| Surrendered.................4 | |
| resolved only when negative and destructive aims are surrendered, and the best of who you are is | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you will realize that individual existence is not surrendered when the involuntary processes of the creative life | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| it. This is because you have not totally surrendered to the god-consciousness, or you have not sufficiently | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| must always be on guard. You all have surrendered in some areas of your lives, otherwise you | 254 SURRENDER |
| Surrendering................26 | |
| stage of purification where it is capable of surrendering to the divine flow, dissolve itself, and melt | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| do not give up entirely, under some pretext, surrendering to God. Being honest in this way you | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the apparent helplessness of giving herself up, of surrendering herself. She thereby defeats her femininity and in | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| of the ego-will and the ego-forces, and then surrendering to the beneficial forces of your deep nature | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| allowing a ripening process come to fruition, of surrendering to a force set in motion: this may | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| self-responsibility. If self-activation is relinquished and, instead of surrendering to the self-activated inner powers, one surrenders to | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| will completely eliminate fear, anxiety, friction, and despair. Surrendering the knowledge of the limited ego to the | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| the ego forces. It connotes giving in and surrendering to the flow of being. It is important | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| exists, if its manifestations are no illusion, then surrendering to it is indeed the only wise and | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| only wise and reasonable thing to do. Then surrendering to it will only temporarily appear as an | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| are as ignorant and floundering as yourself? But surrendering to the divine life will make you aware | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| see that the alternatives are simple. Your not surrendering to truth and love as divine attributes, to | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| you learn to harmonize the whole process by surrendering all of you to the Christ who is | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| new woman knows that loving a man and surrendering to her feelings for the man enhances her | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| not to see that in a specific issue surrendering would be the appropriate choice, and that refuses | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| it is the natural movement of your soul, surrendering to God means fulfilling your destiny. It brings | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it creates a healthy pride and dignity. By surrendering to God, one avoids one of the greatest | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in motion when your natural soul movement of surrendering to God is denied and obstructed. When God | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| be explored. Human beings who are incapable of surrendering cannot find their core, or their divine nature | 254 SURRENDER |
| that there is no contradiction or duality between surrendering and standing firm. In fact, it will be | 254 SURRENDER |
| safety and security; you also become capable of surrendering to others if and when this is appropriate | 254 SURRENDER |
| your involuntary levels that hold you back from surrendering. You may first recognize the existence of this | 254 SURRENDER |
| specific dualities I have discussed in this lecture: surrendering and standing firm, yielding and self-assertion, giving in | 254 SURRENDER |
| strength to do this can come only from surrendering to the will of God. Only then can | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| in your imagination doing that. Visualize yourself always surrendering your position for God's vision of truth. Often | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| way you see it. When you visualize yourself surrendering to God's vision, you will find out the | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Surrenders..................5 | |
| the ego relinquishes its hold and the individual surrenders to the cosmic, universal forces -- in love | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of surrendering to the self-activated inner powers, one surrenders to another person's authority, then the role of | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| perverted. By the same token, a woman who surrenders her autonomy to a mate because she is | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| creative principles in this particular manifestation. Instead, she surrenders to him out of fear of life, refusing | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the basis of self-surrender, where the little self surrenders to the godself. It steps aside and allows | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| Surround....................12 | |
| development, the more important it becomes that he surround himself with kindred human spirits so they can | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| Law of Brotherhood is violated. The people who surround themselves with a wall of separation will become | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| medium as well as for the people who surround him or her. When, however, the force manifests | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| develops, breaks open the husks, the crusts that surround your inner perfection and thus knows what the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| always penetrate all the layers of imperfection that surround the spark. We see it as though the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and fear, your separateness, petty self-pampering and cowardice surround you with a wall of isolation when you | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| those entities who are closer to you and surround you. We also focus on the overall needs | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| and the blessings I send you and that surround you always in your endeavors and your beautiful | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| from being knowledgeable or intelligent. Knowing that angels surround and influence you need not lead to worshipping | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| you do not know that at times they surround you and inspire you, you unknowingly become their | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Hence you separate yourself from the riches that surround and penetrate you. This inner mechanism makes your | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| with the Christ consciousness and those energies that surround you and fill you with his love, his | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Surrounded..................15 | |
| is cannot be found by rules. God has surrounded you with his spirit helpers who will help | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the fall of the angels, the higher self surrounded itself slowly and gradually with various layers of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| human being grows up, he or she is surrounded by guardian spirits who belong to the order | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| and justice. This very same person is also surrounded by a number of other spirits not incorporated | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| faster development. At the same time, you live surrounded by people of different levels of development, which | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more than in many of the others that surrounded him, who were much darker spirits, the very | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| enter the spirit world they will always be surrounded by spirits, both higher and lower, who are | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| solved, the flow is cut off. You are surrounded again by the strong impressions of the world | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| -- the flow is cut off. You are surrounded again by the strong impressions of the world | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| looked for in such substances. QUESTION: We are surrounded by thought forms of different quality and strength | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| design. In this figure the higher self is surrounded by the lower self, which is surrounded by | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is surrounded by the lower self, which is surrounded by the mask self and the defenses. Individually | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is, that it simply defies description. You are surrounded by a universe in which there is simply | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| peace with this world, even when you are surrounded by undesirable experiences. In other words, you do | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| suffering. It is always there. You are all surrounded by the great force that flows with such | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Surrounding.................11 | |
| restored to its original state by shedding the surrounding layers constituting the lower self, it reaches out | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| according to previous existences; how the subtle bodies surrounding the physical vehicle of the incarnate being are | 38 IMAGES |
| for omnipotent rulership, for unquestioned obedience from the surrounding world, for a special, elevated position above all | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| also exist, though hidden from awareness. The shame surrounding these tendencies is so great that the outer | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| something begins to happen to the cosmic forces surrounding you. When you cling to false ideas your | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| do not see the powers, forces, assets, beauties surrounding them. They close their eyes in fear and | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| in truth, nor can he see the entities surrounding him or feel their influence. The effect may | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| through many of you, to reach into your surrounding world in many different ways. I ask you | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| vision. You will not only see the abundance surrounding you and flowing through you, but you will | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| occasionally even outer privacy despite all the busyness surrounding them. Those who keep predominantly to themselves may | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Do you wish to be open to your surrounding universe and look at it from the point | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Surroundings................76 | |
| the ability to disentangle the knots in their surroundings and to clear up confused situations. Thus they | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| your spiritual ascent is speeded up in the surroundings of imperfection, in the diversity of developmental stages | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| believe this buys recognition and love from your surroundings. Yet when the action is not supported by | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| you had imagined. It separates you from your surroundings and makes you blind to truth, because vision | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| understand that these forms build corresponding spheres. Landscapes, surroundings, clothes, whatever it is, are in harmony or | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| real, if not more so, than your human surroundings. It will no longer be a theory, mere | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| accept God's laws, who create chaos in their surroundings and in their own selves by wanting to | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| that you may get into conflict with your surroundings by giving in to your lower self, you | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| most important task for the living conditions and surroundings of that particular person; and according to all | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| early age, due to some influence in their surroundings and certain happenings in their lives. These attitudes | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| as far as you yourself and your immediate surroundings are concerned, but for so many spirits as | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| see some of the effect in their immediate surroundings by noticing how all of a sudden their | 21 THE FALL |
| -- alters and assimilates the appearances of the surroundings. Through this process some of the knowledge remains | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to yourself, you are perforce blind to your surroundings. And each individual fault of yours stands in | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| the beneficial effect it could have on your surroundings. You not only cause harm through actual bad | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| effects this same fault may have on your surroundings. When you say your daily prayer and do | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| convictions, they are incarnated again into the same surroundings. Some spirits in these spheres may be a | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| too afraid to get into conflict with his surroundings. However, we are not discussing the obvious outer | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| satisfaction? Do you revolt against your self, your surroundings, and life in general? As long as you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| it unless the difficulty manifested in your physical surroundings. You could not become aware of and eliminate | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| by the often unspiritual influences of your usual surroundings. Developing a concise understanding of yourself and your | 36 PRAYER |
| changed by what you have learned from your surroundings and from life. Yet, while your image is | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| to those the child discovered in its own surroundings. Second, the defense mechanism the child chooses with | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| and situations other than those in the early surroundings. This, my friends, is the way images are | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| life, as well as into his or her surroundings. The temptation to give in to the emotions | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| personal importance for you -- habit and your surroundings have influenced you to maintain the opinion, so | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the more conscious of your effect on your surroundings. And now, my dear ones, let us turn | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| life, your conflicts, as well as on your surroundings, including some of your dear ones. If you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| wish to bring happiness and love into your surroundings regardless of your own possible hurts, then the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| brings them into conflict with themselves and their surroundings. The emotionally mature person knows that there is | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| comes in contact with more or less imperfect surroundings that bring its inner problems to the fore | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to their personal life plan. So perhaps your surroundings lead you to do something that in itself | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| immature person feels different from her or his surroundings, has a feeling of not belonging, of being | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| change anything. Therefore, I want the world, my surroundings, my loved ones, God, to see how much | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the failure and so blames his or her surroundings. So a particular vicious circle comes into existence | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| yourself without standing in the way of your surroundings. If, on the other hand, you become a | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| peace, try to find where, in your own surroundings, you act in ways that are similar to | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all this on your personality and on your surroundings. Full recognition of these elements takes time, perseverance | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of in Europe, what he associates with his surroundings here, or other factors. But let me ask | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| undeveloped persons being loved and living in pleasant surroundings, would that mean that in certain fields they | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all this, you may begin to observe your surroundings with a different understanding. You will see that | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| a very liberating effect on you and your surroundings. But you cannot perceive it unless you understand | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| strongly enough that this work affects your entire surroundings. Anyone around you must benefit from it. If | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| problems, conflicts, deviations and images negatively affect your surroundings, yourself -- and therefore life as such. Take | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| both parents, or someone else in your early surroundings. A certain impression of another person or persons | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| He may then come into conflict with his surroundings; or he may find it to his disadvantage | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| Imagine the effect it must have on your surroundings when you are no longer defensive, fearful, withdrawn | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| damaging this is for you and for your surroundings. Whenever you are hurt, you erroneously believe yourself | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| apply this knowledge to individual cases in their surroundings. The sins, as well as any commandments, represent | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| shoemaker, makes no difference. You will influence your surroundings, not so much by what you say or | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| you to act them out, adversely affecting your surroundings. The guilt then may make you overly submissive | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| experiences acute physical pleasure in contact with its surroundings. If development proceeds naturally, as I said before | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the rest of humanity, they issue into their surroundings. It is all so easily rationalized, covered up | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| by upbringing, and everything they learn from their surroundings agrees that one must fight for one and | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| register a sensation or a reaction to your surroundings. Something that is not spontaneous and involuntary, something | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| come from personal influences in an individual's early surroundings. They existed, of course, but only because this | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| only with your feelings but also with your surroundings. At the same time, you establish a new | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| -- whether inside the self or in your surroundings -- into a part of the realm of | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| matter what other people's consciousnesses produce in your surroundings, your life experience is solely determined by what | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| like to discuss particularly how you affect your surroundings when you operate from the destructive level of | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| you -- have a strong effect on your surroundings. The effect manifests on all levels. On the | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| begin to feel the same way about your surroundings and you will know that all people -- | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| in their person and personal affairs, their physical surroundings, money matters, in the tasks they have to | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| arrange your time, your money, your possessions, your surroundings, your personal appearance. Arrange your day in such | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| the means, the peace, the privacy and the surroundings in which it will be possible to do | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| reliable and real. Then true independence from one's surroundings is being established and thus, true freedom. Then | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| to their needs and wishes, can enliven their surroundings and teach their consciousness to others. Many different | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| need to develop through their relationship to their surroundings. This alternation occurs in an overall movement, as | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you feel. When you come into your ordinary surroundings, your outer life, you designate that as the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| attached to your own being and to your surroundings. The joyous excitement, the peaceful fascination with living | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| personality experiences it occasionally in his or her surroundings; and, last but not least, every personality will | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| with your attitudes toward them and toward your surroundings. Practical everyday matters are always an expression of | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| soul substance, as well as people and your surroundings, you will know who you really are. This | 254 SURRENDER |
| tasks in a new incarnation. Specific circumstances and surroundings are geared to bringing out the aspects that | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| fore in the previous incarnations where circumstances and surroundings had to activate other material. With people who | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| is not at odds with his or her surroundings. On the contrary, this kind of person is | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |