| the prevailing circumstances. In such circumstances, when the outer personality fights against the inner being's decision, a | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| may continue even into old age, because the outer personality uses its life force to battle the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| entity may deliberately outweigh the will of the outer person. Its powers are, of course, infinitely greater | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| course, infinitely greater than powers available to the outer consciousness. But under other circumstances the struggle may | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| its powers. The inner self may allow the outer self to keep the battle going to some | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the personality most needs self-work, so that the outer person can focus on areas that it has | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the inner being decides for death and the outer personality resists it. In this instance, the outer | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| outer personality resists it. In this instance, the outer personality may indeed take a favorable direction where | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| that in spite of the propitious circumstances, the outer personality may not want to live. The person | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the whole is blurred. For example, if the outer personality refuses to give up stubbornness, the isolated | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| personality finally believes in its hopelessness. Thus the outer personality finds itself unwilling to move, even though | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| in favor of a continued life. But the outer self willfully destroys this life, acting out its | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| risk to take, how many favorable and unfavorable outer influences should exist in the life not necessarily | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| incarnation then becomes that much more difficult: The outer personality must make all the efforts; it has | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| it takes on its own momentum. When the outer personality has finished a series of embodiments in | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| of energies from the inner being, interpenetrating the outer personality, is directly connected with the willingness to | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| and pain, you have closed your inner and outer mind to any alternatives. First the disconnected, conscious | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| divine faculties and not bound to the purely outer manifestation as human beings are, can perceive the | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that they grow from within you into the outer regions of your life. The topic of tonight's | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| suddenly perceives psychic events, inner as well as outer events, states of being in the self and | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| your attention in your daily life to the outer projections of your inner realities or to the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| no event in your life, big or small, outer or inner, that is not an intrinsic message | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| That awareness can be established only when your outer consciousness is willing to make the effort to | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| possess and are a part of, regardless of outer manifestations. The outer manifestations are, as I said | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| a part of, regardless of outer manifestations. The outer manifestations are, as I said, in themselves a | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| You have to make connections primarily between your outer experiences and the inner process, on the one | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| about both. The first -- connections between the outer life, your inner moods, reactions and the process | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| course of your path, apparently isolated problems -- outer as well as inner -- such as faults | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| the deliberate choice of finding out what your outer life means in terms of your inner process | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| total consciousness to its eternal glow on the outer level of your manifest existence. Each recognition, each | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| inner being, of communing with your inner and outer nature. Then the fruits of this self-containment can | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| now because you are so busy with your outer mind. But there is something within that you | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| you and then you will always find the outer center. But this particular Center will indeed be | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| learn reading, writing, numbers, certain basic laws of outer life, of physical matter that surrounds you and | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| be generalized -- are primarily focused on acquiring outer knowledge. Provided the process is meaningful and organic | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| not always, earlier, which can coincide with the outer learning. You have children on your path who | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| activate them, initiating negativity, regardless of what the outer situation is. As your development proceeds, this changes | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| aspects cease to manifest by themselves. They need outer provocation. You respond with them to the initiating | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| from the brain. It is not from the outer knowledge you have acquired in the first two | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| place from which all wisdom flows into your outer being. It is a gradual process, yet it | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| inner state of joyousness and peace, and your outer state of fulfillment and abundance. These are gauges | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| than that. If the whole world confronts the outer reality you experience, you may begin to doubt | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| that permeates your inner being and that your outer personality can connect with if you so choose | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| and consciousness that you carry within you. Your outer mind always has the choice to allow it | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| take the reins and be aware of that outer will: Confront it; counter it. Do not allow | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| energy body's experiences are not clear to the outer mind; the outer mind merely registers displeasure, anxiety | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| are not clear to the outer mind; the outer mind merely registers displeasure, anxiety, heaviness. When you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| What ultimately emerges is a real fulfillment. Your outer ego-self will no longer contradict your Godself. This | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of the group. You have traveled through the outer layers. You have learned more and more not | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| entirely new way. It is aware that the outer self does not know, that it is not | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this is not only important for the little outer life. It is important in terms of evolution | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| knowing, a power that operates differently from the outer ego power you so strive for. Real truth | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| beings create an agitated mind, an inner and outer overactivity, because they are frightened that they may | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| centuries humanity has conditioned itself to make the outer mind a very busy place, so that when | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| it wants and will not misuse it. The outer mind must make constant changes in order to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| greater scope of the inner God consciousness. Your outer mind must become empty and receptive, yet it | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| supposed to fill and sustain you, however, your outer mind must go through the steps of acquiring | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| fail to go through the work that the outer ego-self has to do in order to become | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| has always existed within you. Your mind and outer will have confused and complicated your life, so | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| its rays. But these rays are only the outer messengers, bringing life forth gradually. Some time in | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| as long as it is still on the outer border it is only temporarily animated by the | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| Be blessed, my beloved ones. 227. CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE Greetings | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| material level of manifestation. Let us take the outer growth of a human being. You can see | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Actually, the chemical components totally change in the outer structure. Again, although this process is not noticeable | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| inner reality whose aim it is to transform outer reality according to its own perfection, limitless beauty | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| When, however, the movement is hindered as the outer ego-consciousness resists the process, makes itself insensitive to | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| aware of the inner reality and see the outer reality for exactly what it is: merely a | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| of consciousness, which is focused only on the outer manifestation, is in a state of separateness. It | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| This had to happen first only on the outer levels, for full autonomy and selfhood on all | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| When you come into your ordinary surroundings, your outer life, you designate that as the real life | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| everything is turned upside down. There, only the outer, most superficial manifestations are recognized and dealt with | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| more real life within you that creates the outer circumstances. You thus approach reality and, at times | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| you connect with this reality, the superficial, illusory outer appearance will become much easier for you to | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| require. This means labor, courage, search. Obeying the outer rule prevents this. So what I have shown | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| that humanity has now sufficiently progressed so that outer rules are no longer necessary. Obviously this is | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| in which sooner or later, little by little, outer rules will become superfluous. For the inner God | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| spite, will you find the ultimate truth. All outer help can show you only how to go | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| the New Age points in this direction. The outer law is often parallel to the inner law | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| is often parallel to the inner law. Many outer laws are manifestations of divine law, but have | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| rights, there can be no question that the outer law is parallel to the inner law. But | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| inner level. At times you may find the outer law to be completely opposite to the inner | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| of God. A simple example on the crassest outer level of manifestation is the following: If you | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| that is, against God -- to follow the outer law would be going against divine law. It | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| up for the inner truth and defy the outer law. But people can lose themselves in a | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| inner confusion and can take refuge in the outer law, for that may be the easier way | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| to justify a lower-self trend to defy an outer law. Again, very close inspection of the real | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| morality that little by little wipes away the outer commandments, outer regulations and the outer written and | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| little by little wipes away the outer commandments, outer regulations and the outer written and unwritten laws | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| away the outer commandments, outer regulations and the outer written and unwritten laws. Laws are still necessary | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| degree you allow God to awaken in you, outer laws will disappear. The laws of morality will | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| you seek the right directive merely with the outer mind you will tend to lean on rules | 228 BALANCE |
| if they are, if they come from the outer level they are stilted. When you try to | 228 BALANCE |
| equal hours of rest and wakefulness. From an outer point of view balance is lacking when you | 228 BALANCE |
| is in many cases. My point is that outer measurements do not necessarily express the inner measure | 228 BALANCE |
| all rhythm, all balance, all measurements to the outer mind. This often becomes meaningless, stilted and self-defeating | 228 BALANCE |
| breaks the real balance. The measurements of the outer mind are contrary to the true proportions. But | 228 BALANCE |
| vibrant intelligence and wisdom that truly surpasses the outer mind, you experience the incredible beauty of being | 228 BALANCE |
| make themselves open to it, who make their outer being compatible with it through an attitude of | 228 BALANCE |
| sustain you when things go wrong on your outer level of existence, when everything in you rebels | 228 BALANCE |
| affords you the opportunity to give up the outer battle, the outer insistence, and to go into | 228 BALANCE |
| opportunity to give up the outer battle, the outer insistence, and to go into an inner order | 228 BALANCE |
| lot of vanity and pride related to my outer will that forces me from the one extreme | 228 BALANCE |
| state? ANSWER: The change occurs gradually on the outer level and may not be immediately sensed by | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| flow. Thus, you no longer need the old outer structure in which what is right for you | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| child is very capable of understanding that the outer discipline is a structure that is waiting in | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| come -- not in your lifetime -- when outer laws will no longer exist, when human beings | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| and fear motivate the conscious mind of the outer personality, they both seek out and distort the | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| the consequences. That sense of omnipotence of the outer personality is an insistence on magical solutions that | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| its natural course. So, by abandoning temporarily the outer theory of immortality and accepting your fear of | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| different truths apply to different levels. On the outer level of your personality you are indeed not | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| inner universe and then bringing them into the outer universe. Contraction means gathering the riches of the | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| universe. Contraction means gathering the riches of the outer universe and then bringing them into the inner | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| different kinds of riches and states than the outer. The inner universe offers the material that has | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| to be utilized and brought out into the outer universe so that the outer universe can be | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| out into the outer universe so that the outer universe can be given form. The outer universe | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| the outer universe can be given form. The outer universe only repeats what exists in the inner | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| in an as yet undifferentiated form. Then the outer universe recreates itself, duplicates the inner forces and | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| to nourish the inner. Thus the inner and outer universe nourish each other, back and forth. As | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| keeping with the topic of this lecture. The outer physical manifestation is weak and contracted. The inner | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| for which you may then again blame the outer world and those who, at least in some | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| does not always take the form of visible outer manifestation. It also exists in more subtle ways | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| emerge from within you. It is only the outer, separated, obsolete part of the self that still | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| on the inner level of being. On the outer level of manifestation, it takes some time before | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| steps, effort and groping may be necessary before outer consciousness follows suit and brings into fruition what | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| will eventually benefit all other light centers. The outer mind is sluggish at times and does not | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| levels, within the personality, but also on the outer levels, so that eventually nations, religions, and all | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| are practically moving out now, diversity existed on outer levels, while uniformity and conformity often existed within | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| unity and unification brings a much different picture. Outer diversity or differences will disappear, for they lose | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| differences will disappear, for they lose their importance. Outer belief systems will no longer be confused with | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| the task of humanity to focus on the outer awareness and the will level, to strengthen and | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| prerequisite for what was to come later. The outer levels of personality had to first attain strength | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| this age. And as you experience in your outer world, in symbolic reflections, how the lower self | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| the long run, without this inner work, the outer work will dry up. Many difficulties cannot be | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| flow richly from your innermost being into the outer world and from the outer world around you | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| being into the outer world and from the outer world around you back into your innermost being | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| human consciousness was still very much on an outer level. Everything had to be outward. Now, there | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| the world that is the reality into the outer realms and so to infuse the light of | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| guilt-producing, no matter what the mores of your outer society may be. The guilt is then an | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| people believe that the particular orientation of the outer path creates this growing self-hate. Of course it | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| in your inner condition, some also manifesting as outer creations. Obviously, these infringements and restrictions are not | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| does not widen by rebelling against the necessary outer boundaries, and against what appear to be restrictions | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| come a time when you will find that outer infringements of your freedom diminish steadily. When you | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| your freedom and integrity and then blame the outer world for the result. You conceal the true | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| involuntarily, in an almost unbidden reaction on an outer level, against this state. In this back-and-forth struggle | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| all have in common, no matter how the outer manifestation may vary. This is why any given | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| always move outwardly. But even at periods of outer rest and quietude, the movement is being felt | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| organism. By the same token, you may have outer movement and inner deadness, or relative deadness. Movement | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |