| Icy.........................3 | |
| force, this power would create a world of icy coldness, icy darkness, and desolation. There are many | 21 THE FALL |
| power would create a world of icy coldness, icy darkness, and desolation. There are many more possibilities | 21 THE FALL |
| divine world. These spheres of fire or of icy coldness -- in the spiritual sense, of course | 21 THE FALL |
| Idea........................263 | |
| build a house, but with the foundation. The idea is to shift the energy and the emphasis | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| a state of healing, have even the remotest idea of the reality of this unconscious, which is | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| themselves. You may not have a very clear idea of how the transmission could take place, but | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| of a higher developed person, just because that idea suits you and you don't want to give | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| could, however, lead you to meditate on the idea that Heaven and Hell and all that is | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| this topic? QUESTION: Yes. In connection with this idea, I would like to ask about the atom | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| splitting of the atom is related to the idea which I have just attempted to describe, however | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| you may give something, you may hate the idea. Not only do people remain convinced that they | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| when I say psychological, this is merely an idea; it is a fact. A spirit who has | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| Yes, yes. But it is not only an idea, it is actually so. QUESTION: But the human | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| expected of you. Your lower self has some idea of it. If it had not, it would | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to understand. You can only have a vague idea of it. For example, the spirits cannot possibly | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| not responsible. You all know that. Therefore, the idea that free will exists only part of the | 18 FREE WILL |
| this will perhaps also clarify for you the idea of punishment, against which so many of you | 18 FREE WILL |
| or magnetic field. Of course, even a right idea can take root first in the brain, but | 18 FREE WILL |
| will confirm it. Whoever has a thought, an idea, or a wish evolving from the spiritual field | 18 FREE WILL |
| terms. One person may have a very different idea of the meaning of such a word than | 18 FREE WILL |
| to determine. Sometimes you may have a vague idea, but even then you cannot possibly know what | 18 FREE WILL |
| present this should suffice to give you an idea of how extremely grave and serious the task | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| and perhaps inspire that person to propose the idea of joining your group. This will give you | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| joining your group. This will give you some idea of how much work and care is involved | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| do this alone. You have not the vaguest idea what a world of order and organization God's | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| be painstakingly considered and weighed. You have no idea how much work is involved in our world | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| ready and mature. This may give you an idea of the organization in the spirit world that | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| by them. So you can see that the idea of the Trinity has been often misunderstood; yet | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| of the Creator Himself. People often advance the idea that God should not have endowed His creatures | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| importance for all of you to grasp this idea, for then you will be able to answer | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| happened in a very different way, although the idea of temptation was there. Perhaps you are able | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| that it had no inkling of God, no idea of his world, and no notion of what | 21 THE FALL |
| of self-knowledge so as to have a clear-cut idea why you want to develop your attributes, what | 21 THE FALL |
| you have to reconcile yourself first to the idea: I have to do what is most difficult | 21 THE FALL |
| the difference. This example should give you an idea of your power to break the limitations. QUESTION | 21 THE FALL |
| received some knowledge, and He had a vague idea -- just as any one of you might | 22 SALVATION |
| any one of you might have a vague idea -- of the task He was to fulfill | 22 SALVATION |
| if He accepted Lucifer and gave up His idea of God. Lucifer taunted Him in the worst | 22 SALVATION |
| your own imagination can give you a better idea than before of the deep significance and the | 22 SALVATION |
| not entirely correct, it will give a false idea. Co-creation would mean that God actually went ahead | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| majority of the people follow some cause, some idea, while in former times they had to go | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| rulers forced them and they had absolutely no idea why. It was just the thing to do | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| single, incarnation representing the Antichrist. QUESTION: So the idea that existed for a time that Hitler was | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I would like to ask something about the idea of Ahriman. ANSWER: I have answered that already | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It is important that they have a definite idea how to go about it in actual practice | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| we are giving up so completely that the idea of gain is not somewhere hidden as a | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your ultimate being. However, in psychoanalysis the mistaken idea that they are really their lower self can | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| your lower self where heretofore you had no idea of it. It is a necessary temporary formation | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| this respect. Another great misunderstanding is the mistaken idea that to follow the path I am showing | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| If you are too strongly committed to an idea, or to something you desire and do not | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| is, of course, not a thought or an idea but a feeling -- is a vague impression | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you, my friends, divorce yourselves of the preconceived idea that a spirit cannot manifest through a human | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| is so vast that you cannot have an idea of it. There are so many worlds, so | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| be very good to adopt right now the idea that each human being has necessarily been given | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| most important creatures in the universe. Even their idea of God is cut to order to suit | 36 PRAYER |
| some degree, you may form a pretty accurate idea of what you have yet to fulfill and | 38 IMAGES |
| words, I hope you will not use the idea of desirelessness and renunciation to rationalize away your | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| in, no matter what names are chosen, the idea always remains the same: to find how you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| expectations. For example, a child lives with the idea that its parents are perfect and omnipotent. When | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| to you. The shame arose from the mistaken idea that your case was unique, and the whole | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| each spirit perfect in its unique way. The idea was that these spirits would perfect themselves with | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| in the middle. Some, out of the mistaken idea that everything sexual is impure, say that the | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| procreation. That is only one detail. The spiritual idea of marriage is to enable the soul to | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| this ideal, but that does not change the idea or the ideal. In the meantime you have | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| to get nearer to the realization of this idea. Whatever your situation is, whether you have a | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| come to you. If you understand the spiritual idea behind it, you will use it wisely. God | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| thing as a force, a principle, or an idea that is in itself sinful -- whether sex | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of mind. The moment you fully accept the idea that selfishness still has a larger place in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| inanimate object is petrified life force. A beautiful idea, a truth, is flowing life force. Life force | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| investigated. An attitude to a general concept or idea becomes very personal in the human mind and | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| subject. Let people tell you first their general idea, their concept on the subject they apparently have | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| it through. It may also be a good idea for group work. First state briefly your own | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the Divine. Many human beings smile at the idea of the existence of the forces of evil | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| evil, even more than they smile at the idea of God. Why they do is hard to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| answer. The love you crave in the mistaken idea that it will set you right is not | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| and with your coworker. Take politics, religion, your idea about love and sex, or whatever it is | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| will. On top of this you superimpose the idea that all this must be just. But even | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| even though you include the word justice, this idea is false. For God is. His laws are | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| be feared even more. It may contradict the idea of His infinite love. Neither is true. God | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| you truly desire the answers. You have no idea what this discovery will mean to you. The | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| invisible wall around their soul in the mistaken idea that it gives them safety. For instance, people's | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| something else to another. A word designates an idea, and you all know that each true idea | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| idea, and you all know that each true idea can be distorted into an untruth by taking | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| by going to the extreme of a right idea. This has been the trouble with all great | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| life and love often escape into the distorted idea of detachment. But this should not make you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| In this discussion you both have the right idea, but each of you has to find the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| The truth and meaning of any concept or idea can be distorted to the extreme point of | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| who can make responsible decisions personally? Does the idea that God's will cannot manifest if you make | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| around. Perhaps this analogy will give you the idea. At any rate, as a result of your | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| to find where the misconception is, the wrong idea. There must be one. Tonight, on this first | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| think. Do not approach the search with the idea of finding something you have had no inkling | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| sake of pride, but out of the mistaken idea that being special means survival for you. When | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| It exists in the small infant. The infant's idea of happiness is fulfillment of all its desires | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| discussed. Since you want happiness according to your idea, and life, or God, denies it, God is | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| inventor or artist wakes up with a new idea or conclusion. The idea is there; he does | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| up with a new idea or conclusion. The idea is there; he does not recollect clearly how | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| but as a symbol. Now, Eve symbolizes the idea that activity becomes destructive if not allowed to | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| desire for freedom without self-responsibility. It is the idea that you can come to harm through the | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| reality the process of the birth of an idea takes place according to the same principles as | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| prohibits the deserved fulfillment of your desire. The idea that selfishness, if allowed, would be a happier | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| is rejected instead. In its unconscious mind the idea forms that to love is humiliating. Since the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| false impressions of your childhood. You have no idea what a tremendous relief it is to exorcise | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| used up by background thoughts. You have no idea how much mental and emotional -- and eventually | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you have to go into deep meditation. The idea that because you started to work on the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| will cease is just as wrong as the idea that because you are on the path, added | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| to convey is that there is a mistaken idea in many metaphysically inclined circles. Their measure of | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| responsible for your fear of loving, is the idea, perhaps unconscious, that true love will forever be | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| because it does not live up to your idea of it. Unconsciously, you struggle against disillusionment as | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| what actually is does not correspond to your idea of it, and therefore you feel yourself endangered | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| tainted and one-sided. You also have an unreal idea of the importance that incidents or the reactions | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| as that. When you give up your childish idea of how others should love you, you will | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| instructing the subconscious. I was wondering if this idea of instructing the subconscious is not in some | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| being in awe. It surpasses all understanding. That idea is conveyed in the word that was erroneously | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| recreate and correct the past. You have no idea how preoccupied your subconscious is with the process | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| of the situation. It may spoil your self-constructed idea, or it may not correspond to your desire | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| seems otherwise favorable and fits into your preconceived idea, you leave out all that jars you, allowing | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| of universal and cosmic forces. You have no idea how important the efforts and endeavors of every | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| muddled; how you are not clear about an idea, a supposedly right reaction, about a principle of | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| so that the human mind develops with the idea of many branches, many subjects, all separate. The | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the development taking place on it with the idea that if you proceed properly your difficulties will | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| consider that these forces already exist, while the idea that you produced negative emotions yourself gave you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| something from him -- each has a pet idea. Become clear about yours. Do not go on | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| have clarified them, you will get a good idea what to search for. There are so many | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| ideas. An adult is capable of understanding an idea or a concept in abstract terms. If you | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| abstract terms. If you want to convey an idea to a child, if you want to tell | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| pseudo-solutions. Only if you free yourself of the idea that you always have to get your will | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| hand stand for? Has anyone of you an idea? Giving. Friendship. Action. Taking. ANSWER: Taking and giving | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| instrument with which you do, manufacture, execute an idea; with which you give, take, receive; which can | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| actions and reactions. Burning: Do you have any idea what it could symbolize? Sacrifice. Purification. Inner desire | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you have assumed your pretense in the mistaken idea that you will then belong and be accepted | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| does not exist. Some people have a vague idea of union, and in isolated moments they sense | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| to union. QUESTION: Could you give us some idea of the true meaning of myth? ANSWER: I | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| the people who help you, to the whole idea as such? Many ways of reacting are possible | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| words, religion would not have to convey the idea of a stern God-authority in order to prevent | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and teaches it, is completely incompatible with the idea that a free human being can attain divinity | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| spirituality. You all have come originally with the idea of growing spiritually. I might say that more | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| me. Or I may want it for the idea of getting something, which is in me. Or | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| surface desire and sacrifice it in the mistaken idea that here you have found it. This may | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| as it is, you will get a better idea of the process I am describing here. The | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| between such healthy and right attitude and the idea that you should sit and wait for God | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| lecture, you will understand what I mean. The idea that you neglect God by not discussing Him | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| image, which will later act as a preconceived idea. But the image also always contains the supposed | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| into being through the split of a positive idea: self- forgiveness and fully facing one's sin. Both | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| a closeness, a fear of relinquishing a preconceived idea. This, of course, is due to the defense | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| this is so. You may have some vague idea and some partial answers, but this lecture will | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| feelings indiscriminately and jeopardize yourself, in the misunderstood idea that foolish candor, or unwise exposure, or cruel | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| other person and sensing the other's needs. The idea of being refused is devastating to them, yet | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| you of the purpose of these sessions. The idea of these discussion groups is to help you | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| this also holds true for me, and the idea came to me that perhaps I am hiding | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| awareness, you have nothing to build on. Every idea you harbor, true as the idea in itself | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| on. Every idea you harbor, true as the idea in itself may be, remains shallow. It lacks | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| is the best way of giving you an idea of what the soul-body may look like. QUESTION | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| actions, thoughts, and feelings is governed by the idea of, If only others could see me act | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| of salt. Resistance exists not only because your idea of yourself does not correspond to the reality | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| derived through self-development, but the pursuit of an idea or ideal, it falls under the category of | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the other person. To love God as an idea does not require any of this, but to | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| growth and unfoldment. The misunderstanding comes from the idea that you, of all people, really should have | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| you see a connecting link? Who has an idea? PARTICIPANT: I think it would be a very | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| the split mends and negative involvement ceases. This idea has been expressed in many different ways throughout | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| the last fifty years or so, was the idea that infants do not experience erotic or sexual | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of the triad may still be a novel idea. It will cease to be an arresting theory | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| more the latter is squelched in the erroneous idea that this eliminates it, the more it is | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| rather than less -- contrary to the mistaken idea that there is less to see because of | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| in the sky, and from the equally false idea that there is no order, no superior intelligence | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| would be well. You would be saved. The idea of giving them up seems like a tremendous | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| it. In this rebellion, you often reject the idea that a vaster intelligence than your own can | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| long as one is tied to the wrong idea that an outer event -- be it rejection | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| fearing the opposite, or you harbor the false idea that a spiritually evolved person should be so | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| wisdom, and strength. Does anyone here have an idea why it is really no contradiction that it | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| people would rather not make any effort. Their idea of bliss, their final goal of fulfillment, is | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| of human warmth is motivated by a false idea. The winner believes that there is a chance | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| with anxiety. It is this very negative, false idea creates the hardship. Bring out into the open | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| existence of many more spiritual worlds an abstract idea, however. They are reality, just as each planet | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| predicament against which you battle is a nonsensical idea, for others are not out to reject or | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| part in understanding that it has a false idea; that it does have selfwill. It is up | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| ego alone is capable of exchanging the false idea for a truthful one. This means letting go | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| do not understand and therefore fear. From this idea that a strange, independent power seems to play | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| to diminish the strength of outer will. The idea that outer will is omnipotent must be relinquished | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| feeling of anxiety and discomfort at the very idea of allowing the best in you to unfold | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| they hit out as I do at the idea that everyone else is their enemy? Millions of | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| the possibility of perfect functioning. Each concept, each idea, thought and action are both cause and energy | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| confining, destructive and disagreeable. Let us take any idea that you formulate. Such an idea -- whether | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| take any idea that you formulate. Such an idea -- whether truthful or untruthful -- will lead | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| and the opposite aspect being declared the wrong idea. In reality, however, the two complement one another | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| opposite as undesirable. Thus you cling to the idea that construction is always good, while destruction is | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| in order to find out that the whole idea was an illusion; otherwise, you cannot come out | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| it brings joy, since you have the mistaken idea that self- realization must automatically mean deprivation and | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| opposes this force, however, out of the erroneous idea that giving in to it means annihilation. Thus | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| leads to a typical misunderstanding of intensity. The idea exists that the more intense you are, the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| fear of this new step stems from the idea that the ego will be crushed, it will | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| is. In fact, the average person has no idea what they are doing and why. People who | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| those who are disconnected from their unconscious, this idea seems at best theoretical and all too metaphysical | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| be caused from within, from a wrong inner idea according to which one functions, moves, lives, responds | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| be quite helpful. It will give you an idea of the unification of creation and make what | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| production of the self. To put the same idea in different words: If you can meet your | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| product within it. I can see that this idea is not easy for human beings to embrace | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| true that you have simply accepted a negative idea that really makes no sense and has no | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| its existence. If people were educated with the idea and the goal that they contain something deep | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| lifetimes -- overemphasized the ego, in the mistaken idea that it is not only safety but life | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| of ego control because you believe the false idea that letting go makes you lose strength, to | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| an oppositeless reality -- infinite and inexorable. The idea that pain and pleasure become more similar may | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| and even creates shame. Also, admitting such an idea brings you closer to questioning its validity, which | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| of misunderstanding the processes caused by the false idea that inner blocks can be removed by the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| should see red -- you have a preconceived idea of red. Or when you see a tulip | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| spontaneous giving. When genuine love is present, the idea of sacrifice is no longer applicable. The act | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| and they may at first cast such an idea completely aside. However, I say to you that | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| important system of life functioning. Every belief and idea determines a person's feelings, reactions, attitudes, and expressions | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| unaffected by or indifferent to a deeply ingrained idea. And I do not mean merely conscious ideas | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| more you become aware of how each mistaken idea creates destructive feelings and limited concepts of self | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| using your potential to the utmost. Any limited idea of your possibilities is a result of such | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| this is always a result of an overall idea that can be traced and unearthed by you | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| you let yourself love? According to this false idea, giving of yourself means losing what you give | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| every pain, is the result of a wrong idea. A critical aspect of this work is the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| principle, let us take this example. First the idea of the object must be formed in the | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| labor, effort, perseverance and self-discipline. Unless the creative idea and all those activities which are more mechanical | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| out the inner dissensions is neglected. The childish idea prevails that once the initial act has taken | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| are not equipped to experience joyful life. The idea that they are unbearable is a concoction of | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| even if you pay lip service to the idea that you also contributed to the interaction. What | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| Denied pride and shame often create fear. The idea that it is humiliating to have certain feelings | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| be in certain vulnerable states, along with the idea that you ought not to be where you | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| without these demands being fulfilled -- a novel idea at first -- you will be surprised to | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| it as a map that gives an overall idea of the kind of being you have to | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| The truth is that every conceivable attitude, feeling, idea, and human expression can be both good and | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| from this misconception. One of them is the idea of predetermined fate. The gradually increasing ability of | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| magically? You often hold the misplaced and confused idea that self-discipline hampers your freedom, and, conversely, that | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| ego consciousness and the all-consciousness stems from the idea that if you bridge this gap you will | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| without anger, rage, fear, pain, or sadness. This idea is distorted and leads to a rigid, unrealistic | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| it, then you give in to the false idea, the fear, which prevents you from moving on | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| development. This does not mean that every small idea must be shared. That is quite impossible and | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| blueprint, is the first step; it is the idea that later materializes. Without an idea, materialization is | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| is the idea that later materializes. Without an idea, materialization is impossible. Attitudes, ways of being, and | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| see the limitation and actual falsity of this idea. If unification and divine process are truly in | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| to make room in your consciousness for the idea that this very same devil, with all its | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| be revealed. Fully embrace this devil in the idea that the devil is an angel. The power | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| universe, these waves would never end. So each idea, intent, and thought you form, motivated by unselfish | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| negative intent is based on a false universal idea. Only when you have that specific understanding will | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| in this nuclear point, what the specific false idea is. How is it false? What is the | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| How is it false? What is the right idea? Only when you know can you wholeheartedly state | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| full commitment to their task. It is the idea that if they resolve their problems and eliminate | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| bad because you hate, then you create the idea of a monster. And if you can really | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| change the deeper processes of functioning. No new idea could ever present itself to a human mind | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| If the mind is closed to any new idea, none will come. So, the process of making | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| narrow, limited minds. This may be a new idea. You may never have thought about faith in | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| aspects or attributes are. It is a good idea to continue this exploration in meditation whenever you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| therefore not discuss. This will give you some idea however, of how a personality's inherent attitudes express | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| are hopeless and frightened there must be an idea of finiteness that is simply locked into your | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| that springs from within your innermost being. This idea makes you insecure, for you believe that security | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| need to be challenged. Envisage that in the idea of forever meeting every new situation by being | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| law, once you find your inner God. The idea of the New Age points in this direction | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| if you visualize change as bad, that very idea must bring about bad effects. So begin to | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| development. It is always so: first a new idea has to be considered before it can be | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| itself, you judge yourself according to your preconceived idea that contraction is something undesirable and bad and | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| for you and, indeed, most positive. Your false idea that contraction is negative makes you misjudge one | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| alternates with the active principle. Here is another idea for you: You think in terms of the | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| lecture? Could you give any kind of an idea about the rhythmical state of the expansion, contraction | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| life. You resist the movement with the irrational idea that you thereby halt time and prevent your | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| too difficult for you to see that the idea here is equality, justice, and fairness for all | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| politics in the New Age? What is your idea? Some of you have thought about it, have | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| and stills all doubt. Without even a vague idea that such a state exists, it is impossible | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| for a human being to imagine that an idea existed in finer vibratory form before it reached | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| is in order. An image is a false idea, a wrong conclusion formed in childhood with insufficient | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| involvement with, nor a stake in denying this idea; because your doors are much more open in | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| to embrace atheism claim to have accepted the idea that they will no longer exist once they | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| with the rest of you. You have no idea how strong your own spirit is. You constantly | 254 SURRENDER |
| merely psychological means. Your psychologists have the right idea and strive toward this goal in their approach | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| experience is inaccessible, the voices are confusing. The idea of total surrender to God becomes confusing. The | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |