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| the truth at all. For a person who strives toward a higher spiritual awareness it is often | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| part of the unconscious, the higher self, also strives upward. But in every human being another part | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| was. I have said to you that whoever strives to make contact with God's world to find | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| divine spark is the part of you that strives upward; it is the part of you that | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the little self or the little ego. Self-will strives to get what it wants, regardless of the | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| it does not add to peace if one strives too hard to triumph over others. Now I | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| they forfeit the goal for which their soul strives. This extreme of hunting for romance is as | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| has an inclination to bondage. The growing child strives for love, but it may not receive as | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| earth sphere between a man and a woman strives for the same end and attempts to achieve | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| the outcome. To know what your inner will strives for, or does not strive for, you have | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| will also detect that subtle little tendency which strives for conformity with others; you will discover the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| immediately experience the great, encompassing love your soul strives for. For, it is one of the conflicts | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| yourself as an integral part of creation which strives endlessly and ceaselessly toward a greater fulfillment. Only | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| and exposed by this dependency on love, who strives to appear invulnerable just as much as he | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| feelings that the still healthy part in you strives for? You cannot have it both ways, though | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you cannot have the fulfillment that everyone inwardly strives for. You therefore create substitute fulfillments, which you | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| force so much that the person no longer strives in any direction, not even in fantasy. But | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| all-encompassing love which knows no barriers? The universe strives toward union in every possible respect. All the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| in a separate lecture. It is all that strives toward union, wholeness, harmony, fulfillment, fruition. It is | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| or she alone controls destiny. The human soul strives toward this goal. But as long as there | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| its destiny and its origin and therefore it strives to recapture them. If you desire pleasure because | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| for their birthright of fulfillment, another part actually strives for nonfulfillment, pain, and deprivation. The great danger | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| you encounter in the outer world. Anyone who strives to reach the real self by rejecting the | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| system, like all other systems or planes, also strives toward wholeness and health. When a disturbing force | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| you an unceasing struggle in which one side strives toward wholeness and union with your fellow creatures | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| pleasure supreme is everyone's birthright, and everyone constantly strives for it. Whether or not the individual is | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| it all seems, the more the conscious self strives and grasps. Such tense motion -- even toward | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| unconsciously for the limitless expansion as the child strives for magical omnipotence because the personality fears and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| Divine Being, especially when the outer, separated self strives so ardently to find the truth of being | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| toward the other state. Yet the more one strives, the more one hinders the natural rhythm. For | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| striving creates more tension -- even when one strives for the open, relaxed state. Hence, there is | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the disunity, where one aspect of the personality strives toward love, truth, integration with the whole, and | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| comprehension of ultimate reality, while the other side strives toward separateness, destructive aims, fear, hate, and blind | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| some instances the affirming part of the self strives for what is healthy, furthering pleasure, love, expansion | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| a much more substantial part of the self strives for the opposite. But no matter how small | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| resists giving them up, while the other part strives for development and self-purification. This dualistic state must | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| energy system, the unified inner and outer being strives organically toward further completion of the great plan | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| It gets tired of these separations and therefore strives sooner or later for a more unified state | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| planet. Your planet is ready for adulthood and strives to unfold it. Yet the planet also harbors | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
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| your personal spiritual endeavor, by your increasing self-awareness. Striving to overcome your resistance is the only way | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| or immature parts of the soul resist this striving, two opposite currents come into existence which tend | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| conscious in meditation, in prayer, in all your striving. Without this there can be no significant progress | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| beings who enjoy the strengthened protection will, when striving to establish the contact with God's spirit world | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| is your task now. Do not stop your striving when your faith is lacking. For you are | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| and feelings create spiritual forms, such a group striving sincerely to get nearer to God is building | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| know them, and then ask yourself whether your striving for God does not amount to using Him | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| you will reach the inner freedom you are striving for. You must reach it in that way | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| beings should strive for perfection, this kind of striving is wrong. It is wrong because of the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and unfoldment of that in you which is striving for fulfillment, which ought to be expressed but | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| since it is not what you are really striving for and it cannot be had as long | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| goal, or it is nothing. The more the striving soul is thwarted in its healthy instincts, the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| remedying the situation in your later years. This striving may manifest in various aspects of your life | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| enters a little at the beginning in your striving upward, recognize this, but do not mind it | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| misunderstanding may exist here that confuses impatience and striving. I think it was understood that he should | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to mean that our friend should give up striving for his ambition. But the difference between healthy | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| his ambition. But the difference between healthy, relaxed striving and frenzied, compulsive impatience has to be seen | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which manifests as impatience, so easily confused with striving and ambition. That is what blocks success, not | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you need be, in spite of all your striving toward a distorted independence of either the aggressive | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| possibilities in the soul's unconscious and often unsuccessful striving for solutions. In this work you have to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| how much real talent, healthy desire, or serious striving you show, the severity of your conflicts proportionately | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for such goodness mostly stems from the hidden striving to remain a helpless child in order to | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| be granted, because here lies the wrong conclusion. Striving for success is not in itself wrong. It | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| of this world, with the slow process of striving, grasping, and drowning, is very much at the | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| existing imperfection, or that they must give up striving for progress entirely. To accept imperfection would then | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| but to the inner subtleties of your emotional striving, from which not one human being is entirely | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| unconscious knowledge can reach surface awareness. Your entire striving on this earth sphere is to increase your | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| unfulfillment. However, there are many wrong ways of striving that bring only temporary relief of the inner | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| The strain is caused more by your compulsive striving to be something you cannot yet be because | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| becoming, in awareness. Here the human being is striving, using intellect and will, to survive in the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| really feel, what you really are. In your striving to be something more or better, or to | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of spiritual development. The state of becoming is striving. If one is not in a state of | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| in a state of becoming, there is no striving, therefore there is no danger of confusion and | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| before, and strive to attain it again. Yet, striving is the very opposite of what brings out | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Instead, there is an expectation and therefore a striving away from what is. QUESTION: You were talking | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| barriers to see that which is, rather than striving away from it in the false belief that | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| pretense of being more than you are, without striving to be more perfect than, at this moment | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| time. Translated into practical life, this manifests by striving toward tomorrow. If you observe yourself closely from | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| step. So, do become aware of your inner striving away from the now. You will then find | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| something wrong, it will inevitably discourage the healthy striving of the soul, so that it will be | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| suggestion that there might be an unconscious contrary striving would have seemed preposterous to you. Such No's | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| and deserving the desired experience. The misconception that striving for personal fulfillment is identical with selfishness and | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| of the right to be happy and calmly striving toward fulfillment on all levels of life. Before | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| to make the change and live in earnest, striving for real goals and dispensing with the need | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the resentments and the selfish impulses because the striving for goodness according to false, limited concepts and | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| order to convince yourself that your wishing and striving for fulfillment is constructive. You must see that | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| spite of a part of their spirit continuously striving for their birthright of fulfillment, another part actually | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| the dark. The human struggle is a continuous striving toward light, whether or not you know it | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| they think about it in these terms. This striving may lead them to the distortion of an | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| all heard from psychological teachings about the childish striving for perfection, but you have experienced it within | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| a movement that is a tense, anxious, grabbing, striving effort. Seemingly, you have to decide between these | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| to stagnate and guilt whips you into a striving, overly tense movement. You may not even be | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| the love relationship between the sexes. When your striving or longing for this experience is attached to | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| confusion of motions: either the strained mobility of striving away from what is now -- hence effort | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| in the eternal now of yourself, instead of striving away from it. Each now must bring you | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| present situation, with its lack, is totally understood. Striving toward a different situation when the present situation | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| negates that it also wants non-health. Since the striving for non-health is repressed and ignored, the struggle | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| you find the exact opposite of the conscious striving, meaning the passive resistance against your male role | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| cannot come by wanting to be different, by striving to attain a state that does not already | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| ANSWER: No, no. People who are oriented toward striving and growth will have all the contact necessary | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| it relates to the pleasure principle. The infant, striving for its pleasure, is in its blindness incapable | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| pleasure they strive for, either because their very striving makes attainment impossible, or, even when they succeed | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the individual is capable of realizing that this striving is misdirected does not alter the fact of | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| strive away from what you are now. Such striving is an error, a misunderstanding based on denial | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| the more one needs them, the stronger unhealthy striving becomes and the further one gets from the | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| truth, and the best in you. Your frustrated striving and your self-betrayal create a forcing-current. The forcing-current | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| its best interests. Such an unhealthy ego is striving for the precise opposite of the lawfulness of | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| human personality. One is the force that is striving, moving, acting, initiating, activating, doing. This aspect includes | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the more one hinders the natural rhythm. For striving creates more tension -- even when one strives | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| equally true that it is coming from, and striving toward, health. It is extremely important, my friends | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| kernel. A chain reaction set in and humanity's striving away from the innermost kernel has led to | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| human being. In fact, much fruitless and painful striving goes into this wrong direction and makes the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| but only through what already exists in you. Striving away from unwelcome feelings leads into more strife | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| result of the forces set in motion by striving away from the center. The incredibly beautiful state | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the more urgent, the more impatient the outer striving for fulfillment is, the more certain you can | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| of pleasure will consciously manifest in an excessive striving for pleasure, in an anxiety about not being | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| to look for is the dichotomy of anxious striving versus hopeless resignation, arising from an unconscious rejection | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| struggle against the self, no pushing or tense striving. In that state there is no harassment from | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| When the destructive side conflicts with the side striving toward true fulfillment and positive expression, very often | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| are good and beautiful and divine. All your striving and goodwill is beautiful. Even your pangs of | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| however, you can fully accept the beautiful force striving for full pleasure underneath the irresponsibility and value | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Conversely, if there is a rift between conscious striving for goodness, love and decency, and the unconscious | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| base the negation in contrast to the conscious striving? When you answer these questions as concisely as | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| good life, of the spiritual realities I am striving to convey to you. The love in this | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| work and at cross-purposes with the affirmative, conscious striving of the personality. The negative attitudes create self-hate | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| covert it is, hidden, perhaps, beneath a tense, striving for fulfillment. Such overactivity may deceive you, and | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| negative aspects. Participating in this life, the partners striving for union set something in motion that takes | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| that this fusion is now possible for the striving entities in whatever creative act. This creative experience | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| parts find themselves separate again and continue their striving forever more, until one is all and all | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| to settle for unhappiness and unfulfillment? Is the striving for fulfillment that falls under the category of | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| state, whether you know it or not. This striving is in itself the motivating force to grow | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| real self. This is also an illusion. The striving for the bliss is the motivational force that | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| will see how much your wishes and your striving into the future determine your experience -- and | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| these procedures -- being influenced by the past, striving toward the future, displacement, projection, and denial -- | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| you here. Let us begin with perfection. The striving of the higher self for perfection is of | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| seems good, another bad. You must give up striving for perfection from the ego point of view | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| I mean to convey here. Now how does striving for perfection look when it comes from the | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| seems a reality to you. Another distortion in striving for perfection on the personality level is the | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| really feel and think about yourself, but rather striving to appear what you are not. On the | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| self, whether they come in a longing, a striving that is not articulated or in actual instructions | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| it is important to grasp fully how the striving for physical life is not merely an expression | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| not only from worldly matters, but from all striving. They are completely correct in that they know | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| still partially in this unfinished state, while partially striving for real autonomy, fear surrender in all forms | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| against the innate fate of all created beings--the striving toward oneness. You resist and fight it, to | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |