| Nights......................5 | |
| Growth is indeed possible without intense painful dark nights, if honesty with the self becomes predominant in | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the world. For who has not the dark nights to put up with? Some have many little | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| put up with? Some have many little dark nights coming and going, or their dark night is | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| deeper joy and self- expression. Then the dark nights will become more circumscribed, experienced either as fluctuating | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| all. Then, and only then, will the dark nights turn into instruments of light. QUESTION: This lecture | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| Nihilism....................4 | |
| is fundamentally no different from the hopelessness of nihilism. Both avoid that which seems so difficult -- | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| at first merely a general sense of pessimism, nihilism and vague fears, along with a total disconnectedness | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| relative perception humans have of them, leads to nihilism, hopelessness, and the void -- as if that | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| considered very fashionable and intelligent to postulate this nihilism. It obviously expresses the same separation from deeper | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Nihilistic..................3 | |
| other words, when people try to expound a nihilistic world view, they hide their private fears, disappointments | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| of character defects is unnecessary. Subscribing to a nihilistic philosophy of life, one can comfortably shirk unpleasant | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the creative life process. People who cling to nihilistic philosophies invariably hide the process I just described | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Nirvana.....................4 | |
| are true. The reason that the concept of Nirvana has spread in India is the following: In | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| have had the spiritual experiences referred to as Nirvana. I can assure you that if you spoke | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| following way: People who have heard something about Nirvana, the state of Being, often try to attain | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| and has been given various names, such as nirvana, satori, cosmic consciousness. But I am not interested | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| No-.........................9 | |
| cannot help but breed love and unity. The no- current is destructiveness because it inadvertently deviates from | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| do not attain is proof that an undetected no- current is at work. It is not sufficient | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| found a reason for the existence of the no- current which functions exclusively when it comes to | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| of some of its substance. This causes the no- current to appear strongly on the surface, less | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| no-current. It is not a question of whose no- current is stronger and whose is weaker. The | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| machinations, which must be clearly understood. A stronger no- current is constantly weakened by your awareness and | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| to be observed continuously. Only then will the no- current slowly weaken. Each observation may bring deeper | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| problem. As a result of the struggle, a no- current works against your conscious wishes. It is | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| you how you embrace error and opposition, a no- current, out of fear and ignorance. It can | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| Nobility....................4 | |
| of your immediate will, you would develop the nobility of spirit to respect the other's incapacity, even | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| her way. You will have the generosity and nobility of spirit to stand back and let go | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| humble self, with all its innate dignity and nobility? You are all of this and more. You | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| stone. Ask to know yourself, your lovability, your nobility of spirit, the beauty of your true being | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Noble.......................17 | |
| or taste. Each belief contains something beautiful and noble, they say, and therefore all these matters of | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| No, my dear ones, what is beautiful and noble, what is spiritual -- and whatever is beautiful | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| is spiritual -- and whatever is beautiful and noble is always spiritual -- never dissolves, it remains | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the living spirit. Therefore whatever is good and noble in the character of a human being or | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| Without it, no one would ever undergo the noble fight, my friends, against one's lower self; no | 31 SHAME |
| the light of love and help. Courageous and noble is the person who has said yes to | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| and good as such, although the high and noble motives truly exist in you, they lose their | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| different motives existing within in relation to the noble desire. The conscious noble motive convinces you that | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| in relation to the noble desire. The conscious noble motive convinces you that there is nothing wrong | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| inner blocks and resistances. You who have the noble courage for this path of light should realize | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| be that the action that outwardly appears more noble is inwardly less so than another deed that | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| cause beyond. You are engaged in the most noble cause an entity can be active in, the | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| community of human beings are fulfilling an all-important noble task. The creative processes of the universe depend | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| daily living when you are involved in the noble process of creating a new society. You may | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| and, as I said before, it is a noble struggle that elevates you in the best sense | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| years of serious and beautiful struggle, the most noble struggle in the human soul. But the time | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| how important your committed active effort is, how noble your struggle, as I point out again and | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Noblest.....................5 | |
| in the answer I gave before about this noblest of all paths. If a person really has | 21 THE FALL |
| human being can ever make. It is the noblest of all fights humanity can ever engage in | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| of humanity, namely that you often deny the noblest part of your nature, some to a greater | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| shame about the higher self, the best and noblest in the human heart. This may sound incredible | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| not only the best, the highest and the noblest in you, but also the one parent who | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| Nobody......................6 | |
| know you do not like to hear this. Nobody likes to hear it who has not already | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| at the beginning of this path. Here, too, nobody can have faith by forcing it; it can | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| time you have to take into account that nobody but God and yourself will know what you | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| Since the human being and life are one, nobody can ever be fully negative. Whenever there is | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| balance may vary from individual to individual, but nobody needs equal hours of rest and wakefulness. From | 228 BALANCE |
| -- by leaders as well as by followers. Nobody bothered to even conceal it. The individual, as | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| No-current..................74 | |
| of two primary currents: a yes-current and a no-current. The yes-current includes every constructive energy because it | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| current is stronger and blots out the unconscious no-current. The more the latter is squelched in the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| eliminate the short circuit is to uncover the no-current, understand its faulty premises, and thereby gradually shed | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| can be sure that there is very little no-current and the yes-current predominates without a contradictory hidden | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| in areas where you are repeatedly unlucky, the no-current must be at work in one form or | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| come about is through detection of how the no-current continues to work, even prohibiting the very change | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| renew your efforts in daily detection of the no-current at work. Its manifestations may be ever so | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| When you become aware of the constantly working no-current, even before fully understanding its presence, you will | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the destructive feelings in the service of the no-current: fear, guilt, anger, frustration, hostility, etc. These feelings | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| change in your life until you observe the no-current in action, daily, again and again; until you | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| decipher its codes. Before you can discover the no-current behind a strong unfulfilled wish, you may often | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| assuming that this proves the absence of a no-current, you may be certain that the urgency proves | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| various outer reasons, if the detection of the no-current happened too late, the person will still know | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| be more specific about the detection of a no-current. You may be sure it exists if frustration | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| without it. After having thus determined that the no-current must exist, it is now a question of | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| alone, untouched, and unchallenged, the obstructions of the no-current do not manifest. They slumber quietly, and only | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| of penetrating inner search. Stirred-up emotions reveal the no-current if they are investigated, questioned, and understood. As | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| path of liberation. When your yes-current observes the no-current without frantic self-accusations, it becomes possible to translate | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| -- the closer you come to eliminating the no-current. You weaken it merely by observing it. When | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| does not lapse in its vigilance, allowing the no-current to become strong again. Please test yourself as | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| essential that you pay more attention to the no-current in its exact form. A certain type of | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| willpower needed on your path is the very no-current creating the problem you wish so much to | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the lookout for such delaying tactics from the no-current is essential to your work of self-realization. Although | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| also a deep fear of change, showing the no-current at work. It exists in proportion to the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| difficulty of the problem and the work. The no-current cannot be eliminated unless the deep fear and | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| it is most advisable not to disregard the no-current and act as though it did not exist | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the key to the problem itself. The important no-current is also called resistance. But this word has | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| mere mention of it may only increase your no-current. If you realize that the no-current is a | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| increase your no-current. If you realize that the no-current is a universal factor, present in your world | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| one of you is constantly involved in a no-current. It is not a question of whose no- | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| please, my friends, set out to discover your no-current, find in what way it manifests, as well | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| misconceptions, thereby overlooking the steady flow of the no-current, and how it works. Instead, focus on it | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| another, says no to it? (4) If the no-current exists regarding the very thing I wish, it | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| detect the various forms and manifestations of the no-current in my daily life? If you clearly formulate | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| that this is a typical manifestation of the no-current. That is what prohibits you from becoming quiet | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| to observe how, perhaps at another time, the no-current manifests in an entirely different way, but observe | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| in your way. The yes-current must observe the no-current. Let this be your motto! To the degree | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| fear of one's own unconscious that makes the no-current so strong. You will see the interconnection of | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| make this possible, many restrictions, inhibitions -- the no-current -- must become fully conscious in most of | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| frustration. One of them is an unusually strong no-current. It is the latter which makes it so | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| contains exactly the same thing. I feel the no-current. ANSWER: Not fully, no. It is essential that | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| friends. Be in God! 125. TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT Greetings, my dearest friends. God | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| unbroken by untruthful concepts and contradictory currents. The no-current affects us in the opposite manner, but not | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| in themselves, do not lead out of the no-current. The yes-current is the root of all. It | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| that outer manifestations are seen in proportion. The no-current does not open a further vista than the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| and destruction, the temporary and pseudo- satisfaction of no-current manifestations, unless you become deeply aware of it | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| suffice when you deal with a deeply imprinted no-current. When you discover specifically how you say No | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| of the specific area of its operation, the no-current will act against the very endeavor of discovery | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| to the test. Changing from a deeply engraved no-current to a yes-current can occur only when this | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| is the final step in moving from a no-current to a yes-current. This should be done as | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| unfulfilled areas of your life, finding the underlying no-current, compare these areas with the aspects of your | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| easy, but certainly feasible to come from the no-current into the yes-current. You cannot possibly come out | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| yes-current. You cannot possibly come out of the no-current as long as you cling to the conviction | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| and greed and fear are products of the no-current. If there were no hidden no-current, there would | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| of the no-current. If there were no hidden no-current, there would be no doubt that you could | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| only be determined as expressions of the yes-or no-current if these wishes are closely observed, if one | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| false images, misconceptions, and to swing from the no-current, that has a deeply hopeless, doubting, destructive, dark | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| your obstruction is, and the reason for your no-current has a therapeutic value beyond your present comprehension | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| it. You may also need to overcome a no-current against the process of self-exposure. For wherever the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| -- often unconsciously -- uncovering the shame. The no-current is at work. When the pressure to talk | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| to say, all these feelings are unconscious. The no-current is used to avoid the imagined threat. When | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| new attitudes depends on the strength of the no-current opposing the process, and on the degree to | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| process, and on the degree to which this no-current can be inactivated by awareness and observation, and | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| connection with this lecture, I found that my no-current is more superficial, while inwardly there is more | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| badly. QUESTION: I feel that I have the no-current inward and outward; everything is No. Can you | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the transformation from a downward curve, from the no-current, to a building up, to the upward life-giving | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| I would put it this way: Whenever a no-current exists, there must be a false concept, otherwise | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| false concept, otherwise there could not be a no-current. Simultaneously, the false concept creates fear, pride, self | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| self will, etc. Instead of pushing against a no-current, assert its presence, assert the fact that it | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| for what you wish -- hence a subtle no-current will barricade the way. By the same token | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| such words, you feel an inner disinclination, a no-current, or a resistance, then you know what is | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| being. There is no division in you, no No-current, no doubt about the rightfulness of your bliss | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| when a Yes-current must be met with a No-current because mutuality still seems too frightening, one energy | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| since you are puzzlingly incapable of changing the No-current into a Yes-current. This is where many of | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |