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| Such a person might condone cruelty in an insidious and subtle way. Certain things one can learn | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| All this happens in such a subtle and insidious way that you are utterly unaware of it | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| of the soul that is too subtle, too insidious, and too hidden even to be recognized. You | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| in yourself. These coverups are actually infinitely more insidious and damaging than the actual destructiveness itself. For | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| The fear of feelings is perhaps the most insidious of all, for if you fear a real | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| concealed and the less consciously expressed, the more insidious its effect will be on the self and | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| tasks they have to fulfill -- a very insidious thing begins to happen. They become preoccupied with | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| to help you avoid one of the most insidious obstructions: self-deception. We search for and bring out | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| patterns are perhaps your worst enemy. They are insidious, for you are so accustomed to them. Learn | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| of anxiety. Therefore the appearance value system is insidious and poisonous. It is much more harmful, my | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| live up to your expectations. Perhaps even more insidious and painful is the very fact that you | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| or it may be a subtle, but nonetheless insidious attitude with possibly worse effects than the obvious | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| in your actions and affect others in an insidious way. Thoughts can never remain separated things. They | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| self. To no longer exist is the most insidious fear that you must meet and deal with | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Insidiously.................3 | |
| destructive feelings and attitudes. This may evolve subtly, insidiously, and inadvertently when an individual starts out with | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| pleasure principle. This is an example of how insidiously this can happen whenever the old roots still | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| In a sense it is more destructive and insidiously negative than outright, active maligning. Maligners expose their | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Insight.....................217 | |
| they only reset the switch. But only the insight into the necessity of this change will make | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| when you are not aware of it, the insight will be given if you search honestly, turning | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| whether this is so in your case, the insight will be given to you, though of course | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| now was committed in a past life, the insight can come, provided you follow this path of | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| knowledge and the personal use of it possible. Insight into any truth can occur only when you | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| you asked for. But perhaps your dreams of insight have become too habitual and therefore they do | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| dismiss to be indeed the truth. Such an insight will produce great inner joy. Whenever you have | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| through this first gateway needs above all the insight that nothing can be gained without discipline, regular | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| of all is a victory over yourself, an insight into the self that is real, complete and | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| wrong the other person may be. After this insight comes the will to straighten out whatever is | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| Therefore ask for this understanding, ask for the insight you lack in this respect. If you really | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| want to try to lead you to further insight into spiritual states. Just as time on earth | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| human philosophies have actually grasped this. Through such insight, these philosophies have come to the conclusion that | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| hope my words can spark a flash of insight. And perhaps they might also answer a question | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| and connect your knowledge with your feeling. Then insight will grow in you, for which no words | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| spirit of the spirit world who has the insight and the knowledge that these are truths and | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| may be just a beginning for more profound insight which is yet to come. Even the highest | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| stupid, even though he certainly lacks wisdom and insight. Nor is he without great resources in his | 22 SALVATION |
| will. QUESTION: So seers, such as Nostradamus, have insight into these records? ANSWER: Into some of it | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sometimes wrong. And do not imagine that such insight is always purposefully given from the spirit world | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| stands in the way of unfolding pure love, insight, and understanding. In this way you do harm | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| friends, you will gain a great deal more insight into your soul, into your life, and into | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| is in the spirit world, you often have insight into your previous incarnations, into the reasons for | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| you start anew, you have gained a profounder insight into your problems, and you will not be | 36 PRAYER |
| rebellion will diminish to the extent you gain insight and understanding, to the extent you understand why | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| talents required for this particular work. For instance: insight, intuition, power of deduction, observation, a very warm | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| Because of your lack of knowledge and mature insight, the forces of evil could take a hold | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| other people. Ask God to give you the insight to understand. Have the courage to shoulder your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| and intuition? ANSWER: If you distinguish intuition from insight, we might say that it is the highest | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| says may lead you to a crucial new insight. There are many ways in which increased self-awareness | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an opposite extreme, you will never gain true insight. This applies to general world conditions or events | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| next step must inevitably be to gain the insight of no longer putting the blame where it | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understanding truth, this or any other. With this insight, unselfishness will no longer be a compulsive burden | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that the other person receive guidance, inspiration, and insight most necessary at the particular time. That includes | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| constructive if one also gains a bit of insight about one's own inner errors. How can this | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| here, you will gain a great deal of insight and understanding. In your prayer for peace, try | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Find the similarity, then you will gain the insight and understanding that it is all one and | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| elements I am discussing is a very important insight. In your self-search you can find the existence | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| Some of my friends who have gained sufficient insight into themselves do have some understanding of these | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| up in a deliberate effort to prevent real insight. You allow yourself to go so far and | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| may see certain facets, you still lack sufficient insight to change these emotions. So, you know this | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The confusion will provide you with a deeper insight and peace at the next resting point, when | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you have to have a vast amount of insight, since no inner deviation is separated from other | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all tied together. As long as this overall insight is not in your consciousness, remnants of the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as despairing as before. You will gain true insight and therefore the freedom that only the approach | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| and anxious, if you wish to limit such insight, you know that the child in you resists | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| last few months have helped you to gain insight into yourselves, proving again how contrary your unconscious | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| on the path, so as to gain deeper insight into yourself. By the same token, you may | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| used to gain the necessary but still lacking insight, ability, or understanding. So patience, if it is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to the fore, you will gain much further insight. But it will be necessary, my friends, to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| actions and reactions with this new understanding and insight, whereupon you will release your parents. You will | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| focus and become one. Once this happens, the insight you gain, the experience you feel exactly as | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| But the awareness of your immaturity, a real insight into and understanding of your reactions and feelings | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| with a realistic outlook. You will gain further insight from them, knowing that they are possible because | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the entire universe. Every problem you solve, every insight of honest self-recognition is in some measure instrumental | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| should be, will give the teacher sufficient intuitive insight into what the individual students need. You all | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| steeped in separateness you were. The moment the insight comes you will truly see that the old | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| rightly understood, will give you greater strength and insight to become one with the positive currents. Your | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| up naturally. You will then have the transcendent insight that your fear is unnecessary, futile, illusory, and | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you. In fact, when you have a real insight, you will probably even forget at the moment | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| find your causes and be liberated by this insight. You do not have to look to past | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| without the labor and effort of cultivating it. Insight into one's hidden desires and their reasons will | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that does not actually exist. Only upon clear insight of the existence of these two forces and | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so to speak. But as you gain deeper insight into yourself, you begin to see that this | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| tremendous relief, enlightenment, and victory due to the insight and understanding you gain about your entire life | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will in turn bring you more and more insight, liberation, happiness and growth. For the moment, the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feeling and reacting in a certain way. Further insight resulting from uninterrupted effort and perseverance will eventually | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| being reacting the old way, you gain additional insight and understanding. You broaden the view you have | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that out of this you will derive further insight and progress. QUESTION: I have a deformity which | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the course of this work, how after each insight and liberation a new strength surges out of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| whole, a small segment of it. Each true insight will produce relief, but only temporarily, if these | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sacrifice and unselfishness. Only very close analysis and insight will show you that this craving has nothing | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| real conviction, nor out of a deep, genuine insight, but because they are afraid. Thus, the enemies | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| series of lectures to help you gain further insight into yourself and therefore into life. The two | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| pretense, you will have gained a most substantial insight that enables you to weaken the impact of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| it and therefore diminish it with each new insight. Then you will truly experience the truth that | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| what is beneath the surface. Only very truthful insight into the real nature of these motives will | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| often does. QUESTION: Could you give us some insight into the reasons for compulsive acts? In particular | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| food, not only for further thought, but for insight and understanding. May you thus gain a further | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| it always does from any healthy self-recognition and insight. Merely by observing your reactions, you will weaken | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| receive strength to enable you to gain further insight into yourselves in every possible way. May all | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| working season we hope you will accomplish further insight, growth, and self- understanding. In order to accomplish | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| help your spiritual development. But each apparently insignificant insight about your own reactions and emotions will constitute | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self-observation is necessary in order to gain full insight and then be able to change. You must | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you are responsible for it. You resist such insight because you sense that the moment you see | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to use such expression as would yield you insight into yourself. If you merely let go because | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you or for others. After thus having gained insight and understanding, new warm, good emotions will come | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and expressed, will wisdom, and perhaps even intellectual insight -- as a byproduct, so to speak -- | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| a way that promotes growth. You will derive insight from them, even if you are alone at | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| during working sessions and will yield even greater insight if they are expressed and worked with. So | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| not genuine. It does not come from natural insight and inner growth but from fear: the fear | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| others. From there the road leads to further insight. It cannot be repeated often enough that many | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| not crush you; rather, will give you new insight into yourself and others. Hence, you will not | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| your own needs. The more you gain real insight into this, the less stringent the false needs | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| indicates substantial progress. Such recognition, in itself, indicates insight. More frequently, a person does not know that | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of resistance. Your awareness of this certainly means insight and progress. The moment this insight exists the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| certainly means insight and progress. The moment this insight exists the way is opened, even if at | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this awareness, that you do not repress this insight. This is of great value; it is very | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a long time ago. In the meantime, further insight and understanding was gained, so that now, with | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be no negative feeling. There will be an insight into one's tendency toward childish selfishness or greed | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| needs will be more than mere enlightenment and insight. It will show you that in connection with | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| may have gathered a considerable amount of partial insight into isolated problems. But you have not yet | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| comes only after a great deal of deep insight, growth, and change in particular areas. All this | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| important link which will lead to the necessary insight and freedom. However, you must realize that any | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| aspects to unravel and to recognize. A moment's insight may only elude you again. Remembering a feeling | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| is no longer meaningful. The experience of the insight has to be felt again, until its meaning | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| your own interest. Once you have gained this insight, it will no longer be difficult to prevent | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the real sense. One grows into it by insight, by full understanding of all the angles. This | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| understand this concept requires a certain amount of insight and progress. It certainly cannot be approached lightly | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| who have not yet come across this vital insight -- that the mistake of the moment can | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| all the benign forces -- reason, love, understanding, insight, strength, resourcefulness, resiliency, flexibility, adaptability, self-assertion, creativity -- | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| As you go through this process and gain insight into your distorted sense of reality, your sense | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| when it occurs. It happens through the mere insight into and understanding of your unreality and distortions | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| after you have gained a sufficient amount of insight and understanding. Such change is less gradual. It | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| you. On the contrary, through gaining deeper, fuller insight and thus coming closer to reality, you will | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| relieve the tension but lead to important further insight. You will sometimes find that you are most | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| that fully, you will come across a new insight, finding, contrary to your present emotions, that it | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| If you cannot progress and gain sufficient new insight to relieve the dullness and meaninglessness of your | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| of daydreaming? It presents symptoms from which much insight can be gained; it may spur you to | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| in their whole dimension -- will give you insight and understanding about your own life and all | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| a defense against being hurt. Only after considerable insight into yourself will you see what an unrealistic | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| infinite possibilities and aspects, the more understanding and insight you will have. This is the best answer | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| would want to work out. It takes considerable insight to find out that what you thought was | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| and whether you are willing to accept the insight that comes. As you grow in this way | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| your innermost needs. It is quite an important insight to determine which one is your real need | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| one of you has gained a little more insight into himself. All of you, some more, some | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| will even be fruitful for everyone else's further insight? How else can you rid yourself of the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| there not a wall in me that prevents insight? Am I, perhaps, guarding against recognizing something, and | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| contain any negative, destructive elements. You need more insight and comprehension to find in yourself the unproductive | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| very much obstructed in others. Only deep personal insight will enable you to find the truth in | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| go through various phases. If they muster sufficient insight about themselves, and not only about the other | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| for all the problems of a relationship. Such insight always has a very liberating effect, simply because | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| May this evening give you renewed strength, renewed insight into your lives, your problems, and show you | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| as well as a warding off against further insight. If this advice is followed, the hurt will | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| in order to evade something. You may evade insight and self-facing, or you may overcome the risk | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| you will see how you guard yourself against insight and change by being so hurt. Only after | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| yourself, it represents a valuable clue to further insight and self-understanding, provided it is understood as a | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| ANSWER: Whenever thoughts of truth, coming from such insight, prevail, there is no difficulty of communication. Even | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the stages that lead you to such deep insight, the change has already begun to take place | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| a stepping stone, a directive to gain further insight and to widen your vision and awareness. May | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| inner mechanisms already familiar to you. Such increased insight can often be very helpful in giving renewed | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| keep going than the natural reactions. When an insight comes -- even if it happens only seldom | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| emphasized, once you see it clearly. From this insight it follows that you can change; that you | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| be conscious, but affect the psyche when sufficient insight has been reached. Some of you may find | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| still in the dark and therefore need further insight; and in what respect you have truly resolved | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| for you and furnish you with the necessary insight to resolve the struggle. The general knowledge of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| experienced in a pleasurable way. It took considerable insight into yourself to uncover the hurts and frustrations | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| persist until you resolve and mend it through insight and understanding. At this point theories cease to | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| the parental relationship, you will gain considerably deeper insight. This insight will enable you to reexperience what | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| relationship, you will gain considerably deeper insight. This insight will enable you to reexperience what keeps you | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| struggle and resistance, the more meaningful was the insight and the more liberating the effect. It is | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| and other hindrances to full living. The deep insight which comes as a result of relentless self-confrontation | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the need for love? -- your growing peace, insight, and ability to cope with issues with which | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| conflict and uncertainty. It takes a little more insight and understanding before you can do so. In | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| step forward and a vast new opening of insight into yourself, of clarification. This will prove of | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| experience again and again that whenever a real insight or deep recognition is made, a surge of | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| you truly see the truth and gain the insight into these interplays, the freedom you will have | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| of pride, a wall, a cloud that hinders insight. Self-will causes apprehension that what you find may | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| every constructive energy because it accords with truthful insight, which cannot help but breed love and unity | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| all faulty impressions, to give you all the insight you need, and to give you the strength | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| often impossible to gain on your own an insight, that a neutral observer may point out, because | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| in you. As more peace and vital new insight fill you, unhappiness and happiness become one. Because | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| on reacting blindly, without knowing it. The fleeting insight of the moment the image was found has | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| it. But you are often incapable of this insight, so you must familiarize yourself with the feared | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| rush into the latter voluntarily. It requires deep insight into the mechanics of one's inner life to | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| to even discover this, but only with such insight is it possible to stop the destructive repetitive | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| for them, in spite of much progress and insight. However, it requires an extended awareness to notice | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| this would be grossly misleading and would hinder insight. But when fear of rejection is analyzed, one | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| outer and the inner consciousness. But as more insight is gained, little by little, and the destructive | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| have not only understood, but have gained an insight, or a glimpse, a hope and a light | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| It is possible to have gained one important insight into their existence but to dilute this awareness | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| When you come to a certain degree of insight into your psyche, you see how the positive | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| Instead of choosing the nagging self-doubt, you gain insight into why the other person behaves that way | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| free, makes you strong, gives you more objective insight into yourself and into the other person. In | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| person. In other words, the self-perpetuating principle of insight and understanding has been set in motion. But | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| a new energy, a new incentive, a new insight. It is also important for you to understand | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| its actual manifestation. With such discoveries you gain insight into the very nature of the relationship. You | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| will dissolve. You have already gained some preliminary insight into this fear, and this insight will increase | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| some preliminary insight into this fear, and this insight will increase as you observe your reactions when | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| become even vaguely conscious unless you gain considerable insight into and awareness of your unconscious. I have | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| dearest friends. May this lecture give you renewed insight and strength, so that your attempts to find | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| would often find new light, new strength, new insight, and therefore new hope. They would find a | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| appears as destruction is, when viewed with deeper insight, nothing but the destruction of destructiveness. Even though | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| growth. It demands time, perseverance and wise, mature insight into the dynamics of growth. It requires a | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| insights and changes may have been. A total insight always shows the way out. Thus, recognitions can | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| this sense increases. The latter type burdens the insight with guilt. When you have experienced the difference | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| capable of tackling the problem directly. Only considerable insight into the self, as a result of hard | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| by finding a fresh approach, will bring the insight you have been lacking so far. This self-knowledge | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| the universal self must come to this personal insight. Otherwise the path one takes leads to illusion | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| have outlined. Sometimes these steps overlap. The more insight you have into the absolutely losing game you | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| puzzle fits together. In this alternation every new insight requires new commitment to search until the next | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| and taken for granted without particular and exacting insight, the task is only half done. Meditation must | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| discover your most destructive, ignorant side, which needs insight, purification, and change. Through your willingness to accept | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| or become frozen and stagnant. Articulate clearly the insight that these ugly traits, whatever they may be | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you have already gained a certain amount of insight into the irrational, primitive self within you. When | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| you no longer hide from your own honest insight and from your own destructiveness -- when you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| unbearable -- will give way to a new insight which will lead back to the clean, original | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| each experience. Each time there comes a deep insight and the connecting links will bring more light | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| seek to unblock little by little, through deep insight, summoning of courage, and letting yourself feel what | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| well and you gain deeper and more honest insight into yourself you can accept more of your | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| to do so, will you suddenly gain new insight into other people's doings, so that even when | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| see how you attracted this particular pain. Such insight may not come immediately, for the more you | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| the truth, you will not only gain deeper insight into yourself, make new connections, and purify yourself | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| to a small degree will give you another insight, namely that even an insignificant act like walking | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| a purely mechanical level. Such knowledge is not insight, wisdom, true perception. It does not give you | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| level of your manifest existence. Each recognition, each insight, each honest admission, each shedding of a partial | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| from one extreme to its exact opposite, deeper insight into the unitive truth can help one to | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| confusion, and therefore frustration, will disappear. Enlightenment and insight into apparent conflicts make all the pieces of | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| clear about the issues, you lack the true insight, you cannot distinguish whether the authority is indeed | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| intellect only, which could never give you this insight. You will know spontaneously. The knowledge will be | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| felt much more secure about life. With this insight into hitherto obscure and unnamed reactions, you will | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| values, for new understanding and a deepening of insight about the nature of life. Our world is | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| significant from this point of view. A deeper insight is needed now so that you can widen | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| so you do not have to pray for insight and enlightenment and understanding. You understand, you know | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| concept should not be bandied about. Not every insight revealing a hitherto unfamiliar pattern, not every new | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| yourself, through your own intuitive sensing. Then such insight will complete a picture that has bearing on | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| this. The self- condemnation that so often accompanies insight into your lower self obstructs the cleansing and | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |