| articulate, you will understand deeper layers of your being that are responsible for the reactions you have | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the universe. And when we see a human being we know at once by the forms in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| all around you and within you. A human being living in complete and utter harmony with the | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| feeling of peace, strength, and a sense of being vibrantly alive -- until the next obstruction is | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| you will revive on all levels of your being. As I said at the beginning of this | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| defending badly, because in a corner of your being you still want to prove how right you | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| hardness in you, something that prevents you from being completely empty and flowing. QUESTION: I think that | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| without any deliberate intention on your part of being bad. Evil and destruction can work in you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| your fears without realizing that they come from being overconcerned with your own person and your fear | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| with your own person and your fear of being hurt. You withhold from others your outgoing love | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| conflicts way down in the depth of their being -- in contrast to the surface manifestations of | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| yet applied it to all levels of your being. You have not assimilated it completely. You have | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| cannot be true. You are so convinced of being the opposite of what you discovered that it | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| tendency: you can in some realms of your being have the quality already known to you; and | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| guilt feeling when you blame yourself for not being perfect now. Such unjustified guilt extends into all | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| clearly, my dear friends, between the guilt of being imperfect at this stage and the guilt of | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| this stage and the guilt of hurtful self-will. Being imperfect should not in itself make you feel | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| is truth and courage. Accepting justified guilt is being in truth and it takes courage. The life | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| a matter of degree. But wherever fear of being hurt, fear of disappointment, or fear of life's | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| but you are afraid to love or risk being hurt, and thus you withhold love from others | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| may have reached intellectual maturity. Emotional maturity means being unafraid to pay the price of living. And | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| only others but yourself. Emotional maturity also means being unafraid of your own emotions: if you have | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| might happen to you later. Emotional maturity means being able to make a full decision and to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you want, wanting what you can have, and being willing to pay the price for it. To | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| give up egotism on all levels of your being, to reach into the depths of your unconscious | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| not yet having found the key to your being. Try to understand this approach, my dear ones | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| it should be the same in the human being. When a human being is in tune with | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| same in the human being. When a human being is in tune with the universe, when the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| force. But the life force cannot fill your being, because the opposing forces bottle it up. Without | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| a healthy medicine. However, it does not mean being pessimistic or looking forward to negative happenings if | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| opposite. This can happen for various reasons, one being that you do not quite know what you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| is neutrality: let go of your self-will without being either optimistic or pessimistic. Just wish to learn | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| is the second conflict of the growing human being. If the child hated someone it did not | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| happy and enjoy pleasure, in spite of this being a natural longing, you feel you do not | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| as if they happened involuntarily, without the personality being responsible for them at all. Thus a further | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| fortify this chain reaction. Now, the fear of being punished and the fear of not deserving happiness | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the humiliation, the helplessness, and the degradation of being punished by forces outside myself. These basic conflicts | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| wrong and ignorant conclusions exists in every human being to some degree. Thus the personality inflicts punishment | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| guilt is not conscious. You think that by being so perfect you can avoid punishment. In this | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| punishment. In this way a second conscience is being created. In reality only one conscience does exist | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| has different qualities and shortcomings. Therefore, every human being needs something different for each life, and often | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| yourself, If I am not even capable of being as good and as perfect as I should | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| secret of not only hating, but also of being unable to be good and pure. You may | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| -- their ignorance, selfishness, and immaturity -- without being ashamed, and apply your conscious knowledge to them | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| -- dissolves, and only the spirit, the original being, remains. The spirit is the indestructible, the eternal | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| encounter innumerable difficulties with other human beings despite being full of good will and aware of the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| of the fundamental vicious circles in the human being. When a breakdown occurs, the subconscious says, You | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| you can give up the slight satisfaction in being hurt and wronged -- yes, there is a | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| surroundings, has a feeling of not belonging, of being isolated and unique in a negative sense. This | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| you expound it with very good arguments, while being utterly unaware that notwithstanding all the good arguments | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| disharmonious whenever an opinion contrary to yours is being offered, when you feel angry inwardly or when | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| conceivable subject. QUESTION: What about the problem of being unable to form an opinion on a subject | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| human personality. Your own higher self, the divine being living within yourself, registers, feels, and sees, but | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| realize that a certain behavior on your part, being good and right in itself, was done without | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| and compulsion and before you are capable of being one with your divine self, you may continue | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| love yet. To do the wrong act is being no more true to yourself than was the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| one of the past lectures that no human being can love completely or be perfect. Then how | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| wrong concepts? If and when a growing human being becomes conscious of such an impression, he or | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| recognized its significance on all levels of your being. This must always be the first step. You | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| with that part in yourself that persists in being childish and unreasonable. As far as the proper | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| you believe in injustice and are afraid of being the prey of circumstances over which you have | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the real and true concept cannot fill your being. God is, among so many other things, life | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of His infinite love. Neither is true. God, being all, is personal as well if He chooses | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| God-manifest, but also in His laws, in the being of the laws. The apparently impersonal love of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| life's hurts in the right spirit, by not being so involved with your self that you see | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to the point of healthy detachment and objectivity. Being human, it is understandable that you fear life | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| you to the degree that you succeed in being truly objective about yourself. QUESTIONER: I am not | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| about yourself. QUESTIONER: I am not afraid of being hurt, but I would like to learn to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| substitute disproportionate self-love in other areas of your being. You must remember the unavoidable connection between these | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| against authority, and about your fears of not being accepted and loved. All these attitudes cause self- | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| realized. It is the sickly kind of self-admiration, being in love with oneself. This may manifest in | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| life-force may bring the reaction of a sickly being in love with one's life. There is no | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| what rejection must have caused your self-love, this being in love with yourself or with your life | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| whatever good you have, without the element of being in love with it, so to speak. The | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| have to consider their own selves too. Without being aware of these thoughts, they are filled with | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| refrain from making any decision. Either you are being selfish or masochistic, because in not considering yourself | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| attitude. It is well known that every human being, as a child and occasionally also later, when | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| not get involved with this part of your being, but see it objectively. There are many ways | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| of each person. It differs with each human being. QUESTION: Perhaps you might clarify in what way | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| not necessarily in the obvious physical sense of being in love with one's outer person. Here, too | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| life-force is directed toward the self, instead of being outgoing and finding the bridge to the next | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| Excessive self-love, leading to homosexuality, or at least being partly responsible for it, would work this way | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| beloved self, which is substituted by another human being, because the unquenchable desire of the soul to | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| has a desire for femininity, the state of being. Couldn't that also be the reason? I mean | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| You see, the original spiritual entity is one being, consisting of male and female qualities. Only after | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| for it and let it penetrate your inner being. Be in peace, my dearest friends, be in | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| interpreted as the divine spark in every living being -- and all three interpretations are right, without | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to a very small degree any unpurified human being may have a little of this tendency. Just | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| need and desire for love is stronger than being true to yourself, the bondage principle is at | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| less of a show you will make about being independent. The more one is basically afraid of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I realize that I am a limited human being and therefore I am bound to make mistakes | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| belong to the Plan of Salvation and are being prepared for incarnation? Are they subjected to this | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Incidentally, by looking at and knowing another human being you may sometimes quite easily tell whether that | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and the erotic force which include the other being, not as a necessary instrument to be used | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the static principle is rest, the state of being, timelessness, passivity in the healthy sense. Healthy growth | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| another; they will be in contradiction. Each created being is governed predominantly by one of these principles | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| two. That cannot be. Although each perfectly created being has as its basic characteristic one of these | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| but unwittingly also in a destructive way. Not being aware of what your true personality is in | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| highest stage one can reach: the state of being, of timelessness, and motion in motionlessness. It is | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| no change is possible. Of course, no human being is in the static state with all the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| the same token, if a person says: By being so extroverted, I neglect my own spiritual nature | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| have heard something about Nirvana, the state of Being, often try to attain this state forcefully, long | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| to be reached and the real state of Being finally attained. But this cannot happen by forceful | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| and woman; when they finally merge into one being, in the final state, that does not mean | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| Ghost represents the static principle, the state of being. QUESTIONER: Yes, it is the equilibrium. At the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| the highest form of existence, the state of being, is static and therefore apparently without motion. It | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| about it. Intuition has the further distinction of being conscious. The moment it is intuition, it must | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| Let us get back to the feeling of being undeserving, which is nothing but an inferiority feeling | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| tune in, will pass by this force without being able to be affected by it. Can you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| know yourself in the deepest regions of your being. Superficial knowledge is not enough. Yes, there is | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| have to try to prevent a truth from being used by your unconscious, immature, and unhealthy reactions | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| force and invigoration by the mere fact of being utterly honest with yourself in a constructive way | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| period of growth by forcing your emotions and being impatient with yourself. Remain aware of your recognitions | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| when such shortcut methods are successful. No human being is in untruth and deviation or imperfection in | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| of his personality. Complete imperfection in a human being exists no more than complete perfection. This earth | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| too, are inflicted. In that part of your being you feel exactly the way I described. Try | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the very thing you in fact abstain from. Being a decent and honest individual, you do not | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| pride, but out of the mistaken idea that being special means survival for you. When you recognize | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| I cannot understand which alternative to take between being dependent on other people's opinion and leaning too | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| yourself honestly and entirely forgetting, for the time being, the question: What am I supposed to do | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| can further and live up to only by being fully aware of myself. Once you have gained | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the better for you in the sense of being able to think about it objectively. QUESTIONER: I | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| The mere awareness of this part of your being, where you are caught in the mass image | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| The wish for happiness exists in every living being. However, the concept of happiness varies according to | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| becomes an impossibility, not just for the time being, but forever after. This, of course, is never | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| never the intellectual conviction of an adult human being, but emotionally it holds true; for when everything | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| seems hopeless, the mood becomes desperate. The undeveloped being feels in terms of black and white. It | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| It is impossible, of course, for any human being to remember these early emotions, for you have | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you, you cannot understand certain inner conflicts as being the effect of the chain reaction this fundamental | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the personality to learn healthy humility and accept being no better than the rest of humankind. The | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| unhappiness just to avoid the helpless feeling of being exposed to it against his will. But the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| for unhappiness seems to approach a state of being beyond the experience of most human beings, belonging | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| I repeat: there is no exception. No human being is completely free of what I have just | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| determined by the ability of the growing human being to come to terms with the world of | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of humanity, as imperfect as the next one, being liked by some, disliked by others, you have | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| following: Since I can attain happiness only by being an omnipotent ruler, I have to be a | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and approved of. I have no intention of being cruel if people do what I want. Therefore | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| can hardly ever be experienced by a human being and is therefore outside the realm of human | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| it ceases to be pain. With a human being who is truly advancing on this path one | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| indeed. QUESTION: In other words, what the human being can do, if I understand it right, is | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| be the result of a compulsion, rather than being the compulsion itself. The desire in itself may | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way. The way you will remember it, without being aware as to how this new knowledge came | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It comes out of the depth of his being. In the depth of being is the whole | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| depth of his being. In the depth of being is the whole universe. The adoption of a | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| shown in Eve, taking the active part, hereby being responsible for the Fall, brings several factors to | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| token, Adam was as much at fault by being too passive in a wrong and destructive way | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and neglecting the inner motivations and reactions, thereby being a prey to his or her own immature | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| forth by the free will of the human being, is rather unsubstantial. It is calculated into the | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which, to some degree, exists in every human being. I will call this the abyss of illusion | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| undoubtedly find that this childish part of your being desires just that. You want to have a | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| and you would then lose your fear of being helpless. You are helpless because you make yourself | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |