| also encourage some new friends to enter this path. This lecture is primarily destined to reach inner | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| a very specific perspective. When you pursue this path, you discover certain areas in yourself that you | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| your inner freedom. This important mark on the path is often bypassed, and then you gradually forget | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| first stage on this particular road within the path is to become aware of what you have | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| to think about this specific part of the path. Are you aware of what you are ashamed | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| is why it is so important on this path to question everything you accept or reject and | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| though. Occasionally, someone who has been on the path a shorter period may discover certain aspects another | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| of this split. Doing the work on this path, however, you will discover little by little your | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| only by those who work intensely on a path of self- confrontation. It goes beyond isolated scraps | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| is not active and rather advanced on a path of self- discovery. But even those who are | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| you, my friends, who are active on this path will in the coming working season gain at | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| God bless all of you. Blessed be this path of self-realization and self-unfoldment. All of you who | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| difficult to observe, unless one is on a path of self-exploration. You, my friends, are becoming aware | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| such as you, my friends, who pursue a path of increasing self-awareness, raise their level of consciousness | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| give in to apathy and stagnation. On this path, you often detect how your emotional life either | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| Consequently, it is essential that everyone on the path investigate his or her primitive, heretofore untouched feelings | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| seems forbidden love. In your work on this path, it has become increasingly obvious that you relate | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| and productive. On your further steps on the path, my friends, consider this lecture together with the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| bless every one of you. Blessed be your path, your development, your continuous growth as individuals. Most | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| Most of my friends who have pursued this path for some time, and who have truly been | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| It is, again, a step toward individuation. This path is the best demonstration of the law of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the different aspects of an individual. On this path, you have discovered how you must lack inner | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| a state of crisis. As everyone on the path experiences periods of darkness before the dawn, so | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| are in this group, diligently working on this path, have you not experienced time and again how | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| The more each one of you pursues this path in the manner you are doing, being forever | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| friends who are already deeply involved in this path of self-confrontation I say: may your progress continue | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| you who have not yet stepped onto this path in a more direct way find the realization | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| of it. Some of my friends on the path have reached the point where they recognize that | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| that before you started to progress on this path, your pseudo-solutions, your idealized self-image, your defense mechanisms | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| destined for those of you who follow this path of intensive self-development, and are meant to affect | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| you which are not accessible unless such a path is taken. Hence, many of my friends feel | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| who do the deep inner work on their path can sooner or later make use of these | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| at these layers as they come up. No path of self-realization can exist without bringing forth one's | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| attitude to the opposite sex. Many a different path is taken when a person wants to skirt | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| or see. For example, my friends on the path experience again and again that whenever a real | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| most actively engaged in the work of this path and have made most remarkable progress are as | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| through doing the inner work of such a path as this. Be in peace, be in God | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| dualities. There are many who ardently pursue a path of self-exploration yet shy away from certain facets | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| unknown will no longer pose a threat. The path of self-discovery embodies this struggle, my friends. The | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| of escape, even within the framework of this path, are too varied to enumerate. Only by your | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| are you finding yourself on such a laborious path of self-realization only to become capable of giving | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| in it. So we must strive on this path to detect as much as possible not only | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| dozen foreign earth languages. The work of this path is manifold. We have described it in various | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| in several ways. Among many other things, this path is also the learning of the language of | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| must extend in width and depth on the path, instead of diminishing. If you progress in the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| strange is the most healing procedure on the path of liberation. When your yes-current observes the no-current | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| be learned in the early stages of this path. You are erroneously convinced that to understand what | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| behind the lack of willpower needed on your path is the very no-current creating the problem you | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| truthfully to answer them, your work on the path will be most dynamic and your progress will | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| reactions, contacts, attitudes, in the work on the path itself. Only then will it be possible to | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| overviews always indicate a new phase on the path, and their timing often coincides with the end | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| such a change is truly desirable. Therefore, the path can roughly be divided into two major phases | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| life. Some of you, my friends on the path, have recently discovered a hidden No you could | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| formulating a new outlook and attitude. On this path, you have learned to review your life in | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| conviction in connection with your work on the path should be examined. Are you truly open to | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| all come to the full realization that this path brings you to true liberation. Nothing stands in | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| seriousness of your problems when you entered this path, accounts for the fact. I always try to | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| absent. Blessed are your further efforts on this path, now and in the times to come. This | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| was one of the most crucial on your path, for most of my friends individually, and for | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| and preparation for future work on your inner path of liberation. In tonight's lecture I should like | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| onto misconceptions. Liberation as a result of this path, the shedding of shackles which keep you enchained | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| so ferociously defend, then a breakthrough on this path, a coming into your own, would never be | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| is the integration we speak of on this path. If God is looked for as a substitute | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| in joy. At the same time, on a path such as this one is taught hat God | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| not in contradiction to the aim of this path which reiterates the necessity to give up the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| now look back on the work of this path, on the lectures and on your development, you | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| way, is the program to follow on the path now. Once again, merely hearing the words will | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| yourself -- and this is always how the path must start -- as you find your real | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| always, will indicate the phase into which the path is going to enter during the coming working | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| degree that one lacks self-awareness. On any real path of development, regardless of the approach, the areas | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| next phase. Many of my friends on the path will recognize that our work in the past | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| a combination, for my friends here on the path. It is very important that all of you | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| automatism caused by specific misconceptions. When the personal path is taken this way, leading you deep inside | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| spiral movement experienced in other phases of the path happens here too. Understanding brings a relief from | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| of my friends who are already on this path -- to awareness, by degrees; to understanding, by | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| have made their first struggling attempts on this path to comprehend the principle or soul movement which | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| destiny of all created beings. Only on a path leading from blind reflexes to knowingness can one | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| evolution to which this, or any other truthful path must bring the individual, and that is: floating | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| your own confusion, the smoother will be your path in going through these four stages. In the | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| One of the most constructive tools on this path that none of you can afford to neglect | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| labyrinthine byways to the freedom and liberation this path promises. Some of my friends have occasionally gained | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| immediate freedom you are to discover on a path such as this is the realization of your | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| who have already experienced considerable insights on this path still do not recognize how often you feel | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| one tired. If you look at your individual path from this point of view and question your | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| Effortless effort should become the movement of this path itself. Now, are there any questions? QUESTION: My | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| hidden atmosphere of either/or. Extended progress on your path has brought you face to face with the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| is all about. And this is what our path here is all about: the discovery that fear | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| for all of you who work on this path to find where you fear the negative and | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| make a great deal of difference on your path. It can be a solution to many problems | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| help all of you to progress on this path, to find missing clues and enlightenment wherever you | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| and thereby living in the now. This whole path -- with all its methods and various approaches | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| humanity, even those who are already on a path of self-realization. For each one of you has | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| elaborate structure. When you enter upon such a path -- and often when you have already been | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| two activities follow each other consecutively on this path - - first expressing, then impressing. Up to | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| necessary. At the very beginning of such a path the personality is still filled with misconceptions and | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| expressing must prevail. As you advance on the path and make progress, the inner vessel brings forth | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| By honoring the individual rhythm of your personal path, you assume self-responsibility instead of trying to fit | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| material and help given to you on this path -- only serve as you freely take one | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| from the dynamic living that results from this path. Find this interaction, my friends. Once you are | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| in the first place. Only through such a path as I show you can this goal be | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| friends, whenever you are really stuck on this path -- when you are in great anxiety, in | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| way. Wherever you have made progress on this path, you have found it to be so. You | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| of you who work so hard on your path of self-realization, of coming into your own. May | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| each and every one of you finds your path easier and reaches the goal with less struggle | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| state of consciousness. In your work on this path you learn through your meditations, for instance, to | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| every one of you who is on this path has to come to terms with and has | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| that sets you free. Some who follow this path do not see that they struggle against acknowledging | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| foreign matter. At the beginning of such a path, this foreign body seems to be all there | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| even while you are actually on such a path. To counteract the danger of continual evasion and | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| said many times before, even on such a path as this whose aim is to attain selfhood | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| escape you used before going on such a path. But as long you do not give up | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| one of you, in the continuation of your path. May you feel, every one of you, the | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| who have not begun actual work on this path must have grown inwardly, for otherwise you would | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| view: All of you who are on this path have found certain hurts and pains you endured | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| you have reached a certain stage on your path of development, you discover within yourself a power | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| center is the goal not only of this path but, on an unconscious level, of every living | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| for its resistance. As you progress on your path, you will observe this imbalance of control within | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| others. All individuals who find themselves on a path such as this must sooner or later see | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| to life. Doing the work on such a path as this, many of my friends have encountered | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| only by following through the steps on your path. Many of you, my friends, are quite close | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| unless you have made some progress on a path leading deep into yourself. Then you will know | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| manifestation. Most of you, my friends on this path, have occasionally understood your lives and yourselves as | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| over. All of you who are on a path of self-realization have, at least occasionally, experienced this | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| friends have crossed a major threshold on their path in the discovery and awareness of where they | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| Even some friends who have been on this path for a long time may as yet be | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| wishes the negative result. The work on this path continues with becoming aware of deliberate negative desires | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| consciousness. Again, this can be ascertained on your path. When you come to a certain degree of | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| unobserved. Here, my friends, the continuation of the path becomes clearer and more concisely defined. You have | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| in a new light, from different angles. This path is not supposed to be taken as a | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| only secondarily. The true meaning of such a path is finding within the self everything necessary for | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| the fulfillment of one's personal destiny. If this path is seen from this point of view, much | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| This, my friends, is the work of this path, briefly reformulated. If you can conceive of the | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| will have fulfilled the main premise of this path. Doing so affords you the opportunity to return | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| universal flow. To some of you on this path it comes earlier -- to some degree only | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| come it must. When I say on this path, I mean much more than this particular work | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| Many of my friends have on their personal path now reached, or are about to reach, awareness | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| established the healthy patterns through working on a path such as this. Whatever the case may be | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| negative magnetic fields. This, of course, is your path, but I would now like you to do | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| The particular process is the work of this path which I have given and continue to give | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| understand. Deep self-recognition is a long and consistent path requiring the greatest courage of truthfulness with oneself | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| a wider truth than the egotistic one, your path becomes so much easier than the struggle that | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| and it will help you in your personal path. When you apply this to your everyday life | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| away from. Be blessed, continue on your wonderful path, which will bring you to the realization that | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| People who believe this misconception follow an erroneous path: they hope to attain one of the illusory | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| is the work you are doing on this path. It is entirely erroneous to assume that unitive | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| words, my friends. Any of you on this path of self-realization who have taken some steps toward | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| rather easily in the framework of what this path has to offer you -- all its tools | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| two entirely different things. The work on this path is destined to help you accomplish the awakening | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| self you have not consciously experienced before. This path gives you the means to actually bring this | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| stream is recognized and responded to. Therefore, any path leading to genuine self-realization must be intensely personal | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |