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| exist came into being. Nevertheless, it is a gross error. As a matter of fact, it is | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| conception of free will is of course a gross error. God has created the Universe, which is | 18 FREE WILL |
| to be materialistic. However, it would be a gross generalization to state that all, or even most | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| active and woman entirely passive. This is a gross misunderstanding, and also illogical. For Adam and Eve | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them as a spiritual necessity, it shows a gross misunderstanding of what true spirituality is. It shows | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| shed the burden of the physical body, of gross physical matter. You could not sustain a lifetime | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| main reason for sleep. To free oneself of gross matter and to move into a wider dimension | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| you can harbor such powers within might mean gross overvaluation. This you fear. In order to be | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| serve you. To want it now is a gross misunderstanding of the functions of the ego. You | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| another geographical sphere. This, of course, is a gross misunderstanding, for what is meant by the story | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| in spite of their secrecy is felt as gross injustice, in the sense of They did not | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| is pleasure itself. The human body in its gross matter represents an obstruction that can be overcome | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| because they are even less blocked by the gross matter of physical life. It is important to | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Your habit of putting effect before cause creates gross misconceptions and misinterpretations of life that prevent you | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
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| the dark forces. You have to stand your ground alone, and act right out of your own | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| well -- so that you can stand your ground even better. Only then are you strong enough | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| you humans: earth would not be a testing ground, and it would be meaningless to strive for | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| will make you feel that there is safe ground under your feet and establish your permanent trust | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| human dogma, and thus they lose the solid ground from under their feet. Both groups represent extremes | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| yourself. Then you do not stand on solid ground. Almost all of you human beings are still | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| result of their choices, they have no firm ground under their feet. They do not belong anywhere | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| be removed while its root remains in the ground. When the root is pulled out, the symptom | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| Love. That is clear, that is the only ground I can stand on, my only fixed point | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| generally valid rule for establishing the right middle ground; everything depends on the character. If a person | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| Everyone must find his or her own middle ground, and you will certainly find yours on this | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| it now. First you have to prepare the ground, lay the foundation stone through this initial fight | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the difficult process of self-purification will prepare the ground for becoming able to receive and experience absolute | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| incarnation or, due to certain circumstances, afterwards. The ground has to be prepared, and this means perfection | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| the foundation of your life. It is the ground you walk on, symbolically speaking! When you decide | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you may find out or sense what your ground being is, which does not exclude, of course | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| be possible for you to find out the ground tone or marked quality of your being. Since | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| to the fallen spirits who have kept the ground perfection in its original nature and talent basically | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| degrees of density. The process of uncovering the ground perfection is the path of purification. This may | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| So the only way to build a secure ground on which to stand is to stop the | 31 SHAME |
| appear to you as if you had firm ground under your feet for the first time in | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| understanding your own, laugh with him, build common ground with him. Do not set yourself up as | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| your distorted self-love. I realize this is slippery ground, my friends. Those of you who are not | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| are lost. You believe you lose the firm ground under your feet, that your whole world stands | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the time. With this realization you prepare the ground to allow your real self to evolve, to | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| been absent? Would you then have stood your ground and been true to your personality? Can you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| be likely to abuse these powers, on the ground of the premise that one creates one's life | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| find the greater subtleties of your nature. Much ground has been covered since those early stages of | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| when it does come, it threatens the very ground you stand on, the precarious pseudo- safety of | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| real solid self that will stand on firm ground. For only in the mature emotions, in the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| yourself subside, you automatically build on real, safe ground -- on what is feasible. Your self- confidence | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| out the intuitive reliable picture based on solid ground. It derives from yourself, from your own freedom | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| are still not firmly planted in this new ground. You still fluctuate and move away from it | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| to gain a firm hold on your home ground, if you wish to utilize this time in | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| because unless we are talking on a common ground, I'm afraid we have no means of communication | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| make certain superficial reforms that have no solid ground and are therefore bound to end in an | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| guilt, which must rob you of the firm ground under your feet that only being yourself can | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| this will bring true security, resting on firm ground, that will withstand the storms of life. As | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| will you begin to live on the firm ground of peace and reality. Now let us discuss | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| One fights for one's life, and feels losing ground, rather than gaining, because the old ways of | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| have nothing to fear. You stand on firm ground. Fulfillment of any expression of your self can | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| -- safe and secure, with a firmly established ground under their feet. Home means the inner place | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| no other salvation than the discovery of the ground of one's own being which is so alive | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| very premise you start from is already the ground work for further and deeper entanglement and error | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| territory that was alien and inaccessible into familiar ground on which you feel at ease with yourself | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| faced. If a relationship is dissolved on this ground; namely, that it is more destructive and pain- | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| what you have to learn. A lot of ground must still be covered by every one of | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| see where you are with respect to the ground still to be covered within yourself. How much | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| that much more real, you have gained significant ground. This will make the further steps in that | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| faculties, all its resources, and use all the ground you have gained in order to be fully | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| and hitting, but there is a safe inner ground due to the absence of the venomous forcing-current | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| wants to bypass the effortfulness of learning the ground rules can never unfold any creative ability, no | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| entities grow in various ways and prepare the ground for necessary new attitudes toward life. Yet they | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| safe. He or she stands on the firm ground of reality, fulfilling the functions of the ego | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| you when your ego stands on the firm ground built by self-discipline. Create a new climate in | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| faced, that have no golden point at their ground: The areas of your terror or your evil | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| expansion. There cannot be venturing out into new ground, into new realizations and states of awareness. There | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| centered within, being firm, self-assertive, standing your own ground, being secure in your own self, rather than | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| temporary leap that will land you on firm ground. The firm ground is a reality of a | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| will land you on firm ground. The firm ground is a reality of a new kind that | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| new kind of reality from a truly firm ground where you can rest and function, you cannot | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| positiveness and love. To find this new firm ground that is conflictless, you must make a leap | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| how tentatively, you have then left the pseudo-firm ground of your old security which had seemed the | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| this leap you open yourself to the divine ground within you so that it can supply the | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| reality your own, and into a permanent home ground, you undertake an even greater leap of courage | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| it. It is not yet my own permanent ground. To make it my ground, I fully surrender | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| my own permanent ground. To make it my ground, I fully surrender to the greater reality in | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| greater leap that will land you on new ground -- the divine ground. It will bring you | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| land you on new ground -- the divine ground. It will bring you into a new reality | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| the little mind. It stands on much firmer ground than that. If the whole world confronts the | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| inner universe you have gained as your home ground, as a result of your consistent surrender to | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| this limited vision was a much needed testing ground. All the manifestations of strife and upheaval, natural | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| fences and making new territory your own familiar ground, in which you soon feel as comfortable as | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| the issue. You feel you lose your inner ground; you are no longer centered in yourself. Of | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| -- but that is built on a shaky ground. When that admiration and approval is withheld, or | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| approval is withheld, or perhaps even reversed, the ground shakes and you become lost; you cease to | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| inner landscape that will become your own home ground when your commitment to all of yourself and | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| on your earth. You have created more home ground for yourself. In your inner life this is | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| environment and will rest on a very firm ground. This is monarchy and feudalism in the divine | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| full flowering in you as you prepare the ground. The topic of this lecture -- cause and | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| how can they be trusted in anything? The ground seems to slip away from under the feet | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| hoard is erroneous. Test once again a new ground rule of life and begin gradually to discard | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| He who builds a house on unsafe, sandy ground, may indeed erect a lovely-looking structure that holds | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| sins, if you will -- without losing the ground under your feet. And that is the healthy | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |