| Brains......................5 | |
| answer. And rather than trying to rack your brains about how to fulfill God's will when you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| marked anatomical differences between his brain and the brains of other human beings. What is, in a | 21 THE FALL |
| be dwelling within. It is as though two brains existed -- the second, recently discovered, being much | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| necessary to conceive of the inner and outer brains as one and the same organ. It is | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| two entirely different faculties and two entirely different brains: the inner and the outer, the conscious and | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| Brakes......................3 | |
| so much to resolve. In other words, the brakes you inadvertently put on your consciously desired fulfillment | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| There will be no need to put the brakes on. Envy, guilt, dishonesty, and the belittling of | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| of others create the need to put the brakes on one's most constructive outgoing power current. When | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| Branches....................5 | |
| all religions, as well as all the other branches of human knowledge, which still function separately at | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| education is compartmentalized. The unifying principle, linking all branches of knowledge, is completely disregarded or ignored, so | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| human mind develops with the idea of many branches, many subjects, all separate. The separateness, fostered by | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| there is one unifying common denominator among all branches of knowledge. Such an emphasis would ultimately affect | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| Look around and open your eyes. In all branches of science you find aspects of the universal | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| Branching...................3 | |
| the intelligent approach to every new step of branching out, whether in science or in any other | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| and contracting, finding new areas of experience and branching into new territories. Creative life is no different | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| contracting and pulsating. It is always moving and branching out. This applies particularly to life that is | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| Bread.......................19 | |
| worries, but when one worries about the daily bread it is impossible to occupy oneself with such | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| come to you. GIVE US TODAY OUR DAILY BREAD. This, too, is often mechanically repeated, without attaching | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| clearly formulate the thought, that earning one's daily bread has nothing to do with God. But truly | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| to obtain both your earthly and your spiritual bread. The spiritual bread is so neglected. You believe | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| your earthly and your spiritual bread. The spiritual bread is so neglected. You believe it is less | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| believe it is less important than the material bread. No, my dear ones, the spiritual bread is | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| material bread. No, my dear ones, the spiritual bread is more important, much more important. First you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| other way around. Whoever yearns for the spiritual bread has already reached a certain level on the | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| different kind of job just to earn his bread. Any prospective medium should, therefore, be prepared to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| Your problems are so often about your daily bread, about material needs. Yet important as this daily | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| about material needs. Yet important as this daily bread may be, it is only of secondary importance | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| only of secondary importance to the spiritual daily bread that you need. Much of your talk is | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| be taken care of, including your material daily bread. Your spirit's starvation must have its consequences. The | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| your physical nourishment. You have to earn your bread, buy it, prepare it, eat it. This is | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| is true just as much of your spiritual bread as of your physical bread. You earn your | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| of your spiritual bread as of your physical bread. You earn your spiritual bread by your sincere | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| of your physical bread. You earn your spiritual bread by your sincere desire to receive it. You | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| to worry about. He is healthy, his daily bread is taken care of. He can devote his | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| have to do is knock. Ask for the bread of God's mercy, love, forgiveness and personal help | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Breakdown...................18 | |
| people go to psychiatrists and sometimes suffer a breakdown when they come face to face with their | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| facts and truths, a person can have a breakdown. It is as though you took a machine | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| prevail in the wrong attitude. Every crisis, every breakdown, is caused by a basic wrong attitude. You | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| basic wrong attitude. You need never suffer a breakdown if you change the attitude in time. If | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| wrong attitude in such circumstances. In reality a breakdown is a childish temper tantrum -- the degree | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| vicious circles in the human being. When a breakdown occurs, the subconscious says, You cannot do this | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| means are sought, such as sickness or a breakdown. Thus the entity violates his or her soul | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| in one form or another, and finally a breakdown in the hidden hope that this will change | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| without self-deception, or they may have a severe breakdown which will postpone self- confrontation. In any case | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| the greater will be the likelihood of a breakdown, of a violent eruption which the personality cannot | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| The increased negative momentum finally leads to a breakdown of the negative self-perpetuation. Contrary to truth, love | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the mystics is such a time of the breakdown of old structures. Most human beings still fail | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| same inner distortions all over again. Since eruption, breakdown, and crisis always aim at discontinuing old ways | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| because your innermost being knows that crisis, eruption, breakdown, are inevitable and are steadily drawing nearer. Yet | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| their feelings, this conviction may bring about a breakdown and a crisis that is merely a result | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| any or all levels. It may cause a breakdown if the pull into expansion on the one | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| up only for so long, but eventually the breakdown must occur. You will all agree that the | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| Such governmental crisis can be likened to the breakdown of an individual who refuses to expose his | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Breakdowns..................5 | |
| if it is hastily attempted, people can suffer breakdowns and all sorts of other complications. In many | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| truth, you can protect yourself from crises and breakdowns. It is never the outer circumstances that lead | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| barricade finally break loose, you experience crises and breakdowns of different kinds and degrees. By not damming | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| The personality must see eventually that all eruptions, breakdowns, crises, mean to tear down the old structure | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| manifest and enrich you. All personal crises, all breakdowns are nothing but bankruptcy exposed. Such crises can | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Breaking....................51 | |
| from God, and at the same time a breaking into two followed by many further splits and | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| rarely split apart exactly in the middle. The breaking apart was the result of the separation from | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| effects of the law that you have been breaking for a long time have to be readjusted | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| carry such heavy burdens is the result of breaking spiritual laws, often unconsciously. Still, this will not | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| lower nature and are the result of your breaking the divine law in some respect, and often | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| of the ego in the foreground. This is breaking spiritual law and has its consequences in inner | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| be right for another person. Sin, or the breaking of spiritual law, is not only something generally | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| God through this very state of unhappiness. In breaking the law and experiencing the resulting unhappiness lies | 18 FREE WILL |
| power he could certainly have done anything, including breaking His own laws. Had He done this a | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| not developing as you should; that you are breaking a number of spiritual laws in your emotions | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| change them. Your resentment means that you are breaking a spiritual law. It should be the best | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| the habit from one day to the next. Breaking the habit requires a great deal of training | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| who work together. This will indicate where the breaking point of the image lies. Once the wrong | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| wallow in self-pity while you prevent yourself from breaking the chains. The first step to freedom is | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| ready for a more conscious search for the breaking down of their own walls of separation. The | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| cannot break your vicious circle. But at the breaking point -- once you decide through inner growth | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| as long as they fail to perceive the breaking point mentioned before. Those who were taught that | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| this so-called humility, you do not seek the breaking point mentioned before, but you go to the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| necessary, and you would see no remedy, no breaking point. Therefore, read these words carefully again and | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| thought that sickness is the result of our breaking some spiritual law and in that sense is | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and pleasure you need for survival only by breaking the rules, exercising power, and becoming the dictator | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this can happen only as a result of breaking through your inner resistance step by step. Your | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| atone for violating the great cosmic inner forces, breaking the flow, as it were. This very deep-rooted | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| center is correct. One must come to a breaking point, a collapse, because this direction leads to | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| is actually a blessing to arrive at the breaking point. Only when the breaking point has been | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| arrive at the breaking point. Only when the breaking point has been reached can the other direction | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| a fruitful and constructive experience has reached this breaking point at a previous period of his or | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| blind and entrapped in error and destruction. The breaking point has then the healing power, the only | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the nearer salvation must be. Hence, reaching the breaking point at which there is no further way | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| many are still on the road toward the breaking point where the limit is reached. See how | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| inner center, who have obviously put the major breaking point behind them. When you evaluate human existence | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| death is, on a certain level, the final breaking point on the road away from the center | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| out of conflict, and therefore leads to the breaking point of no return. The limit finally offers | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the physical work going to be connected with breaking through the closed centers? ANSWER: Yes, indeed. The | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| other practices will be established later. You see, breaking through these centers can begin only after a | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| new ways of dealing with life. It means breaking down old structures and establishing new ones. It | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| destructive, erroneous psychic matter until it finds a breaking point. It avoids the many vicious circles within | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the eruption takes the form of the spirit's breaking out of the body, until it finds new | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| proceed smoothly, without the leaps and bounds of breaking up negative structures in the soul substance. We | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| whole, or God. To find the key to breaking this vicious circle, the conscious volitional self must | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| the resistance must always finally come to a breaking point. The refusal to expose the truth and | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| movements and strivings exist in a person, a breaking point must be reached, which manifests as a | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| its existence and find what I call the breaking point, where you transform the vicious circle into | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| momentum, comes to its own inner explosion, or breaking point. That has nothing to do with the | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| point. That has nothing to do with the breaking point I mentioned in connection with the vicious | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| great deal of effort to find such a breaking point, and even more effort to follow through | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| to break the cycle there. The explosion or breaking point I mention here is an inexorable phenomenon | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| the signs and deliberately fails to find the breaking point, the situation explodes into a crisis. This | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| admission, each shedding of a partial mask, each breaking through of a defense, each step of courage | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| my friends. Now the new Christ consciousness is breaking through into human consciousness on an inner level | 228 BALANCE |
| denial of the baby in me are slowly breaking apart on a very deep level since I | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |