| Thought-....................1 | |
| prayer you build harmonious forms, so that the thought- prayer activates favorable energies even before you have | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| Thought/feelings............1 | |
| your immediate needs. But the forms of the thought/feelings emanating from wrong images are static and congested | 38 IMAGES |
| Thought-control.............1 | |
| come to the surface. Many current movements teach thought-control by suppression. As I have often said, this | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| Thought-direction...........1 | |
| the apparent risk of trying out a new thought-direction seem less final. Just investigate how it feels | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Thought-form................1 | |
| you see the color, the emanation of the thought-form, regardless of the type of person? ANSWER: No | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| Thought-forms...............3 | |
| aura: the vibration and emanation of that body. Thought-forms or feeling-forms reflect their image in the aura | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| perception. So we can determine very well which thought-forms come from the higher self, and which from | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| prescribe, namely by putting into clear-cut and concise thought-forms anything for which you strive. Once this question | 18 FREE WILL |
| Thoughtful..................3 | |
| this is received. See whether the person becomes thoughtful and whether he or she has understanding for | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| in these false needs. As you become more thoughtful and more open to other possibilities, you can | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| rule to abide by but should make you thoughtful and truly willing to reconsider those aspects of | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Thoughtfully................1 | |
| be easy to find. Only after you have thoughtfully grasped your image will you be in a | 38 IMAGES |
| Thoughtfulness..............1 | |
| control. It represents introspection, inward movement, caution, patience, thoughtfulness. It also represents self-search, in contrast to the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| Thoughtless.................1 | |
| the little truths people often express in a thoughtless and cruel way, which have nothing to do | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| Thoughtlessly...............1 | |
| yourselves, my friends: Do you silently, or even thoughtlessly, demand too much perfection from someone dear to | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| Thoughtlessness.............2 | |
| level as hostility, overactivity, quarreling, destructiveness, cruelty, impatience, thoughtlessness. The principle of restriction in its positive aspect | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| balance of nature is being disturbed through humanity's thoughtlessness or greed. The recent growth of awareness in | 254 SURRENDER |
| Thought-power...............1 | |
| maintaining a hardened, unimpressionable soul substance, and/or weak thought-power. You should then work on that. The process | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| Thoughts....................545 | |
| one's feelings as immediately and directly as one's thoughts or actions. It requires laborious work on the | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| spheres. The next stage is to cultivate one's thoughts. Quite often a person acts rightly, but the | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| Quite often a person acts rightly, but the thoughts run another course; people act rightly because they | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| is still difficult for them to control their thoughts, and they often desire things which are not | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| They have not yet understood that the impure thoughts and feelings must lead them into the same | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| into the same conflict within themselves since all thoughts and feelings have a form and a substance | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| their utmost to work on the level of thoughts and are purifying them, are well ahead of | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| conflicts. It is difficult enough to purify one's thoughts. Therefore, to have to recognize that many of | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| feelings still deviate quite a bit from your thoughts or conscious intentions is rather painful. It is | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| what they have accepted as right in their thoughts, have already accomplished a great deal. If you | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| and follow through with their will and their thoughts. Or they will not interpret these feelings correctly | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| yourself, and then think, or rather let your thoughts surface and allow them to lead you intuitively | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| face your inner truth with courage. Cultivate truthful thoughts; think everything through clearly, independently. Thus your spiritual | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| and bring your feelings -- not only your thoughts and actions -- into harmony with spiritual law | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| not sufficient. You know by now that all thoughts and feelings create spiritual forms of the greatest | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| yearn for happiness and love, fill yourselves with thoughts about how you can pass on whatever you | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| even if you have not formulated any clear thoughts about it. Emotionally this must be the case | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| and will not support them. The more such thoughts take possession of them, and the more they | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| human beings, for instance illnesses, soul-attitudes, and unspoken thoughts. All this, of course, has to be learnt | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| the realm of spirit, its movements, emotions, and thoughts are for you like air, but for us | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| do not know any other. Of course, such thoughts have to be nourished so that they penetrate | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| my friends have experienced that, at first, their thoughts wander, that something mundane gets in the way | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| because each thought builds a form. With the thoughts of prayer you build harmonious forms, so that | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| not yet penetrate your being, your actions, your thoughts, and your feelings? Try for instance to imagine | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| quiet hour. Perhaps you will then receive further thoughts and feelings about how to apply them very | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| or touched. When we explain to you that thoughts and feelings are forms, it becomes somewhat easier | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| my reactions -- not only my deeds and thoughts -- really mean? Are my actions supported by | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you that sounds quite different from your usual thoughts or ideas. Or you may see something that | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| will help you, establish contact with you. Your thoughts will be guided slowly, provided the wish for | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| wars, but every single person who, with impure thoughts and emotions, pollutes the cosmic reservoir, and this | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| politicians. Most people, including you, my friends, harbor thoughts of anxiety, and if not thoughts of hate | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| friends, harbor thoughts of anxiety, and if not thoughts of hate, then of mistrust and separation, such | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| outbreak of war. This does not apply to thoughts and feelings only, or to individual reactions to | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| purify yourself from within, cleanse your emotions and thoughts and so best fulfill your destiny wherever you | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| and wrongly applied. To build clean and proper thoughts according to divine law is, of course, one | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the fundamentals of a spiritual path. Since your thoughts are reality, they have form and substance. Unclean | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| are reality, they have form and substance. Unclean thoughts build disharmonious forms, which must eventually affect your | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| affect your lives and destinies. Not only conscious thoughts have this effect but also emotional reactions and | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| this effect but also emotional reactions and subconscious thoughts. In any case, the great temptation of the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| are so concerned about not harboring any negative thoughts that they are inclined to push all negative | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| that they are inclined to push all negative thoughts into their subconscious and thus disregard the discrepancy | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| think or feel. It should be stressed that thoughts can be controlled by your conscious direction of | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| ferment and work harder against you than negative thoughts that remain conscious. This is one important consideration | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| Certainly, you should practice positive thinking. Observe your thoughts, but observe them quietly, with detachment and in | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| your emotions are not always parallel to your thoughts or to the way you want your thoughts | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| thoughts or to the way you want your thoughts and feelings to be. You have to learn | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| so hard is that, unbeknownst to themselves, their thoughts are not clearly formulated; when their desire for | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| about me, about all my real feelings and thoughts. For you cannot reach absolute truth unless you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| or that respect my true feelings, my inner thoughts, still deviate from what I understand intellectually. This | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| representing something different. You also know that your thoughts have definite spiritual forms, and that such forms | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| that such forms are created not only by thoughts, but also by feelings, since a feeling is | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| world and, according to the intensity of the thoughts or feelings, are vague and weak, or definite | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| that, as I have said many times, your thoughts and feelings are spiritual creations. They create forms | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| be daydreams. When the artist plays with these thoughts of fantasy for the purpose of creating, of | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| one that comes from love and goodwill. These thoughts add to the cosmic reservoir and flow in | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| reached even a glimmer of light. So many thoughts are wasted in unproductive and even harmful brooding | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| is the outpicturing of the spirit's ideas, attitudes, thoughts, and mentality. There, everything is the result of | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| and mentality. There, everything is the result of thoughts, feelings, and deeds. Therefore, spirits of the same | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| of freedom, depends entirely on your past actions, thoughts, and inner reactions. The fact that this law | 18 FREE WILL |
| exists in you. If it does, formulate your thoughts clearly and concisely. Become consciously aware of what | 18 FREE WILL |
| not only in your outer deeds. Changing your thoughts is not sufficient. Your feelings have to be | 18 FREE WILL |
| the whole book of life. Feelings, wishes, or thoughts evolve not only from the brain region, but | 18 FREE WILL |
| in the region of your spiritual field. When thoughts come from there, they have a very different | 18 FREE WILL |
| have a very different quality and character from thoughts coming from the brain. The same applies to | 18 FREE WILL |
| and this will be your world because your thoughts, opinions, feelings, and attitudes create the world around | 18 FREE WILL |
| or higher? Why? This is not just. These thoughts and feelings are often lurking in the souls | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| lack anything. Nowadays people do not carry these thoughts quite so far; nevertheless, that slight feeling of | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| and formless. Only in your material world are thoughts and feelings abstract: in other worlds spirits create | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| you keep in mind that your attitudes, your thoughts, your feelings, your opinions, and your goals create | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| your attitudes, your opinions, your feelings, and your thoughts create the spiritual worlds, even though you may | 21 THE FALL |
| instantly be at His side and strengthen such thoughts. It is easy to perceive how extremely hard | 22 SALVATION |
| the humility, in spite of all the passing thoughts of doubt, to put God above everything, even | 22 SALVATION |
| longing, their goals, their feelings, their deeds and thoughts. Is that clear? QUESTION: Is it, so to | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and remember -- certain forms. You know that thoughts create forms in the spirit world and the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| like to ask if you can see my thoughts. ANSWER: Not while I am in the medium | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| out of the body, then I can see thoughts. But mostly I will not give an indication | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| muster the strength, the volition to think these thoughts so that you can penetrate, with the help | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| upon your direct actions or even on your thoughts. Changing your feelings requires the slow process of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and translate such perhaps vague feelings into concise thoughts. This fear is an important reason why a | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| Then try to translate these feelings into concise thoughts and words. Do this constantly and you will | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| friends, I can observe the forms of your thoughts and feelings. I can see your lower self | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you remain unaware of why you have these thoughts and what is really behind them. Some of | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| out where in your deeper feelings, reactions, and thoughts, if not in your deeds, you have broken | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you away from this inner work. Here are thoughts I could observe in some of my friends | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| only cause harm through actual bad deeds, bad thoughts, and impure feelings, but also by lacking the | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| difficult for human beings to form the right thoughts at the right moment. The practice of this | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| a training in itself. To have the proper thoughts at the proper time is really nothing else | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| They have built with their feelings, with their thoughts, and with their general and particular attitudes. You | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| should actually be passive -- not in your thoughts alone, deceiving yourself, but in your innermost emotions | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| You know that your actions and even your thoughts are not sufficient to permit the pure emanation | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| know, my friends, that no one thinks these thoughts consciously, but if you would test your emotions | 31 SHAME |
| take the trouble to translate them into concise thoughts, but it needs a little effort. Your emotions | 31 SHAME |
| often say, translate them into clear- cut concise thoughts. Then, when you see the unreasonableness of the | 31 SHAME |
| Once you are able to reveal consciously hidden thoughts and feelings, you need, with our help, to | 31 SHAME |
| only are your deeds, your words, and your thoughts in conformity with spiritual law, but also your | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| is nothing as contagious, my friends, as emotions, thoughts, and attitudes, conscious or unconscious. This, too, is | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| the right actions and even have the right thoughts in many respects, but as development proceeds, this | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| testing, severe self-criticism and analysis of your deeds, thoughts, and emotions as compared to spiritual truth and | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| laws in your emotions, if not in your thoughts and actions; that you are escaping yourself in | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| not in words, then in their emotions and thoughts. My friends, learn to accept other people's shortcomings | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| is given to me. If you cultivate these thoughts and feelings, continuing to battle with your lower | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| truth of God, because even for that your thoughts are too encased in darkness. Only after you | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| you. Fight the temporary blindness by training your thoughts to delve into the unconscious, the part of | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| one opinion stands against another. Your deeds, your thoughts, your feelings, your reactions and your attitudes create | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| to remain in touch with it in your thoughts, your efforts, and in your times of inner | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| from our spiritual point of view. Since all thoughts, endeavors, and feelings create spiritual forms, such a | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| jungle you constantly create soul forms with your thoughts, feelings, and actions. In the average human soul | 36 PRAYER |
| the union and development of all beings. Such thoughts create clear, light, and good forms that will | 36 PRAYER |
| if it does nothing else. Of course, your thoughts will stray at the beginning. Of course, you | 36 PRAYER |
| you will learn to pray better. When your thoughts wander, just start where you left off without | 36 PRAYER |
| are not capable of cultivating compassionate and good thoughts throughout their daily lives. While they can succeed | 36 PRAYER |
| to discipline yourself; you also learn to cultivate thoughts you are unable to sincerely feel when you | 36 PRAYER |
| particularly nowadays, who force themselves to think positive thoughts. But that is not what I mean. Prayer | 36 PRAYER |
| not follow suit in harmony with the positive thoughts, then there is a self-deception that may bring | 36 PRAYER |
| yourself -- the chasm that exists between your thoughts and your feelings -- prayer is necessary. It | 36 PRAYER |
| answers and develop without daily prayer. Ordinarily your thoughts run wild. You concentrate, perhaps to excess, on | 36 PRAYER |
| beings, will learn to feel differently by cultivating thoughts in prayer that gradually will affect their emotional | 36 PRAYER |
| own efforts. Just as your negative reactions and thoughts create forms of confusion, so thoughts and feelings | 36 PRAYER |
| reactions and thoughts create forms of confusion, so thoughts and feelings you cultivate in prayer create good | 36 PRAYER |
| you. Build on it and not on your thoughts and feelings that have probably been influenced by | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| think has hurt you. Bad feelings and bad thoughts add to the destructive forces in the universe | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| not force you to deceive yourself into having thoughts that are not true. Distortion is never the | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| step toward your own proper purification; the wrong thoughts and feelings that you cannot avoid having at | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| in the absence of a wrong image, all thoughts and feelings are fluctuating, dynamic and relaxed: They | 38 IMAGES |
| is suffused with a number of divine forces. Thoughts, feelings, and attitudes that are unconnected with an | 38 IMAGES |
| things must come first. There are now several thoughts in this room: Why should it be possible | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| if you do not believe that emotions and thoughts are forms, creating emotional magnetic fields that draw | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the emotions and the greater the complexity of thoughts, the more powerful they must be, because while | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| Humanity makes a definite distinction between feelings and thoughts. You know that in spirit both are concrete | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| see it, feelings are essentially the same as thoughts. The only difference between thoughts and feelings is | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the same as thoughts. The only difference between thoughts and feelings is in the strength and intensity | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| making your emotions conscious, you turn them into thoughts, and then, if you wish, you turn these | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and then, if you wish, you turn these thoughts into actions. Thus you live in a higher | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| while remaining under the control of your unconscious thoughts or feelings. You know that thoughts cannot be | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| your unconscious thoughts or feelings. You know that thoughts cannot be changed quickly even without personal emotional | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| even superficial opinions requires effort and humility. Changing thoughts that have no emotional impact needs certain skills | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| emotions, which are stronger and more potent than thoughts, force is even less successful -- and very | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| ferment underneath. And since your desires, feelings, and thoughts are potent magnetic fields, they attract circumstances that | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| are recognized and translated into clear and concise thoughts and words. It will take time, but it | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the next step, which is to clarify your thoughts. It is always the same procedure: you start | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| done outwardly but one harbors selfish and evil thoughts quite consciously and knowingly. When confronted with such | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| core is reached. Wherever the conscious emotions, opinions, thoughts, conclusions, and desires are separated from those which | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| in the human soul. You all know that thoughts and feelings create forms of subtle matter which | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is actually a result of your feelings, your thoughts, emotions, attitudes. It is the sum total of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| sphere is built up by the person's deeds, thoughts, attitudes and feelings. It does not change quickly | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the standards of my compulsive conscience. Naturally, these thoughts are never reasoned out consciously; yet this is | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| learn concentration through prayer and meditation, since your thoughts go through a certain cleansing process and you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| a certain consciousness. You learn to cultivate unselfish thoughts. Your thoughts are elevated in prayer, thus clearing | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| consciousness. You learn to cultivate unselfish thoughts. Your thoughts are elevated in prayer, thus clearing the way | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| can be combined with cultivating constructive and unselfish thoughts, as in prayer. Certainly, concentration could be learned | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| These qualities make you commit deeds and think thoughts that are bound to bring you unfavorable results | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| The direction of the soul currents and the thoughts and emotions are the same in essence. Sanity | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| direct or indirect result of your attitudes, deeds, thoughts and emotions. As far as the latter are | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of your life force consists of all actions, thoughts, attitudes and emotions that deviate from divine truth | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| own selves too. Without being aware of these thoughts, they are filled with the mass image that | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| may not pronounce these words even in your thoughts, but this is what you must feel when | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by suffering the consequences of your wrong actions, thoughts, or emotions, without trying to find what in | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of desiring such a state, you may have thoughts like this: This is selfish. I have no | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| does not correspond to one's conscious and reasonable thoughts is an obstacle. However, you do not have | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| Needless to say, my friends, none of these thoughts are ever conscious. They are entirely unconscious arguments | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| knowledge. Again I say, you never think these thoughts consciously and in such crass terms. But by | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of you. You all know, my friends, that thoughts, feelings, attitudes and convictions create forms -- forms | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| personality prevail. The stronger these convictions and attitudes, thoughts, and emotions are, the greater is their impact | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the product of your inner attitudes and convictions, thoughts and emotions. Many of these create obstacles through | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| life. If you could but understand that all thoughts and emotions are actual forms, objects, and things | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| that you set up all sorts of phantom thoughts and soul-forms that make your life miserable. In | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| not only in the physical realm. Ideas and thoughts are alive. You have often heard these words | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| is out, it will understand that unconstructive deeds, thoughts or tendencies are unconstructive as such. If you | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| much can be asked of you spirits concerning thoughts in other human beings? There is someone I | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| aware of all your feelings, unconscious conclusions and thoughts. You may not yet be aware to what | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| only in your emotions and not in your thoughts at all. Then, and then only can you | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| human who talks to the departed just sends thoughts that may be constructive and helpful in showing | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| analyzed and the emotions are translated into clear-cut thoughts, it has its own quite understandable limited logic | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| many other possible mishaps in life. Put these thoughts or feelings into concise words. You will find | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| thought process. If you become master over your thoughts, you become master over your mind, and so | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| recognition of what is amiss. Recognize your uncontrolled thoughts, their power over you, their significance, as well | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| levels. Broadly speaking, we can distinguish between foreground thoughts and background thoughts. Both have many subdivisions and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| we can distinguish between foreground thoughts and background thoughts. Both have many subdivisions and many layers. By | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| soon begin to notice the importance of background thoughts. Background thought comes unbidden; it is disorganized and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| order to do that, the vague, unvolitional background thoughts have to be made into foreground thoughts. (2 | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| background thoughts have to be made into foreground thoughts. (2) You reexperience events, conversations, or impressions in | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the rolling of wheels. As long as these thoughts remain in the background and you harbor them | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| your inner self. Only when these impressions and thoughts are consciously observed can you derive such a | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| benefit. In other words, you must make foreground thoughts out of background thoughts. The stereotyped repetitious thoughts | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you must make foreground thoughts out of background thoughts. The stereotyped repetitious thoughts that go on in | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| thoughts out of background thoughts. The stereotyped repetitious thoughts that go on in your mind so much | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| account of the obstacles within your soul. Such thoughts are entirely wasteful, if they are not made | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| wasteful, if they are not made into foreground thoughts and evaluated. Such wishful thinking, as well as | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the main, the material of the unbidden background thoughts. Coming and going, they are not consecutive. They | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| they are not consecutive. They interrupt your voluntary thoughts and are unconstructive as long as they overpower | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| to evaluate the content of the vague background thoughts, and if you find that they are insignificant | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you which was formerly used up by background thoughts. You have no idea how much mental and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| your thought process by learning to make foreground thoughts from background thoughts and to ascertain their importance | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| by learning to make foreground thoughts from background thoughts and to ascertain their importance, you will not | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| You will be capable of concentrating on those thoughts and occupations that you elect to, undisturbed by | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| your concentrated attention on your task. Unvolitional background thoughts make you the governed instead of the governor | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| but you are prey to your unvolitional background thoughts. There is, of course, a connection between the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| two, which we shall examine later. Unvolitional background thoughts constantly disturb and interrupt you. Even if they | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| do not learn to transform them into foreground thoughts, as long as you are not actually aware | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| are not deeply interested in an activity. Background thoughts are weak, insofar as you are unaware of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| much more powerful than the apparently stronger foreground thoughts. By learning to observe your thought process, you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you will discover how often these weaker background thoughts take hold of you on the sly, so | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| and the effect such wanderings have. The background thoughts are what makes concentration so hard and thus | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| strength, and effort are not utilized in constructive thoughts or occupation, your mind should be allowed to | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| mind soon to be disturbed by unvolitional background thoughts. Expect them, observe them quietly. If they are | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| all the time aware of what the background thoughts really are when they do come. It suffices | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| aware that you are the victim of these thoughts. This awareness will bring you nearer to the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| Whenever you do, try to recollect what your thoughts made you think of. Say to yourself: I | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| when you will become a watcher of your thoughts. You will stand guard, so to speak, at | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| begin to sense what calmness really means. Your thoughts and emotions will stand still, be it only | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| will also get accustomed to watching your background thoughts during the day, during certain activities which do | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| when you find yourself involved in unbidden background thoughts. Rather, use the experience as a means to | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| impossible to concentrate in this manner because your thoughts always come back to something particular, that is | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| power to discriminate between your foreground and background thoughts, you will derive further benefits, such as a | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| and outer vitality; better memory; clearer and stronger thoughts; and, last but not least, the increased ability | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| and attain calmness of mind as the background thoughts decrease. Awareness and control of background thoughts, the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| background thoughts decrease. Awareness and control of background thoughts, the understanding of the whole thinking procedure with | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| needle sway back and forth. The more background thoughts come, dispersing your attention in all directions because | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| succeed in becoming calm inwardly and focusing your thoughts on what you desire, the more will this | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| have one day on which to devote his thoughts to his inner life. Thus, he devotes himself | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a state of nonthinking, not by letting your thoughts float away in a haze of vague background | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| float away in a haze of vague background thoughts or escape, but rather by being right there | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| do waste on daydreams or on insignificant floating thoughts of which you are only half aware. Yet | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| are not thinking. Be on guard for what thoughts may come. This is one of the best | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| one of the best means of preventing background thoughts, which take you away from the here and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| in a haze of vague, floating, often irrelevant thoughts, nor in a dream world. When you float | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| and therefore you are in unreality. The background thoughts you float away with are always away from | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| You will be better able to formulate your thoughts, thinking of that which you need most in | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| utter such instructions or intentions in clear-cut foreground thoughts every time you feel you cannot stand on | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| cannot stand on guard anymore. Each time your thoughts aim to float away from you into a | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to think constructively with deliberate and valuable foreground thoughts. As you proceed on this path, in the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |