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| It is just this extra effort that God wants everybody to make. The last stage and deepening | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| each other out. One part of the soul wants to give love -- and therefore also to | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| giving to you. This part of the soul wants to fulfill itself, wants to surrender the ego | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| part of the soul wants to fulfill itself, wants to surrender the ego, to sacrifice, and will | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| feeling, to abide by the spiritual laws. It wants to forget itself and not take its vanity | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| a lifetime. The other part of the personality wants comfort, convenience, and will give up nothing. From | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| love, strength, health, freedom -- everything. Whatever one wants for one's own sake will dissolve, wither away | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| their origin in the unconscious. The conscious mind wants the good and wants to act right; one | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| unconscious. The conscious mind wants the good and wants to act right; one part of the unconscious | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| every human being another part of the personality wants what is evil and false -- yet this | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| Religion means re- connection with God, and everybody wants this, whether knowingly or not. All unfulfilled longing | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| course, often somewhat unpleasant -- not because He wants it so but because it is in accordance | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| already here on earth, the happiness that God wants you to have. For only the victory over | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| not need or want flattery. An evolved spirit wants what God wants, and God wants to make | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| want flattery. An evolved spirit wants what God wants, and God wants to make free and independent | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| evolved spirit wants what God wants, and God wants to make free and independent human beings out | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| in short, everything that nurtures the ego, which wants to feel special. This also is mostly unconscious | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| through the contact with the spirit world. Whoever wants to use this contact for the purpose of | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| through the hands of the medium. This energy wants to penetrate into you to strengthen you and | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| those who have no Goethe. God's spirit world wants to avoid this. So whenever such a thing | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the greater truth your conscious being doubts and wants to convey this knowledge to your consciousness. The | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| thinking is, indeed, essential for the person who wants to grow spiritually. Unfortunately, it is often misunderstood | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| principle of positive thinking is the following: Everybody wants to be happy. This is a most natural | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| on. The lower self, on the other hand, wants to attain happiness by outer means and without | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| and self-analysis. The lower self, in its pride, wants to be perfect without doing the necessary and | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| is not prepared to pay any price; it wants to have its cake and eat it too | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| paying the price. Misapplied or misunderstood positive thinking wants to have outer perfection often too quickly, merely | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| because it fits very well with what it wants. The first step to true positive thinking is | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| are only temporary, for God is love and wants all His children to be happy. But happiness | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| how you should meet your difficulties. He who wants to win his life will lose it. He | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| has broken. Whoever follows this path, whoever sincerely wants to walk it, will definitely be guided to | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| that may not always manifest itself outside, and wants its way without paying the price. It is | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| disliked by others -- an outcome no one wants. Instead of overcoming selfishness by the slow process | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| adequate, but it is not. The person who wants to become happy, healthy, and at peace inwardly | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| conflicting desires -- one part of the personality wants to go in one direction, and another part | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| is encouraged by the world, because the world wants to see good. From the viewpoint of the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| my dear. When a person on the path wants something, he or she should first of all | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the spirit who is wherever he thinks he wants to be? ANSWER: Yes, yes. But it is | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| who rightly say that whatever a person really wants, can be accomplished. This is more or less | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| has to be examined by the person who wants, above all, to grow spiritually and come close | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| obviously and noticeably in a wrong direction. He wants to have his will at all costs. For | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| because this person knows somewhere that what he wants is wrong, yet he is not ready to | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| is not ready to give it up; he wants it nevertheless. The willpower continues to flow in | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| In fact, any one of you who really wants to form a judicious opinion has the duty | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| with no one knowing about it. What God wants from each and every one of you, as | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| sacrifice -- and this, too, is what God wants from you. There is a reason why He | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| degree have the freedom to go where he wants and he may then choose the place he | 18 FREE WILL |
| the stages of development for each person who wants to regain the kingdom of heaven. Periods of | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| with what spirits you are communicating. Anyone who wants to judge must, under all circumstances, take the | 22 SALVATION |
| as yet, where one trend of the subconscious wants to go this way, and the other that | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You will then see that part of you wants to do it, but another part enjoys not | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It is also the lower self that always wants to have everything so comfortable. The lower self | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| to have everything so comfortable. The lower self wants to be in a high position, but for | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| loving your fellow creatures. But your lower self wants to be perfect in order to have more | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| that the lower self is lazy and never wants to work. Yet it requires work to face | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| part can want one thing, while another part wants exactly the opposite. This conflict of opposite desires | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| an excuse for the lower self that always wants to avoid purification and improvement. Now, my dear | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of self-knowledge and perfection, and do what God wants you to do. It will not take more | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| the good or positive side in you that wants the right and wise thing was overpowered. You | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| part of you that is very sincere, that wants this out of pure reasons or motives. However | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| to pay the necessary price and therefore merely wants ego gratification. This part wants to fulfill a | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| and therefore merely wants ego gratification. This part wants to fulfill a task mainly to receive recognition | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| very often near you. Very near you. He wants help and you can help him, not only | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| does not believe in God and even sincerely wants to strengthen the disbelief. Do not cover up | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to do this by slow stages while another wants to quickly get it over with and suddenly | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| it in some hidden way. In reality God wants you to be independent and strong, and you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| to prevent other people from living as God wants them to live, and if your world has | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| little ego. Self-will strives to get what it wants, regardless of the consequences and of the harm | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| my half-faith; the willing part in my being wants to develop and become a better and emotionally | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| to battle with your lower self that always wants to obscure the way and obstruct your path | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| between themselves and the infinite bliss that God wants all His children to enjoy. Before I turn | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| God and to yourself. You must know God wants you to find out the truth within yourself | 36 PRAYER |
| essential for their purification. However, any person who wants to be on the path will often find | 36 PRAYER |
| yourself. Say to yourself, A part of me wants this; another part of me is still struggling | 36 PRAYER |
| else? An occasional prayer is not enough. God wants the whole of you so that He can | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| part of your soul. A part of you wants God, wants to experience yourself as a child | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| your soul. A part of you wants God, wants to experience yourself as a child of God | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| to experience yourself as a child of God, wants to develop and purify. Yet with another part | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| your darkest hour what it is that He wants you to learn and what it is in | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| work for God and for yourself. What God wants for you must be your own best interest | 38 IMAGES |
| are blind enough to believe that what God wants for them is contrary to their own happiness | 38 IMAGES |
| prayer there is certainly nothing selfish. For God wants you to be happy. It is a long | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| he is not true to himself, that he wants to be more than he is. A complex | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| humble is what a part of your emotions wants to avoid. In the presence of other people | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| worth and value. It exists solely because one wants to be more than one is. So if | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| with public opinion, it is certainly because he wants the approval of public opinion. Then he feels | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| outer layers. Do not avoid eros when it wants to come to you. If you understand the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| could not mature because you kept it suppressed wants just that: the fulfillment of two or more | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| or more contradictory desires. The child in you wants an impossibility because of its persistent desire to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| matter how sincere the search is, almost everyone wants to resist facing certain things within. The two | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| Miracles in that sense do not exist. Whoever wants to believe in that kind of salvation does | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| forces clash in the soul. The life force wants to come into you -- and also out | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| neither divine nor humanly possible. The love it wants is selfish; it does not want to share | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| opposite desires. On the one hand the child wants the love of each parent exclusively; on the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| On the other hand what your real conscience wants you to do may at first appear contrary | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| conscience knows you cannot be perfect yet; it wants to show you step by step how to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| motivated by weakness and fear. It bargains; it wants to avoid something that may or may not | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the immature desire and craving for love, and wants to be loved and cherished, cared for and | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you feel guilty and undeserving of what God wants you to have: happiness, light, love. Be in | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| father, this, too, may cause homosexuality, because he wants to emulate and imitate his mother. He wants | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| wants to emulate and imitate his mother. He wants to identify with her. While in another personality | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| other. Knowing that one extreme is wrong, one wants to believe that the other extreme is right | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong remedy and much nearer the extreme one wants to avoid. The right alternative is to recognize | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| without misgivings and compromises. A part in you wants the fulfillment, but another part does not. The | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| very well by now. And the immature person wants the impossible. A child cannot have an adult | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| it will be possible to get what it wants without the necessity to pay the price. Until | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| desires instantly and in exactly the way it wants it. Regardless of how adult a person may | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| very early that the kind of happiness it wants is unattainable. The child feels dependent on a | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to analyze your idealized self, what your unconscious wants it to be, what is it supposed to | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| Are you willing to answer that question? He wants to know whether it is genuine, whether it | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| infant in you desires everything the way it wants it, how it wants it, and when it | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| everything the way it wants it, how it wants it, and when it wants it. But it | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| it, how it wants it, and when it wants it. But it goes further than that. This | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| does not want to see that connection. It wants one without the other, and what it wants | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| wants one without the other, and what it wants does not exist; it is illusion or Utopia | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| of frustrated childhood experience. Such a person unconsciously wants to make up for it for the rest | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| nothing, not paying the price. If a person wants to receive love without wishing to invest in | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of what the inner person, your psyche, thinks, wants and feels. This is often contrary to your | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and rebellion as the supposedly male qualities she wants to further. The differences between man and woman | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| to others. For that is the way God wants you to be, not suffering, not in pain | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as inferior, while the one who rejects these wants and needs you regard as strong and superior | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| Yes, you may have the generous heart that wants to give the utmost and whose love may | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| itself. QUESTION: Do you mean a person who wants to be hypnotized and cannot? ANSWER: The term | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| of awareness as to where your innermost self wants to lead you, and why your outer self | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| satisfactory and fulfilling. In many instances, what one wants is not what one really wants but what | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| what one wants is not what one really wants but what one thinks one wants. When this | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| one really wants but what one thinks one wants. When this is the case, it is always | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| conviction that this is what your real self wants and not because you should, that it is | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to feel about you as she or he wants. You will approach mature love in such a | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| one-sided as all immature creatures are. Its impossible wants are: to be loved by all, to be | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| the child who has built this unreal form wants. The unreal form is a constant hazard, and | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| immaturity. It is the child in you who wants everything, not only according to its own will | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| that one cannot always have exactly what one wants when one wants it. Patience is not hindered | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| always have exactly what one wants when one wants it. Patience is not hindered by the pressure | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| Each is convinced that what he or she wants is right and for the good. But you | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| does not want to give up childhood, who wants to be cuddled and pampered, who wants to | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| who wants to be cuddled and pampered, who wants to be taken care of instead of taking | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| for a teacher, if he or she truly wants to make the best of his calling, is | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| because it does not want to understand. It wants to lean on dogma and rule, so as | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| You all know that the child in you wants something handed to it on a silver platter | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| specific and detailed answers. QUESTION: If a person wants to know the truth from a doctor or | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| kind there is certainly nothing selfish. For God wants you happy. It is a long tradition of | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| That resisting part may interfere when your soul wants to convey a message to you. One part | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| message to you. One part of your being wants to give and show freely to your consciousness | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| concerning a possible lack of talent that one wants but cannot have due to certain factors. The | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is very difficult for him. What he really wants to do is to sing, and certainly he | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| we can realize certain ambitions. But he still wants to attain his ambitions. ANSWER: I can only | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| death. The atheist/materialist and the superficially religious who wants to avoid death by superimposed faith are two | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the same root: the desire for immortality. Neither wants to let go; they want to hold onto | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| not need all that. But this person, too, wants immortality and thinks it is a show of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| consideration is the time element. The idealized self wants to be perfect, according to its specific demands | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| as being up to the spiritual standards one wants to abide by: one should be angry and | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| and has battled with the other part that wants change. Unconsciously, you hold on to what you | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| longer works. In order to get what he wants and thinks he needs, he will call upon | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| both ways, though the child in you never wants to accept that. Since you protect yourself in | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |