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| feeling will you gain insights by reading inspired literature and philosophy. QUESTION: I would like to ask | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| in part, listening to lectures, reading the appropriate literature, and conversing with people who know more than | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| Scriptures or in some of the so-called Gnostic literature for the same reason that a number of | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this knowledge and put it into books and literature. In other words, people who are open for | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| enough written about it in occult and esoteric literature. Besides, it is really not important. QUESTION: That | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| to make an observation about this condition. Medical literature cites cases of persons who left their homes | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| coming home has often been used in spiritual literature and teachings, but it has been much misunderstood | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| either. For not all myth is truthful. Untruthful literature, or other influences, as well as misunderstood and | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| They just have a different rhythm. In occult literature, the expression the third eye is often used | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| By studying theories, or reading even the greatest literature on earth -- even spiritual literature -- you | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| the greatest literature on earth -- even spiritual literature -- you cannot possibly know the truth. Knowing | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| the goal. Now, what is the goal? Spiritual literature and religious teachings, in all cultures and in | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| has been variously described in mystical and spiritual literature and has been given various names, such as | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
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| incarnation. Whoever steps through this door will already live in a much lighter world, yet there are | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| yet found a key to your soul. You live, possibly without being aware of it, in fear | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| toward the road of least resistance. When people live their whole lives avoiding decisions, reactions and chain | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| reorientation when a person can say: Well, I live here on earth for a certain reason. Maybe | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| lawfulness to which all humans who wish to live a healthy and harmonious life are subject, any | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| For instance, when you decide to withdraw and live a solitary life because you do not want | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| this or that outer happening and therefore cannot live in harmony. Harmony can only be created when | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| and what has to exist where many beings live together: a certain order, a hierarchy. Here, in | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| order to establish contact with God's world. They live in a flat, shallow and grey world and | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| whole entanglement is sorted out and you can live without fear. Of course, fear has a different | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| a person has to give everything away and live in poverty so as to ascend spiritually. Such | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| not yet in others. If you try to live in this way, you must become happy, my | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| the person in training has sufficient means to live. In principle, to claim that a medium should | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| not in balance and therefore people have to live contrary to their basic nature without having caused | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| woman is troubling and problematic, she does not live in the fullest spiritual sense. But the same | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| you are on the right path, you will live and feel the great reality of God's world | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| be a theory, mere intellectual knowledge. You will live in this world and feel its effect on | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| as all that, you would not have to live again and again; you would be advanced far | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| of these geniuses are reincarnated; some of them live in the spirit world in a sphere of | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| Spirits of higher development who do not yet live in the highest sphere are given occasional access | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| sphere where the spirits of the dead children live to be trained and educated. This sphere is | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| and has no root in you. Thus you live a lie, well meant as it may be | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| a reality on the plane where you now live, and you cannot close your eyes to any | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| gripped by anger, anxiety, or hostility. You will live more and more constantly in a state of | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| ego with its fears and anxieties, you cannot live in the present. You sometimes live in the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| you cannot live in the present. You sometimes live in the past -- and this is bad | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| it is also true that you very often live in the future which, in its own way | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| tomorrow or the next hour, you do not live this very moment. What does that mean? It | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| So it is with most of you; you live almost all your life somehow in the future | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| more than positive thinking, for you learn to live in reality, the temporary reality you have created | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| to overlap. For example, one human person can live on earth, be in this room, and also | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| if you were, you would not have to live here -- you may at one time be | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| and most radiant spheres, even though you still live on earth, and even though, measured by distance | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| it to take over, influence you and thus live through you. This gives it a great deal | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| that they constantly wait for an opportunity to live through you. Thus you collude with them, and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| have not matured; if they had, they would live in reality, not in fantasy. Daydreaming is very | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the spirit world in which you are and live also extending into the very distant stars, like | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| whether you have a family or whether you live quite alone. But do not look far to | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| else, if you keep this promise and actually live it. Whatever willpower I have, I use it | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| though your circumstances may be different; you may live in a different country, you may have a | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| else to fulfill the will of God and live in accordance with divine law, you emanate a | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| have to commit a crime in order to live in the world of darkness. There are other | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| interference would hamper the person's free will. You live on this earth with your free will for | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| spirit -- has the possibility of choosing to live according to the laws or not. There lies | 18 FREE WILL |
| reach a state where you are able to live within divine law in every conceivable respect without | 18 FREE WILL |
| for meditation. Think of the many people who live in a state of mediocre contentment with no | 18 FREE WILL |
| is part, however, of your subtle bodies which live on. And whatever your personality makeup is now | 18 FREE WILL |
| she can be guided more easily and thus live a more pleasant life. If you die, for | 18 FREE WILL |
| of your death, you will feel, experience, and live afterward, and this will be your world because | 18 FREE WILL |
| there is more reason that such a person live somewhere else, perhaps in the country he hated | 18 FREE WILL |
| came into existence, to choose freely either to live within divine law or to act against it | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| worlds spirits create their own worlds wherein they live according to their states of mind. Each state | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| the spiritual worlds, even though you may still live on earth. You each create the world which | 21 THE FALL |
| or re-awakened. More and more people came to live on earth. Only with self-awareness, which includes thinking | 21 THE FALL |
| gradually came into existence. More souls came to live on earth because they were ready to do | 22 SALVATION |
| planning ahead and sending various pure spirits to live on earth. He also organized teachings for the | 22 SALVATION |
| world of God, if you wish -- would live on earth like a man, without any protection | 22 SALVATION |
| for faster development. At the same time, you live surrounded by people of different levels of development | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which creates friction. It is much easier to live with people of the same spiritual spheres, while | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the strength to find yourself truly and thus live in bliss and joy! Be joyful, for whoever | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in self-recognition and self-purification in whatever world you live in. Therefore, a being has to learn first | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| earth sphere, people of higher and lower development live together with all the grades in-between, having no | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| says, in different words, that you have to live in the moment, or what you call the | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be careless. No extreme is ever right. But live in the now and make the best of | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you every day anew. And simply because you live that way, when the next passive period comes | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| enough. But this will happen only when you live in harmony with the movement of the active | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| shame of it, and if you learn to live with this truth and knowledge, you will conquer | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| extremely difficult for humans to imagine that spirits live and laugh and enjoy themselves -- and work | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is intensely interested in music. This one may live, at least occasionally, in a sphere where it | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| your entire consciousness. But as long as you live instinctively, and therefore unknowingly, you remain unaware of | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| told you that in the spirit world you live among spirits of your own kind. That diminishes | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| something from that. But in the beyond they live in their own world, and it may take | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| or she will certainly not be able to live in a sphere of bliss, beauty, and divine | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| divine harmony, but they do not have to live in dire misery either. It depends on so | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you would not and should not want to live anymore. It is part of the daily cleansing | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and freest efforts of willpower to decide to live within spiritual law. In order to do that | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| more bound and chained. For the more you live in divine law, the freer you must become | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| people from living as God wants them to live, and if your world has not found other | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is when resentment, hate, and fear do not live in the individual soul any more. That is | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| more weaknesses but who has the courage to live without pretense and act according to the real | 31 SHAME |
| humility, overcomes pride, and shows you how to live in your own reality. If you were soon | 31 SHAME |
| it and will therefore feel a compulsion to live up to the idealized image. All human beings | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| and also a disadvantage, as long as you live in the world of matter. In high spiritual | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to accept others as they are and to live according to the spiritual law that demands that | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| healthy attitude toward your shortcomings, and learning to live according to life's rules and not shirking from | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| not prepared entirely, for as long as you live on earth, the last word is not spoken | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| You should understand better. Do you feel and live what you think you know? To know in | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| friends are far enough advanced yet seriously to live a prayer. When you are that far, you | 36 PRAYER |
| subject tonight. Tonight we shall discuss how to live up to the Divine Law of accepting life's | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| byproduct of this earth sphere in which you live, partly at least, in darkness. You think so | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| significant, my friends. For even though you still live in the world of manifestation, when you explore | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| have an image which makes you afraid to live, afraid to feel, and afraid to love. The | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| of history, what part of the earth you live in, no matter what names are chosen, the | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| find at the root that you do not live up to your own standards and you cannot | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| of being, that can be theirs if they live according to these teachings. Try to visualize and | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| unworthy in the parent. These reactions continue to live in the soul of the adult and color | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| is happy. It feels light. And it may live for a while in a special animals' sphere | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| shell or vehicle of the entity destined to live in that sphere. The pure sex force is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| as long as you reveal yourself, eros will live. The moment you believe you have found all | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| This prison may even appear comfortable if you live and stagnate in it long enough. One should | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| eros and the desire for a partner and live completely for love of humanity. Do you think | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and disappointment. Isn't it more comfortable to just live for yourself and have no difficulties? Isn't really | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| you turn these thoughts into actions. Thus you live in a higher degree of consciousness than when | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| In that house you will be able to live in eternal happiness, without any woe, without any | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you. But once you recognize that you cannot live life entirely as you would choose, that life | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| everyone. There are people who merely try to live right and to not commit crimes, who live | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| live right and to not commit crimes, who live an average, decent life. For them this is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and unconscious ignorance and errors, you do not live in truth, and therefore you prohibit the life | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| has tried for a long, long time to live up to these ideas. Yet people have largely | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you were the person who would act and live out all these unruly feelings. Discover the difference | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| standard for oneself that it is impossible to live up to it in reality. This little inner | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |