| Feeling-body................9 | |
| the physical one. Then the soul-body or the feeling-body remains. In this body are all your emotions | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| different states of unconsciousness. Usually in sleep the feeling-body is removed from the physical body, sometimes more | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| translate into symbols in a dream. If the feeling-body remained during sleep in the physical body, sleep | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| be disturbed sleep. But during deep sleep your feeling-body or soul is out of the physical body | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| physical body. That is the physical rest. The feeling-body can expand nearer or farther. Is that clear | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| sounder the sleep, the more removed is the feeling-body from your physical body. QUESTIONER: I have known | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| disturbed sleep, when, because of your tensions, your feeling-body cannot leave completely. QUESTIONER: Thank you. QUESTION: Another | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| in part paralyzing the best faculties of the feeling-body. Experience is the third element of life. The | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| consciousness. Shallowness is lack of experience. When your feeling-body is paralyzed, your ability to experience must suffer | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| Feeling-exchange............4 | |
| movement toward fusion must be expressed in a feeling-exchange. What does feeling-exchange mean in adult, realistic terms | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| must be expressed in a feeling-exchange. What does feeling-exchange mean in adult, realistic terms? Feeling-exchange, or the | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| What does feeling-exchange mean in adult, realistic terms? Feeling-exchange, or the emotional level of sexuality, is determined | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| of expressing love. From that solid basis a feeling-exchange can be built. If you perceive in reality | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Feelings....................1717 | |
| the highest level, because, first of all, many feelings are unconscious and you need work, willpower, and | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| them conscious, and furthermore one cannot control one's feelings as immediately and directly as one's thoughts or | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| not yet understood that the impure thoughts and feelings must lead them into the same conflict within | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| same conflict within themselves since all thoughts and feelings have a form and a substance in spirit | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| deeper than that and come to your real feelings, to those which remain so often in the | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| to have to recognize that many of your feelings still deviate quite a bit from your thoughts | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| true purification. Those who can bring their innermost feelings into their consciousness and are willing to recognize | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| consciousness and are willing to recognize that these feelings do not always run parallel with what they | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| or that wish, but with your self-will, your feelings, and often even in your thinking. You want | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| their thoughts. Or they will not interpret these feelings correctly and will allow this driving force to | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| mistakes. Not realizing the real nature of the feelings and the search, the person will look for | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| where they already understand what these hitherto inexplicable feelings of longing really are have taken a great | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| people, but more so in one's inner attitudes, feelings, and reactions. Those who will not make a | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| torn in many directions, possessed by very disharmonious feelings. Therefore, the more the laws of God extend | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| give. It is just that, in ignorance, genuine feelings are channeled through the sick lower self into | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| not be able to avoid the vague, weary feelings. This is so because if the energy of | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| is so because if the energy of their feelings were channeled in the right way, even in | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| anybody in their environment who can elicit positive feelings. Then they would reach out with a fully | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| just as much importance to the other person's feelings as to their own. All this cannot be | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| you may agree intellectually and in principle, the feelings lag behind, except in very rare cases. Naturally | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| genuine love, and thus also toward lifting the feelings of longing, sadness, nostalgia, or whatever else you | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| they cut themselves completely off from too strong feelings. When you love in a healthy and genuine | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| then produce warning signals in the form of feelings of world weariness. Another source of world weariness | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| much more in their intellect than in their feelings, but since the unhealthy feelings cannot adapt themselves | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| than in their feelings, but since the unhealthy feelings cannot adapt themselves to the healthy, conscious thinking | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| sadness, and anyone who is haunted by similar feelings frequently should search in this direction. Of course | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| true spiritual home does not completely explain the feelings of world weariness. The unsatisfied longing is indeed | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| clash with such fury that the waves of feelings completely submerge the person, so that he or | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| their soul. There are also other causes for feelings of world weariness. All of them stem from | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| theme. This is self-pity, which often strengthens the feelings of world weariness. Wallowing in woes feels so | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| and again, heal your soul and bring your feelings -- not only your thoughts and actions -- | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| palpable reality. This, in turn, will increase your feelings of security and deepen your trust in the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| entire being on the deepest level of your feelings, then you will have fulfilled the conditions. Then | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| You know by now that all thoughts and feelings create spiritual forms of the greatest reality, even | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| assume that only their actions count; yet their feelings are also actions and have just as tangible | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| about all this, and liberate yourself from your feelings of resistance, which will certainly emerge, at least | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| continuous, ever-vibrating, circular motion. Nothing is static, neither feelings nor circumstances, nothing at all. Imagine a wheel | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| of beliefs without much thinking or examining their feelings about them. They will never know what it | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the most good. If you follow your love feelings, you would certainly give it to the person | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| be happy, that would be impossible, but your feelings should learn not to attribute so much importance | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to attribute so much importance to yourselves. Your feelings should learn that the whole movement of Creation | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| others. Whoever can awaken and cultivate these higher feelings within the soul will truly come alive and | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| are still slaves to your faults and negative feelings. Only by accepting yourself as you are can | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| if there are still traces of these negative feelings in the soul, such people will know how | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the strong bondage to material things certain low feelings will be awakened. This is how the Spirit | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| can. Do I limit and constrict the instinctual feelings through the intellect, which itself is ultimately a | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the same unproductive current, thus increasing their guilt feelings. These guilt feelings have further consequences and a | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| current, thus increasing their guilt feelings. These guilt feelings have further consequences and a chain reaction is | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| realize that the terrible upset, the exaggerated guilt feelings about faults and shortcomings, are nothing but a | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| with all your faults, devoid of defensiveness and feelings of disharmony, as an uninvolved observer would, you | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| him and give him a bad conscience. These feelings in turn will create a resistance against the | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| he will also have to notice that his feelings were still opposed to his controlled reactions, and | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| action. It is easier to control actions than feelings, and the danger is that you may cover | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| more spiritual work is needed to change the feelings, and you will not shy away from such | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| you could easily conclude, at least in your feelings, that if the heaviness and unpleasantness is likely | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to be nourished so that they penetrate the feelings; they have to be formulated again and again | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| and rebuilt. With time, they will affect the feelings. Whoever has this attitude and asks for the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| spiritual picture is imprinted. Those who free the feelings here and so determine when and how to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| allow that the people who bring out unpleasant feelings in you are also God's children, just as | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| in doing so, your attitude, and therefore your feelings too, will undergo a subtle change and you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| first be difficult and cause resistance, because your feelings are not always willing to change. Whenever there | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| willing to change. Whenever there are strong negative feelings of any kind there has to be a | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| dissolve the inner knot. If you harbor negative feelings, something in you must be unresolved, no matter | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| of another human being can give you disharmonious feelings if there is not something amiss in you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| failed to fulfill God's will. For one person, feelings of disharmony might take the form of general | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| your being, your actions, your thoughts, and your feelings? Try for instance to imagine this: If you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| those for whom you still may harbor negative feelings. Often you are not even clear about your | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| Humans tend to produce false, unhealthy, exaggerated guilt feelings which are not justified. The inner process works | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| in their unconscious all kinds of unreal guilt feelings, which either do not at all apply, or | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| Perhaps you will then receive further thoughts and feelings about how to apply them very personally in | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| deep inside. It is almost impossible to describe feelings in words, ever, so just try to understand | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| When we explain to you that thoughts and feelings are forms, it becomes somewhat easier for you | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| confirm that at times you have known such feelings. The less purified the soul is -- and | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| really mean? Are my actions supported by my feelings or do I have motives behind these actions | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| war. This does not apply to thoughts and feelings only, or to individual reactions to general political | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| times on earth may therefore not coincide with feelings of happiness when, one day, you look again | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| By the same token, if you observe your feelings closely, you will find that untruth, pleasant as | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| and should you wish additional answers, formulate your feelings and ask God again: Which is true? I | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| actions can; however, you cannot directly control your feelings. You may know very well that it is | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| upward step you take on the path, your feelings will change automatically, naturally, and gradually. One way | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| detachment and in a relaxed way, without guilt feelings, so that you can perceive whenever your emotions | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| to the way you want your thoughts and feelings to be. You have to learn to view | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| If I show my affection or my true feelings, what will people think? I might be hurt | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| have to keep your eyes open, your inner feelings and perception tuned to the spirit world. You | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| prone to letting the uncertainties ferment in your feelings and create disorder in your soul. All unclarified | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| kind of thinking we should have to the feelings in us and not be in conflict? ANSWER | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| meditate, listen within you. Just observe your inner feelings, reactions, and trends. Do not try to cover | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| trends. Do not try to cover your true feelings for whatever motive. Say to God, I want | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| temporary truth about me, about all my real feelings and thoughts. For you cannot reach absolute truth | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| yourself. Observe yourself clinically. Then just note your feelings; register them with detachment. Say to yourself: This | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| but in this or that respect my true feelings, my inner thoughts, still deviate from what I | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| have put yourself. Take yourself humbly and without feelings of guilt: This is the way I am | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| created not only by thoughts, but also by feelings, since a feeling is really just an unthought | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| according to the intensity of the thoughts or feelings, are vague and weak, or definite, strong, and | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| does not agree with their still predominant lower-self feelings. Their giving and their generosity are just a | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| right act is entirely unsupported by the unpurified feelings, and therefore the person is at war within | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| strive for development in order to purify one's feelings and desires. But if this is not accomplished | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| clear and true picture about the discrepancy between feelings and actions. In this way, no mask self | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| in that way fool themselves about their real feelings and motives by not showing them, and not | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| vision and inner conviction. Be aware that your feelings are still unpurified in this or that respect | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| As I have explained it, even if the feelings cannot be purified at once, because this takes | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| to necessity and your own convenience while your feelings are still unpurified and not always in accordance | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| You just have to use your intuition, your feelings, and perhaps you will sense what I mean | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| I have said many times, your thoughts and feelings are spiritual creations. They create forms of all | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| ascertain the existence in you of the various feelings, desires, and attitudes. Then you will be able | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| actions that obviously harm other people, but in feelings and inner reactions that also put the gratification | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| mentality. There, everything is the result of thoughts, feelings, and deeds. Therefore, spirits of the same development | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| deeds. Changing your thoughts is not sufficient. Your feelings have to be changed too, and this cannot | 18 FREE WILL |