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| dear ones, not even those who have already progressed on this path or who are actually in | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| If the soul of someone who has already progressed quite far on this path is still unhappy | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| to this extent. Her development, however, has not progressed far enough for me to get the full | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| until the knowledge becomes accessible, until you have progressed enough to deserve it. Simply follow the Bible | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| of becoming too mechanical. Now that you have progressed so far, you find yourself struggling not to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| stronger in the measure to which the Fall progressed; they blur your basic light. It is the | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| one away from the Divine. Today, humanity has progressed so that what is obviously wicked will not | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| many talented human beings who have not yet progressed that far, however. They may have a great | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| with good faith and goodwill and you have progressed well. You have made certain major recognitions. You | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| This indicates that the distortion about God has progressed to a considerable degree. To a smaller degree | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of a conscience. The farther your development has progressed, the stronger your conscience becomes, and it registers | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| to hide this desire until the hiding has progressed so far that the growing person himself is | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the maximum, but the outer manifestation is already progressed too far to relieve the entire sickness. In | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the way toward complete clarification. You who have progressed a little on this path should now stop | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| I venture to say that anyone who has progressed somewhat in this work has personally experienced this | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| longer need these terms now that you have progressed from there. And now you can also see | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such a path. Even after you have already progressed considerably in other ways, you may still be | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| be distorted, you know that. When humanity has progressed sufficiently in its development, this will no longer | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| face themselves. Many of you, my friends, have progressed greatly, even if you do not feel happy | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| their self-search. With others, the work may have progressed for some time and minor barricades may have | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| self-unfoldment. Regardless of how much of you have progressed, you there still maintain an imagined helplessness toward | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you, during the course of this year, have progressed, each in your own way; most of you | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| principle. You enjoyed your woes. Now, you have progressed. You experience yourself in a new way. Instead | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| be misled into believing that you have not progressed. This state may be the best possible proof | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| doors to liberation. Those of you who have progressed and sense the excitement of a new life | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| detail. Most of you, my friends, have sufficiently progressed in the capacity to distinguish between healthy and | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| something that befalls you. Once you have truly progressed on this path you come to the point | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| mind are sometimes exceedingly painful. Yet, he has progressed in this area, too, in that he has | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| living. The path is glorious when you have progressed beyond the initial stages where you battle with | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| do not say that humanity has now sufficiently progressed so that outer rules are no longer necessary | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| apply equally to both sexes emerged as development progressed. Yet men -- and often women as well | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
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| of the wall in your soul. As one progresses on the path of self-knowledge and perfection, one | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| split, the lower the development. The more development progresses, the less remains of the split of the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Thus, in the measure that he or she progresses the searcher and worker on the path will | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| in you. But your work on the path progresses steadily, and if you train your inner perception | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| and artificially exaggerate other hurts. As your work progresses, you sometimes see it is unreasonable of you | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| concentration is focused on the inner work which progresses very well, there may not be enough attention | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| specific shame. Slowly but surely, as your pathwork progresses in the right direction, you learn to admit | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| goes well, this attitude diminishes as the person progresses. But the beginner clings to the unconscious hope | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| aspects of the manifestation of life. As evolution progresses, this static condition decreases as consciousness and energy | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| aware of your negative intentionality. When your pathwork progresses well and you gain deeper and more honest | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the outer regions. The more life on earth progresses in spirituality, justice, love, truth and oneness, the | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| your growth becomes more and more tangible. It progresses in ever-accelerating beauty as you master the difficulties | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| said, is quite inevitable. The more your path progresses, the more aware you become of the inner | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| and already do -- shorten as your path progresses. They become less fearsome and less frequent. Continue | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
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| ability to experience. All these faculties have a progression. One person's sensitivity may be on the lowest | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| of ultimate reality. All of life is a progression to attain further unity. Each step toward unity | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| of the divine in you? In the slow progression of such a pathwork, it will come to | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| to come to the second stage in this progression where you realize that the part which asks | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| In the second major phase in the evolutionary progression the soul learns to acclimatize itself to universal | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| misfortune. But along the curve of growing a progression takes place. You begin to distinguish events that | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| brings you to the second stage in this progression. In the second stage you can relatively easily | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| evolutionary scale. In the third stage of this progression, your attitudes, actions, intentions, and feelings have become | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| I would like to speak about a historical progression in terms of self- responsibility. In ancient times | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| maps give you a better understanding of the progression. No new phase is possible without the preceding | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| resist so much that they deliberately obstruct their progression and natural organic movement and therefore experience unnecessary | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| goodness, joy, total justice. When you ponder your progression on your path, it will become clear to | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
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| in power would still enforce his belief and prohibit the others. Today, humanity has come far enough | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| emotionally represents the enemy, the restricting forces that prohibit your doing what you wish. Authority can also | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| do not live in truth, and therefore you prohibit the life force which, though it has many | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| this the child cannot understand. Parents may also prohibit pleasure out of ignorance and fear. Thus it | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| -- destructive currents result. These destructive currents either prohibit the fulfillment of the particular conscious wish itself | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| as well as in other areas -- may prohibit the inner will to function. Tonight I was | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| You betray the best in you because you prohibit the unfoldment of your love capacity. At the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| tendencies, based on wrong conclusions in the unconscious, prohibit the unfolding of constructive and creative tendencies in | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| other words, the rigidly built, imagined situations that prohibit reality also prohibit your full experience of what | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| rigidly built, imagined situations that prohibit reality also prohibit your full experience of what life has to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| leaving anything open, unanswered, and in doubt. You prohibit your capacity to love due to, first, your | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| said that we shall deal with elements that prohibit your creative faculties in a more direct way | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| of your remark about removing the bonds that prohibit creativity, so that the soul can freely express | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| if your will is strong enough. It cannot prohibit, even if the outer will is still paralyzed | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| that your conflicts, images, misconceptions and inner problems prohibit your real self from manifesting. At this point | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| and the world is hostile to you and prohibit you from unfolding the best you have to | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| the stream of life. Instead you artificially cramp, prohibit, and squash your natural feelings. Maybe your real | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| they are. The negative result is that you prohibit the growth of a living organism, for feelings | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| the expression of your being. If you constantly prohibit your real feelings from functioning and substitute artificial | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| when your integrity is at stake, or to prohibit others from taking advantage of you. But most | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you do this, the more you undermine and prohibit the real strength. This real strength can only | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| look within yourself try to see how you prohibit or sabotage the attainment of the very thing | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| within yourself. Both soul currents, being utterly self-centered, prohibit you from experiencing and dealing with defeat. From | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| feeling into a state of numbness and thereby prohibit yourself from truly loving others. Yes, you may | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| self- respect, not their counterfeits. Rigid, perfectionistic standards prohibit making mistakes, receiving criticism, experiencing failure. They point | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| other person is imperfect, he or she will prohibit my happiness. You try to push this constant | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| cripple your willpower and wish-capacity. These four aspects prohibit a healthy, relaxed steady flow of your will | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| give you the freedom of reality. It may prohibit your meeting life afresh so as to truly | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| By covering it even more thickly when you prohibit feelings, you do not open the well of | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| pride, self-will, and fear, the fundamental faults that prohibit love and disturb the soul. In each case | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| you will see that these three attitudes directly prohibit love and are contrary to it. Because of | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| will see all the blocks in you that prohibit feelings and intuition. A feeling always reacts to | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| of one of those misunderstandings I mentioned which prohibit growth and unfoldment. The misunderstanding comes from the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| continuance with dire effects on your personality; you prohibit the very thing you most want: to grow | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| be. It creates self-punishment and imposes shackles which prohibit the manifestation of every divine quality inherent in | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| true. Before prejudice, fear, and misconception tend to prohibit the natural flow of an infant's participation in | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| unconscious misconceptions, false guilts, and destructive attitudes that prohibit it. You may even have discovered a fear | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| darkness to shrink from, fear will no longer prohibit your fulfillment. Every aspect of living follows this | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| desire for either inflicting or enduring cruelty may prohibit all spontaneity and make you withdraw from and | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| needs. You then become resentful of those who prohibit your gratification. You must become resentful of life | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| children encounter conditions in the outer environment that prohibit the natural flow of the life force, the | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| you will become aware of emotional tensions that prohibit the free-flowing feeling of the life force. This | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| your limited inner concepts and closed-up energy centers prohibit expansion. You still suffer from the results of | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| be neurotic and destructive. Only conscious perception can prohibit this. Only then will you be able to | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| consequences, the tension of your soul movement will prohibit the fulfillment you want. Eventually you will even | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| annihilate yourself and thus become more destructive. You prohibit yourself from living. Nevertheless, your thoughts, feelings, wishes | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| Thus, the defenses are to your detriment. They prohibit the good of life from coming into you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| people push with their outer will and thus prohibit the inner, relaxed will from manifesting, or prevent | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| claim only the inner life is important. They prohibit the inevitable movement from the inner to the | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| that the outer does not matter, then you prohibit the flow of the whole process. If this | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| your distrust of change, you will no longer prohibit yourself from changing and expanding. Then you will | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |