| Strivings...................15 | |
| This is not so. All conscious and unconscious strivings of humankind aim at penetrating the heaviness of | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| within you to direct you in your daily strivings and in your daily spiritual work. When you | 31 SHAME |
| may lead you to give up your spiritual strivings. The human soul is full of contradictory currents | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| unconscious. This is partly due to the sincere strivings of the higher self and partly to the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is one and the same thing, these unconscious strivings are not only inefficient, but they bring further | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| further conflict. On the one hand, these inner strivings are directed toward finding fulfillment. On the other | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| from outside, unconnected with your own endeavors and strivings, and not as something that you mobilize, first | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| for genuine self-respect than all the forceful, insincere strivings for an idealized perfection that is not the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| you. Blessed are your work, your perseverance, your strivings on this path. May more and more people | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| nor unfulfillment or frustration. Without an ego these strivings are unrealistic, even destructive. You all have experienced | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| you first have to shed these desires or strivings before you can come to them all over | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| with the inner conflict between the two opposite strivings, you are inexorably drawn into an undesirable manifestation | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| yours, are not aware of their own destructive strivings. They have managed to look away from them | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| crisis is unavoidable. When two opposite movements and strivings exist in a person, a breaking point must | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| MARRIAGE Blessed are your lives, all your thoughts, strivings, and endeavors, my dearly beloved friends. Without your | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Stroke......................3 | |
| never harm a soul to accept an unalterable stroke of fate. Naturally, one will not, need not | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| a diagram you can draw with the simplest stroke. It is truly no mystery. 4. Connecting with | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| this can rarely be done in one simple stroke. You need to enter an ongoing dialogue, full | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Strong......................504 | |
| they do not believe in God, harbor these strong currents in their soul. Those who experience a | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| your ground even better. Only then are you strong enough so that God can fully count on | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| well, but one person is born with a strong portion of willpower, and another is not. So | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| cannot be otherwise. A person born with a strong will must have worked to acquire it some | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| that they cut themselves completely off from too strong feelings. When you love in a healthy and | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| of making you blind; it will make you strong instead of weak and always true to your | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| while God's love for you is a clean, strong, healthy love, and therefore a more farsighted and | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| of the spirits of Hell, since through the strong bondage to material things certain low feelings will | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| of the spiritual and the physical is very strong. Yet this is not the only factor involved | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| by the still blind spirits, which might produce strong momentary impressions but whose power quickly dissipates. People | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to remember the last time they felt a strong vibration that connected them to God. Perhaps by | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| not always willing to change. Whenever there are strong negative feelings of any kind there has to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| try to do it alone; you are not strong enough. You need the willpower, you need unceasing | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| problem. And this wish has to be very strong and sincere, not half-hearted at all! This must | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| case you should check whether there is a strong resistance in you to take this last and | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| or feelings, are vague and weak, or definite, strong, and durable. In other words, all these forms | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| change and conquer itself; it has a very strong will that may not always manifest itself outside | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| also be doctors possessing good intuition and a strong sense of guidance, in which case the undesirable | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| incarnated in the East do not feel as strong an urge to probe and search in this | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| factors the body needs in order to remain strong and vigorous. One can go along for quite | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| view. Only in that way can you become strong and independent. If there would be undue interference | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| your soul. The intellectual willpower may be a strong one, but it will never have the strong | 18 FREE WILL |
| strong one, but it will never have the strong effect of the soul's willpower. You can use | 18 FREE WILL |
| done in the past. When you encounter the strong pressing of your ego, you should learn detachment | 18 FREE WILL |
| an emotionally unstable and immature person can have strong and even compulsive inner wishes that may be | 18 FREE WILL |
| lower self, it shines through to such a strong degree that it can mate with divine forces | 18 FREE WILL |
| has ever been accomplished. The light is so strong, so penetrating and glorious, that it is unimaginable | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| circle have great responsibility and therefore must become strong. This can only be accomplished through all sorts | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| necessary testing and learning for those people with strong arms and shoulders, spiritually speaking, in order that | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| know, my friends, that I have given you strong medicine. No one likes to hear these things | 21 THE FALL |
| or through a spirit, or through a very strong direct communication by way of inspiration. The spirits | 21 THE FALL |
| him, who were much darker spirits, the very strong inclination existed -- comparatively speaking -- to strive | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the same category -- who have a very strong inclination toward the good, but the discrepancy between | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| regression in hypnosis: Here it is my very strong and definite advice that it should never be | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| doing that. The reason why environmental influences are strong can be manifold, since there are different reasons | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| can have. On a day when you feel strong, alive and full of enthusiasm, it is much | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| mentioned. This humility alone will make you really strong and give you the power to distinguish when | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| liking. In other words, if there is a strong self-will, the fear is there automatically that this | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| doing this consistently for some time, eventually these strong reactions and inner desires and pressures will become | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| is a trance session or simply a meditation, strong forces are present. You are most receptive in | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| your imperfections by yourself alone, no matter how strong you are and no matter how good your | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| will use less active force than the obviously strong and self-willed ones. Often the contrary is true | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| reality God wants you to be independent and strong, and you can only be that by following | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| these instances are rare and only expected of strong and highly developed beings sent to earth with | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and the normal state would not be so strong, my friends. However, I do not want to | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| this connect with fear? If your self-will is strong -- and it can be all the stronger | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| emotional decisions maturely. I am again giving you strong material to work with on your path. Wherever | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| overambitiousness -- the original good quality is a strong willpower, a readiness to pay the price in | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| be more. Often, overambitious people have such a strong desire current that they become ruthless in attaining | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| their task and escape the issue by their strong emphasis on helping others. Again, the help given | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| to see another person's faults when there is strong love or sympathy present. Not wanting to see | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| human beings than someone else whose faith is strong and who feels, as mentioned before, that she | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| from what you have prepared so far are strong. Your chances for that are much stronger here | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Thus, one person will grow up with a strong feeling of God-consciousness, perhaps even in spite of | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| way around. In some instances, there is a strong urge to become, let us say, an artist | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| examine their charts exactly. In one case a strong talent is supposed to come out very soon | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| humility. The individual whose ego currents are so strong that self-will has the upper hand is necessarily | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| to adhere to such distortions is now very strong. In former times the forces of darkness did | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| for you to discriminate but you are obviously strong enough to master the subtleties involved and to | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| force himself to bathe in spite of his strong emotional revulsion. Thus, he will develop certain symptoms | 38 IMAGES |
| the key to the image. It is a strong directive, but by no means does it open | 38 IMAGES |
| little clearer. Consider the people who have a strong sense of responsibility in their lives. Their family | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| cut off. You are surrounded again by the strong impressions of the world of manifestation. You can | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| image-desires overrule the outer ones, no matter how strong the latter may be. Your images draw you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| think of a sudden experience with a very strong and unexpected impact, like an accident. But a | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| not know theirs. Yes, my friends, this sounds strong, but in the infant part of your soul | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| is no injustice, and that will make you strong and safe. You will become mature by the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| strength, my dear ones. You will have a strong feeling of certainty. It will appear to you | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| tonight. At this time of the year, the strong forces of love, coming from the King of | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| beginning is difficult. The forces of good, the strong, golden rays of Christ will fill you more | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| facet of it. In some personality types the strong desire to be approved by others will manifest | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| are active. In will there must be a strong active current. That will is often used negatively | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| step out of spiritual childhood, toward becoming a strong and independent child of God, growing in spirit | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| permanent state of pure love. However, even the strong momentum of the erotic force carries the soul | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| Eros has carried you this far with its strong impact. But after this point, your will to | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| it must vary. The mass image is a strong form. It has to be reckoned with. According | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| into a country where there is perhaps a strong trend of nationalism and exaggerated patriotism. They remain | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| in rare cases will you find such a strong predominance of one trend in a person. There | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| results. To achieve a positive outcome, a free, strong and independent choice has to be made. As | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| instance, there may be a combination of a strong liking for order and organization and a wish | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| leave you, my dear ones, with a very strong blessing, with a heavenly light that shines upon | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| from the selfish one. This confusion is so strong at times that many people become uncertain whether | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| far as manifestation is concerned, the difference is strong. A clairvoyant can see a person's aura, that | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the inability to love at all; also too strong a fear and self- will, which prevent you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| equipped to meet both. Both will make you strong. If a person is so concerned to have | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| a great joy. Learn this healthy activity. Become strong in it and meet life as you should | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| them. Perhaps their selfish instincts are still so strong that their real and divine conscience has that | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| sick personality in which this vicious circle is strong can never take that risk as long as | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| is the wrong attitude. Self-will prevails to a strong degree when this emotional climate exists. The right | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| The validity of the opinion may be so strong that you cannot find the emotional and subjective | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| them be a medicine for you, and grow strong and happy with whatever comes your way. Be | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| people you love. The moment there is too strong a desire, or the inability to give up | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| amounts to compulsion. This may not always be strong enough to be called a bondage. In principle | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| much slower. If the instinct of destruction is strong, it is a product of the anti-life force | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| other hand, with people whose life force is strong, who have a positive outlook on life, one | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or her personality. Some are static to a strong degree, but others are in the static state | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| may enjoy this envy. It makes you feel strong and powerful at the expense of another person's | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| All this together determines just how noticeable, how strong, how obvious the cry for approval is and | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| vicious circle, that self-punishment and self-destructiveness are very strong factors in the human makeup. If you add | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| Where is the borderline between compulsion and very strong desire? ANSWER: The difference cannot be generalized. You | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| said is that when you have simply a strong desire without compulsion, you are free to let | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and shape according to what they represent, how strong the convictions are, and what is linked with | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| see that this is so. There is a strong fear in you that whatever happens contrary to | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| payment of the rightful price. There is a strong desire and insistence on having both ways, the | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| encounter, instead of weakening you will make you strong and free. You are so conditioned to the | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| course, the forces of darkness are still very strong on the earth sphere. But that is certainly | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can happen through the incarnation of a few strong and highly developed people who do not have | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and womanliness. A man is supposed to be strong and a woman weak. A man is supposed | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| his or her other side. All healthy and strong soul currents, all inner and outer conduct according | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| of weakness so as to make the man strong? ANSWER: No. Quite the contrary. When you reread | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| of guilt. Yet the desire may be doubly strong -- due in part to the healthy and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| is true that you can move mountains with strong enough willpower, that will has to come from | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| to some degree. It is also a very strong factor in prohibiting the inner will from functioning | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| yourself as another person. Only as a free, strong, and happy person can you have fulfillment in | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| lesser development the conscience may not be so strong or even be absent. Hence his wish-capacity can | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it. In my observation of human souls, the strong desire to communicate with departed loved ones almost | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| death, God and man. This will make you strong and certain and truly independent. That is the | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| answer to these questions can only become a strong certainty as a consequence of your complete self-understanding | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| loving parent is weak, while the rejecter is strong. Therefore love becomes weakness, while aloofness is a | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| unconscious. The child's desire is to be as strong as the desirable parent, and certainly not as | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| may be completely wrong that the rejecter is strong, while the loving parent is weak. It may | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the love capacity. On the other hand, the strong rejecter may really not be strong. He or | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| hand, the strong rejecter may really not be strong. He or she may have many desirable qualities | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| due to many other contributing factors, the domineering strong parent is the one who gives more love | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| parent who is under the dominion of the strong one. Each parent may then have desirable qualities | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the opposite. Or, outwardly neither is domineering and strong, but inwardly such an imbalance in the relationship | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| rejects these wants and needs you regard as strong and superior. Thus, you ally yourself in an | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| only possible way to live happily, to be strong in a healthy and real sense. The very | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| problem under discussion tonight may not be as strong, but the soul-condition may then be much more | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you find it, if self-destructiveness is not abnormally strong, you will hold on to life -- and | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| take many forms and each has a particularly strong effect on the other side. It is just | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| indication of some imbalance. There may be a strong unconscious inclination to lose power over the self | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| negative and the positive aspects is often quite strong. Your dependency on public opinion and approval applies | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you are unaware of them. But they are strong in that they are often much more powerful | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| to make the sick part of human nature strong, free, and healthy; we are interested in the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| Some people may search and work with a strong outer will, but their inner unconscious limitations block | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the forcing current is not dissolved. For the strong and mature soul cannot be coerced into submission | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| then, when a wrong condition persists long and strong enough, eventually also in your body. Inner errors | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and life's ups and downs is still very strong and this does not make for happiness. However | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| create your subjectivity, and therefore unreality, through your strong and urgent need to nourish your illusion. This | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| unafraid of loving, unafraid of giving up the strong self-will current, will meet even tragedies with true | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| power. With it you are mighty, you are strong, you are safe. Without it you are poor | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| as the child in you persists in its strong, self-willed current of subtly, emotionally, and unconsciously forcing | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| the child in you is undetected and remains strong. Of course, as long as you are a | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| lean against a wall. It seems like a strong support while, as you will perceive a little | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| unknown. On the one hand, people need the strong authority who upholds the fixed rule because then | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| own unconscious mind and emotions, habitually overlook the strong link between the child's longing and unfulfillment and | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| and not just recognize in theory -- how strong this link is. Full awareness of it is | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the other case, the rebellion is just as strong, but hidden, and therefore infinitely harder to trace | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| correct it. This unconscious compulsion is a very strong factor, but is so deeply hidden from your | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| of course is entirely unconscious, is a very strong factor here. The sum total of a human | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| emotional immaturity is indicated by an emphasis on strong likes and dislikes without discriminating as to what | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| For instance, when another person shows a very strong spirit of competition toward you, something is immediately | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| entire universe. When there is conflict between people, strong energies clash. In this particular respect, each person's | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| fulfillment to your partner usually elicits a very strong reaction in people. Your emotions become full of | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| other. Underneath both sets of feelings is a strong, grasping forcing current, loudly proclaiming, I want! In | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| of at all. You may completely ignore the strong influence it has on the cosmic forces, an | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| cut off. You are surrounded again by the strong impressions of the world of manifestation. You cannot | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| into, to dig for. This would be a strong indication that there is an image in the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| it. Since all entities are trained to become strong in self-evaluation, each soul is always given the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| all it can do, if your will is strong enough. It cannot prohibit, even if the outer | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| -- unconsciously, of course. This fear is so strong that you often do not permit yourself to | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| caught in the resentment. Your emotions become so strong that you cannot handle them anymore. This does | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| that moment, you will no longer have such strong reactions toward others. Is that clear? QUESTION: Yes | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| are often interacting. False motivations cause impatience. The strong, often unconscious, desire to belong in the world | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| responds, often quite unconsciously -- will be too strong. The whole universe is based on balance, and | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| overeagerness. You may think it is merely a strong positive quality, and as such it cannot or | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| are positive and conscious. Try to visualize this strong, forward-surging motion, with all the impact of the | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| self-destructiveness -- is altogether different from a healthy, strong acceptance of the inevitable. Squarely facing it, not | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| death. For only then can you truly become strong, from knowing and accepting the uncertainty of death | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| when it comes my way, I will be strong enough to accept it. Others have gone through | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| they sacrifice in order to finally possess a strong and loving protector, they are proud of their | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| it can be safe is by becoming so strong and invulnerable, so independent and emotionless, that nothing | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| but no longer aware of it. Such a strong facade of false serenity has been built that | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| from their emotions, non-attachment to others, and a strong urge for independence. However much the underlying emotional | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| is outraged. The fury and self-contempt are so strong that they have to be externalized and are | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| hand, the need to be loved is very strong. But on the other side stands the superiority | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| that he or she is both loving and strong. And this would be true if these qualities | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| measures. Addictions are often also motivated by the strong craving for love, pleasure, and ecstasy. So another | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| pleasure, although perhaps completely unconscious, can be so strong that many repercussions occur within the psyche. I | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| at stake. However, you may have an overly strong reaction to little incidents, such as a person | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| emotions in some way, even anger or other strong feelings? Our emotions will not be as strong | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| strong feelings? Our emotions will not be as strong anymore. ANSWER: It is difficult to generalize. A | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| artificial, if actually, unconsciously, you are seething with strong repressed emotions. These have to reach the surface | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| your emotions, you may believe your lack of strong negative feelings is a sign of spiritual progress | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| develop to the extent where we have less strong reactions. ANSWER: No, that is not so, except | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| pleasure in the unconscious belief that being omnipotent, strong, invulnerable will bring love and devotion. This attitude | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Is there a continuing fusion without building a strong mask personality? ANSWER: Of course, the healthier a | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| know everything, especially if those entities held very strong convictions during their lifetime. Such strong convictions will | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| held very strong convictions during their lifetime. Such strong convictions will not automatically disappear. They may linger | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wish to gain safety and pleasure through a strong power drive, which is simultaneously counteracted by an | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| drive, which is simultaneously counteracted by an equally strong submissive attitude. This is one aspect. The guilt | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of coping with danger, which is why the strong submissive attitude was originally chosen. But since the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to your fantasies of glory, of not being strong and powerful, but actually cringing. And it creates | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| deep down in you a wish for the strong hand of authority that is utterly good to | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| primarily to make you free, to make you strong, to make you responsible so that you do | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| give you what you should and could be strong enough to obtain for yourself. And this will | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to take it upon yourself to become whole, strong, and self-reliant. You have to determine not to | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| a state, you cannot come out a free, strong individual. You may again fall back into the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| without understanding -- you will develop into a strong self-responsible being, trusting in your own capacity to | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| unobtrusive emotional reactions. They are neither obvious nor strong. Nor are they completely unconscious. They are there | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| out of your weakness, then you will become strong. For a while you will live without any | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of fear of involvement because you have a strong tendency to withdraw, then your desire to be | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| there are times when there is such a strong barrier that one cannot penetrate. The other person | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| unpleasant. This would cause an inner resistance so strong that they could not hear your call. They | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to the degree that your emotional life is strong, healthy, and mature. Therefore, your intuitive powers will | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the physical level: an infant will feel the strong urge to use its vocal cords. It has | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| promoting the growth of certain organic matter through strong use of the vocal chords. It is not | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| screaming, but this period of transition leads to strong healthy organs in this particular respect. For the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the respective organs. The urge to indulge in strong physical exercise has the same function. The same | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| anger, resentment, hate -- sometimes to a very strong degree. If you prevent yourself now from consciously | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| weak and helpless. But if you have mature, strong emotions, you will trust yourself and therein find | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to reach your surface awareness, how can healthy, strong emotions fill your being? If you cannot deal | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| False faith and false love always have the strong emotional connotation of need. True love and true | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| so-called helper. This in itself points to a strong resistance. It is the long, drawn-out result of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| appear at inopportune moments and will be so strong as to confuse the person. But after a | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| self-control. Let me put it this way: the strong impact of negative emotions, to the point where | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| let you. This is the nature of such strong, powerful emotions, and they can endanger you only | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| some degree and in isolated instances, how overly strong certain reactions are, relative to reality. This applies | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| stifle full evaluation of them. You ascribe your strong reactions to other factors that are not half | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| this you often repress them; they are so strong that when they are denied, they make you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| Or if your need for approval is inordinately strong, it is in proportion to your disapproval of | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| This hurry indicates, on the one hand, a strong idealized self-image, that is, I must be perfect | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| needs of every healthy human being cause equally strong guilt feelings. This is due to the influence | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| if your need to be liked is so strong that you cannot face the possibility of not | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and which are not. QUESTION: What about a strong need for harmony? ANSWER: In itself harmony is | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| a healthy need. But if it becomes so strong that for the sake of harmony you forfeit | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| these twists? ANSWER: When there is such a strong reaction, such a negative experience, something in you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| such an image -- if there is no strong second image counteracting the main image -- such | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| false needs. They may not even be very strong. But how to go about it in a | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| must have. It is a sign that a strong need is involved, be it real or false | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| because it paralyzes you. In compassion, you are strong and capable of helping, of doing something for | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| makes you feel and understand, but it is strong enough not to paralyze your capacity to help | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |