| Being's.....................29 | |
| substance is also referred to as a human being's higher self or divine spark. It is also | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| can be overcome by free will and the being's own initiative. The desire to overcome must grow | 22 SALVATION |
| medium going into a trance. If a human being's unconscious were so penetrated with such knowledge that | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| Do not believe that it is this human being's unconscious that talks to you tonight. This is | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| is eternal and indestructible; it is each human being's divine spark. Do not confuse this conscience with | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| or wrong. It is inevitable in every human being's life to make some wrong decisions, but you | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the message of the soul to unfold the being's total nature, to develop his or her other | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| right inner conduct. In former times, the human being's spiritual nature was often hindered by the general | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| responsible, at least in part, for the human being's creation of duality out of a single core | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| it in different words. It is the human being's blindness and error to believe that if you | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| human. Now you may say that the human being's movement does not exceed the animal's. This is | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in a positive situation. In fact, a human being's natural, original inclination before any distortion has taken | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| Knowing, therefore, as it immediately affects the evolved being's state of pleasure and joyfulness, is primary. For | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| time, and quite correctly so, that a human being's unfulfilled needs to receive create damaging conditions in | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| is available at any minute, in any human being's life, right here and right now. But you | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| latter must be overcome to find the human being's own divine nucleus, where real omnipotence reigns supreme | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| state is not a realization of the human being's natural potential. You will also become aware of | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| human being is the same as the human being's relationship to humanity. To the degree that the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| omnipotence which bans frustration cannot actualize the human being's divine powers where true omnipotence ultimately lies. True | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| walk is acquired. Each phase of a human being's life signifies venturing into a territory that has | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| outer affirmation. In other words the average human being's predicament is that he or she consciously wants | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| are. There are many junctures where a human being's faith is put to the test. You have | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| order to defy the natural movement toward the being's ultimate fate. While distrust caused by fear is | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| rarely recognized because it transcends the usual human being's experience of feelings. Within the spectrum of human | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| with the inexhaustible wealth that is every human being's inner nucleus: the center of one's very being | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| when the outer personality fights against the inner being's decision, a tremendous struggle ensues. That struggle may | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the world outside. For it is a human being's weakness to always believe of others what they | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| life, the infinite expansion that is every living being's destiny. When you observe your negative visualization -- | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| change. It is the same with the human being's rhythm. The time of fruition may come sooner | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Beings'.....................3 | |
| laws were given at a time when human beings' scientific and hygienic knowledge was so insufficient that | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| Let us examine a few of most human beings' fundamental desires. We will begin with the great | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| religious counter-movement had taken over in which human beings' failings, poverty, illness, and insanity were chalked up | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Belief......................244 | |
| channel. Moreover, you always cling to the false belief that death and pain are the worst things | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| a matter of personal opinion or taste. Each belief contains something beautiful and noble, they say, and | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| they say, and therefore all these matters of belief are subjective and not absolute or objective. The | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| only in words and as a generally held belief, but through your entire inner attitude and by | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| on to in the erroneous, though often unconscious, belief that they do not risk anything when they | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| my friends. Very few people indeed have no belief in God at all. Almost everyone has at | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| all. Almost everyone has at least a feeble belief in a higher intelligence, in a superior wisdom | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| know if everything is a manifestation of man's belief? ANSWER: How exactly do you mean that, my | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| his creation are still ignored. Even if your belief is feeble, but you follow the thought to | 21 THE FALL |
| of any communication with any excarnated entity, this belief may be wrong, but at least it is | 22 SALVATION |
| fact that the Catholic Church builds on the belief that from that time on everything is so | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and has nothing to do with their religious belief. Only at a later state of purification does | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| God: If you sense that a lack of belief exists in you, there is one wonderful, sure | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| not even know what your unconscious image or belief about God actually is. Ask yourself that question | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| self-justification is always ready at hand that this belief is wonderful and an expression of one's devotion | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| whoever was in power would still enforce his belief and prohibit the others. Today, humanity has come | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| than nothing, so that someone who has no belief in God may at least learn concentration. Daily | 36 PRAYER |
| requested by the world of God to put belief into practice at last. But first for a | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| first for a long while there is no belief, no sight of truth. A turning point occurs | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| and comes to believe in Him. Then the belief has to be proven! Events will occur in | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| you mean it? Are you serious in your belief? Do I matter more to you than anything | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| soul with good motives. There is a common belief that anything pertaining to sex is sinful. The | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| vicious circles came into existence. Because of the belief that sex was sinful, the instinct could not | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| may dislike that authority, I am safe. The belief in this apparent safety leads the extreme type | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| When you hurt other people in your ignorant belief that selfishness is your protection -- whether you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| therefore, unconsciously associated with God -- your unconscious belief in God's severe injustice is strengthened. Such experiences | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| yourself from the enslaving chains of the false belief. So the second step is to set your | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| love oneself in any way is sinful. This belief is just as wrong as the sick kind | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| feel, the more you need approval in the belief that it will alleviate your feelings of guilt | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| be made. It should be noted that this belief may manifest only in a very hidden and | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| influences, people and happenings outside themselves, in the belief that they can harm them. They will be | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| any outward acceptance of a doctrine or a belief. And it is equally possible that people believe | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| outwardly accepts and believes. Why and how a belief has come about, on what inner motives it | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unconsciously struggles against, sacrificing one's happiness, in the belief that it constitutes unselfishness. If you are happy | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and you indiscriminately suppress all desires. In the belief that all desires for happiness are selfish, you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| think about it, might even find a consciously-held belief that you would be happier if you were | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| of immortality -- I do not speak of belief -- were given to humans on a silver | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you resort to one wrong extreme in the belief this is the only possible way to avoid | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| people fear truth and light and life. The belief that flexibility is unsafe is one of the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| what you ordinarily could have. Both the underlying belief that you must either always get what you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| blurred by your fear, cowardice and the erroneous belief that life can be dealt with by evasion | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| greater the impatience, the greater also the mistaken belief that it will produce results. In reality, however | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understand what may have seemed contradictory in your belief that you are healthily interdependent with others. This | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| help them. They accept God, and everything that belief in God implies, not out of real conviction | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| encounter the danger of negation and evasion. If belief in the end result is artificially clung to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| choose suffering and reject happiness in the false belief that pleasure and joy are contrary to the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| is much more relaxed and open. However, the belief that God causes suffering is shaped by a | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| wish would create unbearable frustration of your exaggerated belief that the nonfulfillment of your wish is unbearable | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| creation become immortal, the same thing as a belief in life after death? I'm not asking about | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| through your own experience. If you superimpose a belief that is not genuinely yours, it is much | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| be a religious fanatic who has accepted a belief out of fear and weakness, and not through | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| beware of evaluation based on a person's professed belief and attitude. The desire to die, for instance | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| for instance, does not necessarily indicate a true belief in the life after death, or one's reconciliation | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| countermeasure to which people resort in the false belief that it will circumvent unhappiness, unpleasure, and death | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| woe. At any rate, unhappiness and lack of belief in oneself are interconnected. The creation of the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| a distorted attempt at unification masquerade under the belief that one is flexible and always has the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| daily rejections and failures threaten your security and belief in yourself. They cause shame or humiliation that | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| reasons still make you hold on to the belief that, perhaps, after all, your idealized self may | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| failure. People choose this solution in the unconscious belief that they will be loved and thus receive | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| aims at love and pleasure in the unconscious belief that being omnipotent, strong, invulnerable will bring love | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the submissive solution has been chosen in the belief that this will make others comply with your | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the pride and the pretense, contrary to your belief in your goodness; when you are aware of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as compared to the wrong attitude? Where does belief in God come in if you don't feel | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| preposterous they are; how incompatible with your conscious belief; how contrary to your own best interests; how | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to the illusion of yourself, in the wrong belief that if you acknowledge the fallacy, you will | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| And this urge is dictated by the false belief that you prove yourself unworthy if you admit | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| general fear of disapproval and a lack of belief in the validity of your aims. You feel | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cannot have a genuine God-experience and trust and belief in God if you do not trust and | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| face the self, while the irrational and unconscious belief that you are the only one leads to | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| because an unconscious guilt prevails due to the belief that they are wrong, they freeze into a | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| to force it away without understanding the irrational belief of advantage versus disadvantage. As long as such | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| condition has a function in your erroneous, unconscious belief. Set about finding it, and your battle will | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| world, no matter how true and beautiful. Outer belief is one thing; the inner capacity of living | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| actually do not bring it. Therefore the unconscious belief in one's own unworthiness increases, which is even | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the pain of making the confusion and the belief in your unworthiness conscious, you will be relieved | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| of rigid perfection with a standardized pattern. This belief stands in your way more than your imperfections | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| come from misconceptions, your images, your lack of belief in yourself, your idealized self-image and your resort | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| and helplessness. It further diminishes your lack of belief in yourself. As the solution to withdraw makes | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| on another, whether this be love or a belief, it stems from self-will. Such a person acts | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| teach you in words. That is the only belief that is genuine and that furthers growth. QUESTION | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| than striving away from it in the false belief that it is spiritual progress to try to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| a further state of development other than a belief in God. This comes predominantly from fear, evasion | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| case than that I advocate a childish, clinging, belief in God. Both are stages. In each stage | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| genuine God-experience is very different from the childish belief in a self-projected God which the mind has | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| kind of black magic, due to the childish belief in one's omnipotence? ANSWER: Yes, of course. The | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| First they need to face their lack of belief in themselves and find out the real reasons | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| good, that you cannot atone for them. Your belief is often an unconscious reason for not facing | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| you will have a stronghold on the unconscious belief that you need this habit. Thereupon you can | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| Subsequently you will recognize how unreasonable such a belief is. It then becomes easy to shed it | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| subject before, only that any spiritual or religious belief, if it is superimposed from the outside and | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| hidden negative attitudes from surfacing, in the false belief that they can be eliminated by ignoring them | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| One does not want to give up the belief that happiness, fulfillment, and security can come from | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| aspects of faulty perception of reality is the belief that one may be quite healthy in one | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| cling to the superimposed conscience in the false belief that it alone can prevent you from acting | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| which, for many people, is but a vague belief, a theory. Everyone who has profoundly experienced the | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| life and of the personality. Consequently, your false belief in your misconception is strengthened and you thereby | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| a need or feeling is necessarily wrong, this belief eventually makes it wrong. Uncertainty, fear, guilt and | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| holding on to what you know, in the belief that you might fare better than by taking | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| is a vast step forward compared to the belief that one is free from obstructions while all | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| its faulty premises, and thereby gradually shed the belief in the necessity for its existence. It will | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| first wall in the maze, then, is your belief that you cannot have what you so easily | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| a stagnating sense. Their outlook amounts to a belief that there is a finished state in which | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| limit yourself to an either/or concept in the belief that suffering is inevitable, in ignorance of the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| out to shape your behavior according to this belief. As you know, images always appear to confirm | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| to gain the former, you must lose. The belief that only these two alternatives exist is wrong | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| from superimposing false goodness. It is a false belief born of fear and obedience that occasional anger | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| manifestations of evil is as illusory as the belief that evil represents a separate aspect in the | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| control, are entirely arbitrary; they depend on your belief. To the extent that you know the powers | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| comes from fear, guilt, and shame, and the belief that one is terrible because of it. The | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| for meeting yourself and determining your course. Your belief that you must go on feeling destructively until | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| to what extent do you hold this erroneous belief. Once you are completely aware of how much | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you are completely aware of how much this belief controls you on the ego-level, I recommend that | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| tight wall consisting of fear and the dualistic belief wherein human beings must defend themselves against life | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| are and the best they can be. This belief erects an impenetrable wall of errors and defenses | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| sequence of chain reactions caused by any thought, belief or action is self-perpetuating, once the original thought | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| your inner and outer life, since the false belief is a product of your inner attitude. Therefore | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| one holds on to, whether this be a belief, a fear, or a cherished way of being | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| I must be separate, disappointment is inevitable. This belief cannot bring the desired result because it is | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| concept is me versus the other. This illusory belief makes the transition from the dualistic to the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| impossible to uncover the fallacy of your hidden belief. You hold on to it secretly, born out | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| and transcends opposites in the realization that the belief in opposites is illusion. Unification does not mean | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| sacrifice and disadvantage. The very existence of a belief in punishment and reward covers up the deep | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| definition of life, but also to every particular belief within one's practical everyday life. The limits one | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| the parents and the environment in the ignorant belief that they are harmful and may lead to | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the universal creative powers. This is the vague belief most people have and it is a distortion | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| whole, the universal mind, only by an illusory belief that you are separate. You do not possess | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| All these delights are abandoned in the distorted belief that they are wrong. People believe that if | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| deserves very special privileges. To ascertain such a belief is difficult because your intellectual knowledge refutes such | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| to make patients accept their condition, in the belief that their frantic struggle is exclusively a rebellion | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| withholding yourself you add to your advantage. This belief is always there, underneath, half-conscious or completely unconscious | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| the most important system of life functioning. Every belief and idea determines a person's feelings, reactions, attitudes | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| sake of the other. For according to your belief you must also experience. Your belief creates the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to your belief you must also experience. Your belief creates the condition. Thus, false belief must be | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| experience. Your belief creates the condition. Thus, false belief must be proven true until one begins to | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| until one begins to perceive the relationship between belief and experience. If you accept that your inner | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| experience. If you accept that your inner, invisible belief creates the predicament of having to balance your | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| unchangeable blob. You know that according to your belief you must experience, because you cannot see beyond | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| the form you have built according to your belief. Your actions then are determined by your beliefs | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| would not be so emphasized if the false belief did not exist that the self is annihilated | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| your problems. When you fully recognize your negative belief about a specific area of your life, and | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| again, for the old fascination with the negative belief is deeply ingrained. You must break the habit | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| desire comes from fear caused by the infantile belief that you will be annihilated if you do | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| the extent you pay only lip-service to this belief, you will still feel hopeless, depressed, fearful or | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the opposite extreme, in which you profess the belief in higher power, or God, who is supposed | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| exist: one good and one evil. Such a belief implies that the evil force must be destroyed | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| a double illusion must be removed: the underlying belief in question, as well as the cover you | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| chaotic, the true motive and reason for this belief must also be examined. Such confrontation with what | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| conviction. It says in Scripture, According to thy belief it will be done unto thee. This is | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| meaning of the scriptural saying, According to thy belief it shall be done unto thee. It does | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| sad. You build mental concepts that sustain the belief that sadness is unbearable and even dangerous, and | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| What does create a crippled state is the belief that this pain can only be eliminated when | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| as unwelcome conditions arise in your environment. The belief in catastrophe is rarely thought about in such | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| is what all Scripture reiterates: According to your belief you shall experience. This is actually already quite | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| substance of creative, impressionable mass or substance, your belief molds and creates. The powerful, sizzling sea of | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| faith, you express and act upon a specific belief, which you must then experience as the created | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| then experience as the created response. If your belief, as conceived and visualized, is that you cannot | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| indeed, you cannot help but do so. This belief needs to include your willingness to remove your | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| is possible for me. Thus my concept, my belief, my visualization will be too weak and my | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| selfwill, fear, vanity, separateness, duality, in sum, the belief that there is a difference between you and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| the visualization, the law that according to your belief you shall experience, is followed. The power of | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| to be effective, in spite of the primitive belief. The next stage is already much more enlightened | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| is not the case, you cannot bring your belief in the good and beautiful universe to bear | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and honorable they must never be wrong. This belief brings so much havoc and confusion. It is | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| vague knowledge helps you to maintain an underlying belief which must be unearthed, reconsidered, understood exactly and | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you increase your sense of inner poverty, your belief that you are empty and have nothing to | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| life, you no longer know by what specific belief and consequent action you have created it. This | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| love any woman. Regardless of your outer, conscious belief, inwardly you now discover that this is how | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| into being. I pray for the power, the belief, the faith, and the volition to be totally | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| is a defense. It stems from the innate belief that the world cannot be trusted and the | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| you can be avoided. Another illusion is the belief that what is in you needs to be | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| difficulty exists exclusively by dint of a false belief: the belief that facing one area of the | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| exclusively by dint of a false belief: the belief that facing one area of the self may | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| all of the self is bad. Such a belief makes facing the self difficult or even impossible | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| experiencing certain feelings: it is perhaps your implicit belief that you will perish if you experience some | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| group. This may seem incomprehensible or a primitive belief for some of you, yet it is a | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| make order by examining carefully every single attitude, belief, reaction and feeling, he or she will continue | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| drives in sexuality, thus giving rise to the belief that sexuality was in itself bestial. Only now | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| this truth, or even strongly embraces the opposite belief that the outer does not matter, then you | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| will then no longer be a theory or belief that you cling to or deny, but an | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| it should be final. The demand of and belief in the finality of the present favorable mood | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| on and fighting against this same innermost negative belief. If you send out currents of domination over | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| reap what exists in you according to your belief. This is why letting go so often means | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| same as a past one. Not that this belief is articulate. If it were, you would be | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| mean the energy of thought, feeling, intent, attitude, belief. Every thought is energy. You experience this energy | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| one of the illusions you created by constant belief in falsity -- in this case that non-movement | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| expressed in these exact words, indicate a lingering belief that life is haphazard and that your state | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| about the tightness of holding on to a belief that is so often totally mistaken and distorted | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| makes you as unhappy as your own untruthful belief. QUESTION: What is the positive aspect of a | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| is childish or immature. It is the false belief that if you do not have what you | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| humanity's development is that it is a blind belief in something you have no way of knowing | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| it has nothing to do with a blind belief in something that can never be ascertained as | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| that is the hidden stake in such a belief. It is as personally tinged by wishful thinking | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| always justified with this happens to be my belief, which is as good as yours, and is | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| is not just that you have a false belief, the possible negative intentionality in holding on to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| selfishness. For that selfishness comes from the false belief that you are happy only when you are | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| and unhappy when you are unselfish. That false belief is one of the first myths you need | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| also in you. You still cling to the belief that this or that problem or attitude of | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| often stress in my guidance that your customary belief that one action is right and the other | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| that the natural expansive movement cannot occur. The belief that this mass-image perpetuates is that only an | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| fear of death is the effect of your belief that change leads into the unknown and must | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| or another, a blind reaction that expresses the belief that to be safe, you must not move | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| that is alive. Time stems also from the belief that you must avoid the future and hold | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| to continue existing. It is the innate false belief of all humankind. Only when you alter this | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| of all humankind. Only when you alter this belief with courage and faith will the manifestations of | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| in words then in their attitude. The wrong belief is that freedom means giving in to the | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| is precisely those defensive maneuvers that reinforce your belief in your unacceptability, because all defenses are negative | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| sufficient initial self- esteem to expose your devastating belief in your valuelessness. Only when you pierce through | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| false self-value, making room for facing your painful belief in being valueless, can you begin to see | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| in your consciousness, either in feeling or in belief. When you have thus clarified your vision of | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| of world view cushions them against the painful belief that they themselves are unworthy of love and | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| friends? For several reasons. First, your lack of belief that these words are actually a creation, and | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| the point of cruelty and unreality -- the belief that a sheer act of will can make | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| way to get you closer to perfection. Your belief in immortality needs to be abandoned temporarily, even | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| be quite accurate, because in spite of your belief you still cannot conceive of the change -- | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| I may chase it away by my very belief in it. It may be smarter to believe | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| -- safely, as you think -- express the belief that it will always be that way. When | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| knowing it, you dictate into your soul a belief creating circumstances that prove it. You then forget | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| out as a superstitious safety measure gradually becomes belief on another level of your consciousness. The belief | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| belief on another level of your consciousness. The belief creates the reality and you stay in exactly | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| waiting period of uncertainty. You speak the negative belief and it occurs. You have the questionable certainty | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| between wishful thinking and the realism of positive belief. There is one very distinct, clear, simple, and | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| begun as a game then reinforces the negative belief. The vicious circle accelerates, and you find it | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| will truly become capable of transforming a negative belief because you can see it as a trick | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| up that trick. Have the courage of positive belief in your own richness and of the positive | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| will disappear, for they lose their importance. Outer belief systems will no longer be confused with inner | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| not as theoretical speculation and a luxury of belief, but as living reality in your inner and | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| your split, where you are still torn between belief and unbelief, trust and fear, hate and love | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| in depth. Only through this exploration can a belief in God and a commitment to all His | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| out God's truth. Otherwise you are superimposing a belief, covering up whatever unconscious material there may exist | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| This blind attitude is a result of the belief that only new findings can be of value | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| unacceptable. Your terror is very simply that. Your belief is that you would no longer be lovable | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| to annihilate the Jews. The more firmly this belief was held, the more hatred and discrimination, separation | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| your own reality, and the more unconscious your belief, the greater its consequence is. The greater the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| in a poor, empty universe. It increases the belief that your inner universe is equally poor and | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| according to the truth or error of your belief, attitude, and behavior pattern. When you are in | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| impoverished, you automatically create a vicious circle. This belief must make you hoard yourself, your innate riches | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| picture of life. False pictures are reinforced by belief, just as true pictures are. Only when they | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| on deficit, a tendency intrinsically connected with the belief in an empty, poor, ungiving universe. Let me | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| an experience of what is, and not a belief in and a hope for what might be | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| partly in darkness. Another human error is the belief that a married couple faithful to one another | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| tendency to keep the self secret. The false belief that the self in its entirety is not | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| are. Since you must experience according to your belief, it is difficult to find out how strong | 254 SURRENDER |
| helpless and beaten by adversity. Even the popular belief in God can contribute to the notion that | 254 SURRENDER |
| and take its natural course. Doubt, rebellion, anger, belief in a meaningless universe that makes you suffer | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |