| Preserved...................4 | |
| be quite sure of that. Its form remains preserved, so to speak, and will have its proper | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| life on earth for God's justice to be preserved -- even in the eyes of Lucifer. The | 22 SALVATION |
| up to Heaven. The various details that were preserved in Scripture confirm in a way all this | 22 SALVATION |
| will on you, hence your integrity will be preserved and increased in exact proportion to your active | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| Preserves...................3 | |
| blind person always thinks that being unduly selfish preserves the self. But in reality this is not | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| relating have their own, built-in safety valves: each preserves the self in its separate state and simultaneously | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| a wrong kind. The right kind of selfishness preserves the right to unfold in the best way | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Preserving..................3 | |
| and withdrawing. You are as yet incapable of preserving a feeling of respect and liking if the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| living fully, of reaching out and no longer preserving the little self, death is the glory that | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| discernible on a deeply felt level; this means preserving tradition. Then the old truths will live in | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Press.......................10 | |
| consists in not giving up, but continuing to press on steadily. That has to be the price | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| When should you accept God's will and not press against it? When is it right to utilize | 18 FREE WILL |
| pressure, without haste. The outer will does not press but is relaxed. A pressure from the outer | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| has been a lot of comment in the press lately about the possible ill effects on the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| you did before the recent findings was to press the energy under in a hard, cramped, downward | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| further relief. If you no longer push and press against the natural process, but gratefully see it | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| in a negative magnetic field, a person cannot press for change with the outer will; the outer | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| When you fight against one dualistic aspect and press for the other, observe your soul movements. Superficially | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| on the apparent justification of the position you press for. You may say, Am I not perfectly | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| get into a vicious circle: the more you press in the wrong direction, the more you lose | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Pressing....................16 | |
| soft voice that will not be pushing or pressing. It does not shout; it is a quiet | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| in the past. When you encounter the strong pressing of your ego, you should learn detachment from | 18 FREE WILL |
| where acceptance should reign. Find out what this pressing desire is and examine it. It does take | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| successively, according to what is the person's most pressing problem. Find out what is the attitude of | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| be entirely unrecognized. You may feel only a pressing need. You may find abundant rational and valid | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| explanations as to why the desire is so pressing, while underneath the true motive remains hidden. And | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| observe them quietly. If they are not of pressing importance for you now -- indicating a disturbance | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| haste and pressure is generated. It seems more pressing than ever to find a solution, only now | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you do not see the condition clearly. The pressing need causes you to hold tight to that | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| to which you had clung out of your pressing unconscious needs. Do not let it bother you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| have relinquished for the sake of truth the pressing need to be liked. Being in truth you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| motion. Both movements were tense and cramped, one pressing down, the other shooting out. The third alternative | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| with the hardened wall, the cramped movement, either pressing down or pushing out, you may feel as | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| with such knowledge? Your unconscious knowledge of this pressing question makes you shy away from facing it | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| it for his immediate needs that become more pressing in a growing civilization. In other words, he | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| attitude is violated by a punitive, anxious, and pressing mind force -- a forcing current directed to | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| Pressure....................95 | |
| to apply them in your life, a heavy pressure will be lifted from your chest; you will | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| selfish, and feel the selfishness. They hate the pressure of their higher selves to act contrary to | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| since it does not take a lot of pressure to succumb, and it is the easy and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| is a certain voice within you, a certain pressure; it seems as though you were being pushed | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in two very distinct ways. One creates a pressure and tension that will rob you of your | 18 FREE WILL |
| can only change by organic growth, not by pressure and voluntary action, except in an indirect way | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| by a different inner activity, there is a pressure and an inner pushing against a stone wall | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| desires surge into wrong directions. If the active pressure of the wrong desires is relaxed, you will | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| But within their soul everything sizzles under the pressure of their frustrated will that pushes in the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| a faulty premise often manifests in an active pressure to change a condition or circumstance where acceptance | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| will should be directed toward that end, without pressure, without haste. The outer will does not press | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| will does not press but is relaxed. A pressure from the outer will must make a person | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| in certain aspects of life. Will needs active pressure, either positive or negative. It needs activity. In | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| act out of fear and out of a pressure that amounts to compulsion. This may not always | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| naturally, never forcefully. Cultivation of the awareness without pressure will eventually make this knowledge really yours. Then | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| remain aware of your findings without haste or pressure, simply cultivating the awareness. You need this constant | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| best of it. Without compulsion and haste, without pressure, simply observe your emotions and see what they | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| without trying to exert any force, strain, or pressure. Begin to follow the abdominal movements of your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| should learn. This desire should be uttered without pressure or haste, rather with a calm quality, in | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| wants it. Patience is not hindered by the pressure and tension and anxiety of the soul. If | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| accompanied by such feelings as tension, anxiety, inner pressure -- all of which are based on a | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| present you are not even aware of the pressure of your idealized self, of the shame, humiliation | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you cope with these demands. Unconsciously, you put pressure on others to give you what they are | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and tearing the personality in half. When the pressure of the inner conflict becomes too great to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| become more frustrated, and an inner haste and pressure is generated. It seems more pressing than ever | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the fore in order to relieve yourself of pressure and give them an outlet without aim or | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the issue. It is a clear decision without pressure which makes you feel thoroughly good, even if | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| indication of distortion as an unhealthy overactivity, haste, pressure, and compulsion. The truth combines activity and passivity | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You will be capable of relinquishing the urgent pressure for immediate gratification if you keep in mind | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| a hard knot. In such a case the pressure for gratification reaches such a pitch that it | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| a hard, cramped, downward movement. Then, when the pressure became too much, you let it shoot out | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| strength in others whom you consciously or unconsciously pressure to do your bidding. You put your strength | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| criminality is an outlet to relieve the inner pressure. QUESTION: Are the members of the same family | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| not genuine, but to acknowledge all emotions of pressure, impatience, forcing, intolerance, hurry, and learn from them | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| cannot be conveyed in words. This inability causes pressure and frustration. You cannot find the right words | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| to be cheated of real living, the accumulated pressure will often necessitate some outlet. You may then | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| weigh and determine -- without strain, compulsion or pressure -- calmly and quietly. Make daydreams the useful | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| encounter the pain, you actually experience the tremendous pressure of your needs. On the one hand, you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| frustration is caused -- and this generates tremendous pressure. It is this pressure that is so painful | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| and this generates tremendous pressure. It is this pressure that is so painful. It seems to tear | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| apart. Do not believe, my friends, that the pressure, the frustration did not exist before you became | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| you become aware of the central core, the pressure and pain may feel more acute, but such | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| feel and observe the frustration of the accumulated pressure, the momentary helplessness about finding relief, the temptation | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| not come at once. In this period, the pressure inside may become most stringent. However, if you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| in which you encounter all the accumulated inner pressure, with the accompanying helplessness, inadequacy, and confusion, is | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| your entire nervous system, speeding up your blood pressure and accelerating your pulse beat. All this happens | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| that bring only temporary relief of the inner pressure. One of these is gluttony. As I indicated | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| How else can you rid yourself of the pressure of repressions? How else can you learn to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| utilize, but in a relaxed way, with no pressure and strain on the thought process. Rather, he | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| follow and obey moral standards. Because of this pressure from the outside the superimposed conscience is strengthened | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and accumulate and create great inner tension and pressure. You are then often driven into acts you | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| two opposing forces create such tension through the pressure of two opposing energy currents that finally an | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| opposite directions, creating stronger and stronger tension and pressure. The way to eliminate the short circuit is | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| as what it is, there will be no pressure from you on the unconscious of the patient | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| involved in one's problem. Talking it out relieves pressure and that sets valuable energy free. You gain | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| answers and guidance, and when you release the pressure by talking about it openly. The effect of | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| all levels, such nudging is misinterpreted. The accumulated pressure of the need to talk is put into | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| shame. The no-current is at work. When the pressure to talk is relieved inappropriately, one will concentrate | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| does not avoid something in oneself. If the pressure from the inner need to talk out one's | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| this futile struggle, with all its senseless outer pressure, also induces the personality to give up in | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| not need to exert a tight control and pressure. You therefore cannot be owned or controlled either | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the undesirable situation you find yourself in. Outer pressure -- tension and forcing currents -- have not | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| inner powers, which you do not have to pressure or direct, after you formulate the thoughts of | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| want constructiveness. I choose this, not by any pressure or obligation, but because I wish this to | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| one's life experience denote not only failure, but pressure, difficulty, wrong timing, and frustration. Things do not | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| this precise awareness. You will observe how you pressure ego energy into the wrong channel and will | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| disregarded or glossed over. You must never use pressure from your will to overcome the no of | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| state, know that you are in transition, under pressure only to reach a different state. You cannot | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| this fear is devastating. It exerts a subtle pressure to go on pretending. But there is always | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| waste your willpower, your energy, to exert a pressure that would eventually affect the good functioning of | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| amenable to ego- control can only create imbalance, pressure, tension, anxiety, and will finally manifest negative effects | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| do not have to exert any willpower, any pressure with your outer ego faculties, in order to | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the functions that are not responsive to direct pressure. The same relationship, my friends, exists between the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| this point of decision, and then do not pressure yourself but simply observe fully and remember what | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| fear to do that. In this sense your pressure is a different kind of pressure. But fundamentally | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sense your pressure is a different kind of pressure. But fundamentally the same applies to you as | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| repressing it and then becoming impatient and putting pressure on oneself. This is a new beginning of | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that elicits love. By continually using inner, covert pressure on others because you believe you are dependent | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| often closes into a tight knot formed of pressure against the self. Deliberate receptivity toward the inner | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| counteractive movement may be one of hurried, impatient pressure. Both derive from self-hate. When you feel stymied | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| infinite. They come to an end when the pressure bursts. This is a painful crisis, and people | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| of yourself will relieve you from the tremendous pressure of the inner division. The final question is | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| no longer in the predicament of putting useless pressure on yourself that short-circuits your energies and also | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| to deny the state you are in. The pressure of this denial then creates fear, and the | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| If you can recognize this and relax the pressure of the outer will, the inner will can | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| it is easy to observe that the inner pressure of the subtle forcing current which says, You | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| positive expectation of life, where there is no pressure, no anxiety, and no doubt. Instead there is | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| in which you directly or indirectly rule, coerce, pressure, command, demand, and manipulate -- and cheat! The | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| to hopelessness or to pushing, holding, and applying pressure from above. Step number two: see that this | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| and do not let go and let God. Pressure creates counter-pressure. Letting go affords the possibility to | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| tasted the difference between what you get through pressure and control, and what you get when you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| not believe I can have, unless I push, pressure, cheat, manipulate, and force it to come to | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| acquired through this forcing attitude of selfwill and pressure. This means you may not immediately obtain from | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| many spiritual movements which seek to follow the pressure from within, without devoting themselves to the work | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| will then deny the other its resources; mutual pressure and power plays will not corrupt the world | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |