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| of truth the world of darkness has always aimed for and which will succeed as long as | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| accessible to your awareness. The lectures are directly aimed at these layers as they come up. No | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| works negatively. Such a path as ours is aimed at bringing out the unconscious ideas and images | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of humankind. Every effort on this path is aimed at reestablishing such a connection for inner guidance | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| wisdom and love. The infinitely good divine Creator aimed to fill this vacuum, a vacuum of nothingness | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| of human vision. Actually the destruction is always aimed at eliminating the obstructions, the untruth, the infringements | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| to convey new concepts, most of the time aimed to bring the split of duality into a | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
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| and can never bring genuine liberation. A person aiming at liberation does not have to fear negative | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| accumulated knowledge and theoretical understanding, by study or aiming at an outer goal. It cannot come by | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| is what we have been talking about and aiming for on this path. Now why has humanity | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| to create worlds and beings. It slowly spreads, aiming to fill the apparently infinite nothingness. This is | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| Aims........................94 | |
| person. You are always inspired according to your aims and attitudes. In the highest spheres the spirits | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| and who does not want it? -- these aims are indeed poor substitutes, especially if they take | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the desires of people who have no spiritual aims. Those people will let their self-will push ahead | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| Your image-conclusions conflict with the grown-up desires and aims of your life, and thereby cause not only | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| know a bit about yourself -- your conscious aims and reactions, your tastes and idiosyncrasies, and so | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| of desires, I do not mean the important aims and goals in your life or the big | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| The fact is that your conscious desires and aims that guide your actions are in accord with | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| your higher self, but simultaneously lower and selfish aims are also present in your motivation. These lower | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| are also present in your motivation. These lower aims find justification in the higher aims, which serve | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| These lower aims find justification in the higher aims, which serve very well to hide their existence | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| people who have realized that selfishness and self-serving aims do not bring many desirable results. If you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| results. If you were to serve only the aims of your essential lower self you would certainly | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| actions, but in your unconscious childish requirements and aims. So, my dear friends, work through this vicious | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| that have nothing to do with your selfish aims. The best prayer for another person can be | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your mind as you focus on your conscious aims and wishes. It will take a great deal | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| The instinct of survival -- or self-preservation -- aims at gaining, maintaining, and improving life. By its | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| this raging inner battle between such mutually exclusive aims and solutions, the psyche seeks compromise solutions. Such | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| cannot work. For instance, the quest for power aims at love and pleasure in the unconscious belief | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and its pseudo-solutions. Fantasy stems from the predominant aims and needs of the psyche. Since most adults | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| goodness; when you are aware of the real aims you wish to pursue with your desire for | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the case with humanity, where so many contradictory aims and attitudes exist. After all, you who are | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reason for them. Likewise, you ignore the contradictory aims, attitudes, and desires within yourself. You can no | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understanding, confusion, unawareness of cause and effect, contradictory aims, and wrong conclusions make up the inner and | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| subtly or unobtrusively it may mix with true aims. When your false aims and values are gratified | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may mix with true aims. When your false aims and values are gratified you are bound to | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are bound to be left feeling empty. False aims are illusions, and even if, at times, they | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| materialize, they will not really satisfy you. These aims and values are resorted to as pseudo-solutions. When | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a number of individuals. True religion, genuine spirituality, aims primarily to make you free, to make you | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| destructive. Try to distinguish between constructive and destructive aims, try to realize the purpose of exposing your | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| them, but also valid and constructive desires and aims. You do not heed them out of a | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| lack of belief in the validity of your aims. You feel that just because you want it | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are alike. It is one of the destructive aims of the psyche to deliberately dull itself not | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| a ruthless person may not attain his ruthless aims because an inner voice, that he may be | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| and the ability to accept defeat, by well-defined aims with healthy underlying motivations, by being concerned with | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| develop your potentials, or to work toward your aims. The ability to take care of all this | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| practical involvement, the flexibility of putting one's egocentric aims below the needs of the other person. To | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| by it, but in your half-conscious wishes and aims you do react from this lower self. The | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| you must lack inner peace due to split aims, mutually exclusive drives, contradictory concepts. You now know | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| blind, isolating tendencies. If two nations have opposite aims, it is as unrealistic and senseless as opposite | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| it is as unrealistic and senseless as opposite aims within one individual's unconscious. It is just as | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| Certain groups within the human sphere and their aims will represent this maturity, while other groups and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| represent this maturity, while other groups and their aims will represent the entity's unconscious infantile, erroneous, short-sighted | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| use of it, concisely formulating your questions and aims. When these aims are hazy and vague, when | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| concisely formulating your questions and aims. When these aims are hazy and vague, when you are lost | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| pleasure supreme -- are deeply inborn, instinctive spiritual aims. The psyche instinctively knows that these are both | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| order to avoid unhappiness. I have discussed general aims, but your specific desires, with the fear of | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| first recognize that all your energies, all your aims, are geared in a direction that has no | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| were involved: your familiar conscious self, with its aims and thoughts, and the newly discovered unconscious, with | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| newly discovered unconscious, with its entirely opposite negative aims and thoughts. As you proceed in the work | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| Basically the fear is due to people's destructive aims, and specifically to your aim of refusing to | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| can be resolved only when negative and destructive aims are surrendered, and the best of who you | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| all endeavors, in all desires, and in all aims. If you meet each situation with total honesty | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| superficial way of meeting life situations, unconscious destructive aims must fall away. Paying only shallow attention to | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| only to the extent that their own innermost aims, at least partially, are destructive and malignant. This | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| will feel frightening when you pursue negative, destructive aims -- free self-expression is dangerous, contact with others | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| to eliminate control. Without this control, your destructive aims could take over and threaten annihilation. Giving up | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| of selfhood and safety, as long as destructive aims persist and preoccupy the psyche. Therefore, in order | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| with negativity in the psyche. Otherwise the destructive aims not only become exposed to the self and | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you dispense with the pseudo-necessity of pursuing negative aims. Wanting to defeat life, others and yourself, out | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| the so-called safety and satisfaction of your negative aims. These negative aims have to become so conscious | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| and satisfaction of your negative aims. These negative aims have to become so conscious that they literally | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| paralyzed, numb and lifeless. So, first, all your aims, desires and wishes -- constructive or not, no | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| by all sorts of pursuits. But although these aims in themselves may be worthy, they cannot relieve | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| It is universal in the sense that it aims exclusively at awakening the real self, absolute reality | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| values are based on outer standards. Such behavior aims to please or impress others, to conform with | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| First of all, the whole plan of evolution aims at uniting individual consciousnesses, for only in this | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| of the cosmic plan. The pull toward unity aims to bring you out of seclusion. It moves | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| unable to stop the destructive process. This lecture aims to help you understand that your psychological makeup | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| it is easy to lose the outlook which aims at and emphasizes the significance of self-realization. Self-realization | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| limited. Happiness, pleasure, and ecstasy are frivolous, selfish aims which truly spiritual people must abandon for the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| using it. A path such as this primarily aims at the realization of this truth, the understanding | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| to be a creature completely unconnected from conscious aims and desires. Only little by little, when these | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| and replenishment -- is compelled to pursue self-destructive aims. Every act of self-destructiveness is a gesture of | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and trustworthy. But as long as the ego's aims, attitudes and inclinations are diametrically opposed to the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to yourself new will- directions, new expansions, new aims, new energies, new feelings. All of this is | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| while the other side strives toward separateness, destructive aims, fear, hate, and blind assumptions that never open | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| with involuntary contraction, notwithstanding your conscious desires and aims? This observation will allow you once again to | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| seek the truth and adjust their ideas and aims to it, and who purify their feelings by | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| It is therefore one of the most important aims on this path to make conscious all you | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| will of God. In order to attain both aims, you have to remove inner obstructions to true | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| Nor is this path a spiritual practice that aims a priori at reaching higher spiritual consciousness. There | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| very different feelings such as ego-needs and negative aims. People use each other in the most exploitative | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| personal fulfillment. The lower self with its lower aims must often be sacrificed. But is this really | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| point out the fallacies, misconceptions distorted expectations, illusory aims and negative feelings within you and can recognize | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| ego. The true value of your inner spirit aims for rich fulfillment of love, abundance, friendship, communication | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| devil was always associated with the principle which aims to destroy and to inflict suffering at all | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| not unwittingly lend yourselves as tools for the aims of the prince of darkness. Use your good | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| is in constant battle here. One part strongly aims for covering, justifying, projecting, and thereby increasing the | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| fights the path process in many ways and aims to deceive your helper, to convince him or | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| experiences, new feelings, new thoughts, new dreams, new aims. Once you have emptied yourself, the dynamic process | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| to accommodate some of your distorted desires and aims? Since a part of you knows this, your | 254 SURRENDER |
| put all aggression into the service of lower-self aims, while keeping an apathetic, passive attitude toward the | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| undue aggression, untruthful and therefore negative and constricting aims. Visualize yourself questioning your position in each situation | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| your aggressive forces into the service of positive aims. You can refute negative influences. You can talk | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |