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| in its own uniqueness. Needless to say, this widened experience does not mean promiscuity. The more you | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| these split concepts begin to mend through your widened understanding. Spiritual teachings postulate that you are supposed | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| belittle and to triumph over others. When this widened outlook on life is assimilated by your innermost | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| expanded, the closed circuit of your mind has widened; however, it is still a closed circuit. You | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| your life and thus your entire consciousness is widened and expanded; wisdom, freedom and abundance is added | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| also within yourself, for the purpose of creating widened, more realistic understanding. Obviously this is a cyclic | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
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| right here and right now. In this new widening of life there are not just two alternatives | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| forever increasing unfolding and expansion. It means a widening experience of the infinite possibilities of beauty, life | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| Each moment is rich in possibilities, and harbors widening vistas of perception never before experienced. At the | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| inner decision and contract against its own disposition, widening the disconnection. Fear and self-will take over and | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
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| you are in reality, the more your outlook widens and the more the many little fragments make | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| misunderstood. As the consciousness increases and rises and widens and deepens, even though one may not understand | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| in different ways fortifies and consolidates the recognitions, widens and deepens their perception. It links them with | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| truly perceived, the limitations instantly lessen. Your range widens, your freedom increases, your vision extends, your security | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| it must include others. The realm of experience widens, with each experience perfect in its own uniqueness | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| right and the other is wrong. The rift widens, your anxiety increases, and the more weapons you | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| based can be revealed and questioned. This step widens your perception, enabling you to transcend your dualism | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| The scope of an opinion, conviction, or sensation widens and deepens. Everything becomes fuller. The self becomes | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| frustrated. The chasm between the self and others widens forever more, love becomes less possible and hence | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| you cannot bring unification. On the contrary, it widens the split. What must be done is to | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| constructive and self-defeating, distorted ways. The latter way widens the split and the pain of disunity. Fighting | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| of self and the unconscious denial of self widens as life goes on. If you are alienated | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| pain; hate for your hate. Your inner split widens until you start groping your way back. There | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| your perception of reality about your personal circumstances widens, so does your perception of creation begin to | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
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| you God's blessings, my dear ones. From the wider perspective of the spirit, human life appears as | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| in the spirit state the entity has a wider view than in the body and understands that | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| planned by you when you still had your wider vision, before matter enveloped your spirit. It will | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| has begun to detach himself and takes a wider vision on things, he will be able to | 18 FREE WILL |
| My words may open the door a little wider, so that the new friends, too, may cross | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| inner and deeper meaning, and to see the wider effect of this whole question. Are there any | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| aim is much higher. It has an infinitely wider, longer-range outlook. QUESTION: We are told that love | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| sexual experience. QUESTION: Homosexuality seems to be gaining wider exposure, understanding, and acceptance. Would you consider it | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| it. Human beings simply cannot grasp this much wider means of communication. Their own language is only | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| language is only a small part of the wider scope of picture language. It is as though | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| also be beneficial in waking people up to wider awareness. They may also be helpful wherever people | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| facts and ignore the deeper connections. Thus the wider truth of your situation is in darkness. Let | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| is infinitely more subtle and has a much wider horizon than the human language. On the other | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| through all the steps I lead you. This wider vision will be attained also by a reflection | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| gratification you long for, you can cultivate this wider outlook. Take the instantaneousness out of the wish | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| You can only develop a different understanding, a wider vision. Cause and effect move closer together, and | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| The other aspect has a much deeper and wider significance. It contains the deepest wisdom and truth | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| increase untruthfulness. The ability to acquire a deeper, wider, and greater perception of truth is determined by | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| experience more keenly, and you have a deeper, wider scope for living. You confuse goodness with goody-goodyness | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| scale of the capacity to relate is much wider among human beings than you remotely realize at | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| the same law must exist also in a wider context. They would not assume that a different | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| comes as a result of the fuller and wider understanding of yourself. When this point has been | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| soul suffers too much. The suffering makes a wider and more truthful view quite impossible. Therefore one-sidedness | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| modality. It is a fragment, cut from a wider and freer dimension of experience. The limited fragment | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| In the next dimension, where there is a wider fragment of what you may call time -- | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| can move and be free. In this other, wider, freer dimension there is relaxation and a gathering | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| of gross matter and to move into a wider dimension actually restores the physical organs through the | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| love. The higher the degree of consciousness, the wider the range of life, and the greater the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| create good relationships, which will afford you a wider range for experience, more possibilities, more inner and | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you consider bad is the best from a wider spectrum, from a point of view of reality | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| hand, it is also important to see a wider view. Although the fusing of pleasure and pain | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| This will give you greater understanding and a wider vision of the relationship between the individual and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| you extend your range of consciousness to a wider dimension. For the moment, it suffices to attempt | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| slowly weaken. Each observation may bring deeper and wider understanding. To be very quiet and relaxed during | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| Human beings, before they can come to a wider understanding, have first to give up their concept | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| of before true control, in a higher and wider sense, can come. True control comes through letting | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| blissful experience, into greater wisdom and power, into wider scopes and depths of being. However, due to | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| undesirable results, how can you come to a wider view of cause and effect, so often ascribed | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| The scope and depth of reality is much wider. This happens only because you do not question | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to feel how this law operates over a wider time span. QUESTION: I suffer from occasional heart | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| with productive thoughts of truth, expansion and a wider vision. Each situation will offer many possibilities for | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| and the relaxed state of the inner, richer, wider being can manifest: not by escaping into cut-off | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| courage and the momentary resistance to seeing a wider truth than the egotistic one, your path becomes | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| against an opposite through repeated recognitions of a wider truth in every small personal issue. The real | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| a way as you can muster, expressing the wider outlook of the real self, as you turn | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| see yourself in relationship to life in a wider truth than you are as yet willing even | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| and whose experience of life is infinitely greater, wider, deeper and fuller, limitless in creative experience and | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| I ignore because I close myself to a wider reality? This is one area where you can | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| you ultimately also benefit others. To reach this wider state of consciousness, it is first necessary to | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| in the soul. They make the dualistic split wider. It is always easy to get lost in | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| spread. It is the consciousness that perceives the wider reality behind the apparent, fragmented reality at your | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| itself from within, as the reality of this wider world shows you the way to accept and | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| reintegrate this split-off ego-consciousness and to regain forever wider and deeper portions of your real self, your | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| this newly gained reality opens to a life wider and fuller for you. The result is more | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| known territory -- for regardless of how much wider it may be compared to the territory of | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| other realms and to entities endowed with a wider and deeper knowing. This brings us to the | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| All human experience is always symbolic of a wider, deeper, and fuller meaning. Tonight's lecture will deal | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| bringing it into a cohesive, meaningful connection with wider and deeper considerations, the more restless and depressed | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| depths of unified consciousness -- in the larger, wider reality of the inner planes. This is why | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| thrown into water, waves form in circles spreading wider and wider. These waves never end. They only | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| water, waves form in circles spreading wider and wider. These waves never end. They only seem to | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| the source, each time making the unified substance wider, extending it ever more. This is, in different | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| longer. You then pass into a deeper and wider state of consciousness, in which you comprehend beyond | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the plan, and may increasingly avail itself of wider possibilities of self-expression, commensurate with its own growth | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| begin to perceive the incredible meaningfulness, the much wider wisdom and purpose of every event -- how | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| We shall continue all future lectures from this wider vision: How you, as an individual, fit into | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| train reaches is an expansion, a deeper and wider expression of divine life, and therefore of joy | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| all bad. This is true in a much wider sense, but it is possible that in their | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |