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| responsibly accept the price to be paid. So beware of making your decisions half-heartedly like a child | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| until the time of incarnation actually arrives. Again, beware of rash judgment; an easy and pleasant life | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| spiritual development, psychological trends, and so forth. But beware of rules and generalizations here. There are none | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| be perverted, especially when it is forced. So beware of forcibly assuming the states which I am | 36 PRAYER |
| known reactions or faults in your inner images, beware of the attitude that you already know about | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| You merely use a different manner of operation. Beware of these two pitfalls, my friends. The only | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| I know this already. It is nothing new. Beware of this danger, my friends. The majority of | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| upon you from both inside and outside. So beware of the reaction, Oh, but I know this | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| seems to you to make no sense. So beware of both obstacles to progress, my dear friends | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you may experience any one of these reactions. Beware of each! Find the right way: Feel with | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| will be able to get to their roots. Beware of your good reasoning capacity! The more successful | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| deviate from the healthy and positive attitude. But beware of the opposite extreme, of feeling guilty when | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| capacity to love and to help others. So beware of the misconception that to love yourself is | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| After you have made a recognition of importance, beware of the attitude of believing that you can | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| take it as a philosophical concept? ANSWER: Yes. Beware of trying to strive for it now, for | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you really want. Why do you want it? Beware of the error that one motivation necessarily excludes | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| that is only an indication. So you must beware of evaluation based on a person's professed belief | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| reactions, you will weaken the defeat's negative impact. Beware of superimposing the ideal reaction that you are | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| and have to be uncovered by the individual. Beware of rigid evaluation that each pseudo-solution contains only | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| dangerous. Anything is a symptom of something. But beware of readymade opinions and generalizations. They are very | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| first. Without it you are locked and blocked. Beware of finding a quick answer as to what | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| on the more superficial levels of human life. Beware of the false sacrifice which can often be | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| most dangerous things in dream interpretation is generalization. Beware of it. Always use the personal, subjective associations | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| in you responds to illusion with illusion. But beware of believing that your self-pity, bitterness, futility due | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| live in the true sense of the word. Beware of turning back into evasion all over again | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| my description is only a vague general outline. Beware of judging yourself or another according to what | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| whenever you discover such erroneous ways in yourself, beware of feeling guilty, of being frantic, of feeling | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| though one side may be predominant. One must beware of oversimplification. The fact that a relationship changes | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| relieve a hurting heart, heal a festering sore. Beware of undertaking any action before you are fully | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| and experience, just try to live the experience. Beware of labeling, it does not help. Be happy | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| parent you least wish to be like. So beware of quick judgments. You unconsciously substitute others for | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| is then to put the lid on again. Beware of this temptation. The warm, positive, generous, loving | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| disturbances, and how everything else seems more important. Beware of the easy rationalizations, for they are most | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| very area in which you most need growth. Beware of a quick, superficial evaluation. Only when you | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| up the childish version of essentially realizable wishes. Beware of the feeling of resignation that you can | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| and concludes. As I keep saying, you must beware of judging whether you or others have reached | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| know, experience, and feel what I really feel. Beware of either talking yourself out of your feeling | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| yourself. On the other hand, you should also beware of the possibility that you may misuse this | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| that this is all of you. You must beware of this dangerous distortion. There is a direct | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| all-loving, all-fulfilling universe available to all created beings. Beware of this guilt, my friends, for it does | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| up the channel to the divine self. So beware of stubbornness, my friends; it is a wall | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| behind the distortion, but, at the same time, beware of using this knowledge in order to justify | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| which wishful thinking may be coloring the reception. Beware also of the opposite danger: To what extent | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| this very topic. The New Age politicians must beware of embracing one form of government against another | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| situation, condition, circumstance. By knowing this, you will beware of quick evaluations, and you will assume the | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
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| this kernel of truth, whether it concerns the Bible or any other religious teaching. So, to come | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| progressed enough to deserve it. Simply follow the Bible: Test everything and keep the good. Quietly accept | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| I perceive a great conflict in what the Bible says, which is that God created man in | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| the help of a specific passage from the Bible, a certain prayer or spiritual law. The tools | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| here. One such phenomenon is -- and the Bible refers to it too, using the word tongues | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| QUESTION: The reason I asked was that the Bible says, By your faith you can move the | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| about His death. But if you read the Bible now, your own imagination can give you a | 22 SALVATION |
| is the truth. And if you read the Bible with true understanding and openness, you will find | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I would like to say this: The whole Bible, the Old as well as the New Testament | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to choose this word -- to have the Bible constructed in this way. You can never know | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the course of time. Despite these errors, the Bible is something that has never been duplicated, but | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are extremely few people, indeed, who understand the Bible from this point of view. Many perceive one | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| QUESTION: May I ask a question from the Bible? What is the true spiritual meaning of the | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| to itself. And when it says in the Bible that God has counted every single hair on | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| is this hour, my dearest friends. In the Bible it is said that you should not create | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| phenomena. Aural transfiguration is referred to in the Bible as speaking in tongues. Such phenomena take an | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| simply a misunderstanding about certain terms in the Bible; in reality the word fear means something quite | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| why Jesus spoke in parables and why the Bible is symbolic? ANSWER: Part of the reason, but | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| in simple terms, like some sayings in the Bible which are clear even today. For instance, Do | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| word image corresponds to the meaning of the Bible: something negative, imagined, frozen, petrified. And we do | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Episcopal Church referred to various myths in the Bible -- such as Adam and Eve, Eden, Heaven | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| about the fear of the Lord. In the Bible it is said that the fear of the | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| power of the word. It says in the Bible, In the beginning was the Word. There is | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| friends, if you became more familiar with the Bible. I am most eager and willing to help | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| They will flock to orientations that take the Bible in a very literal and doctrinaire sense. They | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| will surrender to the false prophets, as the Bible says. The slightly stronger ones, who are still | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| allergic to. They are words used in the Bible and in organized religion, words that have indeed | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
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| create disorder in your soul. All unclarified conflicts, big or small, weaken you. Therefore, it would be | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| will of God. There are no little and big things, my friends. For what may seem tremendous | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| it. Who is to say what is a big task and what is a little one? Simply | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| And then, if you have decided with a big and wholehearted Yes, you will need your willpower | 21 THE FALL |
| action. It does not have to be something big and important. Often, the smaller the act, the | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a desire that is unfulfilled, or some problem big or small. Take your faults and weigh them | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| ways every day. This is as true for big and important decisions as it is for small | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| may be easier to start with a really big decision. It may feel as though you were | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| or whether you jump in and handle the big problems does not matter, provided you are going | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| may feel ashamed of something. Whether it be big or small, grave or unimportant, is not the | 31 SHAME |
| faults, errors, ignorances, and their complexities create one big vicious circle in your soul. This circle consists | 36 PRAYER |
| will bring challenges and experiences for you -- big or small -- according to your present developmental | 36 PRAYER |
| of these feelings and emotions drain into a big ugly pool and finally are responsible for all | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| few months. Then, when you have all the big and small troubles in front of your eyes | 38 IMAGES |
| How can you keep eros? That is the big question, my dear ones. Eros can be maintained | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| aims and goals in your life or the big issues. No, I mean that any small -- | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| come out they appear to you like a big bundle of confused feelings. With the help of | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| occurs in your life, the little and the big issues, and consider them from this point of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are shown a little stone from a big house. You can tell certain facts by looking | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| spiritual truth and spiritual reality, there are no big and little issues. The tiniest issue in a | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of exactly the same impact and importance as big international issues. This may sound fantastic to you | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| subtle private undercurrents you contribute to the so-called big and important issues. In fact, the former are | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is all one and the same. The so-called big issues could not exist if the many little | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| grow after each mishap, whether it touches a big and important issue or a rather insignificant one | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the outer difficulties -- with perhaps an occasional big crisis still coming up. Needless to say that | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| feel like a lost little boat on a big ocean. Sometimes the waters are wild and the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| things. You cannot possibly get to the really big issues in your life immediately, because they are | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| judge of what brings you happiness. Let your big self, your real self that is so much | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| to find. To find oneself is such a big order. If he has to wait to get | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| confusion in your life. This confusion concerns the big issues as well as the seemingly lesser ones | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| life and happiness. To begin by tackling the big general issues will never get you anywhere. True | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| inability to give up, whether manifest in the big question, or in little everyday issues, holds the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| easy for a person successfully to experience a big defeat in an important issue in life. But | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| attained, whether in a little or in a big way, represents a false value. That does not | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| experience themselves as either too small or too big, fluctuating between these two distortions. Other people will | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| affect you. Do they make you small or big? Do you experience people as many-faceted complex beings | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| or freedom in performing everyday chores, be they big or little. When everything is an ordeal, something | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| a whole. Each transition in growth, small or big, is fraught with crisis. Humankind went through many | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| It does not differentiate between important or unimportant, big and small issues. It pervades everything when it | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| hope that life will first give you a big slice, and then, maybe, you can muster the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| ascertained in your personal work. Nothing is too big or too little, important or unimportant, when it | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| problems and conflicts always result from either too big an ego or too small an ego. It | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| cannot be said that one person has too big an ego and another too small or too | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| friends are now approaching the point where the big lie of the mask and the pretense must | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| death has been exaggerated and made into a big and seemingly rational fear. The fear of letting | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| and can be translated into many everyday issues, big or small. It can take shape as a | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| make yourself deaf to it? That is the big question, my friends. What I say here, simple | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| existence. It may apply to any little or big wish, any fulfillment you desire. If you feel | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| in terms of size, in other words, that big things can yield great power and small things | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| yourself in conflicts that make life become one big trap. Then the meaning of the word freedom | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the cycle of life, abandonment plays a big role. You are abandoned by your parents. Then | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| therefore unwilling to accept any frustration, little or big; you are unwilling to deal with any difficulties | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| living. In reality there is no small or big. Everything is important. Every issue makes room for | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| whether one's neglect of order applies to the big important issues or the unimportant ones. The smallest | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| and expressions of such a person? All decisions, big or small, are made on the basis of | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| do not understand it intuitively and, perhaps, symbolically. Big and small are really not matters of size | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| that there is no event in your life, big or small, outer or inner, that is not | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| love for its own sake. That is the big leap -- a leap that must be repeated | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| itself in large groups selfishly running the masses; big concerns in which all personal connection to others | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| manifestation. Modern people are small cogs in a big machine, depersonalized because they halted both movements: their | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| There can be no organization in the universe, big or small, planetary or minuscule, and no community | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Now your earth sphere is ready for a big step forward. All the inner faculties have been | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| clashing create war on a small or a big scale. To make peace possible, whether between individuals | 254 SURRENDER |
| enormous, especially if you do not have too big a stake in your egotistic self- righteousness. However | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |