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which our emotions flare up. How about human beings whose emotions are dulled and curbed, and who 101 THE DEFENSE
still have certain feelings. The more defensive human beings are, the more limited the scope of emotions 101 THE DEFENSE
a strange way, the unconscious aim of human beings is to limit the human personality, because they 101 THE DEFENSE
obvious that it is lust. Yet all human beings have some of it. Where there is a 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
away from communication, from bridging gaps between human beings, is a sin. Of course, there is such 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
difference; they are all the same. Most human beings are not even aware that they feel anger 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
to human society and its development. All human beings, no matter how much you may look down 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
no longer possible and even constructive for human beings to merely obey a commandment in their actions 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
thought is not half as great as human beings want to believe. This happens especially when not 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
I said, matter could not be mastered. Human beings need to learn, they need their memory, and 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
flowing in a current of love with all beings; of understanding and perception; of being alive. It 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
used to associating the word relationship with human beings around you. But in truth, this word applies 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
to other animals, to nature, and to human beings. The scale of the capacity to relate is 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
capacity to relate is much wider among human beings than you remotely realize at the moment. Let 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
with those on the lowest scale among human beings. That would be the completely insane person, the 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
isolation. They can hardly relate to other human beings. But since they are still alive, they must 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
immediately go to the highest form of human beings. These are people who relate beautifully; who are 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
sought because of the richness of different human beings and of one's relationship to them in a 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
which is always free. QUESTION: Between two human beings who want to relate, but both, for various 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
considered can be found in almost all human beings to some degree. Yet, one of these three 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
Why it should be so hard for human beings to accept that they live in a world 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
cause or the effect to you. Sometimes human beings can see both. Sometimes they can see only 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
soul's survival. This world is full of human beings whose soul forces are more or less disturbed 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
it is something that defies your imagination. Human beings can have such wishes, and therefore give blessings 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
you know, one form of prayer. But with beings who are no longer involved with the heaviness 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
kinds of blessings. Occasionally the blessings of high beings with a corresponding spiritual development have such a 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
only among people, but also between them and beings of other worlds. When you have a day 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
means is impossible to visualize. Unfortunately, most human beings do not know how to cope with the 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
far removed in time. In other words, human beings may experience the effect of a cause from 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
called time, is at the disposal of human beings so that they can grow, fulfill themselves, experience 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
us now discuss the particular conflict that human beings have with time. Each one of you has 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
of self-investigation. As I have already indicated, human beings strive to reach a freer dimension of time 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
on the other end of the conflict. Human beings fear the future while they strive forward into 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
the same weaknesses as all your fellow human beings. Thus you will be kinder toward yourself and 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
true aliveness is so very rare among human beings because most do not even search in the 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
cannot be stressed enough. The majority of human beings go through life never knowing to what extent 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
greatest factor responsible for all the misery human beings have managed to afflict on themselves. This is 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
and incomprehensible existence of the Creator of all beings. Have the humility to admit the limitations of 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
and turn your attention to the things human beings can learn, namely to give to and love 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
namely to give to and love other human beings. So it is possible, as I often said 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
interests. There are two fundamental attitudes among human beings. One type of personality searches for God and 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
fully establishing relationship in its true sense. Human beings can only truly become human -- and therefore 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
against their manhood and their womanhood. All human beings are endowed with both masculine and feminine tendencies 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
Blessed be this hour. So long as human beings are negatively involved with life, they must remain 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
similar way, all relationships and interactions between human beings must constantly bypass each other. Outflowing currents crisscross 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
faculties for experiencing maximum pleasure are thwarted. Human beings are meant to experience maximum pleasure, but when 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
union is mostly a theoretical one for human beings, although at this stage it can be said 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
with this facet of human development. All human beings contain within their psyches the infants they once 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
by utter self-centeredness and complete dependency on stronger beings. On the other side of the scale we 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
It exists, to be used by the created beings. It cannot be extinguished. My dearest friends, specifically 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
through their ability to relate to other human beings and have fruitful contacts with them. As self-development 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
specific. Humanity consists of men and women. Human beings cannot reach self-fulfillment if they do not fulfill 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
all know the common fact that all human beings possess both masculine and feminine traits. But there 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
confusion regarding this topic among almost all human beings. There are some people whose conscious concepts are 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
reasonable and truthful, but unconsciously almost all human beings harbor some distorted ideas on this subject. These 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
important aspects of self-fulfillment. Relating to other human beings is always a gauge to one's own inner 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
separating affection from the procreative urge. When human beings experience the sex force as something wrong, regardless 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
of the tragic human conflicts is that human beings desperately yearn for their fulfillment as men and 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
to the devil's temptation. As long as human beings cannot discriminate between what is constructive and destructive 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
their self-realization. Life speaks so clearly, but human beings, impregnated with false concepts, do not hear or 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
missing out on what is available for all beings, can never be entirely squelched. It is only 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
to let go of yourself. Basically, most human beings fight, often blindly, against four inner conditions. These 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
fears oneself, one cannot possibly fear other human beings, including the opposite sex. A great inner freedom 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
help of instinctual drives, and why must human beings work so hard to overcome the barrier of 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
I keep on saying, namely that all human beings constantly affect one another on their unconscious levels 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
no struggle about it. The tragedy of human beings is that they so arduously struggle against happiness 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
struggle against truth results in split concepts. Human beings often conceive of life as being stimulating, but 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
So many similar misunderstandings exist which prevent human beings from the blissful, enlivening, peaceful experience of the 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
the same time, spiritual teachings postulate that human beings, with their small selves, with their little minds 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
and that it is God's will for human beings to live in joy. At the same time 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
think of God only in human terms. Human beings, before they can come to a wider understanding 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
essential steps toward the destiny of all created beings. Only on a path leading from blind reflexes 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
the universe is wide open, and all human beings can move freely in it. The universe is 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
discussed the arbitrary either/or concepts that all human beings harbor. They are the very fences that hold 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
hidden tendency toward the opposite choice. Most human beings harbor this false concept at least in some 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
with the cosmic forces, or with other human beings. But the commitment must exist, for otherwise you 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
is no destiny other than the one human beings mold for themselves, and that they, whenever they 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
that immeasurable abundance is available for all human beings right here and right now. These are apparent 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
knows that there is nothing to fear. Human beings are not yet capable of immediate control over 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
there is considerable difference in development among human beings, and so of course among entities of other 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
sum total of the consciousness of all human beings inhabiting it. This also comprises, of course, individuals 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
but to the sphere where the majority of beings also express your stage of development. QUESTION: Are 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
QUESTION: Are other spheres also physical? ANSWER: Human beings make too arbitrary a distinction between physical and 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
deeper level of consciousness. There are many human beings who do not realize that there is anything 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
humanity to use. There is nothing that human beings shy away from more and are more afraid 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
is born with and born to express. Human beings struggle and fight against this foreign body in 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
the now, there are no more problems. Human beings constantly move away from this foreign nucleus. When 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
the vast possibilities for creation and expansion. Human beings are so used to holding their forces together 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
can see that there are differences among human beings: some function in a much healthier way than 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
indication of the evolutionary process. You have human beings, at one extreme, who cannot even have any 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
center gives the appearance that two minds, two beings, are present. When parts of the inner self 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
selfhood and self-realization. The greatest struggle for human beings is between their desire to overcome isolation and 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
And so the cycle goes on with human beings first erecting and then destroying the barriers between 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
joy of intimacy. As you already know, human beings are terrified of themselves. They do everything possible 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
of fear and the dualistic belief wherein human beings must defend themselves against life by withholding the 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
existence is ignored. That aspect of all human beings which alone is competent to guide and inspire 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
be as crass as possible. In most human beings -- in some more and in some less 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
beneath the ordinary neurotic misconceptions and fears human beings harbor in their unconscious minds. The fear of 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
could only worsen your condition. In truth, human beings have many means at their disposal for improving 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
with your mental and emotional faculties. You human beings often adopt the wrong approach by exerting your 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
your outer volitional thinking apparatus. At first human beings are completely unaware of this powerful inner intelligence 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
great experience of physical death itself which human beings erroneously assume to be sad or horrible. This 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
although the fear is not as conscious. Human beings fear a great spiritual experience. They fear the 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
the inner, non-volitional self must exist in human beings as long as this need has not been 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
force. The fundamental ones, applying to all human beings, are: attitude toward work, human relationships in general 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
is not so easy to do; for human beings are often governed by impulses and drives they 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
side of the fence are all other human beings and that they have no problems and only 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
and the unified plane. The majority of human beings live predominantly on the dualistic plane, where you 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
also transcend the pain it causes. Few human beings transcend the dualistic plane, so most people experience 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
this way, the greater the confusion becomes. Human beings are habitually trained by upbringing, and everything they 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
individual in the nonphysical world, but that all beings, wherever they are, are in touch with that 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
be infinitely richer than it is. When human beings suffer from discontent and inner tension they, fundamentally 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
lack of comprehension of its own destructiveness. Human beings are geared to think of a destructive force 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
connected with it are numbed altogether. When human beings find themselves on such a path, it is 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
has been instrumental in the widespread guilt human beings feel about all experiences of pleasure. This in 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
both are considered equally wrong? And yet, human beings cannot live without pleasure even if they have 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
here and now. Another area where you human beings find yourselves extremely blocked, hindered, and impatient with 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
it is. It is known that you human beings fear pleasure when you are still full of 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
but this does not merely apply to incarnated beings, but to all who are in this specific 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
this is usually the case with sane human beings -- there must be something in you that 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
feelings, must then create negative contact. All human beings experience some counter-pull, even relatively integrated, healthy individuals 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
is the profound, metaphysical conflict in all human beings. When this is perceived and experienced it is 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
the effects of self-dislike. The most enlightened human beings still ignore the importance of this fact. In 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
to the universe. Often the most rebellious human beings are most impregnated with mass opinions and false 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
atoms, a revolutionary reorientation has begun, forcing human beings into recognizing that power is not a matter 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
be applied in some way directly to human beings by physical means, by physical devices -- not 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
existence. This is the current condition of human beings. You live under the illusion that life, the 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
when they are hostile, aggressive, cruel. All human beings have a similar reaction to their real self 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
exist for you. For only too often human beings believe themselves to be bound, paralyzed, helpless and 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the world. The difference of how you human beings want to be and how you really are 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of utilizing the freedom creation has granted all beings. For example, when people shift the blame for 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
makes spiritual self-realization impossible. As long as human beings separate earth from heaven, body from spirit, you 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
that this idea is not easy for human beings to embrace, for it is so contrary to 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
-- that all exists already and that human beings can make these existing possibilities manifest -- is 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
do so. It is your prerogative as human beings to make use of these laws of creation 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
blind rebellion and over-aggressiveness. Few things give human beings as much pain and shame as this inner 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
wrongly used. There are innumerable methods which human beings use in order to switch on this forcing-current 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
real self. At best, the more enlightened human beings accept its existence as a philosophical precept, but 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
-- and they comprise the majority of human beings -- become tremendously frightened and insecure. They must 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
fulfillment, is a reality applicable to all human beings. At first, it is only a question of 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
vaster consciousness, which still remains in all human beings. Unless this split-off part is integrated with its 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
about many dualistic aspects, many false alternatives human beings belabor and suffer from. You get more and 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
it applies to some degree to all human beings. It is the following: pleasure versus goodness. The 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION

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