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| the right way. Because for someone who has gained a certain understanding, it will be easier to | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| before you can give yourself, you must have gained yourself. You cannot give what you do not | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| they can help with what they have already gained, yet they are not truly capable of giving | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| to what is easiest. But what is easily gained is not worth much. Only what comes to | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| the joy, the inner liberation for each victory gained in this struggle cannot be compared with anything | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| above all the insight that nothing can be gained without discipline, regular work, and the best will | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| may very well remain and nothing much is gained. As long as an evil is not torn | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| what to do next. The more knowledge is gained from without, the more right answers one can | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| question is settled within you, you will have gained more inner peace. Anyone who has attained something | 18 FREE WILL |
| to help you to understand. When you have gained this understanding, you will be in a position | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| life, even in the worst cases, something is gained, even if the benefits can only be fully | 22 SALVATION |
| enough developed by far. But he could have gained some progress in his spiritual development. He could | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| even though some of you may have already gained a certain amount of self-knowledge. There is not | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| be broken if sufficient self-awareness and understanding is gained about these facts. If this is not done | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| consideration of yourself. Later on, when you have gained further knowledge about yourself and about your subconscious | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| nearby in such moments, then you will have gained a major victory. I want to impress this | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| will never be convinced if you have not gained divine enlightenment. Divine enlightenment is something you have | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| that every time you start anew, you have gained a profounder insight into your problems, and you | 36 PRAYER |
| have escaped your consciousness. Only after you have gained some understanding of your inner reactions and their | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to work is with the understanding you have gained, quietly, patiently, and steadily accepting your temporary inability | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| and its image. With the knowledge you have gained since, you will now understand better why I | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| and you enjoy the clear air of a gained truth a little further. But when the downward | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| an easy experience -- will you have truly gained real independence. So do not seek this liberation | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| and where it does not. Once you have gained clarity, you will have not only made a | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| come to understand fully that any possible advantage gained over a brother or sister who thereby suffers | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| but it is limited. A spirit who has gained some understanding and vision, some self-awareness, even before | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| about life. But once this different outlook is gained, it is more useful to be in contact | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| come to terms with the knowledge you have gained, the happier the times of fruition will be | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| no longer hold true tomorrow, when you have gained additional knowledge, not only generally speaking, but also | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| being fully aware of myself. Once you have gained this freedom, the right middle way will not | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| World to hand out knowledge that should be gained from within, is a great misunderstanding. Such given | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| love cannot be forced. Love can only be gained by removing all blocks and errors in the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| you need not fear. Whenever you shall have gained the full understanding of what self-responsibility means, fear | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| does not make sense. The freedom and safety gained from complete self-responsibility is something that cannot be | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| of humankind. Some of my friends who have gained sufficient insight into themselves do have some understanding | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| psychological conflict is straightened out and you have gained inner maturity in this respect, your attitude would | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the same principle. A good result you have gained, the good effect of a good cause in | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| would never be a hindrance. Once you have gained it through your efforts, it remains with you | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| remove remaining ignorance and blindness. Knowledge you have gained will always be yours, regardless of the circumstances | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| meet even tragedies with true detachment, which is gained only by maturing your emotions. True detachment means | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| slights lose their importance. It can never be gained by forcefully superimposing right concepts on childish, illusory | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| unto yourself, the universal consciousness can only be gained by this very process of self-finding through which | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| this pain conscious of the understanding you have gained. Only by doing this will you grasp the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| merely words. After you have worked diligently and gained some major insights, and have perhaps succeeded in | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| if you suppress it. And understanding can be gained only by the procedure I always advocate. While | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| path. For those of you who have already gained an overall understanding about your inner problems, it | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| of losing any possible success that may be gained. The deeper knowledge of your soul transmits to | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| air of having climbed a little further and gained more ample truth. But when the downward curve | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the light of the new knowledge you have gained. Of course, this is also a question of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and understanding. You broaden the view you have gained so far. By doing this, you yourself will | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| short the life span, that something cannot be gained in this lifetime. It is a question of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| give them a deeper understanding of themselves, whether gained from a dream, or from the observation of | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| known, all the revelations and insights he had gained. Has it not happened to each one of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| is really pride and pretense, you will have gained a most substantial insight that enables you to | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| will you relinquish them. The initial inner freedom gained in this way will allow you to deal | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| return to it later but with new understanding gained while having been away from the spiritual point | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for you or for others. After thus having gained insight and understanding, new warm, good emotions will | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| In the meantime, further insight and understanding was gained, so that now, with some of the new | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the ability to cope with life will be gained, in all its favorable and unfavorable aspects, acquiring | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| into isolated problems. But you have not yet gained an overall and concise understanding of your life | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you cannot form new habits until you have gained a fuller view and understanding of the totality | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| and against your own interest. Once you have gained this insight, it will no longer be difficult | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you cannot develop true self-confidence, which cannot be gained in any other way. For this procedure requires | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| to dispense with them. You have not yet gained the sense, awareness, and experience of the real | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| way of action and reaction after you have gained a sufficient amount of insight and understanding. Such | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| presents symptoms from which much insight can be gained; it may spur you to live more fully | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| later in life. Then, after understanding has been gained, the sting of fear, resentment, self- negation, and | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| it cannot be true faith unless you have gained the maturity of faith in yourself. Now, how | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the past year. Each one of you has gained a little more insight into himself. All of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| true perspective, and then self- assurance will be gained in a genuine way. If the frequent wrong | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| we will now use the knowledge you have gained about yourself through your work on this path | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| have no effect because the soul has already gained a new potential. Similarly, the person who tries | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| astrology. Yet only very limited understanding has been gained here. But everyone knows and often even expresses | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| are not easy to find unless you have gained considerable self-knowledge. To summarize: The prohibition against allowing | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| resistant to change in spite of the understanding gained; in what respect you are still in the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| this again with the greater understanding you have gained. The life force is a free-flowing energy current | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| without it power and advantages could not be gained, and then, eventually, as a true inner development | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| comparable to the conscious concepts an individual has gained through absorbing good education, good influences, and intellectual | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| of ignoring it. After extensive insights have been gained, your permanent personality problems and unfulfillments often require | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| into these interplays, the freedom you will have gained cannot be measured in words. Your ability to | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| in reality, true dignity and selfhood can be gained only by giving up pride and self-will. The | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| It is not sufficient to gain, or have gained, understanding of your images and misconceptions, nor how | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| must deepen and widen the knowledge you have gained so far. It must make it an integral | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| better this is understood, the more security is gained, and the more you are in real control | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| been made in the group, and sufficient awareness gained, so that the now can be looked for | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| that automatism still exists. Once awareness has been gained, it must not remain just that. Are you | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| path promises. Some of my friends have occasionally gained some glimpses of this already. How does this | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| good, unless they use the intellectual maturity thus gained toward moving inward, always to a deeper level | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| the inner consciousness. But as more insight is gained, little by little, and the destructive attitudes change | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| of others. Additional understanding and perception have been gained by all of you, enabling you to meet | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| wonderful ways in all areas where you have gained freedom through awareness, but in areas of unawareness | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| you here have not only understood, but have gained an insight, or a glimpse, a hope and | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| casually and fleetingly. It is possible to have gained one important insight into their existence but to | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| the first glimpses of your negative desires have gained a new strength and a new hope. For | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| new outlook. Those friends who have not yet gained this awareness should try their very best to | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| weak, it is unhealthy. But when you have gained a healthy ego, you must come to the | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| strong, wonderful feelings, will dissolve. You have already gained some preliminary insight into this fear, and this | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| of the great understanding and truth you have gained and certain changes in your inner being, you | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| -- through assimilation, digestion, utilization of what was gained, and rest. In the disturbed organism, distorted by | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| were in pain. Safety and pleasure cannot be gained when the spiritual pulsebeat is stopped through hardening | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| They do not realize that nothing would be gained by this, even if it were possible. They | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| begin. Trust in the involuntary functions can be gained only slowly, but it is essential. Give yourself | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| from an overall point of view the glimpses gained have revealed a greater reality beyond the surface | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| Do not use the knowledge you have already gained about yourself as the answer. It may even | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| you choose to make it. The self-respect thus gained will then make you want to make the | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| out of it only when you have already gained a certain amount of insight into the irrational | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| that I can remain in what I have gained; so that I can remain in my clarified | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| the degree the personality awakens and self-consciousness is gained, such decisions and choices of attitude are possible | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it sooner. When you hide it, you have gained nothing, for the terror will still leave its | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| thus become that much more real, you have gained significant ground. This will make the further steps | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| resources, and use all the ground you have gained in order to be fully determined to experience | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| admitting the destructive intent, then nothing is ever gained. But if the adult mind is used to | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| for all concerned, then a lot will be gained and the truth of the situation will emerge | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| reality. Every step of the way this newly gained reality opens to a life wider and fuller | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| consequently afraid. They lack freedom. Freedom can be gained only to the degree one uses voluntary self-discipline | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| humanity has already achieved. The territory people have gained determines their degree of functioning, the scope of | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| diagnosis may be, how many insights you have gained into the background, history and dynamics of a | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| individuality. Somewhere along your path you will have gained sufficient self-awareness to have a subliminal understanding of | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| conscious awareness. In still other areas you have gained full purification and are clear and free. This | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| order to tie up certain insights you have gained. To begin with, I have to recapitulate some | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| in which seemingly new knowledge is to be gained -- although it is actually very old. This | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| in a positive, relaxed sense. It must be gained and regained, for it is lost over and | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| longer in the total unknown, because you had gained glimpses of reality in the course of the | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| difference between this state and the first glimpses gained on the second step is that those glimpses | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| not experience this at all. What you have gained remains your reality. You know it is more | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| the reality of the inner universe you have gained as your home ground, as a result of | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| of development is reached, so that what was gained through the emphasis on, say individuality, can then | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| old limited consciousness. A new vision must be gained in which the self and others are perceived | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| nothing could unify, no truth could ever be gained. And yet it is equally true that love | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| cling to the old state, you have not gained your own self and are not able to | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| self-discipline is great. Without it nothing can be gained or accomplished in life on any level. Freedom | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| having been guided into this understanding, they have gained a profound substance and foundation. If they can | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| real way, you will find that you have gained new life. In fact, those very feelings you | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| grounds, you will not succeed until you have gained the spiritual courage to be willing to sacrifice | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| These aspects appeared as new when you first gained them in the previous curve. Thus the old | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| to the inspiration of evil entities and then gained power and influence over the rest of the | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| learned to do so and thereby you have gained new freedom and new self-esteem. What is still | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| of creative manifestation. With the knowledge you have gained you can easily observe this in your lives | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| this step was necessary before maturity could be gained. Just as individuals cannot learn unless they experience | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| have liberated yourself and improved your life circumstances, gained new self-confidence and a sense of your own | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| preferable to stay in the continuity you have gained through your growth and development? The break in | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |