| Balanced....................21 | |
| some aspects of their personality, yet be more balanced, or even tend to the opposite extreme, in | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| frenzy? Those who are outwardly calm and well balanced are not necessarily free of this aspect. In | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| effect of bringing the pendulum into a more balanced position. Out of the overactivity of the forcing | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| your inner being is off balance. In a balanced, integrated, full personality, one activity will enhance the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| become dangerous. To properly let go a healthy, balanced ego is needed, not indoctrinated with false concepts | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| we also call it. If this relationship is balanced, everything falls into place. All these lectures deal | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| less overt way. But when they are not balanced, each way produces inappropriate, ineffective, and even destructive | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| for every growing individual to discover the finely balanced interplay of these two universal forces. Since there | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| confronted with the unconscious obstructions has to be balanced with the waiting, receiving spirit in which the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| pulse beat of your path, my friends. The balanced pulsation of your soul forces can follow only | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| to come. The more you find your own balanced rhythm, the more a new vision will grow | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| eruption may occur. When the distribution is even, balanced -- again in a non-organic, distorted way -- | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| cannot proceed harmoniously if the emphasis is not balanced. The result appears effortlessly, a manifestation of involuntary | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| your lower self. Such an attitude leads to balanced development, integration, and a deep, reassuring sense of | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| and begin to resolve their inner conflicts. Healthy, balanced people who have found themselves always find their | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| evokes an inner guidance in the right and balanced measure, which you can then apply to your | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| result of imbalance. The healthy body keeps itself balanced. The consciousness that perpetuates and nurtures the healthy | 228 BALANCE |
| body will make sure that you lead a balanced life, partly through intelligence, partly through intuition, and | 228 BALANCE |
| be used toward others in a fair and balanced way if it is not first and primarily | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| It is therefore foolish to assume that a balanced, harmonious, abundant world order in which justice and | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| then can they function healthily with a constant balanced flow of giving and receiving, never exhausting the | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Balances....................9 | |
| of you. Nevertheless, it is not; the equation balances out. I will give you an example. Let | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| balance -- for it is this principle that balances the expansion and thus creates harmony, preventing the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| in which one aspect of the triad blends, balances, and harmoniously combines the other two. If the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| cannot mold life as long as one precariously balances on the point of confusion, despair, and stubborn | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| or between active and passive participation. These delicate balances cannot possibly be determined in a prescribed way | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| to wrong selflessness and wrong selfishness. All these balances and dualities will become elements in a spontaneous | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| stronger, so humanity goes through the same shifting balances. It is not true that there must always | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| aware of a certain imbalance within your structure. Balances constantly change when one side outweighs the other | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| as well as that of a collective organism, balances need to be constantly reexamined and adjusted in | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Balancing...................24 | |
| but not enough. There must be a continuous balancing. The acquired knowledge must always be applied on | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| and in the next one the other, until balancing and fusion can take place even in this | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| state wherein there are no more extremes. This balancing in future incarnations always applies to all aspects | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| a special way to go about rectifying or balancing the extreme? ANSWER: Well, I already gave some | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to bring back the balance. But this very balancing out may often seem like an upheaval. In | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a very wonderful law which constantly regulates itself, balancing itself. As I said before, you on this | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| at stake. It is so forceful that the balancing forces cause the other person to withdraw from | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| outer or inner storm may fulfill the same balancing function that an electric storm or earthquake fulfills | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| an organic, infinitely just and harmonious process, a balancing factor in the entire universe, so exact in | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| that occurs automatically. It is based on the balancing quality of inner law. But let us now | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| least expected, since a relaxed attitude is necessary. Balancing Ego Functions and the Involuntary Manifestations of Universal | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| right attitude toward the voluntary and involuntary functions, balancing poised effort and discipline with relaxation. Each step | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| undesirable for an individual still has an overall balancing effect in the scheme of things, ultimately contributing | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| universe intact. If there were no balance, no balancing consciousness, no balancing law, everything would disintegrate. All | 228 BALANCE |
| there were no balance, no balancing consciousness, no balancing law, everything would disintegrate. All the natural laws | 228 BALANCE |
| or underemphasized, chaos and temporary disintegration result. The balancing factor reveals the richness, the beauty, the wisdom | 228 BALANCE |
| person must never be receptive and soft. The balancing measurement is beyond your intellectual calculations. You must | 228 BALANCE |
| of being held together and carried by a balancing system of such grandeur, of such purpose, that | 228 BALANCE |
| with it. You learn to deliberately consult the balancing system which is always available to those who | 228 BALANCE |
| of wakefulness. As you listen to the rhythmic balancing factors, you will discern that your own inner | 228 BALANCE |
| into the real universe and adopt a new balancing structure that may manifest at first as imbalance | 228 BALANCE |
| this topic? QUESTION: Is what you call the balancing factor, for instance in the aggressive and receptive | 228 BALANCE |
| receptive principles, a third force? ANSWER: No, the balancing factor is the cohesive force that underlies the | 228 BALANCE |
| underlies the manifestations that appear as opposites. The balancing factor is the cohesion, the bridge, if you | 228 BALANCE |
| Ball........................6 | |
| and entangled, until there is such a tight ball of confusion that one can disentangle it only | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| scatter the clouds, then you can untangle the ball of threads, knot by knot. For only those | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| parts are integrated, in the shape of a ball -- but please do not take this too | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| and I the words. One side of the ball is the positive, masculine principle, the other the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| and vice versa. Think back again to the ball. One side is the positive, masculine principle, the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| mean it is a round form, like a ball. The surface of the subtle body can have | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Band........................6 | |
| The higher the development, the more will the band of love which ties one soul to the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| to the other become visible -- but this band is tied in freedom, in the sense that | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| by love. All who are connected with this band of love will feel the other's pain with | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| when the surrender was not forthcoming. A tight band will have dissolved; now you let the other | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| physical body by a cord, or elastic spiral-like band, also of subtle matter. This cord is not | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the temporary state of unconsciousness is ended, the band will bring the subtle bodies back. When this | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Bankruptcy..................6 | |
| have created in order to avoid the necessary bankruptcy. You grab outer, temporary, unsound means to coast | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| never dare expose your deficits and the inner bankruptcy that smolders underground. When you work with your | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Then the fear and resistance to declaring the bankruptcy that you had frantically covered up is finally | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| All personal crises, all breakdowns are nothing but bankruptcy exposed. Such crises can be deliberately induced under | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| to go through the temporary exposure of inner bankruptcy, which is often also outer bankruptcy, both in | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| of inner bankruptcy, which is often also outer bankruptcy, both in individuals and in countries. The shambles | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Bar.........................10 | |
| time to adjust to new outlooks. Do not bar your vision by too hasty conclusions; think seriously | 21 THE FALL |
| your body -- then fears, doubts, and questions bar your way. But they cannot do so if | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| to overcome such vanity and pride. All faults bar the way to divine grace; every effort to | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| aware of all those aspects of yourself that bar access to the treasure. You are accustomed to | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| you incapable of relinquishing your separateness. You thus bar yourself from completing your spiritual destiny. You prevent | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| and receiving be created when such faulty attitudes bar the way? The fear of self must exist | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| deceptive -- but specifically where the personal hurdles bar the way because one fears the truth within | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| out of fear of pain -- you still bar the ability to live in a higher state | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| conscious resistance and unconscious negation, fears and blocks bar the way, then a very harmful process is | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| and so your stiff insistence on them will bar the way to clarity and truth. The resulting | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |