| are often unaware simply because you do not want to be burdened with such unflattering knowledge. Few | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| burdened with such unflattering knowledge. Few people really want to know their faults. Most people admit that | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| correct; but when they say it because they want to absolve themselves of personal responsibility and guilt | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| now, before I turn to your questions, I want to mention something that touches a more psychological | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| it briefly; however, before I do that, I want to say this: The danger with human beings | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| same line, if I am here now, but want to be in Switzerland, I am there in | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| welcoming some new friends here tonight and I want to tell all of you: just let go | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| think, what you really feel, what you really want. Make an inventory of your emotional trends and | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| use this knowledge, but often you do not want to use it. It seems to you so | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| to talk about this subject now. First, I want to say: There is no person alive who | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| more or less true. But whether what you want is, indeed, the best thing for you, is | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| wish. They are the same. Now, you may want something very badly that in itself is not | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| ethics in your society. And yet, what you want may be wrong for you, for your life | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| when should I be passive? When you really want to know, you will have the answer. You | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| God. The problem remains solely whether you really want to know His will; whether you have decided | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| God may be, but you often do not want to receive it. You deliberately keep your eyes | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| the call. But your lower self does not want to make any effort, it does not want | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| want to make any effort, it does not want any change, and it holds you back and | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the voice of your lower self, because you want to believe these rationalizations; it is so much | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| not fight against it. Now what does God want from you when He calls you? He does | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| how much you are fulfilling, my friends. I want each one of you, when you go home | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you will know the answer. If you really want to follow the call, you can. Do not | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| do it alone. However, first you must really want to do it; first you must decide for | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| answer the question: How much do I really want to follow the call, even if it means | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| reached the stage when you can say, I want to follow the call one hundred percent, you | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to God with your difficulties. If you really want this help with all your heart and ask | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| question left is how honestly do you really want it? How much still remains of your lower | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you do not face this and do not want to realize the significance of it you cannot | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| am unable to love as much as I want to love. If this is how you feel | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| Each living individual has the understandable tendency to want to appear superior to others. You hide your | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| your faults, you hide your shortcomings, and you want to show your best side. You all crave | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| And yet you all know that if you want to receive love, you have to give it | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| If they see you as perfect as you want to appear, their sense of inferiority will grow | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| first you have to give up what you want to gain. You have given up admiration, which | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| a mask as the other extreme. Such people want to accomplish by these means the very same | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in you, part of which you do not want to acknowledge, a fear that creates hostility in | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| of your life, which again you do not want to see. When you find this out, you | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| produce what is called a miracle. Here I want to stress the point, although you all know | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| proper power in the proper way. You can want and will both out of your intellect and | 18 FREE WILL |
| assume, for instance, that in your profession you want to do your best. This is certainly a | 18 FREE WILL |
| people have not experienced this yet. When they want something, or when they think or form ideas | 18 FREE WILL |
| Him. But the true mystic will not even want to have this highest of all experiences as | 18 FREE WILL |
| wrong. The truth is, my friends, whether you want to believe it now or not, that Jesus | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| for he was the Messiah! Right now, I want to say this to you: If Jesus had | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| unite with God. And now, my friends, I want to say to each one of you: Try | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| scale than any of you can realize. I want to stress that there is no coincidence here | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| is going on, or because they do not want to develop spiritually and walk this path of | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| let alone to know what God is. I want only to say this much about the Creator | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| of truth within the misunderstanding. Now you will want to know how these foreign layers came to | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| as to have a clear-cut idea why you want to develop your attributes, what is your goal | 21 THE FALL |
| who is not a pure spirit. If you want to gain self-knowledge, you have to reconcile yourself | 21 THE FALL |
| if you decide on your own accord, I want it because I obviously need it and then | 21 THE FALL |
| feel when that happens, if you do not want to fool yourself about it, you will know | 21 THE FALL |
| where you really are and not where you want to be. Accept your temporary reality for two | 21 THE FALL |
| higher developed a creature, the less it will want honor and admiration. That is due only to | 21 THE FALL |
| essence is never understood, because people do not want to understand it. Just look at your own | 21 THE FALL |
| do you understand that? I think what you want to know is how the two manifest, so | 21 THE FALL |
| the saying you quoted. And here, I do want to explain this: What Jesus meant was that | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| good reasons, particular reasons, why I do not want to discuss this. And it is not important | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is, you have to give up what you want to gain. How can we be certain that | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| give it up at all. If you really want to know the truth about yourself, you can | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are still not giving up what you want to gain, even though a part of you | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| enlightenment, strength and higher understanding, to help you want with every particle of your being to purify | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| inner resentment. Furthermore, ask yourself: Do I really want to forgive? You will then see that part | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a beginning for the course. My friends, I want to tell each one of you, particularly those | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is involved in doing the work. Moreover, I want to tell you before I begin that many | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| force yourself to feel that you do not want to harm anybody, ever. You may act kindly | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| are still unaware of this layer because you want to be unaware. You escape from it although | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| weaknesses. The higher self in you says, I want to be perfect. I know this is the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| where both the higher and the lower self want the same thing, but their motives are entirely | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| it! When you buy a house and you want a beautiful mansion, you are reconciled to paying | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| a hut -- and sometimes you do not want to pay any price at all. That is | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you have in honesty, willpower, and effort. I want to say something else to you about this | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the discrepancy in themselves; how one part can want one thing, while another part wants exactly the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| part I do not like or cherish. I want to accept this aspect as part of my | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| any of you realize as yet. You mistakenly want to skip this phase altogether, and by so | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| within you which the lower self does not want to part with. So it is important that | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| what is underneath these doubts or fears that want to lead you away from the path -- | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of an occasional stubbornness when you do not want to understand something. And the more you come | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| just as damaging. Now, my dear friends, I want you to think about all that I have | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| have said to you. And, if you really want to follow this path, it is not sufficient | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| often see more than two, and that you want to improve and will not be hurt or | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you will have gained a major victory. I want to impress this upon you; take it with | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| path. Before turning to your questions now, I want to mention once more that everything you suffer | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| wait for you to change your ideas. I want to draw your attention to this, my friends | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| are willing to face. Now, my friends, I want to say this: That which you so often | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| it is so simple that you do not want to see it. You often look for answers | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| is a side in you that does not want what the other side in you wishes. To | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| liberated person. There are two other points I want to make at this time that are not | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| when sacrifice is necessary? Ask yourself why you want to do it. Oh yes, there is a | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| then take every day five minutes, whenever you want to, talk to him about these things, just | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| security is desired -- and who does not want it? -- these aims are indeed poor substitutes | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| comes to overcoming the obstacles. It does not want to fight, neither does it tolerate doing anything | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| or to something you desire and do not want to relinquish, that may also serve the purpose | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| ask first, What is it that I really want? Finding a clear answer to that question is | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you are not clear about what you actually want, problems are bound to arise. Once you have | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| wish and preference, ask yourself, Is what I want perhaps not God's will? At this point the | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| that something must be God's will because you want it so much. Put down all your cards | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| so because something in you still does not want to, it is much better if you acknowledge | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| many, many ways. Before ending this lecture, I want to remind all of you to practice using | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| your feelings are, what your desire currents really want, and whether these feelings and currents are truly | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| true that you can be passive when you want to fulfill God's will. In order to truly | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| imperfections, which does not mean that you should want to remain that way. You have to recognize | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| others. Instead, ask yourself, What do I really want? Know that the moment there is emotion in | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is emotion in you, there is something you want. Otherwise you would not feel that way. I | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| without which you would not and should not want to live anymore. It is part of the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| or what seems wrong to you and you want that person to change. There you can actually | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| wonderful order of the universe. God does not want you to be a puppet dependent on the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| course if your life is not what you want it to be, you can blame Him for | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| say to yourself, This is what I actually want when I am honest with myself. You may | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| are in a certain situation now which you want to change, or face a difficult decision, you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| reactions and distorted instincts, which you will then want to interpret to fit the resistance of your | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| You must be the one to decide, I want to do it wholeheartedly. Then God will help | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| ask yourself the question, What is it I want and why do I want such and such | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is it I want and why do I want such and such? What is my real motive | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| because you cannot, but because you do not want to! So you have completely turned away from | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| right. QUESTION: Does that mean that whatever we want to do, we always have to ask God | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| what you are, but also of what you want. What are your desires really? And when you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| only delay the process. The inner will must want the right thing and the ultimate goal. The | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and humility. For if you are vain, you want to place your ego in the first row | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| place your ego in the first row. You want admiration -- I am not speaking personally now | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| am not speaking personally now -- and you want to be more than the other person. So | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| so strong, my friends. However, I do not want to take up more time on this subject | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| It is impossible. You may fight all you want, you may do what you want on the | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| all you want, you may do what you want on the outside. But you only remove the | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| to the spirits themselves to decide whether they want to believe what is communicated to them or | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| the two kinds of shame that now I want to devote some of our time together to | 31 SHAME |
| factor to reckon with if you do not want to escape your present reality. The more you | 31 SHAME |
| slowly working up to the point where you want to be, you become angry at the world | 31 SHAME |
| make the inner effort to become what you want to be. So the wrong kind of shame | 31 SHAME |
| hard step at first, my friends. Again, I want to stress that you are not expected to | 31 SHAME |
| that moment with that person you do not want to appear more perfect than you are. That | 31 SHAME |
| you says, At this moment I do not want to appear better than I am. I want | 31 SHAME |
| want to appear better than I am. I want to show myself as I am; I do | 31 SHAME |
| with your free will whether or not you want to learn from them. You can either open | 31 SHAME |
| is a call! Decide, my friends. Do you want to take your courage into your own hands | 31 SHAME |
| The answer is simply to know what you want and to know what the price is; to | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| realize that you cannot fully have what you want on this earth sphere because there is always | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| And when I say greedy, I mean you want to amass advantages without shouldering the responsibility of | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| too hard to triumph over others. Now I want it well understood that if you have the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| theft in some way. It means that you want to gain the harmony that can only be | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| were not to feel that way, my emotions want to steal something. I desire to steal happiness | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| please, that when I say that emotionally you want to steal something, I know that you do | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| steal something, I know that you do not want to do so consciously. That is always where | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| you must put effort into anything when you want to reap the fruits, which of course you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| are being told to do so, because you want to be a good child, still doing it | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| not happen to it. In this way you want to be accepted by everyone or by the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| desire of yours should not be granted. I want to emphasize again that I am not speaking | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| says: If you do not do what I want, which in this case is to like and | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| thought you were; nor does it mean to want to remain as you are. You will find | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |