| Books.......................6 | |
| have brought this knowledge and put it into books and literature. In other words, people who are | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fully only the passage you have just read, books could be written about philosophy, psychology, and religion | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| God. I tried it through my work, from books. Now what do I do, where do I | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| temples. Do not search for Him through knowledge, books, or teachings. Search for Him in yourself and | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| also take place by over-identification with figures in books and plays. Escape into them is often due | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| all one mind. Other people's minds are closed books only as long as you hide from your | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| Border......................4 | |
| human psyche. It enables a person on the border between this manifestation of life and a different | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| life. Your material body is the boundary, the border state. The consciousness behind the body is the | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| The only difficulty is that those in this border state often forget that the inner reality is | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| long as it is still on the outer border it is only temporarily animated by the life | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| Borderline..................26 | |
| right path and is not going over the borderline. And again, like in all these things, only | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| only each individual alone can determine where the borderline lies. Only by very severe self-testing can this | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| almost at the point of going over the borderline. He just did not quite make it. And | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| proper time and in the proper manner. The borderline between these three divisions -- conscious, unconscious, and | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| others must be rejected. There is no definite borderline between the state when decisions are made for | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| road. At that point you step across the borderline between unconsciousness and consciousness with a higher degree | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| with an inward yes. In other words, the borderline is in the very fine distinction between saying | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| joy of living, which are purely positive. The borderline between the two emotions is very thin. The | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| for their meaning, for what they express. The borderline lies within the individual; it is the inner | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| is active and searching. QUESTION: Where is the borderline between compulsion and very strong desire? ANSWER: The | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| problems is dishonest. Only humans draw a sharp borderline between the outer and obvious dishonesty and the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the personality. Although there is no clear-cut borderline between these two aspects of the human personality | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| needed. How could you draw the subtle, fine borderline distinction between real affection and pseudo-affection with your | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| threefold division is not always strictly separated. The borderline is a thin one. And often, one interacts | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| times, such inner peace and inner happiness, a borderline elation. ANSWER: Peace, calm, and happiness could not | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has built up negatively. There is no strict borderline between mind and emotion. They intermingle. Both thought | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| between hunches and psychic phenomena? What is the borderline? ANSWER: I do not believe that it is | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| it is possible, even desirable, to establish a borderline. It is not necessary to put everything into | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| be eliminated. The personality will find the fine borderline between apparent extremes, and will recognize the difference | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| or another are always connected with fear. The borderline between passive numbness and active cruelty is often | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| all the same. They are divided by a borderline up to which you have obvious direct influence | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| universal consciousness. In fact, there is no distinct borderline to delineate the difference. As with the conscious | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| true. One of our group members was a borderline psychotic, slipping in and out of reality. When | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| and you as a personality stand on the borderline between this wide, vast, endless, infinite inner space | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| to evade it. Your ego consciousness is the borderline between the inner light world and the outer | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| can never again become the void. On the borderline where life meets the void, energy and consciousness | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| Bored.......................6 | |
| to bring results. Some of you may get bored hearing this again and again, especially those of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| this so many times that you may be bored to hear the same words over and over | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| whenever they are in peace they will be bored. The moment you are aware of being in | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you feel bleak, hopeless, depressed, anxious, afraid, unalive, bored, disgusted with yourself or others, compelled to do | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| if you feel disconnected, anxious, depressed, hopeless or bored, there is in this very moment, through this | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| know that. Usually parents and teachers become annoyed, bored and impatient. At best they give very insufficient | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Boredom.....................13 | |
| of reality. But self-pity and depression are not. Boredom is not. Life is joy and sadness; happiness | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| to your real feelings -- with its resultant boredom is sadness. Be clear about the very decided | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| dimension. Listlessness, depression, impatience, nervousness, anxiety, tension, frustration, boredom, apathy, and hostility -- all these emotions and | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| vibrant, interesting, and totally free from anxiety or boredom. Each moment is rich in possibilities, and harbors | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| excitement is supposed to ward off numbness, dullness, boredom. The real feeling of aliveness and vibrancy does | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| of experiencing life, peacefulness excludes excitement and brings boredom. Excitement excludes peace and brings anxiety and tension | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| self- expression. Within this multitude of creative possibilities boredom is impossible, as is fatigue, since fatigue is | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| Either overt friction and dissension or stagnation and boredom will wreck what was once so promising. Only | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| fear. The more superficial energetic state may be boredom. Boredom is also an energetic state, although a | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| The more superficial energetic state may be boredom. Boredom is also an energetic state, although a negative | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| made absent. If you pursue the state of boredom deeper into the recesses of the soul substance | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| humans attach to it a mass image of boredom. Parents should start to respect children and rejoice | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| to accept that you will also encounter difficulties, boredom or strife. You can lend your best to | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Boring......................6 | |
| advise strongly enough, even at the risk of boring you, my friends. QUESTION: When you say an | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| clearer eyes than grown-ups. At the risk of boring you, I must come back again to images | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is imagined that this would be dull and boring. This is concluded because the actual, real-life relationship | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| an exciting process instead of a dull, compulsory, boring difficulty that children would like to have over | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| an image that learning is a hardship, a boring and dull task, even if they do not | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| live in hell because your life appears meaningless, boring, frightening, at loose ends, separate from all things | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Borne.......................24 | |
| yourself that the pain you experience must be borne because it is your destiny. Yet in truth | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| anyway -- but the effects have to be borne. Other, nonkarmic effects can be eliminated. A karmic | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| you have made serious efforts. Your efforts have borne fruit, although you cannot always fully realize the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| feelings of inadequacy and inferiority! This truth is borne out by the fact that you see the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| how false this serenity was. It will be borne out that the edifice was indeed built on | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| needs by discovering that real needs can be borne, while false needs have an excessive and compulsive | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| one is a pain that has to be borne. In itself, it is a healthy pain that | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| distorted way. That is why frustration cannot be borne by the person who is still embroiled in | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| other promises I have ever made, will be borne out and will prove to be true. On | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| cannot be eliminated. Thus the effects must be borne. By doing so you can avoid setting new | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| such death is often the most life-preserving event, borne of the organism's overall health. For the unhealthy | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| you. Until such time, the frustration must be borne in a productive way. There is a right | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| out of sight. Hence the result must be borne with courage and without self-indulgence. Doing so fosters | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| -- but not because straight sadness cannot be borne. Any straight, clean feeling can easily be borne | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| borne. Any straight, clean feeling can easily be borne, no matter what it is and why it | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| degree you truly desire it. It has already borne wonderful fruit and will continue to do so | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| and throw off the shackles. History has always borne this out. In the confused human mind this | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| discipline is lacking, the sexual force cannot be borne and will turn into destructiveness. It is important | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| the universe, that permeates the universe, can be borne by your purified souls. You become acclimatized to | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| sexuality is so strong that it cannot be borne by the soul that still lives partly in | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| fully unified power current, whose strength can be borne only by someone at least relatively liberated from | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| can never be cheaply snatched. They cannot be borne that way. They can be borne only when | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| cannot be borne that way. They can be borne only when the personality has reached sufficient purification | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| in the spheres of hell. It cannot be borne. The entities there need to grow gradually into | 254 SURRENDER |