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 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

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