| Soul's......................29 | |
| same who most sincerely strive to follow their soul's yearning. Although they truly want to do what | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| and abandoned. All human beings strive, in their soul's core, to give, to fulfill and even to | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| for the wrong alternative. Such straightforwardness serves the soul's health, even though it may not be the | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| They know the entire path of the individual soul's destiny, so that they are capable of ascertaining | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| will never have the strong effect of the soul's willpower. You can use your willpower in two | 18 FREE WILL |
| it is of course due to this particular soul's karma. The more unified humanity becomes through spiritual | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| to the other, or the memory of the soul's existence in the spiritual worlds between incarnations is | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| on, which is the crucial period in a soul's evolution, everything that happens, has happened and will | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| marks, indeed, a major stepping stone of a soul's return journey to God. The subject chosen for | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| or she is going entirely according to the soul's plan, or partly so, deviating a little bit | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| love can lead to a paralysis of the soul's creative forces. In order to fulfill the soul's | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| soul's creative forces. In order to fulfill the soul's longing to be loved, the human being often | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| a glimpse of the many possibilities in the soul's unconscious and often unsuccessful striving for solutions. In | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and coping with your reality, that caused your soul's sickness. Hence it is this area that has | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| resist it by a wild struggle of your soul's forces. Maturity will come as you teach your | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| these times because of the struggle for the soul's survival. This world is full of human beings | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| in one form or another. The greater your soul's readiness for loving -- or to put it | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| on to the experience, and that blocks the soul's movement. Needless to say, this may not be | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| are removed from one another. Only when the soul's potential is greater than its actual development, and | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| you really are, right now, even in your soul's most secret chamber, is so much better to | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| particular emphasis that triggered off most strongly your soul's shock reaction. In the last analysis it is | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| in order to sustain the resistance against the soul's natural inclination to follow its destiny. This unconscious | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| not known as yet, you intuitively experience your soul's nonthreatening aliveness, which transcends your physical existence. And | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| will no longer prevent people from finding their soul's oneness with the all. Diversity and the individual | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| these truths came as a result of the soul's struggle to find divine meaning and because of | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| duality brings pain and strain, it is the soul's greatest longing to find the deeper level of | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| you further away from the fulfillment of your soul's longing -- namely the real inner knowing of | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| fulfillment of this longing impossible by blocking your soul's natural inclination toward surrender. All truly good things | 254 SURRENDER |
| of the earth has an impact on the soul's development. So you see, my friends, technology is | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Soul-safety.................1 | |
| distorted instinct of self-preservation at work, fighting for soul-safety or, as it is more commonly called, emotional | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| Soul-sickness...............1 | |
| you progressively attract more positive experience. In your soul-sickness and error, productive of fear, pride, arrogance, ignorance | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Soul-stuff..................9 | |
| When a new child enters this earth, its soul-stuff is very malleable, very soft. Within this soul- | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Where the underlying potential is positive, the corresponding soul-stuff will be so resilient that even a seemingly | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| When you have retained an impression in unresilient soul-stuff, your entire psychic mechanism functions according to this | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| force as long as the dent in the soul-stuff is not smoothed out. The healing comes about | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| are evidence of the presence of the too-malleable soul-stuff that did not grow healthily into resilient elasticity | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| did not grow healthily into resilient elasticity. Over-tender soul-stuff causes both conscious and unconscious pain. Since the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the unpleasant effect of the dent upon the soul-stuff. If you suffer physical pain in a certain | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| you cannot function differently even then. Such over-malleable soul-stuff makes you incapable of adjusting to ever-changing circumstances | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| reality. In order to flow with life, your soul-stuff has to have the healthy elasticity to quickly | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Soul-substance..............14 | |
| it. Be in peace, be in God! 111. SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS Greetings, my dearest friends | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| form deep dents and remain imbedded in the soul-substance. When you recollect my explanations about how images | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Flexibility is the quality of resilient, elastic, healthy soul-substance. When it comes to rigidity, however, there are | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| so that the imprints remain imbedded in the soul-substance, the effect on the personality is heavy. Then | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| constant heavy impacts causing hurtful dents on the soul-substance, which are experienced as oversensitivity. The wall is | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the highly sensitized area of the too vulnerable soul-substance. Every other aspect in the situation, or in | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| due to the lack of resiliency in the soul-substance, that you cannot function differently even then. Such | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| only to the direct imprint made upon your soul-substance. This prevents you from being in the constant | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| to their real significance. Needless to say, healthy soul-substance cannot be created by an act of will | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| receive the healthy and unhealthy reactions of the soul-substance in this light. The recognition of the two | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| living, are the best way to heal your soul-substance. Once again, it is true that awareness of | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the first part of this lecture. When your soul-substance is too impressionable, when you unduly retain impressions | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the result of an impaired integrity. The inelastic soul-substance with its oversensitivity creates such an aversion to | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| will be negatively influenced and impressed. The healthy soul-substance will not even have a negative reaction if | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Sounder.....................3 | |
| or does a light sleep suffice? ANSWER: The sounder the sleep, the more relaxation. You know that | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| than when you had a light sleep. The sounder the sleep, the more removed is the feeling-body | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| these fears are very real. The healthier and sounder a person is, spiritually and emotionally, the less | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| Sounds......................35 | |
| and form in the spirit. Their colors, shades, sounds, and fragrances are of a wide variety. And | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| to the touch, looks to the eye, and sounds to the ear. For you, the ultimate criterion | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| directly perceive a new voice within you that sounds quite different from your usual thoughts or ideas | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| on earth is dissonance compared to the spiritual sounds -- and so on. I lack the words | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| are spheres of music and color, where the sounds are colors and the colors are sounds -- | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| the sounds are colors and the colors are sounds -- and at the same time they are | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| could not have been that way because it sounds all too human. All you have and know | 22 SALVATION |
| you think that all this is impossible. It sounds too human, too concrete for you to be | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| do not know theirs. Yes, my friends, this sounds strong, but in the infant part of your | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| able to go on hiding. Perhaps all this sounds strange to you and you may still not | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| soul is a loud one. All emotions produce sounds, but the loud voice claiming self-importance does not | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| become unhappy, in order to be happy. This sounds completely illogical, but the immature unconscious is this | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you wish it? Simple as this question first sounds and later is, to answer it at the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| in others. QUESTION: As you explain it, it sounds as though it were desirable to become a | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| may remain the same while you change. This sounds like a paradox, my friends, but it is | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| is unnecessary, without fear and worry. This serenity sounds like an ideal impossible to attain on earth | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| extend and amplify the meaning. COMMENT: It only sounds that way, because He said: But I say | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| turn to him the other also. So it sounds like a paradox. ANSWER: Yes, if not taken | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will see that this is so. The task sounds easy to accomplish, but in practice it is | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| recognition. That is not as easy as it sounds. You know how it is with recognition: One | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| you fear so much: your own psyche. This sounds simpler than it really is. To explore the | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| approach yourself, your life, in this way. It sounds, and really is, simple, but it is not | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| without manipulating anyone or anything. Of course, this sounds like a contradiction, my friends. But all spiritual | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| that is not always as simple as it sounds. How it is wanted, what soul movements accompany | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| you. It is the process of recognition, which sounds like an easy word, my friends, but it | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| friends. What I say here, simple as it sounds, can become very important in helping you honestly | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| the self-realized state, conveyed in human language, often sounds deceptive. Its properties may so easily be confused | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| cried after state in life. To them this sounds truly preposterous and they may at first cast | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| path well know, not as easy as it sounds. But once you are fully aware of them | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| and the body will then be possible. This sounds like utopia, my friends: and actually it would | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| to eliminate whatever prevents you from meditating. This sounds like a paradox, but it is not. If | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| it. If the entity is highly developed, the sounds of an emanating consciousness are extremely beautiful and | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| emanating consciousness are extremely beautiful and harmonious. The sounds of a lower self are disharmonious, ugly and | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| Your energy body is influenced by the sights, sounds, odors, touching, and many other sense perceptions of | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| and self-confident. So what I am saying here sounds indeed like a great paradox: only when you | 254 SURRENDER |