| Stresses....................3 | |
| life. In doing so, however, such a person stresses the goodness which prevents him or her from | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| is more blessed than receiving it. It constantly stresses, in one form or another, the importance of | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| sharing is strangely neglected in a world that stresses the importance of the intellect, ideas, and the | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Stretch.....................11 | |
| cleared away first may otherwise obstruct the next stretch on the path. It may be a rigid | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| dismiss it. As you proceed on this particular stretch of our path, you will begin to function | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| a dingy little hole, with no possibility to stretch, to unfold, to experience beauty. When you finally | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| you experience it as a miracle. You then stretch and stretch your mind to more and more | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| it as a miracle. You then stretch and stretch your mind to more and more possibilities to | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| of life, what do we really mean? The stretch of years one spends on this planet? Or | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| of your own value, of your right to stretch your whole being into rich fulfillment and of | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| self to deserve fulfillment and to expand and stretch your consciousness into more alternatives for fulfillment. Knowing | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| faster than you think, if you will only stretch your consciousness and make room for this possibility | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| spiritual information is not enough. You need to stretch your imagination, your inner senses, your deeper vision | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| you to grope and search, to struggle and stretch to find new ways of being, to make | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Stretches...................3 | |
| Your psychic life processes reach out, your individuality stretches and expresses the potential beauty of life. Your | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| not so different when one considers the vast stretches of possibilities. When you assume that reality is | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| as a strength from within takes over and stretches beyond your limited vision and consciousness. You marvel | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Strictest...................3 | |
| Only if the person in question undergoes the strictest process of self-development and purification, only if the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you have to train yourself to acquire the strictest possible self-observation. QUESTION: How do the different main | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| and creative expansion without paying the price of strictest self- confrontation. It is false when you do | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Strife......................29 | |
| you are now. All this brings nothing but strife. Be blessed, my friends, all of you. Be | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| better conditions all over. Nothing else will eliminate strife. All of you have made progress in this | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| in a state of happiness, peace, creativity without strife, if you do not face the temporary, often | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| For humanity as a whole the result is strife, uncertainty, unrest, and the absence of peace. For | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| reality. In the last analysis, all unhappiness and strife is the result of ignorance and misunderstanding. Every | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| therefore even more influenced by inner conflict and strife. When a barrier exists to the opposite sex | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| are in harmony with the universe. Conversely, all strife, such as war, poverty, quarrels, difficulties of all | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| between these two alternatives. Whenever such alternatives exist, strife must follow, for it is a result of | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| level. I have often said that misconceptions create strife, and this is perfectly true. But there exists | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| inhabiting this earth, added together, create the general strife of humankind. When you realize, after having become | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| self-produced curve. The curve can lead out of strife only when it is understood, accepted, and thus | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| more, my friends: Whenever you find yourself in strife, there is something in your relationship to yourself | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| attitudes gradually dissolve. Even before that happens, all strife ends when you accept yourself. By the unpronounced | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| Striving away from unwelcome feelings leads into more strife. If you expect the pathwork to eliminate unwelcome | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| shrinking from experience you divide yourself. Any outer strife in your earth sphere is nothing but a | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| or forget it that you find yourself in strife. Pleasure supreme without a trace of anxiety is | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| in unreality and therefore in a state of strife and numbness. Joyful, fruitful, meaningful living implies a | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| smaller life matter. Again, every state of emotional strife consists of subtle, invisible life matter being in | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| rebirth, of pain and struggle, of conflict and strife -- physically as well as spiritually and psychologically | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| it in others. This creates continual conflicts and strife. Only by accepting the duality can you truly | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| other -- all these evasive tactics build the strife and conflict, the pain and confusion. Now, let | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| in this incarnation. Therefore they will be in strife -- with themselves and/or others. The only reliable | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| much needed testing ground. All the manifestations of strife and upheaval, natural as well as artificial, expressed | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| you are doing this, you create obstructions, unhappiness, strife, frustration, crisis, and finally destruction, so that the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| personality. Just as you find yourself in inner strife because part of you wants to grow and | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| reality has suffered so much from misunderstanding and strife. The spiritual forces are so strong that an | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| governments, where most of the distrust, deceit, and strife exists. As long as humanity fails to envision | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| according to natural law. Overdeveloped self-will always brings strife. You can see in your world how two | 254 SURRENDER |
| that you will also encounter difficulties, boredom or strife. You can lend your best to such times | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Strike......................5 | |
| It cannot affect you if it does not strike some corresponding note in your own soul. Negative | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the self. Find the child who wants to strike out and you will be in control of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| valid but also partly glib theories that may strike you as cliched. Perhaps the answer presents itself | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| But where you hold back and try to strike a bargain, substituting a little self-seeking for doing | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| by certain individuals or not. Does it not strike you as peculiarly significant that this word, or | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| String......................4 | |
| have the courage and patience to take each string and ask yourself what you desire in each | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| how all this is tied together with one string. Immaturity is non- acceptance of reality because reality | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| coupled with adventure, through which life becomes a string of beauty even though initial difficulties are still | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| design. Each fragmentary second is that. If you string along second upon second upon second -- not | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Stringent...................27 | |
| they manifest, the greater the necessity for a stringent path of self-development! I cannot stress this enough | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| plant truth within yourself. Only a path of stringent self-search will make such discoveries and the ensuing | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| careful. If this decision is too rigid and stringent, the opposite extreme will follow. In the next | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| worse. The more insecure you feel, the more stringent the demands of the superstructure or idealized self | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| standards of the idealized self will be less stringent. The desire-life of daydreams is always a good | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| good reason to do so. As you know, stringent self-judgment is usually destructive and hinders your search | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| disapprove of and causes you to have a stringent, rigid, moralizing attitude about yourself whenever a crisis | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| long as your right conduct is motivated by stringent self-moralizing, based on good or bad, your goodness | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| either/or attitude, as well as on your own stringent standards and demands of yourself, which develop out | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| Therefore unfulfillment increases, regenerates itself, and becomes more stringent. Let us take the following example: To the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| yourself. Because you cannot live up to your stringent standards you continue to moralize with yourself. It | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| you gain real insight into this, the less stringent the false needs become and the more capable | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| is true for every one of you. Your stringent need to be free of any imperfection, of | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| You may rationalize it by blaming a truly stringent actual situation. Nevertheless, underneath you will connect your | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| experiencing the unfulfillment in an indirect way. The stringent awareness of unfulfillment may, in fact, have entirely | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| The self-indulgent, lazy self-pity of the weak makes stringent demands on their fellow-creatures. This becomes evident if | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| of their unfulfillment, you will find first the stringent need to be loved just as the child | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| this period, the pressure inside may become most stringent. However, if you realize all this and have | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| them you were often surprised to discover how stringent your demands on others, on yourself, and on | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| all appearances, they defy conformity. But whenever the stringent need to prove something exists, one can certainly | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| behind such rebellion you very often find a stringent need for the very thing you rebel against | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| strongly, freely, and independently. Wherever you find a stringent need to be in control -- of others | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| joyful experience, but it requires the labor of stringent honesty with yourself. A few of my friends | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| needs only partially does not make them more stringent than when they are denied altogether. There is | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| against expansion. The discipline must be used for stringent recognition of the ego tricks and against giving | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| currents. This is the deepest reason why such stringent taboos existed regarding sexual love; why releasing the | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| your limited reality must include a process of stringent self- work, such as the pathwork offers. Progress | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |