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| need to become master of yourself, not be mastered by moods and depend on them for the | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| and consequently mastery over life, instead of being mastered by life. Ask the question: How happy am | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| higher self, has to be practiced and fully mastered before the second phase sets in. You have | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| accepting yourself without embellishment. After this stage is mastered, the next one can begin: by meditating on | 21 THE FALL |
| and are thus slave to them; they are mastered by them, instead of controlling and mastering them | 21 THE FALL |
| into the same error. Thought control can be mastered without rigidity and suppression. On the contrary, properly | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| they might come back. But when you have mastered life's problems, there will be no threat in | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| that you are above trouble, that you have mastered trouble? Trouble can only cease after a long | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| unpleasant? Aren't they pleasant for he who has mastered them? Therefore this does deny the unpleasant principle | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| qualities, as I said, matter could not be mastered. Human beings need to learn, they need their | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| second half of this cycle, people have fully mastered this stage. They are supposed to approach the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| try and try again, until life is finally mastered though understanding the self, and hence the universe | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| not the true way. The ego must be mastered. When I say the ego, I mean everything | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| purposes outside of yourself if you have not mastered yourself first. This means that you have to | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| further to change this condition. Once you have mastered yourself in this way, the power will automatically | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| within yourself. As long as you have not mastered yourself, these words will mean nothing. As long | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| good experience in that it shows you have mastered a handicap. It shows you are coping successfully | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| venturing into a territory that has not been mastered before. The same applies to an entity's overall | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| pleasure, and depths of unifying relationships, new challenges mastered, new fascinations, and deeper well-being and peace. These | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| But this can only happen when you have mastered the negative experience. Or, to put it differently | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| the pain genuinely dissolve, and you will have mastered a slice of life that you no longer | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| chain reactions, needs to be explored, understood, and mastered. This work is the pathwork. All these aspects | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| about only when the previous stages are already mastered and practiced. There are occasional periods when such | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| need to handle. Once basic material knowledge is mastered or reawakened, deeper knowledge is reacquired, provided that | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| where you have overcome frustration, where you have mastered and truly transcended it -- not on the | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| moving and to overcoming. Only when you have mastered this resistance to a considerable degree does your | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
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| success is to succumb to pride instead of mastering it. Complete humility is a requirement. Consider how | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| are mastered by them, instead of controlling and mastering them. To achieve this mastery, self-observation, objectivity, and | 21 THE FALL |
| If a person continues to have difficulty in mastering a discipline, then the same time and same | 36 PRAYER |
| universal forces, not stemming against them, and thereby mastering them. Human conceptions create a duality here, an | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| grown, whose ego is weak, is incapable of mastering or coping with life. And the person whose | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| expansion, but in a particular sense. It implies mastering something that one was unable to master before | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
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| world. QUESTION: Are the spirits or doctors or masters in the spirit world limited in the extent | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| it is reincarnated. It may visit its former masters. At any rate, it is much happier in | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the Buddha, or any other of the great masters -- you will find that the need for | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| without whatever you wish. When your real self masters your life, your forces work constructively and productively | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| people do. They serve two, three, or ten masters at the same time, but not their own | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| mean when I speak of true selfhood which masters the universe. When the latter exists, the wrong | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| philosophy teaches that men and women are the masters of their fate and must create their lives | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| life and who may even have been so-called masters, but who have cultivated their beauty and disregarded | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| Mastery.....................41 | |
| work on this continuously until you slowly acquire mastery in it, you can penetrate not only into | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| can you be sure that you have attained mastery over your lower self, over your weaknesses that | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| overcome the initial difficulties and have won some mastery over yourself, at least in this respect, then | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| are the necessary medicine. You will increasingly gain mastery over yourself and consequently mastery over life, instead | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| will increasingly gain mastery over yourself and consequently mastery over life, instead of being mastered by life | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| a medium. There are many spiritual laws governing mastery over the physical body, and this person is | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| of controlling and mastering them. To achieve this mastery, self-observation, objectivity, and self-criticism are essential. If what | 21 THE FALL |
| does exist. Understanding the thought process leads to mastery over your self, just as the psychological work | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| master over your mind, and so you have mastery of your life. By mastery, I certainly do | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| so you have mastery of your life. By mastery, I certainly do not mean a discipline that | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the aggressive tendency of desire for rulership, for mastery over others, for dominion. One must inevitably interfere | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| account for the supreme pleasure that comes from mastery in achievement and accomplishment of the so-called unpleasant | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| without proving anything to anyone. When you seek mastery by distorting the attribute of power, you do | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| sake of proving your superiority. When you gain mastery by healthy power you do so for the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the sake of growing. Not to have the mastery occasionally will not present a threat as it | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| result of unawareness, unreality, untruth. Humanity has attempted mastery over matter in many ways, but in the | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| in the final analysis it must always mean mastery over untruth -- in you, personally. Only when | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| actions; such desire denies self-responsibility, liberation, and true mastery over one's fate, and therefore precludes the bliss | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| being in possession of the key. It means mastery. In the evolution of one single point of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| inner measurements; forget comparisons. Knowing the truth means mastery over the universe. It is healing and it | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| healing, knowingness is harmony, and knowingness is full mastery over the universe. Here, my friends, we come | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| could easily be misunderstood. When I speak about mastery over the universe and giving up control in | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| being. You will not understand that being and mastery -- or to put it differently, activity and | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| outside and move freely toward further expansion, joyful mastery of self, and universal bliss. In the search | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| holding. Such letting go eventually results in full mastery without the fear of losing it, for the | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| way, the power will automatically expand. Through such mastery, the realization that you and everyone else are | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| know. They yearn for the freedom, blissfulness and mastery of life that the unified state of consciousness | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the individual determines it to be. This freedom, mastery, and bliss, this liberation are sought after consciously | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| still misinterpreted for yet another reason. When freedom, mastery, unification, and the resulting bliss of the unified | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| feel safe. But how long can you retain mastery over life as you cling to dualistic thinking | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| says, Your birthright is perfect happiness, freedom, and mastery over life. When you fight for this birthright | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| from self-realization, in which you could truly have mastery, freedom, and total fulfillment. You seek all this | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the unitive state where you can truly achieve mastery, is by letting go of the false need | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| The surrender of the loving woman heightens the mastery of self-activation in her mate. She will encourage | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| ignorance and helplessness, represent a new skill and mastery over life, a new unification -- first of | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| solution is a commitment to find a new mastery over present helplessness and constriction, a commitment to | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| into your personality. The acquisition of a new mastery always means overcoming an imaginary rift that you | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| very limited state. Therefore, dynamic growth is also mastery over misconceptions. Misconceptions always lead to more disunity | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| also a valuable movement toward life that represents mastery over disunity. The steps leading to this new | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| over disunity. The steps leading to this new mastery are essentially the same as the ones you | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| of the inner world. Real spiritual growth and mastery on the inner level, spontaneous unification of emotional | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |