| Stingy......................5 | |
| know you best, Is it true? Am I stingy? they will of course say, No, you are | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of your inner life you may be emotionally stingy. If you carefully examine the emotions of prejudice | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you detach from self-serving, as you release the stingy withholding from life, the spiteful non-givingness, as you | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| more than is warranted, because you make that stingy ungiving part of you your whole reality. Therefore | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| assume that the universe is no different: ungiving, stingy, withholding, hoarding, tight, ungenerous, leaving you poor. You | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| Stir........................4 | |
| you let this lecture affect you, it will stir up so much! This is good. I go | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to ask any questions owing to the recent stir my questions brought. It seems that they are | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| number one prerequisite. It is equally important to stir up the petrified part of the unconscious. If | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| concept, to begin with. Meditate that it exists. Stir up your imagination and feel into living a | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Stirring....................3 | |
| they react in a more noticeable fashion. Such stirring occurs through the frustrations and difficulties life brings | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| questioned, and understood. As I have said, this stirring occurs partly through the unavoidable life circumstances and | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| your total personality must cooperate and invest in stirring up your areas of stagnation if spontaneous unification | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| Stock.......................6 | |
| than you are at this point. Simply take stock and get accustomed to seeing yourself where you | 21 THE FALL |
| in the positive sense means to simply take stock of the self and to accept its weaknesses | 31 SHAME |
| a crisis before one is willing to take stock of oneself. It is our aim in this | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| land underneath that layer. Only by diligently taking stock of your non-love can you spontaneously feel your | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| Unless you give up these illusions and take stock of whatever is in you, you must remain | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| you dissolve your blocks and resistances against taking stock of yourself truthfully -- and thus become more | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| Stone.......................32 | |
| manifest myself here is building such a temple, stone by stone. It is not completely erected, the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| here is building such a temple, stone by stone. It is not completely erected, the roof is | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| you can see where you have furnished a stone. Each one of you who really tries, honestly | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| versa. The littlest thing may be a stepping stone to the biggest and most important. The littlest | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| have to prepare the ground, lay the foundation stone through this initial fight within yourself that enables | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| friends! It is as though you threw a stone into a pond of quiet water. A ring | 21 THE FALL |
| a pressure and an inner pushing against a stone wall. As long as you do not relinquish | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| one's present existence marks, indeed, a major stepping stone of a soul's return journey to God. The | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| indicate whether this hurdle has become a stepping stone toward maturity or not. If the grown person | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the elimination of these hindrances, step by step, stone by stone, for only then will you glimpse | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of these hindrances, step by step, stone by stone, for only then will you glimpse the light | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| Let us say, you are shown a little stone from a big house. You can tell certain | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| can tell certain facts by looking at the stone: the quality and material, as well as the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| what the house looks like from seeing the stone. You can judge neither its beauty, its architecture | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| is very often hidden behind a wall of stone. This wall of stone is not wickedness, or | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| behind a wall of stone. This wall of stone is not wickedness, or even selfishness. Neither is | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| people. They want the fixed pseudo-safety of a stone wall on which they can lean. It was | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| feel the emotions, and they are like a stone in the pit of my stomach. I just | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the difficulty itself will have become a stepping stone. You can reach this stage only when non-fulfillment | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| make each relapse serve as a further stepping stone, further lesson, the new patterns will eventually establish | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| why each friction can become such a stepping stone if it is approached with a constructive attitude | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| questions be again a helping hand, a stepping stone, a directive to gain further insight and to | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| and development. May this lecture be another stepping stone on your road to selfhood and self-realization. The | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| make whatever happens to you the greatest stepping stone, the best material for further growth, or you | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| may seem at first, a deeply meaningful stepping stone toward further expansion. It increases the experience of | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| experience can be made into a further stepping stone of growth for you if you understand what | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| awakened. This plea is never answered with a stone. Even if you feel as yet too weak | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| to fulfill its role as an important stepping stone in humanity's evolution. By now, the overemphasis has | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| new world. May this lecture be a foundation stone for another new building, in a spiritual sense | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| a momentary disappointment and make it a stepping stone. I need not fear that it may not | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| price will turn out to be a stepping stone, a threshold, a necessary lesson. The strength to | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| all ways, and you shall not receive a stone. Ask to know yourself, your lovability, your nobility | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Stones......................9 | |
| advice so that you can remove the first stones which block your way to contacting God's world | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| sincerely, and works on this path, furnishes many stones; not only the medium, but all of you | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| after you have torn down the first few stones of the wall, the relief will be tremendous | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| to be obstacles and will instead become stepping stones on the way to the goal. The outer | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| life. These may be seen as rocks and stones, high mountains which you have to dissolve. You | 36 PRAYER |
| but these very problems can be the stepping stones for further development. QUESTION: You are talking about | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be recognized for what they are, namely stepping stones to real progress, the progress of the soul | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understood and worked through to make them stepping stones for opening your lives further and bringing more | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| if you regard occasional difficulties as meaningful stepping stones, then you have already vastly overcome this poisonous | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| Stony.......................3 | |
| this, even while on earth. Whoever approaches the stony and steep road of self-finding will experience gradually | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| is rough and tedious, the way steep and stony. At other times you find yourselves on a | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| cannot be genuine. The person who walks the stony, narrow road of real self-facing will, for the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Stopped.....................35 | |
| criminal acts -- and these have to be stopped, of course. How many criminals commit crimes not | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| he should not have been, he could have stopped Eve. In other words, he was passive where | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It is a constant process. It cannot be stopped because non-creation is basically foreign and opposed to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| higher self and truly wanting to love is stopped because you are ashamed of it. Thus you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you cause all your difficulties. You have already stopped regarding these words as mere theory, but the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with my environment and therefore I would be stopped from pleasure a priori. So the situation is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| this case, the right action should not be stopped because in your self-accounting you have discovered that | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| promises to yourself would be useless. If you stopped the pattern without the necessary understanding, you would | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| level. Then, of course, this pattern will be stopped and prevented from ever recurring; then a constructive | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| by curves and cycles. If the cycle is stopped, growth is stopped and the person eventually reverts | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| cycles. If the cycle is stopped, growth is stopped and the person eventually reverts to the old | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| could only begin to truly unfold if you stopped the self-evasion. It prohibits, impairs, or dilutes your | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| flow to the dam and will then be stopped. But the more water accumulates behind the dam | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| living. They are always those who have inadvertently stopped the enlivening stream. Humans often accuse this stream | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the very key you need. If only you stopped running and really looked at yourself, you would | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| pain arise, is the natural flow diverted or stopped altogether. As life is essentially buoyant, so are | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| flowing to its destiny; the natural flow is stopped by conditions. These may be either outer or | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| is a temporary phase of growth. Growth is stopped when feelings are stopped. If the feeling is | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of growth. Growth is stopped when feelings are stopped. If the feeling is allowed to function by | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| cannot be gained when the spiritual pulsebeat is stopped through hardening, refusal of the experience, and unnatural | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| see the physical level, and that has indeed stopped living, vibrating, pulsating. You are unequipped to observe | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of the pleasure current is willfully and artificially stopped. Pleasure comes about when the stream of energy | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| moment I could fully see this, the compulsion stopped somewhat. The only time I have some good | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| When people are too impatient, their pathwork is stopped. Excessive tension is always an expression of misunderstanding | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| at once, therefore the deadening process cannot be stopped all at once either. The death process will | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| function optimally because then the flow is not stopped. Charging and discharging takes place in a self-perpetuating | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| same energy can be reconverted once you have stopped denying it. My friends, let this sink in | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| feel a tightness? Is the movement blocked and stopped completely because of the tightness, or is it | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| lies an enormous strength. When the movement is stopped, you feel dead. When the movement is hurtful | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| overcome; hiding and camouflaging or whitewashing must have stopped; exaggerated self-blame must be relinquished. What is necessary | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| ever-increasing depth and scope. If the person has stopped the movement of the growth process, his life | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| put into human language. Wherever this movement is stopped, a break in consciousness and energy occurs. On | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| a very large extent, inner movement is being stopped. This results in a sense of futility and | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| so much that once had deep value. People stopped the movement due to their fear of antagonizing | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| the total process of giving and receiving is stopped, so that the grace of God, with all | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |