| Priori......................4 | |
| therefore I would be stopped from pleasure a priori. So the situation is hopeless. These unchaneled, primitive | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| if the drive toward union is experienced a priori as something wrong, it will inevitably discourage the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| is geared to perceive and conceive life a priori as hostile and mean, it will unfold to | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| this path a spiritual practice that aims a priori at reaching higher spiritual consciousness. There are many | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Prison......................34 | |
| your human law, is apprehended and put in prison. Let us further assume that he has lost | 18 FREE WILL |
| committed this act. So he finds himself in prison without knowing why, because he does not remember | 18 FREE WILL |
| the many keys to your liberation from the prison into which you have put yourself. It is | 18 FREE WILL |
| best, namely to go out and break your prison walls. Be willing to do it and then | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| liberation -- liberating the other soul from the prison of loneliness, and liberating the self. This prison | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| prison of loneliness, and liberating the self. This prison may even appear comfortable if you live and | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| hostile force, an enemy that locks it behind prison bars where it feels frustrated. There is often | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| be well on the way to outgrowing the prison of self-inflicted suffering due to errors and false | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| help showing you the way out of your prison. You will earn this privilege by your own | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| forevermore. It will liberate you from your self-inflicted prison. Be in peace, be in God. See lecture | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| long before you are able to open the prison door and let your real self out, will | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| bring you nearer to the removal of your prison bars, so that you can liberate the real | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| bit as difficult as death or life in prison, only it would be much more constructive. All | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| illusion. There is no greater hardship, no greater prison than illusion. There is nothing more destructive on | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| time, moral laws become a whip and a prison, so that the living spirit of love cannot | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| self-understanding, and the consequent liberation from your self-inflicted prison, there will be nothing strained in your self-revelation | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| to be comparatively liberated from his own blind prison, his response will not add fuel to the | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| face them and free yourself from your self-imposed prison. When you do face and come to terms | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| joyful liberation. Instead, it would seem like entering prison. If one's resistance, one's no-currents, existed in order | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| live behind fenced-in walls. Although there is no prison, and there are no fences in realty, if | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| position of wearing themselves out in a non-existent prison. They labor and slave and chafe with the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| chafe with the effort of rattling the illusory prison bars, while they refuse to step outside and | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| that there are no chains, no fences, no prison walls, that you are not helpless, that you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the way to truly coming out of this prison. This is the prerequisite. Gradually, the sadistic impulses | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which enclose you in an imaginary and unnecessary prison. This applies, of course, to all levels of | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| and false life becomes and the tighter the prison doors close. Although you have erected those doors | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| have erected those doors yourself, they are nevertheless prison doors and must be opened by the self | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| feels victimized and helplessly entrapped in his own prison. His reason for this unreasonable hate is especially | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| step to find your way out of your prison of unnecessary suffering. When you do this, you | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| toward others. You are isolated in the self-created prison of your defense against pain and unpleasantness. You | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| forcing, holding attitude is that of a tight prison or a short leash. Stealing creates guilt, and | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| to feel your self-hate. The self-hate is a prison in which you are truly suffocated and from | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| search for a way out of this particular prison has not been made conscious. When you are | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| making yourself clear. What was once a confining prison of your inner self then becomes a wide | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Privacy.....................25 | |
| that it would be violating the other person's privacy and free will. That person may not want | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You will have the means, the peace, the privacy and the surroundings in which it will be | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| autonomy, and self- responsibility. They do not lose privacy, the right to be different, nor do they | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it and enriching it. You can find your privacy and individuality totally intact, your group living and | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| being together in no way infringes on your privacy, your uniqueness, and your need to be by | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| know that the group will never eliminate their privacy or the autonomy of their being. It will | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| his love, his strength and his blessings. 252. PRIVACY AND SECRECY My very beloved friends, you are | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Today I wish to explore the concepts of privacy and secrecy. Much confusion exists about these two | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| surely one of your legitimate needs. So is privacy. If privacy and secrecy are being confused, either | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| of your legitimate needs. So is privacy. If privacy and secrecy are being confused, either the need | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| the need for closeness or the need for privacy must be shortchanged. Privacy is a legitimate need | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| or the need for privacy must be shortchanged. Privacy is a legitimate need of the soul. You | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| before being opened to others. Such periods of privacy do not indicate isolation or separateness. They merely | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| also has a distorted, diabolic counterpart, and if privacy is being sought in order to avoid contact | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| a distortion is at hand. If you avoid privacy because the true meaning of the anxiety it | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| are completely oblivious to their own need for privacy. They may, at times, be alone as a | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| manage to find inner and occasionally even outer privacy despite all the busyness surrounding them. Those who | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| this aloneness will not fill the need for privacy. People who are alone because of fear of | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| therefore absurd. But what usually happens is that privacy is used to camouflage the intent to keep | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| people will use the right and need for privacy to conceal that they really are keeping something | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| cover up a lie. The true concept of privacy never implies keeping secrets. In fact, just the | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| true. What is divinely inspired and ripens in privacy is later always opened up and shared with | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| know clearly whether a real violation of your privacy exists. These are times when others try to | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| between actual prying and attempts to violate your privacy, and someone's genuine concern and honest desire to | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| rationalize such projections by pretending to preserve your privacy. Look at the real reasons why you maintain | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Private.....................51 | |
| concerning society in general, but react in their private lives in erroneous negative ways, this energy will | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| those of you who do not come for private sessions should take this opportunity. This is not | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all those friends who do not come for private sessions. It is important that they have a | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which all my friends who do not attend private sessions will be able to proceed step by | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| who have heard this from me in their private sessions, but I cannot say it often enough | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is not necessary. QUESTION: You said in my private session to bring up this question: What are | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| right light. As I have often said in private sessions, there is a spiritual law which applies | 31 SHAME |
| place from its mildest form of personal and private attitudes, spanning the whole scale, up to overt | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| mention something I have recently said in a private session because I deem it important enough for | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| be much better to discuss this in your private session. But I may say that there is | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your work. I have also referred in some private sessions to the idealized self. You will now | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| little, inner, subtle rights or wrongs in your private lives. But you ignore that with these subtle | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| lives. But you ignore that with these subtle private undercurrents you contribute to the so-called big and | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the community, one's personal spirituality is an eminently private affair. The maximum growth of one human being | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| in God! 76. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) QUESTION: Are you able | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| do not yet have the opportunity to get private help for their individual work, who still have | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| religion, but, rather, the presence of their own private realization, experience, inner proof and knowledge. These are | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| into the question from this new angle. Your private and personal work will help you in this | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| position one needs to accomplish this type of private solution. Or, it may be a more general | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| you should, in order to stick to your private solution, and if you have the courage to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| interval of inactivity in the group and in private work as a period of stagnation. It need | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ANSWER: Certainly. That would be part of your private work: which words you use and why. QUESTION | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| greatest sign of growth and maturity. In a private session some time ago, I said to one | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| many of the previous lectures and in your private work. It is now important that you connect | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| your questions. QUESTION: I will ask for a private session to ask how to improve my shortcomings | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| you with all my heart before such a private session to please contact my husband over there | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| we are dealing with now. QUESTION: In my private work, my helper and I found that I | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| Just see it. As you proceed in your private work on this path, you will gain a | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| more and more fruitful, an addition to the private work that is one of the greatest assets | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| truth. Your continuous work along this path in private sessions in addition to the group work is | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| theoretical knowledge and to apply it to your private lives. If you approach the discussion with this | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| you do not emotionally understand something. Then through private and group work you will first verify that | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| guilt before the readiness manifests naturally in your private work, would either find you completely closed up | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| then come to face what you have kept private so far. The second step is restitution, which | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| your inhibitions and your daily disharmonious feelings. Each private session gives you an opportunity to open this | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| reached these specific levels of awareness in your private work, it is possible to study the lectures | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| in your daily life and enter into your private meditation, all alone, peaceful and relaxed. Such meditation | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the first fences, the closest sections of your private maze, you will then be able to remove | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| rigid outer rules -- especially when combined with private pseudo-solutions -- may produce a need for total | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| I have even already found this in my private work. I now know that I have never | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| stage with which we are concerned in my private work. I have a feeling that I have | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| false fear of yourself. Some individuals meet that private, hidden part comparatively quickly, and despite their fear | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| expound a nihilistic world view, they hide their private fears, disappointments, and suffering, their distrust in their | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| negative -- or whether it appears in one's private life or not -- it must be caused | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| frivolous and unspiritual. You may have your own private excuse to beautify your weakness and apparently make | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| It was suggested to me yesterday in my private session that I should not try to get | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| sequential order. Generally, you find that your own private personal path follows the same order. Yet you | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| of this pathwork. Many years ago, in a private session, the Guide said: If you do not | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| which you still continue to express in your private life. This truth may be hard to believe | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| too much importance on that. Perhaps in your private sessions you can see what a lot of | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| to put first things first and see your private world in its proper perspective. This will bring | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |