| Undernourished..............3 | |
| important as the former. We see spiritually underfed, undernourished people; so many suffer from spiritual vitamin deficiency | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| without ever connecting cause and effect. The physically undernourished person will complain about tiredness, weakness, or other | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| behind them. The same applies to the spiritually undernourished; the emotional problems, the lack of inner peace | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| Understanding...............995 | |
| person is, the more superficial his or her understanding of and adherence to the spiritual laws must | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| higher development. Thus Christ brought you an expanded understanding of the divine laws and commandments and taught | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| to be receptive to an even deeper spiritual understanding. People in the second stage, who are doing | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| spurs humans and spirits. They will have an understanding of the yearning according to their state of | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| ones, ever. Willpower is a direct result of understanding, of knowledge, and of the corresponding decision. For | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| Because for someone who has gained a certain understanding, it will be easier to draw the relevant | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| shift their main concentration, and who bring this understanding from a superficial intellectual level into deeper levels | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| To obtain willpower you have to, first, gain understanding and, second, make the decision that follows from | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| not have enough willpower, you lack the illuminating understanding of what it is all about. Yes, you | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| so that the whole personality is penetrated by understanding. When you do this first -- and you | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| your energies toward the spiritual, recognizing and fully understanding that only in this way can you also | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| to give them love, warmth, consolation, and deep understanding when they are unhappy, and to help them | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| You must have your own personal experience in understanding what God's will is in any particular case | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| separateness is nothing but blindness and lack of understanding, it must necessarily diminish and reduce awareness, and | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| come into its own in ever-increasing freedom, light, understanding, and love. So you can see the kernel | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| is achieved through your spiritual development -- love, understanding, and so on -- can never be lost | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| oneself as already perfect. A person with spiritual understanding who tries to dissuade you from preoccupation with | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| rise to. Thus he will acquire a better understanding about his personality and unconscious emotional currents. After | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| yourself, you will receive an answer, a deeper understanding, and will perceive connections. Whoever is ready to | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| is often way beyond the capacity of human understanding. You have altogether too many false opinions -- | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to achieve complete forgiveness, because you lack the understanding of the other person. Therefore ask for this | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| of the other person. Therefore ask for this understanding, ask for the insight you lack in this | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| truth. It makes you capable of love, of understanding. It leads you to happiness, and raises you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| picture will be the reality according to your understanding. Now, you might pose the question how the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| matter. The difficulty you may first encounter in understanding that the earthly matter which you can touch | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| for you human beings to integrate into your understanding, but I hope my words can spark a | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| explaining a contradiction that is inherent in human understanding. It also touches on the subject of dualism | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| that may help you to come closer to understanding it. It is just as difficult to clarify | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| second nature so that you will have complete understanding about all your inner motives, past and present | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the way I have explained here. With this understanding the hurt will leave you and then the | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| the hurt will leave you and then the understanding for the other party will increase steadily because | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| has become part of your consciousness. From the understanding comes empathy and that is the way of | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| and only comparing the two brings about full understanding. Now the spirit who has just concluded its | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| can achieve already on earth this same deep understanding of his or her life and indeed experience | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| all this must seem strange and peculiar. The understanding can come only when the internal obstacles are | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| simultaneously in the same person. Faith is higher understanding, faith is knowing, and this knowing is grace | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| to know yourselves as you really are, by understanding your inner conflicts and finding out in what | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| still deviate from what I understand intellectually. This understanding has not yet reached my emotions. Watch yourself | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| are necessary for some people to know. The understanding of certain facts, even if they can only | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| then humanity will have a great deal more understanding about spiritual truth, and more enlightenment is bound | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| difficult to present my lectures so that clear understanding may be derived from them for everyone. Were | 18 FREE WILL |
| question; not only the key to an added understanding of free will, but also to an understanding | 18 FREE WILL |
| understanding of free will, but also to an understanding of the coming into existence of evil, darkness | 18 FREE WILL |
| be Greek, but those who have a deeper understanding may grasp a little bit of what I | 18 FREE WILL |
| of what I am saying. Real and deep understanding has to be worked for. It cannot come | 18 FREE WILL |
| extremely grave and serious the task was. Only understanding this will keep people from ever saying that | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| much as any human being is capable of understanding, I have to discuss it in this order | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| it intellectually. Only this will give you real understanding; in a sense it may be material containing | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| you to understand. When you have gained this understanding, you will be in a position to comprehend | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| human being, for both human language and human understanding are too limited. Therefore, as a rule I | 21 THE FALL |
| make the proper decision. You will gain clear understanding if you set out to think about it | 21 THE FALL |
| you follow the thought to the end, the understanding must come that it is necessary to develop | 21 THE FALL |
| of your own accord, with the realization and understanding of its necessity for your character, it will | 21 THE FALL |
| guided anywhere either have no desire, no real understanding, or not the remotest possibility in this life | 21 THE FALL |
| have to use must be limited to your understanding. So, to continue: Christ would face Lucifer and | 22 SALVATION |
| of view, you will get an entirely different understanding of them. I am quite sure that the | 22 SALVATION |
| the right path under these circumstances without fully understanding it -- my friends, you cannot really know | 22 SALVATION |
| even above His suffering, and above His not understanding why, was the task. It indeed seemed almost | 22 SALVATION |
| to describe because you lack the perception and understanding as I lack the full ability to express | 22 SALVATION |
| in the not too faraway future -- an understanding that war can never be a solution. There | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| because it will enable you to get deeper understanding of what you will read and discuss afterward | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| And if you read the Bible with true understanding and openness, you will find many, many instances | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| If sadness, or disappointment, or any lack of understanding comes your way, the reason is that you | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| then ask God for enlightenment, strength and higher understanding, to help you want with every particle of | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| means to separate, understand, and rearrange in conscious understanding all these various trends, thus purifying the basic | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| must first go through the stage of completely understanding these periods of difficulty, and then meet them | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| that can come unexpectedly, without any knowing or understanding why. These are two entirely different things. Is | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| examine what is behind them and gain further understanding about yourself. If you follow this system for | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| difficult for you to gain the necessary self- understanding. So this is one factor, my dear friends | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you may harm another by not having enough understanding, by being blind. For if you are blind | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| the way of unfolding pure love, insight, and understanding. In this way you do harm others. But | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| feelings, but also by lacking the love and understanding you could be capable of having if you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| Your fears also hide your light of love, understanding, and truth. So, being on this path is | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| can only be broken if sufficient self-awareness and understanding is gained about these facts. If this is | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| them so that you gain enlightenment and deeper understanding. Do not just read the lecture once and | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| and white can shed a new light of understanding, and promote a tiny little bit of detachment | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| in a certain vacuum that bars a complete understanding and evaluation of the self, an understanding that | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| complete understanding and evaluation of the self, an understanding that automatically flows into them if they can | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| lot in brotherhood, in humility, and in detached understanding. Asking others about your faults may not always | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| He or she may not have the full understanding of what lies underneath, why you react in | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| is said may open a new door of understanding for you. It may not even be something | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| personality. By thus recognizing your own reactions and understanding them, perhaps humoring them a little and not | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| your mood so easily. Ask God for proper understanding and light in this moment. Perhaps you could | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| no fear. They will be able to be understanding, loving, and humble enough not to have to | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| dependent upon the other. For only with this understanding of yourself will you be able to overcome | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| endeavoring to walk this path of purification and understanding the role of self-will, pride, and fear is | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| this way, to pray not only for the understanding of what I am saying here. Pray also | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| and not other people's lack of love and understanding. No matter how incapable of love the people | 31 SHAME |
| point where you deeply realize their truth. If understanding is still lacking and you cannot find the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| they could not be interpreted for your intellectual understanding. These emotions are often unconscious. And then, my | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| that shortcoming. This realization will give you an understanding and a compassion that, even if you do | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| is already broken by the mere fact of understanding. The full understanding of the facts as explained | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| by the mere fact of understanding. The full understanding of the facts as explained here will help | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| if the person is open and has the understanding to grasp these things, one may feel one's | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| becomes thoughtful and whether he or she has understanding for it in principle in the first place | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| Therefore, perhaps you will come to a better understanding that nothing in itself is ever good or | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| this extremely complicated procedure for which the human understanding cannot possibly be adequate. So please understand that | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| squeezed into the limitations of human language and understanding. Before I explain the technical procedure of birth | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| and unwaveringly trust again and again, with an understanding heart. Most of all, never, never be afraid | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| you how to go about searching for such understanding. To achieve this purpose, it is essential that | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| you start again, you gain a slightly profounder understanding of the various highlights and individual points in | 36 PRAYER |
| from the divine laws? Until you reach such understanding, you must go around and around in your | 36 PRAYER |
| influences of your usual surroundings. Developing a concise understanding of yourself and your problems is another requirement | 36 PRAYER |
| shortcomings. It is not easy to reach this understanding. Only by clear-cut and concise expression -- at | 36 PRAYER |
| of spiritual development, asking God for help and understanding. You may have to struggle for this understanding | 36 PRAYER |
| understanding. You may have to struggle for this understanding. So it is necessary that you then penetrate | 36 PRAYER |
| ways in which it was formed, and to understanding the processes of your reactions when you formed | 38 IMAGES |
| vast difference between resigning yourself to unhappiness without understanding why, and the course I have shown you | 38 IMAGES |
| you here: acceptance. To accept the tests without understanding their underlying roots, but nevertheless in a spirit | 38 IMAGES |
| to sacrifice anything for God -- although without understanding their images they will never truly succeed. The | 38 IMAGES |
| words. Perhaps they will gain a little more understanding of the Pathwork principles. These glimpses may eventually | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| your consciousness. Only after you have gained some understanding of your inner reactions and their bearing on | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| without reexperiencing them you cannot gain the necessary understanding. When you come across known reactions or faults | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| good or bad. If you have this general understanding, my friends, if you impress this knowledge on | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| and important matter. Do not leave the newly-found understanding alone, for you may then very well slip | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| It is not sufficient to find an inner understanding about your hidden trends and reactions and leave | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| The only way to work is with the understanding you have gained, quietly, patiently, and steadily accepting | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| you go inward and downward, you gain an understanding of the shadows in your soul and comprehend | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| purification. And if you pray for strength and understanding to overcome your cowardice to face yourself and | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| as it accepts the temporary state of suffering, understanding that it is self-inflicted; but it is also | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| in every respect, then self-responsibility will liberate you. Understanding what in you has caused your problems, your | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |