| Others'.....................37 | |
| not perfect, you cannot and must not resent others' imperfections, even though they may be different from | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| person will be inclined to hold on to others' opinions. Another motive for conforming and therefore not | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| in other ways. Still another motive for holding others' opinions is to cover up the exact wish | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| in friendliness, with an open mind to the others' viewpoint. This is my suggestion for opening the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| out of fear or out of dependency on others' approval? Or was the wish based on unhealthy | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| while their own unhappiness is greater than the others'. Let my words again be material for your | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and joy that must be yours regardless of others' actions. That is the spirit you should have | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| by outer means, determined by educational influences, by others' opinions that you may have adopted for one | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| become aware of your demands on others and others' demands on you, as well as your real | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| impressions -- in this case, the currents of others' demands on you -- when you cannot healthily | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| speak and how to be quiet. Merely understanding others' motives -- their truth -- will not give | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| pride. To let go of the need for others' approval requires humility. The courage one needs can | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| too disconnected from their fellow creatures to sense others' pain as their own. Their suffering made them | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| with proving that it does not care about others' views and thus blindly rebels, there is again | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| work so diligently on this path, focus on others' actual or imaginary evil so as to deny | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| penetrate the murkiness and disperse the poison of others' negativity. Thus, a free person can bypass evil | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| progress must be made, for true immunity to others' destructiveness comes only when this dependency no longer | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| not be so vulnerable and so affected by others' ills. This means you must still return to | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| not used. When you are so affected by others' negativities, you must indeed explore what makes you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| remain on that level, convincing yourself that the others' action justifies and explains your disturbance. When you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| this terrifying illusory end, both their own and others'. But even if this terror is not acute | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| to just that. Or you may even use others' real failings as excuses to punish them for | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| in a different way. By the same token, others' negative intentionality hurts and hinders you and they | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| wrong. You are right that it is indeed others' responsibility and that they can do so no | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| your own mind. To be able to read others' minds would amount to dangerous magic if it | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| will not even recognize, let alone deal with, others' negativity and see when their machinations could abuse | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| not to face your imperfection. The effect of others' destructiveness will not make you lose your bearing | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| you never could before. You begin to recognize others' negativities without being personally affected or disturbed by | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| disturbed by them. You no longer struggle against others' negativity in a blind, resentful way, without seeing | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| annihilation. You also begin to see and perceive others' beauty in a way that doesn't make you | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| part of yourself, whatever awareness you had of others' negativities filled you with anxiety and discomfort. It | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| to do the best you can, regardless of others' opinions, so that the activity fulfills its innate | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| or to another person -- again regardless of others' opinions or even their noticing the effort and | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| unhampered perception of reality -- your own and others' and life's. When the words are contrary to | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| light up in your own souls, spreading into others' souls, converge and emerge into one huge sea | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| and sometimes to fight against your own and others' evil. Only then will you feel free from | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| stake in keeping yourself hidden, your assessment of others' motives will be very shaky. Transparency is a | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Ours........................5 | |
| up the individual personality. QUESTION: A friend of ours who is a follower of Rudolf Steiner's teachings | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| of information. But they are not spirits of ours. It is easy to say, it satisfies human | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| curtain is still drawn between your world and ours. Twenty years ago atomic energy was occult. QUESTION | 18 FREE WILL |
| it actually works negatively. Such a path as ours is aimed at bringing out the unconscious ideas | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| your truth and love, as you depend on ours. We depend on your giving yourselves to the | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Oust........................7 | |
| and soul currents. By re-examining them you can oust whatever has no validity for you any more | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| and your own consequent negative reactions if you oust your own fear; for then you will consciously | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| one, but he selects the wrong means to oust an evil. Refusing to go to war could | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| cheating. You do not overcome, you do not oust or separate yourself from anything in you. You | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| can only suffer, then you must examine and oust this image so as to inactivate its energetic | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| as if it were the devil and to oust it from your life is missing the point | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| can be done only when you recognize and oust real, justified guilt, without annihilating yourself in the | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Ousted......................5 | |
| there that ought to be washed away or ousted. So cleanse your souls as you cleanse your | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| depths of your soul. After the untruth is ousted, you will be able to plant truth within | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| sustain, complement, and help one another. None is ousted. Only the deviation or overemphasis is smoothed out | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| You then conclude that they must therefore be ousted by denial. Now let us recapitulate so as | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| is the particular evil that has to be ousted. This particular evil brings a Pandora's box full | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Outcome.....................76 | |
| incarnation. All this represents not only the natural outcome of the person's individual attitude and outlook, but | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| enough space to determine the time and the outcome with its free will. This sphere too is | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| be ostracized, or disliked by others -- an outcome no one wants. Instead of overcoming selfishness by | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| sense of guidance, in which case the undesirable outcome may not happen quite so often or so | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the unhappiness, self-inflicted by error and ignorance. The outcome will be the clear light of peace, harmony | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| ANSWER: A complex is a symptom, or an outcome of an image. A complex in its manifest | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| faults more objectively. And, if by chance the outcome of the evaluation turns out to be that | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| self up to a feeling without knowing the outcome and the possible advantage of doing so. These | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| not alter the results. To achieve a positive outcome, a free, strong and independent choice has to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| one reaction to your puzzlement at life, the outcome of your wrong emotional conclusions. Acknowledge your anger | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| reasons, when this conflict results in a negative outcome, you become disappointed and lose courage. At the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| with the world, whatever the decision, whatever the outcome, whatever the difficulties may be. Very few people | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| hurt, you or another, you face the final outcome of a conglomeration of deviated reactions and chain | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| On the contrary, it exists rather as an outcome of the free will of the individual. It | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the consequence and therefore the more puzzling the outcome. By facing the negative side, you evidence the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| negative attitudes. If you truly wanted a happy outcome, you would display an inner readiness which would | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| mask is lacking. And yet, when the unhappy outcome is accomplished, you delude yourself into thinking that | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| regardless of how much you desire the happy outcome consciously. Since the happy outcome would still be | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| desire the happy outcome consciously. Since the happy outcome would still be a compromise as compared with | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| desires of everyone concerned, may differ vastly, the outcome must be according to this universal psychological law | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and overemphasis on science and intellect are the outcome of the man's world, with a corresponding neglect | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| she misunderstood the message as meaning rebellion, the outcome was not entirely successful. The so-called emancipation often | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| and one does not recognize this fact, the outcome must always be doubtful. You know this from | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| will to face and change oneself determines the outcome. To know what your inner will strives for | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| in darkness, rebellion, cowardice and self-pity -- the outcome will be happiness to the degree you have | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| direct technique or process. It is an indirect outcome of inner growth, self-awareness, and self-facing. QUESTION: Can | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| child. The ability to love is a direct outcome of emotional maturity and growth. True faith in | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of reality. With such a foundation the inevitable outcome is real, secure self-confidence and self- respect, not | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| of your own personality. It will be the outcome of growth and will produce further growth, in | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the way out because you concentrate on the outcome and the physical act, believing one choice must | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| or toward your mother. It is an indirect outcome of other aspects within yourself. QUESTION: I'm just | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and others. Moreover, if you believe that the outcome of this work is first, to conform to | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| connected with underplaying what you really feel, the outcome is obvious. Do concentrate on this now, my | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| Light, love, joy -- all these are the outcome of truth; not truth far beyond your state | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| In this liberation, genuine God-experience is the inevitable outcome. This genuine God-experience is very different from the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| prescribed practices, or disciplines. It is the natural outcome of the courage and humility to face oneself | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| helped. This is not within my realm. The outcome may not necessarily be as you fear it | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| inner connection, then such a weariness is the outcome. You want things done for you. You do | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| integral a part, or rather as inevitable an outcome of this work, as are love or truth | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| that hinder the will and subsequently influence the outcome. QUESTION: How do you explain the function of | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| would still be living in illusion, because the outcome does not happen at the moment you think | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| outgoing feelings of affection, concern, understanding are an outcome of the true perception of reality-factors, and they | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the responsibility upon yourself and even a negative outcome will not throw you into despair. You will | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| anything to do with the happy or unhappy outcome of the situation. If they can approach it | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| divine spark, or your real self, is an outcome of this pathwork. Some of my friends are | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| unconscious is the more potent force, determining the outcome regardless of the conscious will. The latter is | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| and thoughts. Your tendency to petrify a pleasant outcome because this seems an easy solution, an insurance | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| fact that some of these feelings are an outcome of illusion, although you are not yet able | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| while acknowledging all your negative feelings -- the outcome of your illusion -- will make you stop | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| and behavior had no bearing on the desired outcome! For instance, you fear you may not be | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| helplessly waiting for fate to determine the desired outcome? It does not occur to you that there | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| frantic in trying. And whether that blocks the outcome or not, I don't know. She cannot switch | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| level. When you plant the seed of an outcome that your innermost self cannot quite accept, or | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| acting as though the possibility of a favorable outcome were there, but not really believing it. The | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| is the matter, or form, which is the outcome of the way consciousness impresses the life substance | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| more: at other times you fear more. The outcome will be problematic, painful, and fraught with conflict | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| understand how the present situation is a direct outcome of who you are. I have discussed this | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| heartedly, with half-attention or divided motives. Therefore, the outcome will be more and more desirable and fulfilling | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| dualistic understanding issues can only be either/or. The outcome seems to matter more than the issue itself | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| All your problems are an expression and direct outcome of this duality. Look at your problems, go | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| and specifically, of how your life is the outcome of your mental activity. What you do not | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| dim view of things, or prevent a favorable outcome by expecting the worst, the ability already exists | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| attain it. What you invest will determine the outcome. Humans often desire a change but avoid taking | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| Even if you do not know what the outcome will be, whether or not God's way will | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| taken into account. At any given moment, the outcome is determined by the degree to which the | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| the need for total self-rejection, which is the outcome of totally identifying with the voice of the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| no, and if you disregard that the undesirable outcome is caused by this, then you cannot help | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| life, others, fate, to give you the desired outcome that only a positive intentionality can bring about | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| their investment and commitment to themselves determine the outcome, regardless of what others, including you, do. But | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| How you express this desire will determine the outcome. If the desire is too strong, too tight | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| and feel more deeply, the more fruitful the outcome will be when you risk offending your partner | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| but do not wish to admit it, the outcome must be undesirable. Your guilt for this hidden | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| rather than thoughts, for thoughts are only the outcome of the underlying factors creating the word. The | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| the abysses of illusion. Without assurances of the outcome you will have to venture into an unknown | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| or bad -- has no effect on the outcome of cosmic history and evolution. You will say | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| be made responsible for one's decisions and their outcome. When you choose a mate, a friend, a | 254 SURRENDER |