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| not selfishly, but constructively. Your attention should be focused as well on your problems from a spiritual | 36 PRAYER |
| the images which cause conflict and unhappiness. We focused on the healing of the sick part of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| a hurt. But as long as you remain focused on what happened and ignore the reason behind | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| work. Maybe just because all the concentration is focused on the inner work which progresses very well | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by rationalizations, that it takes a very painstaking, focused look to gain an awareness of all this | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| will furnish the clue, once your attention is focused on them. This would be impossible if you | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| one language. The expression of the spirit was focused to one point and not scattered as is | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of you. Throughout the ages divine effort was focused on conveying true religion to humankind. That endeavor | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Becoming aware of your needs even superficially requires focused attention, considerable self-honesty, and much digging on your | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| aware of them demands your full attention and focused inner will. Yet once you have made a | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| of war, with most of your mental faculties focused on defending yourself, which does not leave you | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and you cannot really communicate. Your system is focused on one small point as you defend yourself | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| but stands out clearly once one's attention is focused in the right direction. What you mentioned in | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| of erroneous, confused, unclear thinking. If we remain focused on the how, we will gain clarity. If | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| intense you are, the more serious, responsible, and focused you are; conversely, the less intense, the more | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| your heart be open, may your attention be focused, so that you can absorb as much as | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| and thus build productively. But we are now focused on those areas where you are not expanding | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| bottleneck, the question of identification has to be focused on. What part of yourself do you identify | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| comprehending the link between cause and effect requires focused attention and awareness. Only when your consciousness expands | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| mind that must be dealt with in active, focused exercises. The more you are willing to do | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| and the ego -- affords possibilities of a focused awareness that is lacking when these unpurified aspects | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| not, and you still create with a strongly focused mind and will, the superimposed outer will must | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| immovable reality. Once you learn to be more focused into the inner reality, you will perceive much | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| and follow the inner lifestream in a very focused and attentive way, using your finest inner perceptions | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| seems the only reality while you are exclusively focused on it. All these worlds are worlds of | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| nor the only worlds. While your consciousness is focused on any of these other worlds, you forget | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| insignificant, fraught with erroneous assumptions and therefore never focused and always countermanded by an opposite force, the | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| explosion may have less impact than a positive, focused psychic nuclear point because it occurred before greater | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| although this cannot be generalized -- are primarily focused on acquiring outer knowledge. Provided the process is | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| on the one hand, and serious commitment, endeavor, focused will and healthy aggression on the other. This | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| push itself through as long as you deliberately focused away from it. Focusing is deliberate, both in | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| it now more consistently and in a more focused way. You now know quite clearly that your | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| your consciousness you are totally, or almost totally, focused on the level of manifestation, and not on | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| The less evolved organization of consciousness, which is focused only on the outer manifestation, is in a | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| into your human understanding, where your consciousness is focused at the moment, I have to speak in | 228 BALANCE |
| can exist. Throughout the years I have constantly focused on showing you these various levels through many | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| is only cause for rejoicing! 256. INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS My beloved friends, you are blessed in | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| from a very limited angle. The mind is focused, accustomed, conditioned to operate in a certain direction | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| approach to your own and your world's salvation. Focused emptiness grows, both deliberately and spontaneously, as you | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| experiencing the inner universe -- the real world. Focused emptiness will bring you in touch with all | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| achieved. Unfocused emptiness is a lessening of consciousness. Focused emptiness is a heightening of consciousness. The former | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| other states of unconsciousness are the final stages. Focused emptiness is extremely concentrated, aware, and fully there | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| avoid a disharmonious condition and a dangerous split. Focused emptiness brings you eventually to the light of | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| the variety, the limitless possibilities of these capacities. Focused emptiness is the ideal state to be filled | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| suffering, death and all evil -- are overcome. Focused emptiness is therefore nothing but a threshold to | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| in the world of spirit. The practice of focused emptiness must never be undertaken in an attitude | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| your path. You need not spend hours practicing focused emptiness. That is not the purpose. But you | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
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| of you would this be applicable. We are focusing on the emotional currents of self-will within each | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| than by a systematic way of praying. By focusing on an object you will not learn concentration | 36 PRAYER |
| Of course, you will have difficulty maintaining and focusing your attention, but that is the work to | 36 PRAYER |
| cases where this is not so. I am focusing on a relationship where the choice is a | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| a repetitive pattern created by your image conclusions. Focusing your attention on recognizing the inner roots of | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the inner will to function. Tonight I was focusing on a problem that is crucial and widespread | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| and thus are responsible for your difficulty in focusing your attention on one particular thing. It is | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| more you succeed in becoming calm inwardly and focusing your thoughts on what you desire, the more | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| not too difficult; it is a matter of focusing your attention. By looking at your various moods | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| neglect God by not discussing Him, and that focusing attention on the distortions so as to be | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| beat. All this happens for the purpose of focusing your faculties on the danger point, to heighten | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| yourself, test various aspects of your life by focusing only on certain inner reactions. The different facets | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| a state of inner tension that only repeated focusing of one's finely attuned perception will produce verification | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| self-observation helps you to accomplish this. Such quiet focusing will make you aware of your abnormal state | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| feel the cramps and tensions. This very distinct focusing on yourself is not in the least selfish | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| being. You begin with conscious thinking, which requires focusing attention on your thinking processes -- much too | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| manifestation. One might almost say that the misguided focusing on this limited expectation of life is a | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| trick your minds have played on you by focusing only on negative views of life and thereby | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| you thus generate have learned that the specific focusing and conscious direction you give to your meditations | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| actual, imagined, or exaggerated and distorted reasons for focusing the weight of responsibility outside of the self | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| relaxed goodwill of commitment, or with the one-pointed focusing of energy, all of which are such indispensable | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| of concentration, abstractedness, absent-mindedness. These attitudes prevent the focusing necessary for the ego to transcend itself. To | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the ego requires a good deal of one-pointed focusing, of being all there, as it were. Laziness | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| acting from pride? Then visualize the same situation, focusing on how it would feel to give up | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| sustaining the order. Awareness is dealing with and focusing profoundly and completely on whatever issue is on | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| for the inner disorder. Disorder makes concentration and focusing impossible. The mind must wander, preoccupied with things | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| divine voice inside you, requires the art of focusing within. You must also practice focusing to detect | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| art of focusing within. You must also practice focusing to detect the presence of those soul movements | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| soul movements those feelings and thoughts create. Such focusing implies, of course, some ability to concentrate, but | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| will be effortless and quite natural, without deliberate focusing and concentrating. This new emphasis doesn't imply that | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| awareness can be recaptured if you so desire. Focusing constructively -- which is very different from doing | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| exploration. Therefore creation and recreation are primarily a focusing. If you create from the ego level, it | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| ego level, it will be a tense, anxiety-producing focusing. If you want to create from your inner | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| your inner being, it must be a relaxed focusing. It will be relaxed precisely because you do | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| deep inner voice that speaks truth. Then the focusing will be meaningful, relaxed, and yet concise enough | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| of human misperception stems from a very one-sided focusing and conditioning. The mind conditions its own beliefs | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| with the divine self that already exists without focusing on the problematic aspects, the blind spots. I | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| and eliminating them, suddenly, or gradually, a new focusing and awareness awaken inside of you. A knowledge | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| a different source. As channels open, a new focusing can set in. You can begin very deliberately | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| it is lost over and over again. The focusing must be done quite deliberately after a certain | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| of development and purification has been reached. The focusing will yield to connections, to listening and hearing | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| a whole, because of mass conditioning, makes such focusing virtually impossible. Many of those who are developed | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| is the result of a conditioned reflex in focusing, which, in turn, is the result of anesthesia | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| long as you deliberately focused away from it. Focusing is deliberate, both in a positive and in | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| quieted down and swept along. In a sense, focusing away from the divine voice is the anesthesia | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| the incarnatory process. In the negative sense, deliberate focusing away from the divine voice is due to | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| dwells in you. You can discover it by focusing on it. You can awaken from your dream | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| superficial facet, disconnected from the whole. This limited focusing eliminates the possibility to experience anything other than | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| is already here and not slide back into focusing your gaze on all the negativities and hopelessness | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| immediately let go and flow together in your focusing into your inner channels, to the guidance of | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| and guidance. Let us close with a deep focusing all together on the One, the one power | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| lecture on cause and effect. We are now focusing on a particular aspect of the disconnection between | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| lose their fearsome aspect. This is your path. Focusing on the inner emptiness is an additional exercise | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| your development, it can be helped along by focusing on the inner emptiness until you discover that | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| fear, you also remove an obstruction to life. Focusing on the inner space means, to begin with | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |