| will jeopardize his masculinity. Since it is woman's nature to dwell on emotional subjects, on anything personal | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| because he has neglected to strengthen his emotional nature, he is afraid and guilty of the weakness | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| is only the female side in an entity's nature which is capable of giving birth. In woman | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| hand, has the female, birth-giving side of his nature turned inward at all times. It is almost | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| does not mean giving in to your lower nature. The real you will not desire harmful acts | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| devoted, at least to some degree, their lower nature would have taken more control over them than | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you often deny the noblest part of your nature, some to a greater, others to a lesser | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the small, selfish and ungiving part of their nature. Let us consider what causes this inner tragedy | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of one's own obstacles, and of their exact nature, is already a great deal -- and is | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| renewed. Whatever is not part of a person's nature cannot linger. Do not forget, it is nothing | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| you deny yourself the expression of your spiritual nature, you damage yourself just as much as when | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| give yourself the right to express your spiritual nature, you may certainly not have done so in | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you to forfeit the best part of your nature. And the latter makes you suffer just as | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the urge for the expression of your spiritual nature, organized religion is seldom the answer, especially not | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| express this important side of his or her nature is by such work as we are doing | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| its manifestations. The expression of your own divine nature cannot be fitted into standard rules, regulations, and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| conduct. In former times, the human being's spiritual nature was often hindered by the general rules of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of a creed. In modern times, this spiritual nature is hindered by new dogmas, such as the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| were preoccupied with the emotional side of your nature. Again I say, the introduction of a new | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| observant of others around you; of life, of nature, of things. You will be capable of concentrating | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| only to make the sick part of human nature strong, free, and healthy; we are interested in | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| creative forces, directions, and activities and unfolding your nature as it was meant to function in your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| tendencies and reactions. When you face your lower nature, your deviations and the phantom world of your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| As long as you do not understand the nature of this compulsion -- after you have verified | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| this country where climatic conditions of a similar nature exist as at the places he visits in | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unconscious associations he has toward certain manifestations in nature. One would have to analyze why these natural | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| separating line between the spiritual and the psychological nature of the human being. They are separated only | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| relative importance, but simultaneously will perceive its passing nature and genuinely evaluate its overall significance. Therefore the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to the most selfish part of another person's nature. Naturally, you rebel against this. But your further | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| these words. Truth is flexible; by its very nature it cannot be fixed. Nothing that is true | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is flexible all the time. By its very nature flexibility, in the final analysis, is unchangeable, yet | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| affect the very part of the other person's nature where she is most vulnerable. Therefore, the other | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| to you, for such is the law of nature. If you approach this question with a spirit | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| levels and find the greater subtleties of your nature. Much ground has been covered since those early | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| withdrawn, held back, and made inactive. Your innermost nature rebels against such great frustration because it is | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| against such great frustration because it is against nature, against creation, and against harmony. This basic rebellion | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| against harmony. This basic rebellion of your inner nature causes many conflicts that can never be solved | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| It needs all your inner senses, your intuitive nature, as well as your sincere desire to really | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| all the desires coming out of the lower nature. If you are not free from selfishness -- | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| your real being, your real self, your intuitive nature manifests, there is no uncertainty in you, no | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| instant and spontaneous reaction is of such a nature that you know deep down, This is right | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| established. For it is only when your intuitive nature guides you that you can trust yourself. From | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| and use instead your real feelings, your intuitive nature will emerge. After some constructive work is done | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| wrong assumptions. That is why, whenever your intuitive nature manifested in your life and you experienced a | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| procedure. The other is in harmony with your nature and your life. Therefore, whatever happens is organic | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| on isolated occasions, the manifestation of your intuitive nature, will become more and more a constant reaction | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| less frequently. Eventually it will become your real nature, as it truly is, once you dissolve the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| and foot. The hand's activity is of a nature that may take place without causing a change | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be very artful, but nevertheless it is not nature, it is not real. If you now ponder | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| society where people organize their own communication with nature and the elements. As development proceeds further and | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| we shall not discuss cooperation now, since its nature will become evident when you have understood communication | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| the closer you come to sense the illusory nature of time. So in this respect you have | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| work, you will come to understand the exact nature of your idealized self: its demands, its requirements | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| in an unhealthy, unreasonable way, but healthily as nature squanders herself. Then, and then only will you | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| seem to have become a part of your nature. Moreover, they can often be rationalized away by | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| surface. Only very truthful insight into the real nature of these motives will reveal the fundamental selfishness | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| love. Loving, or at times showing one's true nature, is a crass violation of their idealized self-image | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| will then become stronger and stronger. Your intuitive nature will manifest without inhibition, with a natural and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| this is seen, the substitute with its compelling nature will lessen to the degree one understands inner | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| gaining, maintaining, and improving life. By its very nature it works against anything that destroys or endangers | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| with your idealized self-image, you know that its nature is very proud. This pride cannot admit defeat | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| these ingrained reactions which have truly become second nature is more difficult than finding deeply hidden, important | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| of the compulsion, but one recognizes both its nature and the underlying reality, certainty, and stability of | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| put all their trust into their intellectual, volitional nature. At times, the intellect forbids hate and negative | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| for growth to the parts of your intuitive nature that still need growing. The parts that are | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| coming out. Thus it systematically discourages your inner nature from functioning, from guiding you and you cling | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| to any change or growth. That is its nature. It is static and tends toward stagnation. All | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| beginning my talks were of a more spiritual nature, while lately the emphasis has been more psychological | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or pollution, dirt, barrenness on the other. Significantly, nature and atmospheric conditions express a purer picture of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more or less to get along with yourself. Nature and atmosphere represent that part of the soul | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| than putting one's ego out of the picture. Nature symbolizes certain aspects of the human soul, art | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| submissiveness with self-contempt and guilt of a different nature. On the one hand you have the desire | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| character in a person who loves animals and nature and a person who does not care for | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| assumption that the person who loves animals and nature is a better person than one who doesn't | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the person who does not love animals and nature is otherwise receptive and open. For instance, the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| person who does not care for animals and nature, so I must be completely wrong. But I | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the physical, mental, and emotional sides of their nature. These three spheres are supposed to function harmoniously | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| repress, and cripple the growth of their emotional nature. This neglect is universal. Most human beings look | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| furthers mental growth. But why is the emotional nature generally neglected? There are good reasons for that | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| us first understand the function of the emotional nature in human beings. It includes, first of all | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of happiness. Moreover, the emotional side of your nature, when functioning, possesses creative ability. To the degree | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| enough, there is much less resistance in human nature to the necessary growing pains of the physical | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| personality than to the growth of the emotional nature. Hardly anyone recognizes that emotional growing pains are | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| change their direction, their aim, their intensity, their nature. But this can only be done if you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| exactly what you all do. That is the nature of your resistance to accepting and facing yourself | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the world would let you. This is the nature of such strong, powerful emotions, and they can | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| as long as you are unaware of their nature. Therefore, seek their meaning. Seek their true message | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| crippling of an essential part of one's human nature. You have a wonderful opportunity here, my friends | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| will be. But this is not your real nature. Alienation from yourself is both the result and | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| of allowing oneself to unfold in one's entire nature. Only this combination can produce growth, and growth | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you work on this path and comprehend the nature of this work, the more you will understand | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| so long that they have become your second nature and therefore appear to be you. When we | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| yourself as you are, in accordance with your nature and your inner development. If you are at | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| than another alternative. It corresponds to your innermost nature. This does not apply, of course, to destructive | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| of course, to destructive actions of a crass nature. On this path you also learn to discriminate | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| fear. And where fear is, identification occurs. The nature of these two pains is different, if you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| one, or even a rigid self-made one. The nature of the core is flexibility and individuality. Although | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| to guide you to the core of your nature from various angles, through various approaches. I can | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| unreasonable, something foreign to the real self whose nature is reality and reason. Moreover, the pseudo-solutions and | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| self are selfish and loveless in their very nature, and as such are foreign to the real | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| are foreign to the real self, whose intrinsic nature is love. The pseudo-solutions and the idealized self- | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| organically and healthily according to the laws of nature, while another part remains static. You often ask | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| asleep. You have to follow the rhythm of nature and the cosmos. The only solution to reach | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| part of you until it becomes your first nature, as in essence, it truly is. At this | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| superimposed, defensive layers, that they have become second nature, and I can no longer tell which is | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| place. If you wish, you can observe the nature of your daydreams and the nature of your | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| observe the nature of your daydreams and the nature of your fears, and you might discover the | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| universal laws are harmonious, yet many manifestations of nature are not harmonious at all. ANSWER: You see | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| part that you deny. Both sides of your nature can be partly conscious and partly unconscious. For | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| needs. You reject that part of their human nature, and thus hurt them. By the aggressive solution | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| are incorporated into your idealized self-image. Since the nature of the idealized self-image is self-aggrandizement, it separates | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| self-aggrandizement, it separates you from others. Since its nature is separateness, it isolates you and makes you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| and those you deal with, lonely. Since its nature is falsity and pretense, it alienates you from | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| some extent at least, aware of the particular nature of your idealized self-image. You have some inkling | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| processes of your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual nature, and specifically what happens on all these levels | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| in you, and has become so much second nature, that most of the time you are unaware | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| side. As to the mental side of your nature, when you are in actual realistic danger, all | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| of being on the defensive has become second nature. This hinders your vision of truth about others | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| no such danger. The emotional side of your nature, when faced with actual danger, feels only fright | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| dangerous. Yet a defense mechanism, by its very nature, is a process of warding off danger. When | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| Looking now at the spiritual side of your nature as you face actual danger, it again is | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| about your creativity, another side of your spiritual nature. No matter how creative a person may ordinarily | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| self-examination. Actual dangers are not only physical in nature; they also occur on other levels. I can | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| that are as yet unresolved. It is not nature that gave you these problems. QUESTION: At one | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| suffering and avoid using them for what, by nature, they were not destined. Humanity now finds itself | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| significance of this universe? Man begins to perceive nature, her laws. He observes the magnificence of nature's | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| lack of awareness and perception of life and nature, her laws and the significance of creation. 2 | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| admiration of the marvel of the universe and nature. It is worship. In the next stage, when | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| dynamic. It actively responds to other animals, to nature, and to human beings. The scale of the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| perhaps even to some ideas, or art, or nature. It will be very useful, my friends, to | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| other aspects of life, such as the arts, nature, ideas, will take on a new form that | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| that an electric storm or earthquake fulfills in nature. Whether or not a relationship can become predominantly | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| it out of hiding. When you understand its nature, and see it without false moralizing and justification | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| great love force. It is part of your nature. But it is counteracted by a prohibition. This | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| and to love. This capacity is there by nature, and your evasion cripples its unfoldment. Therefore, you | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| a miracle. In that very expression, the intrinsic nature of the universe is misunderstood. As the consciousness | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| substance of the soul is, by its very nature, very impressionable. Therefore, when the child collects impressions | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| applied to an event of an entirely different nature. In short, something that frightened you once will | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| attributes to the soul of a physical, material nature. You gave it roundness and malleability in a | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| lives because of its abstract, philosophical and metaphysical nature. But if you have patience, and try to | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| will find a psychological value in understanding the nature of the emotions and attitudes responsible for the | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| is not necessarily and exclusively of a technical nature. It can be an influx in art, philosophy | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| is the conscious process of self-confrontation. Waiting until nature takes its course means that the barricade will | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |