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turn harmful. Only assimilated, step-by-step growth is organic, healthful and constructive. If the outgoing person does not 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
your ego so as to nurture and cultivate healthful habits regarding food, sleep, exercise, in order to 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
role to play. Its task is to choose healthful habits regarding the activity of the mind, so 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
the self one tries to enforce. These are healthful habits, necessary for the involuntary processes to be 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
be reestablished in the personality. The cultivation of healthful mental habits chosen by the ego can be 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
 
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for you than the other, it is infinitely healthier for your soul, strange as this may appear 32 DECISION-MAKING
choice, for even making a negative choice is healthier than not seeing the issues clearly, hoping to 32 DECISION-MAKING
who cannot do the latter, it is infinitely healthier to think of other people by helping them 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
are ready to do it. It is certainly healthier for the soul not to revolt against God 38 IMAGES
a human being is -- it is certainly healthier to see this clearly instead of forcing it 39 IMAGE-FINDING
they believe they save themselves from bondage. The healthier you are emotionally, the less of a show 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
completely different. No, my friends, it is much healthier if you say, Even if occasionally my decisions 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
mean that these trends do not exist. The healthier a soul is, and the less influenced by 62 MAN AND WOMAN
soul. I merely wish to state that the healthier a soul is, the more a hidden creativity 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
bearing on the particular wish. In short, the healthier your psyche, the better your inner will can 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
the former, these fears are very real. The healthier and sounder a person is, spiritually and emotionally 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
human being rarely is -- it is certainly healthier to see this clearly instead of pushing and 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
your ability to live and experience pleasure. The healthier your attitude toward death, the more the life 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
cope with the unnecessary duality in a much healthier way. Simultaneously you also help to change the 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
a strong mask personality? ANSWER: Of course, the healthier a human being is, the weaker the idealized 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
may speak of primary and secondary reactions. The healthier a psyche is, the more free it is 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
into will, even if imperfect and immature, is healthier than a mature and healthy will that is 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
into action -- it will be so much healthier than willing something that is not you. If 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
those areas of your life where you are healthier and fulfilled because you are in reality. Coming 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
occurrence, whether by counterattack or by flight. The healthier the whole personality, the more certainly does this 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
among human beings: some function in a much healthier way than others, and their pleasure principle responds 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
lead to more control in a better, fuller, healthier sense. With a completely constructive psyche, the personality 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
semi-consciously, not ever completely unconsciously -- that the healthier they are to be, the more control they 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
grows, life itself expands. As a person becomes healthier and more whole, not only does the duration 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
growing experience. It is easily observable that the healthier a human being is, the less he or 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
place, your conscious ego-personality itself becomes stronger and healthier. It will be stronger in a good, relaxed 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
-- you may feel temporarily anxious. But the healthier you are, the more you trust, the more 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
then the self will grow even stronger and healthier through the very act of giving itself away 254 SURRENDER
weakens the personality. It makes the positive ego healthier and stronger. It enables you to be more 254 SURRENDER
is a cell of the Earth-plane entity. The healthier each cell becomes, the better can the total 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
 
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a completely different way. I would say the healthiest approach is to find an emotion in you 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
-- creates an unhealthy climate that makes the healthiest emotional need into something bad. This fact requires 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
trouble spots without guilt or anger, is the healthiest way conceivable of practicing discipline and self-responsibility. In 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
in life, as well as self-love in the healthiest sense, will fill you more and more, based 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
be in a state of self-love in the healthiest, most divine way, without a trace of self-indulgence 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
 
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the price everyone must pay to live life healthily! What happens when you cannot attain these goals 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
destructive if not allowed to function openly and healthily. By the same token, Adam was as much 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
interest. Or, to put it differently, unselfishness is healthily selfish. I said before that performing an unselfish 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
to this success, one may react differently and healthily in some areas of one's life, while a 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
that you consciously believe you are genuinely and healthily detached, but your exaggerated need merely festers underground 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
seemed contradictory in your belief that you are healthily interdependent with others. This healthy interdependence, however, can 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
if your personality were whole and integrated, functioning healthily on all levels. It would manifest in a 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
life, not in an unhealthy, unreasonable way, but healthily as nature squanders herself. Then, and then only 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
be acted upon. Injustices or provocations will be healthily declared once the personality reaches inner health in 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
because a part of you grows organically and healthily according to the laws of nature, while another 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
other two are bound to function just as healthily, almost in an automatic fashion. Yet, at times 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
of the too-malleable soul-stuff that did not grow healthily into resilient elasticity. Over-tender soul-stuff causes both conscious 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
is elastic -- a mixture of resilient and healthily resistant softness. This combination produces the ideal conditions 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
others' demands on you -- when you cannot healthily assimilate, evaluate, and come to terms with the 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
troubled area is. There are people who function healthily, happily, and constructively in many aspects of life 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
that matters: self-realization. Then love between individuals happens healthily and naturally, in the best possible way. Contact 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
totally lack self-assertion. Your inability or difficulty to healthily assert yourself is a direct result of having 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
be a perpetual turnover of energy in a healthily functioning person. This cannot take place when the 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
as a part of creation, difficulty in being healthily aggressive. Such an individual feels compelled to always 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
and if you are not sufficiently outgoing and healthily aggressive, or if you do not activate your 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
more profound level. This can only be done healthily without guilt when you have dealt with and 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
run on assets. Only then can they function healthily with a constant balanced flow of giving and 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
 
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buried, then you will benefit from using simple, healthy logic, which will tell you that nothing can 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE
another as love is being shared. Yet genuine, healthy love is indivisible; it never diminishes. The more 4 WORLD WEARINESS
always loves more, never less. How can genuine, healthy love be attained? Not by trying to force 4 WORLD WEARINESS
the wrong way because their soul is not healthy in this area, then the love for this 4 WORLD WEARINESS
too strong feelings. When you love in a healthy and genuine way, you never compromise your dignity 4 WORLD WEARINESS
always be able to stand up for yourself. Healthy dignity will bring you respect and not humiliation 4 WORLD WEARINESS
bring you respect and not humiliation or exploitation. Healthy love will open your eyes instead of making 4 WORLD WEARINESS
fulfillment of your own wishes. Genuine love is healthy, and as such free from masochistic or sadistic 4 WORLD WEARINESS
of letting yourself flow and surrender in a healthy way. Those who make themselves too important must 4 WORLD WEARINESS
strength which would otherwise work productively in a healthy channel and thus renew itself all the time 4 WORLD WEARINESS
the unhealthy feelings cannot adapt themselves to the healthy, conscious thinking while they are hidden in the 4 WORLD WEARINESS
which all humans who wish to live a healthy and harmonious life are subject, any reasonable human 4 WORLD WEARINESS
or her unconscious emotional currents are not completely healthy and free. You should attribute enough importance to 4 WORLD WEARINESS
feeling can in one case be right and healthy and in another case be sick. Perhaps you 4 WORLD WEARINESS
heal themselves so that as free and emotionally healthy people they may be able to really give 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
only help others truly when you become so healthy that your inner harmony will affect people positively 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
God's love for you is a clean, strong, healthy love, and therefore a more farsighted and benevolent 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
overemphasized, and the result is disharmony; then the healthy instincts wither away. This is very much the 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
You will then, in your meditations, build good, healthy spiritual forms -- for instance by visualizing yourself 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
this. To want the overall goal with a healthy will is very important, but to exercise a 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
is still present. It is an error in healthy, logical thinking. A revision of thinking is necessary 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
is justified and where you could feel a healthy, constructive repentance which would never drag you down 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
When you ask God for forgiveness with this healthy repentance and really want to change, you will 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
from one spot to another; if you have healthy limbs you can do it at will. But 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
But the question is, what kind of grief? Healthy sorrow does not feel like a heavy burden 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
being. It would not make sense for the healthy and harmonious feminine to change over to the 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
a feminine sign and yet be an entirely healthy man; the same holds for the woman who 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
a masculine sign. If a man is completely healthy and integrated -- which means he is fulfilling 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
to be able to accept pain in a healthy way, as I have explained before. If you 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
want to see. This whole process is extremely healthy and it will give you infinitely more strength 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
not. The person who wants to become happy, healthy, and at peace inwardly, needs, in order to 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
also a little humiliation, which is good and healthy for you, particularly in the connection I have 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
fellow-creatures is the goal. And only a very healthy, very integrated, and very harmonious person, a very 18 FREE WILL
your personality and for the sake of a healthy and harmonious soul to separate these motives and 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
will be different. Whenever the soul is not healthy and mature, certain occasions will bring this out 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
outlined here. If you were entirely purified and healthy, you would not be sensitive to weather or 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
happiness, joy, pleasure -- if your soul becomes healthy again, if your inner reactions can conform to 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
receive criticism. The latter, of course, is equally healthy for the soul. Each one of you who 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
masks and defenses possible, you imbibe a very healthy medicine for yourself. At the same time you 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
be like this is to have a very healthy soul, because this means having strength, power, and 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
you meet them with open eyes and a healthy attitude and learn even while you are still 31 SHAME
you are laying the foundation to a very healthy and normal inner attitude. Think and meditate about 31 SHAME
know that this is not a good and healthy love, neither beneficial to you nor to the 32 DECISION-MAKING
treated by yourself. But if you have no healthy self-respect and do not love your greater being 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
as you are. Thus you will have a healthy basis in your soul no matter how many 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
implies having no illusions about yourself; attaining a healthy attitude toward your shortcomings, and learning to live 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
of brotherhood will be furthered. It is so healthy for your soul to open itself to your 35 TURNING TO GOD
hardship can exist is a distortion of a healthy and positive attitude. To find the right way 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
might contend that people can also have positive, healthy images engraved on their soul. That is seldom 38 IMAGES
itself. To make the distorted emotions whole and healthy, one has to work on one's findings in 39 IMAGE-FINDING
repentance. This knowledge of what to expect, this healthy attitude, this analysis of your feelings will lead 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
accepting pain -- and this is the only healthy way, avoiding both masochism and cringing revolt -- 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
appears to us like a hardened form. The healthy soul where there is no image shows itself 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO

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