| Listened....................7 | |
| fight your lower self. The higher self, when listened to, can make itself known in the course | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| COMMENT: I know that if I would have listened to this lecture a year ago, I would | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| were at best a theory for those who listened to me then or later read these words | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| -- perhaps in that order. After you have listened to the destructive nonsense of the lower self | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| also want and need to be heard and listened to. Children need to express themselves but too | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| came from quarters that either deliberately or unwittingly listened to the inspiration of evil entities and then | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| over the rest of the world. Those who listened to and followed these powerful factions were, in | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Listeners...................3 | |
| information may be harmful for some of the listeners and readers while also being useful for others | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| This is not an imposition for the other listeners. Quite the contrary. If you are ready to | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| rebuked and having to face the consequences. Passive listeners cheat by trying to have it both ways | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Listening...................32 | |
| by being open to such help, and by listening to another person who has something to tell | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| within you. Therefore, spiritual nourishment is, in part, listening to lectures, reading the appropriate literature, and conversing | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| not attain a deep and all-pervading knowledge while listening to the same thought twenty-five times perhaps, even | 18 FREE WILL |
| be worked for. It cannot come by merely listening to a lecture once. This will never be | 18 FREE WILL |
| improve, to learn about your faults, and for listening to them. You can ask in the right | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| choose to give it -- that you are listening to. Communication with the spirit world of all | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| are misusing. Only by examining your feelings, by listening into your emotions can you get the answer | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| your reactions to some of your opinions. By listening to or feeling your reactions you will be | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| where not. Only your complete sincerity and self-honesty, listening into yourself, checking out your reactions, analyzing them | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| negative tendencies played a role in your not listening to the voice of the innermost self. A | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| be experienced through extensive self-finding, rather than just listening to my words describing a concept, many other | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| is what prohibits you from becoming quiet and listening to yourself. If you can acknowledge this, calmly | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| this balance is by feeling into yourself and listening to your innermost soul movements. By doing that | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| words at the moment -- following through and listening into yourself, freely allowing for what may come | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| anyone; my only way of loving is neurotic. Listening to your lecture, I am interested to find | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| when to step aside in a more passive, listening and learning attitude. The ego can be likened | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| cannot be learned by rules; only finely attuned listening to your own soul movements will enable you | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| interplay of doing and waiting, of acting and listening, you believe the separated little self is all | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| calmer and the more relaxed you are, intently listening to your feeling, the more it will turn | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| and strength. This new approach requires a calm listening in attitude. Observe it rather than control it | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| trained in a new direction of attentiveness, of listening in, as it were. So it is no | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| less and less anguish, apprehension and anxiety. Sensitive listening into your most subtle reactions will reveal to | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| principle, and the conscious mind must become receptive, listening, pliable, impressionable. It must tune into and understand | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| of thinking and concentrating, consolidating your thoughts and listening, shutting out the vagaries of the mind that | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| even be able to do that. Begin by listening into yourself to find what your predominant feeling | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| use and pay attention to very finely calibrated listening mechanisms in order to discern your hidden motivations | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| Fear and self-will take over and make inner listening impossible. Premature and violent deaths, as when young | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| reached. The focusing will yield to connections, to listening and hearing. Now, the state of consciousness in | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| instructing, claiming, conditioning, re-creating; and expressing: that is, listening, hearing, and receiving. The time has come when | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| Yes. Most of my life I have been listening to my negativity. The negativity has been conducting | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| within will be a strengthening and unifying experience. Listening to the beautiful voice will not get you | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| within. This will help you to attune your listening inner ear to the voice of God, filling | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Listens.....................4 | |
| with the higher beings, speaks its wishes and listens to advice. Then there are the different spheres | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| if these wishes are closely observed, if one listens to any harsh or disturbing emotion contained in | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| These extremes are the blind, wishful thinking that listens only to what you want to hear and | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| sense impressed by it. Rather, the conscious mind listens and absorbs, evaluates and discriminates. As your conscious | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| Listlessness................3 | |
| thereby organically growing into an extended time dimension. Listlessness, depression, impatience, nervousness, anxiety, tension, frustration, boredom, apathy | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| hopelessness, illness, frustration, failures, feelings of inadequacy, pleasurelessness, listlessness. All these are indubitable signs that there is | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| and consciousness, for feeling joy and pleasure. Tiredness, listlessness, lack of energy can be explained by many | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| Lists.......................3 | |
| observations with your own findings. Complement the two lists, work with them. Take the results to God | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| goes without saying that you should keep your lists of problems and conflicts in front of you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| presented so far covers, briefly speaking, the various lists which I need not again enumerate, the life | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| Lit.........................3 | |
| only as something pleasant. When the fire is lit, he is with his master at the fireside | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| a symbol: many, many candles have to be lit and be aflame within you to bring the | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| an ongoing process. And the more candles are lit, the greater the joyousness and the glory become | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Literally...................33 | |
| -- but please do not take this too literally. I cannot present this otherwise, because if I | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| even though this is not to be understood literally. Spirits of higher development who do not yet | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| your development. This is not to be taken literally to mean that only one particular day should | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| made. Again, it is not to be taken literally to mean that it has to be on | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| submissive slave. This is not to be taken literally; it refers to certain emotional reactions. This happens | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| together? ANSWER: Yes. Primitive humanity always took everything literally, and still does. Only through development will humanity | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| apparently cruel fairy tale or myth is taken literally, a soul-particle that is already afflicted will be | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| burden to the real personality. I mean that literally. You need a respite from this burden in | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| comparable overall development, this must not be taken literally. It cannot be denied that there is considerable | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| aims have to become so conscious that they literally stare you in the face. Only then can | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you have, the limitless powers you possess -- literally, my friends -- to provide exactly what you | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| movements in two opposite directions make you feel literally torn apart. The pain of not understanding what | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| functions, it dries up, starves, withers -- it literally dies off. For it cannot replenish itself at | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and a low degree of awareness. This is literally what human beings do constantly in their spiritual | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| understood in their far-reaching significance and are taken literally, as they are meant to be, nothing can | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| experiences of bliss, self-expression, fascination. It is everything, literally everything, that the mind can conceive of, including | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| growth, and the realization of his potentials; he literally sacrifices and wastes his life out of sheer | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the pain, then the pain compounds and will literally crush you. Only when you are being crushed | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| in many ways. It has been interpreted too literally to mean that you should allow others to | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| waste. False opinions and obsolete behavior patterns are literally waste material, to be disposed of. If they | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| as you face what you had evaded. You literally feel in your being an inner cleanliness and | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| inconvenient. The price you pay for avoiding is literally insanity. However, if you confront what you would | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| human anatomy, of a mathematical system, of the literally infinite qualities contained in the ether. Still, you | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| In these cases a life-or- death struggle is literally taking place inside. On one level the struggle | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| might know right now, but choose -- yes, literally choose -- not to know. That choice creates | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it is always worth it, for you pay literally with your life for the negative kind of | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| the angels, I do not necessarily mean this literally, although that, too, may exist. But what you | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| possibilities for being, expression and creative manifestation -- literally limitless ways of joyousness, ecstasy and wisdom, to | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| in order to prevent change. And that is literally, to some varying degree, the human condition. So | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| path of accelerated development can, and frequently does, literally reincarnate in the same lifetime. As I have | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| following example we will see that love is literally all and everything. It is obvious that love | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| should no longer occupy, a space it has literally outgrown, as if you were to force an | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| this happens? It is precisely because you now literally and personally experience in your own microcosm that | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |