| Necessitate.................6 | |
| layers of dense matter, all the distortions that necessitate life on earth. If these layers were not | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| not consciously ask for. But your image- conclusions necessitate them. It is very important, my friends, to | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| are themselves a result of the inner duality, necessitate a struggle for living. This encourages ambitiousness, drives | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of real living, the accumulated pressure will often necessitate some outlet. You may then experience a certain | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| different opinions, while love for objects may not necessitate this in any but the most rudimentary form | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to confirm the original misconception, which seems to necessitate the defense, which creates negative reactions in others | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Necessitated................3 | |
| wish itself, but because of the reason that necessitated hiding it. Such unawareness, that once was deliberate | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| and cultures? ANSWER: Humanity's development in former times necessitated a different approach. For example, people in the | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| this dangerous escape from the necessary developmental steps, necessitated a new movement in your history, which came | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Neck........................4 | |
| You all chafe at some leash around your neck that keeps you dependent and anxious in a | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| of the head, at the back of the neck, but a little further up -- between the | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| but a little further up -- between the neck and the base of the head. One is | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| subdivisions -- one in the nape of the neck, the other further down, approximately between the shoulder | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Needle......................7 | |
| camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| succeed in being a watcher, visualize a compass needle. The compass needle represents your thought movements. Watch | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| a watcher, visualize a compass needle. The compass needle represents your thought movements. Watch the needle sway | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| compass needle represents your thought movements. Watch the needle sway back and forth. The more background thoughts | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you do not control them, the more the needle will sway from one direction to the other | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| on what you desire, the more will this needle remain still, poised, restful and controlled -- not | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| experiences occur. The feelings immediately fluctuate like the needle in a compass. Just begin to observe your | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Needlessly..................9 | |
| great deal more than by taking on a needlessly more difficult alternative. By deciding with the right | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| I do not refer to giving up something needlessly, or merely because it is something that makes | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| to fulfillment. You thus make yourself uselessly and needlessly unhappy. Soon you must pretend that you do | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| remain separated from the inner nucleus, you are needlessly exhausted. You do not make that one effort | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| least moments when you have completely understood how needlessly you have opposed that natural stream in which | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| door, and learn how you make yourself sick needlessly, sometimes out of a misunderstanding and, very often | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| All these are limitations which you artificially and needlessly inflict upon yourself. The next obstruction to expanding | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you that binds you and that wastefully and needlessly holds you back in your life. No matter | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| is so firmly rooted that the personality will needlessly forgo the use of the activating principle, not | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| Needs.......................703 | |
| of everyone always what is most difficult, what needs the greatest perseverance; all purify themselves and develop | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| root in your personal life. Thus every person needs to widen his or her knowledge of the | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| partly because the memory has been extinguished and needs to be regained, and partly because matter contains | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| insights. This, too, has to be learned; it needs practice. Do not believe that the ability to | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| ability to meditate will come by itself. It needs willpower, perseverance; you have to fight your negative | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| forms so constructed indicate exactly what this entity needs for its further development. Meditate on these words | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| you, then you know also that your soul needs to be healed in this respect. When people | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| on your own that something in your character needs to be improved. But if you do not | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to explore whatever it is in you that needs to be uncovered. This is always the question | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| shown another road. But whatever the way, everyone needs help from the outside; this outside help constitutes | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| By the way, not everybody who no longer needs to incarnate on earth enters the House of | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| man often lacks, this is so because it needs them, as compensation. Humans could possess many more | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| to attack the resistance from several sides. He needs to pray for strength and willpower to see | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| to see himself as he really is. He needs to meditate to arrive at a deep inner | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| being so terribly upset about his fault. He needs to meditate to see how very far from | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| spiritual law. Whoever goes on this arduous path needs a different kind of spiritual help than the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| has to begin differently. A spiritual problem that needs to be cleared away first may otherwise obstruct | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| a person leans toward greed, the right integration needs to proceed differently from another type who spends | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| person who has walked through this first gateway needs above all the insight that nothing can be | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| development proceeds properly, it comes by itself and needs not be discussed too much. Hearing these words | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| to become happy, healthy, and at peace inwardly, needs, in order to truly fulfill this present life | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| so often about your daily bread, about material needs. Yet important as this daily bread may be | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| supplied, taken and digested, will all your other needs automatically be taken care of, including your material | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| does not supply the essential factors the body needs in order to remain strong and vigorous. One | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| front line soldier. And a front line soldier needs better weapons, more strength, and better protection than | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| to show that is just what your soul needs to struggle free of its chains. Or if | 21 THE FALL |
| guidance. You will see what happens. For whoever needs help and knocks on the door, knowing how | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| be given drop by drop for all your needs, spiritual and material, when you first decide to | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| spirit world to do good. God's spirit world needs workers in all groups, in all religions, to | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of God -- quite the contrary. For it needs the greatest and freest efforts of willpower to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| to translate them into concise thoughts, but it needs a little effort. Your emotions claim perfection before | 31 SHAME |
| will be giving yourself the food your spirit needs. Perhaps you now begin to sense why it | 31 SHAME |
| you should not bear a grudge because your needs were unfulfilled; instead, realize clearly what your decision | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| The disadvantage here is that your conflicts, hungers, needs, and insecurities will persist as long as you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| certain schools, receives instruction according to its personal needs, and where it is put into a particular | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| particular purification sphere, again according to its individual needs. The sequence of these different phases varies. There | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the soul. For that purpose the next life needs certain imperfections in the environment, for if everything | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| approximately nine months, the time the human shell needs to grow. Sometimes the processing is completed a | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| just waiting in an unconscious state. Sometimes life needs to start a little earlier because the conditions | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| would offer the limitations that the particular entity needs for growth. Fewer, indeed, will present the proper | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| activity. Whenever a friend has a problem and needs advice, offer your help regardless of whether this | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| cut to order to suit their personal, unpurified needs. There are many who are too proud to | 36 PRAYER |
| were new. Furthermore, pray according to your daily needs. You do not remain at the same point | 36 PRAYER |
| or small -- according to your present developmental needs. Thus different problems will come to the surface | 36 PRAYER |
| the strength of your feelings. Take your daily needs -- not material needs -- into your prayer | 36 PRAYER |
| feelings. Take your daily needs -- not material needs -- into your prayer and consider all that | 36 PRAYER |
| Results develop organically out of immediate efforts and needs. If you pray for all this and, in | 36 PRAYER |
| divine currents, adapting themselves spontaneously to your immediate needs. But the forms of the thought/feelings emanating from | 38 IMAGES |
| now than it was two months ago. Your needs may have changed. As Jesus Christ said, Knock | 38 IMAGES |
| and forces of the universe that the soul needs for revival cannot penetrate, cannot enliven it. They | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| choose such a fate out of love hardly needs an explanation. True love, true kindness, true unselfishness | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| foreground. Start by concentrating on that one. Objectivity needs courage too, my friends. Many of you are | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| very significant factor of your emotional state that needs looking into. If you cannot pray from your | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| selfishness of the reason-personality type. The emotion-type person needs first to realize that what he or she | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| appears only in certain aspects of life. Will needs active pressure, either positive or negative. It needs | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| needs active pressure, either positive or negative. It needs activity. In the purified state, the will would | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| become openly and consciously dissatisfied. For the soul needs to surge ahead, to find and to be | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| humility. Changing thoughts that have no emotional impact needs certain skills, not always easy to muster. Much | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| is not given in the way the child needs it. But even if love is there, the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| locked in. This is good work, and it needs to go on and on. But, my friends | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| images are formed. The child is helpless; it needs to be taken care of; it cannot stand | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| child desires to be loved; in fact, it needs to be loved. If an adult existed who | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| artificial and over-demanding conscience; in reality no one needs to be punished. As you all know by | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| different qualities and shortcomings. Therefore, every human being needs something different for each life, and often something | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| us suppose, for argument's sake, that all your needs in receiving love could be gratified while you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| of the simple reason that your inner suffering needs a different answer. The love you crave in | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you were justified in having certain feelings, attitudes, needs and incapacities which are now obsolete. You also | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| have short prayers that change according to your needs at any stage of your present development, also | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| without the world bringing out in you what needs to be changed. Without outer help, these elements | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| you can muster. You see, my friends, nothing needs to stand in your way to complete fulfillment | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| is an important trend in human nature and needs further understanding in your work of self-finding. I | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| you can collect whatever your soul thinks it needs. In order to reach that special place, your | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the personality will be disturbed, because two conflicting needs and compulsions work against one another and cause | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| beings, out of wrong conclusions, because of imagined needs. Find it and your entire outlook will change | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| world which denies it what it thinks it needs and could have if the world were less | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| a subject who blindly gratifies one's will, but needs and desires an object. My friends, before I | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| rulership-principle is inherent in every soul, and it needs to be faced, my friends, before you can | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| can the true personality evolve which no longer needs what the little ego seemed to need. Then | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| while the one who rejects these wants and needs you regard as strong and superior. Thus, you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| is unpleasant to face and therefore only that needs to be suppressed. But this is not so | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| but it may be just what your soul needs most to attain its maximum growth. In your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| properly done it will bring into awareness what needs to come to the surface. Many current movements | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you have recognized a minor part of what needs to be recognized, problems, illness, worries, frictions and | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |