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| share, which arises from their own mistakes and weaknesses in those areas where they violate spiritual law | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| attained mastery over your lower self, over your weaknesses that needed exactly this kind of testing. This | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| least resistance and to give in to their weaknesses. Thus they belong to the land of the | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| is. To the degree you overcome your own weaknesses, affirm the spiritual laws within yourself, and learn | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| I do not only refer to faults and weaknesses but also to anxieties and unhealthy currents -- | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| else, where are the inner blocks, faults, and weaknesses? The chief life-conflicts always originate there. QUESTION: People | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| mistakes? Although some of you may know your weaknesses, most people ignore a good part of them | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| self, which comprises not only your faults and weaknesses but also your ignorance and all the attitudes | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| only of the common faults and the individual weaknesses that vary with each person, but also of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| so that they may give in to their weaknesses. The spirits earn special rewards in their world | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| self-delusion, selfishness, holding on to various faults and weaknesses. How much are you willing to give up | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| yourself as you really are, with all your weaknesses, without any pretense, you make a great and | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| two extremes. It is important to know your weaknesses, and which extreme you tend to, for only | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| are willing. When you know your faults and weaknesses, you must find either directly or indirectly the | 18 FREE WILL |
| and shortsightedness, and not only do faults and weaknesses manifest which I term the lower self. One | 18 FREE WILL |
| proven themselves sufficiently aware of many of their weaknesses, the presence of people who cannot as yet | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| responsible or accountable for their sins, faults and weaknesses, for Christ has atoned for them through His | 22 SALVATION |
| with every human being. Wherever there are faults, weaknesses and blindness, corresponding spheres come into existence. Wherever | 22 SALVATION |
| faster development, because you can certainly overcome your weaknesses faster if they are challenged. And this they | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of self-deception and from influences caused by character weaknesses. The higher self in you says, I want | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| not only a matter of overcoming your character weaknesses. Overcoming your own fears is of equal importance | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| able to talk openly about your difficulties, your weaknesses and your problems, and receive criticism. The latter | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you help more by showing your own human weaknesses than by trying to appear superior. Your partner | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| whether the lower self simply contains the faults, weaknesses, and sick currents that any of you possess | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| or learning to love are such. Overcoming your weaknesses, or wanting to be honest with yourself, which | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| of self-respect is not due to your faults, weaknesses, shortcomings, and sins -- no matter what they | 31 SHAME |
| sister of yours who may have many more weaknesses but who has the courage to live without | 31 SHAME |
| not how good you are or how many weaknesses you still have that determines your self-respect. Self-respect | 31 SHAME |
| stock of the self and to accept its weaknesses in their present state, with the deep desire | 31 SHAME |
| action of being able to observe your own weaknesses in the true light of what they are | 31 SHAME |
| success for quite a while in overcoming your weaknesses. You may perhaps understand now that here you | 31 SHAME |
| However, if you are capable of facing these weaknesses; if you meet them with open eyes and | 31 SHAME |
| understand that without such apparently disadvantageous happenings, these weaknesses could not enter your conscious mind. You could | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| think about your mistakes, your shortcomings, and your weaknesses. The same holds true on all levels of | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| about every conceivable attitude, about your faults and weaknesses, as well as about your qualities and strengths | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| well. You may not realize that these same weaknesses exist on a separate level, however. So, if | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| yourself, knowing that no human being exists without weaknesses. But you continue to ignore many trends, half-consciously | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| face. You store not only your faults and weaknesses, but also all things that confuse and frighten | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| feel about their lower selves, their faults and weaknesses, their misconceptions and deviations. Tonight I should like | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| right than B, A's most hidden faults and weaknesses will have a particular effect on B and | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| or to disagree with you, or to have weaknesses which you may not approve of, but also | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you in spite of your shortcomings and various weaknesses. You do not realize that with these very | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You do not realize that with these very weaknesses you inadvertently hurt and disappoint them just as | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| willing to do the same when other people's weaknesses affect you negatively. This request -- though unspoken | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to know yourself so as to overcome your weaknesses, your misconceptions and illusions, your limitations and blindness | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| think of their strengths rather than of their weaknesses. QUESTION: Would you say that emotional immaturity is | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| path you learned to recognize your faults, your weaknesses and your shortcomings on the most superficial and | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| needing it. And you will also see the weaknesses of people, without being personally threatened, and without | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| that are not genuine. They use these fake weaknesses as a weapon and a means to finally | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and detachedly at all human beings, knowing their weaknesses and good qualities, but without being bothered or | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| an exalted one can be touched by human weaknesses, such a person tries to rise above all | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| use as escape, as a substitute for your weaknesses, as a consolation for your fears, as an | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| are the only ones who have all these weaknesses and faults. They feel themselves ostracized, different, separate | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has the strength to face and pronounce similar weaknesses, faults, or limitations. That gives courage and makes | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| see that others, too, have their vulnerabilities and weaknesses and needs. You reject that part of their | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| own side. You erroneously believe that if your weaknesses, or at least certain specific weaknesses, were exposed | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| if your weaknesses, or at least certain specific weaknesses, were exposed, others would have a right to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| guilt. They are still hindered by self-condemnation, by weaknesses and the paralysis of their faculties, by false | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| are not despicable because you harbor the same weaknesses as all your fellow human beings. Thus you | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| vulnerability and human needs. The other's strengths and weaknesses become distorted and discolored. Both come to represent | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| confront, accept, and admit those negative, destructive traits, weaknesses, little selfishnesses, cruelties, and vanities that often make | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| It dispenses with all sentimentality that encourages your weaknesses and self-evasions. But because of this, it keeps | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| the force out of their own fears and weaknesses. But the time must come when every last | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| pathwork. You need to truly know yourself, your weaknesses, your lower self, where you are corruptible, where | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| man does not face his fears, guilts, and weaknesses, he will play a power game in one | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| you in a different way. Neither of these weaknesses are inherent. They are unnecessary artificial constructions due | 254 SURRENDER |
| Wealth......................32 | |
| to be burdened by possessions. You can enjoy wealth when you conquer the temptation that money, more | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| I will continue to learn and develop. A wealth of further recognition must come to you that | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| and yet they are successful. They use their wealth for power over other people, to be important | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| order to accomplish something else. If you desire wealth because you want to be wealthy, it is | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| means to an end. But if you desire wealth so as to alleviate an inferiority complex, then | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| to alleviate an inferiority complex, then you want wealth to fulfill something that stands in no direct | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| various ways. One person may believe that material wealth will gain him greater stature in the eyes | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| For only when you have tapped your inner wealth will you stop straining away from the now | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| that deep within your soul you harbor a wealth of wisdom, knowledge, power, love -- the solution | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| run away from it, then it yields a wealth of beautiful energy, life substance and joy. In | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| what need not be. Each moment contains indescribable wealth, my friends. The human mind lacks the equipment | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| will open up in you. A fountain and wealth of wonderful strength, the love and wisdom of | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| which has all the vibrant energies, creativeness and wealth of healthy strong feelings, and enough resiliency to | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| make it impossible to give out of your wealth and are therefore afraid of receiving. You are | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| kingdom mean? It symbolizes the absolute power and wealth which the spiritually awakened find to be a | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| speak, of course, of the spiritual power and wealth of love, truth, peace, expansion, creativity, bliss, and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| yourself the luxury of finding out your inner wealth and resourcefulness, your inborn strength and richness of | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| you. How else can you find the endless wealth that is in you? By holding back your | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| into your own depths and experience your inner wealth and connectedness with the universe. Second, by entering | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| with the inner divine self, with the inexhaustible wealth that is every human being's inner nucleus: the | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| find the treasure of your creative powers, the wealth of your feelings, and the fullness of your | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| yourself to it. This fullness of feelings, this wealth of creative ideas, and the ability to live | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| a pauper and never avail yourself of your wealth. Knowing your riches implies, as the first substantial | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| feel, perhaps even because of it, your inner wealth. The capacity to do without what you want | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| equality, justice, and love to all, sharing the wealth of the earth. New laws and new approaches | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it differently, you believe only in the illusory wealth acquired through scheming, pretense and greed, and not | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| pretense and greed, and not in the real wealth of God's creation. In practical terms this manifests | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| create the sound new order of your inner wealth that has waited for this moment to manifest | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| your final reality. Soon you discover the real wealth behind the frantic efforts to hide the assumed | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| hence self-created -- poverty by pretending a false wealth, built on deficit. Your spiritual and emotional finances | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| after another, never daring to trust that real wealth can be reestablished. In such a situation it | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| inner and outer harmony, health and honestly acquired wealth -- that is, divine abundance. Here are some | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |