| Steal.......................14 | |
| Commandments. They deal with actions. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not lie, and so on. This | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| one person it may be difficult not to steal. For another, this presents no difficulty whatsoever, while | 18 FREE WILL |
| Divine law comprises that you should not kill, steal, or commit recognized crimes or sins. These are | 18 FREE WILL |
| others? To harm others is not only to steal from them, or to say ugly things behind | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| to feel that way, my emotions want to steal something. I desire to steal happiness -- or | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| emotions want to steal something. I desire to steal happiness -- or any other result. Realize, please | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| when I say that emotionally you want to steal something, I know that you do not want | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| a role, so the symptoms change. People who steal because they are in need may be in | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for a third the fear that somebody will steal something from him -- each has a pet | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| do and I don't. For instance, if I steal apples, how can I know that I steal | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| steal apples, how can I know that I steal if I have no way of comparing this | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| Because you feel poor, you think you must steal; because you continue stealing, you remain poor, for | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| is right for them. They will not kill, steal, harm or destroy, but it will not be | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| or is so rebellious that he wants to steal them and justifies this by claiming that those | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Stealing....................12 | |
| one's faults. Whether the faults are still murder, stealing, wickedness or are now only selfishness, jealousy, envy | 22 SALVATION |
| to refrain from committing a crime such as stealing or killing, but you cannot possibly force yourself | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| already has abundance, and, on the other hand, stealing on the part of one who lacks. But | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| comparing this act with another act of not stealing? ANSWER: My dear child, if you would never | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| would never in your life have heard that stealing is wrong, you would still know, as the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| from loving receptivity and nurturing to grasping, grabbing, stealing, holding tight, catching, and taking without letting go | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| current; forcing, no matter how concealed, amounts to stealing, because you know you would not have to | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| letting go can be equated with being a stealing beggar. Letting go can be equated with knowing | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| you think you must steal; because you continue stealing, you remain poor, for only the honest can | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| of a tight prison or a short leash. Stealing creates guilt, and the guilt produces doubt that | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| When it comes to destructive acts of killing, stealing, or in other ways robbing others of their | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| these desirable assets, it would only be by stealing, and you would be punished. So as you | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Steam.......................4 | |
| urge to go on further under your own steam. Then you will have brought eros into true | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| ineffectual one at that, who constantly puffs aimless steam into the atmosphere. This depletes a person's strength | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| growth, so they gradually wear out. The first steam evaporates and nothing remains. Either overt friction and | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| in you would not find, under their own steam, their innate essence. They would be swept along | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| Steep.......................5 | |
| see something else there. ANSWER: The way is steep and narrow and long. Your own will is | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| easy. It is a long mountain climb, very steep at times and often shadowed, enveloped in darkness | 36 PRAYER |
| while on earth. Whoever approaches the stony and steep road of self-finding will experience gradually, little by | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the going is rough and tedious, the way steep and stony. At other times you find yourselves | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| pay for the evasion is so heavy, so steep, my friends. You are not aware of it | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| Steeped.....................12 | |
| He or she is proud to be so steeped in the reasoning process. And the will, which | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| first glimmer of understanding you will recognize how steeped in separateness you were. The moment the insight | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you do not call them miracles. An individual steeped in this earth-world, blind to the power of | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| and purposeful way when his unconscious is still steeped in hostility, rage, and anger, because the activating | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| them to when your own psyche is still steeped in this negative, non-giving attitude toward life. Your | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| of your being. But when your consciousness is steeped in the separateness as the only reality, when | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| those areas of the ego self which are steeped in negativity and destructiveness. Any success thus achieved | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| that the distinction between people who are still steeped in the old consciousness and those who share | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| an inner place that is not ego-involved, not steeped in vanity or pride. And that is possible | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| cannot come to a peace agreement. Each is steeped in its own rightness, claiming the other is | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| understand the nature of your mind that is steeped in dualistic confusions. This is the fact that | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| salvation seems contradictory to the mind that is steeped in the dualism of either/or. Let me present | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Steer.......................6 | |
| that in his extreme fear he does not steer his boat at all, but lets it drift | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| and you will no longer be able to steer, or steer it as well as possible. Neither | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| will no longer be able to steer, or steer it as well as possible. Neither can you | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| the knots and to have the strength to steer their little boat well, even through a storm | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| their intellectual powers in this total framework will steer their lives in the true direction. They will | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| It is the chart without which you cannot steer your ship. But there is a subtle yet | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Stellar.....................5 | |
| the universe: on the planets, within the different stellar systems, and even in the spaces in-between. Even | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| unified cosmic current. Again, this applies to a stellar system, an individual planet, as well as every | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| must be the same for all. When a stellar system disintegrates, it is because contrary forces are | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| annihilates itself. This is again applicable to a stellar system, a planet, or the decay of a | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| -- all space, all time, all planets, all stellar systems -- the real universe, with all its | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| Stem........................37 | |
| for feelings of world weariness. All of them stem from some distortions in the soul, but I | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| the case; as I have explained, such woes stem from distorted soul currents, which you have the | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| more spiritualized the soul, the less it will stem against the surrender. Some human philosophies have actually | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| human character. These three main faults, from which stem directly or indirectly all your various individual shortcomings | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| All other obstacles -- directly or indirectly -- stem from these two. Let us get back to | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| in mind that Adam and Eve in Genesis stem from the masculine and feminine, that is, the | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| seems to you the greatest danger and you stem against it with all the might of your | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| when we discussed human shortcomings, that all faults stem from three basic ones: self-will, pride, and fear | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| are not crassly good or bad; they both stem from the same basic struggle in the human | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| conditions of working, with all their musts which stem from political, economic and sociological factors, which again | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| Compulsive overactivity as well as laziness and apathy stem from an identical root. You will find in | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| robs you of your integrity. All these defenses stem from your fright of being exposed to the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| from your real self. Both lead to, and stem from, self-alienation; both are opposites of love, of | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| based on wrong conclusions. All the emotions that stem from the misconception that your real feelings will | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| in a world of causality where identical effects stem from identical causes? ANSWER: Of course this is | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| is utterly impossible, in that sense identical causes stem from identical effects. Why it should be so | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| into the future, hoping for fulfillment, they simultaneously stem against the tide of time, desiring to stop | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| of human society, if this act does not stem from a complete commitment. If we use this | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and painful for you. To the degree you stem against overcoming isolation, isolation must be painful. The | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| ability to let go. As long as you stem against it, you produce a disharmony between your | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| concepts, and the actions, reactions and interactions which stem from these, together form a nucleus of energy | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| Thus you become discouraged, fall into despair and stem against the flow that could carry you into | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| is closer to the truth that these misconceptions stem from the deep spiritual conflict that motivates you | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| This fear goes beyond the neurotic fears that stem from misconceptions and personally experienced traumas. What is | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the end of the old phase, you nevertheless stem against it. How much more so when the | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| it is truly desired. Then you will not stem against the downward curve and thus delay the | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| hopeful illusion. Thus, when aspects of the organism stem against the necessary stages of growth, the self-selective | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| Will and reason are underdeveloped and therefore cannot stem the flood of destructive emotions. Humans must spend | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| misconceptions. Misconceptions always lead to more disunity. They stem from an erroneous attempt to find unity. Neurosis | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| example, fear and greed. Both fear and greed stem from blindness and breed further blindness. Greed wishes | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| hindering it with selfwill and preconceived ideas that stem from the limited outer mind. Thus the new | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| stems from a personified God. Good and evil stem from two figures, according to this view. Still | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| exposure and denial of real feelings not only stem from pride but also directly perpetuate isolation and | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you into undreamed-of unfoldment and enrichment. If you stem against it in blind fear and stubbornness, it | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| which you want to go with and not stem against. A further suggestion has to do with | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| energy creates crisis -- negative manifestations. If you stem against it, if you fear its influx and | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| when you are enveloped in the negativities that stem from your unpurified self and that therefore draw | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |