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| Let me explain. Willpower, just as any other quality, has to be engendered and built up by | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| soul is unhealthy. Indeed, immaturity is a childish quality, because it means to want the impossible, like | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| influence and even change into a positive, good quality when the woman develops herself spiritually. The more | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| find more difficult, because this indicates that the quality to be cultivated is lacking for the ultimate | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| lower self create forms that correspond to the quality, strength, and type of their lower self. This | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| if you violate divine law, you emanate a quality that draws the spirits of darkness near you | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| come from there, they have a very different quality and character from thoughts coming from the brain | 18 FREE WILL |
| with divine forces; it is thus prepared in quality for the influx of divine currents. Then the | 18 FREE WILL |
| every divine aspect was turned into its opposite quality. Therefore, free will, which is divine, was turned | 22 SALVATION |
| all pure spiritual qualities to regenerate the same quality from themselves. If you have love, so much | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| much stronger that you lose the little positive quality you have. But if you break this negative | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| set up a positive one, then the positive quality becomes inexhaustible. The more you give then, the | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| every divine aspect in creation and every good quality or virtue you can possibly think of, each | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| each being, spirit, or person. Such a basic quality may be courage, another love and kindness, and | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| qualities as well, they have one basic, outstanding quality that strengthens and furnishes all other divine aspects | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| to find out the ground tone or marked quality of your being. Since you have heard the | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| will also point out what the underlying good quality behind each fault is, for there is no | 31 SHAME |
| and lead you back to their original good quality. I will do it here with both extremes | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| in the light of spiritual law. The good quality that was once the underlying factor of a | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| distortions or extreme manifestations of a once good quality. Furthermore, remember that it is possible to have | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| is concerned -- overambitiousness -- the original good quality is a strong willpower, a readiness to pay | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| easier to understand if you think of each quality, each trend, each attitude, good or bad, as | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the image itself. In fact, the very same quality that makes you resist is the one that | 38 IMAGES |
| fact, their work would increase many times in quality and creativity if it were combined with purification | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| that creates a disharmony. You know that every quality is a healthy strength that mates with a | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| soul. In addition to its pure background, any quality may be motivated by negative tendencies. The same | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| prostitutes. And all those lowly people felt this quality of understanding within him. Against Jesus they did | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| in some realms of your being have the quality already known to you; and in other realms | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| there are obstructions -- have the exact opposite quality. Let us assume that one of your foremost | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| very courageous person. It may be your outstanding quality, one that you manifest in many realms of | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| growth, building, forward movement, search, activity, the outgoing quality necessary to find the other you - - | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| to find and make use of the introspective quality in you -- and use it properly. If | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| Nothing in the human soul is separate. Every quality, reaction, attitude, or tendency must invariably influence everything | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| no introspection and an over-emphasis on the outgoing quality hinders progress. This imbalance, as well as the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| of this fear, this abyss and its phantom quality, is first to visualize, feel, and experience its | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| distinguish between a spirit entity and the spirit quality or substance. These two are the same in | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| state of being in which they are spirit quality or substance; or they can retract their fluids | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| although the matter is an infinitely more subtle quality, and its frequency rate infinitely higher. Only after | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| true that new spirits -- spirit substance, spirit quality, spirits in the state of being are constantly | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| certain facts by looking at the stone: the quality and material, as well as the color. But | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| any shadow, so that you find a good quality manifesting in a perfectly healthy way. The current | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| are unpolluted, undiluted, unspoiled. But that same good quality, in a different area of your emotional life | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| that the distortion is fortified by the good quality. In such a case, the good quality not | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| good quality. In such a case, the good quality not only fortifies a bad one, but becomes | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to the overall development determines the length and quality of the various cycles, favorable and unfavorable. This | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| momentary recognition of reality, of its totally different quality and steadfast character. The ability to live in | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to you. Hence, you do not see the quality of people or of occurrences in reality. Last | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| does not see the passing character or overall quality of the moment. It knows only the immediate | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| a more realistic or truthful view of the quality or importance of the event. Thus, the maturing | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| without pressure or haste, rather with a calm quality, in the full realization that emotions do not | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| important aspect in education would be the unifying quality. Young people should be shown the truth that | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| geyser, according to its individuality. But the intrinsic quality of purity and life-giving force will be there | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may think it is merely a strong positive quality, and as such it cannot or should not | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| to experience life intensely. Jesus' disciples have this quality; they too experience fully. And Jesus Christ himself | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| attitudes, but most often it is an inner quality or attitude. As you proceed in this new | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| not a question of quantity, but rather of quality. That is, the original motivation is different in | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| We are surrounded by thought forms of different quality and strength. In what way do they interplay | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| She will love him because she senses another quality behind and apart from the traits that are | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the general concept is that a trend or quality in itself is either good or bad. This | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| whole, it is not true. Each trend or quality, originally, before the split, was good and constructive | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and overcome your inner split. Every concept or quality contains such two-foldedness. Even an unquestionably divine quality | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| quality contains such two-foldedness. Even an unquestionably divine quality like love, the most potent force in the | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| greedy craving, and dependency. Let us take another quality: charity. There are many aspects to it: the | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| is different, if you probe your emotions. The quality of the pain of loss does not contain | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| a barometer of inner changes. The different emotional quality of your fantasies and the kind of satisfaction | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| An otherwise delinquent parent may have a special quality to give the child something it needs. Also | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| your reactions. Your emanations will have a different quality. Your whole life will become different. If you | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| you can name. The reasons why the same quality displays its positive facet at one time and | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| self-deception that causes the destructive result, not the quality of the wish itself, whether or not the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| now, the real self can manifest. An intrinsic quality of the real self is that it reacts | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| The mind is habit-forming. Habit is an intrinsic quality of the mind. Experience out of being never | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| nonparticipation is a passive pretense that hinders the quality of the discussions. If every participant prepares questions | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| speak of flexibility versus rigidity. Flexibility is the quality of resilient, elastic, healthy soul-substance. When it comes | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| occurs automatically. It is based on the balancing quality of inner law. But let us now consider | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| permanent in time, but they are so in quality, in consistency, in character, in being. A feeling | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Let us suppose you sense a detrimental, negative quality in someone else, or in yourself. If this | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| in someone else, or in yourself. If this quality is true, you are dealing with a feeling | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| perception; however, you do not sense the negative quality because, instead of merely observing what is, you | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| could trust the flux of time, the benign quality of its movement and the growth it can | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| and inclinations. In other words, it determines the quality of a person's life. The more realistically and | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| shackles which prohibit the manifestation of every divine quality inherent in the soul. It certainly never prevents | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| apply to the quantity, but only to the quality invested. As long as humanity approaches any question | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| movement there is no life. Movement contains the quality of reaching out. It contains the elements of | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| have labored in non-commitment and impatience, but the quality of full commitment with patient effort that alone | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| particular undesirable factor or event, but the unknown quality about it. Now, it is possible to fear | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| measure of time, but in a measure of quality that could exist at any moment, specifically at | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| less desirable than it seems. A flat, unliving quality constricts both the good and the bad alternatives | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| is with loving. For love is not a quality that resides in the ego. The ego has | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| Anyone observing a child can see this natural quality of joyful outreaching and gusto. Only when pain | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| not a matter of size, but rather of quality. With this new concept, the truth of a | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| by others. Any unreal needs have an addictive quality; the more one needs them, the stronger unhealthy | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| an entirely different level, and of a different quality. The only way I can describe it is | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| -- only the flavor of experience and the quality of being are different. The imitation feelings are | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| of human nature is fully grown, the self-regulating quality manifests more and more. Then a person is | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| disturbed and fearful heart automatically loses this rhythmic quality. On the physical level the rhythm occurs according | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| immortal nature, one is filled with its eternal quality; it can only be a continuum, for this | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the power and momentum of consciousness is the quality of being self-imitating. It is very hard to | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| truth -- hence resistance -- negates the benign quality of the universe; it negates the truth of | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| building material is solid, beautiful, and of excellent quality. Some is defective, a cheap imitation, and rotten | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| were recognized is incomparably higher in intensity and quality, and nothing has to be given up for | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| task is inner peace, fearlessness and the organic quality of your living and dying. Those who refuse | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| these states of being, in ample quantity and quality. It is up to you to realize them | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| forgiving and therefore acting out. In every negative quality a positive one is embedded. I said this | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| to the extent it exists, the original positive quality in being judgmental is a great capacity to | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| same blockage. Their positive, original seed is the quality of being centered within, being firm, self-assertive, standing | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| In its original, divine manifestation it is the quality of letting go and letting flow, of not | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| is being childlike and that is an invaluable quality that you should truly nurture in you. By | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| life is all about. It is perhaps the quality I just described, the inability to accept frustration | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| and this is very different from the childlike quality that is so valuable. Do you see what | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| own personal lives the development of one single quality has a different rhythm and timing than the | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| rhythm and timing than the development of another quality. And even the same quality may have different | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| development of another quality. And even the same quality may have different phases. This is the overlapping | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| your dualistic life seems to consist of. Another quality extremely necessary for the leadership that is awaiting | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| of knowing that you are not objective. Another quality of leadership is the willingness to risk exposure | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| a case for yourself? Still another absolutely essential quality of leadership that the infantile personality lacks and | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| why many spiritual teachings say that the lowest quality on the whole scale is not hatred, but | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| around you will dissolve. Let us examine the quality of various human relationships in light of this | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| in the greater pool, never losing its unique quality, and will return. Could it be different with | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |