| Rings.......................4 | |
| appears around it, then come more and more rings, until they extend so far that your eyes | 21 THE FALL |
| follow them to the outer periphery, but the rings are still there. If one person overcomes a | 21 THE FALL |
| they, in turn, come into contact. It draws rings upon rings of effect that interact. If you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| turn, come into contact. It draws rings upon rings of effect that interact. If you think about | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| Ripe........................14 | |
| or her spiritual development. When the time is ripe, then, as I said, outside events will make | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| longing and the longing increased, the time was ripe for the material world as you know it | 21 THE FALL |
| have complete union with God, the time was ripe for the most important part of the Plan | 22 SALVATION |
| world to follow. Thus, when the time was ripe, Christ faced Lucifer. Now, my friends, I must | 22 SALVATION |
| previous lives. As long as you are not ripe for it -- and this can only happen | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| fearless of hurts and disappointments is the time ripe, my dear ones, and not before! If you | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to you a hundredfold when the time is ripe. If you learn to put aside your self-will | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| method and use it whenever the time seems ripe. Make it into a definite program. Yet there | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| this subject, but the time is not quite ripe for it as yet. With very few exceptions | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| When you experience it, then the time is ripe for you to understand many of your conflicts | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to do that, the time has to be ripe. You have to have the necessary material, all | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| claim them as though they were already fully ripe. Because you use all your efforts in concentrating | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and approaches to meditation. Now the time is ripe to speak about this important topic in a | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| I welcome you this evening. The time is ripe to give this specific lecture because a sufficient | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Ripen.......................5 | |
| an impetus, only the seed which has to ripen into fruit through your own work. You must | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| which the gains of this past year can ripen and come to fruition. May this period be | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| passive principle. They claim rightly that things must ripen by themselves and that healthy growth is a | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| of allowing to rest, allowing the process to ripen, so that after each contraction that restful ripening | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| harmony of expanding and contracting and letting it ripen in-between and reaching out and reaching in, nourishing | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Ripening....................4 | |
| one of patient, trustful waiting, of allowing a ripening process come to fruition, of surrendering to a | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| of the unitary principle. This possibility is speedily ripening into a reality manifest on your earth plane | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| ripen, so that after each contraction that restful ripening phase must set in. This threefold principle exists | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| of positive unfoldment requires a growing period, a ripening. This is necessary simply because your mental processes | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Ripens......................3 | |
| as opposites. As your understanding of this concept ripens, your lower self will no longer get away | 228 BALANCE |
| needs to be kept to yourself until it ripens sufficiently. Whether it is a thought, a new | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| opposite is true. What is divinely inspired and ripens in privacy is later always opened up and | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Risen.......................3 | |
| offer, including death. Some people believe they have risen to genuine acceptance, when in reality they simply | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| it again. We may liken civilizations which have risen and fallen to the young person's outer or | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| impetus, the power of the Christ has newly risen. It is not a sentimental, meek force by | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Rises.......................6 | |
| in the dark spheres, the higher he actually rises. The farther removed he is from pain, the | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| it runs underground, so to speak, and only rises to the surface on rare occasions during a | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| is the love-force, which gives out, communicates, and rises above the little ego, which considers itself the | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| universe is misunderstood. As the consciousness increases and rises and widens and deepens, even though one may | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| struggle against your insecurity, denying its existence, it rises up behind the dam, like swelling waters. As | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| and follow through consistently, an awareness of self-hate rises to the surface. At first, this growing awareness | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Rising......................3 | |
| you should not allow wrong conclusions and images, rising to the surface due to the work you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and death. Those who misunderstand the meaning of rising above pleasure and pain do so because they | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| own evolutionary place and the rhythm of your rising consciousness as well as from your lower-self drives | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Risk........................142 | |
| though often unconscious, belief that they do not risk anything when they do not commit themselves to | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| I cannot advise strongly enough, even at the risk of boring you, my friends. QUESTION: When you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| moment you open up to another person, you risk an act of humility. At that moment with | 31 SHAME |
| give it perhaps afterwards, provided there is no risk involved. This longing for love forces the subject | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| wrong. The unpurified soul lacks the strength to risk losing the love given on false premises. So | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| over, and see if perhaps you prefer to risk a higher price because the possible advantage seems | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| also has to be accepted. This includes the risk, the shortcomings of life, which offers you no | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| love. God is far away and intangible: I risk nothing by loving Him. From human beings I | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| thing is to receive love without taking the risk of getting wounded; it thinks remaining aloof is | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| Your self-will says: I do not want the risk of life; I do not want the pain | 38 IMAGES |
| facing the fear of life and love. To risk the hurt and bear your fear that your | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| cope with. Emotional life necessarily carries uncertainty and risk, whereas the rational type tries to keep everything | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| to those who are afraid of the apparent risk of adventuring away from separateness. People who are | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| partnership, there must also be an unwillingness to risk the journey and adventure of revealing yourself. An | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| on you. Whoever is unwilling to take the risk of this great adventure cannot succeed in the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| partnership, there must also be an unwillingness to risk the journey and adventure of revealing yourself. An | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| feelings, which always seem to involve a personal risk. Identifying and analyzing your images and wrong conclusions | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| possessions, but you are afraid to love or risk being hurt, and thus you withhold love from | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you will accept an occasional hurt. You will risk expressing your positive feelings rather than withholding them | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you desire to be loved, thereby taking the risk of life, will love be forthcoming. Remember that | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| vicious circle is strong can never take that risk as long as it continues to desire immature | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| immature childish love. As long as it cannot risk anything for love, it does not know how | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| The child is not supposed to take that risk; yet the adult is. The inner child has | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| get a return from life without investment or risk and without exposure. In other words, you desire | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| other self. This always seems to entail a risk: the risk of living and loving. To the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| This always seems to entail a risk: the risk of living and loving. To the measure that | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| living and loving. To the measure that this risk is avoided, sexual flatness may set in. This | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| cannot lose anything by trying. There is no risk involved, except, perhaps, your little ego and your | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| receive love without wishing to invest in the risk of loving on his or her part, such | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| she craves being loved without taking the apparent risk of loving. The more you are afraid to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| truth with clearer eyes than grown-ups. At the risk of boring you, I must come back again | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| insisting on your own isolation and refusing to risk your way out of it. You erect a | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| of ceasing to exist that he will not risk believing and then being disappointed if the religionists | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| so to speak. Pleasure presupposes the willingness to risk. But such risk is the very danger that | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Pleasure presupposes the willingness to risk. But such risk is the very danger that you feel you | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| get both safety and pleasure without daring to risk, without coming out of its shell, without taking | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| pleasure-supreme principle predominates, the personality will take a risk, but at such a price that further disturbances | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| instinct of self-preservation tries to compromise; you will risk by submitting. You will try to obtain happiness | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| emotionally and does not expose you to the risk of rejection and hurt. Emotional or sensual pleasure | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| from withholding outgoing forces and being unwilling to risk giving of yourself. Such an attitude robs a | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| you the fulfillment without having to take a risk of being hurt or humiliated again. Since this | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| pretense, taking what first appears like a tremendous risk, you must eventually discover your real self. Only | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| protect you and therefore it is difficult to risk the change. You do not want to stand | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| run away from yourself and from the apparent risk of living. Opportunities will come your way. You | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| if you do not wish to take the risk of living upon yourself, you wish to remain | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| running away from self-responsibility and from the apparent risk of living and feeling is caused by an | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| are too afraid for yourself, you will not risk going forward and reaching out toward others. Whoever | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| out toward others. Whoever reaches out takes the risk of being hurt and accepts this risk as | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the risk of being hurt and accepts this risk as worth while. When you are slothful, you | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| cannot make an independent choice because they cannot risk being different. The outer manifestation does not show | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| do? There is only one answer. At the risk of being again repetitious, I have to say | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| but they love personally and concretely, regardless of risk. Such people are not necessarily saints, or holy | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| expose yourself, and act in the face of risk. When you do not say yes to life | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| insight and self-facing, or you may overcome the risk of loving and giving of yourself. This lack | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| not merely theoretical. It does neither require the risk of rejection, nor taking the trouble of pondering | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| with the what, we will surely run the risk of misunderstanding and of erroneous, confused, unclear thinking | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the two sources of knowledge. They fear to risk disapproval if they follow their intuitions. This is | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| hold on to yourself, so as not to risk the danger of self- forgetting. This is a | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| in the pseudo-safety of isolation. However, you cannot risk revealing yourself if you cannot trust others. How | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| through letting go of control; through the apparent risk of floating without manipulating anyone or anything. Of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| withdraw in fear, not wanting to take the risk of letting go of control, my words could | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| control in choosing one's views and taking the risk of giving up control by standing alone and | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| of giving up control by standing alone and risk the disapproval of others. When one ceases to | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| fear of love, fear of pleasure, fear of risk, fear of change, fear of loss, fear of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| realization in which acceptance is no longer a risk, for it embraces the entire benign universe. Then | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| allowing themselves to love. Loving seems such a risk, so dangerous, so threatening, so irrevocable. Nothing could | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| genuine generous nature, unless you take the seeming risk of exploring yourself to discover whether the foreign | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| dreaded consequences and the possibility of a real risk, putting your life at a grave disadvantage, again | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| and others, in whatever form. You cannot wholly risk this when it spells the sacrifice of all | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| doing so, but you are too fearful to risk. Hence you remain in the status quo and | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| awareness of this pain. You do not dare risk it because you assume that the ultimate reality | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| because it is pleasurable, but I will not risk allowing my full nature to take its course | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| the ego becomes strong enough to take the risk to trust faculties other than its limited conscious | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| putting them into practice. You have nothing to risk and nothing to lose. The truth of all | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- that you do not want to generously risk giving of yourself on the deepest possible level | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| its help to become giving and positive; to risk investing yourself; to become generous and let yourself | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| and generosity come that make you take the risk. There must be risk. Apart from all the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| make you take the risk. There must be risk. Apart from all the other things I said | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| said about fear, it is a refusal to risk anything. It is impossible to lose fear without | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| to lose. This means risking. Not wanting to risk is ungenerous. And anything ungenerous is incompatible with | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| Not trusting the universe, not ever wanting to risk, is a pettiness in the spirit. Wherever human | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| will find that wherever there is the slightest risk you are too distrustful to take it and | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Each step of giving seems to involve the risk of losing. It is always first an apparent | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| trustingly throw yourself, only to find that all risk is illusory and that giving yourself to life | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| reality must be discovered by taking the illusory risk. Only when you own yourself can you take | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| you own yourself can you take such a risk -- never when you are not in full | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| The right kind of self-assertion, which accepts the risk of being criticized, leads to an openness of | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| meet life, to finally decide, I want to risk my good feelings. I want to seek the | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| love and live. I will take the apparent risk to do this, and thus establish self-respect, courage | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| are afraid to be involved and unwilling to risk pain and scared of loving, then detachment is | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| The soul then becomes ready to learn, experiment, risk mutuality, love, pleasure, and to function safely in | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| annihilation. Only after finally summoning sufficient trust to risk the jump can the person find out that | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| theory may sometimes last for many lifetimes. To risk obtaining a perhaps undesirable answer, you need to | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| acquired only by those who are ready to risk an undesirable answer and then are determined to | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| your choice. This knowledge will make the apparent risk of trying out a new thought-direction seem less | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| that you are not willing to take the risk or to pay the price necessary in order | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| untrusting and spiteful attitude. But when you can risk and trust -- trust in God -- and | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| is beautiful because you no longer pretend; you risk being truthful and thus become beautiful as you | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| causes of your unhappiness. The moment you can risk looking at your negative intentions and begin to | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| yourself and do not shy away from the risk and from the momentary resistance. Do not cut | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| unconsciously believe that it is, you do not risk even wanting to see it. Seeing truthfully may | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| unpleasant consequences and are thus not willing to risk pain, exposure, confrontation, and the hard work of | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| in you from this reaction, you can truly risk this event and battle it through so that | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| more fruitful the outcome will be when you risk offending your partner. Conversely, when you speak the | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| another consciousness. It depends on your ability to risk, to confront, to admit your most guarded secret | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| of self-confrontation and deep honesty, then you will risk, and the temporary pain will not diminish you | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| order to fuse emotionally, honest exchange at the risk of occasional crises is necessary. This honest exchange | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| exchange the deepest ideas and thoughts and to risk disagreement and disapproval are basic. Mental fusion can | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| do not wish either to give, or to risk, or to constantly integrate each level on a | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| will function. But you must first take the risk of allowing the involuntary forces to reveal the | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| unpleasantness -- in this case, confrontation -- and/or risk the possible loss of the loved one. You | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| out, the greatest dangers and pitfalls, how much risk to take, how many favorable and unfavorable outer | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| are not really taking so much of a risk. If there is no such thing as a | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| part of you is ready to expand, to risk exposure of its hidden secrets, to move toward | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| always requires courage, the taking of an apparent risk, to believe in something new and positive. By | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| to the relationship -- and to take the risk of being resented. You may instead decide not | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| that shrinks fearfully from confrontation. The courage to risk rejection for the sake of help and truth | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| threshold. That is courage. It is courage to risk all that rather than stand still and have | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| you anything in return. It is courage to risk finding out that your negative beliefs may not | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Another quality of leadership is the willingness to risk exposure and criticism. If you fear and guard | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| necessary for a true leader. Leadership means constant risk. If you do not wish to take the | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| If you do not wish to take the risk, and are full of jealousies, resentments, and rebellion | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| You can afford to have the courage and risk truth. You can afford humility, and the best | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| lead, to stand in an exposed place, to risk everything that goes with it for the purpose | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| an excuse. The strong and diligent ones, who risk and invest, can abuse the system by justifying | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| spiritual than the fighting spirit of those who risk themselves and their personal advantages by aggressive goodness | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| an excuse for staying inert, avoiding effort and risk? Only when you are very sure of this | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| inertia, to move and do and act, to risk and sometimes to fight against your own and | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| a disadvantage. It must include the courage to risk something or to sacrifice a selfish aim. It | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| justified. You can then find the courage to risk losing the object of your need. By setting | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| life and its laws so that you will risk giving. And this is indeed an important lever | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| one. So the first step must be to risk giving out. Consider that the fear that makes | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| as the inner, more subtle ones. If the risk is not taken to bring all aspects of | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| again and again. You need to take the risk repeatedly, step by step, until everything is out | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| transparent is the greatest joy. Only when you risk presenting whatever is in you now, will you | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| as long as you fail to take the risk of showing the friend all you are, all | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| and, together with this fear, your unwillingness to risk the possibility that this may not be so | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| from within you; they may ask you to risk following a teacher or loving a mate. This | 254 SURRENDER |
| hidden agendas will give you sufficient strength to risk letting go and shedding your ego-self. You will | 254 SURRENDER |
| kind of courage. You must be willing to risk the imaginary dangers of truly feeling with your | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| tunnel of uncertainty. You need to take the risk to allow the great quietude that is, at | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| in you. You need to take the apparent risk of explaining yourself, even if this can rarely | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |