| Vagueness...................12 | |
| since all is kept in the dark of vagueness and easy rationalization. This is why your pathwork | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| long as such ignorance, such glossing over, such vagueness exists, transformation cannot happen. This work is impossible | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| natural state of exhilaration, wisdom and eternal good. Vagueness and not looking at your pride and cowardice | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| beliefs and assumptions out of the fog of vagueness, where they hide under the collective label of | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| is the blind drive of not knowing, the vagueness of misbelief, distortion, error. If you truly comprehend | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| hate the effect of the error and the vagueness of not knowing what you believe - - | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| in it? What is its function? Too often vagueness or confusion about the Pathwork's purpose creates unnecessary | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| wrong or detrimental to you or others. Such vagueness will never do the trick. The specific link | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| quite conscious. Others are still grappling with the vagueness of the urge without really knowing what their | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| aligned with truth, otherwise false ideas, or even vagueness, will create a block. If, for example, you | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| help for everybody. First lift out of the vagueness what you long for, what is unfulfilled in | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| unrealistic in its present manifestation. Additional layers of vagueness, lack of awareness, must also be taken into | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| Vain........................30 | |
| you may have taken all the trouble in vain. No, my dear ones, nothing that anyone achieves | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| nothing that anyone achieves spiritually is ever in vain. These are the only lasting values which will | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| realm can dissolve or will ever be in vain. Nothing! And again, God's blessing goes out to | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| to do your best diluted by selfish and vain reasons? Once you have given yourself the answer | 18 FREE WILL |
| two trends in yourself -- the selfish or vain one from the one that wishes to serve | 18 FREE WILL |
| is. No such endeavor is therefore ever in vain, my friends! It is as though you threw | 21 THE FALL |
| beginning for everyone. They will not be in vain, I promise you. If every day you do | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| good motive, there is also a selfish or vain motive hidden under the good cause. Take the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| with the good motives, perhaps as the ego's vain desire to be outstanding, to be admired, to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| ANSWER: Love and humility. For if you are vain, you want to place your ego in the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| he makes is proud, or, if you prefer, vain. It is the same thing. Shyness is one | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| that you have not lived your life in vain. It is never too late to begin. Many | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| not want to be alone. Quite superficial and vain reasons may be added to explain the deep | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| not want to be alone. Quite superficial and vain reasons may be added to explain the deep | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| follows this path will not have lived in vain. This path is certainly the fastest way to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| to such an extent that these selfish, proud, vain, and fearful motives cease to exist in you | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| you wish very much for something, but in vain. This is due not only to unconscious contrary | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| it is harmful. For instance, if unrecognized, selfish, vain motives play a role, the effect can be | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| I must not be in love, is in vain. You can only change a feeling genuinely if | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| dissimilar substances. Again and again you search in vain for the real you, the core of your | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| way, but inwardly the motivations may be selfish, vain, unloving, and cowardly. One may conform to all | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| It is completely objective; it disregards the small, vain self-interest -- and this is one of the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| lived purposefully. It will not be lived in vain. It must have its deep fulfillment, no matter | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| your expression -- not in a miserly, self-centered, vain way, not due to lack of generosity and | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| proper perception. But if the self is too vain and frightened to see itself as it is | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| than the apparent advantages of the fearful, holding, vain little ego, your liberation will truly proceed in | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| meaning and fulfillment. So you wait -- in vain -- for some other power to take over | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| be right now. No matter how negative, mean, vain, or egotistical you may find a corner of | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| glory of it, the advantages, in a selfish, vain way. QUESTION: I can't imagine anything positive in | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| by other people or conditions, you struggle in vain and, in fact, you only tighten the chains | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Valiant.....................4 | |
| every single one of you. Blessed is your valiant struggle to find yourself. At this time -- | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the larger picture of human development, seems so valiant. Do you understand? QUESTION: I understand. Still, when | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| reality. May all of you who make such valiant efforts in self-confrontation realize how meaningful and significant | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| They are the universal love, responding to your valiant efforts of self-expansion. Be in peace, be in | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| Valid.......................90 | |
| of matter. One cannot set up a generally valid rule for establishing the right middle ground; everything | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| it is not possible to establish a rule valid for everyone without exception. For a few a | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| feminine beings and no changeover. The same is valid for the human inclination to worship God as | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| discovery of certain cowardly emotional reactions is also valid. So it is important for you, my friends | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| escaping what you fear. This is the only valid procedure: accepting that you still have desires and | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| isolated fact that you object to may be valid, but not your evaluation of the whole person | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| that the opinion you hold may be objectively valid. If it is not your own, arrived at | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| higher cause or whatever -- or whether these valid motives may also hide a selfish one. You | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| that the outer selfless ones are no longer valid. In other instances, you will consider the outer | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| pressing need. You may find abundant rational and valid explanations as to why the desire is so | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| deep symbolism, it would not have suppressed a valid part of the personality in each sex. People | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| something is present by nature, it must be valid provided it is properly channeled. And then there | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it ever happens, there is a good and valid reason for it. That then would be entirely | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| instances the action as such may have been valid and reasonable and you may choose to continue | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| unselfishness, emotion, sympathy, affection and so on are valid qualities that you are often ashamed of. You | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have also three specific questions. One: is it valid for us to pray for others? ANSWER: Yes | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| pray for others? ANSWER: Yes, certainly, it is valid to pray for others. But the question may | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to his own inner obstructions? This is a valid question. Nevertheless, prayer is good, right and beneficial | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| subtle and elusive emotions. Go behind the sometimes valid aspects which may still be rationalizations for the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| an adult, the childhood situation is no longer valid. Once you realize this and apply it to | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| for there is nothing more important or more valid for you to use right now in your | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to make rules and dogmas supposed to be valid for all beings. Although general rules do hold | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| ON THE PATH; FULFILLMENT OR SUPPRESSION OF THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED Greetings, my dearest friends | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| occurrence. The saying, Time heals all wounds is valid in that a little distance brings a more | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| a happy one. Your happiness may have been valid and without self-deception at all. For it is | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| say that this is the only kind of valid truce that can be accomplished. Allow yourself to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| only with the inner understanding which alone is valid and constructive, as you come to understand yourself | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| this great transition, for what is valuable and valid, what is essentially you, will remain the same | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| and the blood the emotions. Is this explanation valid? ANSWER: Exactly, that is what I have explained | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| emerge. After some constructive work is done and valid insights have been attained, you are bound to | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| they resentment, hate, or contempt. As far as valid desires are concerned, one is conscious only of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and distorted motivations, in addition to the conscious valid ones. These unrecognized motivations are not bad or | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| these inner motives are covered up by more valid reasons, that does not eliminate the existence of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and intuitive. Its feelings alone are true and valid even if, for the moment, they are not | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| maintained into adulthood, this need is no longer valid. In the search to be loved -- apart | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| more or less eliminated. Needless to say, seemingly valid explanations are always found. This process may not | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| better to believe the goal itself is still valid, but for one reason or another, you were | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of religion under the half-true and only partly valid argument that humanity was too much enslaved by | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the latter is true, your procedure is therefore valid, necessary, and self-preserving. You will rightly say that | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to come to terms with them, but also valid and constructive desires and aims. You do not | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| just because you want it, it cannot be valid. The repression of these two sets of emotions | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| into illusion, because no such generalization can be valid. The generalization freezes into a rigid, inflexible mass | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you can distinguish between that which is real, valid, constructive and that which is not. With such | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| itself the truth you lean on may be valid, but you may use it as a rigid | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| cease, and being on the defensive for no valid reason be ruled out of your life, otherwise | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| with another. Evaluation on that basis is never valid. Thus two parties point out truths about each | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| have shifted your emotions and used an actual, valid occurrence to cover up something you are unwilling | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| many instances when one is depressed with less valid outer reason, and sometimes with no reason. One | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| growing and experience that their perceptions are often valid. This is a great relief and joy. Self-confidence | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| will come to see that you have a valid intuition, be it about yourself, or about someone | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| for the truth to penetrate. But the seemingly valid rationalizations pose the real dangers: they require sincere | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| science. You may, indeed, find many valuable and valid answers from such sources. However, they will not | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the ego prevents real experience. All really beautiful, valid, constructive, meaningful experience comes from a perfect balance | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| fear? Some answers may come that are partly valid but also partly glib theories that may strike | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| being the way I am. Is this a valid observation and what should I do about it | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the course of self-exploration. All these reasons are valid in themselves, as far as they go. They | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the failure to like oneself is based on valid or on invalid reasons. Both present equal obstacles | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| You fear that your own opinions are not valid, so you need confirmation or reassurance by others | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| hurt and take advantage. These may indeed be valid objections, but only in connection with the object | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of personal experience, and most certainly as a valid theory, none of you are fully aware to | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| At other times, the desire itself is perfectly valid, but the way you insist on its fulfillment | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| still other times, the desire may again be valid in itself, but the motivation behind it may | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| other will blossom. The perfectly mature and spiritually valid relationship must always be deeply connected with personal | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| has to be somewhat oversimplified, but is nevertheless valid. Use it as a map that gives an | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| and know the inappropriateness of carrying a once valid position into the present where it is no | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| into the present where it is no longer valid and downright destructive. It may seem almost inconceivable | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| with the ego believed to be the only valid, reliable function. This is the way people are | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the assumption that underlies a feeling reaction is valid. It is not enough, I repeat, to vaguely | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| your own domain, constitutes the Pathwork -- any valid pathwork. Ego means fragmentation. As I mentioned, it | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| as if your resistances were based on some valid reasons peculiarly suited to your individuality, or whatever | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| attempt realization of the spiritual self. Though using valid methods to force-fully reach this goal, many spiritual | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| need to be discarded so that the currently valid thoughts and feelings can fit into the appropriate | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| for unhappiness. Some of these theories may be valid as far as they go. The mind has | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| and can redirect your consciousness as the more valid you. At the same time, the other part | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| illusions and delusions accepted as if they were valid reasons for the decision, then the soul will | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| contradict; where you experience two previous opposites as valid aspects of the same truth. When you begin | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| receive from it. For the self-sufficient person has valid needs for love, intimacy, closeness, and warmth to | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| on rules, on pat truisms that may be valid as far as they go, but may not | 228 BALANCE |
| must be right and your desire is not valid. But as you begin to discover the effects | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| of the fruits of your labor as a valid expression of life, you dream of yourself as | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| leader. It is the only way to form valid assessments of others, to be objective. A leader | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| rules exist. Only the intuitive connection will be valid and reliable. And that will come through prayer | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| who are lazy and cheat, making their excuses valid by giving seeming justification to their argument that | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| fear. It is, on a deeper level, a valid expression of the great movement of creation, the | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| meaningful truth, an experience, a custom that was valid at a certain time in history, under certain | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| convince him or her that your coverups are valid. But the other part of you is very | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Before marriage began to be doubted as a valid institution by many, the attitude toward it had | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| be unjustly criticized. This, of course, is not valid. For if one is in truth, understanding from | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| justify their secretiveness, instead of doing the only valid, meaningful and intelligent thing: spill out all secrets | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| convey is that many levels of reality are valid about one and the same situation, condition, circumstance | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |