| Volition....................12 | |
| as this does not happen by their own volition and conviction they will remain outside the world | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| often even difficult to muster the strength, the volition to think these thoughts so that you can | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are unconstructive as long as they overpower your volition and keep you from taking the reins into | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| gradual process of growth that happens without direct volition, without forcing. If you relax and let your | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you control with the direct will. When direct volition is used the wrong way, the psyche is | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| way and is not controllable by the outer volition. Those are the experiences which make you feel | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| moved by a vast force, by an inner volition that was not ego-directed. You were purified, uplifted | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| Unless you do this, you will lack the volition to give up what destroys happiness and joy | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| the power, the belief, the faith, and the volition to be totally committed to living my life | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| turn, engender specific and distorted action, reaction, and volition. When this connecting bridge is established, an entirely | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| life events, no matter how remote from your volition and your responsibility they may seem, a curious | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| to me in freedom, out of your own volition. Even if my forcing could affect you, I | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Volitional..................34 | |
| momentum, never lifting this force up into the volitional love that demands overcoming and working in order | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| this, and trying to feel the difference between volitional and unvolitional thought processes, you can very well | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| but put all their trust into their intellectual, volitional nature. At times, the intellect forbids hate and | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| more alert, more intuitive. This cannot be a volitional process. I venture to say that the person | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| again and again. Happiness and love cannot be volitional processes, my friends. They come as you observe | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you have no control over, separated from your volitional processes. Moreover, you foolishly seem to assume that | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| Request inspiration to know to what extent your volitional mind has to function and when you must | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| and when you must let go of your volitional mind and let yourself float, observing what is | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| are well launched on the intercourse between the volitional impressing and the soul movement that expresses from | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| you will remain ignorant of it. Your outer, volitional intelligence must call this deep inner intelligence into | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| the capacities you have direct access to: your volitional thinking and the faculty I often call the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| appears to exist quite independently of your outer volitional thinking apparatus. At first human beings are completely | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| exclusively with the outer ego faculties of direct volitional thinking and willing. Because of this misidentification you | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| experience comes from a perfect balance between the volitional ego and the non- volitional self. The latter | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| balance between the volitional ego and the non- volitional self. The latter manifests in a spontaneous, unbidden | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| fear of letting go when you use your volitional faculties to uncover in what specific areas negative | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| which create your life apparently independently of your volitional ego. The more such trust exists, the less | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| so. When you thus determine with your outer, volitional self what the negativity is, the way will | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| cannot quite trust. The integration between your conscious volitional self with the unvolitional processes of this vast | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the spontaneous processes begin. They are never consciously volitional. Hence, the greater the fear of the unknown | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| resources of the solar plexus, rather than the volitional, artificial thought processes people use when overemphasizing the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| intellectual admission, but the actual emotional experience and volitional expression of it. For if you do not | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| of the most positive nature, until gradually the volitional mind ceases to work and merely observes the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| and really wanting to change. All this is volitional. Then suddenly you become aware of a new | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| that disunity is then the task of the volitional faculties. Only after this step does an alternative | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| you cannot measure them in terms of your volitional efforts. Harmony between the voluntary and involuntary faculties | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| key to breaking this vicious circle, the conscious volitional self must make a deliberate effort to remove | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| necessary for you to go through. The outer, volitional self must voluntarily play its part so that | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the innermost levels: on the outermost, by the volitional thoughts you issue forth; on the innermost, by | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| painful the necessary crisis must be. The more volitional and unresisting, the smoother the transition into a | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| dignity. You have to make a real inner volitional step to be able to see yourself in | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| of your being. You lose track of the volitional element of these creations and your suffering becomes | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| is part of a grand scheme transcending the volitional, conscious aspect of your being. You are now | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| total surrender to the pain, transcending the conscious, volitional mind and will, takes over. In that moment | 254 SURRENDER |
| Voluntarily.................32 | |
| will. A great number of these spirits have voluntarily accepted God's laws and His order and have | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| of other spirits have broken that order, again voluntarily, and by that act they have created unhappiness | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| only right course, stand outside this order -- voluntarily. Just as they could voluntarily accept it. And | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| this order -- voluntarily. Just as they could voluntarily accept it. And one day they will. But | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| certain plan. The apparent obstacles should be met voluntarily as a means of growing faster, of learning | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| personal search so necessary for complete purification, to voluntarily step across the threshold from the darkness into | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| of development, is important. Only after having tasted voluntarily the hurts connected with desire will you be | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| you called it forth, and you meet it voluntarily, you will not only encounter much less pain | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| spirit. It was a grown-up spirit and it voluntarily undertook a short life. Perhaps the spirit preferred | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| some victims may have undertaken a special task, voluntarily enduring more through one incident like this than | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the unlimited depths of the other person and voluntarily reveal and share your own inward search determines | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| But what really bothers me, I will not voluntarily expose. I have found a good way to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| yes to life as it is. Then you voluntarily accept a duty. If you do not accept | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| at a later time, when the path is voluntarily undertaken. Before we turn to your questions, I | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| within yourself and learn to give it up voluntarily, you will give up provoking unhappiness and misery | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| spirit who undertakes a mission on this earth voluntarily takes on such suffering so as to show | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is the reason why such very great ones voluntarily choose a hardship, even though it is not | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the one and Ghandi of the other? Jesus voluntarily accepting the suffering, Ghandi paying off a karma | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Do not try to reproduce them artificially and voluntarily. It will not work. The moment you try | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| deeply feel the truth of this. If you voluntarily give up your wall of isolation, and thus | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| have to overcome a certain resistance, but one voluntarily does so, as a free choice, because the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| limitations. One does not rush into the latter voluntarily. It requires deep insight into the mechanics of | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| control the flood of feelings, just because you voluntarily choose to let them out. However, if they | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| the tension, in order to subsequently relax it voluntarily. This parallels mental and emotional functioning: There, too | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| to see that every frustration is self-produced and voluntarily pushed out of sight. Hence the result must | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| to swell to an eruptive boil, but dissolved voluntarily with the available consciousness. Superficial death of the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| to go through. The outer, volitional self must voluntarily play its part so that the involuntary self | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| ego makes the identification, but gives itself up voluntarily so that it is integrated into the spiritual | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| individual with extinction. Giving up evil seems like voluntarily going into the dark nothingness -- which is | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| know your coloration of reality and then to voluntarily disqualify yourself is a sign of maturity and | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| waiting too long to establish cleanliness, order, truth voluntarily, through deliberate choices, by working things out in | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| groundedness in real inner freedom and independence that voluntarily chooses monogamous commitment because it yields infinitely greater | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |