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| Unassimilated growth must, eventually, turn harmful. Only assimilated, step-by-step growth is organic, healthful and constructive. If the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| Your unconscious expectation is complete perfection, and not step-by-step growth. You do not have to be problem-free | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| of you. Continue in your work, in your step-by-step growth, for that is the glory of your | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| pursuing a delusion. Knowing yourself is a slow, step-by-step process. It doesn't ever require an impossible feat | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
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| provided it is God's will, you will have stepped across the most important threshold in your entire | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| may those of you who have not yet stepped onto this path in a more direct way | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| self makes you sufficiently assertive not to be stepped on and abused. The often fine balance in | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
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| happen within one and the same incarnation. Whoever steps through this door will already live in a | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| so that the further and actually more difficult steps of development will seem much easier. I can | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| such a powerful energy that all the subsequent steps upward on the path will become easier and | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| takes on the upward path. When the highest steps are reached, the feeling of brotherhood, of love | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the further stages of self-realization if these initial steps are taken. So my advice is this: First | 21 THE FALL |
| blessed, be in God! 25. THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS Greetings in the name of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is to walk this path, to follow these steps, to overcome perhaps a lack of discipline that | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| things. When you have taken all the necessary steps, the victory of freedom brings such joy that | 38 IMAGES |
| incentive to overcome your resistance to taking the steps to reach your own divine spark. You should | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| their subconscious, though they may ignore the various steps of these teachings, can yet fulfill one another | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| are on this path, and follow the various steps of these teachings, it will be easier to | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| for the woman to take the first necessary steps after eros is no longer capable of maintaining | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| long as you have not taken the necessary steps to discover its illusory character. When you cannot | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| May the coming year bring you a few steps farther. May you each find guidance where you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| indeed, for without this awareness the further necessary steps cannot be taken. Again I say, it does | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| fulfillment of love by starting on the lower steps of its ladder. Perhaps one of the first | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| of its ladder. Perhaps one of the first steps is acquiring the ability to allow other people | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| here, will enable you to take the further steps indicated. To work on this inner conflict is | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you have given up nothing. The first tentative steps in the transition from one state or world | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| truth, you are bound to take the right steps that will enable you to find, out of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| still conjectures. Thus, by following through in logical steps, we see that the fear of death creates | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you proceed on this path, through all the steps I lead you. This wider vision will be | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| many ways. When you make the very first steps toward giving up the idealized self, you will | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| out of its shell, without taking the necessary steps. When these goals are not obtained, rebellion and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| yourself to feel. As the first few tentative steps are taken in the direction of becoming aware | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| it. Perhaps for some of you the first steps will be merely to become aware of an | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| has reached surface-awareness, one of the most important steps on your road to freedom has been taken | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the way home. You have made some tentative steps toward it -- and therefore occasionally reaped its | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| will have the courage to take the necessary steps. This approach is the sincere will to know | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| of you who have made your first tentative steps over the threshold -- there may be occasional | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| wonder. This first wonderment represents the first conscious steps towards relating to the Creator. Who created these | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| she had begun to take the first tentative steps. When the temporary improvement is not followed through | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| stand frustration. Before fulfillment can come, the various steps I have outlined need to be followed through | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| is restitution. In short, my friends, two major steps are necessary for you to free yourselves of | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| the way, even though, of course, these subsequent steps cannot be taken until you have clearly become | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| what I say, provided you take the necessary steps of self-investigation. As I have already indicated, human | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| problems must lie within themselves and they take steps -- possibly through the means of mundane psychology | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| such, not real and productive. On your further steps on the path, my friends, consider this lecture | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| instant. Some of my friends have made first steps toward the threshold of knowing; they can now | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| I am explaining one of the most essential steps toward the destiny of all created beings. Only | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| knowing. May some of you make the first steps in crossing this threshold. You have all the | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| than my outer mind, to take the necessary steps to defrost these faculties: to bring them to | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| choose. When you take the right and constructive steps to integrate the outer and the inner being | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| assume that this is it and no further steps are needed. Of course this does not suffice | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| can be done only by following through the steps on your path. Many of you, my friends | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you will then begin, truly begin. The first steps may be to use this simple, beautiful formula | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| life is yours for the asking. The courageous steps all of you undertake here have a meaning | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| this path of self-realization who have taken some steps toward evolving out of your errors have found | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| human being who is willing to follow these steps. Find that in you where you not only | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| but for all the subsequent efforts, endeavors, and steps on your path. Provided these efforts are sincere | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| subtle reactions by observing your reluctance to take steps to realize a perfectly harmless and normal fulfillment | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| resilient strength and well-being, in which even difficult steps become feasible because you know they are right | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| to this level, my friends, go through these steps with your helpers. In your approach to yourselves | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| discouraged you at first were the necessary initial steps in your personal evolution. Progress brings you face | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| developed, you could not undertake even the rudimentary steps of such pathwork. You would be incapable of | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| not deny what is, but bases all further steps on clear perception of the Now. In that | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| The mind issues the will and determines the steps, as well as calling upon a greater wisdom | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| each in its own fashion. But after these steps, the receptive principle must be at work, because | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| with its will and intelligence, must initiate these steps, the ego must also recognize its limited power | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| constructive way. You can do this in two steps. First, you must clearly see how you have | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| keep the soul in its spell until consciousness steps in with its deliberate counterforce. Even if what | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| shock. I would like to discuss the various steps of working your way out of the maze | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| but only as you actually work through these steps. The third step also consists of seeing that | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| confronted. Then you can begin to take the steps I have outlined. Sometimes these steps overlap. The | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| take the steps I have outlined. Sometimes these steps overlap. The more insight you have into the | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| remaining in your old attitudes. These are the steps of purification in the deepest and most vital | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| Purification is unthinkable without going through these four steps. Purification is also unthinkable without receiving active help | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| by false guilts unless you go through these steps. No matter how much you now believe that | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| act like your parents or not. The four steps I explained in this lecture are all destined | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| but avoid taking some of the more difficult steps out of a reluctance to face apparent unpleasantness | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| toward life that represents mastery over disunity. The steps leading to this new mastery are essentially the | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| in the very process of going through these steps lies indeed the fulfillment you wish. Unless you | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| fulfillment you wish. Unless you go through these steps, fulfillment is quite impossible. Your new vista will | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| to your own processes. You must retrace your steps to the point where you know that you | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| all those who have not yet taken active steps. Your being here signifies a conscious and unconscious | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| these negative powers almost instantly. Learn by what steps you can incorporate this power rather than shut | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the true sense of the word. The following steps are indicated for those of you ready to | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| inner being is whole, these disruptions are necessary steps to overcome previous forms, which are no longer | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| illusory fears of life, of self. All the steps you take to avoid recognizing that you in | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| discovery, and knowledge of self are the first steps toward realizing the greater universal, divine consciousness in | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| gained significant ground. This will make the further steps in that direction easier, for the beginning of | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| It is not easy to summarize the many steps that are all necessary, the many areas that | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| Some of you may already have made some steps to pass this point. Others may still struggle | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| step liberates more energy and makes the successive steps easier. This process could generate tremendous spiritual energy | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| more and more of you can take these steps of transition, not by negating the evil and | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and the underlying pain, but taking the realistic steps by which the evil becomes transformed. You will | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| illusion of finiteness. But every one of these steps could have been won only by a tremendous | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| meaningful work on the path of purification. These steps are necessary pre-requisites but do not by themselves | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| up what destroys happiness and joy. The first steps toward this new identification with your real self | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| thought power, but overlook the danger of skipping steps within the psyche. They become hypnotized, as it | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| this should be a sign that there are steps to take in self-exploration. You must shift the | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| relaxed precisely because you do not skip any steps. You listen into your inner self, and if | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| you. But it is only one step; subsequent steps must follow. I have of course already outlined | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| follow. I have of course already outlined these steps in various ways in the lectures I have | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| become. But this liberation requires that the following steps be undertaken, sometimes sequentially, sometimes alternately, and sometimes | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| and you may be already taking these various steps alternately right now -- is your true intent | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| extent you give to it. These are the steps that must be followed through. It is very | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| step and overindulge in it, forgetting the subsequent steps, which are: seeing the unreality that is always | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| the little self surrenders to the godself. It steps aside and allows the inner wisdom to permeate | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| taken charge of. As you go through these steps, you become aware of your higher self, not | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| to create richness from poverty. A sequence of steps must be undertaken in this process. Step number | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| to come to me. When you undertake these steps, release first the holding and then let go | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| you have to take so and so many steps. Each step is a plan in itself, is | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| consisting of those smaller ones -- the individual steps. But the walk from here to the corner | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| time is a perception only of the partial steps, the smaller creative units of spiral nuclear points | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| the grooves so deeply that to retrace one's steps becomes almost impossible after a certain point. Negative | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| this path can perhaps begin to take deliberate steps toward distinctly hearing both voices. What is the | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| In reality, faith requires a succession of several steps or stages. Each of these stages is highly | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| the false version of it. But the real steps in faith, that make faith a dynamic road | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| dealing with reality. This leads to the various steps of faith. In each of these steps the | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| various steps of faith. In each of these steps the right kind of doubt is necessary. For | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| constructive spirit. Years went by before the first steps of the transforming work could begin. Last year | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| creativity, deep friendships and unity. Even these first steps of transforming work have already changed your relationships | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| from has begun to disappear, sometimes by giant steps. You now know that your loneliness can never | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| however, your outer mind must go through the steps of acquiring whatever knowledge is necessary. You all | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| since you refused to go through the necessary steps to make fulfillment first manifest within. In one | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| not so new. You have already taken tiny steps toward that approach. Now you are ready to | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| misuse, this dangerous escape from the necessary developmental steps, necessitated a new movement in your history, which | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| difference of your inner landscape after the initial steps you have already undertaken -- and the first | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| you have already undertaken -- and the first steps are always the most difficult ones! And if | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| and your immediate environment, with very simple little steps, above and beyond the self-responsibility we usually talk | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| with the stream of life. There are some steps in the attainment of this state. The first | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| you and much less resistant to repeat the steps. It will give you a new trust in | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| radiant world. When you have passed the previous steps, you can begin to practice something very beautiful | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| as well. As you approach frustration through the steps I have proposed here, the point of the | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| before the inner meaning can fully materialize. More steps, effort and groping may be necessary before outer | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| your evolutionary path you need to trace your steps back through the outer mazes, level by level | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| you to help you take the further necessary steps on your path. In this lecture I wish | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| unwillingness to learn the process gradually, by small steps. (3) The fear of being too vulnerable when | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| you. Even the unavoidable hardships must ultimately become steps leading to greater harmony and ecstasy. In the | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| of your daily life, you will skip important steps and the process cannot take place in an | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| it actually is the result of many arduous steps and inner battles. Human science has recognized that | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| may not yet be capable of taking direct steps toward attaining these states. But the knowledge of | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Could individual consciousness go through all the painstaking steps of developing and cleansing itself, of growing and | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |