| Peaceful....................37 | |
| remains, inside there will be a deep and peaceful contentment, security, and a sense of fulfillment. If | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the Pope for unification under Christ as a peaceful step toward that? ANSWER: Of course. Regardless of | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| your life and you experienced a deep and peaceful certainty, at that moment you must have been | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| persistence of this aspect, you become calm and peaceful, but certainly not by slaying it, which is | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of running from it, even that reality is peaceful -- it is God. Only that can be | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| order for your soul to become healthy and peaceful, so that you can like, respect, and be | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| spark of aliveness, as dynamic as it is peaceful, after having recognized in all its depth a | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| of my words. Also, you may use the peaceful experience as a yardstick. Whenever a self-confrontation does | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| reality of the now, will then yield adventure, peaceful, harmonious excitement, worthwhile vital living. But this cannot | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| any particular situation. This is a profoundly elevating, peaceful and joyful experience, but it requires the labor | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| and enter into your private meditation, all alone, peaceful and relaxed. Such meditation might be somewhat like | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| or uneasy feelings; rather, it gives you the peaceful knowledge that all is well, increasing your feeling | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| which prevent human beings from the blissful, enlivening, peaceful experience of the life force, apart from one's | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| organism will be filled with this stimulating and peaceful experience. You will taste real security, looking forward | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| remove yourself from all that is good and peaceful, and the heavier the price you inevitably pay | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| in life. Growth also brings with it a peaceful joyousness that makes every moment vibrant, interesting, and | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| with the inner real self, activity can be peaceful and passivity can be regenerating. When the real | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| a chore, a peace-robbing and difficult endeavor; being peaceful becomes lifeless and finally ends in fright. False | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| it is exhilarating and, at the same time, peaceful. Individual consciousness opposes this force, however, out of | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| effortless yet vibrating with power, poised and calm, peaceful and dynamic. This state, when attempting to describe | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| It is totally safe. Everything feels home and peaceful and so intensely pleasurable that it is almost | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| time, dynamic, stimulating, exciting, vibrantly alive, and yet peaceful. There is no longer any split from separating | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| first, since words are so limited. In the peaceful state of self-realization all intensity vanishes. This statement | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| Anything you intensely avoid you must fear. The peaceful, secure state I mentioned -- the only state | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| and attitudes, those that do not leave you peaceful, happy and alive, and try to see how | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| divided way. Only then can the soul be peaceful. Only then can soul movements be relaxed and | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| and stimulating new ventures exist in the most peaceful and secure state. No words can remotely do | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| pain dissolves into its original nature, the blissful, peaceful vibrancy of the river of life that flows | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| -- thus it destroys peace. Real pain is peaceful because you assume full self-responsibility without self-manipulation. Neither | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| of outer problems will become less frequent, and peaceful, joyous, creative living will become the norm. Right | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| loving or hateful, angry or benign, fearful or peaceful, their energy must create according to their nature | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| you keep this up, to create a faultlessly peaceful and happy life. Being in the human shell | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| and energetic system will become, the more joyful, peaceful, secure and meaningful your life will be -- | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| will not impair the awareness of a joyous, peaceful, exciting, blissful universe in which you lie and | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| what is now, but in full commitment, in peaceful nowness in which you give your fullest to | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| and to your surroundings. The joyous excitement, the peaceful fascination with living and with all that is | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| live a much more fruitful, creative, joyful and peaceful life. Much harassment and restlessness will fall off | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Peacefully..................3 | |
| person is aware of this wish, the more peacefully and harmoniously the soul currents will flow. People | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| have more of a chance to be resolved peacefully and constructively for both sides. For anyone who | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| love and healthy aggression are meant to live peacefully side by side. Due to this conflict tearing | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Peacefulness................3 | |
| vibrant feeling of being wholly alive, in stimulating peacefulness, fills you even while you still experience the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| does. In the split way of experiencing life, peacefulness excludes excitement and brings boredom. Excitement excludes peace | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| for example, your silence is not goodness, gentleness, peacefulness. Far from it. In a sense it is | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Peak........................6 | |
| climbing and endurance. By contemplating this very distant peak you will get tired before you begin. You | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| on the dualistic plane, there is always a peak to be reached, and after that peak, a | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| a peak to be reached, and after that peak, a descent. And so all living things on | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| and carefree, without anxiety, for even before the peak is reached, the downside will be anticipated. On | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| a cyclic movement, with an upward curve, a peak, and a downward curve that perpetually recycles itself | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| in external expressions. When the abuse reaches its peak, the painful confusion of dualism arises and the | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Peculiarly..................4 | |
| experience your life as essentially unique, separate and peculiarly your own, unshakable and untransmittable. You are the | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| your resistances were based on some valid reasons peculiarly suited to your individuality, or whatever other explanations | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| adults have such misunderstandings. Again, this is not peculiarly so because you are children. Some of you | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| or not. Does it not strike you as peculiarly significant that this word, or the concept behind | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Peers.......................3 | |
| of their parents or with their siblings and peers. Adults suffer from them with much of their | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| those others may be, whether your parents, your peers, your associates, or life as a whole, then | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| underground. When you work with your helpers and peers and bring all your guilts, all your lower-self | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Pendulum....................18 | |
| This has the healing effect of bringing the pendulum into a more balanced position. Out of the | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| Let us review. Conscious processes can swing the pendulum from destructive creating to the original state of | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| being, everything else falls into place without the pendulum swinging from one extreme to the other. Inessential | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| In order to straighten out such distortions, the pendulum must always temporarily swing to the opposite extreme | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| The current trend, as a result of the pendulum having swung away from the opposite extreme, makes | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| these opposite distortions may be adopted until the pendulum swings to the other. Only a truly connected | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| creator and a God-carrier as it were. The pendulum must swing until love and self-responsibility are no | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| needing the group to emancipation and self-responsibility, the pendulum may first swing slightly too much in the | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| well know. Then, as a necessary preparation, the pendulum had to swing to emphasis on the self | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| balance. Although in the course of evolution the pendulum must swing from one extreme to its exact | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| in her that makes her weak. Temporarily, the pendulum has swung to the opposite extreme. The woman | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| and rejecting love. In the countermovement of the pendulum, man has left his positive aggression behind and | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| let himself expose in previous eras. All these pendulum swings have a purpose: to find the true | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| the painful confusion of dualism arises and the pendulum must swing in the opposite direction. So, within | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| until the margin of the swing of the pendulum becomes narrower and the point of fusion is | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| and purpose governs the way in which the pendulum swings. In order to take you out of | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| you are very sure of this will the pendulum swing into a new balance. The overemphasis on | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| of these changes. In all evolutionary movements the pendulum tends to swing from one extreme to another | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Penetrated..................24 | |
| of it, but your soul is not yet penetrated by it, maybe because something in you resists | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| that first, so that the whole personality is penetrated by understanding. When you do this first -- | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| themselves, what deviates from spiritual law, cannot be penetrated by us spirits. Each rigid opinion is such | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| positive thinking. With this attitude you will be penetrated by the profound conviction that God's world is | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| in their own way. The whole universe is penetrated by these forces and an infinite variety and | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| trance. If a human being's unconscious were so penetrated with such knowledge that merely going into a | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| separating you from your fellow-creatures before you have penetrated the wall that separates you from your innermost | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| that they are possible because something has not penetrated deeply enough and has to be found anew | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| for you. In the past, before you really penetrated the hidden regions and motivations of your soul | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| important enough to distort your life. We have penetrated into the world of duality, which is below | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| layers that cover up this well to be penetrated by your conscious understanding. When such profound communication | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| and deviations. Nevertheless, by now you have sufficiently penetrated into the depths of yourself to be aware | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the accessible reality if the latter is profoundly penetrated. For such a profound penetration, your personal attitudes | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| semi-conscious and the unconscious. The moment you have penetrated the layers of consciousness that cover your real | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| domination. Be blessed, body, soul and mind. Be penetrated, all of you, with the love and the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the teachings you have studied and which have penetrated the deeper regions of your unconscious. You study | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| Your preconceptions are illusions, and they can be penetrated only when you become both initiating and receptive | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| inner feeling of love that comes from being penetrated by the universal self. For reeducation, too, has | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| become anxious, afraid, threatened with having your defenses penetrated -- so you cannot afford to be relaxed | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| accept in the right way. Once you have penetrated all the layers, you will gradually have to | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| fills the void. Once the void has been penetrated by life, it can never again become the | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| the actual evolutionary movement, the earth is increasingly penetrated by the energies of higher consciousness, transforming and | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| of eternal reality, where it could not have penetrated before, because your fears -- or, more exactly | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| and the matter-body, so that they are being penetrated by the great light of eternal life, peace | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |