| Verbalize...................3 | |
| from others what you must supply for yourself. Verbalize concisely to yourself whatever you find you need | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| your state of fear-tension. If you can then verbalize the fear, you will have made an important | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| comparison with the reality. Yet my attempt to verbalize some aspects of creative substance may be just | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| Verbalizing.................3 | |
| use your own words, your individual way of verbalizing and expressing the essence of these thoughts. This | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| one sort or another. Becoming aware of them, verbalizing them, is the first step. Again, I hope | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| then translate this anxiety into clear-cut words, thus verbalizing your inner thought that certain attitudes or feelings | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Verbally....................4 | |
| degree of my awareness. If I choose to verbally express these feelings when there is a good | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| whether or not it is real. You may verbally acknowledge that perhaps it is not real, but | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| all the difference -- whether or not you verbally express your perception and confront the other person | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| her negative attitudes and behavior, whether this is verbally expressed or not. This attitude of letting the | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Verify......................25 | |
| make this knowledge really yours. Then you will verify what I am trying to convey to you | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| emotional attitude. None of you will fail to verify this emotion within yourself. Since this is an | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| if you have the honesty to search for, verify, and acknowledge the negative side you so bravely | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| you all have had plenty of opportunity to verify on your path, but also as far as | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| first requirement is to feel its existence. Just verify it. And then ask yourself specific questions. What | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| where in your inner life it holds true. Verify how you despise yourself for not living up | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| of working and searching within. If you can verify that you are disinclined to give to others | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| frustration, or criticism? You, yourself, will have to verify that this is not so. Even unjustified criticism | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| you to see yourself as you are; to verify what you really feel, rather than what you | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| Perhaps, now, you will be better able to verify it. Such an imbalance of going from one | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| aspect is quite obvious and not difficult to verify. There is no one who is here, or | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| through private and group work you will first verify that such emotional understanding is still lacking. You | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| your life, not to all relationships. When you verify this point, you will ascertain the source of | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| due to denial. It is also essential to verify the various layers of a superimposition and substitution | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| you blindly to accept spiritual teachings you cannot verify within yourself right now. For what applies to | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| lecture can be truly understandable only if you verify the fear of your own unconscious. As you | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| merely with your intellect. The best way to verify such statements is by living their truth -- | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| Once you admit this, it is easy to verify that all these misconceptions govern you and rob | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| never heard it before. But afterward you can verify that it confirms the teachings you have studied | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| think most of you, my friends, can readily verify this. Most of you have gone through severe | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| your own psychic and physical system. You can verify every day of your life, if you truly | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| have a concrete and immediate meaning you can verify if you truly follow through. Quite a number | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| pass this point. Others may still struggle to verify this point of self-awareness, but will sense that | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| your intentionality in this respect? When you can verify that indeed a voice in you says, No | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| impossible in a state of contraction. You can verify this by looking around you. The people who | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Verities....................7 | |
| potentials. Since destructive tendencies and evil are not verities in themselves but only distortions, they, too, are | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| Your three-dimensional terms can hardly contain the multidimensional verities beyond human grasp. Nevertheless, if you deliberately allow | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| vacuum. The sooner you make room for these verities and openly respond to them, the sooner you | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| others. As it is with many other spiritual verities, the concept of desire contains an apparent paradox | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| As always, we want to use profound metaphysical verities not just as philosophical thoughts to speculate about | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| time through change. Without continuous change, alive unchanging verities cannot be lived. True tradition must therefore always | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| and renew and enliven it. These are eternal verities and principles that hold true for everything, for | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Vertical....................3 | |
| this by the two bars, one horizontal, one vertical, indicating two opposing directions. As long as the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as it were. One layer covers the other. Vertical displacement substitutes one form of self-expression with another | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| with another. Compulsiveness is the result of both vertical and horizontal shifts. The intensity of preoccupation resulting | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| Vessel......................7 | |
| genuine constructive attitude. Your psyche is like a vessel. If it is filled with muddy water and | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| even at the early stages when the inner vessel is filled with unclear substance that needs to | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| on the path and make progress, the inner vessel brings forth the false ideas, wrong conclusions, problems | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| the truth, you must fill the now empty vessel with truth, so as to prevent its being | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| giving impossible, you make receiving equally impossible. A vessel that is closed cannot be filled any more | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| tension and defensive structure that close up the vessel of the mind and maintain the closed circuit | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| truth. You think of yourself as an empty vessel that needs to be filled. Becoming implies acquiring | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Vestiges....................3 | |
| you are mistaken, if your motive has some vestiges of decency, it is far better than what | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the way, thereby letting go of the last vestiges of control over the secret in you, and | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| be more able to bring out any last vestiges of feelings that have been neglected. Even when | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| Vibrancy....................15 | |
| your feeling of being alive is reduced. The vibrancy of true aliveness is so very rare among | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| there is peace and, at the same time, vibrancy; there is stimulation and serenity. As I have | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| is meant to enjoy -- either peace or vibrancy and interest -- will bring an unnecessary deprivation | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| dullness, boredom. The real feeling of aliveness and vibrancy does not avoid anything. It just is. Therefore | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| flat and the true brings a warmth and vibrancy, no matter how small the feeling may be | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| flow of feelings, for having numbed them. The vibrancy of real feelings makes overintensity unnecessary, and it | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| of. This protective garment anesthetizes one to the vibrancy and buoyancy of life. All such imitations build | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| is one of immense safety and well-being, of vibrancy, peace and aliveness; of a flowing feeling of | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| and pulsate in a state of peace, security, vibrancy, excitement, stimulation and utter confidence. Your innermost being | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| your life and your environment. A new, ever-increasing vibrancy will fill your being when you live in | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| dissolves into its original nature, the blissful, peaceful vibrancy of the river of life that flows through | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| is absolutely nothing to fear. There is a vibrancy in this state of safety that bears no | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| to avoid facing the underlying fear. In this vibrancy there is a most realistic attitude toward all | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| in an alive and vibrant relationship. When the vibrancy ebbs away, the causes need to be explored | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| other, join and finally fuse, the intensity and vibrancy of the sexual encounter will surpass anything you | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Vibrant.....................50 | |
| begin to put order into your soul, this vibrant life force will fill you. Life will be | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| passivity. The woman's activity should enliven and make vibrant her passivity in the true and good sense | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| you may be, facing it results in a vibrant feeling of being alive. Most of you know | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life. I mean all that the essence of vibrant life, meeting it fully, implies. There is the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| level of consciousness and fill you with the vibrant feeling of being truly alive. Your awareness, and | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| wishes. In your confusion you deny the potentially vibrant life-force the opportunity to function in its own | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| to each one of you. It is a vibrant force of reality. May all of you who | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| and so on to others. Then life becomes vibrant in joy, peace and meaningfulness, in newness and | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| impact. Be blessed, all of you! Receive the vibrant life force, containing all that cannot be evaluated | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| you are enveloped by and permeated with the vibrant, life-giving force that knows no barriers and no | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| ever dependent on something beyond your capacity. The vibrant feeling of being wholly alive, in stimulating peacefulness | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| can never again be helpless and lost. The vibrant life force will flow through you -- not | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| be helped to eliminate obstructions and taste the vibrant, dynamic life force. Every cell of your physical | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| of the meaning of these words, feeling the vibrant truth of the contact with the life force | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| follow. The entire universe is permeated with a vibrant life substance. This substance consists of forces of | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| friends. The dynamic life force is an extremely vibrant principle, and this vibrant, dynamic relaxation is particularly | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| force is an extremely vibrant principle, and this vibrant, dynamic relaxation is particularly available to human consciousness | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| then inevitably turn into satiation? Fulfillment can remain vibrant only when the inner being is open and | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| and thus with the universe fulfillment is a vibrant, unending, deeply satisfying continuum and therefore cannot be | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| alienated from yourselves will you live in that vibrant experience where desire is never painful and, therefore | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| deep experiences of the reality of being, of vibrant aliveness, light and truth. To achieve this seems | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| a positive, wonderful way. It is flexible, alive, vibrant and full of the strong feelings without which | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| fears, that truth opens up the storehouse of vibrant life force and energy that you usually use | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| makes their elimination easier through this understanding. The vibrant peace that comes from this extended understanding is | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| it a peaceful joyousness that makes every moment vibrant, interesting, and totally free from anxiety or boredom | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| wants the experience of feeling yourself alive and vibrant with the beauty of such feelings, as only | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| talents. Or it may manifest as a new vibrant way of experiencing life, giving a new flavor | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| from the real self which has all the vibrant energies, creativeness and wealth of healthy strong feelings | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a new life where everything is different and vibrant with joy and meaning, where fear and emptiness | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a wonderful, subtle, but distinct movement that is vibrant and pleasurable. You can feel yourself expand toward | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| up the cramp and reestablish an easy, smooth, vibrant, flexible pulsation. Making such a comparison between the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is deadness because the life force in its vibrant flow is willfully interrupted and prohibited by an | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the very thing that makes them alive and vibrant with well-being. We have seen superficial false conclusions | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of the soul, must also produce vital happiness, vibrant stimulation and pleasure. For such is the goodness | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| much a spiritual reality as are profound fulfillment, vibrant aliveness, and blissful, joyous relating. When you are | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| decreases as consciousness and energy become increasingly more vibrant and mobile. Consciousness gains in awareness; energy gains | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it, bending, changing it; making it receptive and vibrant; letting new life energy and creativity flow through | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| is no vacuum. Since the All is such vibrant consciousness and powerful energy, it cannot help but | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| practice emotional fluidity to keep your soul substance vibrant and flowing. I have always mentioned how important | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| mind of the seekers. This then creates a vibrant energy field whose creative power molds the soul | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| help being beautiful when you are in such vibrant health and harmony. It will show in the | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| wherever you need it most. That emptiness, that vibrant alive emptiness, is God talking to you. At | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| recognize it. As you begin to recognize the vibrant voice that speaks in wisdom and love -- | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| inner tube that will fill you with the vibrant music of the angels. When I say the | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| on the level of consciousness can become a vibrant truth -- not just a cut-off intellectual understanding | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| as you find your inner being, with its vibrant intelligence and wisdom that truly surpasses the outer | 228 BALANCE |
| And you have receptivity that is alive and vibrant. In both states you have all the qualities | 228 BALANCE |
| in this lecture. These short periods of elation, vibrant peace and security, excitement, fascination, profound joyousness, and | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| be eliminated relatively fast, and a kind of vibrant fulfillment comes even from this sharing. In the | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| the prerequisites of fulfillment in an alive and vibrant relationship. When the vibrancy ebbs away, the causes | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |