| upon yourself but upon many others, upon your universe at large. Be in peace, be in God | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| integrated, healthy life. Both are forces in the universe, which you tap, or tune into, by establishing | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| who wants to be the center of the universe. The raging need, which you may or may | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| of life? What is the significance of this universe? Man begins to perceive nature, her laws. He | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| form of admiration of the marvel of the universe and nature. It is worship. In the next | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| his own life. Nothing happens in the entire universe, that is meaningless, that cannot be productive. There | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| harmonious process, a balancing factor in the entire universe, so exact in its workings that error or | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| influx of strength if you feel weak. The universe is forever expanding. All the cosmic forces, the | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| union, and integration. Each individual entity, being a universe unto itself, follows this movement toward growth and | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| goes according to certain rhythmic laws in the universe. But in the final analysis, it is you | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| that very expression, the intrinsic nature of the universe is misunderstood. As the consciousness increases and rises | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| and security that you live in a benign universe in which you have nothing to fear. Tonight | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| of harmony, of the entire movement of the universe that you can find all through nature. It | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and living in this particular sphere of the universe. This conflict is not inaccessibly hidden once you | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| a free-flowing energy current, manifest in the entire universe. Wherever an organization fulfills certain essential conditions, it | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| it is because life goes out. The entire universe is in motion because it is alive. This | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| must, perforce, increase awareness of others, of the universe, of life as a whole. Awareness determines the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| development apply to all living organisms in the universe. They are identical in principle and procedure for | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| that every atom is a replica of the universe. But full understanding of this factor can come | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| an all-encompassing love which knows no barriers? The universe strives toward union in every possible respect. All | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| mastered though understanding the self, and hence the universe. Only in this endeavor will the inner understanding | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| truth, and the most constructive elements in the universe, constantly building them with unending creativity and love | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| a repetition, in smaller form, of the whole universe. Both the individual and the universe exist because | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the whole universe. Both the individual and the universe exist because of a certain distribution of various | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| disharmonious existence of the created being -- human, universe, plant, or leaf. In their ideal creation and | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| on a tree. To put it simply, the universe, up to a certain degree of development or | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| is no order, no superior intelligence in the universe. When you discover that you say No to | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| way, leading you deep inside, the inner, personal universe reveals the principles and spiritual laws of creation | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| principles and spiritual laws of creation, of the universe as a whole. Knowing the truth in the | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| truth, you have the key to the entire universe. If you know one truth, you know all | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| comparisons. Knowing the truth means mastery over the universe. It is healing and it brings order. When | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| harmony, and knowingness is full mastery over the universe. Here, my friends, we come to one of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| I speak of true selfhood which masters the universe. When the latter exists, the wrong kind of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| misunderstood. When I speak about mastery over the universe and giving up control in order to gain | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| the topic we shall discuss. In reality, the universe is wide open, and all human beings can | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| human beings can move freely in it. The universe is truly at your disposal, with its infinitely | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| or control. In this assumption of a limited universe, you make no use of the universal powers | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to a limited concept of life, creation, the universe, and the self. You suffer because you believe | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| fear of being selfish. Within the fence, the universe is so limited that there is not enough | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| exist, there is no such limitation. There the universe is seen for what it really is -- | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you will be in the nature of the universe and its benign character. As you remove fence | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| a concise formulation of your intentions. Thus your universe is closed, and your fences are up. Institute | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| with all the love that exists in the universe, with all the strength. Make it your own | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| life, thereby continuing the creative process of the universe. There is no limit to how far you | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| self becomes as limitless as you know the universe to be. You can realize these limitless potentials | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| does not need to be accepted, that the universe is open, that immeasurable abundance is available for | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| the truly evolved individual is master of the universe, and that he or she alone controls destiny | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| a risk, for it embraces the entire benign universe. Then it is no longer a question of | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| and thus you become truly master of the universe. QUESTION: What do you mean by spheres? ANSWER | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| cannot be considered untrue that the entire physical universe is inhabited -- all space, all time, all | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| all planets, all stellar systems -- the real universe, with all its myriads of spheres, is within | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| inner qualities which are in harmony with the universe. Conversely, all strife, such as war, poverty, quarrels | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| abundance -- everything good that exists in the universe is in you. You cannot reach this source | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| real self. The real self knows that the universe has no limitations; that in truth absolute perfection | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| unlimited expansion of faculties and forces, in the universe as well as in the individual, makes this | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| faculties, you limit yourself. Reaching out into the universe must be done by a decision of the | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| of meaningful growth both in and with the universe. Its natural state is the wisdom that comes | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| to a deeper level. The fulfillment which the universe has in store for you is not separate | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| now, you must experience the beauty of the universe, the truth of being which knows no conflict | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| that evil represents a separate aspect in the universe. In this lecture I would like to present | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| as a road map to follow. The entire universe is permeated with a vibrant life substance. This | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| in truth with itself and thus with the universe fulfillment is a vibrant, unending, deeply satisfying continuum | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| come to each and every creature in the universe. It is as logical a law as any | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| is the divine consciousness. It permeates the entire universe, it comprises all. Hence, the inner center of | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| at the same time the center of the universe. As long as you are separated from the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| approach to reaching this great harmony with the universe, with your real self and with others, is | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| wind, a little forgotten tool in a vast universe, and feeling one's self to be self- governing | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| which make you feel your oneness with the universe. The fact that humanity constantly longs for this | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| to experience the wonder and richness of the universe. The most extreme forms of releasing ego over-functioning | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| no trust? And how can trust in the universe be established in any other genuine way than | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| genuine sense of the benign nature of the universe, you can find within yourself absolute health and | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| life, that all good is yours, that the universe contains all good, that there is an abundance | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| you try to superimpose the truth that the universe knows no limitations -- or just because you | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| freedom to use the unlimited resources of the universe for your benefit. Not being able to do | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| to some degree through certain meditations that the universe contains unlimited good, available to you if you | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| is not activated, the doors to the benign universe are closed. This is not because some forbidding | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| this desire you express your love for the universe because you wish to contribute to life by | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| the unlimited abundance of good available in the universe for every single individual. Try to perform this | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| in which you practice extending yourself into the universe. Wherever you succeed because you are inwardly free | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| You will feel it swing into the unlimited universe. You will be able to extend yourself into | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| will be able to extend yourself into the universe and consequently feel worthy and capable of receiving | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| reaching for and receiving the good of the universe only when your defects are being overcome may | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| topics: a positive concept of life and the universe that holds a benign fate for humanity, the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| union, and manifests the benign nature of the universe, is love and perpetuates love. Whatever ignores the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| ignores the divine and benign nature of the universe and of life and therefore moves toward exclusion | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| also a positive concept of life and the universe. For if it were true that life is | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| to exist in peace and harmony with the universe. So it is absolutely necessary, my friends, that | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| of movement exists in the rhythm of the universe, the same unstrained motion of peace. The principle | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| analysis, a misunderstanding of life and of the universe. Therefore the individual believes life to be dangerous | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| to the limitation with which humanity experiences the universe. The universe is infinite in its abundance, and | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| limitation with which humanity experiences the universe. The universe is infinite in its abundance, and really knowing | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| There is a great pull in the manifest universe in which you live. This pull is part | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| your innermost nature, you distrust the whole spiritual universe. One cannot exist without the other. A point | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| having to trust and give over to the universe. This is, of course, utterly impossible. Frustration would | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| as much as with your outer ears. The universe is so constituted that each individual creature is | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| of life you close the door to the universe. Often the most rebellious human beings are most | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| self. And it opens the gate to the universe. With courage and humility it is easy to | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| the now and experience the truth of the universe, which is that every fraction of life is | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| shackles and attain the blissful truth of the universe. QUESTION: I want to ask about a strange | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| wonderful strength, the love and wisdom of the universe will become available to you. Be blessed, my | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| process, where you feel yourself flowing with the universe, in harmony with it; where you contact the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| problems. Since this power exists all through the universe, it is in you, and in everyone else | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| you tonight, so that the wonder of the universe -- of this life right here and now | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| as it relates to the living, breathing, pulsating universe in all its aspects, is very important. In | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a great deal of trust in life, the universe, others, and your own innermost self. By remaining | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the positive, desirable, and desired experiences in the universe. Utter bliss, pleasure supreme, is feared to the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| again. This experience makes you one with the universe. It is totally safe. Everything feels home and | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as they exist in you and in the universe. It is being said by all great spiritual | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you do not know that everything in the universe already exists, and that you can re-create it | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| breathing of the spirit, the breathing of the universe, as it applies to each individual life manifestation | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| to great metaphysical truths. All knowledge in the universe is essentially in you. Your consciousness has separated | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| very apt analogy to your position in the universe and relation to the universal forces. Your ego | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| intense form of melding the ego with the universe is through another entity, via the capacity to | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of course, is always the key to the universe. But preaching it for thousands of years has | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| with the love and the truth of the universe, so that they can help liberate you. Be | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| in an essentially hostile or, at best, indifferent universe that has nothing to do with you. You | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| you. You conceive of a static and immovable universe into which you are put and whose laws | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| your momentary consciousness, or the separation between the universe and yourself, did not exist, there would be | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| you are the most important being in the universe and that you are the least worthy in | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| that you are the least worthy in the universe. Even one such assumption is bound to have | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |