| great stream of life, of health, and of strength will flow through you. When your ultimate outlook | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| knowledge, if rightly understood, will give you greater strength and insight to become one with the positive | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| will always be love, I leave you with strength and our love, and with our wishes that | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| itself is purification. And if you pray for strength and understanding to be able to overcome your | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| happiness. What you should pray for is the strength and the ability to overcome and remove the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| bring forth the maximum ability, creativity and healthy strength. The limitation does not only have to be | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| result, and lead to ability, creativity and healthy strength. QUESTION: You suggested last time that I bring | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| aim for, is a clear indication of the strength and distribution of these two forces battling within | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from you with all our blessings, with our strength. May they penetrate and envelop you, may they | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you, and may you find through them renewed strength to continue on this path of self-finding. How | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to know and how can I find the strength to overcome this? ANSWER: Well, my dear, dear | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this respect is that you will find the strength only by complete understanding of the negative emotions | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is the only way. The real, pure, permanent strength can only come through the painstaking piecemeal work | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that any negative feeling, be it lack of strength or whatever else, is in some way the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| another. Needless to say, pretense prohibits real healthy strength because such strength can only come from the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| say, pretense prohibits real healthy strength because such strength can only come from the real self, which | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a pseudo-self. Another factor that contributes to prohibiting strength is the mistaken time concept. By this I | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self is covered up, and hence your real strength. What I said here applies to every human | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is not the reason for your lack of strength in this respect. It may appear that way | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you, in spite of the outer physical difficulty, strength will come to you in a way that | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you may not believe possible now. Your inner strength will flow out the moment the subterfuges, the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| see, my friend, you constantly manufacture an artificial strength, using compulsive elements to build it up. The | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the more you undermine and prohibit the real strength. This real strength can only begin to function | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| undermine and prohibit the real strength. This real strength can only begin to function if you first | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| courage to free yourself of the artificially produced strength, and investigate its origin and the inner reasoning | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| said to him that he will get the strength after he has found all these processes, but | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| If he has to wait to get the strength only then, afterwards...? ANSWER: Gradually, little by little | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| how after each insight and liberation a new strength surges out of you. It may disappear again | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| new aspect, but each step forward brings more strength. QUESTION: We are on this path because we | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the name of the Most Holy. Take this strength with you as something substantial, as the reality | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| beneath the earth's crust, without any semblance of strength it lies buried deep under many layers of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so does the revelation of the essence of strength and clarity manifest everywhere, over and over again | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| soul is torn in half and that your strength evaporates. No wonder you are in disharmony, unhappy | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| laws will liberate you and give you the strength and perseverance to learn gradually how to communicate | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| reactions. May you all derive some benefit and strength, some further vision from my words. My friends | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| each one of you. Be enveloped in the strength and love we bring you from our world | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| you have not arrived at them using the strength and courage that come only from facing the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| accept death in a healthy way, out of strength. When I use the word death, I do | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| is not in acceptance itself that you find strength and healing, but in how you choose to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| fear of it. The task is learning the strength to die, for only the person who knows | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| a frank admission will give you the very strength to build a genuine faith that is also | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| accepting the unknown, you will build up your strength and make room for true conviction and the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of death in small ways, every day. This strength does not come from evasion, or from anything | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| death, not by intellectual superimposition, but by the strength that comes from coping with dying everyday, little | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the pathway will be smoothed toward that real strength of living which lies in the strength of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| real strength of living which lies in the strength of dying. Are there any questions on this | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and a relaxed attitude will produce the necessary strength. The lack of these attributes will either push | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| progress. Be blessed, each one of you. Divine strength and love envelops you. This love is a | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| immortality and thinks it is a show of strength to seek immortality through creation. It is another | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| human. Be blessed, all of you. Receive our strength, love, and blessings. May you take this strength | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| strength, love, and blessings. May you take this strength and utilize it as is best for each | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| glorifies such negative tendencies, believing them to prove strength and independence, superiority and aloofness, would be deeply | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| concepts, ideas, and ideals into it, the more strength you take from the center of your being | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| each one of you, receive our love, our strength, and our blessings. Be in peace, be in | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| unselfishly, of never claiming any knowledge, accomplishment, of strength. Thereby they hope to force others to feel | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| own feet. Instead, you use your entire psychic strength to live up to this ideal of yourself | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| to say, many variations exist. According to the strength, intensity, and distribution of these solutions will the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| truly been aware of. Then a feeling of strength and self-confidence will make you see life and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| of each other: love in the form of strength, and strength coming through love, and both together | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| other: love in the form of strength, and strength coming through love, and both together producing serenity | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| exists. The person may believe that love and strength can be combined, that he or she is | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| surrounded by thought forms of different quality and strength. In what way do they interplay with our | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| this path of happiness. Gain more and more strength, and let our blessings and love help and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| you recognize this, a great wave of inner strength will come, as it always does from any | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the greater is the obstruction to freedom and strength; to happiness, inner health, and peace. Now are | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| other feelings. Since both instincts exist in equal strength in the human soul, and since the distortion | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| you try to convince others of your invulnerable strength, the more frightened they will be of you | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| not rise to surface awareness, but their undermining strength is bound to reject others, who will respond | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| be resolved afresh. This will give you the strength to be successful. It will help you to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| soul disturbances, everyone has an idealized self-image. The strength of obstructions determines the strength of the idealized | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| idealized self-image. The strength of obstructions determines the strength of the idealized self-image and to that extent | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| you to open your innermost self to receive strength to enable you to gain further insight into | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| all absorb the powerful rays of love, truth, strength, and purity that are given unto each one | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the dignity of the freedom and divine strength in humanity. It puts a powerful argument into | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you will begin to change -- and your strength will grow. You will no longer hope for | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of false religion. If you develop your own strength for the very reason that you feel alone | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| indicate spiritual and emotional adulthood, freedom, growth, creativity, strength, trust in the self, and real security. The | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| transitory state, if you go through it, your strength will come from the truth. The second point | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| true religion will come out of your own strength, not out of dogma. It will come from | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| again, is up to you to find. The strength and security coming from this attitude will give | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| True love and true faith come out of strength, self-reliance, and self-responsibility. All these are attributes of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| are attributes of emotional maturity. And only with strength, self-reliance, and self-responsibility are true love, involvement, and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of yourself instead of your mistaken self-image, the strength of negative emotions will abate. Yes, you will | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| one of you. May you all gain further strength, further wisdom to conduct your life and your | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| be at peace with yourself. Blessings with all strength, love, and warmth are given unto you. Be | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| mere act of repeatedly observing your reactions, their strength will lessen. You will become capable of observing | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| self-confidence. You will find trust in your own strength and resourcefulness in handling your difficulties. But all | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| in body, soul, and spirit. May the renewed strength you receive, mainly due to your efforts, enable | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| unrest. When the feeling of healthy peace exists, strength gathers and results in confidence that you will | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| relaxed feeling, but after it is gone, no strength remains which is constructively used, then the peace | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| peace was a false one. Real peace and strength usually follow unpleasant self-recognitions that one has accepted | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It is so destructive, reinforcing weakness instead of strength. That kind of religion you should avoid. Not | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| approached by a human being who has the strength to face and pronounce similar weaknesses, faults, or | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fantasies. Such realism is a consequence of the strength and self-reliance you have acquired on the way | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| as you learn to do so, a new strength and self-respect will evolve that will be a | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| relinquish. The ability to relinquish will give you strength, self- confidence, and a healthy self-respect that nothing | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| else could give you. And just because this strength develops within, you can first give up the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| adjusting to that which is, while gathering your strength to do that which you can do. It | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| with all the consequences that sap your energy, strength, and self-respect, influences your ability to relate and | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and healthy needs. For that, the freedom and strength of developing primary reactions are a necessary prerequisite | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| in your work, a little further incentive, hope, strength, and inner push, without tension or anxiety, so | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of untold value and will give you incredible strength. The search in this direction is not easy | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| of emotional grasping. Be aware that the peace, strength, and self-confidence deriving from selfhood can be attained | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| have relinquished is tremendous. You have forfeited peace, strength, and self- confidence, and made it impossible for | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| only out of true and genuine repentance. With strength and courage, you must, as a first step | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| of healthy rebellion, or self- assertion; of the strength and maturity in real repentance and change; of | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the destructive kind of rebellion with its false strength, defiance, and cruelty; of the unhealthy guilt and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| is to notice whether the feeling gives you strength for the other person, or whether it weakens | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| steam into the atmosphere. This depletes a person's strength, so that he or she becomes incapable of | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| change, goes with the stream, thus saving his strength for the issues where he can make a | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| you are dependent. You invest your own inherent strength in others whom you consciously or unconsciously pressure | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| pressure to do your bidding. You put your strength, resourcefulness and reason outside yourself, and direct them | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| your human individuality, will unfold with all its strength. When you find yourself in a difficult situation | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| in a difficult situation, you will use your strength to find the inner and outer solution, for | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the benign forces -- reason, love, understanding, insight, strength, resourcefulness, resiliency, flexibility, adaptability, self-assertion, creativity -- that | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| non-fulfillment. Non-fulfillment may be the result of your strength being inhibited. That strength is your real self | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the result of your strength being inhibited. That strength is your real self, but the inhibition has | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| as you become able to mobilize your inherent strength and other faculties that lead to a rich | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| from yourself to project faculties, authority, dependency and strength upon isolated fragments of your personality instead of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| of your inferiority. Once you have reached the strength, courage, humility, determination, and the reality to face | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| recedes into the background in comparison with the strength you gain by finding your home. The stranger | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| in false humility and weakness, but in the strength of being able to endure it as long | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| self-realization actively, to bring out all the wondrous strength, reason, love, creativity, resourcefulness, joy, capacity for happiness | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| true selves; not experiencing yourself in your true strength; not identifying with yourself and your deep inner | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| person a nostalgic desire to do nothing. Your strength, energy, and zest for life can be replenished | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| will you find your real self. A new strength will come into you with the ability to | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| find your real self. You feel a new strength. Does that answer your question? QUESTION: Yes. You | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| without manipulation one way or another, a new strength, a new certainty will arise out of you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| also kept from loving, from finding your true strength. Oh, you may have managed very well in | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| spiritual endeavor, courage, conviction one stands up for, strength that makes life a meaningful adventure. Water represents | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| tonight, and may it give you courage and strength to pass through the closed door within yourself | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| solution to submit rob you of independence and strength; it creates just as much isolation, although through | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| you overcome your resistance to the process. The strength, the self-reliance, and the capacity to live fully | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| will now realize, with a new sense of strength, that you can bring about your own fulfillment | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| causes and effects and of the sense of strength, independence, self-reliance, and justice that this understanding gives | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| reach the first tentative beginnings of this new strength and later to increase it, depends on your | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| thereby decrease your helplessness and increase your independent strength and resourcefulness. In a previous lecture we discussed | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| It requires some time to gain the necessary strength and resourcefulness to bring about the fulfillment of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| will teach you to further your growth and strength until your needs can find partial fulfillment, and | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| friends. After you do so, your sense of strength, adequacy, and resourcefulness will grow steadily -- with | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| you pass through it, the momentary glimpse of strength, love, and light will come again, until it | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| individual you are, with all the resources, the strength, the ingenuity, the creativity and love force that | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the glandular reaction, however, you will develop more strength -- physical or mental -- than you normally | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| these two emotions produce the necessary impetus and strength to defend yourself. All other emotions are withdrawn | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| having all sorts of other feelings, the necessary strength to defend yourself would be absent. However, when | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and preparing for a new influx, a new strength with which to reach out. May you all | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| weaken you. Any healthy feeling will give you strength and freedom, even if the outward feeling appears | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| into account the other person's reality; if the strength of the wish is stronger than reality warrants | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| self a few times will give you great strength. But do not expect to have it all | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| often appears like an answered prayer is the strength of an unconflicted mind in the particular area | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |