| Sided.......................3 | |
| mistaken if you believe that I advocate one- sided love. In a healthy state, you will never | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| for cruelty and greed, for selfishness and one- sided demands upon others must be released so you | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| your jealousy, your envy, and your unfair, one- sided demands are truly unjust. Only then will you | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Side-effects................3 | |
| recognize it in all its intensity and various side-effects. QUESTION: Would it be possible to give us | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| personal area of trouble. This may have destructive side-effects, apart from hindering the personal growth process. Disharmony | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| not know what you bargain for and what side-effects are attached to your unwise wishes, false assumptions | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Sides.......................67 | |
| true progress, you have to grow from both sides. New outer knowledge has to be acquired when | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| person has to attack the resistance from several sides. He needs to pray for strength and willpower | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| God. You must approach the problem from both sides: Do your own work and you must ask | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| you will know which of the two battling sides within you has the right answer. When you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| and the Eastern side should unite, because both sides will furnish the complete picture only when put | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| this attraction? ANSWER: Oh yes. QUESTION: On both sides? ANSWER: On both sides, indeed! And not only | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| yes. QUESTION: On both sides? ANSWER: On both sides, indeed! And not only this kind of mutual | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| An equal influence had to come from both sides. This meant fewer beings of the divine world | 21 THE FALL |
| This can be done only by considering all sides. The trouble with people is not that they | 21 THE FALL |
| wrong. There is always some wrong on both sides, certainly. In recent times, when people make war | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to tackle all problems from at least two sides and often from more. You cannot find God | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| alternative thoroughly; to face not only the advantageous sides of all alternatives in making your choice, but | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| will reap the disadvantages of both or all sides which you wished to avoid. If you test | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| influenced by hurt pride. Show your own good sides in sincerity; show the generosity in your heart | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| to go on and on working from all sides, from all aspects, and all of a sudden | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| always good to approach the goal from two sides, the outside and the inside. QUESTION: Couldn't it | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the images, you have to work from two sides: (1) examine your childhood and your reactions at | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| can defend a case from two entirely different sides. They can first represent the case from one | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the mass image of self-importance comes from two sides: the side of the real self and the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| souls. Not until it is recognized that both sides of the human personality have to be equally | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| with another. One should combat it from all sides. QUESTION: Will you explain the meaning of keeping | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| both are wrong. Ideologically, none of these two sides are ideal. But from the spiritual point of | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to be resolved peacefully and constructively for both sides. For anyone who is not first looking into | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| and partly of the lower self. These two sides will be integrated and live in peace with | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| harmoniously have developed the physical, mental, and emotional sides of their nature. These three spheres are supposed | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| necessary growing pains of the physical and mental sides of the personality than to the growth of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the clear way. You try tugging on both sides, leaving your energy scattered. You make up for | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the whole of you. There may be many sides to your being where you are quite relaxed | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| lower self, the part that you deny. Both sides of your nature can be partly conscious and | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| that one first realizes that love has two sides: a kind of negation and a positiveness, both | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| masochism, which, as you know, are only two sides of the same coin, are conditioned and brought | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| protestation of unbelief. They are but two different sides of the same coin. The only way to | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| is still strong, the parents represent the two sides of the inner split. If you examine your | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| the involvement expresses conflict, it must manifest both sides of the split, and therefore relates to both | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| about the union of its masculine and feminine sides and will feel isolating separative tendencies as being | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| both sexes but are arrived at from opposite sides. When a man accepts his full responsibility on | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| the good of dualism. The former conciliates both sides, while the latter separates them. This can be | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| come only in the unitive state as both sides are reconciled. To understand the unitive state you | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| the moment you do, help comes from all sides. Why should this be different in another dimension | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| straighten them out. I want to see all sides. The different sides usually interact; they are not | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| I want to see all sides. The different sides usually interact; they are not unconnected elements. Lack | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| special and better than others. They are two sides of the same coin in the world of | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| others? ANSWER: It is the same duality, two sides of the same coin. People who genuinely feel | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| imbalance must give way to balance on both sides. Where division of direction existed, the directions must | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| ideals one holds about oneself. Both are two sides of the same coin: the rosy-colored future in | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| and death are the sunny and the shadow sides -- if I may put it this way | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| of bringing into harmony the truth of both sides, as it were. Therefore it cannot find solutions | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| mutually exclusive opposites out of them. When both sides of the duality are reconciled, two apparently opposing | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| interaction between man and woman expresses the two sides of the creative power in a very obvious | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| is satisfactory to the degree that the two sides are in harmony within each partner. Only when | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| difference is that the latter deals with opposite sides of the same basic principle or attitude. The | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| it all merges. The underlying truth conciliates both sides. You cannot reach this state of consciousness cheaply | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| my friends, to be aware of these two sides of the growth process. The balance of conscious | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| applies to meditation, which must combine the two sides, as well as to the acquisition of any | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| yourself to know the counter currents, the conflicting sides that remain below your surface consciousness? If you | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| False hope and false resignation are only two sides of the same coin: absolute passivity. But the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| at all times, you will also see both sides in others. You tend to completely reject and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| self. In all three of these possibilities, both sides alternately speak and listen, as in every meaningful | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you can already genuinely want to know both sides, then you will soon witness the unitive principle | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| I attempt to unify the two as two sides of the same truth. By leaving out one | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| dominant, and manipulative traits. They are inevitably two sides of the same coin. At the beginning of | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| the work. Attempting to compromise between these two sides leads to such false ways of attaining the | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| real and a false version exists on both sides. In the real version, faith and doubt are | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| you sort out the dishonest motives on both sides can you open the channel to your inner | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| processes, the concept of balance, of manifesting both sides of what now appear as opposites. As your | 228 BALANCE |
| a problem needs to be tackled from both sides. You need to deepen your inner work on | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| line of when and how to express both sides, you will find that they are not mutually | 254 SURRENDER |
| Sight.......................60 | |
| least not easily -- even for those whose sight is already sharper, and often it takes a | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| clouds of the powers of darkness destroy your sight and your sense of truth that every so | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| it was difficult for spirits to focus their sight on physical bodies unless there was good reason | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| hindrance for us spirits. It appears at first sight that the further you move away from God | 18 FREE WILL |
| far reaching than might have appeared at first sight. With this influence growing steadily through the ages | 21 THE FALL |
| seen. But if you keep this possibility in sight, as you struggle with yourself and overcome your | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| connect it with your various faults. At first sight, this may seem impossible and entirely unconnected. But | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| not like to be asked at the first sight of a problem, What should I do? What | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| not receive it? This argument seems, at first sight, logical. But the simple fact is that a | 36 PRAYER |
| a long while there is no belief, no sight of truth. A turning point occurs when the | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| merely because it appears that way at first sight. It is very possible, and even probable, that | 38 IMAGES |
| way spirits see, and the significance of their sight, is different from human sight. When you see | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| significance of their sight, is different from human sight. When you see a beautiful landscape, or something | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| one sore point, while you leave out of sight many other facets that would complete the picture | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| life's reins altogether. The overemotional person completely loses sight of the fact that reason also is God-given | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| lose it again. The will-type tends to lose sight not only of caution but also of many | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| outwardly, while the previous links are hidden from sight -- has to be helped, certainly. But this | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| very few clairvoyants, unless they are given such sight with our help for a specific purpose. It | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| blindness of this earth sphere, due to restricted sight, to the fact that you only see a | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| its positive aspect stands for preservation. At first sight it may seem the same as the restricting | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| how remote the connection may appear at first sight. God's blessings go to you with a particular | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| and uncomfortable. You therefore pushed it out of sight as far as possible. As long as the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you once suffered but you pushed out of sight. Now you have to look at this pain | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| or present. They busily push it out of sight. Their problems do not appear as pain. For | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| exaggerated, and therefore you put it out of sight. You also dislike yourself for your dependency, which | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| to know about themselves. They put out of sight everything that may give them a deeper understanding | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| a conscious experience you absolutely need. At first sight, this will appear as a relapse. You will | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| you put raw, destructive, immature emotions out of sight instead of growing out of them and then | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to whisk them also out of your own sight. You found it necessary to do so because | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| Suddenly the point of relinquishing will come into sight, clearly and strongly, or perhaps very subtly. Relinquishing | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| your emotions that used to be hidden from sight and awareness. If you do not make it | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| healthy growing pain, and the light is in sight when you overcome your resistance to the process | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| to remember and to never keep out of sight. Unknowingly, unconsciously, undeliberately -- and yet deliberately -- | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of how successfully you can keep out of sight what still exists. Therefore, any exercise of cutting | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| as it may appear. This may, at first sight, seem paradoxical, but when you look more closely | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| may reside perhaps in another area, hidden from sight or explained away. Important as it is to | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| are instantly covered up and pushed out of sight. How can you overcome something if you are | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| you cannot cope with and push out of sight. Accept fully the primitive, selfish, destructive child in | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| hopelessness and the way out will be in sight. You will understand why your life has not | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| this without losing balance within yourself, without losing sight of the fact that you are a divine | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| there is no other hope or solution in sight. In that sense the perception of an end | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| accept the ugliest in you and never lose sight of your intrinsic beauty. Now, are there any | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| the traits you hate and still not lose sight of who you essentially are. I also suggest | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| frustration is self-produced and voluntarily pushed out of sight. Hence the result must be borne with courage | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| irrationality and primitive, destructive aspects -- without losing sight of the fact that this is only a | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| life. The process of destruction/creation is a magnificent sight for spirit eyes. The blind entity may suffer | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| felt pain of your wrongdoing, yet without losing sight of your divinity. You become a better, stronger | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| your evil. If the isolated aspect has lost sight of its connection with, and its purpose in | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| empty, pained, and needy. However, do not lose sight of another state of consciousness into which you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| does not seem to hold true, at first sight. However, when you go deeper, you are bound | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you begin to reap. That is a beautiful sight for us in spirit. We see the form | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| need for self-acceptance. Again and again you lose sight of its importance and you get stuck in | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Your growth is heartwarming and a most joyous sight to behold. You have grown much more, my | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| on a genuine level. You need to lose sight, temporarily, of the goal. You need to give | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| a result of the dualistic state. It lost sight of the fact that yet another step existed | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| what you already see and believe. You lose sight of its regenerative, benign nature and meaning. The | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| and look at your lower self without losing sight that you also have a higher self. Yet | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| may come in a deep inner knowing, without sight or sound. Thinking of your desires and surface | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| an extrasensory perception seems to reveal such a sight, it is again only the mirror image of | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| want to see it fully, without ever losing sight of the fact that God loves me and | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |