| Perfectionism...............40 | |
| to your vulnerability as a human being. Your perfectionism does not allow for this. The more you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| change. If you rebel against rigid principles, against perfectionism and against conformity, that is compatible with acceptance | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| in peace. Be blessed. Be in God! 97. PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS Greetings, my | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| and the denial of joy in life through perfectionism. I venture to say, my friends, that none | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| same time, your spiritual growth stagnates because your perfectionism keeps you from changing to inner patterns which | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| myself? Such reaction indicates exactly the attitude of perfectionism about your spiritual growth. Your unconscious expectation is | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| another subtle deviation in the wrong attitude of perfectionism; it is your unconscious emphasis on becoming perfect | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| can you grow. The very existence of your perfectionism stunts growth, causes rigidity and inner extremism. You | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| realize how you are actually doing so. Again, perfectionism leads you to do this. Since you recognize | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you will become aware of the unconscious, still-existing perfectionism that makes it impossible for you to accept | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| realization that you cannot yet feel differently. Here, perfectionism comes in, because something in you says, I | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| it is contained the I should not of perfectionism. However, if you say to yourself, I cannot | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| where your idealized self did not govern you. Perfectionism makes for pretense and rigidity -- and this | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| pride, self-will, and fear? ANSWER: Where there is perfectionism, which prohibits growth rather than encourages it, all | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you were talking about -- my complex of perfectionism -- I finally accepted my mistakes. It took | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| to function were put aside due to your perfectionism. You prohibited your own creative unfoldment just because | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| your own creative unfoldment just because of your perfectionism, so that both the healthy and the unhealthy | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| requires the active work of sincere self-search. The perfectionism that is so deeply ingrained in you and | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| is due to a completely erroneous concept of perfectionism, in which you believe that your value and | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| observe this chain of events within, abstaining from perfectionism, moralizing, and justifying, the pain instantly recedes, although | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| with yourself and with others; the harm of perfectionism, the rigid standards that you comply with, often | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| But what is being right without love? Nothing. Perfectionism as a substitute and atonement has, indeed, quite | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| see it in yourself. As you notice your perfectionism and your little guilts, try to find behind | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| that I have often said that too much perfectionism is a substitute for withdrawing from loving in | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| produces the unjustified guilt, as well as the perfectionism. My dearest, dearest friends, the love force, the | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| moralize with oneself, to understand the harm of perfectionism. This may seem quite paradoxical. For, on the | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| on the other hand, I emphasize how dangerous perfectionism, self-condemnation, moralizing, and false guilt feelings are. You | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| see, my dearest friends, to the degree that perfectionism and self-condemnation exist, to that degree you cannot | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| cannot accept your lower self. For in that perfectionism, as I said many times before, you will | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| so as not to encourage the tendency of perfectionism in yourself. On the whole, you are ready | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| finished perfection, you still find yourself caught in perfectionism, which hinders your progress. But if your aim | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| understanding is what really counts. Judging, moralizing, and perfectionism occur when values are based on outer standards | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| but from a violation of real universal laws. Perfectionism always comes from pride, vanity, the need to | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| for one's own feelings and opinions. In short, perfectionism means being untrue to the self out of | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| neurotic only when it expresses itself in distorted perfectionism, which hides an unwillingness to give up a | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| in your nucleus, which is not a fixed perfectionism, but the ever moving, changing perfection of the | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| exclusive, rather than inclusive. Therefore perfection deteriorates into perfectionism. When this happens, duality takes its toll. One | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| manifestations. Instead, you put on a mask of perfectionism to prove to the world and yourself that | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| conscious awareness. The superimposed perfection -- or rather perfectionism -- is always blind, unsure, and therefore rule-bound | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| in this way. The humility of giving up perfectionism and the honesty of paying the price for | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Perfectionistic.............12 | |
| of others. But we have not discussed such perfectionistic expectations from a moralistic viewpoint. For if you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| reactions. The more strongly you hold on to perfectionistic ideals of yourself, not willing to give them | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| self-confidence and self- respect, not their counterfeits. Rigid, perfectionistic standards prohibit making mistakes, receiving criticism, experiencing failure | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| progress in the pathwork is permeated with this perfectionistic attitude, be it ever so subtle. Listen to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| the only way you can grow. However, being perfectionistic is such a strain, leads to such discouragement | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| inkling in what way you are self-alienated and perfectionistic. You have therefore realized the extent of the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| other person's needs. When you are self-alienated and perfectionistic, you cannot help but hurt others. When the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| psyche. There is a vast difference between the perfectionistic demands of your idealized self, and the productive | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| layers of your personality mix in with superimposed perfectionistic standards. Neither one of these ways is the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Face your pride squarely, which makes you so perfectionistic that you must fear falling off the self-erected | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| imaginary violation, according to illusory standards of perfection. Perfectionistic ideals are, as you know, extremely demanding and | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| great stake in seeing yourself in a certain perfectionistic way. This tendency has to be questioned. Then | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Performed...................5 | |
| and give vent to the crude feelings. Having performed a right act out of wrong motives, you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| point when the highest of all created spirits performed the greatest act of love. Let us think | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| alternative now, simply because in the past you performed the right actions out of the wrong motives | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| observe your wrong reactions. This constant process, if performed without impatience and anger at yourself, while understanding | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| act of sexual union. This act can be performed only when the woman becomes a low object | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Performing..................7 | |
| a bad motive, or should one refrain from performing the deed? ANSWER: Oh no, one should not | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| get it outwardly by learning things, or by performing certain rites, or whatever it may be. You | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| unselfishness is healthily selfish. I said before that performing an unselfish act for a reward turns the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| Then there is no dignity or freedom in performing everyday chores, be they big or little. When | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| from yourself by doing good for society; by performing valuable scientific, artistic, or ethical work. Such pursuits | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| found outside the self. A person may, while performing such tasks, drown out his or her inner | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you admit what you are doing, you are performing an act of love, my friends, whether you | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| Perilous....................5 | |
| best means to get the help. Complicated and perilous as the establishment of such communication is, once | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| have to be given up, which he considers perilous. Therefore, he is confused by thinking that he | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| psychic substances. The unmoving seems safe; the moving, perilous. To want to hold on makes life scary | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the courage to experience the destructive feelings so perilous. For as long as it is a fact | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| the facing of the rage and the agony perilous. Rage and agony must indeed seem endless as | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| Periods.....................103 | |
| the elements, and in the calm and good periods gathers strength for the next storm. Another gets | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| that this life is one of many learning periods, one link in a long chain, you will | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| is the process. Then, in the so-called favorable periods, you gather new strength for the next period | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| series of insightful dreams, and then come longer periods without dreams, even though I prayed for them | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| that is true. Such influences manifest in different periods. Certain spiritual beings work especially strongly in this | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| God. Another person may prove herself worthy during periods of good fortune, working even more actively on | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| who wants to regain the kingdom of heaven. Periods of testing, trials, faith in God in times | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| ready for human incarnation, with longer or shorter periods in-between -- this varies with the individuals -- | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a little reserve at certain times for the periods when you cannot muster the strength to have | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| rest. In life, everyone has to go through periods when they cannot muster the force to be | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| analogy applies also to the duration of the periods: the active periods have to be longer than | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to the duration of the periods: the active periods have to be longer than the passive ones | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| moment you will understand the significance of these periods, this particular testing will cease. As long as | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| to the point in your development when testing periods and times of trouble will cease, you must | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| go through the stage of completely understanding these periods of difficulty, and then meet them in a | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| are many, many different levels in the beyond. Periods between incarnations can also include a time of | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| on a spiritual path often display at certain periods trends that have never been noticed before. Of | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| may bring: hardship and joy, unhappiness and happiness, periods of darkness, periods of light, disappointments in other | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| and joy, unhappiness and happiness, periods of darkness, periods of light, disappointments in other human beings, and | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| in your world of manifestation. You have definite periods of time and invariable, objective measurement. A year | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| curve. It is quite natural that in such periods of temporary darkness you cannot feel God's absolute | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| what you can and should do during these periods is to think clearly and reasonably about your | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| You must not forget, you all went through periods of cruelty, some ten incarnations ago, some even | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| actually do not seem to go anywhere. These periods will depress you in the beginning. They will | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| self-development, knowledge will come to you at certain periods of your life. But it has to come | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the strength not to succumb to the negative periods but to make the best of them. That | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this will simply have to go through such periods without getting maximum benefit out of them, while | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the more you will feel rested after such periods. Many other benefits will befall you. You will | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| in whatever form it may appear at different periods of history, leave an imprint in the universe | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| curve. It is quite natural that in such periods of temporary darkness you cannot feel God's absolute | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| what you can and should do in these periods is to think clearly and reasonably about your | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to survive without oxygen. But there are additional periods of completion before birth, as well as afterward | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| processes mature, you have to go through transition periods too. You not only learn, you are also | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| desire to remain idle. You will enjoy your periods of rest and relaxation, but this has nothing | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| the work and courageously going through the temporary periods of discouragement and resistance, you will come to | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| into the old way, but persevere instead, the periods of healthy, good feeling will come more often | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| sanitary, or health reasons dictated them. In certain periods of history, under different circumstances, the laws were | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| whether at one time you go through difficult periods, and at others, you experience happiness and fulfillment | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| That is the way, my friends. Such daily periods of becoming calm, so as to determine the | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| be exposed more and more often to such periods of depression, anxiety, uncertainty, and disharmony, and if | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| They feel it. First this happens only after periods of apparent setbacks and relapses, after finding the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and anxious, is of utmost importance. At certain periods, you may do well to gauge your progress | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| each parent stands in the foreground at certain periods of the child's development. This is normal and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| This is normal and healthy for these limited periods. But such feelings are labeled sinful and perverse | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| is still lacking or is only partial, such periods are short-lived. They alternate with periods of confusion | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| partial, such periods are short-lived. They alternate with periods of confusion and depression. But the more you | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| overcome the resistance to do so, the negative periods will be less frequent, as well as shorter | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| crises of growth. Let us look at transitional periods of growth in the individual from the point | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| To the degree that you resist such growing periods and fight against them, they will be painful | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| of crisis. As everyone on the path experiences periods of darkness before the dawn, so does humanity | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| infancy may be relatively much longer than growth periods of adulthood. The time element cannot be compared | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| Christ acted out visibly one of those crucial periods of change. This marked -- in history -- | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| through when a child reaches puberty. At such periods, the entity discovers a great deal of idealism | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| though you fear to acknowledge it. At earlier periods during your life the need may have clearly | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| To be very quiet and relaxed during the periods of self-confrontation is, as you know, essential. But | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| at what juncture. When you go into your periods of meditation and concentration in this work, listen | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| negative direction must again take over after such periods of mutual positiveness, until the negative, destructive, and | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| manifest particularly strongly in some civilizations at certain periods of their history. However, understanding the spiritual truth | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| times. They even sense occasionally that in certain periods they tend more in one direction and concentrate | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| on certain aspects of living, while in other periods they have quite obviously different emphases. These manifestations | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| again, you have to battle your way through periods where you are thrown back into the old | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| pulsation is following all such inner acts with periods of waiting -- waiting for the moment when | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| less acutely. They may go along for extended periods -- even incarnations -- without feeling their inner | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| for inner concentration and self-confrontation, however. But these periods should always alternate with contact -- and the | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| least. For even the most aware individuals have periods when they, too, get lost in the maze | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| will become more circumscribed, experienced either as fluctuating periods of upheaval and joy, or, in some lives | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| there is no reason for hopelessness, and difficult periods need only to be understood and worked through | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| practice. Many people continue to go alternately through periods of aloneness and acute longing, then temporary fulfillment | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| When a growing person comes to see that periods of aloneness afford him or her some opportunity | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| of tentative relationships, the same holds true. Alternating periods of aloneness and relating have their own, built-in | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| conscious personality to make the best of these periods. The automatic procedure is the following: those negative | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| for everyone has a different rhythm. During certain periods and phases the main concentration should be on | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| are already mastered and practiced. There are occasional periods when such an inner process may go on | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| that it implies. Such guidance may come in periods of upheaval, through powerful dreams or a specific | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| listen, tremendous development can take place following such periods. More unfoldment, more enlightenment must come. But if | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| for awhile; the personality may stagnate for long periods. But when the movement toward good is sufficiently | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| friends, especially when you are together for protracted periods at the Center, that there is still a | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| some of which I would discuss at later periods. This is one of them. It may seem | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| is in accord with today's vocabulary. In other periods of history different words were used, like sinfulness | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| no path-follower can boast of never going through periods of darkness and crisis. They are inevitable, and | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| of cooperating out of fear. So for extended periods of history individuals existed within the tribe finding | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| even within this same incarnation, you go through periods of your life in which, whether you know | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| third spiral within the larger spirals. There are periods where living alone fulfills an important function. At | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| living alone fulfills an important function. At other periods living alone represents stagnation and a refusal to | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| same holds true for the reverse. There are periods when group development is essential for the development | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and humanity as a whole. There are other periods where staying within that framework represents stagnation. But | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| history from this point of view. Most such periods were manifestations of exactly this principle. When the | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| seemed advantageous to the self. In those earlier periods, people were governed merely by impulse and desire | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| that the life you lead in the short periods you spend there is too beautiful and meaningful | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| was very overtly acted out in these early periods of humanity. Since then the same traits and | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| A physical organism goes through constant phases and periods of change. That change may at first be | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| you, if you learn to have faith in periods of darkness in your life, these very periods | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| periods of darkness in your life, these very periods will -- and already do -- shorten as | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| send some of your key people here for periods of study at this Center. It can happen | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| may not always move outwardly. But even at periods of outer rest and quietude, the movement is | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| giving to it in this lecture. These short periods of elation, vibrant peace and security, excitement, fascination | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| this path. The emphasis has shifted at various periods and phases. In the last year or so | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| one may be stronger in manifestation at certain periods of history or during certain phases of an | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| the individual in question. Collectively speaking, at different periods in the cycle of evolution, one or the | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| the degree that you do not heed these periods of contact and fail to decide to make | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| vibrations from others. At times you even need periods when something you essentially desire to share with | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| complete itself before being opened to others. Such periods of privacy do not indicate isolation or separateness | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| form he or she has lived in previous periods of history. Such information is usually -- with | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |