| of your inner reactions and their bearing on outer events will you see that these reactions actually | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| on a deeper level, quite apart from your outer personality. Once you realize that your inner reactions | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| that you have already recognized on a superficial outer level. You may even have overcome some of | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| new, in spite of your familiarity with its outer existence. Unless you approach it this way, you | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| come across quite different reactions from your known outer ones -- and think about their effect on | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| your intellectual knowledge. Emotions are more habit-bound than outer tendencies; moreover, they are so elusive that in | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| of this new knowledge rather than on the outer level on which you have worked before. You | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| afraid to feel, and afraid to love. The outer intellectual knowledge you may gain through spiritual teachings | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| but eventually they also control and direct your outer life. This happens even though -- and because | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| most cherished conscious desires, the image-desires overrule the outer ones, no matter how strong the latter may | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| that you integrate your emotions with your superficial outer knowledge, if the latter follows a higher ethical | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| not only your physical body disintegrates but the outer subtle body as well at some later time | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| None of it constitutes your real personality. These outer layers are necessary to fulfill your work on | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| Then this knowledge will be gone after the outer subtle body disintegrates. But if you use it | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| to integrate your real self with this new outer knowledge for the purpose of development, then the | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| how many, many, people seek this liberation by outer means such as intellectual knowledge, or by outer | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| outer means such as intellectual knowledge, or by outer events, whereby it cannot possibly be achieved. The | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| beg of you, my dear friends, consider the outer conflicts that come to you as answers to | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| manifests in that particular sphere; it creates the outer shell or vehicle of the entity destined to | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| people are often tempted into inner inactivity, while outer activity may be all the stronger as an | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| your emotions to change sufficiently so that your outer life may change too. This depends on you | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| a mere detail which is part of the outer manifestation. Is that clear? QUESTION: Yes, it is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| eros, you are merely aware of the lazy outer layers. Do not avoid eros when it wants | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| may be as far as other people and outer circumstances are concerned. Ask yourself, what might be | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| hidden emotions have nothing to do with your outer common sense! Know that the part in you | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| that your conflicting desires are responsible for your outer miseries and unfulfillments. The latter are a logical | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| to understand yourself, I do not mean your outer deeds, decisions, and reactions. These you can often | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| understand, step by step, how and where your outer problems are connected to your inner conflicts, where | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| produce in the person's life just as tangible outer results as the openly rebellious reactions. In the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| law-upholder and law-breaker only in the crude and outer sense, referring to your social laws. Think about | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| courage. Otherwise, if certain other character traits and outer circumstances combine, their rebellion will be dimmed to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| law, of course, as you should -- the outer, as well as the inner law -- but | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the inner root is not sought while the outer remedy is applied of necessity. So, for instance | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| before they come to the last and unfortunate outer manifestation, you can furnish the cornerstones by examining | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is still far away, in spite of the outer good deeds one performs mainly in order to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| behind that, you may use that as the outer facade of your wall. It is as though | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| sickness is only a chain reaction, a final outer manifestation of obstructed life force. Whenever you have | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| in your soul, seeking the remedy from the outer world. This again is attachment to the symptoms | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| these traits outwardly and direct them toward the outer world. As human beings develop from incarnation to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| push the deeper feelings away because of an outer or inner must, you cannot succeed. This must | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| recognition shows you to be, you believe the outer and known trend must be unreal. Therefore, you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| You may be extremely unselfish in the little outer things but the outer unselfishness can camouflage your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| unselfish in the little outer things but the outer unselfishness can camouflage your emotional selfishness or ego-centeredness | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of leading you will avoid these dangers; your outer and inner reactions will become one. So let | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| it is so different from your sincerely felt outer reactions. Whether these outer reactions are really sincere | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| from your sincerely felt outer reactions. Whether these outer reactions are really sincere, that is, the best | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| whether they are an almost conscious hypocrisy, the outer mask must be dissolved in order to look | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| your attention on recognizing the inner roots of outer events will give you the key to your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| unless you understand your unconscious motives and trends. Outer measures may sometimes seem effective, but truly, your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| adult personality causes all sorts of inner and outer conflicts. Moreover, people are unaware of the roots | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| courage and independence to think through what the outer morals are, you will find that in many | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| while in some they may not. Sometimes the outer morals are rigid and senseless. By adhering to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| personal -- are violated in your inner and outer reactions, your divine conscience leads you inexorably in | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| direction. You will change, not necessarily in your outer and conscious actions, but in your unconscious childish | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| a child still have a guilt feeling? ANSWER: Outer manifestations often occur in children. Whenever a child | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| me. That is a temper tantrum without the outer manifestation of the child. The mere fact that | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| from crises and breakdowns. It is never the outer circumstances that lead to them, but your wrong | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| personality. The latter is watching and observing your outer personality. It often differs in the opinion of | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| and react in the same way as your outer personality does not mean, however, that it does | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the cause and effect of your inner and outer actions. Humans like to concentrate unduly on the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| cannot and must not be given on an outer level. Many teachers and teachings remain on the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| level. Many teachers and teachings remain on the outer level, on the level of conduct. On this | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| In fact, it could be dangerous. On the outer level, rules are made that become rigid and | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the truth that will then govern your proper outer conduct. If you are honest with yourself, you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the selfish motive will show you that the outer selfless ones are no longer valid. In other | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| valid. In other instances, you will consider the outer selfless motives in spite of the fact that | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| hidden motives which may be selfish, while the outer conscious motive may be unselfish. QUESTION: This question | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| hidden in the emotions and not displayed in outer deed and manifestation. It may, at times, even | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| may, at times, even be covered by contrary outer conduct that is not genuine. It then becomes | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| For, self-delusion is more harmful than the worst outer conduct or deed. Therefore, begin to search for | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| is just in love with his or her outer self. This is a very crass form of | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| physical sense of being in love with one's outer person. Here, too, I spoke without using this | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| to various psychological factors in his inner and outer life, and he is through such a person | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| did not exist during the process of maturing. Outer influences may encourage the inclination unnecessarily, while the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| and union with God, with the divine, by outer means, by religious theories, theological interpretations -- thereby | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| soul-action is the same that Jesus demonstrated in outer deeds. But I would like to stress here | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| gaining inner proof through inner enlightenment and certainty. Outer proof is never sufficient. Besides, you can only | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is much more difficult to eliminate than any outer obstruction. Hence, we, in the world of God | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| live so much on the surface, in the outer world. To find God, I have to retire | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| find God, I have to retire from the outer world and lead an inner life, this attitude | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| in you what needs to be changed. Without outer help, these elements would remain dormant in you | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| nothing to do with it. Even if the outer form of life is similar -- although it | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| fulfillment with all your might, with all your outer will, yet some unconscious factors within work against | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the price -- the true price, not the outer one. The outer one is often overemphasized as | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the true price, not the outer one. The outer one is often overemphasized as a compensation for | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| stronger this unconscious part is the tenser your outer straining becomes. You are unaware that unconsciously you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| will interpret what I am saying on an outer level. Therefore it may seem repetitious to them | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| and where he may just need a little outer push, he will respond. But he cannot respond | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| does not produce a very harmonious sound. The outer manifestation of this mass image varies according to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| on many forms in your unconscious. Therefore, the outer manifestation varies too. People seek admiration in various | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| you can find this image behind every conflict, outer or inner. Sometimes the connection is indirect; at | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the unconscious nature of the inner battle, the outer happening responds to your unconscious negative side and | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| though the positive has won out in your outer actions. This is according to an unalterable law | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| is not consciously understood in its full significance, outer events will follow in such a way as | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| if the selfish side had won out. The outer result must respond to the impulse which is | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| prevent you from even recognizing this temptation, the outer occurrence will, as I said, respond to the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| way and with the same quick results as outer actions do. Nevertheless, every thought and attitude, whether | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| it will lose power. But if such an outer event does recur, you will feel very differently | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| do not think about that at all. The outer action may not change at first, even after | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| inner motives will change. In some cases, your outer actions will change automatically, but this will be | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| similar reactions. Only the reasons change, and the outer display becomes modified or even completely covered by | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| its highest unfoldment is: I am independent of outer circumstances, regardless of what they are. I can | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| readiness is lacking, you overcompensate with a superficial outer readiness, which however can never make up for | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| within yourself. In some instances even the superficial outer mask is lacking. And yet, when the unhappy | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| utopia that the infant desires. Intellectual conviction and outer behavior are in no way an indication of | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| how hard you tried to prevent it on outer levels or how much you absorbed with your | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of inner perception -- not that of the outer knowledge. Again I say, you never think these | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| is reached the pain ceases, even though the outer condition that caused the pain still prevails. Thus | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| understood. A compulsion can never be created by outer conditions alone. The outer conditions may merely bring | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| never be created by outer conditions alone. The outer conditions may merely bring the inner problems to | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong condition will finally also create a wrong outer condition. As long as one does not realize | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| difficult to cope with the inner situation. The outer conditions are a convenient hitching post. The more | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not mean that one should never change the outer conditions as well. However, it may be that | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have the strength and fortitude to effect the outer change. The more one desires something but is | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| side of the coin, so to speak. The outer active side is passive inwardly, and vice versa | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself. Only then will success come upon certain outer actions any individual may undertake in order to | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| earth life is always the individual's overemphasis on outer actions, while ignoring and neglecting the inner motivations | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| areas of your life, often in superficial and outer actions. But in the last and deepest and | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| your inner wrong currents and attitudes and the outer unwelcome occurrence, you will come face to face | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| see the connection between your erroneous attitudes and outer happenings that heretofore seemed arbitrary. Once you realize | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| without need. ANSWER: Exactly. It is a symbolic outer act. The other cases may have a similar | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Only humans draw a sharp borderline between the outer and obvious dishonesty and the subtle inner one | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and feels. This is often contrary to your outer personality and conscious awareness. And this is important | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mentally or physically even more distorted. ANSWER: No outer influence can ever make you more distorted. This | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| often happens in a more roundabout way. An outer influence may temporarily fortify a wrong concept, just | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be overlooked. If it were true that any outer influence can really harm you, life would be | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the world's riches are the obvious result. No outer measure, regardless of how clever, will remedy the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| healthy and strong soul currents, all inner and outer conduct according to the universal spiritual laws of | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| to the solution of all your inner and outer problems. If you find your hidden emotions, you | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| aspects existing in both sexes. It is the outer symbol. It is only a question of the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| many levels. When it was said originally, the outer level had a very different meaning than it | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more control over them than happened anyway. Any outer law is a must and therefore not real | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a must and therefore not real spirituality. But outer law is a necessity for those whose instincts | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| blessed, my dearest friends, be in God! 64. OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| of will exist: the inner will and the outer will. This is very important for you to | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| others, and the laws of the universe. The outer will is tense, impatient, and cramped. The inner | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| The inner will is calm, relaxed, unhurried. The outer will is anxious and doubtful. The inner will | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| time and will ultimately prevail. To succeed, the outer will must be sustained, at least to some | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| inner willpower is small in relation to the outer will with all its conflicting currents, the desired | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| inner will comes from the solar plexus. The outer will comes partly from the intellect and partly | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| intellect and partly from superficial soul regions. The outer will is often motivated by immature feelings, desires | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| to make up for it by strengthening the outer will. But the strength of the outer will | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the outer will. But the strength of the outer will is always unhealthy. It is a poor | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| of inadequacy and inferiority are thus fed anew. Outer will can be composed of healthy motives too | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| will to rule can exist only in the outer, but never in the inner will. The inner | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| without doubt. It flows quietly. It knows. The outer will does not flow. It pushes and pulls | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you discover that your will comes from the outer person, you can look further as to find | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| which will it is. If it is the outer will, you will have a slight feeling of | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| or not you are entitled to it. Your outer will can also feel so impatient, so urgent | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| only way to eliminate the levels of the outer will that hinder the functioning of the inner | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| will-currents pursue the same goal, even if the outer and inner will desire the same thing, the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the same thing, the mere fact that the outer will is tense and impatient prohibits the inner | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |