| Physically..................45 | |
| It is harmful not only spiritually, but also physically. Human beings tend to arrive at two very | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| other spirits will harm us spiritually and even physically. But everything is God's world. I don't understand | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| way without ever connecting cause and effect. The physically undernourished person will complain about tiredness, weakness, or | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| way you will begin to feel the almost physically appearing clot in you. And when you find | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the full strength of active life, spiritually, physically, emotionally, on all levels, you cannot possibly hoard | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of success so far. Relax completely, not only physically but also emotionally. Then try to let your | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the unconscious you make yourself ill, not only physically, but on all levels of your existence. So | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| for those who have suffered a great deal, physically, mentally, or otherwise. The time of accounting I | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| supposed to realize that this wall is almost physically present. Is that correct? ANSWER: I do not | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| I do not know what you mean by physically. I meant that you should visualize it, you | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| to this point. But you cannot see it physically. It is just that you feel a hardness | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| by scientists whether or not the universe is physically expanding and contracting or static. Is there an | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| all this in order to survive -- not physically, but emotionally. And, to get it, it seems | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the wrong help can make us mentally or physically even more distorted. ANSWER: No outer influence can | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only woman who gives birth. Woman gives birth physically, while man can give birth in soul, so | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| treatments. One fights to get well, not only physically, but mentally and spiritually. How do we reconcile | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such as the responsibility to protect weaker people physically and emotionally. You can recognize an emotionally mature | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| like Ramakrishna and others, were actually very sick physically. ANSWER: In some cases the reason is -- | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| work of purification as long as they suffer, physically or otherwise. This always serves as a pretext | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| scared to go into the subway. She gets physically ill when she does. This is certainly due | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| emotional constipation, which may or may not manifest physically. The instinct of procreation includes more than the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| manifest only on a psychic level, and never physically. When it does manifest physically, it is in | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| level, and never physically. When it does manifest physically, it is in a very advanced state. Since | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| into themselves, of purifying their systems, not only physically, but on all levels. Again, the outer is | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| individual the same holds true. Often people become physically ill. They have trouble in their relationships, in | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| in order to excel over others, or even physically and materially dependent. Her resourcefulness as a human | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| to make the period of transition less painful physically, as well as mentally. Mental pain exists in | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| QUESTION: My sister has a great compulsion to physically run away. And when she gets there, she | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| of this cosmic power. It can be used physically and temporarily, to a certain degree, but that | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| all sorts of knots in the personality -- physically, mentally, and emotionally. These knots cause a disconnection | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| distaste for it, your reluctance or resistance -- physically as well as mentally and emotionally -- you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you imagine a human being going through life physically half anesthetized, what would such a life be | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| of the life energy centers. These centers are physically invisible but nevertheless distinct areas in the human | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| pain and struggle, of conflict and strife -- physically as well as spiritually and psychologically -- precisely | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| in a constant state of frustration and unfulfillment. Physically this creates, of course, all the blocks in | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| the physical level? What does the urge to physically unite signify? The usual answers, such as the | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| stagnant matter of pent-up negative feelings. When you physically, emotionally and conceptually express rage, hate and fury | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| awakening is partial and gradual. As you grow physically, mentally, and emotionally, you grope to rediscover your | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| of the other's distrustful attitude. Since man was physically stronger, and since physicality was the sole expression | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| of arrogance and superiority over those who were physically weaker. He needed slaves in order to convince | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| the same token, man feared those who were physically stronger than he. And the more he feared | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| that she is being unfairly exploited by the physically stronger man and will blame him for victimizing | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| next state. That is an impossibility, my friends, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. It is a contradiction | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| of the mother and first becomes merely a physically separate entity. Even the physical separation is not | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| hang together on a chain of interdependence -- physically, emotionally and spiritually. When the weight of dependence | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Physician...................9 | |
| teacher who attends a university for years. A physician treats patients also without being paid, for instance | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| him to earn a decent living as a physician. Then, when he has earned his degree, he | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| It would be as if an excellently trained physician pursued medicine only as a sideline, not being | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| you know what is wrong. And then your physician finds out and he operates on you. In | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| method being practiced by, let us say, a physician or an analyst? If we are not intellectually | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| recuperate from an illness, you will find the physician who can help you, or you will choose | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to accept part of the advice of one physician and reject another part. You will interpret the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| If a consciously chosen teacher or philosophy or physician could harm you as an adult person, how | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| realization of the universal powers. QUESTION: As a physician I ask if there is any way that | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| Physicians..................4 | |
| call, in your earth language, a hospital. Spiritual physicians are working there. Many physicians on the earth | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| a hospital. Spiritual physicians are working there. Many physicians on the earth plane have been incarnated from | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| to describe. All these spheres and hospitals and physicians and higher placed authorities and assistants and ledgers | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| dealing with the world without and within. Your physicians know that every few years changes occur in | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Physics.....................7 | |
| meant. So here is a contradiction. Actually, nuclear physics casts a light on the contradiction that reveals | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| and found some of this truth through nuclear physics and outer-space exploration. In the not too distant | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| way similar to the electromagnetic fields of modern physics? Or are they different in vibration rate? ANSWER | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| a simple mathematical equation, or a law of physics. These laws cannot be broken; they contain their | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| This principle can be found in chemistry, in physics, in practically every field of science. It should | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| structure could not hold together. All laws of physics, chemistry, biology -- of every conceivable science in | 228 BALANCE |
| of lawfulness. Just as there are laws of physics and chemistry and laws of mathematics, so are | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Pick........................6 | |
| Then they become so dismayed that they cannot pick up the thread. As I have often said | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| into subterfuge-desires. To see your subterfuge-desires, you must pick out the various strings of your inner knot | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| apparently foster tendencies of escape. Or they will pick out especially those aspects of the influence which | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to act upon your healthy impulses; instead, you pick the most drastic examples for your experiment. The | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| from your point of view, especially if you pick representatives from either extreme of the scale. Nevertheless | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| resonate within you. As I say the words pick up the echo within. This will help you | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Picture.....................175 | |
| You often experience this analogy in dreams. The picture presents various aspects of life: the sea can | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| In the solar plexus, a person's entire spiritual picture is imprinted. Those who free the feelings here | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| of the meaning of these words, you presumably picture God as the father of all beings. But | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| that everything becomes very small. Then this little picture will be the reality according to your understanding | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| something that will give you the answer in picture form. Often such answers are given a little | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| very briefly and the human spirit sees the picture of the past life almost indifferently, so to | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| subconscious feels it necessary to present a different picture of the self in order to avoid certain | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| should have at least a clear and true picture about the discrepancy between feelings and actions. In | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| can only convey a very general and broad picture, will eliminate doubts that may stand in the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| very limited, and then you miss the complete picture. These three reasons together give the main explanation | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| unite, because both sides will furnish the complete picture only when put together. Each has only a | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| spirit. I will try to give you a picture of this, though it can be only a | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| on, all of them will form a clear picture. As with a puzzle, when you look at | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| look at the pieces, you cannot see the picture, but if you patiently put them together, you | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| could not possibly be correct. In the overall picture, each individual has complete free will, even though | 18 FREE WILL |
| may also grasp the fact that the inner picture of each person coming here has been taken | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| some information lacking which will complete the basic picture for you. Yet, even through this incomplete picture | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| picture for you. Yet, even through this incomplete picture, you will find a number of questions answered | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| that the earth is a product or a picture, so to speak, of the longing of the | 22 SALVATION |
| his youth -- and we can see this picture now -- when he was almost at the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| description will not really give you an adequate picture. QUESTION: I would like to ask whether the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| become so logical and will make a complete picture. And that sense of a wrong attitude which | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| you discover in yourself never represents the entire picture, because you are made up of many contradictory | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| their duty; they do not see the whole picture. They have to abide by the laws of | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| really is and not just as an idealized picture. Furthermore, realize your deeper and hidden reasons for | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| humankind. Perhaps you can fit this into your picture. QUESTION: Last time the question was asked whether | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| it is because it fits into the whole picture of overall development. Since humanity as a whole | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| point when you finally can see the whole picture of the vicious circle, how one defect is | 36 PRAYER |
| something definite to hold on to, a clear picture of this cycle. The vicious circle consists of | 36 PRAYER |
| in the vicious circle. Concentration on the overall picture can be practiced occasionally when you make a | 36 PRAYER |
| finding usually does not fit into the mental picture you have of yourself. It calls attention to | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| fitted them into as much of the whole picture as is available to you now. When this | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| freedom, but how much more so when the picture has been completed! QUESTION: One of our group | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| sight many other facets that would complete the picture. So, my dear friends, whenever you resent their | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| as you close your eyes to the real picture of the other, you are not capable of | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| his or her entire personality. You see a picture that is just as distorted as when you | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| when you are too severe and intolerant. The picture is out of focus in both instances; both | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| does friendship between two people fit into this picture? ANSWER: Friendship is brotherly love. Such friendship can | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| to daily occurrences. They will form one whole picture. When you search for your desires now, you | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and his present sphere -- or the soul picture? ANSWER: These are entirely different things. One has | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| word evil or the satanic forces, you automatically picture something very specific and often drastic. Let us | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Through the years, you have formed a certain picture of yourself. You are known to yourself and | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| at imperfection which may not fit into the picture you have of yourself. At different times you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| statement means that you should not draw a picture or make a statue of God. But this | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| only see a small part of the whole picture. Inner self-recognition, however, will reveal more of the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| Inner self-recognition, however, will reveal more of the picture so that you will convince yourself of the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| In one of the lectures you mentioned the picture language which is used in the Spirit World | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| whether you can tell us more about this picture language so that we can understand it. I | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in any language. ANSWER: As far as the picture language of the Spirit World is concerned, I | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a small part of the wider scope of picture language. It is as though you would try | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| language. I see the forms of thought in picture language and try to express it in the | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you talk through the medium, translate from your picture language or do you think at this moment | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a combination of both. I translate from the picture language and use her thought process which I | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| rest, so that you gain one overall, comprehensive picture. This has to be experienced; it cannot be | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| any such admissions. Why? It would destroy the picture of your idealized self. Your life seems at | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| out of reach if you cannot maintain the picture of your idealized self. This behavior is the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| from. ANSWER: Perhaps you will get a clearer picture if I remind you of the lectures on | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| imbalance. Only with the knowledge of the complete picture will he realize that the momentary destruction is | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| step backward in development. But in the overall picture it is not at all that way. Souls | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be taken into consideration which change the entire picture. But I may shed some light, as far | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| universe. However, this imprint is not merely a picture reproduction; it is a living and real part | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| exactly hidden, while the other half is open. Picture a disc which tilts occasionally more to one | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| this lecture be a rough sketch of the picture we shall slowly complete together. It would be | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| when personal guilts and inadequacies enter into the picture, which is inevitable in disagreements or quarrels, man | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| do not possess a view of the whole picture. It is only a segment, and the segment | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| upon yourself to pronounce judgment upon the whole picture with only a segment available. You need to | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| limited and faulty when examined closely. A true picture can be obtained only after understanding the peculiar | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| on, which are all interwoven in our soul picture and in our total inner personality, can there | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| how your life is connected to the basic picture of the infant in you. Therefore you are | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| inwardly. In this predicament, you have an unreal picture of other people, since you are tempted to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| decrease their value if they do not. Your picture of them is not unreal because what you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| will possibly see what is really bad. Your picture is unreal because of your underlying motive for | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| then compare the two until, like two separate picture slides, they gradually move into focus and become | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| at all, because it may not fit the picture you have of the situation. It may spoil | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| and lose the encompassing view of the whole picture. It is very useful to turn around occasionally | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| in themselves but do not represent the entire picture. Since you are aware only of the surface | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| until you have fitted them into the whole picture as far as this is available to you | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| arms to you, in spite of the soul picture that your emotional currents show. Forget about your | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| and more effective if this is a fortified picture. The reasons that dreams are blurred by complicated | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the language in the Spirit World is a picture language. When you are in the human state | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| child, you do it also more in a picture language, in simplified terms. When the child grows | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to a child, you do it through a picture book. The same holds true for humanity as | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| prone to misinterpretation, either willfully or ignorantly. The picture language used for children or used in parables | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| in parables has nothing to do with the picture language of the Spirit World. The latter is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the human language. On the other hand, human picture language is more limited than ordinary human language | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| You must distinguish between the two kinds of picture languages. The one you experience in dreams only | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| will clarify, an image is something like a picture. I could have used this expression as well | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| they can take over and function properly. The picture looks roughly like this: Consciously one is often | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Permanent relief can only come when the whole picture is unrolled, which, of course, is impossible in | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| concisely put together, is a vast truth in picture form, like the picture language in the spirit | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| a vast truth in picture form, like the picture language in the spirit world, like the picture | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| picture language in the spirit world, like the picture language you experience in dreams. The difference between | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| one ought to be. This is, briefly, the picture of a person who has chosen love, with | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| surface this looks, indeed, like a very holy picture, but, my friends, it is but a caricature | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| so as not to be disturbed. Can you picture what a conflict this is in the soul | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| myth, which you defined as universal truth in picture form. Most people, and even most mythologists, including | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| circle closing. This applies to the huge overall picture of cosmic evolution that starts with an outward | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Significantly, nature and atmospheric conditions express a purer picture of the sum total of humanity's soul life | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| others, than putting one's ego out of the picture. Nature symbolizes certain aspects of the human soul | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| original, direct responses brings out the intuitive reliable picture based on solid ground. It derives from yourself | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| outside toward the inner understanding of the overall picture about yourself, let me suggest an important link | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| which remain unfulfilled. You will gain a clearer picture about the process we discussed. Become aware of | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| goes on, she really grows into this ideal picture. Then, when one works on the path, one | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| one no longer knows what is this ideal picture and what is the real self. There is | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| part of oneself has grown into this ideal picture, so it is very hard to differentiate between | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| effects? Ask yourself the motivations of this ideal picture, which might very well be your idealized self-image | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| not even noticed. These limited impressions falsify the picture. The image you carry of them, often unconsciously | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| might have a different slant to complete the picture for you, even by adding his or her | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| her own, but different, distortion to the whole picture. It may be a sibling, another relative, or | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| yourself that you wish to maintain a falsified picture and that you do not wish to know | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to live which, when viewed from the larger picture of human development, seems so valiant. Do you | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| manifests dependency. When the need is satisfied, the picture may change. QUESTION: Isn't the greatest and best | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| force pushes the real possibility out of the picture. That which is possible is not perceived because | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| attitude discloses an attempt to preserve the false picture of saintliness by extreme distress and sorrow, while | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| one side of humanity's conflict with time. The picture is entirely the opposite on the other end | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| pursues the disturbance, the other shows the true picture that compliments it. To the degree that you | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of and properly evaluate the distortion, the true picture can be assimilated into the deeper regions of | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| defense-mechanisms you developed. Only by seeing the whole picture will your struggle between your superimposed conscience and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| of spiritual reality and contrast it with the picture humanity represents when viewed from a higher vantage | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| inner personality. You will gain a more rounded picture of your total person and of your life | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| extended and patient work to change your inner picture. This other side very gradually catches up, as | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| mind, which is unable to see the whole picture and tends to think in an either/or manner | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| is at best only part of the whole picture. Ask yourself about anything you assume, Is this | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| an obstruction that seems insurmountable, just because the picture underneath is so different from the one on | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| best only a tiny part of the whole picture of your personality or the motives for the | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| creative living. If perception is truthful the entire picture changes. You do not have to already be | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| distorted soul substance with the truth, with the picture of benign circles; and (2) it must actively | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| new understanding and eventually come out of it. Picture, my friends, a consciousness, a state of being | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| unfamiliar. You need to acclimatize yourself to it. Picture yourself in such states and call upon the | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| perhaps centuries later, when an overall, objective, unbiased picture is available, where aspects can be seen that | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| it decreases rather than increases awareness. A false picture of reality is created -- the reality of | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| create an object, compose a symphony, paint a picture, write a novel, cook a meal, search for | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| reaction should make you look at the opposite picture: your reaction to pain. As you react, are | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| his or her own path. But an overall picture can nevertheless be conveyed that is applicable to | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| jigsaw puzzle, forming little by little a comprehensive picture. Eventually you will rely on this process as | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| few laws of meditation to give an overall picture of its sequence and continuity. One of the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| you, and prevents you from seeing the entire picture objectively. What is necessary at this stage is | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| of confusion and doubt, so that the true picture of where and to what extent each party | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| not willing to do likewise, you see the picture clearly. You unhook yourself, not only by your | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| Perhaps you can visualize its form in a picture: imagine a thick, golden, sparkling liquid, teeming with | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| as yet dormant potentials. I will draw a picture of what it is like, inwardly as well | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| of reality, and results in a totally different picture of life, of creation, and of the processes | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| and creation. Imagine, as an analogy, a vast picture of which you only glimpse a small part | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| a narrow opening because the rest of the picture is covered. What you see then is only | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| To gain a deeper understanding and a clearer picture of reality, you must first know that you | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| better word. The human structure itself represents this picture very well. Deep inside your nucleus is an | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| consideration in complete, logical connection with the total picture: the task of purification, the task of helpfully | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| a totally separate being. This is a familiar picture for you. You and many people you know | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| an indication, or a sign of a total picture about my life and its course that I | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| else. Maybe the next day something blurs the picture. Some unhappiness comes to you, doubts, heaviness, anxiety | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| cannot pinpoint. We have here a typical dualistic picture. We have apparently two opposites -- faith and | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| so long. Often you will see the complete picture only when the ill will is about to | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| I will now give a brief, somewhat simplified picture of this. At the dawn of human evolution | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| orientations, and philosophies deal not with the whole picture but with only half, it is impossible to | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| developed than the other. Let me paint a picture of the woman in the New Age and | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| a meaningful piece that fits into the whole picture, you will have passed the test; you will | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| of unity and unification brings a much different picture. Outer diversity or differences will disappear, for they | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| lecture, I would like to give you a picture, a sense of where and how these lectures | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| human nature, the lower self entered into the picture. It induced pride, arrogance and feelings of superiority | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| angles. This sheds a new light on the picture. It opens doors that were heretofore closed. It | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| proven detrimental because it has painted a false picture of life. False pictures are reinforced by belief | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| different causes. Such rationalizations only maintain the illusory picture of life and encourage the tendency of building | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| When sufficient faith is lacking, the false world picture of a poor, untrustworthy, empty universe makes this | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| the concept and vision are lacking, the outer picture may not immediately or speedily manifest the inner | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| current attitude toward this institution with the larger picture in mind. History can be properly understood only | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| back to the evolutionary stages of history. The picture I painted about marriage is not very attractive | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| situation. This recognition will automatically shift the total picture. Not that it will place all the burden | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| mostly because of its exclusivity. You saw the picture out of context with some elements missing, and | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| missing, and without cognizance of these the total picture was distorted. It was not false because your | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| essential elements that are necessary to view the picture in its totality. What I am trying to | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| the specific goals that fill out the total picture. The time will come, however, when you simply | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| intuitive sensing. Then such insight will complete a picture that has bearing on your present struggle, on | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| constant that pushes into matter, your entire world picture is going to change. If you permit this | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| outer will to contribute positively to the whole picture. The new influx--called the New Age--also affects outer | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| of you can occasionally begin to visualize another picture of yourself. Imagine your real being, free from | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |