| Breakthrough................12 | |
| through your own work. You must achieve a breakthrough to your inner self. You know very well | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| can only come when you have achieved a breakthrough in your soul to the higher self. Whoever | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| crust be thinned out and so allow the breakthrough to the higher self in those places where | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| development has reached a certain point, when a breakthrough has been accomplished in a person's higher self | 21 THE FALL |
| as the aggressor. The struggle preceding this important breakthrough is very hard because the very means that | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| areas now come to the fore. Here the breakthrough has to be accomplished all over again by | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the child you so ferociously defend, then a breakthrough on this path, a coming into your own | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| not have experienced liberation and ease following a breakthrough, following the overcoming of resistance. This fact is | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| point until, a few days ago, a significant breakthrough occurred. In a series of three successive sessions | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| your evolution. This does not require a subliminal breakthrough of the profounder spiritual self. It simply means | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| have been at one point in time a breakthrough from the world of spirit. To keep these | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| is therefore a continuous re-experiencing of the original breakthrough from inner worlds or other realities, a re- | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Breath......................27 | |
| through nature, music, meditation, or simply when the breath of God touches the human being. Then you | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| imagine a movie. Everything is etched in that breath of God, and you can review it again | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| because you will then emanate prayer by every breath you take, by every thought passing through your | 36 PRAYER |
| Begin to follow the abdominal movements of your breath when you breathe very quietly: up and down | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| task of following the abdominal movements of your breath or of concentrating on the imaginary point between | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| seem impossible to think of nothing but your breath movements. Uninvited thought fragments will constantly rush in | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| am going through a stage of holding my breath. I don't know how to go on. Can | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| of this childish state when, in the same breath, you are told that God wants your happiness | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| would not need to pray or meditate. Every breath would be a prayer in that it would | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| principles. Everything that lives must follow these principles. Breath and pulsation obviously demonstrate this truth. All this | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| forces. They expressed a universal consciousness in every breath and every move of their eternally living existence | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| you. Blessed be your very life, your every breath, your thoughts and your feelings. This lecture deals | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| creations you produce unwittingly. You create with every breath you take, with every thought you think, with | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| the unending beauty of the universe. With every breath you take you fill yourself with its potent | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| new realization, every spurt of new consciousness, every breath of love, every change of attitude gives birth | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| when it is still, it is in movement. Breath is movement, the bloodstream is in movement, the | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| new tradition came into being until the next breath of the great pulsating movement the organism was | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| the hand of God in your life, the breath of God. Such a moment may occur at | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| presence, God's hand in all of life, God's breath in your own existence. But until such time | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| magnificent reality. You will be touched by His breath more frequently, you will sense His hand in | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| visualize the universe as a breathing entity. Each breath is a pulsation that penetrates onward, that bleeds | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| and frequency, the mass begins to soften. The breath of life enters, and consciousness is being born | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| was no life, no consciousness, no being. Each breath consists of expansion, contraction, and the static moment | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| to different degrees, in different ways. So the breath of life, cycles of life, principles of life | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| what constitutes the strength of the pulse, the breath of life that is a human life. What | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| refined that matter will become spirit. Then the breath of life will continue in a way that | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| you perceive life and death as a pulsating breath, when you experience the spirit as the constant | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Breathe.....................21 | |
| Actually, you make a decision every time you breathe. Not making a decision is a decision too | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that instant in breathing when you do not breathe in order to do so rhythmically. The different | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| as breathing. Do you think of having to breathe less or more in order to get the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| supply of oxygen into your lungs? No. You breathe automatically. It is a completely natural process. You | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the abdominal movements of your breath when you breathe very quietly: up and down, up and down | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the air around you, in the air you breathe. Your gaze will change. Your realizations and perceptions | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the kind of false relaxation that does not breathe, move, respond. Quite the contrary. It expands and | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| consciousness. Everyone knows that all living organisms pulsate, breathe and move. Strangely enough, these qualities are primarily | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Everything that lives must pulsate, as it must breathe and move. Therefore pulsation and breathing are interrelated | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| all you are, by what and how you breathe in and out, by all you think, feel | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| use for self-discovery or reorientation of your negativity. Breathe calmly but distinctly through your abdomen. Feel your | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| sizzling sea of energy in which you move, breathe, think, and express yourself, can therefore manifest anything | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| will just emanate creating. You will live it, breathe it, be it. Every expression and thought and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| psychic nuclear points. So is the air you breathe, as are your bones, muscles, flesh, organs and | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| in which you exist -- in which you breathe, in which you think and will and feel | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| of nonmovement and nonexpansion in which you hardly breathe in order to prevent change. And that is | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| and with tenderness. They embrace the structure and breathe and expand within it in great freedom. The | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| truth, and of beauty. Be enveloped in it, breathe in it, know it, and live it. 241 | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| You live in a sea of love, you breathe into a universe of sheer goodness. Make yourself | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| the grace of God. The very air you breathe is permeated with it. Every substance of life | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| objective, fixed space. Your real being can live, breathe and move, and cover vast distances within an | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Breathes....................5 | |
| itself, the reality in all that lives and breathes. It permeates every particle of existence and must | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| die. It is the essence of all that breathes, moves, vibrates. It knows all, for it constantly | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| understand, my friends. Everything that exists, lives and breathes, is even in its most minute form a | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| Christ lives within everyone and within everything that breathes and has consciousness. The Christ has been given | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| animal, every life form existing on this plane, breathes into matter and enlivens it. The enlivening is | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Breathing...................37 | |
| of prana, that is connected with our own breathing in a certain rhythm? ANSWER: Quite true. And | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| And because of this the prana and the breathing are the most important life functions. ANSWER: Right | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| Now, one more question, please, with regard to breathing. Is the exhalation the natural restriction? ANSWER: Exhalation | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| not only in particular exercises. Even in normal breathing, when you are completely unaware of it, this | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| third principle, is the most important part of breathing. It does not make any difference that this | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| element which gives rhythm and harmony to the breathing. And when any kind of a trance occurs | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| harmonious movement contains motionlessness, like that instant in breathing when you do not breathe in order to | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| right middle way will be as natural as breathing. Do you think of having to breathe less | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| It does not give truth and reality any breathing space. Wherever a defensive wall is put up | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| find all through nature. It is in the breathing of the body, in the movements of the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| But you still have to acclimate yourself to breathing fresh air, and such acclimation is possible only | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| Quite the contrary. It expands and contracts like breathing -- is rhythmic and relaxed, effortless yet vibrating | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| describing the movements of the cosmos, the rhythmic breathing of everything alive. This cosmic breathing can only | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the rhythmic breathing of everything alive. This cosmic breathing can only exist when there is no artificial | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| it must breathe and move. Therefore pulsation and breathing are interrelated. The movement of life is contained | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| threefold principle, as it relates to the living, breathing, pulsating universe in all its aspects, is very | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| organism. It amounts to a deliberate stopping of breathing and pulsebeat through some artificial, inorganic means. Again | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the consciousness behind the physical system, where living, breathing, pulsating, vibrating -- and therefore thinking, feeling, being | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| be dug out. The identical movement exists in breathing, as I explained before. This is the breathing | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| breathing, as I explained before. This is the breathing of the spirit, the breathing of the universe | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| This is the breathing of the spirit, the breathing of the universe, as it applies to each | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| through into the upper movement of your spiritual breathing and growing. You will embrace it by fully | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| of tension and relaxation is the pulsation, the breathing, of the universe and of every aspect or | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| in the true unfoldment of the eternal, living, breathing spirit that you are, from which unlimited good | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| of rejecting aspects of living, such as feeling, breathing, moving. If and when an entity reaches the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| some new approaches, for example, a combination of breathing, together with meditation. QUESTION: Can you comment further | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| mechanical, that deals merely with exercises of concentration, breathing, and so on, cannot possibly fulfill its purpose | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| more or less mechanical, such as concentration and breathing exercises. As I have indicated before, if you | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| they seem, they lack the flexibility and the breathing life that only being values can have. If | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| this state of reality exists as a living, breathing reality of its own. Perfection of the spiritual | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| of soft receptivity and acceptance. Perfection is a breathing, living force that heals, grows and creates because | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| of love your body functions very differently. Your breathing is different, your heartbeat and pulse are different | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| merciful justice of Creation. Become aware of living, breathing, and being in a living substance that registers | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| you are a divine manifestation, you cannot help breathing into the world substance by virtue of simply | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| help you to visualize the universe as a breathing entity. Each breath is a pulsation that penetrates | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| for you to visualize life as an ongoing breathing phenomenon, each incarnation representing a pulse beat, each | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| as an arena to serve the purpose of breathing into the inanimate -- or the void, if | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |