| certainly can by going through it in full understanding of how you yourself produced it. So as | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| future. By knowing your images and finding and understanding them truly, you can very well figure out | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| defense mechanism the child chooses with a limited understanding of the world is wrong as such; it | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| constructively. It will give you a deeper, profounder understanding and will help you a step further. As | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| possibly enumerate them all. You will gain more understanding about these things by continuing the work you | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| best of you. Try to strengthen your love, understanding, and forgiveness so as to be able to | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| can be touched only by love and brotherly understanding. Then you will not be blind to your | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| even greater reason to cultivate your tolerance and understanding. If you do so, you are indeed in | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| which means, above all, the obligation to be understanding and forgiving. If you lack that ability, all | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| you will gain the strength of love and understanding that can be yours only when you go | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| sun. You will be able to unite with understanding and love. We in the spirit world pray | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| We in the spirit world pray for this understanding and love to be given to you, our | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| may encounter, this approach will give you added understanding about who you are, what you are, how | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| which will explain why you are alone. This understanding should prove helpful and may even enable your | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| much wherever you stand, be it only in understanding why you cannot realize the happiness that a | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| to get into a conversation touching the emotional understanding. That makes it very, very difficult for the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| degree of consciousness than when you act without understanding why, merely rationalizing it, while remaining under the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| with a higher degree of awareness. The true understanding of one's present existence marks, indeed, a major | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you any longer. The ideal, wise, good and understanding authority will remain a goal to be attained | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| diminish to the extent you gain insight and understanding, to the extent you understand why you have | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| his or her brand of error with your understanding. You can do this only if you understand | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| all those lowly people felt this quality of understanding within him. Against Jesus they did not rebel | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| not only his true goodness, but also his understanding of the reasons why they were what they | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| other also sensed vaguely. Understand his attitude by understanding your own, laugh with him, build common ground | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the cornerstones by examining your own reactions and understanding in what way you have contributed or are | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| path one tries in a spirit of true understanding and humility to accept oneself as one is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| giving itself up at all. Maturity is conscious understanding, which, in turn, raises the intuitive powers that | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| realms, in high spheres outside your reach and understanding. There would be no point in that since | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| dear ones? It will open new vistas of understanding. You are so used to representing only your | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the relief that is the inevitable result of understanding certain causes and effects in one's own life | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| friends, is that when you have a basic understanding of your images and image conclusions, for your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| your inner conflicts and problems. Only through such understanding will you finally find the right attitude toward | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| in your life. Until you gain the right understanding, the recommended attitude is neutrality: let go of | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you are encased and from your lack of understanding of the blindness of others. The blindness of | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| than you are -- and often even less! Understanding this, you may begin to look into your | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| battling against the other's blindness and lack of understanding instead of trying to eliminate your own. You | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the chains of blindness and automatically increase your understanding for others -- which must eliminate your pain | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| and a little more. It also requires an understanding of all subtleties described here and a deep-rooted | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| of many different kinds of love. By such understanding, you will come to the point when you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| inner attitude. But as far as your intellectual understanding is concerned, you must differentiate between two kinds | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| inner deviation and obstruction is a hindrance to understanding. We have to be concerned with the elimination | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| but those of you who have difficulty in understanding will one day see the truth of these | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of these words. When you have difficulty in understanding the justice of the universe and the self- | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| few chosen ones, but you are excluded. Only understanding the law of cause and effect can free | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| -- once you decide through inner growth and understanding that you no longer wish and expect to | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| cheat life will purify your inner vision and understanding, so that you will fully realize that an | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| able to make something of these feelings. Without understanding them, they would completely suffocate you, depress you | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| QUESTION: Homosexuality seems to be gaining wider exposure, understanding, and acceptance. Would you consider it good that | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| new strength in your soul, new willpower, new understanding, and new desire for your inner growth, your | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| is so blind and so far away from understanding the purpose of life that they would bring | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is limited. A spirit who has gained some understanding and vision, some self-awareness, even before he is | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will of God that you simply suffer without understanding the origin of your suffering. Only by taking | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and positive way -- which includes seeking and understanding the inner block and the prohibition you set | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| medicine until you reach the point of complete understanding of what self-responsibility means. There is so much | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| let these words give you renewed incentive and understanding. Although you will certainly not be able to | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| important trend in human nature and needs further understanding in your work of self-finding. I think you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| only a beginning of continuing search for further understanding and connections. You will see how this image | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| This can be done only by analyzing, by understanding your reactions. Always go behind the emotion you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| it is so vital, for only through such understanding can you find the solution. This example is | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| by feeling the need to be special, and understanding that you feel so not out of malice | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| first thing you should be concerned with is understanding yourself: your emotions, your motives, your desires and | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| less and less under bondage and compulsion. By understanding your wrong conclusion, you will become more aware | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| and is therefore outside the realm of human understanding. Let me try to put it this way | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| subjects I discussed lately. You all need further understanding of these topics. The very fact that you | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is given to you during sleep. Only by understanding yourself can given knowledge be fruitful. Otherwise, at | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| like two different worlds. One world has difficulty understanding the other world. You often feel discouraged because | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the female is the counterpart of the male. Understanding the anatomy of the human body should translate | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the human body should translate into a deeper understanding of the emotional level. For the body is | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Chinese? ANSWER: The most important preliminary is the understanding of cause and effect. If you view any | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do is to gain a true outlook and understanding. This will help more than you think. If | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| matter who or what. At any rate, your understanding the unconscious God-image will not be complete unless | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| is required to reach a certain basic spiritual understanding before it can use this knowledge in the | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| and the positive aspects come to the fore. Understanding this very simple and important fact enables you | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are to become really healthy and free, the understanding of this truth is essential for you. Without | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this truth is essential for you. Without this understanding you stand nowhere, and God will never be | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| advice in the right way. Lack of intellectual understanding and inability to weigh, judge and discriminate are | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the incident. This alone will give you the understanding of the principle. Is this clear to you | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| growth is a slow unfoldment based on profound understanding of the self and the issue in question | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| swept into it, but half-heartedly and again without understanding what it was all about. For centuries, man | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| kindness, and intuition that open the road to understanding, intelligence and reason are as nothing and will | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| It will be much more than the flat understanding of the intellect alone. I have touched upon | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| only key to eliminate this wall. With love, understanding is open. And with understanding, oneness or union | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| wall. With love, understanding is open. And with understanding, oneness or union can be achieved. But love | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| There is much more to it than merely understanding the other, being in tune with him or | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| done if both have the will and the understanding. What holds true for all human relationships certainly | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| open new vistas for you to broaden your understanding and perception, even though my words are limited | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| levels of pseudo-faith and pseudo-love. Only after fully understanding the inner causes, misconceptions and deviations with all | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| truth, and the real self is capable of understanding truth, this or any other. With this insight | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a later period when you have gathered more understanding. Then, there is something else: the possibility that | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| scientist to experiment and apply scientific methods in understanding the medium so that he can relate the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have stated so often. It will give you understanding of the inner causes of this experience. It | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| healthy and good way to gain access to understanding other people, to bridge the wall of separation | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| make this distinction will open further doors for understanding your self, others, and the laws of the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| will. This will shed an additional light on understanding yourself. It will prove most useful for you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| will gain a great deal of insight and understanding. In your prayer for peace, try to find | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| similarity, then you will gain the insight and understanding that it is all one and the same | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| would contribute to your personal insights. Your philosophical understanding would increase and thus facilitate your incentive for | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to give you from which to build deeper understanding, the inner will and inner peace to find | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| A true picture can be obtained only after understanding the peculiar logic of confused emotions. With the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of being yourself with all the tenderness and understanding, with all the sympathy and vulnerability of your | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the work will lead you. By finding and understanding how the betrayal applies to your own case | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you will see the way and gain the understanding of how and why you need not fear | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| fear. Whenever you shall have gained the full understanding of what self-responsibility means, fear dissolves because you | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| and wishes, you will alter them with the understanding that they are no solution and as a | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| gained sufficient insight into themselves do have some understanding of these words. Let me also say this | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| terror once acceptance has taken place due to understanding. Now, if there is a particular terror with | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| people pursuing such a path of self-knowledge, of understanding one's innermost motives and feelings -- especially the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| then it can be constructive. All this demands understanding and discrimination, judgment -- and certainly a maximum | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to the very bottom, so that a deeper understanding and realization occurs, nothing will stand in the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| have overcome; and, most of all, the full understanding of their own inner conflicts. When they can | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| The work becomes a liberation only after full understanding, but until such time, your unconscious resistances often | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| which often interplay, a difference actually does exist. Understanding the thought process leads to mastery over your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| that you can observe and evaluate them. The understanding and control of the thought process is a | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| to function in your own particular way. (3) Understanding of, and gradually learning to control the thought | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| decrease. Awareness and control of background thoughts, the understanding of the whole thinking procedure with its various | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| and with each observation you gain a deeper understanding of why you react immaturely. You see with | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the connection may at first seem. As your understanding grows, each mishap loses more of its darkness | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| for each one of you. Pray for deeper understanding of the words I gave you tonight. Be | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| plane is entirely symbolic, whereas in real spiritual understanding there can be no rigidity. You cannot artificially | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the other hand, teaches the opposite. When psychological understanding is properly applied and assimilated, you will become | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| performed without impatience and anger at yourself, while understanding yourself better with each apparent relapse, will be | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| begin to observe your surroundings with a different understanding. You will see that people who emanate genuine | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| know very well by now that only by understanding yourself can you come to understand others. Understanding | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| understanding yourself can you come to understand others. Understanding eliminates the hurts because it brings you into | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| ones. When you gain a little more overall understanding about these recognitions, you will find that, in | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| The child is as unreasonable, as void of understanding, as demanding and one-sided as all immature creatures | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| able to face yourself, or for strength and understanding for your current problems on your path. You | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| emotions still deviate due to a lack of understanding. Your desire for understanding should be formed with | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to a lack of understanding. Your desire for understanding should be formed with a quiet, calm mind | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is required to reach a certain basic spiritual understanding before it can use this knowledge in the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| they were heretofore unaware would they acquire an understanding of the inner world, its laws, its reality | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| the reality of the inner universe, thus also understanding the larger universe with all its spiritual laws | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| cannot help being in awe. It surpasses all understanding. That idea is conveyed in the word that | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| finding as a new recognition, with a new understanding of its significance, is not really new. You | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| the necessary but still lacking insight, ability, or understanding. So patience, if it is purely constructive -- | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| terms with. Thus, children grow up never quite understanding why they are unhappy, nor even that they | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| but is so deeply hidden from your conscious understanding! The most frequent way of attempting to remedy | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to look at this pain conscious of the understanding you have gained. Only by doing this will | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| all your actions and reactions with this new understanding and insight, whereupon you will release your parents | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| will come when you will glean a new understanding about yourself from these words. Perhaps an occasional | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| gain a different view on your own hurt, understanding its real origin, you will gain the same | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| of your immaturity, a real insight into and understanding of your reactions and feelings that cause provocation | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you can now observe calmly, while gaining more understanding about them and thus nearing perfection and maturity | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| constructive work of self-analysis and inner growth through understanding the unconscious motivations and reactions. QUESTION: How can | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| not just theoretically -- only with the inner understanding which alone is valid and constructive, as you | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| may very well be that by that very understanding the condition may change so that the partner | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| not found, he or she, for lack of understanding of the situation, will search elsewhere instead of | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |