| Sketch......................3 | |
| personal work. Let this lecture be a rough sketch of the picture we shall slowly complete together | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| limiting divisions. What served once as a mere sketch is now being filled in with details. Do | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and so on and on, is a vague sketch of the creative process itself, always at work | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Skill.......................10 | |
| glance, in spite of the fact that technical skill also becomes a necessity in order to give | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| well as to the acquisition of any new skill. You need to create a right attitude toward | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| conflict, confusion, ignorance and helplessness, represent a new skill and mastery over life, a new unification -- | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| When the involuntary faculties finally manifest, the new skill becomes an effortless, natural part of you. On | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| hard labor giving way to naturalness when the skill suddenly becomes second nature. On the mental level | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| spontaneously reappears. Very gradually you incorporate the new skill into your personality. The acquisition of a new | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| Every bit of new knowledge or a new skill yields, directly or indirectly, more spiritual power and | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| This can be noted in every activity or skill. First there is always effort. It becomes pleasurable | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| spirit can use this newly expanded vision, knowledge, skill, energy, and accomplishment to play creatively. An artist | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| establish clarity, light and truth. By learning the skill of communication, and practicing it as an art | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Skills......................10 | |
| thoughts that have no emotional impact needs certain skills, not always easy to muster. Much more patience | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| sustained practice in building new physical or mental skills. The first appearance of effortless, spontaneous unification will | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| joy. Many people increase their physical and mental skills. This is also a valuable movement toward life | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| knowledge toward true outer unifications. Physical and mental skills have their value, but they miss the mark | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| more and greater unifications, to expand your spiritual skills so that you can do away with disunity | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| most mundane, outer, physical and intellectual knowledge and skills to be acquired increase in some way your | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of self-transcendence. The acquisition of new knowledge and skills also demands the cultivation of the attitudes necessary | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and your potential. To acquire new knowledge or skills, on whatever level, always means overcoming laziness. It | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Whether it takes shape as new knowledge, new skills, or a new attitude toward life and the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| previous lives need to be nurtured. The technical skills learned in this body need to be assimilated | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Skin........................8 | |
| might best compare it with the consistency of skin and flesh, but the surface of the subtle | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the soul has much greater variety than physical skin and flesh. Words are so limited that they | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| process of the body. When you cut your skin, you have to wash the wound so that | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| Since you cannot be comfortable in your own skin, your life and living with yourself will feel | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| of your eyes, in the brilliance of your skin, in the suppleness of your form. The improvement | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| as are your bones, muscles, flesh, organs and skin. They form an infinitely complicated system of intricately | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| the silent bystanders who were afraid for their skin and thus allowed evil to -- apparently - | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| collusion of the many for whom their own skin was more important than truth, decency, honesty, charity | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Skip........................15 | |
| you realize as yet. You mistakenly want to skip this phase altogether, and by so doing you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| manifold. For instance, you may be tempted to skip a very necessary phase that is unpleasant at | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| way. You will not need, nor want, to skip a full life-experience under the well-sounding pretext that | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are not fully aware of them. You vaguely skip over them, knowing that perfection cannot be had | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| sometimes not be so easy, because you may skip over an incident, leaving it vague and not | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| gone through thoroughly. One cannot be forced to skip a stage, otherwise something unassimilated will remain in | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| ceasing to be necessary, so they try to skip the creation of a healthy ego. This may | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| after which the former is fashioned. I will skip an elucidation of the fact that several such | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the ultimate unitive state because you want to skip the stages that lead there, you have not | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| that way. Another law is that you cannot skip a step. If you want a result that | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| through an artificial deadening process. This path cannot skip the step of making you first feel your | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| will be relaxed precisely because you do not skip any steps. You listen into your inner self | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| lower self. It is truly cheating, wanting to skip the laborious work of becoming, and wanting to | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| of inner, subtle, and finally spiritual attitudes. To skip them and consider them irrelevant only leads to | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| fully part of your daily life, you will skip important steps and the process cannot take place | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Skipped.....................8 | |
| has to happen now. It just cannot be skipped altogether; if you do, your overall development will | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of avoiding unnecessary cruelty. This step cannot be skipped by forbidding meat-eating. Until such time, you can | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The surgeon may come home and say, I skipped a stitch. But he saved a man's life | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| these aspects of your being can be avoided, skipped, bypassed or whisked away by some magic spiritual | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| -- this is always necessary, it cannot be skipped, since you must assume responsibility for it -- | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| without the preceding one. No step can be skipped. Year after year of our cooperation these maps | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| first establish certain intermediate links, which cannot be skipped. Those links form the bridge to a state | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| giving without much recompense. If this step is skipped, the spiritual health of the community will suffer | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Skipping....................3 | |
| one day be yours, but not ever by skipping this seemingly trivial and undramatic step. In this | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| creative thought power, but overlook the danger of skipping steps within the psyche. They become hypnotized, as | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| impossible to refocus on this beautiful voice by skipping over the confrontation with the lower self that | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| Sky.........................5 | |
| of life: the sea can be stormy, the sky grey, and then again the sun will shine | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| you that a machine could fly in the sky, or that you could turn a knob and | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| yourself, in some building or up in the sky. You all know that. He can only be | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| do not direct such prayer up into the sky but deep into yourself. So there really is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| a punishing or rewarding deity up in the sky, and from the equally false idea that there | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| Slant.......................8 | |
| will admit that this gives an altogether wrong slant on the facts as they truly are. God's | 18 FREE WILL |
| an upward-winding spiral. At the beginning the upward slant is so slight that you do not even | 36 PRAYER |
| do so again, perhaps with a slightly different slant, my friends. I know that many people are | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| yourself about your emotions considered from this new slant, you will have to admit that your answer | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| because the word predetermination puts an entirely wrong slant on the issue. What I say has nothing | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| shall do so again, perhaps with a different slant. I know that many people are afraid that | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| still near you who might have a different slant to complete the picture for you, even by | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| this one. It will give you a new slant on your inner life. Psychology has postulated for | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| Slate.......................5 | |
| incarnation can begin and there is a clean slate. Whatever this being decides, it can do. Is | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you the opportunity to start on a clean slate, without any burden. According to your merits on | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| you have and then start on a cleaner slate for your further development? And many a spirit | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the possibility to start anew with a clean slate. On the day to day outer plane the | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| be in, you start off with a clean slate: you start off knowing nothing, whether you are | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| Slaughter...................3 | |
| a strange coincidence that there should be wholesale slaughter of many individuals, like for instance in a | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| always times when great cruelty existed and mass slaughter happened. After certain intervals it happened again, the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| of a helpless victim who is led to slaughter. Your fear, my friends, to go all the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| Slave.......................17 | |
| each inner imperfection and outer exposure. As a slave you cannot possess yourself and therefore cannot really | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| can direct your life, instead of being a slave and being directed by moods and outer happenings | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| my friends, this way you indeed make a slave of yourself; you make yourself dependent on outer | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| when you decide, I am no longer a slave. From now on I direct my life. In | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| real feelings and emotional reactions and are thus slave to them; they are mastered by them, instead | 21 THE FALL |
| of it. They are constantly whipped by the slave driver of their compulsive conscience, which has come | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| of yourself in which you become a submissive slave. This is not to be taken literally; it | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| of relinquishing, you will no longer be a slave to your needs, because you are now conscious | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| be out of wanting affection without being a slave, yet the person does not yet know that | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| the unconscious is conscious, you are not a slave to it, but its master. You stubbornly insist | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| out in a non-existent prison. They labor and slave and chafe with the effort of rattling the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| mean, I do not have to be a slave to decisions that do not come from me | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| possible for someone to whom one plays a slave in order to avoid self-responsibility. The old fairy | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| the heart. The new woman is neither a slave to the man, nor is she his competitor | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| form or another. Therefore the need for a slave no longer exists in him. The man is | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| to force, manipulate, and cajole. You become the slave of unreality, and reality defeats you. I suggest | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| a woman meant nothing more than acquiring a slave who obeyed the master of the house; who | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |