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| a person who strives toward a higher spiritual awareness it is often extremely difficult to know how | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| important for everyone to be schooled in spiritual awareness and, according to your level, undertake to develop | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| right away. Such an overview requires a spiritual awareness that can come only through higher development. Thus | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| was beginning to become ready for this expanded awareness and depth of perception. And today humanity begins | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| envelops the spirit. This is essential, for spiritual awareness has to be fought for, and this can | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| is lacking, so as to improve your spiritual awareness? And when the willpower is not there and | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| react the way you do, and the increasing awareness of your inner currents will help you quite | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| ego is no longer the center of your awareness. As long as you want your own happiness | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| of understanding, it must necessarily diminish and reduce awareness, and thus the sense of individuality in the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| in so-called primitive people the gift of instinctual awareness is much more developed. This should answer your | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| faults so as to keep them in your awareness and thus prevent them from disappearing again. This | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| draw it out, to bring it into your awareness, so that you can fight it. If the | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| must train these inner senses by observation and awareness. Thus you work upward, using everything given to | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| to flow in the wrong direction without conscious awareness. This is often a very important factor in | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| also be to increase learning and thereby strengthen awareness of each individual's weakness. You who belong to | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| the time when the first glimmer of self- awareness was born, or reborn, or re-awakened. More and | 21 THE FALL |
| subconsciously yet deliberately had pushed out of your awareness, will have a blissful effect on you. It | 21 THE FALL |
| reply is followed, the result must be, first, awareness of the soul, and then awareness of the | 21 THE FALL |
| be, first, awareness of the soul, and then awareness of the spirit. I will answer the rest | 21 THE FALL |
| every one of you. Take this blessing in awareness, so that it may help you in your | 21 THE FALL |
| have remained in a much lower state of awareness, development, and therefore also personal happiness. All this | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| right under your nose. People flee from such awareness because they mistakenly think that what they do | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you are and thus learning true humility. This awareness will generate a new strength in you even | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| do in life will have more flavor, more awareness, and more life spark if you follow the | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you any more. You will make your instinctive awareness of their fear into an intuition that will | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| But I admonish you not to expect this awareness to happen from one day to the next | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| one universal form. When you have reached this awareness, you will see that there is no division | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| pertains to your growth will be brought into awareness at the proper time and in the proper | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| and that is God! Of course, where spiritual awareness is still lacking, people often think that these | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| channels, it is still there. It takes spiritual awareness to understand this yearning and to direct it | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| it is, but you are far from direct awareness of it. For quite a long while at | 36 PRAYER |
| desire to do so when praying, in direct awareness of the duty to do God's will. Otherwise | 36 PRAYER |
| and injustice and the wickedness of wars! Such awareness should not force you to deceive yourself into | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| possibilities. Each represents an obstacle best removed by awareness. One possibility is that you find the same | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| dwells in the unconscious is hidden from conscious awareness. I have given you methods to bring these | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| time. Learn first to establish a concise, articulate awareness of your desires. Then we will examine the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| is again up to you. The more self- awareness you have, the more control you have over | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| unconsciousness and consciousness with a higher degree of awareness. The true understanding of one's present existence marks | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to gain the right concept. Strive for an awareness of the difference between real authority in the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you have felt guilty about it and suppressed awareness of it as much as you could. Hence | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| have to evolve clearly into consciousness; nurse the awareness of them in your surface consciousness, but realize | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to grow naturally, never forcefully. Cultivation of the awareness without pressure will eventually make this knowledge really | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| your praying for it, or simply in your awareness of desiring such a state, you may have | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| of responsibility which includes at all times the awareness that everything requires a price. The immature part | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| findings without haste or pressure, simply cultivating the awareness. You need this constant reminder because discoveries slip | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| this constant reminder because discoveries slip out of awareness so fast. Neither should you imagine that you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| be beneficial in waking people up to wider awareness. They may also be helpful wherever people have | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the temptation. You feel it vaguely, without real awareness of its significance and meaning. In fact, you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| objective, you will be in reality. The mere awareness of this part of your being, where you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| yourself and of spiritual truth as such. Increased awareness will bring out all the knowledge that is | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that is out in the light of conscious awareness, if wrong, is open for correction. It is | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| often contrary to your outer personality and conscious awareness. And this is important. You do not need | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| surely experienced both kinds of willpower, but without awareness that there is a definite difference between the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| and clamor inside of you, often without your awareness. On top of all this, the prohibition you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| if they are faced and dealt with in awareness. As a consequence, your legitimate and healthy desires | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| are the selfish impulses. Only by a growing awareness and conscious discrimination can you be in a | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you to search in the knowledge and the awareness that whenever the world seems dismal and gray | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to experience a wonderful new inner strength. The awareness that this exists in you and the constant | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| in conjunction with a maximum inner freedom. The awareness of one's own obstacles, and of their exact | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| poise has to exist, with at least the awareness of where the main difficulties in the self | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| of the conflict to begin with. If this awareness does not exist, help cannot be given, at | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| consequences for the human personality. The lack of awareness as to where your innermost self wants to | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the contrary, properly done it will bring into awareness what needs to come to the surface. Many | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the background and you harbor them without full awareness, you cannot distinguish what is important in them | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| learning to control your thought-world. Thought control increases awareness and raises consciousness. Instead of forbidding yourself to | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you will raise your consciousness and increase your awareness in a general way. You will become more | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| no importance, and serves only to decrease your awareness of self and to interfere with your concentrated | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| their thought process at the expense of emotional awareness, so that the benefit is cancelled out. It | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you are the victim of these thoughts. This awareness will bring you nearer to the goal. At | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| calmness of mind as the background thoughts decrease. Awareness and control of background thoughts, the understanding of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you could not see because of your vague awareness and your guilt about the existence of the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| also learn from the experience that life offers. Awareness of the significance of this experience may not | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| so deep-rooted that they cannot be lifted into awareness to their full extent, at least not entirely | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of my friends who have reached this particular awareness, or are about to reach it soon, will | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| It must be examined, analyzed, and brought into awareness more and more. You will be surprised how | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| is a matter not of geography but of awareness. Although the full perception of absolute reality is | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| of their deep inner yearning. Their lack of awareness is a self-deception and therefore illusion. When you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| But it is essential that you train your awareness in this direction, regardless of whether your reactions | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| its value will depend largely on your increasing awareness of where you stand in this respect. As | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| when your childish emotions are involved without your awareness. The child in you exaggerates the importance of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the right way, means a complete and full awareness of the moment, its significance, its truth. This | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| of the moment, its significance, its truth. This awareness can be attained only by tuning in to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| uncontrolled thought process, you are not in full awareness of self and of the moment, and therefore | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| This is good progress, indeed, for without this awareness the further necessary steps cannot be taken. Again | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| want, will heighten your intuition, your discrimination, your awareness, and therefore your self-respect. It will eliminate uncertainty | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| from the truth. Also, you need a growing awareness of where you are still confused and what | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| start of the upward turn toward God. The awareness of God is the beginning of wisdom. ANSWER | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| theory -- how strong this link is. Full awareness of it is essential. There may be isolated | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| missing. This basic unhappiness has to come to awareness now, if you really want to proceed in | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| damaging illusion. As you solve this conflict, your awareness of other people will increase. As yet, you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| human beings, while it is hidden from your awareness now, is a reality you will come to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| ever exists in the human sphere. But the awareness of your immaturity, a real insight into and | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| of the law of contagion, and this very awareness will immunize you. Thus you are increasingly less | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| part of the other's personality. This work increases awareness, and awareness is the only real weapon against | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the other's personality. This work increases awareness, and awareness is the only real weapon against the ills | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| -- you will find that the need for awareness is embodied in their teachings, though perhaps expressed | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| gain a certain detachment from yourself and an awareness of your childish, immature self-concern that prohibits a | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| teacher can do, above all, is to gain awareness of these things. Even while the conditions in | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| what they should and could be, the mere awareness of them will help. I do not even | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| be stressed again. Such self-development, in combination with awareness of general conditions as they are, compared with | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| again, it is a question of training one's awareness to perceive the inner content of something, and | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| reached a sufficiently deep level that transcends superficial awareness, it makes your work harder than it already | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| and halted by your ignorance, confusion, lack of awareness, or the wrong perspective on the real meaning | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| slowly, but surely. With a higher degree of awareness the tuning in takes place automatically. You cannot | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you will tune into a different current. Your awareness and understanding of the negative is the essential | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| sought unconsciously rather than in the light of awareness, and since they are sought under the misconception | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| within the path. Once you have the distinct awareness and feel the current, visualizing it as a | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| you must inwardly be torn apart. Only conscious awareness of this conflict will show you the way | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| become much more aware. If you combine this awareness with knowledge of the laws of communication and | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| It takes a great deal of self-honesty and awareness to understand this phenomenon and detect the inner | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| to be loved. With the help of this awareness you free yourself to some extent from the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| into it. Work first toward the recognition and awareness of the basic current of your longing for | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| expression. This work brings into clearer focus the awareness of that for which you basically long, and | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| long, and also what you fear. As this awareness grows, you will understand what I have been | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| will I. I will meet it in full awareness of my uncertainty. I am now aware that | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| avoid it. Conversely, a healthy attitude that retains awareness will obtain immediate growth and liberation. That which | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| desperately wanted -- life, happiness, security, self-confidence. The awareness of this false front began to vanish, but | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| for the psyche. Needless to say, the conscious awareness of this contradiction is missing until this particular | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| a very painstaking, focused look to gain an awareness of all this. Only the work you are | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| that is not so easy to bring into awareness. It takes considerable willpower, self-honesty, and patience to | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| this course a dangerous self-deception; the lack of awareness of what you really feel, why you act | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| does not allow it to fully reach surface awareness. Therefore the negative feeling has to be let | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| It is a natural byproduct of growth and awareness. You become more seeing, more alert, more intuitive | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the deep underlying reason has to come to awareness, for only then will your solution prove to | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| rebellion and self-pity set in, with no conscious awareness of the cause. This entire process is unconscious | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| from beginning to end -- there is no awareness of these two basic needs, no understanding that | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| resent. Such resentments may not rise to surface awareness, but their undermining strength is bound to reject | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |