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| others will one be capable of withstanding the onslaught of misdirected responses. The person then refuses to | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| you are involved. Other people retract from this onslaught of forcing that says, as it were, You | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| yourself in an incredibly efficient way against the onslaught of the countermovement. You immunize yourself against the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
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| and willpower could relieve them if only you opened the inner door. Regardless of the burden of | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| utmost grace, to which the door must be opened by the entity itself. So you are tested | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| those who truly knock, the door will be opened. QUESTION: You spoke to us before about giving | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| meditate about them and new doors will be opened. As I have said so often, it is | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| To him who knocks, the door will be opened. Whoever is determined to do the will of | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| word holds true: Knock and it shall be opened. Concentration in prayer is beneficial not only as | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| put into a keyhole and a door were opened, and all of a sudden you understand many | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| spirit world. This is the way Christ has opened the door. You may now understand why it | 22 SALVATION |
| Jesus Christ said, Knock and it will be opened unto you. The knocking symbolizes being alert and | 38 IMAGES |
| will be reduced. In that way one is opened up for further search to understand the various | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| beings, what His contribution was and how it opened the door and showed the way. I do | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The moment this insight exists the way is opened, even if at the moment you are still | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all his self-deceptions and evasions and has thus opened a channel within through which laws of being | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| work of self-search, deeper levels of understanding are opened up, so that words of truth will directly | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this is envisaged, vast and beautiful possibilities are opened up. Be blessed, my dearest friends. Be in | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| heard these words so often has still not opened the door to the truth that sets you | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| they are nevertheless prison doors and must be opened by the self. The apparent reality, which is | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| critical and judgmental with each other. You thereby opened new doors. The fact that this experience was | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| see yourself contract again, right after you have opened up and experienced pleasure, love, the goodness of | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| as easy to get lost when you have opened this immensely energetic powerhouse of negativity within you | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| For him who knocks, the door shall be opened; he who searches must find. The answer, the | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| your mask and your lower self. I have opened up to you the vista to your higher | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| the God who had put on human nature opened the doors in the souls of all created | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| may need time to complete itself before being opened to others. Such periods of privacy do not | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| inspired and ripens in privacy is later always opened up and shared with others. It is never | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| has not been touched upon previously. I have opened new vistas for you, even if you may | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| of His vision into our ultimate nature -- opened all doors that were closed before -- not | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
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| in the body or not -- and by opening yourself, you will receive an answer, a deeper | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| her own labor the grace of a spiritual opening, he or she can desire a metaphysical experience | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| will have to fight harder for a spiritual opening; the overcoming will prove to be more difficult | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| But your soul and spirit will starve. By opening yourself every day, you receive the strength and | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| Each one of you who has already tried opening up will confirm that merely discussing a problem | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| help you do what is necessary. Such an opening up of your personality is healing. You think | 31 SHAME |
| us with every decision you have to make. Opening a channel requires training and practice. What I | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| are few indeed who have not experienced some opening in the soul where eros could touch them | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the others' viewpoint. This is my suggestion for opening the new season after vacation. Of course, you | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| be done does not mean obedience; it means opening yourself to the fullest possible extent so that | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Some of you have actually reached the threshold opening the way to a new inner life of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| guards and much pride that prevents the true opening of the channels that will yield the results | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| or her being -- not only partially, but opening all channels which have been clogged up before | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| a tremendous step forward and a vast new opening of insight into yourself, of clarification. This will | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| unrelated truth, has been too powerful to resist. Opening oneself to the truth is a decisive step | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| from self- responsibility, rather, you are responsible for opening the door, not to an outer deity -- | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| hesitancy and guilt, and at the same time opening yourself up to the other person, no longer | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| this wall and you can slide it away, opening yourself to Creation with its manifold possibilities. This | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| we have studied in the past with the opening up of the future direction of the pathwork | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| can then go on from there. Sometimes an opening can occur in one session of good and | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| The moment you go through this movement of opening up and have the courage to want the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| which transcends everything wherever it can find an opening. It cannot be, by its own nature, more | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| to the physical system through outer devices, thus opening the possibility for an inner penetration by the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| shaft of light through these words by truly opening up to new aspects of ideas you have | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| It leads to loving, giving and receiving, uniting, opening up to the forces of life. It leads | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| what actually exists in comparison, and further, to opening your way into the third level, of what | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| I mean. You can do your best by opening yourself inwardly, your heart as much as your | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the constantly fluctuating initiating and receptive forces -- opening and closing, opening and closing. The more the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| initiating and receptive forces -- opening and closing, opening and closing. The more the individual consciousness of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| extreme poles is the phase in which the opening, relaxed state is felt as desirable and pleasurable | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| fearlessly yourself, and you will expand into life, opening up to receiving life's gifts. Very much related | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| indirectly -- the closing as well as the opening. You do not simply decide to open up | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| accepted is quite different, very near to an opening, pleasurable experience. Accepting the negativity of life makes | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| energy center that enlivens you. Fear blocks the opening through which self-renewing life flows into the outer | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| new stimulation from these words, and a new opening of doors to help you where you may | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| loving state, the energy centers open up. The opening is a distinct experience in the body, because | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the impersonal love feelings connected with this experience. Opening up this center must bring you to the | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| The process of self- realization thus also means opening up the centers. The human physical body is | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| them and is determined by them. But the opening or closing of the centers, their smooth functioning | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| second center is in the solar plexus. Its opening creates a connection with spiritual wisdom, with the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| when you are in truth, you love. The opening of the sexual center enables you to experience | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| ecstasy with a beloved other human being. The opening of the solar plexus channel connects you with | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| universe, the self -- everything that is. The opening of this center heralds the total integration expressed | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| all is one. Of course, my friends, the opening of each center requires a great deal of | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| by which I mean, perhaps even more, the opening up of your unconscious. Often your conscious being | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| nevertheless distinct areas in the human life-system. The opening of the centers creates a full capacity for | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| worst, they can be harmful in effecting an opening in an individual who is not in harmony | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| for many of you to effect a real opening. This should not discourage you. When you are | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| are inwardly ready, you will know, and the opening will come naturally. In the meantime, even the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| become automatically more accessible. For the purpose of opening the centers a relaxed state is necessary on | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| and liberating. It is one necessary condition for opening up the life and energy centers. Fear of | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| me give you two specific meditation exercises for opening your centers. The first I described in a | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| void. This is the beginning of a new opening, which you will experience only retroactively and indirectly | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| creating. Then the world begins to open. The opening must be achieved, to begin with, by thinking | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| it to bear on your own specific situation. Opening up your innermost being to applying this material | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| worked through to make them stepping stones for opening your lives further and bringing more light and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| giving and receiving, of mutual cooperation, of positive opening. This means that, in fact, two Yes-currents must | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| is denied. All human beings are afraid of opening up to some degree, as you well know | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| are now able to acknowledge your fear of opening up and expanding. You may at times be | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| development. All this excludes mutuality. The movement of opening up and taking in, the relaxed bliss of | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| hate themselves. When you contract after every temporary opening you can realize that this does not happen | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| so well. In the second stage, where alternate opening up and contracting occurs, the mental activity of | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| fulfillment in fantasy. This indicates some degree of opening and flow, although without real mutuality. Withdrawal and | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| sweeping love that moved you toward each other, opening up for each other and giving to each | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| spontaneous, unplanned event, as an inevitable result of opening yourself and encountering first the negative emotions honestly | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| Such deductive knowledge, however, is often the necessary opening to allowing yourself the deeper experience. It permits | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| not a labor of the will, but an opening process that first considers new alternatives which eventually | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| find such relief; you will find the world opening up. It will dawn on you that if | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| for being in reality, for true self-responsibility, for opening up a channel to your divinity. This divinity | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| that gives trouble, unless you commit yourself to opening your heart, no real change can ever occur | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| movement in you. You move your mind by opening it to new ways of looking at things | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| only glimpse a small part through a narrow opening because the rest of the picture is covered | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| as a consequence of the personality's stubbornness against opening and redirecting the mind. In the truly fulfilled | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| of seeing this situation differently, maybe by merely opening your mind to another train of thought you | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| not yet tried, but which you certainly can. Opening the doors of the mind is exceedingly important | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| particular time, to take the mental step to opening yourself to the possibility that there is love | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| a leap into an unknown, new possibility. Merely opening yourself to a new alternative in principle, and | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| great importance for this purpose is that the opening to the greater universal consciousness must not be | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the intellectual level. You are all capable of opening an inner channel, an intuitive channel, and connecting | 228 BALANCE |
| produces them through loving and through integrity, through opening her heart to loving and her mind to | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| of the Christ consciousness, there are more individuals opening themselves to this change. When you do not | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| with it and see the beauty of life opening up more and more. The love of all | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| cosmic truth and creation filter through the limited opening into the ego personality and the conscious personality | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| from the outside in order to facilitate the opening of the channel, so that the inner self | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| is important is to know that a beautiful opening in one area is no guarantee that a | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| one area is no guarantee that a similar opening exists in all other areas. There are human | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| a specific danger point on the road to opening the channel. Many have faltered here. Before such | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| list. Be aware of this possibility! An incomplete opening and incomplete state of receptivity, a state of | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| they have openings. As you discover a new opening, you need to make a new commitment, on | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| indicated that this physical weakness was a new opening for her and that a new and more | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| endeavor. We speak constantly about the importance of opening up, of giving up your defenses, your brittle | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| find yourself unable to take them in. However, opening up works in two directions -- not only | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| against abuse. When you speak and think of opening up, of dropping your defenses, conceive of this | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| also -- and more importantly -- as an opening inward. Have the courage and faith in your | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| to comprehend. There comes, of course, increasingly the opening up from within, where your heart begins to | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| powerful by staying aloof from others, never fully opening your heart, but making yourself desirable, playing into | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| do you jump into the apparent abyss of opening your mind, and only then can you find | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| what extent you can make yourself clear. By opening yourself up, you can reach others who may | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| depends on your willingness to open your heart. Opening your heart seems to require a special kind | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| of higher-self messages, or what you call the opening of your channel. You receive advice, encouragement, words | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |