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 Likened.....................8
humanity as a whole. Primitive humanity can be likened to the infant. I do not have to 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
with different outlooks and attitudes. They can be likened to the different aspects of an individual. On 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
conducive to faster development. Again, this can be likened to the individual who finds the pathwork and 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
unknown is very strong. It could almost be likened to a form of anesthesia that nature administers 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
listening and learning attitude. The ego can be likened to hands and arms that move toward the 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
a man and a woman that can be likened to a very finely calibrated instrument that shows 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
own limitless creative potential. This phase can be likened to the infant who needs the mother. You 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
abundance can follow. Such governmental crisis can be likened to the breakdown of an individual who refuses 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
 
 Liking......................23
roots of everything that is not to your liking about your present life. If you go about 18 FREE WILL
wish or do not react according to your liking. In other words, if there is a strong 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
there may be a combination of a strong liking for order and organization and a wish for 47 THE WALL WITHIN
if the circumstances I abhor change to my liking. This, my friends, is really and truly what 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
force the world to his or her own liking. When this cannot be done by power, other 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
you do this, you will find a new liking and respect for those whose unconditional surrender you 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
dissolved; now you let the other be free, liking and respecting him or her as a human 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
and inclinations, and therefore not according to your liking or pleasure. Moreover, the conditions of working, with 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
then, will serve as an excuse for not liking anyone. The idealized image in this case dictates 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
of self- acceptance and therefore keeps you from liking yourself. Without this, self-respect is impossible. All this 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
a situation, even if it is against your liking -- thus making you capable of relinquishing your 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
you are sure you are liked. If a liking for you transpires, then you will like the 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
other person. This is a secondary reaction. Your liking the other person may be in truth, but 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
the truth you will perceive that approval and liking by this particular person will yield you no 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
is sincere and if feelings of affection, respect, liking for the other human being are there, together 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
incapable of preserving a feeling of respect and liking if the strong force of your love is 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
emotions, or attitudes that are not to your liking is artificial and can never bring genuine liberation 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
of such a decision is not to your liking, the corroding effects will be rebellion, self-pity, and 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
whether or not it is according to your liking. It means accepting where you are and what 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
result of your fighting against yourself and not liking yourself for this particular distortion. Consequently, there is 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
others responsible for anything that goes against your liking. This can take many subtle forms. You may 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
of their apprehensive expectation: their self-respect and self- liking will increase. So this is, my friends, what 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
exercises or use others perhaps more to your liking, the only way to demagnetize a negative force 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
 
 Limbs.......................7
one spot to another; if you have healthy limbs you can do it at will. But you 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
bloodstream of the mother in order that the limbs will not atrophy. It is necessary, but merely 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
important for you. However, if you keep your limbs crossed, you cut off this current. This is 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
one place to another. As long as your limbs are healthy, that possibility is given to you 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
to you. And if you have allowed your limbs to atrophy too long by unnecessary incarceration, through 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
is given to everyone. The healing of the limbs of your psyche to take advantage of that 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
utter confidence. Your innermost being and your outer limbs feel sweet and fulfilled when you love. But 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
 
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cultivated just as the intellect can. Do I limit and constrict the instinctual feelings through the intellect 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
to continue on logically from this premise. They limit God all the time. There are many of 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
in is that you believe there is a limit to the revealing of any soul, yours or 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
and let yourself be found. There is no limit, for the soul is endless and eternal: a 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
the faults of others. But there is a limit as to how long you can go on 47 THE WALL WITHIN
continue inwardly in the adult with no age limit, and cease only when the vicious circle is 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
adoption of a method to recollect instructions would limit, would cast aside, what should be accomplished inwardly 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
feel uneasy and anxious, if you wish to limit such insight, you know that the child in 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
is a danger you must guard against, you limit the range of your feelings. You also limit 101 THE DEFENSE
limit the range of your feelings. You also limit the potentials of your creativity, your ability to 101 THE DEFENSE
the unconscious aim of human beings is to limit the human personality, because they believe that if 101 THE DEFENSE
accordingly, and if the degree passes a certain limit, you cannot live either. Life on earth requires 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
and reach happiness and liberation up to the limit commensurate with this dimension. To the degree they 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
My friends, try to see how your images limit your perception, your determination and your love capacity 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
are perceived, experienced, inwardly lived, there is no limit to your expansion, your freedom, your experience of 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
and theoretical only. You must determine where you limit yourself to an either/or concept in the belief 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
creative process of the universe. There is no limit to how far you can go in expressing 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
the ego world with your ego faculties, you limit yourself. Reaching out into the universe must be 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
real self: which is that there is no limit to expansion. Through this unfoldment your intuition will 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
limitless in its possibilities for evil, for the limit is set when life ceases -- or seems 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
always non-life. There is nothing beyond non-life. This limit of non-life could exist only on the relative 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
a certain degree, but that direction has a limit. The best way to use the physical approach 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
incorrect; but the perception that there is a limit in the direction away from the center is 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
the road toward the breaking point where the limit is reached. See how they fear this limit 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
limit is reached. See how they fear this limit and yet how stubbornly they refuse to look 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
see the destructive process that leads to the limit beyond which you cannot continue in the same 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
you move, still in your error, toward the limit where the turnabout must come, that is good 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
Therefore, you fear and cramp up against this limit. But denying the result of your own action 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
to the breaking point of no return. The limit finally offers no alternative but to turn around 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
When this occurs, one knows there is no limit and all is one. Of course, my friends 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
the universe for every contingency. There is no limit to what is possible. There are marvelous things 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
need any more to annihilate yourself, or to limit your identity to the fraudulent mask or the 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
reality without eliciting inappropriate reactions that would thus limit your understanding. An unavoidable limitation exists however. Your 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
concept of its limitations. To the degree you limit your mind, you cannot perceive what is beyond 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
state always infringes on others and wants to limit them for the sake of its own greater 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
you will remove an obstruction that can only limit and bind you. In either case, your liberation 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
 
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that we have many difficulties to overcome. The limitation of human language is a tremendous obstruction in 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
express itself in human language. It is a limitation. Imagine it in the sense of translating a 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
the maximum ability, creativity and healthy strength. The limitation does not only have to be recognized concerning 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
but cannot have due to certain factors. The limitation has to be recognized also concerning a potential 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
justified to distrust a person with this particular limitation than other people who have other limitations that 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
problematic tendencies, you could easily accept another person's limitation. You know that. Now, this is a general 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
spiritual life is gravely impaired. By such self-imposed limitation you isolate yourself more and more, and institute 101 THE DEFENSE
emotional and spiritual maturity, you realize your own limitation in understanding the greatness of Creation and of 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
of God, and the realization of one's own limitation to grasp the Creator, may come simultaneously. A 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
time will free you of the shackles of limitation, of preconceptions, of a narrow, rigid outlook, all 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
a dynamic and full experience within which the limitation of time will not be a hardship. At 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
You, therefore, strive to get out of this limitation of time, straining as a dog pulls at 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
compatible with reality. This will free you from limitation and from frozen feelings. When religious teachers preach 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
selfish drives at the expense of others. This limitation and ignorance -- just like the infant's -- 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
exist. The God who does exist knows no limitation in squandering happiness that is all yours for 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
But all spiritual principles, when clothed in the limitation of the human language, appear as contradictions. For 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
unnecessary limitations. Then, when you dispense with the limitation itself, you can go out and obtain what 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
This is the nature of all images. The limitation one ascribes to life and to one's relationship 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
envy and jealousy exist, there is no such limitation. There the universe is seen for what it 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
found the areas in which you take the limitation to two equally undesirable choices -- and the 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
they are the result of misunderstanding, exclusiveness and limitation and result further in the inability to either 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
you. This goes with a proper sense of limitation of your functions and powers, and the humility 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
matter, the greater the ignorance, error, misconception, prejudice, limitation, and darkness -- hence, the greater the suffering 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
lived too long in a climate of negativity, limitation, and isolation because of your misguided fear of 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
of your misguided fear of yourself. Once this limitation is given up, the miracle must come to 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
momentarily stuck in a state of denial and limitation. Those who are stuck, please do not separate 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
living unity that knows no conflict and no limitation. The creative power at work in any life 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
This is a fundamental requirement to eliminate the limitation. In that spirit you can still derive a 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
shed these layers of pain, error, confusion, and limitation only when you no longer run away from 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
nature of all envy. This points to the limitation with which humanity experiences the universe. The universe 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
the intent, the desire, the decision. But its limitation is in the execution of the thought, the 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
to the inner path. It must know its limitation as to the deep wisdom, the individual rhythm 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
negative beliefs. Only when you realistically accept a limitation as it is now can you transcend it 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
you transcend it, in the realization that the limitation does not need to exist. Thus you move 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
cannot exist if there is no negativity or limitation of concept. The more you develop and grow 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
necessary to understand your deeply ingrained conviction of limitation, of having to make decisions of self versus 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
concept, conflict between self and others -- hence limitation of experience. A state of consciousness sets in 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
vicious circle. The result must be frustration and limitation, which you then assume to be the nature 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
it ruminate in habitual negativity, self-rejection, and needless limitation. But once you decide to use your thinking 174 SELF-ESTEEM
capabilities, more power and unity where there was limitation and disunity. Not learning to walk creates unhappiness 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
learning to walk creates unhappiness, weakness, pain and limitation, which are all overcome when the ability to 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
experience an unconscious helplessness and a sense of limitation. Then you become aware of the problem. When 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
links in the negative chain reaction are: life's limitation and enmity against humanity; humanity's defensive pettiness of 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
strength to change and give up destructiveness. The limitation is that the ego-consciousness cannot execute this alone 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
relatively small part of their total personality. This limitation is, of course, a terrible loss. Not being 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
conscious without justifying it by the destructiveness or limitation of others. The moment you do this, you 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
and is completely available to you. The only limitation is your own mind which, because of its 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
creative power at your disposal must transcend every limitation you seem to encounter. Whatever hurdle you come 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
from reality. You inevitably live in fear and limitation. Yet you believe that this is all there 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
ardently protect this limited consciousness, yet this very limitation creates fear and suffering. This is, broadly speaking 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
the way. You must also recognize your own limitation to express your best feelings when the unexpressed 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
outer life because they do not see the limitation and actual falsity of this idea. If unification 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
of infinite expansion and of transcending its present limitation. The specific limitation of the mind must and 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
and of transcending its present limitation. The specific limitation of the mind must and will eventually be 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
state, is in conflict because of blindness and limitation. The ego is not one, it is divided 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
by attempting to give you more understanding, that limitation can lessen and you can increase your awareness 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
to come out of this state of ignorance, limitation, powerlessness, of being severed from the nucleus where 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
but he illusion of the limited mind. The limitation of that mind is also responsible for not 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
a fantasy when you hear it discussed. This limitation of perception is the result of a conditioned 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA
that would thus limit your understanding. An unavoidable limitation exists however. Your vocabulary is limited, so you 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
of consciousness in which ugliness, brutality, cruelty, numbness, limitation of mind -- including shrewdness, as opposed to 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
cannot be fulfilled. You learn to accept the limitation of your present personality. You need humility to 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
could be led to accept his or her limitation, imperfection and mortality. Eventually, however, this very important 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
the greatest truths, of distortions deriving from human limitation of consciousness, as well as from the then 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
to perceive that the three-dimensional world with its limitation of time, space and movement, with its duality 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
directly related to and connected with impurity, distortion, limitation of vision and perception. Your three-dimensional perception is 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
artificial, erroneous controversy that is based on human limitation of vision and on misunderstanding. If Jews feel 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
seen in a true light because of the limitation of your conceptual understanding, as well as the 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
of your conceptual understanding, as well as the limitation of your ability to experience. These limitations in 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
ability to experience. These limitations in turn create limitation of language. Language is your vehicle to communicate 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
The lower self exists precisely because of the limitation with which you manifest on this level of 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
realities. Here you can find that the previous limitation was inaccurate, mostly because of its exclusivity. You 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE

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