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| has not fulfilled her destiny to its full potential. When problems exist, it does not make sense | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| in your life you have not fulfilled your potential. For those who really fulfill themselves, even if | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| capable of having if you fulfilled your maximum potential in this incarnation. That means following this path | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| ANSWER: Exactly. QUESTION: Does everyone have the same potential for the development of each of these qualities | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| can attain. However, it cannot attain its full potential in you as long as the child in | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| and mature love-capacity will increase to its full potential, and affect the children so favorably that they | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| end. When you reach the height of your potential, you no longer experience life within the confines | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| heavy cloak you have no use for. Your potential will become reality. You will be poised within | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| limitation has to be recognized also concerning a potential one does not wish to go to the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| alive, using only a small measure of your potential faculties on all levels of your being. The | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| emotional experience, to that very degree the full potential of your creative ability is hindered in manifesting | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| You only function to a fraction of your potential. The damage you have inflicted upon yourself with | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| on life's richness, life's rewards, your own full potential, but you do not really avoid unhappiness, as | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| lesser evil, but in terms of the maximum potential of the person in question, he or she | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| that is still dormant in you, all your potential that cannot unfold with the defense mechanism that | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you that which had heretofore been only a potential. This can happen only when you cease living | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| a crass way, you may experience others as potential enemies or slaves -- as you yourself are | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| highly developed people often do not realize their potential, they do not fulfill their inherent possibilities. Because | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| And when your inner perception reaches its highest potential, according to your own capacity, then the word | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| aware of it. With this attitude, you destroy potential relationships that could become very meaningful. We have | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| If you wish to fulfill yourself and your potential, the outer, strained will is often a hindrance | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| of your life where you have realized your potential and experienced a measure of fulfillment, you will | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| -- be it for growth, self-awareness, realizing a potential, or establishing a meaningful relationship -- must be | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| unrealistic. Thus a battle evolves that overshadows the potential for a real relationship which is always free | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| or to put it differently, the greater your potential for spiritual development -- the more your soul | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| the soul that prevents it from developing its potential. This is always a personal matter, and in | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| it was happy or unhappy. Where the underlying potential is positive, the corresponding soul-stuff will be so | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| benefit of increased understanding. However, where the underlying potential consists largely of unresolved problems, the soul- stuff | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| exist. The overall development of the soul, its potential for growth in particular areas of development, is | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| removed from one another. Only when the soul's potential is greater than its actual development, and therefore | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| because the soul has already gained a new potential. Similarly, the person who tries very hard to | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| this dimension. To the degree they fulfill their potential through inner growth, their life will be a | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| process with an individual. A person who has potential to grow but does not utilize it will | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| individual development, but is closer to the given potential. This explains why it is impossible to judge | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| the soul cannot fulfill itself to its maximum potential, that it is missing out on what is | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| yourself, you fulfill your life, yourself, your dormant potential. And to that degree death will not be | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| reach out, your individuality stretches and expresses the potential beauty of life. Your readiness to express the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| a happy person. If you manifest your inherent potential, everything and everyone you come in contact with | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| know that the perfect possibility exists as a potential, and therefore as a still unrealized fact. This | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| fact. This knowing makes it possible for the potential to be realized and for the creative powers | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| know it is, ultimately. This means that the potential, the possibility, even in this earth sphere, is | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| sense and yearn for this final reality, this potential of life and being. It is possible to | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| then deeply comprehend your real faculties, possibilities, and potential. When I speak of the ultimate aim of | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| selfishness can you truly convince yourself of your potential unselfishness. This requires the courage that comes into | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| a great readiness and willingness to love; the potential is great, but in spite of this fundamental | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| is great, but in spite of this fundamental potential, there are afflicted areas which the soul does | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| freedom comes when you give according to your potential. Conversely, your greatest pain is not giving to | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| to life and to others according to your potential. All other pains and frustrations derive from the | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| willing to give what they are, both their potential and their already realized selves, if they were | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| I experience, everything to the maximum of my potential? What disturbs me possibly more than I admit | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| human being in complete and total perfection. This potential is a reality. Finding the levels where these | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| On the physical level the existence of this potential is obvious. Your physical system works in absolute | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| you have moved your consciousness away from this potential. It is exceedingly important, my friends, to conceive | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| must find the way back to your original potential, understand the laws governing the physical, mental, and | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| of this process. When you ignore the inherent potential you have, the limitless powers you possess -- | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| child, you will know your strength and your potential to give. This will enable you to use | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| it is no more. Only its dormant life potential slumbers in the soil, waiting for the seed | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| You perceive that every living moment contains the potential for joy and peace. Being in truth with | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| well-being. Nor can you use the storehouse of potential within yourself, or experience your freedom to use | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| to life as it really is, in its potential, in its waiting readiness to unfold whenever it | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| hostile to the necessary harmony that has the potential for fulfillment. These ideas are not easy to | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| be used positively. Humanity is oblivious to its potential. It assigns power to outer circumstances and material | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| human personality: the higher self, meaning the real potential in everyone, the universal life in every human | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| is infinite in its possibilities and that humanity's potential for realizing these infinite possibilities of happiness exists | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| prerequisites to experiencing the fullness of life's infinite potential. Before you can create new possibilities of unfoldment | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| the place where all realistic promise and all potential for every kind of fulfillment and delight exists | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| could feel more than I do, therefore the potential to do so must exist in me, brings | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| lighthearted or difficult and heavy -- contains the potential to be in bliss, provided you penetrate the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| because they do not know of its positive potential. They are like a man who has been | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| activation of the creative power to its highest potential because you no longer fear your own destructiveness | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| deliberately turn on this power by claiming your potential and your right to become a happy person | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| The first step must be knowing of its potential existence. As long as you live in the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| experience. You detect your fear of using your potential to the utmost. Any limited idea of your | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| sickness is the failure to use your full potential to create good life. As you hold back | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| create good life. As you hold back your potential to expand, to make better conditions, to experience | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| want to use this word, is ignoring your potential -- setting yourself unnecessary fences beyond which you | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| yours -- brings you considerably nearer your own potential for being and experiencing. Once again, the same | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| not a realization of the human being's natural potential. You will also become aware of the natural | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| your present fallibility and divine in your underlying potential. To understand the layers of consciousness of which | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| possibility in life contains an equal amount of potential for unfoldment, therefore pleasure. It does not have | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| yourself. It opens the door to knowing your potential for goodness, regardless of how malicious you now | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| issues from the momentary destructiveness holds all the potential for turning into constructive channels, for life's source | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| confident way, contemplating that all possibilities exist as potential realities, realizable the moment you know and will | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| state of ultimate pleasure, or from the human potential for it, whether it be realized or not | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| ultimate spiritual state of bliss and the human potential for it. Only the degree of intensity varies | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Only when both grow to their ultimate, inherent potential can the relationship become more and more dynamic | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| growth and fulfillment, and toward unfolding your best potential. If you do this, my friends, the time | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| How deeply do you believe in your innermost potential to be self-creating, to be in bliss, to | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| not yet believe in your own infinitely expanding potential. If you do not truly believe this, my | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| desirable steady state. They want to realize their potential for deeper joy and self- expression. Then the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the Universal Spirit. They do not know their potential, the strength that will arise, the inspiration that | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| and experience! And I do not mean only potential, as yet to be developed beauty; I mean | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| consciousness remains a principle, a theory and a potential to be realized only in the future. You | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it. For it always exists as a waiting potential -- not just for this phase of the | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| pleasure, joy, and peace. You can fulfill your potential for creativity and expansion of your spiritual being | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| cover up, defend, or protect, then the full potential of your creativity and capacity for pleasure can | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| purification precedes the development of spiritual and psychic potential and power, bliss grows. Fearlessness increases. Solutions to | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| They are self-expression, growth, development, reaching one's spiritual potential and everything that accrues from that. This means | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| is to emphasize and concentrate on the divine potential within until this potential becomes a reality. Many | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| concentrate on the divine potential within until this potential becomes a reality. Many movements exist which have | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| against being in your center, against realizing your potential. So you put yourself in the most preposterous | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and realization of your own adequacy and your potential. To acquire new knowledge or skills, on whatever | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| it is still narrower as compared to one's potential -- is easy and relaxing. To pull yourself | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| needs to expand its knowledge, experience, and creative potential. In order to do this, the ego must | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| all feelings can be moved out because this potential always exists in you. The false ideal of | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| it. This state already exists as a dormant potential within you. It is not something that can | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| the first time in your life, your own potential of being, your own divinity. You will feel | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| being, your own divinity. You will feel your potential for pleasure and security, awareness of yourself and | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| person, including his or her as yet unrealized potential. Such a vision of the unmanifest in another | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| you make it possible to envisage your new potential. In the next Question Answer session, we will | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| its own narrow limitations. The mind holds this potential for expansion; even in its disconnected state it | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| contains every aspect of divine reality. Using this potential depends only on which way the mind turns | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| is, of course, commensurate with such an individual's potential. At the same time, the ease of the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| people are highly developed, but limp behind their potential to develop themselves and fulfill their tasks. They | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| inexorable law. Separated consciousness must discover its own potential to change direction and transcend its narrow confines | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| it is now available to you, contains the potential to see more, to think in different ways | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| deny that you miss out on fulfilling the potential within you. Thus you create more illusion, more | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| divine inner will and movement. You have the potential, if you keep this up, to create a | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| original it is, How can I be my potential best? In its distortion it manifests as, How | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| of knowledge he or she possesses in a potential state. Here you will have to ask inevitably | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| contrary. Active, virulent evil often indicates that the potential to develop one's divine aspects has been willfully | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| establish a channel to your own limitless creative potential. This phase can be likened to the infant | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| But humankind has now reached a much higher potential of development and those who follow this potential | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| potential of development and those who follow this potential will therefore be swept onward by this inner | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| committed to change and bring out the divine potential, duality will fuse into a unity in which | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| into the world. The child unfolds its inherent potential to cope with others outside the home. Such | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| the higher self -- its uniqueness and limitless potential for creativity. Each incarnated individual has his or | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| states of perfection existed within humanity as a potential to be realized. They always knew that God | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| you can use this beautiful strength as the potential of power in the best sense of the | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| turn out better. Pursue the truth of your potential and state, I can take a momentary disappointment | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| You feel you are missing out on your potential to realize more of divine life, self- expression | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| to gain more contact with and knowledge about potential leading figures. The technical advancements that make this | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| so. You need to listen with your innermost potential to understand in order to glean what I | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| is fully aware of this as yet unrealized potential. And you can tap this knowledge. With some | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| currents are, the most infinite the inherent creative potential for divinely positive and joyous experience becomes. At | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| exists so that you can attain your full potential and be who you ultimately are. The topic | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| personal development to the utmost of the individual's potential, on all levels. For this growth to take | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| with a collective entity: if overall growth and potential for more understanding and for acceptance of truer | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| deep commitment to live up to your innate potential as people of God, we could never fulfill | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| clearly aware of, so that more of your potential can begin to unfold. Can you visualize a | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| the pathwork is truly followed to its maximum potential. Such transformations have already been witnessed among you | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| heart precisely because it is within an individual's potential to awaken into this new level of consciousness | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| evolutionary plan. Only when consciousness reaches its full potential does the unity become totally positive. In that | 254 SURRENDER |
| Yet this by no means excludes your own potential to unite with this divine power and allow | 254 SURRENDER |
| and ignorance. Once you awaken to your inherent potential to create, to change, and to affect your | 254 SURRENDER |
| to do so. They do not fulfill their potential. Another manifestation of the acceleration in development is | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| to those who do not fulfill all their potential, or who are still on a much lower | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| humanity's inner consciousness. Wherever there is the slightest potential, consciousness begins to change gradually, subtly. It may | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| turn into the blessing it always had the potential to be. Again I say that personal contact | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |