| 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 |
| Limit.......................36 | |
| 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 |
| Limitation..................72 | |
| 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 |