| ANSWER: The manna is the symbol for spiritual strength, spiritual truth, divine blessing, all the material you | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are spiritually active, you tend to hoard the strength you may need for the morrow, or the | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for the periods when you cannot muster the strength to have inner or outer activity. The Sabbath | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| but ordinarily, if you feel in the full strength of active life, spiritually, physically, emotionally, on all | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and again, and then ask God for enlightenment, strength and higher understanding, to help you want with | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| thick cloud. Ask God to give you the strength to penetrate this cloud, to give you at | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It is often even difficult to muster the strength, the volition to think these thoughts so that | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| themselves in the wrong channels so that your strength cannot organically renew itself as it does in | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| will cease, and that you will have the strength to go through your difficulties and to bear | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| reason, and this alone will give you the strength you need. Furthermore, I can promise you that | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| true humility. This awareness will generate a new strength in you even before you have attained perfection | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| livelihood; you think you may not have enough strength left for your professional efforts and thus fear | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| on to your other activities, thus diminishing the strength, time, effort, and zest that would otherwise be | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| spark that furnishes you with a heretofore unfamiliar strength, acumen, vitality, and ability to enjoy life as | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| emotional reactions, and this will automatically free a strength and life force that was previously locked or | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| within yourself. Consider such days a source of strength that you can gather for the more difficult | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| ones. Do not think you will lack the strength for the necessary work on this path. This | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| for the necessary work on this path. This strength will be given drop by drop for all | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| a very healthy soul, because this means having strength, power, and independence. Such a person lives with | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| spot that signifies open encouragement or a certain strength that will flow into them in their next | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| every one of you without exception. Take the strength with you that was given to you this | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| one of you. May He give you the strength and the courage and the light to face | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| desires is relaxed, you will have much more strength left for the good and proper desires where | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| are presently too weak. Why? Not because less strength has been given to you than to other | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| in. The exactly right and necessary amount of strength is available for each one of you to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| It is up to you to use this strength properly and not waste it. Do not believe | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| misapplied activity must show by their diminished health, strength, and peace of mind. The moment you become | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| your innermost emotions, you will have a new strength and life force that you have not known | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| so to speak. But you need activity and strength of will nevertheless. The passivity is necessary, though | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| are concentrated, into all spheres below, in decreasing strength, of course. Further along this plan you will | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| what I am saying here. Pray also for strength and enlightenment and everything needed to follow this | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| love is wrong. The unpurified soul lacks the strength to risk losing the love given on false | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| Build on that, so as to give you strength in your work to overcome this fault, so | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| life, for this would mean a waste of strength. But when ambitiousness is cultivated, it should be | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| is God who is responsible, that without His strength and grace none of His creatures could lift | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| Those who listen, advise, and deliberate will gain strength not only from what they themselves are able | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| separates the lower self from God's grace, God's strength, God's mercy, God's love, and all the other | 36 PRAYER |
| be on the path will often find the strength and the desire to do so when praying | 36 PRAYER |
| at a time. You cannot concentrate with equal strength on all the points in your circle, but | 36 PRAYER |
| you keep your feelings alive. Listen to the strength of your feelings. Take your daily needs -- | 36 PRAYER |
| the separating wall around the soul, then divine strength and help cannot fail to flow into you | 36 PRAYER |
| you open your heart and soul to the strength flowing to each one of you, you will | 38 IMAGES |
| will feel courage. And if you keep that strength, you can make it last for a while | 38 IMAGES |
| be a test of how you use the strength if you accept it now willingly. The love | 38 IMAGES |
| how. Pray to God for further enlightenment and strength to change your erroneous reactions. Simply shift your | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| act of purification. And if you pray for strength and understanding to overcome your cowardice to face | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| not pray directly for happiness. Pray for the strength and ability to remove the obstacles you have | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| concept of God does not make any difference. Strength and freedom will come to you long before | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| and could use for building up your spiritual strength. I am continuing this series about the images | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| way you will approach life with joy and strength, my dear ones. You will have a strong | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| You know that every quality is a healthy strength that mates with a corresponding strength in the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| a healthy strength that mates with a corresponding strength in the universe, whereas every fault is a | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the universe, whereas every fault is a twisted strength. A complex too is a twisted strength, but | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| twisted strength. A complex too is a twisted strength, but twisted in a way other than a | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| sphere. Imbibe of this light, of this wonderful strength, so that you will find forever new stamina | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| untrue to yourself, or else it is the strength of your self-will that paralyzes you and makes | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| all means continue, and you will gain the strength of love and understanding that can be yours | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| of my friends have prayed for help and strength on this path, but most of you do | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| dearest friends, receive the blessings of love and strength that permeate your heart, your soul, and your | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| and independent child of God, growing in spirit, strength, and love. Love one another, my dear ones | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| may your hearts be filled by this wonderful strength coming to you from the world of light | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| difference between thoughts and feelings is in the strength and intensity, not in the characteristic or type | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| human being is given a guardian. The guardian's strength and power depend on a person's development and | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| light of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Receive the strength and love that is given unto each one | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| by healthy, conscious and mature motivations based on strength, not weakness. Please, my friends, do not take | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| tendency. Thus you will make an act of strength out of an act of weakness. You will | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| substance is ineffective to the degree of the strength of the wall. In other words, the stronger | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| spirit world: blessings of healing, blessings of love, strength and courage. Go on this path, my dear | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| these -- has experienced a feeling of peace, strength, and a sense of being vibrantly alive -- | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| little. A prayer will give you the necessary strength to do your part. But the work has | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| leave all of you with divine blessings and strength. May the new friends who have found their | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| and face it, it will give you more strength than you realize. It will foster a healthy | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| God. Go on your path. Continue, and God's strength and light must always come to you, even | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the magnetic force of images and the powerful strength of all psychological and unconscious currents, the better | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| overcomes, constantly willing to summon his or her strength to overcome inner blocks and resistances. You who | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| you during this period of rest find new strength in your soul, new willpower, new understanding, and | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| in tongues. Such phenomena take an infinitely greater strength on the part of the medium, as well | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| plane who may not have the type of strength available that is necessary for striking proofs, but | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| task to bring you special blessings, a special strength for the year to come, so that you | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| grow and blend harmoniously with your particular main strength. If you consider your self-work from the point | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| motionless, it is extremely difficult to summon the strength to set yourself in motion. And you may | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| all our friends who are away, with the strength of truth, so that you will find the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| The rest can follow later. Receive this divine strength of truth and clarity of vision. Let this | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| way. It is ready to give you joy, strength, vitality, and happiness. As far as the universe | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| selfish. To desire health because in your full strength, vigor, and vitality you can fulfill more and | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| feeling differently. But this self-honesty will give you strength, security, and self- respect. It requires not only | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| me bless all of you with the particular strength that helps you to unfold your wish capacity | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| unfold your wish capacity and gives you the strength to purify it. Receive this strength so that | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| you the strength to purify it. Receive this strength so that you can tune in on the | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| how to use it. Be blessed with this strength, my friends, so that, little by little, you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| other trends, healthy or sick, which determine the strength and manner of the manifestation; and according to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| Yes. Receive our blessings. Accept from us the strength to look for that part in you that | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| creative, uplifting effect, causing inner growth and additional strength and freedom. While pain is known to be | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you, this entire group. May divine light and strength, truth and love flow through you and lighten | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| finding one's unresolved conflicts can one have the strength and fortitude to effect the outer change. The | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all of you. Receive the light and the strength that we want to give each one of | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| what it contains. These forms vary in substance, strength, and shape according to what they represent, how | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| emotional effort, you would shudder, because all this strength could be used quite differently. To let go | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| from it, stemming against it, and this consumes strength. You can see now that giving up the | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| You lean away from the abyss, losing valuable strength for nothing. To give up your Utopia seems | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| and every one of you, my friends. The strength and the light I am allowed to bring | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| within an individual soul, the soul generates more strength, which remains in the reservoir of the soul | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| well as those who have. Due to increased strength, they can come back after a shorter period | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| set an example, but also have a particular strength with which they can influence general conditions. They | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and important fact enables you to summon the strength not to succumb to the negative periods but | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is important. You do not need a particular strength for this. All you need is to focus | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it. I will leave you with blessings, with strength, and with my love for each and every | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one of you. May you all find the strength and the happiness that self-search and self-understanding means | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| making her more so by unfolding her intelligence, strength, activity, and creativity -- without rebellion. Something similar | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| one-sidedly, emphasizing his intellect, his resourcefulness, his physical strength, but thwarting his emotional and intuitive nature. Since | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| latter is an essential prerequisite for true inner strength, man has weakened himself at the core. By | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| masquerade. It is true that aggressive and hostile strength and activity in a woman will diminish her | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| But so does the suppression of her healthy strength, of her activity, and of her true creative | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| two disharmonious parts are not always of equal strength, but that does not matter. If this key | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| implied at all. She should show her real strength and not be afraid of it. Then she | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| she also help man to unfold his real strength. If she were to make herself weak out | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| ones, with blessings and love, with light and strength for each one of you: those of you | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| questions then. We would have used up available strength on matters which might possibly have created misunderstanding | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it by strengthening the outer will. But the strength of the outer will is always unhealthy. It | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| In the inner will there is a pure strength, a strength that does not make you tense | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| inner will there is a pure strength, a strength that does not make you tense. This work | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| It will give you, among other things, the strength to overcome many a weakness for which you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| tear you apart; it will destroy your inner strength, serenity, and peace. Try, all of you, to | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| success and wish-fulfillment depend upon the clarity and strength of the inner will. In a lecture in | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| well to another person, it generates a pure strength, a pure effect that produces results around you | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| off from reality, from the spiritual forces. This strength nevertheless works and takes effect in the universe | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| In truth, it is actually a sign of strength if you can ask for something. Not being | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| becomes weakness, while aloofness is a sign of strength, at least in the unconscious. The child's desire | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| Love is weakness; withholding love and affection is strength. Since you do not wish to be weak | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| person who corresponds to your wrong concept of strength, but you also betray the one who seems | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| attitude toward your inner motives will give you strength by enabling you to approach reality. It is | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| Find in you the part which believes that strength is aloofness or coldness. When you find that | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| cause you to experience a wonderful new inner strength. The awareness that this exists in you and | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you again with divine blessings, with love and strength, with all the help we can give each | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| all of you, my dearest ones, with our strength and love, with our warmth. I ask you | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| open your hearts and try to feel the strength that is right here in this room. May | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| and unburden you. May it give you the strength to see into yourselves, to understand more and | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| this practice will release a great deal of strength in you which was formerly used up by | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| mental and emotional -- and eventually physical -- strength they consume. Some exercise and concentration is necessary | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you will not only release a great inner strength, but you will raise your consciousness and increase | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| is due to them that so much time, strength, and effort is wasted. If your time, strength | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| strength, and effort is wasted. If your time, strength, and effort are not utilized in constructive thoughts | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| very special blessings tonight. A very wonderful divine strength is around you. Open your heart and your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| for you and with you so that this strength may help you to unfold the best, the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| waiting to be let out. Let this divine strength help you to remove the obstacles in you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| fight you will experience liberation and a new strength. You will feel that you have shed a | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| real rest? What is the only source of strength that could ever come to man? It is | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It is God. And God will give you strength if you try to know yourself so as | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ones, for each one of you. May the strength and the blessings given unto you now help | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to be able to face yourself, or for strength and understanding for your current problems on your | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you know of. But inwardly, there abides a strength which you may not see or know of | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| what it is all about. That is not strength, and therefore such a church is not successful | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the Name of the Most Holy. Receive our strength and our love to help you further on | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| joy, release and victory -- which gives you strength and understanding about your own life and life | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |