| Obligated...................5 | |
| you have decided for this path, you are obligated to think a little of the effect that | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| person, then due to that contract you are obligated to fulfill certain conditions. This is your obligation | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| people who feel, if they get any favor, obligated instead of grateful. ANSWER: In that moment either | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| receiving, they feel humiliated -- therefore often unduly obligated. Yet, there is not necessarily a compulsion there | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| way of manipulating the other person to feel obligated to love and obey you. Or else, if | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| Obligation..................17 | |
| of guardians. The former spirit, having fulfilled its obligation by bringing the human being over the threshold | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| ignorant because you are thus freed from the obligation to conquer your lower self, which is indeed | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| not put it right -- is there karmic obligation outside of parental or husband-and-wife relationships? ANSWER: There | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| There is no such thing as a karmic obligation. The obligation is a law of love and | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| no such thing as a karmic obligation. The obligation is a law of love and that applies | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| guided to hear this, there is also an obligation involved. And this obligation means that more is | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| there is also an obligation involved. And this obligation means that more is expected of you than | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| harm other people. That the fulfillment of this obligation works out for your own good, because by | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| state of development, which means, above all, the obligation to be understanding and forgiving. If you lack | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the law, you are doubly responsible in your obligation not to reject the side opposed to the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| become aware of the responsibility and the wonderful obligation that each one of you has by participating | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| I ask about the difference and distinction of obligation as against gratitude? I mean that apart from | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| compulsion. ANSWER: Gratitude has nothing to do with obligation. Now I do not speak of compulsion either | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| obligated to fulfill certain conditions. This is your obligation. It has nothing to do with gratitude on | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| lose control of yourself. You may fear the obligation accruing from it. Or, you may fear your | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| I choose this, not by any pressure or obligation, but because I wish this to be so | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| truth and beauty, so do you have an obligation toward your own human race to free it | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Obligations.................16 | |
| Sabbath holy in the face of our present-day obligations? ANSWER: This statement has many meanings on many | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the inner sense and fall short on one's obligations. God is not to be thought of only | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| compulsions. In addition, these often confront one with obligations which may only be necessary within the framework | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| is struggle and work for daily subsistence, and obligations imposed upon you that you may not like | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| God! 108. FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless every one | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| now I would like to cover another topic: obligations. Many of you, in your self-search, have found | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| but there is also another. You resent the obligations, responsibilities, and duties that life imposes upon you | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| in loving and relating, as well as in obligations, you are pushed and dragged through life against | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| unwillingness when you refuse to shoulder your moral obligations toward yourself. You may acknowledge accountability for your | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| where, deep inside you, you equate having no obligations with freedom. Then seek further to understand that | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| guilt for not loving and the problem of obligations -- have a common denominator. And now, your | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| like to admit. Admitting them would demand certain obligations and the assumption of self-responsibility, but you would | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| it does not hold any fearsome expectations or obligations. It is also true that when you identify | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| will assert your rights as you fulfill your obligations freely and willingly, not out of fear of | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| of fear of life, refusing to assume her obligations in life. Such distorted surrender cannot bring anything | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| fear finding this consciousness because of all the obligations and changes that this might impose on you | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Obliged.....................5 | |
| over such a person. The guardian is often obliged to look on. In other cases, the guardian | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| will then be uninfluenced by it, feeling neither obliged to give in, nor feeling guilty if you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| in its essence. You will no longer feel obliged to submit to senseless rules of restriction. The | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are out in the open, you will be obliged to make changes. You fear to do that | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| closes the centers. As long as you feel obliged to make the tragic decision between goodness and | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Oblivious...................22 | |
| enjoy life, and to be creative. They are oblivious to their inhibitions and their inability to express | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| key in your own attitude. Where were you oblivious of your own excessive demands? They may reside | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| unconscious or half-conscious reactions remain hidden, you are oblivious to the depths and the realities of your | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| who deny and ignore their unfulfillments and are oblivious to having created their own lack of fulfillment | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| same energy can be used positively. Humanity is oblivious to its potential. It assigns power to outer | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| be cut off from this power, to be oblivious or ignorant of its existence. For knowing of | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| life and others. Superficial devices may make you oblivious of the fact that you do not really | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| to contain the universal consciousness, but it becomes oblivious to its own nature, its laws, and its | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| original source, it forgets its essence and becomes oblivious of its own principles and laws until it | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the other. Most human beings today are still oblivious of this choice and still move away from | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| thus were destructive. As long as we are oblivious of them, we are blind to the causes | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| of this struggle. Most human beings are totally oblivious of the fact that this very same battle | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| experiences and destiny. In fact one is utterly oblivious of the what and how of its causation | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| and at other times you will be totally oblivious and cut off from it. Just as both | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| identified so much with your mask, you are oblivious to wearing one. When you are unaware of | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| to this. Even the most advanced psychology is oblivious to the fact that the way in which | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| But for the most part you are totally oblivious to them. You notice only the end creation | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| state of consciousness, you are indeed fragmented and oblivious of the larger process. Time, according to the | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| over it, rationalize it away, or make yourself oblivious to its existence, you come to an important | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| process. Most of the time you are still oblivious of being part of a process you have | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| can recognize factions of people who are totally oblivious to inner processes. You can also see groups | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| distortion is at work. Many people are completely oblivious to their own need for privacy. They may | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Obscure.....................27 | |
| When truth illuminates with its clarity a previously obscure situation, there will be no more questions left | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| with your lower self that always wants to obscure the way and obstruct your path, one day | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| a self-search, these words may perhaps be somewhat obscure. Intellectually you may understand quite well, but you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| bypasses the brain. When intellectual explanations do not obscure what the heart and soul perceives, and the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to what you really feel, you would not obscure the jewel of the real self. You all | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the inner equipment to see what first seems obscure, but stands out clearly once one's attention is | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| treatment. In this inner confusion so much is obscure and repressed. When all the various inner demands | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| unhealthy, confused, involved part. Detached observation of something obscure and strange is the most healing procedure on | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| only as long as cause and effect remain obscure. The instant the more remote links surface, the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| of gentle letting go. My words will sound obscure or even contradictory if you have never experienced | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| I am talking about. My words may seem obscure. It is therefore necessary that you listen with | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| certain order, although its nature may still be obscure. Let us now try to understand what expansion | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| language of the unconscious, which is first quite obscure but later becomes increasingly more obvious. It must | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| shallow way at best. Thus you almost entirely obscure the true drama of your beliefs and opinions | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| through certain experiences which you ascribe to some obscure fate. Your experiences seem to have little or | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| discover more of what has till now been obscure, it becomes necessary to understand more about it | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| even more hidden reasons for it are very obscure when one starts on such a path. Usually | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| like and close your eyes to. Find that obscure, hidden, and yet available reaction that wards off | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| becomes a denial of desire. These very subtle, obscure attitudes need to be explored in your meditation | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| will become almost instantly available. These resources remain obscure to those who still tend to take refuge | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| and spiteful child usually manifests in a very obscure way, which can easily be hidden, rationalized, denied | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| to find the answer. It is never as obscure as a part of me wants to believe | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| areas that have not been worked out remain obscure and frightening, and the person starts feeling hopeless | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| secure about life. With this insight into hitherto obscure and unnamed reactions, you will have made the | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| communication which you ignore. It is still very obscure but once you focus your attention on it | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Age--also affects outer events, often in a most obscure way. What may appear an entirely undesirable, negative | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| you will gradually establish connections that were totally obscure before. Nothing could be more painful and more | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |