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| the situation further, but also prevent them from perceiving it with clarity and thus from knowing how | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| or absolute reality. What is intelligence other than perceiving reality? Some people may have great intelligence -- | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| universe with all its spiritual laws. Only by perceiving the inner universe, with all its infinite possibilities | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| out on life, in your not seeing and perceiving reality and people around you. In order to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| The latter directs your thinking and feeling and perceiving into a more correct channel; you assume self-responsibility | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| They do not require the complicated mechanism of perceiving the feelings of another. They do not disapprove | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and they simultaneously lead to an increase in perceiving reality in an ever-widening circle in width and | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| or misunderstanding. As people gain inner unity by perceiving and experiencing true reality, the split mends and | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| will not add fuel to the fire because, perceiving reality much better, he will know it does | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| state is the wisdom that comes from accurately perceiving reality. It is the nucleus of distorted perceptions | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| it produces total pleasure for any living, feeling, perceiving consciousness. The more fully this consciousness is developed | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| This is always an erroneous, illusory way of perceiving and experiencing life. Opposites are not to be | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| flows -- new feelings, a new way of perceiving and responding, a new way of knowing life | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| year to come -- be in God! 166. PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING Greetings, my friends. The universal love | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| of relationship and determines its nature. It is: perceiving, reacting, and expressing. When this threefold principle operates | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| so negative, find themselves in the error of perceiving and experiencing life in a fixed way, as | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| an existing possibility, determining, formulating, knowing it, and perceiving these inner activities are the tools of your | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| in words. Its immediacy also hinders you from perceiving the universal spirit's constant presence. The immediacy is | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| inner processes of thinking, willing, knowing, feeling, and perceiving. As you can now appreciate, it requires a | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| by stating that this is possible, and by perceiving, knowing, and willing it with a relaxed attitude | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| self-punishment, and violent self-hate as a reaction to perceiving the self as only the negative parts. On | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| one does not wish to experience. Visualization means perceiving yourself in the state you wish to attain | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| make yourselves available to new possibilities in conceiving, perceiving, and forming new inner attitudes will experience the | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| or wrong, black or white. This way of perceiving life is at best only half true. In | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| expanded state of consciousness makes them capable of perceiving more than the surface, can observe very clearly | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of that mind is also responsible for not perceiving what is there. As the mind becomes less | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| mind becomes less limited, it becomes capable of perceiving what is there. It will make all the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| blind, resentful way, without seeing clearly, only vaguely perceiving as through a fog. Now you see clearly | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| yourself to the will of God and of perceiving the importance of the Christ consciousness that sweeps | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| origin in the confusion of dualistic thinking and perceiving. The fear itself leads to further confusion. The | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| is that they are not fantasizing but really perceiving something. The second is that sometimes their own | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| self knows to be real becomes somewhat distorted. Perceiving the higher self's knowledge through the maze of | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| you, to keep the confines of thinking and perceiving untouched, unexpanded. Here you become a traditionalist. In | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| iron, which enclose you and prevent you from perceiving and experiencing grace. In reality the walls are | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| to recognize all obstructions that prevent you from perceiving and partaking of ever-present divine grace. Then you | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| of your world view and, finally, changes in perceiving reality. A simple and current example, on a | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| and is therefore incapable at this juncture of perceiving life in any other way. But this way | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| in any other way. But this way of perceiving reality is by no means the only way | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| of being. In the fifth stage, seeing, hearing, perceiving, feeling, knowing are always all-inclusive. They encompass every | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| to remove the barriers that prevent you from perceiving the Lord's presence in your life, His love | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
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| any kind in Creation? Is there a hundred percent infallibility? ANSWER: Absolutely. INTERJECTION: The reason for each | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| I want to follow the call one hundred percent, you have won the most important and the | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| none on this earth which are one hundred percent truth, perfection, and without error, since you are | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you call intuition can never be one hundred percent perfect. But the moment you can say, I | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| do not mean a life of one hundred percent joy, no, but a life in which you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you follow what I mean? QUESTIONER: A hundred percent! It is so right! ANSWER: Now, if you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| let's say, he has become aware of seventy-five percent of them and can see how they work | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| return. If a person is, let's say, seventy-five percent mature and gets this wonderful feeling from giving | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| that enlivens every human being, forget in ninety-five percent of your daily lives that this creative being | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| or realization will be that you live ninety-five percent of your conscious life responding not spontaneously and | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| compound the multiplication infinitely. Without exaggeration, ninety- five percent of your experiences -- sensuous as well as | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| majority of human beings find themselves approximately ninety percent asleep and only ten percent awake to what | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| themselves approximately ninety percent asleep and only ten percent awake to what exists in the world around | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| always follow the inner movement exactly one hundred percent. Were you that aware, you would not be | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| and create -- will constitute at least fifty percent of the curriculum. It will be the most | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
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| The problem is much rather that a great percentage of people who could take this path and | 21 THE FALL |
| not be possible anymore. If only a certain percentage of human beings -- by no means even | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| outer life, they live with only a small percentage of their capacity to experience, to enjoy life | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| a large degree. And therefore, the larger the percentage, the stronger the pull in the opposite direction | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
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| ready for this expanded awareness and depth of perception. And today humanity begins to be receptive to | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| only exist in spirit, becomes predicated on human perception with is errors, elevating it above all else | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| door to self-search and through that to higher perception. This is the essence of religion that people | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| in a very long time according to your perception, this bond will expand and include other beings | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| way, help must first come through outer sense perception to bring about autonomy of the inner perception | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| perception to bring about autonomy of the inner perception or intuition. Outside help can be given by | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| only partially. When you continue to cultivate the perception, your talent will develop further. You will not | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| no basis of comparison and lack higher spiritual perception. QUESTION: When a person is incarnated as a | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| after a while because these two levels of perception can never replace one another; they can only | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| keep your eyes open, your inner feelings and perception tuned to the spirit world. You must not | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| represent an obstacle for our spiritual eyes and perception. So we can determine very well which thought-forms | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| For nothing happens without cause and effect. The perception of fragrance is already more, it is a | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| any human being with a normal sense of perception, while the spirit world is the outpicturing of | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| right now that one can reach God. The perception of absolute truth in any respect can only | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| is stubbornness in the soul, the experience and perception of absolute truth is impossible. Stubbornness and self-will | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| of you may not yet have sufficient inner perception to sense and feel the truth and deep | 21 THE FALL |
| again impossible to describe because you lack the perception and understanding as I lack the full ability | 22 SALVATION |
| were to tell you how many kinds of perception exist in this high sphere, you would not | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| in some instances where no image-currents obstruct your perception, even emotionally. But where this slow or sudden | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| is so dense that you, with your physical perception, can no more see it than you can | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| through your matter. But on your plane of perception, the densest matter is physical matter. For each | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| that it is false. Even in your intellectual perception you are partly convinced that the image-conclusion is | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| cannot be limited into words. How can your perception and capacity to understand suffice to sense the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the inner eye and the reach of inner perception -- not that of the outer knowledge. Again | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| within and beyond the range of our auditory perception? ANSWER: Yes, absolutely. I can foresee a time | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| vistas for you to broaden your understanding and perception, even though my words are limited and may | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| of geography but of awareness. Although the full perception of absolute reality is impossible for human beings | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| or her reaction is just different from your perception. You are in unreality because you can rejoice | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| it is unreal because, in each instance, your perception of the whole person is tainted and one-sided | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| great. Your inner child's exaggeration and distorted black-and-white perception of life's happenings brings in its wake a | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| that existed before. Intuition is the highest sense perception a human being can attain. However, it cannot | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| promotes openness, a readiness for further observation and perception in you that is very fruitful. It is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| in others with discrimination, and, consequently, more reliable perception. So you see, my friends, how all this | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| law -- and to that end, a positive perception of our being in God. ANSWER: One of | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| your answer, this creativity abides with the spiritual perception of your remark about removing the bonds that | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| progresses steadily, and if you train your inner perception by meditating and trying to feel these words | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| window from which you can glean a new perception. Now, are there any questions? QUESTION: You were | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| own negative tendencies people would gain an acute perception of other people's negative tendencies, on which they | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a case? Is this a case of mind-reading, perception of etheric bodies, or is it possible that | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| the illusory character of time lessens in your perception. You begin to sense something behind time. The | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| ability to acquire a deeper, wider, and greater perception of truth is determined by your ability to | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| open and relaxed, always providing you with a perception and inner experience of reality. With such a | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| real being is simply inactivated by your distorted perception of reality, of certain factors in your life | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| me, but can only become manifest when my perception of reality becomes more truthful. This is how | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| life and rejoice in its richness if your perception is so beclouded? Only by being yourself are | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| sin are the same, the person with limited perception will look down on both, while the person | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| while the person with a higher capacity of perception will understand and help and not feel superior | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| use, it will be distorted if your inner perception is limited. And when your inner perception reaches | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| inner perception is limited. And when your inner perception reaches its highest potential, according to your own | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| what falls short of perfection in your own perception. This makes it impossible for you to grow | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| most problematic area of your life and your perception of either one or both parents, or someone | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| but which you disregarded and excluded from your perception. All of a sudden these incidents will take | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| with your worthiness is reached. In the child's perception, the parents are powerful super-creatures. It does not | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| reaction, and to quicken the power of your perception. When you are in real danger, this is | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| in actual danger. In actual danger, your heightened perception makes you decide whether to launch a counterattack | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| wonder. In this spontaneous experience of wonder and perception, he often has a genuine God-experience and relationship | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| a point, after his original genuine experience and perception turns to a superstition, that makes a farce | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| ways: 1) an absolute lack of awareness and perception of life and nature, her laws and the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| of love with all beings; of understanding and perception; of being alive. It is impossible to convey | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| without your own urgent needs blurring the realistic perception of others. If you want to disregard and | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| the difference. But when it comes to intuitive perception, there is no necessity to define whether it | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| and experience to such a degree that your perception of reality is narrowly limited. Often, people have | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| which may, in themselves, be correct, but the perception is incomplete because other aspects are overlooked. This | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| carried along? ANSWER: Of course. The sensitivity, the perception, and the ability to experience. All these faculties | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| In another case you may have the same perception; however, you do not sense the negative quality | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| is at work. You have, again, a correct perception, in this instance though of an emotion. When | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| possible. Be in peace. Be in God! 115. PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS Greetings, my | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and consolidates the recognitions, widens and deepens their perception. It links them with other aspects of the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| because both follow circular movements. Only a closer perception and deep penetration into your self will show | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| are direct manifestations of consciousness. They are: determination, perception and love. The higher the degree of consciousness | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is interpreted and assimilated, the more accurate the perception. The freer the determination, the greater the scope | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your images; to understand why they represent faulty perception; to see that the faulty perception still governs | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| represent faulty perception; to see that the faulty perception still governs you, even though it was formed | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |