| Leading.....................65 | |
| dualism and monism. Is dualism a particular level leading to monism, and is monism the higher truth | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| elements in the woman will act in contradiction, leading to great inner conflicts that will create disharmony | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| be in a whole chain reaction, one fault leading to another, until finally the manifestation appears outside | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| life which existed before human beings have been leading up to this point. You all know now | 21 THE FALL |
| this very path onto which I am now leading you. To feel the presence of God in | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| a state of preparation for entering the gate leading to it. In other words, as long as | 31 SHAME |
| the light. Thus the circle becomes a spiral leading upward very gradually. Some of you may think | 36 PRAYER |
| many lifetimes, what your own wrong conclusions are leading you to and actually drawing toward you. I | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| path on which I have the privilege of leading you will avoid these dangers; your outer and | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| conscience has that effect, but perhaps it is leading them according to their personal life plan. So | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| may all play a role simultaneously. Excessive self-love, leading to homosexuality, or at least being partly responsible | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| unfoldment, creativity, and expression. This may manifest in leading a particular way of life not of your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| now in releasing something vitally creative in you, leading you to the fulfillment of your individual personality | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| maximum of happiness through developing one's inherent talents, leading a constructive life, and entering into fruitful human | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| obvious though gradual trend with many a relapse, leading from the false toward the true religion. Particularly | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| A festering, twisted condition prevails in the psyche leading to a host of further conflicts which finally | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of your needs. This happens because the experience leading to the formation of the image was so | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| underlying causes and the different currents and components leading to separateness, neurosis, or sin. The first cardinal | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| are often used wrongly, in the sense of leading away from yourself, from what you are and | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| about the reality of God this path is leading you away from divinity, then there still exists | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| possible if you are unfamiliar with the talks leading up to this one. Still, you might feel | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| forward if this capacity is acquired; a step leading directly to freedom from fear, distrust, insecurity, isolation | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| ready for it, but is quite capable of leading a constructive life without it, regardless of how | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| When the personal path is taken this way, leading you deep inside, the inner, personal universe reveals | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| of all created beings. Only on a path leading from blind reflexes to knowingness can one truly | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| this moment, then you have a realistic aim leading to instant release, truth, harmony, and dynamic progress | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| you have made some progress on a path leading deep into yourself. Then you will know what | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| personally try to set up the false fight leading into more confusion and pain. The three basic | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| is recognized and responded to. Therefore, any path leading to genuine self-realization must be intensely personal and | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| trust, you are engaged in the greatest error, leading to the greatest of confusions. For how could | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| a part and which is part of you, leading you toward others and dissolving the wall of | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| happiness and fulfillment. Both extremes are equally erroneous, leading to very similar results and stemming from the | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| images -- the available free-flowing energy is not leading you into danger and destruction once you let | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| your false ideas. The illusory assumptions compound, one leading to another, and you must disentangle them all | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| your suffering. On this day that commemorates the leading faith of this hemisphere, you can perhaps find | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| resistance to recognizing the real cause cooperates in leading the helper astray. Fear of the consequences of | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| sign of health and of sickness; a message leading people toward feeling good again in themselves after | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| health is good if seen as a symptom leading to total health, fulfillment and happiness. Thus, what | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| such an attitude, they become involved in errors leading to further errors and misinterpretation of life, until | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| it seems indeed as though one's feelings were leading one into a bottomless pit. For anyone who | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| I do say is that the healthy attitude leading toward life would be an attitude somewhat like | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the kind mentioned here? Or are they merely leading to them? The former always give a sense | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| and with practices to open the clogged-up channels leading to them. You must understand, my friends, that | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Dependency stems from fear and creates greater fear, leading inevitably to resentment and hate. You try very | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| life that represents mastery over disunity. The steps leading to this new mastery are essentially the same | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| draws them together is the purest spiritual energy, leading to an inkling of the purest spiritual state | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| about myself, for this is the price for leading such a rich life, and I am willing | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| asserts its desire to transform the self-defeating aspects, leading the dialogue and calmly but firmly instructing the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| dualistic, separated mind do they seem like opposites leading to confusion about which is right or wrong | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| you from yet another side the way, and leading you more strongly toward accepting yourself exactly as | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| soul substance. Or it may be both, one leading to the other. Sometimes explanations may also come | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| temporarily make you search in the wrong direction, leading you even further away from what your innermost | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| not enter therapy. You embark on a voyage leading you into the new territory of your inner | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| statement brings forth an inexorable chain of events, leading gradually but surely to the condensed, slowed-down state | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| matter is composed of. The sequence of events leading to the state of hardened, inanimate matter stems | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| my friends, that they are a sequence, one leading to the next, on the spiral of your | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| means insanity, which again can be only temporary, leading eventually toward the greater sanity of a higher | 228 BALANCE |
| disconnection must also create a temporary, illusory imbalance, leading to chaos and disintegration. But because the whole | 228 BALANCE |
| and find yourself on a deeper circular motion, leading to the treasure of your inner universe. On | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| and more deserving of the privileged position of leading a country, a society, a civilization, a group | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| gain more contact with and knowledge about potential leading figures. The technical advancements that make this possible | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| uses them as pointing arrows, as red threads leading to the source. You are in illusion when | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| realistic understanding. Obviously this is a cyclic process, leading to benign or vicious circles. A fuller understanding | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| personal connections unroll and reveal larger processes, gradually leading into the macrocosmic events. At first, almost all | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Even the unavoidable hardships must ultimately become steps leading to greater harmony and ecstasy. In the great | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
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| in their development, this process of purification automatically leads to the ability to disentangle the knots in | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| as if you met a total stranger who leads his own life. It requires work, discipline, and | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to you about entering the first gate that leads to the path of perfection. I addressed the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| many powers and causes a wonderful vibration that leads to meditation, even though in the beginning it | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| God's will is always wise and loving and leads to happiness, even though the transition is a | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| also be able to forgive himself. And this leads to the next line: AS WE FORGIVE THOSE | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| makes you capable of love, of understanding. It leads you to happiness, and raises you up from | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| It is the only possible consequence. But it leads often through a door that appears like a | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| no one else has put you there. This leads me to the subject of will direction and | 18 FREE WILL |
| that will rob you of your peace; it leads you away from the state of detachment so | 18 FREE WILL |
| period, when a being finally declares: My path leads to God. I will not listen to my | 22 SALVATION |
| not take the one and only step that leads you to fulfillment through a deep sense of | 31 SHAME |
| you how to analyze the fault, how it leads to other faults, and what is connected with | 31 SHAME |
| is created in the soul, which, of course, leads to confusion and conflicts. For you who are | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| other people. They say, occupation with the self leads to selfishness. Of course, it depends entirely on | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| are escaping yourself in some way. All this leads to self-despisal which is the true cause of | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| same time every day. I think that this leads rather to the routine against which you warned | 36 PRAYER |
| reaction, a vicious circle in yourself. One reaction leads to another until the circle closes. When you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| wrong -- for only the harmonious middle path leads to the complete solution. Although there are obvious | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| reasoning process, which, joined with the emotional nature, leads to wisdom. Without such wisdom, people either cannot | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| am safe. The belief in this apparent safety leads the extreme type in this category to become | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| which is the only healthy one. This approach leads to the perfection you strive for: facing and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and that, of course, is not pleasant. This leads many people to believe that our path cannot | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| life. It is this fear of happiness that leads a person to all sorts of unhealthy reactions | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| your inner and outer reactions, your divine conscience leads you inexorably in such a way as to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| enjoy the serious and honest labor too that leads to it. Do not seek for miracles, tricks | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| of the image I have just explained. It leads you to believe that when you are extra-special | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| discovery why you are so bound; what misconception leads you to the bondage. Then, and then only | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| But the immature person often does, and this leads us to the desire for unhappiness. We will | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the illusion that you must never be inadequate leads to your rejection of self- responsibility, and the | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| all sorts of inner deviations and errors. It leads people into confusion. It is not selfish to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| condemned and left alone. This in no way leads you to reconsider the first impression that loving | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| used to brainwash the multitudes that one way leads to doom, the other to utopia. Passions are | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| difference actually does exist. Understanding the thought process leads to mastery over your self, just as the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| also in its own way creative, or it leads to being creative. For the lack of love | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| it lead to it, my friends. It merely leads to a detached self-observation. As you do this | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| used the words irrational and unfounded fear. This leads me to believe that there must be a | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| greater harm than less truth. For misunderstood truth leads to half-truth which is the most dangerous of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| uncaring, false independence that comes from and also leads to more unhealthy dependence and need. Such inner | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| suffering is shaped by a lazy fatalism and leads to the logical conclusion that God is cruel | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| I should not feel and think this way leads only to a self-deception that delays your coming | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| becomes capable of experiencing greater pleasure, but also leads a fuller life. Almost as a byproduct, there | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| sublimate my fleshly impulses and spiritualize them. This leads to repression, and when you view repression with | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| be good. The genuine desire to better oneself leads one to accept the personality as it is | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| It is an inverted, restricting movement that finally leads to stagnation and inner starvation. This may not | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| a healthy, flexible, receptive way; greed; craving, which leads, in crass cases, to addiction. The craving for | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| general, the distortion of the instinct of self-preservation leads the soul to adopt the quest for power | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| quest for power. The distorted instinct of procreation leads the soul to the quest for love. Yet | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| actually be your concept of God, which then leads to the God-image I have discussed before. False | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| a baby screaming, but this period of transition leads to strong healthy organs in this particular respect | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| only dishonesty, hypocrisy and self-deception, but it also leads you more deeply into isolation, unhappiness, alienation from | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to do this, and now see where this leads to. If such subtle hidden emotions can be | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| dangerous process because it is misunderstood, misused, and leads to and often actually means repression. The necessity | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| away magically with what still exists in you leads to repression and therefore to a false self-image | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| repression and therefore to a false self-image. It leads not only to self-deception, but to alienation from | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| with yourself and others. From there the road leads to further insight. It cannot be repeated often | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| their existence inside of you. And this denial leads to moralizing. Your confusion arises from feeling that | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| a yardstick? ANSWER: Yes. What I said before leads to lasting improvement. Such lasting improvement is bound | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| built on sand. It is false religion that leads to obedience and fear. It is so destructive | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unconscious belief that you are the only one leads to further repression. My dearest friends, be blessed | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| long maintained and at the expense of self-finding, leads to escapism and the false religion I discussed | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and the false religion I discussed recently. It leads to the wrong concept of God. If you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and discontent. The situation that brings this about leads the child to jump to the erroneous conclusion | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| by full understanding of all the angles. This leads to the awareness that one no longer has | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| than your imperfections. Your misconception about divine perfection leads you to rigidity and compulsion on the one | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| bad aspect or trait in existence. This confusion leads to misunderstandings among people, but most important of | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| among people, but most important of all, it leads to confusion and conflict within the self. Inner | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| them for yourself. This is self- alienating. It leads you to be as helpless as the outright | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| effort, be it ever so subtle, causes and leads to further self-alienation. The productive approach is to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| rather than for yourself. Finding your own values leads to selfhood and away from self-alienation. This will | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| how you are actually doing so. Again, perfectionism leads you to do this. Since you recognize many | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| grow. However, being perfectionistic is such a strain, leads to such discouragement and rigidity and pretense, that | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| else holds. All this is inner blindness which leads to outer selfishness and to separateness. The third | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| it matures properly, it combines with mutuality and leads to love and union. If it remains separate | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| I have to use this word. Anger which leads away from communication, from bridging gaps between human | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| adopted for one reason or another. Such superimposition leads to the self-alienation that we have discussed so | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| ideas, from outer knowledge -- and therefore it leads away from the real self. It might be | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| that is not getting rid of anything. Forcing leads only to self-deception and illusion. By letting an | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| is that disciplinary action is force, and therefore leads away from self-knowledge. The intent to look at | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| possibly be that there is a Father who leads life for us. It is up to us | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| He lets go of the wished-for hand that leads life for him, absolves him from the consequences | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |