| bring into clearer focus a controversial subject among people interested in the spiritual life. People are uncertain | 38 IMAGES |
| subject among people interested in the spiritual life. People are uncertain and confused about how to react | 38 IMAGES |
| devotion, is already a great deal for some people. This attitude also conditions you for the patience | 38 IMAGES |
| are one! Think about that, my friends! Some people are so selfish that they do not want | 38 IMAGES |
| But in their present state of mind, such people feel very heroic if their guilt mingles with | 38 IMAGES |
| for at any given stage of your development. People seldom realize that they must pray to get | 38 IMAGES |
| but is willing, to ask one of the people of the inner group to work with you | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to make this a little clearer. Consider the people who have a strong sense of responsibility in | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| are irresponsible. The resulting puzzlement could lead such people to reject the new findings as wrong because | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| bring out of hiding. Or let us take people who are known to have a great deal | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| This realization may come as quite a shock. People then will say to themselves that this cannot | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| some facts of the life of the soul. People nowadays talk about depth psychology. Your self-search is | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| otherwise it will do more harm than good. People with this kind of image are very afraid | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| is embedded in an image -- and many people have it to some degree -- the only | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| your desires will differ from the desires of people who have no spiritual aims. Those people will | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| of people who have no spiritual aims. Those people will let their self-will push ahead. Controlled by | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| different slant, my friends. I know that many people are afraid that their prayers are selfish. But | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to control your life to some extent. Some people -- often those who are devoutly religious -- | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| circumstances that correspond to them; they draw the people and the circumstances to you. Therefore, it should | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| self-will and pride -- the personality builds defenses. People think that by adopting a certain attitude they | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| painful than if you relax. There are certain people who have such control over their minds and | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| concept are possible. In the first place, many people think that the concept of self-responsibility eliminates God | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| be changed. Here is a room full of people, and not one person is completely happy. There | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| purify only in this way? There are many people who do not know anything about images, yet | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| liberation from your chains. But how many, many, people seek this liberation by outer means such as | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the generalization. The reality is that not all people have the same shortcomings as the parents; not | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| it is even more so when applied to people and situations other than those in the early | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| forms, creating emotional magnetic fields that draw events, people, and experiences toward you. The more unconscious the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| you are not the only one. However, most people do not realize this and keep their images | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| It contains desires and conclusions that more primitive people act out in consciousness. QUESTION: What happens in | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| great disasters and accidents happen in which many people are killed, you can be sure that this | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| You will understand yourself and therefore also other people around you. The riddle will be solved. The | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| If you learn to see and love other people as they really are, you can do so | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| advice to you, my friends: Think of the people you love most in the world, and then | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| my friends. You will learn to evaluate the people you love, and your love will mature and | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| violate your personal standards and concepts. To judge people harshly, as though all human beings were on | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| wants to avoid. In the presence of other people you want to appear secure, on top of | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| If you were entirely unconcerned with what other people think, and rested secure in yourself, being true | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| personality traits and individual character. Often, no two people will react the same way to the same | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| sea. The emotion-type is equally onesided. Predominantly emotional people often pride themselves that only they are capable | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| of truly feeling. They secretly look down on people they derogatorily label intellectuals. Yet, the extreme of | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| the fact that reason also is God-given. Such people are just as arrogant as the reason-type who | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| emotional nature, leads to wisdom. Without such wisdom, people either cannot accomplish what they set out to | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| from the angle I have described. In most people two of the three faculties are predominant, whereas | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| possible to react predominantly with emotion to some people and with willpower toward others? I mean, can | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| But there must be a reason for that. People on this path who observe this phenomenon in | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| together? QUESTIONER: Well, I know a lot of people who have no willpower but who are very | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| Other ways may be better suited for some people. It depends on the personality and its stage | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| physical sense. That is the whole misunderstanding. Many people on earth misdirect their sexual forces and therefore | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| course is the trouble with marriage. Since most people are incapable of pure love, they are also | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| far as humanity is concerned. Without eros, many people would never experience the great feeling and beauty | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| this force comes upon even the most undeveloped people they become able to surpass themselves. Even a | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| while this feeling lasts, have unselfish impulses. Lazy people will get out of their inertia. The routine-bound | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| eros. So you see, my friends, eros enables people to do things they are disinclined to do | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| inevitably remain in the soul. Eros comes to people suddenly in certain stages of their lives, even | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the apparent risk of adventuring away from separateness. People who are afraid of their emotions and afraid | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| soul a medicine, valuable if used properly. Most people in this category have a vulnerable point somewhere | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| In the ideal partnership of love between two people all three forces have to be represented. With | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the soul can never be known utterly. If people had the wisdom, they would realize that and | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| self-revelation, requires inner activity and alertness. But since people are often tempted into inner inactivity, while outer | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and work or be alert any more. Two people may arrange an apparently satisfactory relationship, and as | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| In the situation where compromise is chosen, both people stagnate, at least in one very important aspect | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| soul as much as possible. Only when two people do this can they be purified together and | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of undertaking the journey yourself. You magnetically draw people and situations toward you which correspond to your | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| true love. True love demands much more of people in a spiritual sense. If they do not | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| that, you reveal yourself to God too. Many people want to start with revealing themselves to the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| inevitably so. It cannot be different. QUESTION: Certain people believe that they can cut out sex and | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| you justify these attitudes on the part of people who are supposed to look for unity with | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| is selfish and loveless, raw and animalistic. If people would realize -- and they are beginning to | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and with eros, for that matter. How many people exist for whom sex is completely separate from | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| QUESTION: Perfectly, thank you. QUESTION: If two young people fall in love and marry and they are | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| each other, is it possible that these two people could go on this journey together and have | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| journey together. QUESTION: How does friendship between two people fit into this picture? ANSWER: Friendship is brotherly | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the ideal experience that I discussed tonight. Few people are ready and mature enough for it. You | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| Just think of yourself and of the many people you know in your present life circumstances, as | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| are and how differently you act with certain people, with your family, or friends. In each situation | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the reason may be as far as other people and outer circumstances are concerned. Ask yourself, what | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| to change long-held views. We often see that people hold on to an opinion, merely because this | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| will easily fall under the influence of other people, although he or she may be unaware of | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| years, yet there may be a number of people whose plan it is to die when they | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| self-development or fulfill a spiritual mission. They are people who just lead what you would call an | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| their experience, or remain at a standstill. Such people have guardians who are, of course, also organized | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| a person into certain situations in life, certain people are drawn into his life. This is based | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| The same applies to nationality. There are some people born into a country where there is perhaps | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| to get out, to see other countries and people and thus broaden their view. It is the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| have their good points. For without these upheavals, people would not go from one country to another | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the causes of war, are unspiritual. But many people still find themselves in such a state. Only | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| as unconsciously sought for a long time. Most people with even a little spiritual knowledge know in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| were administered in a perfect way. But since people are imperfect, authority too is often administered in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| government, law-enforcing institutions, an employer, or other powerful people he or she may be dependent upon. Unconsciously | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| The fear of their own exposure makes such people doubly good. Now, do not interpret the word | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the effect will be infinitely stronger on other people than when you do the same act, have | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the imagined goody- goodyness of the law-upholder. When people are that far in this vicious circle, they | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| common criminals and prostitutes. And all those lowly people felt this quality of understanding within him. Against | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| asking the advice or the opinion of other people. That also is a subject, and indirectly it | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| instances and situations, or with what types of people one trend is predominant and when the other | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the lower self. This is so with all people who have realized that selfishness and self-serving aims | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| confusion is so strong at times that many people become uncertain whether to follow the desire for | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| of others. This you would call hypocrisy. Many people fall into this category. This type of behavior | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| at once and if it is hastily attempted, people can suffer breakdowns and all sorts of other | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| No truth is exempt from this fate. Many people search for truth; and truth can come to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| be represented for you personally by the very people you love most, because you are dependent on | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| same is not expected of everyone. There are people who merely try to live right and to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| own good. You can observe this with some people. Life corners them, not because God punishes them | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| day death will be eliminated. Fully self- realized people will gradually transform their bodies to a spiritual | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| of course, is not pleasant. This leads many people to believe that our path cannot be the | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| attitude of each individual toward that subject. Let people tell you first their general idea, their concept | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| deduction, observation, a very warm interest in other people, positive feelings, also a certain basic detachment. The | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| element is impossible to fix. It varies. Some people may be capable of doing this work sooner | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| harmful selfishness is -- harmful not only to people you come in contact with, but harmful to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| hand, is justified guilt? When you hurt other people in your ignorant belief that selfishness is your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| ego. I admit that I have hurt other people by this attitude and I am now willing | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| think about the hurts you inflicted on other people. Ask God to give you the insight to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| maturity is, foremost, the capacity to love. Many people imagine they have it. Of course, emotional maturity | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| your cake and eat it too. Unconsciously, most people constantly want to have it both ways, which | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| time to live up to these ideas. Yet people have largely ignored the danger of self-deception, they | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| with these truths. So you will often find people who act outwardly according to the universal truths | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| explain the reason for the tiredness of many people, especially in spring? ANSWER: Tiredness is always a | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| and lose courage. At the other extreme, some people constantly assume a negative attitude because they are | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| gratified causes hatred and hostility toward the very people one loves most. Generally speaking, this is the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| all sorts of inner and outer conflicts. Moreover, people are unaware of the roots of these conflicts | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| really at the mercy of others, be it people, be it the fates, be it God, be | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| of behavior that self-willed, primitive, undeveloped or antisocial people display. It does not mean living in a | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| sometimes by one's own law of selfishness. Such people disregard not only the law of their government | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| outcome, whatever the difficulties may be. Very few people can penetrate to the voice of the divine | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| as perfect as I should be with most people, then how can I be perfect with those | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| as intelligent, as successful, as beautiful as other people are. This never is the real reason for | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| see the most brilliant, most successful, most beautiful people often having worse inferiority feelings than others who | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| and cherished, cared for and admired even by people the individual has no intention to love in | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| intention to love in return. And with those people who may have the intention to love in | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| when the vicious circle is made conscious. Some people may develop a sickness which will be a | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| for those around them. By their unhappiness such people constantly inflict hardship on others with the aim | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| it is much more subtle and hidden. What people say when they indulge in such behavior is | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| your physical body. QUESTIONER: I have known some people who can relax for ten minutes and be | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| saying here. Whenever you suffer because of other people, the others are no more blind than you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| in the hidden hope that this will change people and circumstances. And when you come back to | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| will be given to you by the very people who have hurt you. If you, my dear | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| own opinions. You are so certain that other people know better than you that you rely on | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| this realization already is a great deal. Many people are utterly unaware of this. In fact, this | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| That does not matter. The fact that many people have opinions -- often not their own -- | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| liked and respected, to never differ from other people, or avoid a certain responsibility. From the moment | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| of searching until one comes to understand that people are capable of many different kinds of love | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| should not create an image of God. Most people believe this statement means that you should not | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| in adulthood. If these injustices are perpetrated by people who stand for authority -- and are, therefore | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| malice; or because you wish evil on other people. All faults, every kind of selfishness, is nothing | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |