| Outlooks....................8 | |
| take a little time to adjust to new outlooks. Do not bar your vision by too hasty | 21 THE FALL |
| For such a profound penetration, your personal attitudes, outlooks and concepts must be questioned, stated and restated | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| sections -- geographically and ideologically -- with different outlooks and attitudes. They can be likened to the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| wrong conclusions, self- centered and infantile pursuits, limited outlooks, lack of concern, subjectivity and unfairness due to | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| because the absurdity of conscious misconceptions and unrealistic outlooks is more easily detectable and can therefore be | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| of utmost importance to detect such hidden erroneous outlooks. It is often forgotten that the unconscious not | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| will fill you with new, stimulating, challenging thoughts, outlooks and ideas. It will lead you into feelings | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| activate and fill you with truth, with constructive outlooks and energies, the more perfect the manifestations of | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| Outpicturing................11 | |
| of perception, while the spirit world is the outpicturing of the spirit's ideas, attitudes, thoughts, and mentality | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| your wars come from? They are only an outpicturing of spiritual war. Of course, a spiritual war | 22 SALVATION |
| be peace. It is impossible. War is an outpicturing of what goes on in so many individual | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| its physical manifestation. The physical body is an outpicturing of the soul currents, and this outpicturing can | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| an outpicturing of the soul currents, and this outpicturing can occur in many ways. QUESTION: Is it | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| is doing and what one is, is always outpicturing, and that creates the sphere. ANSWER: Each person | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| speaking -- in the sphere that is the outpicturing of those attitudes and trends. And therefore the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| sphere is nothing but a symbolic representation, an outpicturing, of the self-division in all human beings. The | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| link by using the event as a symbolic outpicturing of an aspect of your inner landscape. This | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| and complex is often nothing but the necessary outpicturing of doubts, fears, negativities, negation and denial, in | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| it by wishful thinking. Your distrust is an outpicturing of your inner lack of trust that there | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Outraged....................3 | |
| do not obey this demand, the person is outraged. The fury and self-contempt are so strong that | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| an unfair price, and you are full of outraged rebellion and resentment, for which you often manage | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| and realistic and no longer a feeling of outraged insult. At times, my friends, you still go | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Outreaching.................4 | |
| to feeling all the warm, good, outgoing, and outreaching feelings. The same is true about your creativity | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| development proceeds naturally, as I said before, the outreaching movement induces the entity to direct the pleasure | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| against. The natural feelings are always life- affirming, outreaching, joyous and so is life's essence, unhampered by | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| child can see this natural quality of joyful outreaching and gusto. Only when pain, misconception and misinterpretation | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| Outstanding.................13 | |
| simultaneously, the Holy Scriptures are such a magnificent, outstanding and unique document. Meaning is to be found | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| happiness, love, and security by reaching for some outstanding success in a profession whereby they might gain | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| perhaps as the ego's vain desire to be outstanding, to be admired, to be an authority. The | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| other qualities as well, they have one basic, outstanding quality that strengthens and furnishes all other divine | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| a very courageous person. It may be your outstanding quality, one that you manifest in many realms | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to be perfect in order to be better, outstanding, more admirable than other people? If you are | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| some traits in the recreator's parent. The most outstanding would be a similar kind of immaturity and | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| may prove to be. One of the most outstanding features of such a procedure will be that | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| well as guilt and shame, are the most outstanding indications that your idealized self is at work | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| there will be no doubt. One of its outstanding characteristics is absolute certainty. When I say absolute | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| be quite sure that many answers are still outstanding and that you need to find them. You | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| significant way. Many of my friends have made outstanding progress, some of you perhaps much more than | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| understand a little better some of the most outstanding attributes of consciousness. Consciousness is not only the | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| Outward.....................47 | |
| constantly allow themselves to be impressed by the outward aspects of life on earth lose this inner | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| the relevant inner conclusions and to make the outward decisions that follow from them. It is a | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| course, possible to exert some control over their outward manifestations, in crises and conflicts, but this is | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| leaves no room for doubt, that overshadows any outward, material proof. And you can experience that. Therefore | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| identify the false emotional currents underlying your correct outward actions. You will know that more spiritual work | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| will transform themselves and be in line with outward actions and what you recognize as being right | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| can always reappear under certain conditions. The right outward action in such a case actually becomes a | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| eliminates all divine aspects that could be spread outward from your own soul, as well as from | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| arrogance toward others; perhaps not always in their outward behavior, but in their inner attitude. Try in | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| quite new, although you are aware of its outward existence. But it is necessary to approach this | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| conclusion. A conscious, willful law- violation will draw outward effects, that which you call karmic results. An | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| will see that you are not what your outward actions pretend. You fear that your pride and | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| -- which may be so contrary to your outward ones -- and come to know them fully | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| sense. Healthy growth occurs in three distinct stages: outward movement -- search for the other, putting the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| assimilating all that has been absorbed by the outward movement and applying it properly to the self | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| really are, in part at least. Without going outward, no material would be given to you to | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| In woman, the female side is mostly turned outward on the disc, so that physical birth manifests | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| of an inner experience, and not by any outward acceptance of a doctrine or a belief. And | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hardship. A further complication is that often the outward appearance does not correspond to the inner situation | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| picture of cosmic evolution that starts with an outward movement and ends in a return to perfection | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| how you really and truly react. Perhaps your outward reaction is not that different from your inner | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| give you strength and freedom, even if the outward feeling appears to be negative, while an apparently | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| induces the entity to direct the pleasure drive outward from the self to the immediate family environment | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| feel that I have the no-current inward and outward; everything is No. Can you help me understand | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| mind, to move in a certain direction -- outward or inward. These are its functions. But it | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the self, where they really are. Displacing them outward brings a total distortion of reality. One then | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| in you. What feeling is it? For nothing outward can in itself be so frightening -- only | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| in self-revulsion and turn all their destructive energy outward against those who help them find their way | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| timelessness and agelessness of the true life. Another outward manifestation is abundance. Since real spiritual life is | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| these slumbering potentials, to awaken and spread them outward, so that they grow from within you into | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| But as long as you project your darkness outward, in order not to face your own shadows | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| too self-annihilating. And the more you project it outward, the more you lose your grip on truth | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| responsibility for it and no longer projecting it outward. You are losing your self-deception. Yet you find | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| is yet to come. The increasing inward and outward abundance you experience as a result of your | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| reaching into new dimensions from within, of moving outward and embracing more of reality -- that inner | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| no less than the former, being merely an outward projection of what emotions are held back with | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| that existed in previous ages was always projected outward, as you well know. Then, as a necessary | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| it. You now are ready to expand farther outward and deeper inward into the real universe and | 228 BALANCE |
| conciliation with the receptive principle, then growing, active outward movement -- becoming -- would not be feared | 228 BALANCE |
| of faith in yourself, you always project it outward in a cynical and negative attitude toward the | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| It is an active force that propels itself outward. On the universal level it is the force | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| reach in and bring out, only to move outward again. This is the ever-present pulsation of life | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| on an outer level. Everything had to be outward. Now, there was a man of such purity | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| cruelly. In hiding this tendency you project it outward, so that you assume all rules and laws | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| proceed, as all cellular growth does, from inside outward. You start with yourself; later, when sufficient self-rulership | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| phase that most significantly coincides with many an outward change in your lives. This topic is the | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| the divine plan: to push the spirit forward, outward, gradually filling the void. As I have mentioned | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |