| tautness and intensity of a person's state of mind and emotions has become so much second nature | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| is a result of your dualistic state of mind, which is unable to see the whole picture | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| attempt to understand -- not only with your mind, but with your heart -- will make what | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| used, or flow, in the direction which the mind, with its concepts, sets. Thus the power operates | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the involuntary, unconscious process is destructive. The conscious mind is an instrument of the unconscious perceptions and | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the threshold and to reach the state of mind that trusts what was hitherto the most threatening | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| choose healthful habits regarding the activity of the mind, so as to set the proper direction. Your | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| so as to set the proper direction. Your mind can nurture brooding thoughts which encourage destructive emotions | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| brooding thoughts which encourage destructive emotions. Or your mind can choose honesty with the self; it can | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| its origin in you. You declare in your mind your intent to explore and understand its cause | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| There are two experiences that come to my mind: one is orgasm, the other is death. It | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| guarded and constantly watchful with their will and mind, something dangerous might happen? This dangerous something would | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| unable to be spontaneous, always determining with the mind and the will, never allowing the creative processes | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| helpless and unable to move in spirit, in mind, and therefore in some way also move with | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or the worst aspect. Again and again, the mind must formulate such intents and elicit the help | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| if it cannot be immediately controlled with your mind and will. Then, and then only, will you | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| inaccessible. QUESTION: I had a similar question in mind about being afraid to let go. Is the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| state of spiritual realization combines the spirit, the mind, the emotions and the body. In the middle | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to expand your own possibilities of happiness, your mind must grasp the principle that you cannot bring | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| is kept secret, often even from the conscious mind. Many a different device is invented in order | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| one of the most harmful errors. Body, soul, mind, and spirit wither without pleasure. As an adult | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| the whole personality grows lopsidedly. Your adult conscious mind ignores the fact that a crying, demanding, angry | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| your real self flashes its reaction into a mind that is unable to interpret and sort out | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| become paralyzed and inactive in body, soul, and mind. This inactivity keeps you from moving into your | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| there really were nothing else but your conscious mind, your ego self with its immediately accessible thinking | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| sort out, to select, to make up the mind, to move in a certain direction -- outward | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| This includes, of course, the conscious and unconscious mind -- your total being. What you have, or | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| have. The separation between your conscious and unconscious mind is your greatest enemy. The moment the separation | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| manifestation due to the entity's temporary state of mind. It is not inherently so. The power works | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the separating wall between the conscious and unconscious mind. You must not imagine that the conscious and | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| is the same as far as the universal mind is concerned. Human consciousness is not separate from | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| and universal consciousness begins. Your own immediate conscious mind, right now at your disposal, is the fringe | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| disposal, is the fringe of the vast universal mind. To express the thought that humanity is connected | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| thought that humanity is connected with the universal mind does not properly convey the truth, for this | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| conscious and unconscious, the human and the universal mind are merely separated by lack of awareness. The | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| merely separated by lack of awareness. The conscious mind you express in your daily living is separated | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| is separated from the vast whole, the universal mind, only by an illusory belief that you are | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| do not possess an aspect of this universal mind, you are not even a separated part of | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| destructive part as well as for the universal mind. You are a manifestation of the latter. When | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| their depths - - transcending the waking, conscious mind as well as the destructive unconscious -- so | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| of the same life substance as the conscious mind -- and the discovery of the unity of | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| is not yet as willing as your conscious mind. Accept this for the moment, for this is | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| and make room for its reality in your mind by strengthening your will to find that in | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| approach to yourselves, through meditation, make up your mind, again and again: I want to face the | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| this lecture as you are in your conscious mind. May you open your heart and your deep | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| This is not a cerebral exercise of the mind, but a giving oneself up to the divine | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of ego domination. Be blessed, body, soul and mind. Be penetrated, all of you, with the love | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| this will be something else, so gear your mind to a new approach. The first level of | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| that will eventually enable you to change your mind, so that you will want to find out | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| superficial beliefs and theories, of course. When your mind can truly and deeply embrace limitless vistas of | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| blessed, be in peace, be in God! 163. MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY Greetings, my beloved friends | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| peace, be in God! 163. MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY Greetings, my beloved friends. The love of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| yourself inwardly, your heart as much as your mind, so that you will understand not only with | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| and feminine principles within their own soul and mind, they cannot fully be men or women. The | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| forces, from the point of view of your mind activity and specifically your pathwork, may best be | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| unfoldment. To recognize the true unconscious state, the mind has to be calm, observant, and accepting of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| The unfoldment of the universal intelligence in the mind is identical to this process. However, the more | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| and instruction is the work of the active mind, while the waiting for the manifestation belongs to | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| belongs to the passive, receiving function. The human mind is constantly groping to find the right balance | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| and thus fall back into destructive patterns of mind, emotion, and action. At the same time, they | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| will and action produce excessive tension. Where the mind should be receptive, not only to what comes | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| respond, it cannot reveal itself. If the outer mind is tense and anxious and forces the unconscious | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| unify the two. The relationship between the conscious mind and the destructive part of the unconscious can | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| more truthful and constructive convictions of the conscious mind can influence and gradually eliminate the unconscious stumbling | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| far wiser and more constructive than the conscious mind. Treating both aspects of the unconscious with respect | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| reality will eventually become accessible to the respectful mind, and the identical universal laws of creation will | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| is violated by a punitive, anxious, and pressing mind force -- a forcing current directed to your | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| cannot always immediately obey the commands of the mind. It is necessary to constantly initiate your own | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| least expect them. For that is when your mind is relaxed and thus able to receive. When | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| of experiencing this shift in consciousness. Usually the mind makes such frantic, struggling movements against the pain | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| growth. Inevitably, discontent must follow. But the conscious mind may be unable to read the message of | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| friends, to approach yourself and your state of mind and emotions in this manner and with this | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| a further example where, for a halfway healthy mind, opposites are transcended -- are no longer seen | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| all power currents become inactivated, short-circuited. What the mind holds true actually happens: the two opposites annul | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| reactions, lodged in the unconscious or semi- conscious mind. The next link in this chain reaction is | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| by the power to reason, to use the mind, and by the willpower to hold back, to | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| of your feelings. You are using the busy mind, the overemphasized reasoning faculty, to fit your feelings | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| about why you feel a certain way. The mind is so trained in overusing reason that you | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| from your true self. Learn to calm your mind and stop denying your feelings by agitatedly fitting | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| building a case. Both imply too active a mind. Let your mind be passive and gently, gently | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| Both imply too active a mind. Let your mind be passive and gently, gently let your feeling | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| of you, if you really want it. Your mind has the choice. This year, again, great and | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| indeed be a temporary solution. For an immature mind unequipped to comprehend and handle certain emotional experiences | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| wanting to do things or move your body, mind, and feelings. You do not want to venture | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| dulled -- and often mere abstractions of the mind. Nothing renders the individual so insecure and inadequate | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| time, however, prepare yourselves -- first in your mind and little by little in the deeper realms | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| new experience has to take place in the mind, which gives the necessary stimulation and perhaps a | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| about expressing their destructive impulses. They do not mind activating the masculine principle, even though it brings | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| aspects: inspiration must be deliberately activated by the mind, and allowed to flow, take its course, and | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| in its own fashion without interference from the mind. The laws indicated here are applicable to all | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the self to make this endeavor meaningful. The mind issues the will and determines the steps, as | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| Things I can't believe are happening in my mind. My intellect has been released which means that | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| violations go on constantly, unknown to your conscious mind, for you manage to shut out the truth | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| an inner atmosphere of closing up, and your mind will not use the powerful substance to create | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| in the body, because the unity between body, mind, and spirit is at that point very intimate | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| does not know everything but has an open mind and is free from misconceptions. No false beliefs | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| this light, unintense, undefended, relaxed state of body, mind and feelings, the centers are open. They allow | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| result in similar problems of the body and mind. Tensions in the back distort and congest the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| also applies to the metabolism of energy and mind material. All that functions as it should must | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| has worked its way toward this state of mind. Many things determine the natural organic process of | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| crassly definable as the conscious and the unconscious mind. There is an inner knowing and there is | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| tension and cramp; you will see how your mind is either overagitated or sluggish -- additional manifestations | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| observe this erroneous state and keep it in mind. Look at yourself from this point of view | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| forces you to remain in a state of mind that says, I must not have this in | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| thinking processes, to what extent they penetrate my mind without my being able to control them. In | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| with your attention and awareness, that the agitated mind processes will be calmed down. This state is | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| Every inhalation and exhalation should express a harmonious mind attitude of the most positive nature, until gradually | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the most positive nature, until gradually the volitional mind ceases to work and merely observes the involuntary | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| ceases to work and merely observes the involuntary mind. This exercise will help you calm the busy | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| exercise will help you calm the busy, agitated mind. Therefore the center at the solar plexus will | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the meaning of it. Connect it to the mind and the feelings that create it. What is | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| will do the same in the area of mind and feelings. There, too, a fluid, loose state | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| it. The oneness of the feeling with the mind and the body will become more closely knit | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| become more closely knit and firmly established. The mind carries the misconception; the feeling responds to it | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| this the case with the power of the mind: the power of thinking, feeling, and willing. Just | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| things is greater than the power of the mind? The powers to think, will, feel, express, act | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| how hopeless a situation or a state of mind may appear. People in deep depression and hopelessness | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| sound, for the tumultuous static of the busy mind keeps blocking this possibility. Your mind requires training | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| the busy mind keeps blocking this possibility. Your mind requires training to become sufficiently calm without producing | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| same as the creative processes of the universal mind. Though your consciousness is a separated fragment of | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| harbor these utterly senseless desires? Why does the mind want to take this direction? Religion calls it | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| substance -- the stuff which responds to creative mind. This substance then is molded into form, event | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| is molded into form, event, object, state of mind, or whatever. The imprints in the soul substance | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| that nothing but the greater power of molding mind can erase false imprints, which govern your life | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| erase false imprints, which govern your life events. Mind or consciousness impresses; life substance is impressed upon | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| within you. It is the power of your mind that creates the negative. This force is even | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| switch is made, something will click in your mind. Your consciousness will flow into a new direction | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| into the confusion of the workings of your mind, its self-involvement, its blindness to itself and its | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| the universal power within to fortify your conscious mind with the necessary creative energy. The will to | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| tap it, use it, build with your conscious mind the channels that can free it, and become | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| one, in which we discussed the importance of mind, of consciousness, with its creative aspects and powers | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| I do not mean pleasurable pastimes of the mind. I do not mean shallow substitutes and escapes | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| pleasure is made possible when the state of mind and emotions is quietly confident, calmly expectant and | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| on all levels of your being: in your mind, in your feelings. When the battle goes on | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the battle goes on unbeknownst to your conscious mind, it is extremely painful. When you know of | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| inner calmness must prevail. All agitation of the mind must settle down. The turbulence must cease. Then | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| measure. Remembering a former similar state of your mind will be of little help. The truth must | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| your voluntary faculties to make room in your mind for a particular unity where there is now | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| spiritual growth is concerned, the investment of the mind and will, of the emotions and attitudes corresponds | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| If you really question them with an open mind and in a very simple fashion you will | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| Months of groping with the voluntary processes of mind and will may spontaneously bring forth an inner | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| fascination. It is everything, literally everything, that the mind can conceive of, including, of course, limited, negative | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| including, of course, limited, negative manifestations. If your mind is geared to perceive and conceive life a | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| of life is a trick of the human mind. Then, finding again the truth of being is | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |