| Bridging....................6 | |
| word. Anger which leads away from communication, from bridging gaps between human beings, is a sin. Of | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| world. Growth unifies that disunity. Growth always implies bridging a chasm, resolving a real or apparent contradiction | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| of your total personality. Your intrinsic fear of bridging the gap between the little, separate ego consciousness | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| recent years. Humanity had learned certain lessons in bridging the gap from the self to the other | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| actually a creation, and will create accordingly, requires bridging the gap from not knowing to experiencing. This | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| of your inner spirit. The courage lies in bridging the gap between the assertion of the faith | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Bright......................9 | |
| will have some light in their sphere, some bright spot that signifies open encouragement or a certain | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| in accordance with its wishes, the world is bright. But if the tiniest little thing goes against | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| other planets revolve while it remains constant and bright, even though it is often covered by clouds | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| lonely will become easy, self-perpetuating, relaxed, safe, and bright. You will feel a deep sense of oneness | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| lifestream. It will change what is hopeless into bright hope, what is fearful into deep security and | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| be. When you know this, you will feel bright and hopeful. Others who find themselves at the | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| fully active as the carriers of this new, bright culture. The new person coming to live and | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| It always includes them. It is a powerful bright force of self-expression that never infringes on others | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| and fear that can be dissolved when the bright light of truth shines on the soul substance | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Brightness..................5 | |
| strength and energy, joy of life, hopefulness and brightness come forth. And also, specifically, the erotic element | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| the heaviness. All of you long for the brightness and lightness of the spirit that dwells deep | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| feelings. If you are truly in joy and brightness, free of anxiety, in a happy state, then | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| differences in energy emanations -- in color, in brightness, in their pleasing hues. The difference is quite | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| the darkness of night you rest, in the brightness of daylight you become active. This is a | 228 BALANCE |
| Brilliance..................4 | |
| of small children, and so many things undone, brilliance and talent. ANSWER: Actually, what you think is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| in the sparkle of your eyes, in the brilliance of your skin, in the suppleness of your | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| and states of consciousness, the degree of goodness, brilliance of spirit or mind, of beauty, wisdom, and | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| colors; higher self emanations, in their color and brilliance, convey peace, harmony, joy and bliss. Perception of | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| Brilliant...................10 | |
| by the fact that you see the most brilliant, most successful, most beautiful people often having worse | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| worse inferiority feelings than others who are less brilliant, less successful, or less beautiful. This inadequacy and | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| first perhaps slightly less pleasurable or blissful or brilliant. Even in that may lie a special fascination | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| of hospital, she proved unusually intelligent, even quite brilliant, as such people often are. This woman asked | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| and sterile. You may arrive at the most brilliant formulations with your mind, but if your mind | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| glorious creative potentials, containing within it all seeds. Brilliant, effervescent, alive, intensely conscious, it is endowed with | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| that does not contain the golden point of brilliant light. There is no evil in you that | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| of your higher self, which is beautiful and brilliant. But if the task you have come to | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| is indeed a creation. It requires the most brilliant creative genius to set in motion the energy | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| you trust change as the most desirable, positive, brilliant, and joyful phenomenon, which you want to go | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| Brink.......................5 | |
| may occasionally, almost consciously, find themselves on the brink of a decision: Either I allow my feelings | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| you will suddenly find yourself poised on the brink of an apparent void. This is the beginning | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| are. The human personality is often on the brink of wanting to make this step. But this | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of wanting to make this step. But this brink feels like a precipice which brings hesitation and | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| one cloth. Many human beings are on the brink of change and need help and guidance to | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Brittle.....................14 | |
| long as it is encased in the hardened, brittle structure of your defenses. Another difficulty in your | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| experienced as oversensitivity. The wall is hard and brittle; it prevents feeling and experiencing and causes the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| to the other. You may first find the brittle wall of rigidity. Do not expect to find | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| connections. Here the too great resistance of the brittle pseudo-protective wall has similar effects to that of | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| futile struggle hardens your psychic material. The more brittle it becomes the less you are able to | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| off negative life experience. People make themselves more brittle and stiff, thus pushing away life itself and | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| the momentary situation of how you make yourself brittle, how you deny what is, how you prefer | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| make the surface of soul substance hard and brittle, therefore much harder to impress and imprint. To | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| be too weak and my soul substance too brittle to be impressed. This will reinforce my doubt | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| You will have removed an unnecessary defense or brittle wall, which keeps you from experiencing life. Your | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| everything you think. You may adopt an artificial brittle security that is not built on sound and | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| opening up, of giving up your defenses, your brittle hardness with which you think to protect yourself | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| limits and make yourself unnecessarily vulnerable in a brittle way. When you free yourself of the impediments | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| and yet distinct difference there is between the brittle, stubborn, rebellious strength that is nothing but concealed | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Broaden.....................7 | |
| to see other countries and people and thus broaden their view. It is the same with the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| not go from one country to another and broaden their views. This destroys their mass images and | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| information may open new vistas for you to broaden your understanding and perception, even though my words | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| way, you gain additional insight and understanding. You broaden the view you have gained so far. By | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not help but repulse it. Such observations will broaden your understanding and will prove very beneficial for | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| reality? This is one area where you can broaden your vision and expand your horizon. For you | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| beliefs have to become flexible. Consider other beliefs. Broaden your outlook about the very subject you so | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| Broader.....................14 | |
| commit recognized crimes or sins. These are the broader and more extreme cases. But those of you | 18 FREE WILL |
| with all of you, but on a much broader scale than any of you can realize. I | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| cannot be a universal genius. Limitations on a broader scale have nothing to do with your images | 38 IMAGES |
| words help you again toward a deeper and broader understanding. My love, my help, go to all | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| one way of helping humanity to acquire a broader awareness. But if a technical discovery does not | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| if a technical discovery does not lead to broader and deeper understanding, such discovery will not only | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| that humanity has experienced is a result of broader knowledge used without the proper understanding. The links | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| you understand this phenomenon on a deeper and broader basis. This can happen only when you become | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| control are also connected with evil. On a broader scale, helplessness is one of humanity's greatest problems | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| an expression of an as yet unmanifest, deeper, broader, wiser and more loving divine self, then your | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| ego. One must be identified with a deeper, broader, and more effective aspect of the self in | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| consider the question from a more profound and broader vantage point, what appear as opposites suddenly reconcile | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| prevalent now, negated the concept of self-responsibility. In broader terms of evolution, this century's attitude is a | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| nature of the total consciousness. Life, in its broader sense, is greatly concerned with the process of | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Brooding....................4 | |
| thoughts are wasted in unproductive and even harmful brooding. If that same time could be used productively | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| filled with self-pity, complaining about your fate, and brooding unproductively about things you may have missed in | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| set the proper direction. Your mind can nurture brooding thoughts which encourage destructive emotions. Or your mind | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| must see yourself pursuing negative thoughts. See yourself brooding in the same vicious circles; see yourself almost | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |