| Boundaries..................23 | |
| a role. But the baby knows no such boundaries. Its sexual instincts thrive without these concepts and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| limited world, where you are fenced in by boundaries you cannot penetrate or control. In this assumption | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to a state where you can feel the boundaries of this foreign body, even while occasionally still | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| horizon in thinking about, and inwardly experiencing, new boundaries of reality, thus diminishing your fear and your | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| Indeed, the drug experience removes the physical, three-dimensional boundaries and thus reveals the reality behind the great | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| finite and it must aim to spread the boundaries of its finiteness until it measures up with | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| to elicit creative emptiness, that you visualize the boundaries of your mind by questioning yourself about all | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| say to you here, my friends, structure and boundaries are part of the loving creation. In one | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| reality. If there were no laws and no boundaries, the world would disintegrate in chaos and destruction | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| one another? It is wise law; it is boundaries and structure. There can be no organization in | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| no community of living entities without structure, law, boundaries that may seem confining to some individuals. At | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| to be open to the possibility that laws, boundaries, structure, rules -- name them what you will | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| assume all rules and laws, all restrictions and boundaries spring from lack of love. When you identify | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| from your lower-self drives. There are, of course, boundaries, laws, and rules in the human condition that | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| need to distinguish between the two kinds of boundaries: loving, meaningful ones - - whether they are | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| be able to accept lovingly both kinds of boundaries: the first in recognition of their intrinsic meaningfulness | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| of your own limitations. You can use these boundaries to understand yourself and the universal laws better | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| universal laws better. By thus embracing your self-created boundaries you transcend them most meaningfully. Soon your frustration | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| not widen by rebelling against the necessary outer boundaries, and against what appear to be restrictions. Freedom | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| and respect yourself. You will then see which boundaries, restrictions, and rules are meaningful, and which are | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| does not mean what the infant imagines: no boundaries at all, taking the line of least resistance | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| prevent experiencing your freedom by childish denial of boundaries and structure, of laws and rules, in small | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| in which you distort the limitations as if boundaries implied enslavement. I ask all of you to | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Boundary....................3 | |
| the right of the other to set a boundary which you may claim for yourself in a | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| love and life. Your material body is the boundary, the border state. The consciousness behind the body | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| and that is your innate rebellion against any boundary or structure, against anything that you experience as | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Bow.........................5 | |
| because you are still unaware of them. You bow down to your inability to give in, to | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| You have to prove that you do not bow down when, in reality, you would never do | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| do not seek to make you conform, appease, bow down, and accept something against your will and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| if they did not believe they had to bow down to something inevitable. It is tragic how | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| To avoid total annihilation, you may tend to bow to substitute powers, rather than to God's will | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Box.........................7 | |
| You may put yourself into a tight little box of prescribed behavior and values that is not | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| The human mind is squeezed into a narrow box, as it were -- a box of misperceptions | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| a narrow box, as it were -- a box of misperceptions and limited perception. Only as you | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| granted as truths, the mind remains in a box. To gain a deeper understanding and a clearer | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| between life and self are totally distorted. The box in which the mind finds itself becomes painfully | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| be ousted. This particular evil brings a Pandora's box full of many other attitudes which create shame | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| spiritual and psychic musculature of your system, and box yourself into a state of nonmovement and nonexpansion | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| Brain.......................70 | |
| unit that may be grasped by the human brain, which means that there is nothing smaller. The | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| your solar plexus and not out of your brain. There is a very subtle and important difference | 18 FREE WILL |
| understand very well what is willing from the brain and what is willing from your soul. The | 18 FREE WILL |
| mean by solar plexus as opposed to the brain? ANSWER: A wish can come from the intellect | 18 FREE WILL |
| wish can come from the intellect or the brain, or from what is sometimes referred to as | 18 FREE WILL |
| wishes, or thoughts evolve not only from the brain region, but also from this part. Many people | 18 FREE WILL |
| form ideas, they believe it happens in the brain. But once a certain stage of spiritual development | 18 FREE WILL |
| quality and character from thoughts coming from the brain. The same applies to willpower. Will coming from | 18 FREE WILL |
| same applies to willpower. Will coming from the brain region will lead to tension, unless it is | 18 FREE WILL |
| right idea can take root first in the brain, but as long as it remains in that | 18 FREE WILL |
| this moment. Faith can never come from the brain. If it is merely a question of intellectual | 18 FREE WILL |
| unconscious. These wishes do not come from the brain, but they do not come from the spiritual | 18 FREE WILL |
| important difference between thinking and wanting in the brain or in the spiritual core. The latter has | 18 FREE WILL |
| questions, my friends. QUESTION: The dissection of Einstein's brain showed no marked anatomical differences between his brain | 21 THE FALL |
| brain showed no marked anatomical differences between his brain and the brains of other human beings. What | 21 THE FALL |
| beings. What is, in a metaphysical sense, the brain as the physio-psychological vehicle for intelligence and intellect | 21 THE FALL |
| and all this does not come from your brain region where your normal thinking takes place, but | 21 THE FALL |
| you have understood this process only in your brain, but your inner self has not yet perceived | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you think you know? To know in your brain is only the beginning. You have a considerable | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| have a considerable amount of knowledge in your brain that from our standpoint we do not consider | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| more remote, a merely theoretical knowledge in your brain, while underneath you go on reacting as before | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| although temporarily this knowledge sits only in your brain, and to wait until you become filled with | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| the emotions -- which work slower than the brain mechanism -- still adhere to their old patterns | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| channels, at the same time using your own brain, decency and responsibility, you are also using your | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| behavior is the infant reacting in you; your brain tries to assimilate the clamor of the infant | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| levels or how much you absorbed with your brain. Some of you may wonder how all this | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| say, these words are not directed to your brain, but to those aspects of your personality you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| by concentrating on things you learn with your brain alone. That may be valuable as a tool | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| although temporarily this knowledge sits only in your brain. And you have to wait until you become | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the deep inner knowledge -- not in your brain but in your solar plexus -- that your | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| is inconceivable for the human concept, the human brain. It is utterly impossible. The truth of the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| if more specifically, and to listen with one's brain, can never suffice. You know that. COMMENT: May | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| soul, even if, at times, it bypasses the brain. When intellectual explanations do not obscure what the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to do so you learn, you use your brain, your thinking capacity; you absorb, you train your | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to ask yourself -- your emotions, not your brain -- the question: What am I afraid of | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| intelligence, to understand it, at least in your brain. For the truth is the extreme opposite of | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| even if you happen to have a good brain. Your outlook will be much too limited to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| eventually begin to absorb the knowledge of your brain that heretofore could not penetrate into your emotions | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and laws and doctrines you absorb with your brain. This is an inner feeling that develops out | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| little removed from this state. He had a brain, of course, but he was functioning mostly on | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| instinct. Only slowly did the function of the brain, or the intellect, develop. From mineral life to | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| that it is as though you had another brain, another seat of feeling and reacting, within yourself | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| being. Often, the stronger the knowledge in your brain, the more ignorant you are in a deeper | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| fact, it experiences it constantly, only the waking brain is rarely aware of it. The physical body | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| inkling of this factor becomes accessible to material brain knowledge. But whether or not the discovery is | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| May these words not merely pass through your brain. May they, indeed, give you the incentive to | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| or intellectual level it is also noticeable. The brain that is not trained to think -- to | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| occurs when you gain access to your inner brain, your inner will, your inner conscience. This occurs | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| involved, the inner will functions better. The inner brain, so to speak, located in the solar plexus | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| metaphysical mechanics are concerning the hardening of the brain arteries, impairing a patient's mental capacities? Why does | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| determines. It must decide to let the greater brain determine your life. Many of you have experienced | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| between the real self and the insignificant outer brain, the difference between the tight, anxious, doubtful, greedy | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| you must be weak and lost. Your separated brain and personality cannot do what can be accomplished | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the rhythm of this mutual interchange, the outer brain is unable to effect the balance. Nor can | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| be found by understanding it merely with your brain. The way to experience the truth is to | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| consciousness. Whether the consciousness stems from an individual brain or personality, or whether the consciousness is the | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| as these limitations are recognized and the vaster brain in the solar plexus is consulted. The ego | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| occurs on a voluntary basis. Your directly accessible brain can send forth commands that make other areas | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| same organ. It is only that the outer brain has forgotten its true nature and has lost | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| cosmic and universal -- resides neither in the brain nor in the solar plexus. Where does it | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| recognize it and receive it in your conscious brain. This is a rough outline or plan for | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| human form, and is associated exclusively with the brain. This is not so. Consciousness does not require | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| You can do all things, learn everything your brain can master, but if your capacity for inner | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| is the real self. You identify with your brain, your outer intelligence, your will, your mind, all | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| universe. This may seem strange, for the human brain is used to equating task and fulfillment with | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| so much more profound than what the human brain can think of, you make a weighty decision | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| out of nowhere. It is not from the brain. It is not from the outer knowledge you | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| cultivated; it has to begin in your outer brain and thinking. Just considering the possibility that there | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| for them; the senses cannot perceive them; the brain cannot even observe their vivid reality. It is | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| that you know as unencumbered spirit reach the brain through the matter and through the dimmed experiences | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |