| Repetition..................35 | |
| makeup, but you will at least see some repetition indicating that there must be something in you | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the beginning this seems to you like senseless repetition, lacking in progress. It is not! Without going | 36 PRAYER |
| recognized. Another indication of an image is the repetition of certain incidents in one's life. An image | 38 IMAGES |
| Only then can you find the pattern-like later repetition of your early behavior and reactions, and only | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| have been spoken many times but they need repetition for many of you, my dear friends. I | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| freedom. When this has been accomplished, the constant repetition of this unhappy pattern will cease and the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is useless to take the available time for repetition. By rereading it, you will see that it | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| important in them and what is utter waste. Repetition of impressions may not only be important because | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| when you are free of this ever continuing repetition, will you no longer cry to be loved | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| avoids clinging to ready-made words which have by repetition lost their inner meaning for you. That is | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the matter that you repress awareness of the repetition. You repeat it in such a subtle way | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your real self that does so. The unfeeling repetition of a word is done by your intellect | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| most fundamental atonement and restitution is change, because repetition of the guilts is then impossible. I do | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| resistance. I said this before, but it needs repetition because you forget these things. My dearest friends | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| talking about. Offhand, tonight's lecture may seem a repetition and a consolidation of some of the material | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| reality. Now let us discuss the process of repetition, which is vastly underrated, overlooked, and misunderstood. At | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| have to understand better and more deeply the repetition and recognize it more clearly. May the blessing | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| little reliefs, small insights, subsequent relapses, and the repetition of the process. This step means a substantial | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the relationship grow more real and less a repetition of old patterns. I would also advise that | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| hardships, suffering, disappointments, unfulfillments, so-called bad luck, the repetition of unfavorable patterns -- all are determined by | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| me discuss the following. Your personality is a repetition, in smaller form, of the whole universe. Both | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| hope that this lecture, in spite of much repetition in essence, conveyed something new to you, thus | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| fear barricades such a full experience. With each repetition, a little more of the truth penetrates until | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| problematic, or anxiety-producing is the result of a repetition of the original event in this life, when | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| Lack of courage induces an individual to rote repetition of handed-down moral codes. People may accept handed-down | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| The ongoing negative cycle and its futile, automatic repetition that the consciousness is unable to stop generates | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| consciousness is unable to stop generates hopelessness. The repetition and the hopelessness could stop only by no | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| material I touch upon must be necessarily a repetition, but this is so that you can be | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| thought or intent is new or is a repetition of the old. Obviously, both alternatives can apply | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| different context. The spiral movement of growing needs repetition and needs to link up these repetitions with | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| dynamic thinking process, an awareness -- not blind repetition. So you see, my friends, tradition can be | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| reality, or it can be a meaningless, dead repetition of the past that no longer has any | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| create a new future, rather than a dead repetition of the past. On this earth sphere you | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| new truth, a revelation, later becomes renewed in repetition -- an old truth under new light. But | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| cause and effect, of negative karma, of endless repetition of undesirable events, can be broken, my friends | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Repetitions.................10 | |
| is the regular intake of spiritual truths; even repetitions are important! The learning of spiritual laws is | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| again that even for the most regular attendants repetitions are essential. Not only do you human beings | 18 FREE WILL |
| as well as fragments of impressions and automatic repetitions make up, in the main, the material of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| go again and again through the seemingly discouraging repetitions, each time finding the same anew, you will | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| That is why the soul requires so many repetitions until it can rid itself of fear, particularly | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| the emphasis of our next overall concern, necessary repetitions notwithstanding. It represents a blueprint of the future | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| emotions right now, you will recognize them as repetitions of early experience, and, sooner or later on | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| needs repetition and needs to link up these repetitions with different contexts and connections. I have explained | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| of the great life currents. You see certain repetitions in the spirals, phases re-encountered on deeper levels | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| everything exists in microcosm and macrocosm, in many repetitions, for the principles of creation are perfect and | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Repetitious.................10 | |
| on an outer level. Therefore it may seem repetitious to them, for I have often said similar | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| foreground thoughts out of background thoughts. The stereotyped repetitious thoughts that go on in your mind so | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| is much easier. Then, by looking over the repetitious pattern in your various difficulties, you will learn | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| it. I do not want to be too repetitious now. Let me repeat only this: the more | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| know, my friends, that I am being very repetitious. But it cannot be emphasized enough. It is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| one answer. At the risk of being again repetitious, I have to say once more, there is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| of you may believe that I am being repetitious. But those of you who are really deeply | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| reach these areas will not find my words repetitious or impossible to understand. This lecture should give | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| to them. Such summaries must at first appear repetitious, but when you experience the truth within your | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| lower self. Much of it will sound, perforce, repetitious, but this cannot be avoided in any summary | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| Repetitive..................14 | |
| generally, not when there seems to be a repetitive pattern and a conflict involved. The right procedure | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| conclusions were. Often you do not notice the repetitive pattern in your life, my friends. You pass | 38 IMAGES |
| of your suffering, the causes of all the repetitive patterns running through your life -- you have | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| taken various forms, but there is always a repetitive pattern. This is the first indication that an | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| Whatever happens to you now is mostly a repetitive pattern created by your image conclusions. Focusing your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you perceive reality, you begin to break the repetitive vicious circle. As you truly perceive such a | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| meaning becomes lifeless. The experience has become a repetitive pattern, and your real self no longer functions | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| your being at all aware of it. These repetitive responses always apply to your basic split. Where | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| only slightly. So, in the last analysis, your repetitive patterns are not caused by the faulty ways | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| live in reality and free yourself of the repetitive chain of illusion. Once you cease reenacting the | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| is possible only after you have broken the repetitive chain from the inner duality to the parents | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| insight is it possible to stop the destructive repetitive process. When you learn the rhythm of your | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| and inner activities -- especially the permanent and repetitive ones -- are based on self-perpetuating processes. Each | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| your defenses. You cannot come out of these repetitive cycles, no matter how good your intentions are | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| Replace.....................28 | |
| pain. Later, the overcoming of various resistances will replace the pain, until eventually not even the struggle | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| because these two levels of perception can never replace one another; they can only be integrated by | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| for the human being. If the passive forces replace the active ones, entering the channels where the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| cannot be recommended enough that you try to replace hatred, resentment, aggression with love and unselfishness. But | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| at all. Then, and then only can you replace the misconception with the right concept. But find | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to other people, who in some remote way replace them psychologically. That may be a friend, a | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| them. Only then can true religion and knowledge replace the false religion of escape and the vague | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| will help you to relinquish false needs and replace them with constructive behavior patterns that fulfill your | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| threshold, that the new, constructive patterns can immediately replace the old destructive ones. Such an expectation is | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| your inner resources, and using worthy causes to replace the well that exists within you, waiting to | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| most beautiful prayers, the loftiest thoughts can never replace utter self-facing and making conscious what heretofore slumbered | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| impossible to adopt a truthful concept and to replace the old untruthful one unless one clearly understands | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the years, nor the amount of effort can replace full inner commitment. The universal forces have one | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| means letting go of tense, anxious self-will and replace it with a relaxed, free-flowing, flexible will, based | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| fault into a new, constructive attitude that will replace the old, destructive one. This is how transformation | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| of substance and meaning. Since the ego cannot replace, or in any way come near, the resourcefulness | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| It is the way of being. Nothing can replace it. No substitute solution you seek or hope | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the moment. Hence, more and more, life must replace death, health must replace sickness, joy must replace | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| and more, life must replace death, health must replace sickness, joy must replace suffering, security must replace | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| replace death, health must replace sickness, joy must replace suffering, security must replace fear. The ultimate truth | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| replace sickness, joy must replace suffering, security must replace fear. The ultimate truth of divine law and | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| new, more resilient reactions. Thus good feelings will replace those which were negative or dead. Rushing and | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| by itself, can be a barricade when you replace the feeling with knowing. In this case the | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| corner of your hidden being. Challenge it and replace it with the truth that, as a result | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| will flow. The positive, energetic, aggressive movement will replace childish and destructive rebellion and denial. Graceful giving | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your self-will may not like it -- will replace humiliation, self-denial, submission based on fear and on | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| an act toward God. His will alone must replace your self-will, but sometimes His will can function | 254 SURRENDER |
| a structure that you need to eliminate and replace. This unwillingness clearly implies the wish to continue | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |