectively. So it is very possible to | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| think so little of yourself you do not evaluate the importance of your actions and reactions. The | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| did so considerably. It is often hard to evaluate outwardly what constitutes real progress. Often, the greatest | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| your thoughts are no longer hazy, you can evaluate their effect, halt them, and choose a constructive | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| stream is carrying you. Instead, you continue to evaluate your life in limited dualistic terms -- ignoring | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| the major breaking point behind them. When you evaluate human existence from this point of view, you | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| and desires, only when you totally comprehend and evaluate them, will you see without a shadow of | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| without identifying with them. You must learn to evaluate such impulses and desires realistically, without falling into | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| frightened by it. This capacity to observe, articulate, evaluate, and choose the best possible attitudes for dealing | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you bring everything that is hidden out and evaluate it in truth. This takes the courage to | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| If it were, you could not identify, observe, evaluate, analyze and change it. For that part of | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| to very calmly observe, probe, measure, examine, and evaluate your destructive intentions and understand why and how | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| escape or illusion, you must be open and evaluate with your feelings and intuitive faculties, as well | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| this in mind, and each of you should evaluate where you are in this respect. This will | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| of no return, no conscious mind can possibly evaluate -- only the deeper divine mind can do | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| from them so that you can hear and evaluate them. By observing and identifying them, you will | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| give a general outline to help you to evaluate where you are at this juncture. Before doing | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |