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| spirit communication. There have always been some exceptional, wise humans to whom others could be guided. In | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| attitude. With a general question, however, it is wise to adopt a patiently detached and humble attitude | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| afraid of it, for God's will is always wise and loving and leads to happiness, even though | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| the Creator. Some say Jesus was just a wise man, a sage, a great teacher with great | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| state of development had the particular characteristic of wise judgement, calmness, and detached reflection. These attributes would | 21 THE FALL |
| His true identity, and about there being any wise and good purpose in undergoing all the hardships | 22 SALVATION |
| of the first Christians. Jesus was much too wise to suggest that any truth could be kept | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Certainly the path is difficult, but God is wise and just and He will not give you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| side in you that wants the right and wise thing was overpowered. You rationalized this defeat with | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| even the most intelligent of you, even the wise ones, became very blind and very unintelligent in | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| is always your endeavor toward self-knowledge, self-honesty. The wise and mature attitude, of course, is not believing | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you to revolt against yourself or against the wise law that created the situation. You need to | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| for advice and help. Therefore it may be wise to start by discussing this with the very | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| will not confuse you any longer. The ideal, wise, good and understanding authority will remain a goal | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| met someone who is very good and very wise and very kind, without being perfect in all | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| of the human personality is very shrewd. Be wise to it. As I have said, some concepts | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| that the laws of God are infinitely good, wise, loving and safe! God's laws do not make | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| your extreme was so far, it might be wise to temporarily lean a little more in the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| at times it may; at other times, the wise decision is that it be not you. This | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| cause any disadvantage to another cannot possibly be wise and be truly advantageous for you. But it | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| victory. View these reactions without guilt, from the wise distance you should have toward the childishness still | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| own choice is fully considered because it is wise. In other cases, it is pointed out that | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| behind a wall. This may not be a wise decision, but it has to be respected. Another | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have made a rigid rule out of this wise provision and admonition. With rigidity, the inner meaning | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it does not occur to them that something wise, true, flexible and alive may be behind the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| We see these soul forms. Only an extremely wise human being will react to your obsession with | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| wanderer or a mountain climber. If you are wise you will not set out with the final | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the individual, rebellion against what is truly good, wise, and loving in religion will cease because religion | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| it to cease to exist. Therefore, it is wise on your part to want to look at | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| your unconscious mind is either a perfect and wise super-creature or a monstrous animal. Many people have | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| God. He senses the power of this immensely wise and resourceful Creator of all the natural laws | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| to your problems outside yourself -- perhaps through wise teachings, through a helping hand. But the most | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| will finally bring out of that well of wise guidance warm feelings of love and affection and | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| is true that your inner well, with its wise guidance, its reliable intuition, cannot function when it | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| strong enough not to fear self- surrender, and wise enough not to do so indiscriminately. Through healthy | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| that you may lose it. It might be wise to also investigate the areas in which you | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the goal of swinging into the yes-current. The wise, inner self knows what is needed and subtly | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| to meet this vacuum in the most constructive, wise, and knowing way? False solutions and means to | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| and generous, everything that is life-expanding, beautiful, and wise comes from the inner or real self. This | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| of your innermost being, which is utterly trustworthy, wise, and good. When you do that, you find | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| the life stream will become discernible and its wise guidance and meaningfulness will become a powerful presence | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| are unwilling to relax into an attitude of wise, positive reasonableness and humility, without ceasing to seek | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| ego faculties are much less adequate, much less wise, resourceful or creative. They are but separated particles | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| within is not only constructive, benign, good and wise. It is also destructive, vicious, evil and stupid | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| of perpetual growth. It demands time, perseverance and wise, mature insight into the dynamics of growth. It | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| that unconscious negation springs from the best, most wise aspect of the self. Fixed outer values are | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| crisis is an integral part of creation. Therefore, wise ones embrace and accept crises, which remove more | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| resentment that they do. It would therefore be wise if you first examined your areas of jealousy | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| regardless of whether the thoughts are true and wise or false and limited. Likewise, whether the feelings | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| are, from being your best, your greatest, most wise, generous, loving, creative, self-assertive, unfolding, aware, courageous, humble | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| the worst will transform into the most beautiful, wise, strong, loving force. It is in hiding that | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| deeply connected with and a part of the wise and wholesome totality of your life, of the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| and not become whole within themselves; if the wise, knowing, enlightened aspects of yourself are asleep, that | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| then surrendering to it is indeed the only wise and reasonable thing to do. Then surrendering to | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| too, must be what it is, following inexorable, wise laws. To explain the nature of these laws | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| is the highest, most potently beautiful, loving, and wise force. This shows again that the same thing | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| them from colliding into one another? It is wise law; it is boundaries and structure. There can | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| you may reject the infringement in a clear, wise, intelligent assertion, comprehending the deeper meaning of the | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| the state that religion often calls salvation. Be wise and humble enough to know that you may | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| not sufficiently developed to make conscious, appropriate, and wise choices. The strength of their lower selves and | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
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| about will channel the energy at their disposal wisely and reset the inner switches accordingly. When one | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| law, which is very firmly regulated and very wisely. Here again you touch on a question that | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| and at the same time to plan ahead wisely for the group's future as a whole. You | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| spiritual idea behind it, you will use it wisely. God will then be able to lead you | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| rigidity in any direction, but free choice used wisely. One can overwork and yet keep the Sabbath | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to have his or her demands fulfilled, not wisely and in sensitive awareness of what the other | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| all you want. You may not want it wisely, and you certainly may not want it consciously | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| be sensed as self-caused and self- wanted, sometimes wisely, sometimes destructively. Exactly the same principle of cause | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| more than you do, and do it consciously, wisely, beautifully and satisfyingly, although not to the same | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| or not. If you use it consciously and wisely and follow it, go with it, it will | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the inner government of an individual, does not wisely contain every one of these systems in positive | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| if only you knew this and used it wisely. The block exists on the one hand because | 254 SURRENDER |
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| guidance, and it will come in a much wiser and more wonderful way than you can imagine | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| too. But the feelings are refined and much wiser. The aim is much higher. It has an | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| view that is important, namely spiritual development. A wiser and higher developed spirit advises and points out | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| difference is only that the former will make wiser decisions for their lives from the viewpoint of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| same point because you have become richer and wiser. It is the same with the perfection that | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of your being. It is something calmer and wiser that thinks and feels through you. This is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| to use it and become thereby stronger and wiser. When you depend on your inner resources, your | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| and streams of feeling. Is it not much wiser to remove the barricade? Waiting until nature breaks | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| you will establish a connection with a deeper, wiser part of your unconscious. It will eventually take | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| existed -- the second, recently discovered, being much wiser in its guidance than the old one. It | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| led you into blind alleys. But now the wiser ego can determine the way. The struggle between | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| can integrate with the indirectly accessible deeper and wiser self. Putting your identity exclusively into the outer | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| one self, which will be fuller, better equipped, wiser. It will have more and better assets than | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| so. You fear the impulses of the larger, wiser self, but cannot want wholeheartedly to commit yourself | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| emotions. A real hurt mellows and makes a wiser person; it makes you grow and expand your | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| stronger and better than ever -- more flexible, wiser, and filled with the pleasure supreme that all | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| receiving. In one instance the conscious ego is wiser and more constructive than the buried unconscious. In | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| other instance, the buried unconscious is by far wiser and more constructive than the conscious mind. Treating | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| expression of an as yet unmanifest, deeper, broader, wiser and more loving divine self, then your divine | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| pain will also yield a deeper, fuller, and wiser understanding of the connections between cause and effect | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| following the inner movement that is so much wiser, so much more profound than what the human | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| not, of course, in opposition to the deeper, wiser Godself the ego must surrender to. It is | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| primitive by people who believe themselves to be wiser and more knowledgeable when they ridicule other manifestations | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |