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| to overcome the difficulties. Since then I have observed you, my friends, and I can tell you | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| history of Creation, and here everything can be observed. You only have to imagine a movie. Everything | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| some grain of truth in what others have observed about you. This will give you a very | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| right to interfere. The divine laws must be observed in exactitude, the activities of the powers of | 22 SALVATION |
| the moment with the argument that I have observed among some of you that it should suffice | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| unconsciously. Each time such a false concept is observed and therefore becomes more and more conscious, you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| unless it is corrected. The same can be observed in a great many other aspects of life | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Only when these impressions and thoughts are consciously observed can you derive such a benefit. In other | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| therefore I hate. All these emotions should be observed and followed through until one gets deeper into | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| patterns are established. When not constantly watched and observed as they function in the most hidden, subtle | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do not remain. They have to be constantly observed in your daily review, in your work on | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I venture to say that you all have observed this often. You all know the person who | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| gradually disappear. Much of this can already be observed. In spite of so much that is wanting | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the mouth. However, during Lent, dietary restrictions are observed by Christians. My two questions are: Are the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and justice in increased measure. If history is observed from this point of view, it will be | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| friends who are truly on the path have observed the spiral movement it pursues, coming around full | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| would have for an adult. This can be observed constantly with children. Children, for example, have a | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| life on the child's soul can be clearly observed. How much more, then, must negative experience, resulting | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| The determining question is whether it is detected, observed, and followed in its machinations, which must be | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| no further attention; rather, it has to be observed continuously. Only then will the no- current slowly | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| and makes you tense and defensive, can be observed calmly, in the way you have learned to | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| subtle shrinking away from a desirable goal is observed and finally changed into, I want this goal | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the yes-or no-current if these wishes are closely observed, if one listens to any harsh or disturbing | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| not often. Maybe you have occasionally encountered or observed such knowingness in another person. Perhaps you only | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| and may not wish to accept what they observed. Due to your self-inflicted, fearful blindness, you are | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| it is fully understood. Then it can be observed at work all around you. You will not | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| center is not denied and hindered, but recognized, observed, and allowed to function. The intense feelings of | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| comes to the fore. They have not yet observed how they manage to get away from it | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| frustration. Things do not work out. When closely observed, the ego presses and pushes, assuming that thus | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| must be brought into awareness and should be observed as much as possible. Only by testing can | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| of the creative powers. If these areas are observed, you have truly approached the threshold to self-realization | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| realistic and expect fluctuations. They must be calmly observed. Such a major transition can never be accomplished | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of inevitable relapses that must forever be newly observed, you will make a huge step toward that | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| I say so, this is still not fully observed by any of my friends working on this | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| soul forces can follow only after you have observed and temporarily accepted their imbalance, so as to | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| fate. If such an attitude is completely seen, observed in action, and accepted for what it is | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| and lack of contact with others can be observed in various stages. There are many degrees of | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| become one flow. This phenomenon can easily be observed in the everyday life of people. They either | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| best possible attitudes for dealing with what is observed -- that is the true power of your | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| which observes, and not that which is being observed, there is no need any more to annihilate | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| certainly more you than that which is being observed. And the aspect of you which questions the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| and real than the part that is being observed, evaluated, or changed. The moment you identify something | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| is more real and in charge than the observed. This is the vast difference between identifying something | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| little self merges with the divine self. I observed that there are many other such manifestations, some | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| a closed energy system. This can be easily observed on the outer level. Wherever tyranny and domination | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| believe in it. Many of you may have observed in the course of your pathwork that at | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| more detached -- while that which is being observed is not confused with who the person is | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| reflects this polarity exactly. Its presence can be observed in the most remote manifestations which on the | 254 SURRENDER |
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| defensiveness and feelings of disharmony, as an uninvolved observer would, you can build the positive -- and | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| others, for now you have become your own observer. With continued practice, you will fully understand that | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on your own an insight, that a neutral observer may point out, because one is too deeply | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| whatever is being identified. In other words the observer is more real and in charge than the | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| when you can identify it and be its observer. Identifying with the observer then becomes a first | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| it and be its observer. Identifying with the observer then becomes a first step away from and | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| experience and observe this drama truly as an observer. You will then become intensely aware of the | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| ones. It must become increasingly obvious to the observer that in mass images and in individual images | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Observes....................11 | |
| the real self in you which registers and observes everything and tries to convey to you that | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| Man begins to perceive nature, her laws. He observes the magnificence of nature's laws. And he begins | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| on the path of liberation. When your yes-current observes the no-current without frantic self-accusations, it becomes possible | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the volitional mind ceases to work and merely observes the involuntary mind. This exercise will help you | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| to identify with the part of you which observes. You must never forget that no one is | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you; (3) the awareness that the I which observes, articulates, can also make new decisions and choices | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you experience yourself as being that part which observes, and not that which is being observed, there | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is to you. That aspect of you which observes it is certainly more you than that which | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| points out to another what he or she observes, and when you listen more with an ear | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| your being in truth, all in truth -- observes the suffering part of you that is squeezed | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| There is no pain there. This true being observes your earth being that has undertaken to correct | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
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| open yourself to the inspiration of truth by observing yourself with all your faults, conquering all resistance | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| You do this by daily observation and self-testing, observing again and again how far your inner currents | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| only outwardly, but also in your feelings. By observing your reactions you will learn to ascertain how | 21 THE FALL |
| does take training, and forming the habit of observing yourself from this point of view, but how | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| from the wrong ones, at first by simply observing them. Do not ever try to force your | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| I hope to become free of them. By observing yourself in this way, again and again, the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| it in meditation, you will sense it by observing your reactions, and you will then know where | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| your divine personality. The latter is watching and observing your outer personality. It often differs in the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| manifested in the wrong way in many individuals. Observing this, they came to the wrong conclusion and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| than that. You will find the answers by observing your everyday reactions and emotions in the most | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| on this path. You can find them by observing past and present reactions, by analyzing them from | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| at least not to the person who is observing this basic rule. Its observance brings a certain | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| desire, you described the work process of realizing, observing, and finally abandoning the wrong way in order | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that the person must have produced himself. Now, observing some very selfish and undeveloped persons being loved | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will you be able to stay with yourself, observing yourself as you do not think. Of course | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| Realize the preposterous illusion of that emotion. By observing this attitude and mood, gaining a little distance | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| from any healthy self-recognition and insight. Merely by observing your reactions, you will weaken the defeat's negative | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| of growth. By the mere act of repeatedly observing your reactions, their strength will lessen. You will | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| strength will lessen. You will become capable of observing such emotions without self-contempt and therefore without repression | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the surface, and unrolling the inner process, while observing the subsequent outer actions and reactions. When it | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| then you are incapable of objectively and freely observing the situation, of finding out what it really | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| will free you to develop primary reactions. By observing the fact that you respond only conditionally and | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| a stronger impact on you. Only by repeatedly observing how your destructive defense feels in you, what | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| yourself the luxury of letting the emotions flow, observing them, learning from them and recognizing the true | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| and which is a protective defense mechanism. By observing emotional exaggeration versus repression you will finally see | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| create a little distance from this activity by observing the particular pattern of your daydreams. Make a | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| may then experience a certain fulfillment in daydreams. Observing and evaluating your daydreams can help you categorize | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| to let go of all the defenses. Constantly observing your unrealistic and immature emotions and reactions weakens | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| growth, maturity, and productive living, is by simply observing your emotions. Note how they are still geared | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| and self-justification, they diminish by the act of observing them. The problem will be resolved by the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| resolved by the act of understanding it and observing yourself. But the resolution of the problem cannot | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Yet none will be experienced as a role. Observing this feeling may give you a very good | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| sense the negative quality because, instead of merely observing what is, you become frightened, suspicious, guilty, and | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| lives is not applicable to the real situation. Observing the earth sphere and humanity from our vantage | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| eliminating the no-current. You weaken it merely by observing it. When the petrified part of the unconscious | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| Become very quiet and relaxed and begin by observing your thinking process, and even your initial inability | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| quietly take them in and use all your observing functions and organs to see them in reality | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| movements. But once your mind is accustomed to observing these reactions, such awareness is not far away | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| give yourself truthful answers to these questions by observing your soul-movements, you are closer to eliminating the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| fears death. This can be constantly corroborated when observing human reactions. The more a person lives with | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| of your volitional mind and let yourself float, observing what is coming up. This selfhood, trusting your | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| exactly what you strive so hard for. When observing the state of your own psychic emanation you | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| experiencing, both positive and negative, but by truly observing yourself. You cannot fail to become conscious of | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| I think I will, you are capable of observing how you are deliberately blocking, even quite consciously | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| remember how often I discussed the importance of observing your soul movements. When you fight against one | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| is life's essence, unhampered by false ideas. Anyone observing a child can see this natural quality of | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| say removed, I mean fully acknowledging and objectively observing them, without plunging into despair and denying the | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| a thing exists. But by turning inward -- observing the distinct movements of your psyche - - | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| believe. You may discover these subtle reactions by observing your reluctance to take steps to realize a | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| will develop a very fine awareness, at first observing a subtle inner soul-movement that shrinks back when | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| of his or her attitude toward frustration by observing the following stages: 1)The most childish and | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| much too close to be easily recognized -- observing how you use them, how they create both | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| step by step. The interaction is threefold. The observing ego must initially want it and commit itself | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| your concentration and meditation be particularly concerned with observing your vague and hidden reactions. Do you fear | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| unification and the transcendence. A willing attitude toward observing yourself makes you more real and more alive | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| first being what you are doing now: identifying, observing, and articulating. Now you no longer need to | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| which you most hate and therefore resist even observing, to that degree your consciousness is unable to | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is something that must be discovered by your observing mind. In what way are you identified with | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| out the truth about yourself. This includes mentally observing and admitting your real thoughts and feelings, experiencing | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| part of your mind that is capable of observing that the thinking behind your negative creation is | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| of your involvement and investment. If you start observing yourself from this point of view, you will | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| that you can hear and evaluate them. By observing and identifying them, you will gain a better | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| with hidden thoughts that are unclear to your observing consciousness, to the awareness that would permit you | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| If you use the material in this lecture, observing it in you and applying what I have | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |