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| principle in its negative aspect is the most hindering for human development. This fact should lend itself | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| preventing the struggling soul from gaining harmful and hindering knowledge, or helping the soul to regain some | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of this innermost core of your being, without hindering you by ever so slight an implication of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| work together perfectly, complementing one another rather than hindering one another. Hence the created being emanates one | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| trouble. This may have destructive side-effects, apart from hindering the personal growth process. Disharmony may be spread | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| This is one of the most frequent and hindering misconceptions in the pathwork. This is why I | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| of the cosmos. You will then realize how hindering this tautness in you is. The artificiality of | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| feelings are blocked. The personality feels guilty for hindering the natural flow of feelings, for having numbed | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| so you can proceed in your development without hindering yourselves too much. So, let us understand certain | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| such willingness, examine yourself; grave misconceptions must be hindering the willingness. Nothing could be more harmful than | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| to happen in its own organic way, without hindering it with selfwill and preconceived ideas that stem | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| in your daily life -- when you stop hindering your expansion because you have the basic faith | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| always support indifference, selfishness, nonparticipation, promoting stagnation and hindering growth and change in the self and the | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
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| into yourself to find what it is that hinders you so much. If you are afraid that | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| nothing wrong with what they want. Yet, authority hinders them, and they often feel that the authority | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| has to be worked on first, because it hinders you in coming out of your own vicious | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| self is selfish and sinful. This mass image hinders their ability to make a decision at all | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| introspection and an over-emphasis on the outgoing quality hinders progress. This imbalance, as well as the objection | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| leg more developed than the other. This imbalance hinders the integration of the human being. Among other | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you know, stringent self-judgment is usually destructive and hinders your search. It must not be encouraged at | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| obstructions exist, once this energy is spent, self-alienation hinders its regeneration. Thus you see the outer manifestations | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| on the defensive has become second nature. This hinders your vision of truth about others, about life | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| haze in your psyche, an unhealthy climate that hinders your self-expression. If it is an unhealthy wish | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| Then, in order to resolve the problem that hinders your full unfoldment, you have to first accept | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| in your work. Every affliction of the psyche hinders living. It does so because it prevents you | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| Such inner nonparticipation is a passive pretense that hinders the quality of the discussions. If every participant | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| voice, that he may be completely unaware of, hinders the impact of his will. His own inner | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| -- or a limited degree of consciousness -- hinders the harmonious movement of all personality levels. If | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| pleasure and its environment. Hence, intellectual maturity frequently hinders the pleasure principle, which is repressed when consciousness | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| block of pride, a wall, a cloud that hinders insight. Self-will causes apprehension that what you find | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| you still find yourself caught in perfectionism, which hinders your progress. But if your aim becomes to | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| to struggle against the self. When a short-circuit hinders the real experience of the pleasure principle, that | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| to it? Again, the dualistic concept of life hinders and confuses you. If one attempts to solve | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| a person could unfold and expand, but deliberately hinders it by needless destructiveness and obstinacy. Today, humanity | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| so great that when the distorted, fearful personality hinders this natural process, unnatural processes are sought. This | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Yet the more one strives, the more one hinders the natural rhythm. For striving creates more tension | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| fear of surrender justified and reasonable. He therefore hinders her fulfillment as a woman. The surrender of | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| impossible to express in words. Its immediacy also hinders you from perceiving the universal spirit's constant presence | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| of pleasure supreme. What are these obstructions? What hinders the realization of that state which will always | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the same token, others' negative intentionality hurts and hinders you and they are responsible for doing this | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| Any such demand is a creative block. It hinders the very fulfillment you insist upon most. The | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| all of themselves, represent a dark barricade that hinders the growth of the whole. You need to | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
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| a task, money will no longer be a hindrance, it will not influence the person, or taint | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| cannot automatically dissolve. Impatience will only be a hindrance. If you are on the right path, you | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| of your faults and shortcomings is a direct hindrance to the unfolding of love. When I say | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| of your faults is a direct or indirect hindrance to love. You can never learn love through | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| use human speech, which represents a very great hindrance for us spirits. It appears at first sight | 18 FREE WILL |
| raising of your consciousness. Any imperfection is a hindrance. I cannot stress emphatically enough that only those | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| each of your particular faults is a direct hindrance to the unfoldment of love. For each fault | 21 THE FALL |
| traits which are commonly called faults are a hindrance for you, and thus directly or indirectly harm | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| what lack of spiritual knowledge may be a hindrance for him now, then you will be able | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| ideas about spiritual truth. This lack is a hindrance to him now. This is what you can | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| his lack of spiritual truth must be a hindrance to him now. You have known him, after | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| therefore no development. It may also be a hindrance to know certain factors of your previous lives | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| single fault, weakness, or imperfection is a direct hindrance to love -- and therefore to God. I | 31 SHAME |
| a lack of ambition is a very great hindrance. This sluggishness will prevent you from accomplishing your | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| without making serious efforts to overcome this basic hindrance, you are actually attempting spiritual theft in some | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| you consciously know. Again, this may be a hindrance because you may be tempted to say: Oh | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| completely different. Erudition is sometimes even more a hindrance than an asset. It may serve as a | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| ANSWER: The expectancy of love may be a hindrance to having it. For what does that mean | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| Every smallest inner deviation and obstruction is a hindrance to understanding. We have to be concerned with | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the light and sense the infinite bliss. One hindrance is that, despite the teachings you have received | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| since this kind of discussion is almost a hindrance to union, could you perhaps help us as | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| Needless to say, these doubts are the gravest hindrance to the functioning of your inner willpower. The | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the wish-capacity is without counter-directions and flows without hindrance. This wish-capacity can very well come from the | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a good cause in you, may be a hindrance for you at this particular time. With this | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| a time when it will not be a hindrance. QUESTION: Seeing that human beings are all fallen | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| has earned, so to speak. This might be hindrance for development. But inner knowledge stays. That is | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| is not blurred. That would never be a hindrance. Once you have gained it through your efforts | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| distortion, as for instance inertia, cannot be a hindrance to anything. Of course, it often happens that | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| QUESTION: I have a deformity which is a hindrance in my thinking and ability. What do I | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I can only show where I see the hindrance. To start the process of finding and dissolving | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the wrong way, it can be a hindrance and lead to a forced, insincere reaction and | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| potential, the outer, strained will is often a hindrance. It is the inner, free will that has | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| degree as on earth. Matter is one constant hindrance. It is one resistance. We talked about psychological | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| of your being where the mind is a hindrance and a direct cause of your misery and | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| earth-dress, so to speak? There is even less hindrance, because a condensed mass of matter is removed | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| superimposed opinion, whether true or false, is a hindrance to self-unfoldment. But on this path, and with | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the possibility of dissolving them is your greatest hindrance. Strange as it may seem, my friends, even | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| moralize with yourself, because such self-moralizing was a hindrance, not a help. The time has now come | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| is meant here, and is in fact a hindrance to the proper conceiving of life's potentials. You | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| ego's predominance, its exaggerated strength, is the greatest hindrance to productive living. And it is equally true | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| The surface urge is just as much a hindrance as the inner no, because it consists of | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| lead to wishful daydreaming, which is more a hindrance than a help. If you find yourself incapable | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| this has changed. For example, today humankind's greatest hindrance is egotistical pride. People have accomplished much with | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| cannot always say that having desires is a hindrance to spirituality. Eastern philosophy expounds on desirelessness as | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| spiritual teachings have postulated that sexuality is a hindrance to spiritual development. At an earlier time in | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| the mind's imagination that specificity would be a hindrance. Yet the mind must know what it wants | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| receptacles as possible. The mind can be a hindrance or an aid to this process. You all | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| not. Too much desire is as much a hindrance as the absence of all desire, which manifests | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the commitment. But time is only an illusory hindrance anyway. The fuller your commitment is, and the | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |