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| that arises from being spared sufferings that other peoples may have. Besides, this angle is not the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| You all know that the true barrier among peoples is not the difference of languages. You can | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have nevertheless contributed to remove the barriers among peoples. What you can contribute to better world conditions | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| his own value. This applied to animals, to peoples whom he subjugated through warfare, and also to | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| many other areas, with many different individuals and peoples. Why is this possibility so stubbornly rejected, so | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| of peace, joy, and harmony among all the peoples of this earth. Openness must then be painstakingly | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
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| your opportunity to help and influence them. However, people's first reaction is to do that which is | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| my friend. You will slowly begin to see people's auras. Initially the aura will manifest occasionally, at | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| will be done in Heaven, which in some people's minds is somewhere outside? If Heaven were outside | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| next lifetime. You can also notice this in people's astrological charts. The talent can open up easily | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| and does not alter its shape according to people's attitudes. In other words, you see this room | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| spirits from the world of God. But some people's attitude may keep these spirits from coming too | 22 SALVATION |
| others does not matter. This distortion may serve people's lowest instincts. It is your sacred duty, just | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Who has truly the same reaction to other people's humiliation as to his own? None of you | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| must be responsible for it and not other people's lack of love and understanding. No matter how | 31 SHAME |
| it very often is. Constantly thinking of other people's affairs, criticizing them, and judging them certainly does | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| and thoughts. My friends, learn to accept other people's shortcomings, as you must learn to accept your | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| if you set the example first. When other people's faults bring you disharmony of any sort, it | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| serene you remain in the face of other people's faults, the more you have accepted yourself as | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| and will feel a new independence from other people's behavior or reactions and know that in the | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| will be utterly convinced. However, just as other people's experiences and grace cannot be convincing for you | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| joy that will be yours regardless of other people's actions. That is the spirit you should have | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| help you to assess your anger at other people's faults more objectively. And, if by chance the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| hide it from myself. Your concern about other people's opinions makes you violate your personality. You are | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| you. The unhappier you become because of other people's wrongdoing, the less you accept that which you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| to you, but another if you hold other people's opinions. Inferiority feelings are another reason for not | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the greater the apparent need to adopt other people's opinions. Thus you see can how every wrong | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| you have to suffer the consequences of other people's shortcomings, but your ignorance, your fear, your pride | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| not ever a prey to circumstances and other people's imperfections, but really the master of your fate | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| idea that it gives them safety. For instance, people's fears of life and love, of reality, of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| The deeply hidden fear of dependence on other people's actions and motives is a very important problem | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| your emotional survival does not depend on other people's opinion of you, but solely on your own | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| alternative to take between being dependent on other people's opinion and leaning too much in the direction | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| a tendency to depend too much on other people's opinion, it is because you have to prove | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| I feel consciously and very definitely that other people's opinions are very important. ANSWER: I wonder whether | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| world conditions or events, as well as to people's personal lives. In order to eliminate an evil | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by the forces of darkness because of the people's ignorance and the outcropping of their negative currents | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or her. It is a blending of two people's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual natures. It can | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| not willing to do the same when other people's weaknesses affect you negatively. This request -- though | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| That is so often at the root of people's resistance to religion. Psychology, on the other hand | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way, whether in outer things or in other people's reactions toward you, you have felt disappointment. And | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| feel that you are the victim of other people's influence on you and of factors existing beyond | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| we sleep, what is the reason for old people's insomnia and what causes insomnia in younger people | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| people would gain an acute perception of other people's negative tendencies, on which they then can focus | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is accepted out of weakness, which pollutes people's motives. Deeply sensing the untruth of their motivations | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| mishaps in your life were caused by other people's faults, or an unkind fate. As you proceeded | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| one could, at least theoretically, learn through other people's experiences, if one is open. However, experience shows | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| from the wrong attitude. Your own or other people's distorted thought forms can only bring out your | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| is frustrated because of your own or other people's failings, you can accept it in a relaxed | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| to be. Therefore you will more likely misjudge people's reactions to you. For instance, you may take | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| become joyful living in a very imperfect world? People's conscious or unconscious concepts of a joyful life | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| is. It shows the superficial approach of humanity: people's disinclination to think. Your science today may find | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| others. The higher the level of the other people's consciousness, the more aware they may be of | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| usually used, that of living up to other people's expectations, either out of a need to impress | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| does not consider the obstacles, nor respect other people's inclinations; if it does not take into account | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| that merely recites and repeats -- either other people's teachings or one's own previous genuine experiences. Superimpositions | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| These people are as incapable of fulfilling other people's needs as those belonging to the other two | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| perfectly capable of coping very satisfactorily with other people's demands on you, thus maintaining good, deep relationships | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the value system of a society. Due to people's inclination to laziness, they blindly follow what is | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| and retain values long past their temporary usefulness. People's self-alienation and lack of independent thinking make them | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| remain unfulfilled. Also face your apprehension of other people's demands on you which may vaguely feel like | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| easier, fuller life and hold onto unnecessary hardship. People's unconscious conclusions claim that it is to their | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| as often and on a deeper level, on people's fear of happiness, fulfillment, and fullness of living | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| formless or their existence less real. According to people's beliefs, they will be drawn into spheres of | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| so great? Basically the fear is due to people's destructive aims, and specifically to your aim of | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| of questioning their interpretation of events and other people's reactions. Then there are those who believe that | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| that your life does not depend on other people's affirmation of your existence; that you do not | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| disturbance in the flow of the life force. People's persistent problems in life result from such blocked | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the best in yourself without infringing upon other people's rights or needs. Quite the contrary, your best | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| consequences of questioning them, of conflict with other people's opinions. After the honest examination of motivations one | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| from tension due to fear, pride, and selfwill. People's habitual state is one of more or less | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| that you could be helped by following other people's advice and authority so that heavenly bliss will | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| went against their interests. To this day, many people's unconscious concept of love is exactly this. No | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| spontaneous outflow exist. There are innumerable occasions in people's daily life when they stand at a point | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| The ego can only memorize, learn, collect other people's creative knowledge, repeat, and copy. It is equipped | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| conflict with their environment. Gradually, life experience expanded people's consciousness and the first reasoning processes showed the | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| blame the circumstances or bad luck or other people's faults. Accepting the law of personal responsibility wipes | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| and so on. Still he cannot leave other people's responsibilities to themselves, where they belong. Either he | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| which are merely reactions to unexplored attitudes; other people's dictates over you; or all these mixed up | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| total or product of your and many other people's constant negative production and creation. This realization is | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| leads to selfhood than does submitting to other people's standards, although it is often falsely viewed as | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| as weak as the self who repeats other people's values like a parrot. In both instances selfhood | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the various effects of a relationship where both people's difficulties are laid bare and accepted, is by | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| concept of the removed god who willfully determines people's fate, even if this god is credited with | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| forms this material world. No matter what other people's consciousnesses produce in your surroundings, your life experience | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| in on them more tightly. This happens in people's overall development as well as in specific instances | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| on the concealed levels of your and other people's destructiveness and ignorance. All human beings suffer from | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| if to only a certain degree. When two people's unconscious levels affect each other, the varying, fluctuating | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| is to ward off the pain of other people's cruelty and hostility, the unjustified demands they make | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| or hurts you, it will resolve itself. Other people's denial of their inner truth, their real feelings | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| You still ascribe the undesirable suffering to other people's wrongdoings, coincidence, bad luck, or even some unfathomable | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| love which is, strange as this may seem, people's greatest fear. In the second major phase in | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| pitiful existence is all there is to life. People's prevalent tendency to live for the sake of | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| true being by making something more of other people's behavior than necessary. It cuts off the vision | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| will you suddenly gain new insight into other people's doings, so that even when they do not | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| in reality it is all one mind. Other people's minds are closed books only as long as | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| the world, my friends, responding differently to other people's reactions toward you, to what happens around you | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| guilt, or guilt that is explained away with people's backgrounds and with early influences. Nothing is as | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| can be contagious. It is known that some people's opinions can influence others enough to make them | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| in independence can easily recognize and refute other people's exploitative demands rather than submitting to them because | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| creation seems to be the stronger aspect in people's lives. They appear to be caught in it | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| received by you. At the same time, other people's true giving, and the appreciation, the abundance in | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| and self-esteem. The true, guilt-free awareness of other people's wrongdoing, clearly seen as separate from your own | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| power invested in them by virtue of other people's needs. Or you may even find that the | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| heart, but making yourself desirable, playing into other people's misconceptions and neurotic needs. Submission to substitute authority | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |