| idea could ever present itself to a human mind unless that mind made room for this possibility | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| present itself to a human mind unless that mind made room for this possibility. If the mind | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| mind made room for this possibility. If the mind is closed to any new idea, none will | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| are completely compatible with the scientific turn of mind. To consider alternatives that are as yet unknown | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| new -- takes place in this frame of mind. This is not to say that there will | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| logic and reason at the disposal of your mind, you will see that you are not really | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| reality defies the narrow confines of the little mind. It stands on much firmer ground than that | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| negative intentions are secret even from your conscious mind, you also secretly believe that you are all | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| an almost incomprehensible way. In your clear- thinking mind you know perfectly well that it does not | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| the degree of goodness, brilliance of spirit or mind, of beauty, wisdom, and love is totally beyond | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| in which ugliness, brutality, cruelty, numbness, limitation of mind -- including shrewdness, as opposed to wisdom -- | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| a result of long suffering and groping, the mind turns around and starts thinking and expressing itself | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| and of power for the good, once the mind has truly been affected. The distortion that marks | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| distorted. They may be flattened out because the mind becomes lazy, preferring handed-down rules and generalizations that | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| Or you can choose to align your conscious mind and will with the higher self, without pushing | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| consciousness that you carry within you. Your outer mind always has the choice to allow it to | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| self, it is very important for your conscious mind to ask, What was this trait in its | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| the senses, but on a level the conscious mind is usually not aware of. Lower-self energy is | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| that your energy system -- whether your conscious mind knows it or not -- perceives all these | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| body's experiences are not clear to the outer mind; the outer mind merely registers displeasure, anxiety, heaviness | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| not clear to the outer mind; the outer mind merely registers displeasure, anxiety, heaviness. When you transform | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| creative emptiness. Most human beings create an agitated mind, an inner and outer overactivity, because they are | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| afraid of this. I'd rather continue busying my mind in order not to face the terror that | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| humanity has conditioned itself to make the outer mind a very busy place, so that when that | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| inner being to relay the comprehension to your mind, rather than trying to understand directly with your | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| that specificity would be a hindrance. Yet the mind must know what it wants, be prepared for | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| wants and will not misuse it. The outer mind must make constant changes in order to adapt | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| scope of the inner God consciousness. Your outer mind must become empty and receptive, yet it must | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| of patient, persevering, positive expectancy, yet empty in mind and soul, a new fullness can manifest. The | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| to create as many receptacles as possible. The mind can be a hindrance or an aid to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| to this process. You all know that your mind is limited only by your own concept of | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| its limitations. To the degree you limit your mind, you cannot perceive what is beyond it. The | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| you cannot perceive what is beyond it. The mind is finite and it must aim to spread | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| up with the infinite that is beyond the mind and that is within yourself, right here, right | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| within yourself, right here, right now. Then the mind merges into the infinite consciousness of your inner | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| self. As it is now, you carry your mind with you almost as a burden because it | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| grown and expanded, the closed circuit of your mind has widened; however, it is still a closed | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| emptiness, that you visualize the boundaries of your mind by questioning yourself about all the things that | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| of finiteness that is simply locked into your mind; thus you lock out the great power that | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| one hand, it is necessary that this limited mind open itself up to new ideas and possibilities | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| cannot immediately dissolve it; you live with a mind and you need your mind. But where you | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| live with a mind and you need your mind. But where you puncture your mind, the flow | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| need your mind. But where you puncture your mind, the flow of new energy and consciousness can | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| is fast outgrowing. On the other hand, your mind must rest, not hold opinions, be neutral, in | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| return to the process of puncturing the limited mind. How do you do that? First tell yourself | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| to fill and sustain you, however, your outer mind must go through the steps of acquiring whatever | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| may become seriously doubtful that anything beyond the mind exists, because no inspirational response comes forth when | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| structure that close up the vessel of the mind and maintain the closed circuit. In other words | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| of contradiction. You need to acquire knowledge, the mind must be expanded, it must be able to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| truthful possibilities, and yet you must make your mind neutral and empty. This seems contradictory from the | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| balance: where you have been overactive with your mind, you now need to quiet down and let | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| activity and passivity need to be reversed. Your mind will thus become an instrument. It will open | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| in your perceptions, of flexibility, of motility of mind will make you the most receptive to your | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| go into the emptiness. So you empty your mind in order to meet the emptiness deep within | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| aliveness that the old artificial fullness of your mind made impossible. In fact, you will soon find | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| dull by packing yourself tight: tight in the mind because of its noise, and tight within your | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| on what has always existed within you. Your mind and outer will have confused and complicated your | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| short, to use all the faculties of the mind, as it now seems hard to find contact | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| spiritual movements that practice discarding and inactivating the mind altogether. This is equally undesirable because it creates | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the same token, the practice of leaving the mind temporarily inactive is advisable, and I recommend it | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| I recommend it myself. But to treat the mind as if it were the devil and to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| in order to express their divinity. Without a mind, you become a passive amoeba; when the mind | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| mind, you become a passive amoeba; when the mind is deemed the highest faculty, you become a | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| highest faculty, you become a hyperactive robot. The mind then becomes a computerized machine. True aliveness exists | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| True aliveness exists only when you wed the mind with the spirit and allow the mind to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the mind with the spirit and allow the mind to express the feminine principle for a while | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| feminine principle for a while. Until now the mind has been very much linked with the masculine | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the masculine principle: action, drive, control. Now the mind has to express the feminine principle: receptivity. This | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| independent than you were before. For when the mind receives inspirations from the God consciousness, they must | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| harmonious, effortless, not like a cramp. When your mind is receptive, it can be filled with the | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| a power that would turn destructive in a mind that is still geared to selfishness. For that | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| force that is here, so that what your mind learns on the level of consciousness can become | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| levels, no matter what you believe in your mind. This fear can take different forms, but whatever | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| changing process. Human consciousness needs to open the mind to explore the truths I am presenting to | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| In order to make this jump of the mind, in order to open your comprehension to the | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| life to a degree that your conscious, mature mind is at first unable and unwilling to comprehend | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| have created artifacts, artificial thought-splits that confuse your mind. They are as much a creation as matter | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| these split concepts unify and eliminate suffering. The mind that is aware and animates a unit of | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| an organic process unfolds completely independent of your mind and conscious expectations. Such a plan fulfills itself | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| and cruelty are manifestations of this turn of mind. Since the precepts behind these attitudes are based | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| true freedom by your willingness to change your mind, your beliefs, your attitudes, your assumptions, by your | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| seek the right directive merely with the outer mind you will tend to lean on rules, on | 228 BALANCE |
| rhythm, all balance, all measurements to the outer mind. This often becomes meaningless, stilted and self-defeating. It | 228 BALANCE |
| the real balance. The measurements of the outer mind are contrary to the true proportions. But as | 228 BALANCE |
| intelligence and wisdom that truly surpasses the outer mind, you experience the incredible beauty of being held | 228 BALANCE |
| grandeur that cannot yet be encompassed by your mind. But you can indeed sense it if you | 228 BALANCE |
| in the temporary smaller order of your little mind and trusting that you will find the larger | 228 BALANCE |
| will find the larger order of your greater mind. This new consciousness can sustain you when things | 228 BALANCE |
| by factors as yet unknown to your conscious mind. Your instinct is to battle against disorder and | 228 BALANCE |
| that activity contains also the receptive state of mind; the still, harmonious state of being. Then the | 228 BALANCE |
| voice. Then you can open your heart and mind to your higher self and request guidance for | 228 BALANCE |
| through opening her heart to loving and her mind to her own inner truth. The new woman | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| the road into the inner self. If the mind does not know that an inner world to | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| knew more and had a vaster plan in mind. This awareness of the larger plan will bring | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| life. Let this awareness fill your soul, your mind, your heart, and your body -- your whole | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| -- that you do deserve fulfillment, peace of mind, pleasure and abundance, underneath you will fear not | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| unchallenged, unquestioned thoughts you utter within your own mind. So realize that where the creation is undesirable | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| say on only a superficial level of your mind, Yes, I am worthy this will not work | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| pay lip service to many truths in your mind and in your thoughts, saying the words, but | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| always accessible in its essence. Only the disconnected mind fails to perceive divine love and moves itself | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| self knows states of reality that your conscious mind knows nothing about. Only on the journey to | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| your higher self, allowing it to penetrate the mind of your conscious personality. In the limited state | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| the limited state of perception of the conscious mind, the truth that the higher self knows to | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| However, when self-will and fear motivate the conscious mind of the outer personality, they both seek out | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| result of your disconnectedness and the turn your mind has taken in the particular airpocket of your | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| on the level of personality, of the conscious mind now. In knowing this, you will perhaps gladly | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| more point about the connection between the conscious mind and the higher self: As you can perceive | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| in the least to imply that the conscious mind should not attempt to connect with the higher | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| have a flowing, beautiful channel where the conscious mind can indeed be inspired, guided, instructed by the | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| static principle. This is a mistake. So your mind becomes fixed and closed to the truth. When | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| unfolds, going with it, aiding it with your mind and will. Instead, you obstruct the process with | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| kind of superstition. All such trickery of the mind is very dangerous. The danger lies in the | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| can possibly allow to express itself through your mind, your will, your soul, and so through your | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| eventually benefit all other light centers. The outer mind is sluggish at times and does not immediately | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| pulsations of life in the body, in the mind, in the feeling self, and in the spiritual | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| be expected was for the conscious will and mind to be pure and good. Now humanity is | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| and the personality will be confused. Thus the mind will no longer be able to assess what | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| progress on your path, slowly but surely your mind enlarges, your mind makes a leap, and suddenly | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| path, slowly but surely your mind enlarges, your mind makes a leap, and suddenly you find another | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| discover the many conflicts and confusions of your mind. But when you work your way through these | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| in this struggle by the dualistic state of mind. This confusion is extremely important for you to | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| this, you can open your heart and your mind to all your true values. You can begin | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| when you relax your rebellion and open your mind and intuition so that you can comprehend what | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| of blind selfwill and accusing fury. An open mind and heart allows you to love and be | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| can cultivate an open and intelligent frame of mind much faster than you think, if you will | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| in other considerations? What is your state of mind? In these questions you will get the clearest | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| you probe and weigh with an utterly open mind and then choose whatever truth you find in | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| infringement on your freedom. In that frame of mind, your choice will be a totally different act | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| joyfully and trustingly. Giving with your heart, hands, mind and being to all that is around you | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| when you are in an ungiving state of mind, you cannot receive anything, even if it is | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| not necessarily physical. It can be laziness of mind, laziness of spirit, laziness of courage, laziness of | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| to another truth. With such exclusiveness the dualistic mind destroys the inner unity that exists in all | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| based on abstract theories and governed by the mind only, the possibility for error, distortion and abuse | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| present, only you did not know it, your mind could not perceive the immediacy of Him and | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| commitment, devotion must be generated by your active mind and will. Your total goal in life must | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| experienced temporarily a state of ultimate fulfillment in mind and being, similar to the one I described | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| As long as all of your soul and mind, your total thinking, knowing, feeling and being has | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| now describe and put all your heart, soul, mind, and will into this undertaking, for this alone | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| of the spirit of self-preservation? If the deep mind knows that there is eternal life, why does | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| This illusion is a distortion in the deeper mind. As long as this image prevails in you | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| open your whole being, your heart, and your mind. Experience the Creator in whom you live all | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| You will gain great harmony and peace of mind. Conflicting perceptions, confusion, and therefore frustration, will disappear | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| attempt to continue its expression. Please keep in mind that all true values, values of whatever nature | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| depending on which particular tradition we have in mind. Tradition in its distorted sense means a dead | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| may have arisen through the turmoil of your mind. This entire turmoil is an artificial creation. Be | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| place, a variety of approaches are necessary. The mind needs to be totally emptied in the sense | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| path, regardless of what you had consciously in mind, can only be fulfilled when you bring your | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| jump into the apparent abyss of opening your mind, and only then can you find out that | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |