| occur at various high points on the upward path. At every few hundred incarnations or so there | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| forcing current, I want. This work is a path within the path. Once you have the distinct | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| want. This work is a path within the path. Once you have the distinct awareness and feel | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| others who are already well launched on this path; they can do much to prepare themselves for | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| psychological law. The more you work on the path of self-finding, the more you are bound to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| finding this to be true than through the path of self-searching, self-understanding and self-analysis. Any one of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of my friends who really work on this path have experienced this to be true. Perhaps you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| though they themselves did not pursue such a path. The mere fact of your own inner growth | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| With the understanding that you gain on this path, you are bound to see that all evil | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one does this kind of work on the path. With this work of self-finding, the sayings will | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| through them renewed strength to continue on this path of self-finding. How fortunate you are! For, the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is in your hands -- in pursuing this path of finding that within you which blocks your | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| QUESTION: After a year of working on the path, both the person I work with and myself | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your daily review, in your work on this path. Watch your emotional reactions, analyze them, try to | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| even by my friends who work on this path. If you keep in mind that any negative | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| brings more strength. QUESTION: We are on this path because we want to develop ourselves, whether or | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the one direction that is all-encompassing: this path, this work. Be blessed. Be in peace. Be | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| distorted, and communication cannot take place. Thus the path to ultimate union is blocked until the harmonious | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| But now, as you continually progress on your path of self search, you have become much more | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| is through the work you do on this path, facing and examining your feelings and reactions, and | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| dearest friends. Blessed is this hour. On this path you are going through various phases. Broadly speaking | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you have discovered through the work on this path is a larger conflict always related to your | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| will come only as you proceed on this path, through all the steps I lead you. This | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| learn this anyway in your work on the path. But you also have to cultivate patience as | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| this work. You all began working on this path with the conviction that so many mishaps in | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| all, the goal of your self-search on this path. QUESTION: I would like to ask you about | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| last lecture, the atheist, too, goes off the path and meets death in the wrong way, just | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| are weakened by this work. Proceed on this path of happiness. Gain more and more strength, and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| as death. All of you who follow this path have come across similar emotional reactions. Here is | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| are compulsive. There comes a time on this path when one clearly sees that. At this point | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| form within each individual who works on this path, for there are many variations possible. For example | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and for all. Without your going through this path, it will persist in your soul and damage | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| core, has to be experienced. Life and this path will help you if you so decide. Help | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| or self-caused provocation. Only extensive work on this path will eventually bring you to the point where | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Lecture 84 87. THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Greetings, my dearest friends. God | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will find out more and more on this path. You can already see clearly, as a consequence | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| exist. After all, you who are on this path now know how many contradictory attitudes exist in | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It applies also to the work on the Path. There are many closing circles. Tonight I mentioned | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the work you are now doing on the path. These psychological layers exist as various substances of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of it. Each resolution and victory on the path makes you less alienated from yourself. What does | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by now, because of your work on this path, that one of your great struggles is overcoming | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| indeed it will. When more people follow a path of self-recognition, growing and developing their own resources | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to be accomplished. You who are on this path ought to begin to understand this. If you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| positive. Those of you who now follow this path and do what is so necessary will first | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| constructive way, such as you learn on this path, a so-called temper tantrum takes place and the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| As you grow in the way of this path, little by little the negative emotions will disappear | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| So the first thing to learn on this path now is the ability to accept not only | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| bad and all wrong. The work on this path now calls for awareness of what you really | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| be to become aware of your needs. Your path will help you to become aware of that | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| person. Even people who are not on a path of self- development and growth would know this | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| It has to do with improvement on the path. Does the improvement occur automatically through self-recognition, or | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you think you cannot or should not. This path in itself must eventually give you a very | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you advance in your personal work on this path, the sooner this will happen. And I am | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| what you are all doing now on the path is bound to bring about an inner change | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and crisis at this particular stage of their path and development. It is no coincidence that this | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| is one of the most important on the path. It holds true for everyone, in some way | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| I realize that at this point on my path I use my defense mechanism and am aware | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| let us assume such a person follows a path of this sort. He will first become conscious | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| This is best done by working on the path I advocate and along which I steadily lead | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| blessed, each one of you. Rejoice on this path to freedom. Do not let yourself be discouraged | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| find yourself in a seeming impasse, where the path is thorny and involved and it takes all | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| this hour. The more you work on this path and comprehend the nature of this work, the | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| destructive actions of a crass nature. On this path you also learn to discriminate between what is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| which you increasingly learn to do on this path, you will detect the kind of feeling that | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| we say people who have been on this path for some time, by doing this work, by | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| him; be in peace; and may your further path make you realize that his teachings, as well | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| for those who are on any kind of path of attempting to find the self, but for | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| or not they themselves work on such a path. This follows the law of affinity -- the | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| requires a certain amount of progress on this path before you can proceed organically to this stage | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| you actively change something in you. Basically this path can be divided into two major phases. The | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| within you. If you work properly on this path, you constantly thaw out the substance in your | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| to a person who just begins such a path. Even after you have already progressed considerably in | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| your work, your perseverance, your strivings on this path. May more and more people find the joy | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| illusion. The work you are doing on the path -- provided you are truly willing -- must | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| you want so badly. Every step on the path of development requires different emphasis and different subjects | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| and universal stage to go through on this path. Now, in your case, your very defense mechanism | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| something now? ANSWER: There are phases on this path when the best homework is to go through | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| ideal picture. Then, when one works on the path, one no longer knows what is this ideal | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| get started on this particular segment of your path, you will often find that you become aware | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| even happens to you who work on this path. The fear must exist in a double way | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| word about an individual making progress along this path by just doing the work that is his | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| in their own way they follow such a path, even though it may appear different in method | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| is this hour. Each step forward on this path brings you closer to a powerful eternal current | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| many benefits. My advice to you on this path is that whenever you find yourself engaged in | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| truth in yourself. At certain stages on this path, however, after a certain amount of truth about | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| through your inner resistance step by step. Your path will always lead exactly to where you resist | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| Most of my friends who work on this path approach a certain area of their soul problems | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| profound understanding. Intellectually, you all know that this path is not a fairy tale in which you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| even conscious of when you first began this path. The new consciousness may emerge only after a | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| of your needs. The primary result on this path is the understanding of your own causes and | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| own. This persists unless you are on a path such as this and begin to see the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| not yet developed far enough to choose a path of self-finding. Everyone you come into contact with | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| bless each one of you. Blessed is your path. Blessed are your efforts. We have discussed your | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| poisons which damage the physical system. On this path, is it possible to heal such damage? ANSWER | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| it. Unfortunately, only too often sloth takes the path of least resistance as long as circumstances are | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| over- involvement. From a certain point on the path, you may find yourself on a plateau where | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Be blessed, each one of you, on your path, in your work, in your activities, in your | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| loving and receiving, you, who are on this path, know what to do about it. You look | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you proceed in your private work on this path, you will gain a still deeper understanding; from | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| can come only by being yourself. Through a path such as this, you will come to experience | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| that it was easier to work on this path here on earth than in the spirit world | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| and will, in your arduous work on this path at all? The answer is that by using | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the way. Haven't most of you on this path experienced this phenomenon already? Whenever you come across | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of my friends who have worked on this Path of self-recognition. For this is, indeed, something to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| another. Only after he proceeds on such a Path of self-knowledge, does this hidden unconscious stage come | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| your emanations. Each individual going through such a path of self-finding, is bound to contribute to this | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| this a fault? Does the light on the path make us blind to the wrongs in the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| not be blind because you are on a path of self-finding. You cannot be. Condoning and blindness | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| feel discouraged. Your question is: Where does this path get me when I am as unhappy and | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| only after you have started to pursue this path of self-knowledge. Psychiatrists often diagnose people according to | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| you in truth. Your continuous work along this path in private sessions in addition to the group | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| understanding, as well as some experience on this path, to recognize that one wrong does not eliminate | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| you to the inner source. Apart from this path of self-confrontation, is there an additional way to | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| gained about yourself through your work on this path and apply it to your relationship with others | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| to life. Without love nothing counts. On our path together we have done more than merely taught | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| as you all know, it is a laborious path to establish this fundamental attitude so that it | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| the light and the strength. Rejoice on this path. There is nothing more meaningful. There is nothing | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| love are with you tonight, and on this path all the way. I welcome also the new | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| dissolved by this work. My friends on this path have done very intensive work and have reached | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| might term the second major phase on our path together. Accepting and forgiving means to recognize and | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| in God and hope tie in with this path of self-purification? ANSWER: Do you see any contradiction | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| ANSWER: Do you see any contradiction between our path and faith in God and hope? QUESTION: Well | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| not talking about the reality of God this path is leading you away from divinity, then there | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| fundamental confusion -- not so much about this path as such, but rather about the inner self | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| incompatible, nor just something remotely connected with this path of self-search. They are as integral a part | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| giving renewed impetus to your work on the path. Let me finish this topic by briefly describing | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the increased awareness that is cultivated on a path such as this that will finally make you | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| of you. Blessings for your work on this path. Every living organism experiences visible changes, which represent | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| that it is possible to be on a path of self-development on the whole and nevertheless miss | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| because you may be too new on this path, I say: it can be yours if you | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| my friends who work so diligently on this path have, at least occasionally, experienced the special peace | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| the manner you learn to do on this path. Then you no longer deal with concepts which | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| just mentioned. Even those who already pursue this path are not always able to really understand the | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| sooner or later help bring you to this path of liberation. A seed may be sown that | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| distortion we have been concerned with on this path, trying forcefully and deliberately to eliminate it will | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| necessary to have made some progress on this path before this approach becomes meaningful and liberating. Otherwise | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| All my friends who are truly on the path have observed the spiral movement it pursues, coming | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| who have not, as yet, ventured onto this path, think about your anxieties and your insecurities and | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| realizing it. Part of the work on the path is finding the unpleasant, faulty aspects of yourself | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| who have really and truly worked on this path have overcome the inherent resistance to face themselves | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| in this struggle, your overall view of your path may be befogged. It is difficult to evaluate | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| to restate certain facets and goals of this path of self-realization. When you live unto the day | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| actually moving in the right direction on this path which leads you into the inner world of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Keep in mind that the goal of this path is finding the center of your being which | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| has been said by some who follow this path that certain facets of the work of self- | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| solve all problems along the way. On this path, we are no more concerned with creeds, dogmas | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| is a hindrance to self-unfoldment. But on this path, and with this particular guidance, we are concerned | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| all hope to make further progress on this path. Question yourself, first, not as to the actual | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| help you advance a step forward on your path. Perhaps it may also encourage some new friends | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |