| Matured.....................5 | |
| that in some way such people have not matured; if they had, they would live in reality | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| moderated this attitude somewhat as your intellect has matured. You may now admit to certain faults which | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| will happen to humankind when it has truly matured in all its aspects. This can, of course | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| you sufficiently far so that you have spiritually matured and are ready to find the balance, the | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| or the angels and devils are. Humanity has matured sufficiently to be able to unite this duality | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Maturely....................17 | |
| you can learn from if you meet them maturely. However, I can promise you that after you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| not see anyone who always makes emotional decisions maturely. I am again giving you strong material to | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| state when you do it independently, responsibly and maturely, because you realize yourself that everything has a | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| learned. Your developed personality is capable of judging maturely on the intellectual level, and, in some instances | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| If the grown person can adjust to authority maturely and freely, another milestone has been reached in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| love, it does not know how to love maturely. The child is not supposed to take that | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| who would basically be capable to love more maturely than it is possible in the environment you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| in your life. But the desire to be maturely and rightly loved persists in you, submerged by | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| able, gradually and little by little, to love maturely, you will expect the same in return. This | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| childhood. This will make them incapable of loving maturely. You can see how this condition continues from | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| apology for a deeply suspected inability to love maturely. Children feel the truth very acutely. They may | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| craving to be loved instead of giving love maturely, by your fears and inhibitions and shame which | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| superimposed idealized self-image. Only as you learn to maturely go about fulfilling the healthy, natural needs, will | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| you have not yet come to terms with maturely make you barricade the stream, to resist, to | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| must finally come, if it is coped with maturely and realistically. But acceptance is impossible as long | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| deal. In this way I can easily act maturely on the outside and just speak to the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| accepted and the personality deals with them honestly, maturely, productively and constructively, then the inner evolutionary process | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Matures.....................8 | |
| if and when the whole personality grows and matures harmoniously will sex become integrated with love. Out | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| anymore. As the human being develops spiritually and matures emotionally, self-knowledge continues on ever deeper levels. On | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| adult grows into it provided the whole personality matures harmoniously and provided that none of the childish | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| pain and death. If the infant in you matures, you inevitably realize that you are your own | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| and evaluation of things. The more a person matures spiritually and emotionally, the more the aspects of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| sexuality is a natural, healthy instinct. If it matures properly, it combines with mutuality and leads to | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| been wrongly equated with destructiveness. Only as humanity matures is it capable of learning that the instinctual | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| just about left kindergarten. When consciousness grows and matures a little and therefore perceives life not only | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Maturing....................19 | |
| feel deeply ashamed about their imagined difference. The maturing of the soul will change this tendency, but | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| leaning did not exist during the process of maturing. Outer influences may encourage the inclination unnecessarily, while | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| terms with it in a process of inner maturing and growth. The infant realizes very early that | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| prepare the way for real, mature love. Your maturing mind will make you understand that the only | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| quality or importance of the event. Thus, the maturing soul who approaches inner reality, ready to meet | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| with true detachment, which is gained only by maturing your emotions. True detachment means that life and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you. To the degree you go through this maturing process, and so lose all the negative aspects | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| These insights will free you and further your maturing process. With the forcing current removed, you will | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| self from evolving. You prevent your feelings from maturing, from manifesting. All this you may not yet | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| of you, the growth period of experiencing and maturing has to happen now. It just cannot be | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| rigid, childish version is abandoned. Part of this maturing lies in establishing clearly and specifically in what | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| extreme are those who, in the process of maturing, have brought together fantasy and reality in the | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| in its own way will effect the gradual maturing of this infant. The ego determines its goal | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| increasing ability of connecting cause and effect, the maturing process, and the growing awareness that are involved | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| relationship between the sexes. As the planet is maturing, so are men and women. What does this | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| It is therefore obviously necessary for the growing, maturing individual to abandon the claim for omnipotence and | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| and designated them as neurotic states that the maturing individual naturally abandoned, at least to some degree | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| this possible are yet another facet of the maturing, the development, of humankind. It is also easier | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| approach to human problems, a giant step in maturing will have been made. At the present time | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Maturity....................161 | |
| hidden soul currents; today more people have the maturity necessary for such a search. Therefore God has | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| therefore God waits until they have reached sufficient maturity in the course of their various incarnations, where | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| detachment so necessary for attaining spiritual and emotional maturity. The other flows freely, strongly, and vitally and | 18 FREE WILL |
| not stay because they lack either the spiritual maturity to understand what is going on, or because | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| merits, they often lack the otherwise necessary spiritual maturity to accept help. Nevertheless, the chance should be | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| after some considerable progress of spiritual development, emotional maturity and stability, only then should this treatment be | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| behind them. That is the process to reach maturity, my friends. Your unconscious and often conflicting desires | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| discuss the images, I mentioned the term emotional maturity. Now you will understand better how it happens | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| to do that, a certain emotional and spiritual maturity has to exist. If this maturity is present | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and spiritual maturity has to exist. If this maturity is present, you will intuitively choose the right | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| partner, one who has, in essence, the same maturity and readiness to embark on this journey. The | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| partner, he will respond provided he has the maturity. He must respond. Whether this response comes occasionally | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| instant will start, and will thus raise the maturity of the other which may then surpass his | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| to learn love for one another and gain maturity together. Even where an immature choice was made | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| this hurdle has become a stepping stone toward maturity or not. If the grown person can adjust | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| no abuse is ever possible, where the other's maturity meets one's own maturity. The immature person will | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| possible, where the other's maturity meets one's own maturity. The immature person will blindly choose the object | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the self from giving itself up at all. Maturity is conscious understanding, which, in turn, raises the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| expression you used. Would you kindly define emotional maturity? ANSWER: Emotional maturity is, foremost, the capacity to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Would you kindly define emotional maturity? ANSWER: Emotional maturity is, foremost, the capacity to love. Many people | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| people imagine they have it. Of course, emotional maturity is a matter of degree. But wherever fear | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| disappointment, or fear of life's risks exists, emotional maturity does not exist. Emotional maturity knows no selfishness | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| risks exists, emotional maturity does not exist. Emotional maturity knows no selfishness. This is relative on earth | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| emotionally immature, although you may have reached intellectual maturity. Emotional maturity means being unafraid to pay the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| although you may have reached intellectual maturity. Emotional maturity means being unafraid to pay the price of | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you thwart not only others but yourself. Emotional maturity also means being unafraid of your own emotions | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the false control of suppressing them. In emotional maturity you will no longer fear your positive feelings | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| than what might happen to you later. Emotional maturity means being able to make a full decision | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| there is always a price to pay. Emotional maturity or emotional health means knowing what you want | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| know them fully is to attain true emotional maturity. These are universal truths, taught in all religions | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| This approach will lead you safely into emotional maturity. It will make you truly men and women | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| or a woman who does not have emotional maturity. QUESTION: Would you please explain the reason for | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| some, disliked by others, you have truly reached maturity. You will no longer find it necessary to | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| people are well established on the road to maturity and self-responsibility in the inner and deeper sense | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it. Let me stress that this state of maturity does not have to be fully reached in | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| horizon and raise your consciousness to the necessary maturity. The truth will then dawn on you that | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| Does it further my independence, my self-responsibility, my maturity, my self-honesty? Or does it further escapism, no | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is straightened out and you have gained inner maturity in this respect, your attitude would be somewhat | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| judgment -- and certainly a maximum degree of maturity and freedom from one's own conflicts. QUESTION: I | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| better than the adverse ones. Both need wisdom, maturity, and the spiritual knowledge that gives the true | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| joy on your path of liberation. Move toward maturity and reality in a joyful and patient spirit | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you as incarnated human beings depends on your maturity, mental as well as emotional. Maturity, in turn | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| on your maturity, mental as well as emotional. Maturity, in turn, depends on your capacity and willingness | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| least theoretically, how living in reality depends on maturity, and how maturity depends on the ability to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| living in reality depends on maturity, and how maturity depends on the ability to love. Therefore I | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| and security. This can be only if emotional maturity exists. Emotional maturity, in turn, is the state | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| can be only if emotional maturity exists. Emotional maturity, in turn, is the state of being willing | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| cause unhappiness and conflict, darkness and ignorance. Thus, maturity is really the ability to love. We also | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| others. In the gradual process of growth and maturity, you will not immediately experience the great, encompassing | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| cannot be, then you withdraw altogether. With growing maturity you will realize that you can only reach | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| very fruitful. It is also a sign of maturity, because it is only the immature who must | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| a more overall view with regard to love, maturity, creativity. This does not mean that we will | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| unhealthy fear is generated, which always happens when maturity and self-responsibility are not attained. Whether you fear | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| potentials, trusts in the self. The state of maturity that is your aim will bring, among many | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| dear ones. May you find the way to maturity and love by finding where, how, and why | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| human relationships with the aim of finding the maturity you really need and want. In not demanding | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| within yourself. QUESTION: You have stated that emotional maturity is the willingness and the capability to love | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to love. It seems to me that intellectual maturity must mean something else. How do the two | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| need in order to walk through life. Intellectual maturity is your capacity to think, to judge, to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| lose objectivity. Your capacity to think is intellectual maturity. And the way you manage your emotional reactions | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| emotional reactions, feelings, and instincts determines your emotional maturity or lack of it. QUESTION: Might one be | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| understanding about them and thus nearing perfection and maturity. In this way, your hostility will vanish and | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| are really selfish and very much lacking in maturity and love. Here we have to agree on | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| not even indicate a specific lack of emotional maturity not to do that. This would be immaturity | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| easily if you yourself increase your own emotional maturity. It is often a clear indication of emotional | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| step in growth and the process of gaining maturity is to become aware of emotions you may | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| This defensive reaction causes the rigidity. Growth, development, maturity and the healing of distorted soul forces lie | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| securing safety. In a state of health and maturity, real dangers - - not only physical ones | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| intervals before birth, as well as after, until maturity has been attained. But the most important major | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| they are outside you. So every step toward maturity unifies more parts within yourself -- and this | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| treated child. True religion is spiritual and emotional maturity. God's role is not to provide you with | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and to reach a certain physical and mental maturity. Let me give you an example on the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| mature emotions, in the courage to make this maturity and growth possible, will you gain the security | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you know of your pretense, of your false maturity, of your idealized self-image. And you tremble because | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| they gave? Could love be given without emotional maturity? QUESTION: Is a faith in God and love | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| a faith in God and love without emotional maturity possible? ANSWER: That is impossible, if we speak | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| love and real, genuine faith to exist, emotional maturity is a necessary basis. Love and faith and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to love is a direct outcome of emotional maturity and growth. True faith in God, in the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| false religion, is again a matter of emotional maturity because true religion is self- dependent. It does | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and self-responsibility. All these are attributes of emotional maturity. And only with strength, self-reliance, and self-responsibility are | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| or unknown in history, had to have emotional maturity. QUESTION: If someone doing this work finds wild | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| It is often said that one sign of maturity is the ability to take criticism and frustration | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| your immaturity. Only by doing so will your maturity grow. And now we come to a third | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| yet understood its meaning. But in health and maturity, these existing codes become your own. By following | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| it. This is a necessary preliminary. Without it, maturity is impossible. This stage cannot be shortened. Once | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| average, is the greatest sign of growth and maturity. In a private session some time ago, I | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You have heard many aspects of what constitutes maturity and immaturity. One of the great milestones on | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the great milestones on the road to maturity is the ability to give up being special | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| rewarding for you. The ability to relinquish indicates maturity. Repression, on the other hand, creating blind needs | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| rebellion, or self- assertion; of the strength and maturity in real repentance and change; of the humility | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| more humor, individuality, pleasure, because in health and maturity -- which amounts to the same as goodness | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| my friend. The answer is very simple. Growth, maturity, unfoldment, makes you able to withstand, if you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| to, that which you are incapable of changing. Maturity enables you to give up and let go | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| life. Many people have the wrong concept of maturity because they believe if they were mature, they | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| a sign of lack of imagination or of maturity? ANSWER: It can be a sign of maturity | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| maturity? ANSWER: It can be a sign of maturity, but it is not always that. It would | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| the pain, before crossing the threshold into emotional maturity and productive patterns, you have the possibility, if | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| way to get to this point of growth, maturity, and productive living, is by simply observing your | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| tolerate not always having one's own way. The maturity to withstand frustration and to relinquish one's will | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| of your real needs, you automatically increase your maturity. When a need is unconscious, a displacement occurs | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| be true faith unless you have gained the maturity of faith in yourself. Now, how can you | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| it. As you grow into emotional and spiritual maturity, you realize your own limitation in understanding the | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| you will become richer, not only in spirit, maturity, self-reliance, and self-respect, but richer in your human | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| welcome to the other person. It takes more maturity and wisdom than most people have, and, most | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| right. It takes quite a bit of growth, maturity, and wisdom to realize that one may be | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| by a wild struggle of your soul's forces. Maturity will come as you teach your soul to | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| language is often confused. One speaks of emotional maturity or emotional involvement, of expressing one's emotions when | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| fear and of your childish insistence. The emotional maturity we seek is the ability to tolerate frustration | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| obsolete reactions and responses. Let the gathered inner maturity come out, instead of pushing it back because | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| capacity for pleasure and its environment. Hence, intellectual maturity frequently hinders the pleasure principle, which is repressed | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| Their existence prohibits the natural development. With growing maturity in this respect, perfect union between two individuals | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| healthy and constructive way that leads toward spiritual maturity. All images, pseudo-solutions, misconceptions and inner conflicts arise | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| human sphere and their aims will represent this maturity, while other groups and their aims will represent | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| humanity is now on the threshold of greater maturity and is therefore in a state of crisis | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| find true solutions. But since humankind is approaching maturity, it too will learn to develop its inner | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| this earth can exist only when the overall maturity of humankind has reached this avenue of resolving | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| to leave adolescence, so what will happen at maturity is not an immediate consideration. Nevertheless you need | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| involved. For the totality of humankind to reach maturity, all individual parts of it have to do | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| your being with aspects that have already reached maturity. This integration must be a willing, free choice | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| spiritual reality. However, the more humanity reaches overall maturity, the faster progress will be for those limping | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| humankind as a whole after it reaches full maturity, again let us compare it with the individual | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the earth sphere until it has reached full maturity. It returns again and again. The more it | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| and humankind is now on the threshold of maturity. But I repeat that phases of growth cannot | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| that humankind is on the verge of entering maturity as a whole is bound to bring a | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| rich, healthy, fulfilled life -- cannot grow into maturity. Denying the need to receive causes the psyche | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| acts of destiny -- is a gauge of maturity and denotes a well-rounded personality. The other philosophy | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| that the child must mature? In order for maturity to take place, for this growth pattern to | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| exists between a superimposed, or partly superimposed, intellectual maturity and the highest source of all wisdom and | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| In other words, when considered from the outer maturity, from the level where you know better, the | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| It is important to understand that. The outer maturity may be part genuine, integrated maturity interspersed with | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| The outer maturity may be part genuine, integrated maturity interspersed with a false, superimposed, intellectual maturity -- | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| integrated maturity interspersed with a false, superimposed, intellectual maturity -- not cemented by emotional experience in certain | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| by emotional experience in certain respects. The outer maturity must try to ally itself with the real | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| to teach the child the truth. The outer maturity must not be confused with the real self | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| do any good, unless they use the intellectual maturity thus gained toward moving inward, always to a | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| refers to as integration, mental health and emotional maturity -- has taken place in these areas. At | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| on the road from infanthood, childhood, adolescence, into maturity. As to the problem of the occasional recurrence | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of life. Selfhood, autonomy, self-assertion are aspects of maturity and self-responsibility. They are intensely pleasurable and must | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| in every respect. 2)The state of emotional maturity that accepts not having what one wants while | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| you can meditate about the connection between emotional maturity with all its meanings and the realization of | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| and spirituality, pleasure and decency, pleasure and emotional maturity, pleasure and physical health are all intricately and | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| such contact is, the more it expresses spiritual maturity. Contact and lack of contact with others can | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| ones, but you will gain emotional and spiritual maturity. Maturity is to a great extent the ability | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| but you will gain emotional and spiritual maturity. Maturity is to a great extent the ability to | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| obtained, with this lesson, its first degree of maturity on the road of human development. This same | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| effect relationship implies that a further degree of maturity has been reached. The older, or rather the | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| you can link cause and effect, the more maturity you have. The more awareness exists, the more | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| is an intrinsic connection among these three aspects. Maturity also lies in the ability to experience what | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| self and others that reveal a much greater maturity, increased well-being and bliss, increased vision of new | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| to voluntarily disqualify yourself is a sign of maturity and greatness that will indeed bring you to | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| the more it requires a tremendous amount of maturity -- and young people can be mature -- | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| real, hidden motives constantly and conscientiously. How much maturity is needed to abstain from the temptations to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| needed not to do so! You also need maturity, strength and fair-mindedness so that you stand responsibly | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| hypocritical, this phase is temporarily necessary, until more maturity is reached. Then the lower self can be | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| them. This requires their full intelligence and the maturity of their mental processes so that a proper | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| The courage and truthfulness of this realism, the maturity of this attitude must -- far from indicating | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| not survive. But this step was necessary before maturity could be gained. Just as individuals cannot learn | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| participants are young, they will have reached considerable maturity as a result of a genuine, intense pathwork | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| that, in the long run, defeats you. True maturity -- health and selfhood -- is the prerequisite | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| individuals develop and reach emotional, mental and spiritual maturity. When all of society, at least as an | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| for the truth. You need to summon the maturity to realize that others do not know what | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |