| Planted.....................10 | |
| could not have removed the obstacle they had planted between themselves and the infinite bliss that God | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| But these are the very causes you have planted within yourself, and you cannot eliminate such points | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| simply bypass all the disharmony you yourself have planted in your soul and then directly experience divine | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| can truly understand divine truth. If you have planted a poisonous plant in your garden, spoiling all | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| fruits -- but you are still not firmly planted in this new ground. You still fluctuate and | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| its duration depending on the kind of seed planted. It is the same on the mental level | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| you have torn out the seed you have planted. The mutual interaction between the self and the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| yourself as fertile soil before the seeds are planted. Fertile soil contains incredible power to bring about | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| reality in which you are much more firmly planted than you realize. Only the separated consciousness manages | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| body, truly indestructible. Your consciousness has its feet planted in both these worlds, and that is your | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Plants......................21 | |
| this force. Lower developed beings, like animals and plants and minerals, are still in a state of | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| in each created being not only produced animals, plants, and minerals, but also other substances which were | 21 THE FALL |
| God, though oftentimes without knowing it. Just as plants are leaning toward the sun seeking light and | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| Pure sex exists in all living creatures: animals, plants, and minerals. Eros begins with the stage of | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| plant in your garden, spoiling all the good plants, can you get rid of the bad plant | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| revives. The life force penetrates everything that grows: plants, trees, grass, flowers, fruits, vegetables, the animal world | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| lower grade of development, such as animals or plants. Free will implies the ability and the responsibility | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| take place. If you observe the growth of plants, you will notice this same threefold rhythm. Try | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| is love for living creatures other than humans: plants or animals. They require a certain amount of | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the spreading of the roots and later the plants. Implanting truthful concepts compares to planting the seeds | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| really. I've heard that when one prays over plants, they come up better than the plants one | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| over plants, they come up better than the plants one leaves alone. When I plant in my | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| extremely dim, as for example in animals or plants; or it can be very highly developed, provided | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| to a lesser degree than the consciousness within plants, animals, or other human beings. Matter is still | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| on the first state: consciousness without self-awareness. Animals, plants, minerals, and inanimate matter fall under this category | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| course much easier to see this with animals, plants and even minerals, which have their growth and | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is the state of being. Inanimate matter, minerals, plants, and animals do not live within time. They | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| inexperienced gardeners possess, sowing seeds and waiting for plants to sprout, without ever having seen the process | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| a much lower scale of consciousness. Even trees, plants, birds, participate. Their life span is not longer | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| The new values are still small and delicate plants that need nurturing with courage, with commitment to | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| people nurture this growth, the stronger the new plants will become on your planet. The process is | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Plateau.....................3 | |
| the path, you may find yourself on a plateau where you experience, as the result of your | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| a deeper level, until you reach the next plateau. At a time like this, as you describe | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| one area, and thus have reached a certain plateau, but other areas now come to the fore | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Platter.....................3 | |
| of having it served us on a silver platter. But I don't understand the other, the Immortality | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| -- were given to humans on a silver platter, as you put it, they would not hold | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| wants something handed to it on a silver platter, without the necessary responsibility, work, decision, and cost | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| Play........................85 | |
| and see how the dark forces must ultimately play into God's hands. I will give you this | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| oversensitivity, your vanity, your pride, and how they play their part. Whoever has understood this has made | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| Speaking of daydreams and fantasies, I wrote a play about a former incarnation in Egypt and I | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| carefully, and do not let your unconscious emotions play you a trick by blurring your judgment. Be | 21 THE FALL |
| good reason and purpose exists, for many factors play a role and many good purposes are fulfilled | 22 SALVATION |
| by a conglomeration of many circumstances that all play into the divine laws, be given great power | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for his mistakes, although other circumstances may also play a role in that, such as false interpretation | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is the art of interchange through conversation and play. All that you have here is only a | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you should see which of your faults also play a role in it. One of the universal | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| fireside. His master caresses him, has time to play with him. So this dog will not have | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| you that various overall general subjects and concepts play a role in the human psyche. Therefore general | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| you have not fulfilled your job at all. Play a game, imagine your life depends on presenting | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the environment influence the psyche. Other factors also play a role. For instance, when hostile authority in | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| prevail. The most seemingly contradictory factors may all play a role simultaneously. Excessive self-love, leading to homosexuality | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| homosexuality. As I have said, usually many factors play a role, not just one, so that all | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| in previous lives. All these, plus additional factors, play a role. But let me try to find | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be in bondage. Of course, many other things play a role as well. But we cannot go | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| same material, because many, many other factors also play a role. But the basic principle is the | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| So many personal aspects, individual influences and reactions play a part. Even if this answer may be | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may have a similar origin, but other factors play a role, so the symptoms change. People who | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| necessarily. There, the desire to be approved may play a much greater part. In this case, one | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by association of, objects the baby wanted to play with or to hold but was not allowed | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| exists in every individual. Certain particular circumstances also play a role and determine the intensity of this | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| observe between two or several human beings, similarly play a role in the conflicts of nations. As | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| depends on how it is used. Many considerations play a part in determining whether or not it | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| harmful. For instance, if unrecognized, selfish, vain motives play a role, the effect can be bad. In | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| subconscious is with the process of reenacting the play, so to speak, only hoping that this time | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| during all your waking hours. Many psychological factors play a role and bring about this mismanagement. Your | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| must see that such immaturity and soul deviations play hand in hand with false authoritarian religion. Anything | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| parties. But finding what inner hidden role you play will be beneficial, possibly even for both parties | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| situation; it is rather the role that you play in it, falling short of your ideals, which | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| a forceful will -- the forcing current -- play a role in establishing this pattern. Both ways | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| easily done, because deep and hidden factors may play a role. Even distorted and unhealthy motives, when | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| that, a person has an evolutionary role to play in this life. Does role-playing exist, or is | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| it is true enough that most people do play roles. In this work, our whole discovery of | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| of life seems unreal, like a role you play. You may actually be a father, yet your | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| self-estrangement makes it appear as though you merely play the role of a father. You may truly | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| yet you cannot experience yourself, so you merely play the role of an employer. Role-playing does not | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| as teachers, siblings, or anyone closely related, also play a significant role in forming the original impressions | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of a specific society. Social, economic, political factors play a role, as does geography, as well as | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| love and guilt will have damaged you. Both play a role only because psychic unrealities were already | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| wrong. It is as though people attempted to play a symphony while eliminating certain essential notes. At | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| natural development. Fears of perversion, homosexuality and incest play a role. But the baby knows no such | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| only because in the fantasy you direct the play and thus determine how, when, in what way | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| causes and effects, hence the independent role you play in your fate, in what seems like unalterable | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the great cosmic powers with which you can play, which you can guide, and thus you become | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| intelligence must call this deep inner intelligence into play. Integration will occur. Outer and inner intelligence will | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| idea that a strange, independent power seems to play with you, the concept of an outer God | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| of life and the part they are to play. The same holds true when they want to | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| the universal forces within you. You want to play it safe. Think deeply about all these things | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| The involuntary functions, which must be called into play, are operative at all times. Returning to the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| naturally. Again, the ego has its role to play. Its task is to choose healthful habits regarding | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and unfoldment of those whose egotistical, sick interests play into your own fearful, dependent self, the part | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| You must bring your living, feeling self into play, even if this cannot happen in any other | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| the letting be principle was not sufficiently at play -- it must now be cultivated so as | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| you wish to give. It knows where you play those hidden little games of deception, dramatization, and | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| you will know it. It is all a play, a fascination, an experiment, from which your real | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| you have into the absolutely losing game you play with life when you hold on to the | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| are cultivated habits. So are the roles you play. Each objective acknowledgment of your pretenses -- the | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| up its pretenses and games. It likes to play to an audience, even when none exists. If | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| to pass, you succumb to the temptation to play the doom game with life, thus fortifying a | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| contact, many inner problems are never called into play. The illusion of inner peace and unity that | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| disproportionate to the puny, momentary pleasure. Those who play this game truly harm themselves and others, and | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| some of the universal powers that come into play wherever the personality is sufficiently free, positive, open | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| and then only can it also call into play the powers of guidance, wisdom, strength, and a | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| go through. The outer, volitional self must voluntarily play its part so that the involuntary self can | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the conscious mind calls the higher self into play and directs it to give specific guidance. There | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| be interesting and desirable for you. You could play at first with forming new thoughts, weighing new | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| expanded vision, knowledge, skill, energy, and accomplishment to play creatively. An artist who wants to bypass the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| envisage alternatives other than the one you chose. Play with these other alternatives. Again, allow your spirit | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| of will. The act of will comes into play, but it must go toward establishing self-awareness in | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| room for the children, in which they could play, work, listen to music and be by themselves | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| -- lightly, not tightly -- with which to play around for a while. This attitude of lightness | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| happen. Your own nucleus here can and will play an important role in this task, in exchanges | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| she must resent and blame male authority and play the victim game. Similarly, to the degree man | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| face his fears, guilts, and weaknesses, he will play a power game in one form or another | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| resents the price of losing her autonomy. Both play the same game but hesitate to see how | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| intelligent as himself. He will not need to play the master. Again, this enables man to open | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| even though I would rather go out and play, because I understand that studying will give me | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| awaken through really fair and appropriate dispositions, they play right into the rationalizations of those who are | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| is a temporary one in which you can play an important part and which you need to | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| is necessary, that you have a role to play in this relationship, and in accepting it you | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to bring all aspects of the self into play, the expected bliss can never materialize. I have | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| in the dark about the part they themselves play in this interaction and are still on the | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| within your soul substance. If you work, rest, play, live, move and have your being in harmony | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |