| a considerable degree. To a smaller degree most people have this reaction, at least occasionally. Examine whether | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| separateness. Separateness of soul, briefly, comes about when people withdraw inwardly and put an invisible wall around | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| throughout the ages. Detachment undergoes a similar fate. People who are afraid of life and love often | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| advantages, goals no differently from those of other people. You know how difficult this is to attain | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| by escaping life and its hurts, as some people want to believe, by misinterpreting spiritual ideas. Quite | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| would be extremely comfortable and pleasant -- many people try it but they cannot succeed -- to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| -- and many other factors. These are the people who always become involved in a negative and | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| self-concerned. The interaction -- action and reaction between people -- is a much more complicated problem. I | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| that is, between self- respect and distorted self-love. People often agonize about making the proper decision when | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| other causes fluctuation between the two wrong extremes. People cannot find a way out as long as | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| and evil, white and black. Decisions can hurt people. Realize that the person who is hurt does | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| childish reactions, often occurring even in quite adult people. But even if you do not indulge in | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| those you love, for instance, sickness. How many people develop an illness to punish their loved ones | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the hidden desire to force others, be it people, be it God, be it life, to do | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| cases! That does not exist. QUESTION: What about people who are bisexual? ANSWER: Again the reasons are | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| does have its drawbacks. It causes many young people to make a virtue out of something that | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| important for you, or be approved by the people you love. The moment there is too strong | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| does not exist. You will find that many people who apparently have no bondage at all, who | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| easily. God's laws work within the soul. If people who are unable or unwilling to make decisions | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- which is not contrary to free will. People who do not like to live, who fight | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| some basic matters. On the other hand, with people whose life force is strong, who have a | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to choose this word. And because of this, people are afraid to face their sexuality consciously so | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it, how you use and direct it. Many people understand this today. But I am afraid very | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this today. But I am afraid very few people understand it emotionally as well as intellectually. When | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I say here. Incidentally, this applies to many people who are on the path: You are afraid | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to give an example that is typical. Many people say: By constantly thinking about myself I become | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| selfish. It is better to think of other people instead of concentrating so much on myself. It | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| on myself. It is true that there are people who think too much of themselves, who are | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| teachings are often misunderstood in the following way: People who have heard something about Nirvana, the state | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| mean it in the way that there are people who feel, if they get any favor, obligated | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| to find the reasons. For instance, there are people who cannot receive. They may be capable of | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| fulfillment. You may say, Why, I know many people who certainly desire money for very unsavory purposes | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| They use their wealth for power over other people, to be important, yet they seem to succeed | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| realize the significance of this, the terrible God-image people generally have would automatically vanish. Whenever you are | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| pay any attention to how you react to people, or how you feel in certain situations of | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| truths. They may also be beneficial in waking people up to wider awareness. They may also be | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| wider awareness. They may also be helpful wherever people have a healthy element within to begin with | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| your unconscious. Therefore, the outer manifestation varies too. People seek admiration in various ways. One person may | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| friends fall into the latter category. With some people the means might be a particular accomplishment or | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| same end. There is even a category of people who use misfortune as a means to gain | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| whole world stands or falls by what other people think of you. Again, I ask you not | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| a healthy reaction. I do not care what people say, is rebellion. And where there is rebellion | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| inner life plan. Nor can you please all people. But since you are so dependent on approval | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| in connection with certain events. There are few people who have not experienced grief and disappointment because | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| intellectually as well as emotionally? ANSWER: Very few people think in terms of this mass image intellectually | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| his life and happiness depend on what other people think of him. Everyone prefers to be thought | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| that you demand an unconditional surrender from the people around you that would put you into the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| on and on in subtle, hidden ways, provoking people and setting up negative situations, so that you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| wish to be perfect in order to have people do exactly as you please? Do you not | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to be better, outstanding, more admirable than other people? If you are honest with yourself about your | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| damage yourself by inviting misery. But how few people are capable of doing this! You always suffer | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the God-image or Life-image - - for some people the latter expression may be more adequate -- | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| I have no intention of being cruel if people do what I want. Therefore, I know better | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| avoiding certain human difficulties that other, less privileged people, do not avoid. This approach is also very | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| often works out that way, it is because people have lived so long with this mass image | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| valid part of the personality in each sex. People merely regarded Eve's activity as wrong and then | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| growth of population, of population explosion? ANSWER: If people managed the planet at their disposal better, there | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Perhaps the very fact that more and more people are coming is a measure to teach mankind | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mankind to fully utilize all it has. If people learned to live in peace with their neighbors | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them and which would give many many more people the possibility to live on earth. That is | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| benefit to all. If it is not learned, people will have to go through added hardships before | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Earth could nourish and accommodate many many more people than you now have. All could live in | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which means that you cannot have life and people be according to your very own way, even | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| wrong attitudes, no matter how wrong the other people may be. But their wrongness cannot affect you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| actually exist. Therefore, you have to fear other people, their judgement, their wrongdoings. In this part of | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| affected by any wrongdoing or action of other people if you do not have within yourself something | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| paradox that you cannot be harmed by other people. Yet it would be harmful to go ahead | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| could not help it. I should be helped. People are unfair to me, and so on, then | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| to generation there seems to be many more people on this earth. And I wanted to know | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understandable if you consider that there are more people and therefore more difficult conditions in certain respects | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more difficult conditions in certain respects, and more people incarnated from lower spheres. But, from the overall | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| China, and in all the backward countries where people are so undeveloped, than in the western hemisphere | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an automatism which the person cannot understand. Such people need to re-experience the relevant emotions of their | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| factors play a role, so the symptoms change. People who steal because they are in need may | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| person desires to run away from himself. Whenever people decide to face themselves in truth and honesty | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| concepts any longer. In other words, the more people tend to run away from themselves, the more | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ignorance and imperfection on the part of other people can harm you. I know that it is | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| dealing at all times with the imperfections of people. By the same token, you will hardly ever | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the right manner. On the other hand, people may follow a teaching of relatively more truth | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the proper proportion will prevail in judging other people, principles or whatever. The solution must always lie | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the fear of harmful influences from outside. Once people are well established on the road to maturity | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to another. They will cease fearing forces, influences, people and happenings outside themselves, in the belief that | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and, similarly, may reject certain things coming from people who represent authority. It will no longer matter | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| but sometimes two or three or even more people are involved. Then it is very hard to | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| appears to be dependent on the number of people you have to deal with, the truth of | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and manifest way -- on a score of people, some of whom you have never even seen | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| even seen. Government and many other groups of people seem to influence your life. If you think | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| before, even in national or mass disasters, some people are badly affected, others are not. In such | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such cases, there are more than a dozen people who seem to decide your fate. What comes | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| subconscious will affect the corresponding levels of other people. And if more than one person is involved | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| there is some negativity in all the other people, would it not have to affect the one | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| otherwise the negative in all the other twelve people could not come to you. Then it would | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and healthy reaction would come out of the people in question, or the negative decision would turn | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| principle by applying it to the number of people you are apparently dependent on. You must tackle | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| say has nothing to do with what usually people think of as fate preordained by God who | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| law of cause and effect is thereby broken. People think if God extends grace, He eliminates trouble | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| incarnation of a few strong and highly developed people who do not have to take on certain | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| capable of affecting the innermost self of other people. You penetrate right through their superimposed layers and | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| less understood. It often mingles with personal distortions. People often use the good aim as a screen | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| between humanity and spiritual truth and reality, between people, or between man and woman. Love is the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| human relationships. In marriage, the love between two people makes the attainment of union easier than in | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| your hidden emotions, you will understand why other people respond negatively to something that you were convinced | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| contrary is true. It is very possible that people reach salvation, inner freedom, liberation from untruth even | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a belief. And it is equally possible that people believe and accept this truth -- or any | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| obstructions that will not let them liberate themselves. People hold on to certain prejudices according to their | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be part of the inner experience for all people who develop their souls. With some, this truth | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sooner and other truths come later. With other people it is the other way round. But to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| obstructions are removed, faith follows. But I know people who have faith and still have a lot | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a self-deception. It is often the case that people feel themselves overly responsible for others, thus deceiving | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sorts of inner deviations and errors. It leads people into confusion. It is not selfish to have | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| healthy motives, rather than on unhealthy ones. Other people are bound to benefit from that. You yourself | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the healthy, or relatively healthy person. Many people have a great talent and yet they are | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| today. At the time this statement was made, people were generally much cruder in their development. If | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of value it may have otherwise, especially with people who die in agony. Can they apply this | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| good way to gain access to understanding other people, to bridge the wall of separation. It must | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| theory, which is still held by orthodox religious people, is that God created each species in itself | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| speaking about your concepts of selfishness and unselfishness. People very frequently think -- and if they do | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| often rebel inwardly and try to force the people around you to break this law, or what | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| fears and anxieties, especially when dealing with other people. Your fear of others is always based on | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| able to re-form your concepts. In many therapies people become stuck at a certain stage. They find | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| otherwise you cannot proceed. Incidentally, it is because people in therapy often display their newly discovered impulses | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| impulses that analysis is often accused of making people more selfish. If properly handled, this need not | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| will further find that you probably blame other people who -- so you wish to believe -- | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| and that you do not wish to offend people because you want their approval. Further investigation will | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| your actions were unjustified and unnecessary, that other people have taken advantage of you in a way | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| currents. Therefore, it is often the case that people of lower spiritual development, with a lesser conscience | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and confusions are bound to negatively affect other people -- you, together with the other people involved | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| other people -- you, together with the other people involved, create very unfavorable chain reactions and vicious | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| world's unrest. Not in the sense, as many people would believe, of not participating in political activities | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such a person is responsible, but many other people, too, as well as yourself. If you have | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have to take it up individually with the people who come to you for consultation, but I | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| these words when you listen carefully. Strangely enough, people are just as ashamed of their faculties of | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| guilt feelings, and I spoke about how often people create imaginary guilts, or blame themselves for very | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| further chain reaction. If you do not trust people, you are bound to attract those who will | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| may be transferring the same feelings to other people, who in some remote way replace them psychologically | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| vulnerability of your loving heart. There are many people who may say, This does not apply to | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| must hold true also for others. So, when people behave negatively, you will no longer feel frightened | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| would come to fruition so much later if people would not hold on to earth life because | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| to life. I do not say that such people would necessarily commit suicide, but their struggle to | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| we will no longer be frightened of bad people. But how can I not be frightened of | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| are never dependent on the whim of other people; you are never exposed to chaotic coincidence. Until | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| freedom and liberty, not even outwardly. A few people in power take it upon themselves to be | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| lie only in self-development. If more and more people would go on such a path, it would | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| harmony can only come by more and more people pursuing such a path of self-knowledge, of understanding | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| innermost motives and feelings -- especially the responsible people. It is coming, it is spreading, my friends | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| come when at least the world leaders, the people who are in responsible positions, will be required | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| one? ANSWER: Yes, that is indeed possible. If people do not know what you know, do not | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| only do so much in a lifetime. Sometimes people do not solve anything. So, instead of working | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| cannot? ANSWER: The term bad subject applies to people who cannot, even if they want to. Now | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| want to. Now, as I said, for most people it may be entirely unnecessary to ever experience | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |