| Hardens.....................3 | |
| and therefore doomed to failure. This futile struggle hardens your psychic material. The more brittle it becomes | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| and energy, as opposed to the block that hardens and prohibits the flow. The block can be | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| inertia the radiant matter of divine influx thickens, hardens, blocks, and deadens. On the level of consciousness | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Hardness....................7 | |
| physically. It is just that you feel a hardness in you, something that prevents you from being | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| real or pseudo-positive emotions, they will manufacture a hardness and aggressiveness inside themselves that is no more | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| When the spring has pushed through the porous hardness it probably is fresher and cleaner than ever | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not contain the fear, bitterness, self-pity, struggle, and hardness contained in the pain of identification, in pity | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| pain, and partly from your pathwork -- the hardness becomes sufficiently fluid to let go of some | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| do not, by any means, justify your defensive hardness by judging and doubting. This is your greatest | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| up, of giving up your defenses, your brittle hardness with which you think to protect yourself. In | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Hardship....................95 | |
| about to be incarnated know that they need hardship to shake them into wakefulness so that they | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| that the equation must always come out right: hardship is self-created, yet precisely because of that, it | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| bitterness. The sadness that comes from undergoing such hardship will in some way help to free the | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| which are no longer the same; when the hardship was unavoidable, your surrender was the right response | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| see this in the beginning only as a hardship. You focus on the price you must pay | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| in you that is responsible for your outer hardship and eliminate the fault, knowing that the outer | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| thus prepared for what to expect, so much hardship, and often even tragedy, could be avoided. If | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| you should have to go through so much hardship, so much testing. And yet, there is a | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| order to find the roots of your present hardship; for as long as a trend has not | 18 FREE WILL |
| person every worldly power and release from all hardship if he forsook God. If he remained faithful | 22 SALVATION |
| off from it, this was merely an additional hardship, for all the manifestations coming to Him originated | 22 SALVATION |
| God can only offer you intense suffering and hardship in every possible respect. Can you imagine what | 22 SALVATION |
| is conveyed by each difficult period and every hardship. Only after a considerable time will your mind | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| means to understand the message of a particular hardship, to really understand it to its core, will | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| Only after this condition has been reached can hardship begin to cease altogether. You ought to be | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| way all the time may seem like a hardship at first, but if you learn to be | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| of their society. Otherwise they might cause more hardship, not only to themselves, thereby becoming incapable of | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| desires is against spiritual law and must bring hardship and imprisonment to the self. Take a spiritually | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| to open yourself to everything life may bring: hardship and joy, unhappiness and happiness, periods of darkness | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| lack a fulfillment, or if any kind of hardship exists in your life, it is because you | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| hardships. On the other hand, to deny that hardship can exist is a distortion of a healthy | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| only to physical sickness but to every other hardship in life -- and hardship is always disease | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| to every other hardship in life -- and hardship is always disease, spiritually speaking. The technicalities of | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| some parents who have to go through the hardship of losing a child, you yourself can pay | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| it works for humanity as a whole: the hardship one goes through because one has sown the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| them. By their unhappiness such people constantly inflict hardship on others with the aim of forcing their | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the universe is concerned, there need be no hardship or unhappiness. I would like to discuss tonight | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| is only partly true. You can say a hardship is a test in the sense that your | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| proper attitude toward life and want self-responsibility. Otherwise, hardship will not even be a test. One day | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| for truth, unless you have gone through the hardship you yourself created by your ignorance or distortion | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| upon Himself such a tremendous task and such hardship He did not have to endure in order | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| grace, would mean to go through so much hardship, destruction and tragedy. It would be unbearable. And | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| humanity could feel that, so much sorrow and hardship could be avoided! For many of you feel | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| although God's ways are wonderful, they are a hardship on you, demanding a saintly life that is | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so important because it causes you even more hardship. A further complication is that often the outward | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| personally involved. It will no longer cause you hardship. This may sound impossible, but it is true | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| self-pity and it will not be a real hardship for you. Therefore it will not make you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| person. Yes, there are instances in which outer hardship becomes so difficult to bear that the psyche | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and genuinely evaluate its overall significance. Therefore the hardship will not be so great. Your inner child's | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| why such very great ones voluntarily choose a hardship, even though it is not in their karma | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| in you has so precisely brought about the hardship that you feel as injustice. The more connections | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| whether in minimum or in optimum state, no hardship would have to come to you and I | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a state of being, without worry, responsibility, or hardship. The more the entity grows, the more it | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| He forfeits all pleasure and happiness by self-imposed hardship. In other words, he chooses unnecessary hardship because | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| self-imposed hardship. In other words, he chooses unnecessary hardship because he so greatly fears another hardship. QUESTION | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| unnecessary hardship because he so greatly fears another hardship. QUESTION: How about the spiritual ascetic? ANSWER: Exactly | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| handicaps. You are so afraid of the inevitable hardship that you take onto yourself more hardship. Find | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| inevitable hardship that you take onto yourself more hardship. Find this pattern and you are bound to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and you are bound to discover that inevitable hardship ceases after you have acknowledged and gone through | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| are there any questions? QUESTION: How can a hardship not be a hardship? Take torture, for instance | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| QUESTION: How can a hardship not be a hardship? Take torture, for instance. I'm not afraid of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| has not gone through it, it is a hardship. You are not expected to tell yourself the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of these mutually exclusive ways presents a particular hardship for the psyche. Needless to say, the conscious | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| then become an added menace beyond their objective hardship. The existence of the difficulties is a proof | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| would be misleading to say that they cause hardship for you. They are the product of your | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| a clinging, protected child, to refuse the apparent hardship of adulthood, self-responsibility, and independence. To the child | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you ask God to help you overcome a hardship in your life and then you sit down | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| do not examine sufficiently why you have this hardship. You may do so peremptorily, because someone else | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| that you have nothing to do with the hardship. It has just fallen upon you undeservedly, and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| must therefore sometimes be expressed in their apparent hardship. Without this hardship, unification could not take place | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| be expressed in their apparent hardship. Without this hardship, unification could not take place. This does not | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| find and eliminate this defensive wall, so much hardship could be avoided in day-to-day communications. People would | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| freed of an illusion. There is no greater hardship, no greater prison than illusion. There is nothing | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| contains considerations such as this: If others have hardship too, I am not so bad, I am | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| definite restitutive acts, that perhaps cause you some hardship, will appear as the solution -- and you | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the limitation of time will not be a hardship. At this point, because it has so much | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| your deliberate self-denial, which causes so much unnecessary hardship. You will then be able to go about | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| ignoring the process must create untold and unnecessary hardship and confusion. If a boss, an employee, a | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| know that what you leave behind is unnecessary hardship, and the growth you move toward, the new | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| happier, easier, fuller life and hold onto unnecessary hardship. People's unconscious conclusions claim that it is to | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| understood that this effort does not lead to hardship, slavery and suffering, but to happy experience, freedom | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| their results. If you rebel against your present hardship, which is the result of your past ignorance | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the removal of the cause that created the hardship in the first place. Accepting your limitations does | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| is this very negative, false idea creates the hardship. Bring out into the open how such a | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| that nothing negative need be accepted, that all hardship, even death, is unnecessary. It says that there | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| yourself into an abyss of danger, pain, and hardship. This is why fear increases, and so does | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| did I plague myself with all the unnecessary hardship? And you step out from your confinement. The | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| ease the spirit longs for, a state where hardship does not exist. You yearn more for this | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| in what way you have caused a specific hardship, difficulty, or void. When such meditation is used | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| to leaving the dualistic life, with all its hardship and hopelessness. Perhaps you can now understand some | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| It is tragic how much waste and unnecessary hardship exist because of allegiance to unnatural laws. The | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| aspects of your being, and each difficulty and hardship requests something from you. It contains a distinct | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| our past attitudes and actions, we cannot avoid hardship now when our past attitudes and actions were | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| we are blind to the causes of current hardship. But we do possess the total freedom to | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| Accepting reality and mature self-responsibility seems an insurmountable hardship if not accompanied by pleasure as a by-product | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| degree you assume what initially appears as the hardship of adulthood with all that this implies, something | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| very regrettable because it causes you more unnecessary hardship. As I said, becoming aware of this reaction | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| The compulsive orderliness creates as much trouble and hardship in the person's inner life as disorderliness does | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| your own inner regions with all its apparent hardship of self-revelation and self-confrontation will make you increasingly | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| if it seems to bring momentary discomfort or hardship. Of course that is an illusion. Discomfort and | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Of course that is an illusion. Discomfort and hardship exist and must manifest, whether or not you | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| the only real way you can understand the hardship and therefore really dissolve it. Denying the hardship | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| hardship and therefore really dissolve it. Denying the hardship only appears temporarily to eliminate it, so that | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| appears temporarily to eliminate it, so that the hardship appears to be created by the decision to | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| who harbor an image that learning is a hardship, a boring and dull task, even if they | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |