| Fearsome....................12 | |
| a desire and venturing into what often seems fearsome to you. The only way you can discover | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| The world of Utopia as well as the fearsome abyss of illusion therefore depend upon whether or | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| open question whether what you fear is truly fearsome. In other words, you must question the concept | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| make any demands; it does not hold any fearsome expectations or obligations. It is also true that | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| really believe human nature is ultimately bad, destructive, fearsome, and chaotic, the true motive and reason for | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| unknown is thus viewed as something negative and fearsome. If you believe change to be fearsome, you | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| and fearsome. If you believe change to be fearsome, you will atrophy the spiritual and psychic musculature | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| overcome death. It is not only that the fearsome unknown ceases to be fearsome and that you | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| only that the fearsome unknown ceases to be fearsome and that you begin to trust it and | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| shorten as your path progresses. They become less fearsome and less frequent. Continue on your beautiful journey | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| them, and the light of positive aggression is fearsome and terrifying. Only God manifest can become visible | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| you deal with them until they lose their fearsome aspect. This is your path. Focusing on the | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Feasible....................15 | |
| drastic means -- which, of course, is not feasible. Or it may happen because you are angry | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| It is not easy, but it is certainly feasible for everyone who goes at it in good | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| words. It will take time, but it is feasible. The usual solutions devised by the unconscious are | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| rigid outer rules. In reality these are not feasible alternatives at all. The healthy, constructive solution is | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| on real, safe ground -- on what is feasible. Your self- confidence will therefore grow in proportion | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| of yourself on what is realizable, possible, and feasible: thus you are secure. When you based your | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| only when your expectations accord with what is feasible. In other words, when criticism comes your way | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| forcibly injected into a relationship that is not feasible for these particular people. Another type of relationship | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| to all creation. It is easy and absolutely feasible to detect the yes-and no-currents within yourself, in | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| unhappy pattern. It is not easy, but certainly feasible to come from the no-current into the yes-current | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| and what had seemed impossible will suddenly become feasible. Relaxed meditation, concentration, and a minimum of daily | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| then is the impressing of your psychic substance feasible. As long as you are confused, you do | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| be done. When you realize this, it becomes feasible. Now, how can the inner self be activated | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| and well-being, in which even difficult steps become feasible because you know they are right for you | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| cultivating inner knowledge. And this, in turn, is feasible only when you lose the fear of self-responsibility | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Feat........................6 | |
| those who say that it is no great feat to develop spiritually if one does not have | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| Using this key is nowhere near an insurmountable feat. It is very possible to utilize it. Becoming | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| no magic, it is not an inconceivably difficult feat that you have to master. You can do | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| Its attainment does not depend on some complicated feat or on a state of perfection foreign to | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| step-by-step process. It doesn't ever require an impossible feat of you. It only demands what is indeed | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| both divine and human, he accomplished the greatest feat imaginable. He proved that it was possible to | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Feature.....................5 | |
| out of cowardice, what would be the corresponding feature to look for in the woman? ANSWER: You | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| yourself. Now I would like to discuss a feature of the human personality that seems relatively insignificant | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| union, which I will point out later. The feature I want to talk about is frustration. Like | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| why. Unconsciously, you feel you have no redeeming feature, while on another level you blame everyone else | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| soul. I would like to mention another specific feature of the inner obstructions that must be met | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Features....................4 | |
| even though it may have some very pleasant features. Habit is a great temptress, pulling one toward | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| prove to be. One of the most outstanding features of such a procedure will be that the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| Some of my earlier lectures merely described certain features of one kind of personality on a relatively | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| and the highest forms of consciousness have common features. Yet they differ enormously in content, in attitude | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Feed........................4 | |
| development. You spend time on your physical body, feed it, rest it, and cleanse it; you certainly | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| are inwardly ignorant, it is better not to feed them truth, but leave them rather in outer | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a temporary, precarious sort of satisfaction when they feed the needs of their destructive demands. Usually people | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| lend even more justification to unconscious fears which feed the determination not to open up and be | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| Feeds.......................3 | |
| he will put up a resistance, because confusion feeds the lower self that prefers the road of | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| in a place of pride. The cowardice that feeds conformity is the same as the pride that | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| conformity is the same as the pride that feeds superiority. Both can be shed only when one | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| Feel........................1956 | |
| the long run, even a weak person will feel liberated as the clouds disappear from his or | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| in divine intervention and guidance, and act and feel accordingly, will also be able to sustain and | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| love, whether consciously or unconsciously. The longing to feel this love drives, pulls, spurs humans and spirits | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| the stage before a soul is able to feel pain. When you feel pain, you are already | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| soul is able to feel pain. When you feel pain, you are already a step closer to | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| when you are not really in pain but feel upset, rebellious, and torn in many directions, possessed | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| ask of you. The times when human beings feel alone come only when they are ready to | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| decision that follows from it. Therefore, if you feel that you do not have enough willpower, you | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| does not draw the conclusions from what you feel only vaguely -- the fact is, you do | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| self makes itself known by causing them to feel world weary. Thus they will, from time to | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| time, experience great dissatisfaction with life and therefore feel alone, isolated and abandoned. All human beings strive | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| the open than the other, they will still feel counter-currents, at least from time to time, which | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| them and so will not see, hear, and feel those who offer their help. Even if they | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| willingness has to be there. Only when you feel it can you absorb and assimilate this material | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| very low level of development, will in theory feel glad when good things happen to another. But | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| a roundabout way. Such experiences will make you feel that there is safe ground under your feet | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| life. It requires work, discipline, and training to feel into these currents and recognize precisely what they | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| they tear the person apart, so that they feel miserable and utterly lost. Those who are already | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| when you hear these words. How do you feel as you listen to them? Do you feel | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| feel as you listen to them? Do you feel a slight discomfort, perhaps in a deeply hidden | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| are connected with this band of love will feel the other's pain with the same intensity as | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| Therefore I am asking you to try to feel into the meaning between the lines, so that | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| tell you. Once you are advanced enough to feel the difference and know how to discriminate one | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| are in a state in which these contacts feel like sacrifice; they want contact only with kindred | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| to recognize that you are still imperfect, you feel devastated because your vanity is wounded. Not to | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| they could. At the same time, they will feel that they depend in many respects entirely on | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| everything that nurtures the ego, which wants to feel special. This also is mostly unconscious, yet the | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| will see, another will hear, a third will feel, and so on, in many different forms. The | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| through, then, my dear ones, you will actually feel the presence of your spirit friends, and that | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| the answer comes directly from within. You will feel evermore clearly in what a wonderfully organized way | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| or do not care for, toward whom you feel resistance, or with whom you just happen to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| will be lifted from your chest; you will feel as if you had been freed of a | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| about how to fulfill God's will when you feel unsure, turn to those areas where you do | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| and you can be sure that when you feel disharmonious you have violated a divine law. No | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| be a willingness to let go. Whenever you feel a tightening rigidity, even if your opinion is | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| and what did not. How does the difference feel? Where do I repeatedly fail? In what areas | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| where it is justified and where you could feel a healthy, constructive repentance which would never drag | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| repentance and really want to change, you will feel that you are forgiven and liberated and will | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| false guilt complexes which pull them down, but feel instantly relieved and at peace, because truth always | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| always liberates, no matter how unpleasant it may feel at first. Examine your own self in this | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| what kind of grief? Healthy sorrow does not feel like a heavy burden. On the contrary, it | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| words, ever, so just try to understand and feel into what I mean, sense the difference between | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| God touches the human being. Then you really feel that your body limits you, and you wish | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| man or a woman, and you will intuitively feel what you are in essence, masculine or feminine | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| touch a mirror, that is also real. You feel the mirror. Let us assume you do not | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| always be inwardly unhappy, plagued by problems, and feel unfulfilled even when successful and doing some good | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| -- all of which make him or her feel that it is impossible to open up. When | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| people would not be happy. They would still feel a deep-seated unrest, would have an undefinable bad | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| is to blame oneself. It is easier to feel like a victim. That way one does not | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| on the right path, you will live and feel the great reality of God's world in your | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| knowledge. You will live in this world and feel its effect on you. God's spirit world is | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| a perfect and wonderful contact. Perhaps it will feel quite different from what you have imagined, but | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| or people belonging to a particular group to feel important and superior. That should not be. Besides | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| one of you: none of you should ever feel alone. God loves each one of you dearly | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| or statesmen, my dear friends. Question yourself honestly, feel into it, examine yourselves when you send out | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| it seriously, not superficially, and then you will feel a great liberation. You will free yourself of | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| This can be painful. You really come to feel that this is about you. You re-experience your | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |