| Yoga........................3 | |
| you hold. QUESTIONER: That is done in the yoga exercises. The holding is the most important. ANSWER | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| like to ask two questions, in connection with yoga. Is what you said tonight the same as | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| what you said tonight the same as what yoga calls becoming the mirror of reality? Also that | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Yoke........................6 | |
| courage and labor to free yourself from the yoke of your own weakness will have the same | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| will show you that unselfishness is not a yoke that you have to take on against your | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| that this distortion generates, there is the added yoke of feeling that you have to obey, whether | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| additional purpose of easing the brunt of this yoke. So you see how the basic helplessness links | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the desire exists to free yourself of the yoke of such a person -- and this happens | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| another is wrong, you still live under the yoke of the superimposed conscience which is supposed to | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Young.......................52 | |
| I will try to explain why. When very young people daydream, it is one thing; when they | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| take for example souls who are still very young, who have only had a few incarnations. Their | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| have them. Such inner impressions are formed in young years, and from those impressions wrong conclusions were | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| it is similar. An infant or a very young child knows only the most primitive emotions. It | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| question? QUESTION: Perfectly, thank you. QUESTION: If two young people fall in love and marry and they | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| this particular point of view, covering childhood, adolescence, young adult life, and so on. Let that person | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| trend does have its drawbacks. It causes many young people to make a virtue out of something | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| looked into and considered a sickness. If a young person looks up to and is influenced by | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| We have the same problem in educating the young. QUESTION: I read recently that the spirit or | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| I am reminded of someone who, as a young girl, wanted very strongly to leave her home | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| aspect in education would be the unifying quality. Young people should be shown the truth that there | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| treatment and dissolution of the personal conflicts in young people. Where the personality is more robust, due | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| that, if not more, then at least one young person should be enriched. If this is done | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| way. The approach is different even for a young adult and for one who is more advanced | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| had clung to since I was a very young child. I thought I really felt this emotion | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| instinct is distorted, the following process occurs: The young child experiences insecurity, either from lack of love | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| grow more. QUESTION: In your answer to this young man, and from what you said previously, it | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| my friends. Although it is true that a young person has a certain store of energy that | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| COMMENT: Thank you. QUESTION: About self-alienation: Say a young girl has an image of how she would | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| friends. QUESTION: I have recently learned of a young cousin who has a malignancy. And I would | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| as such, is never wasteful, regardless of how young a person is who leaves his body. If | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| longer dependent on interpretation by others, but a young child is dependent on the interpretation given by | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| humanity becomes aware of these things and guides young people into the right direction, much harm will | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| In the past, while in the child and young adolescent stage, it was often difficult for humankind | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the individual. Let us assume that as a young person, you adopt a way of life, an | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| civilizations which have risen and fallen to the young person's outer or inner pseudo-solutions, ways of life | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the entity discovers a great deal of idealism. Young people are full of strength and ideals and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| time and the great unknown. When one is young, these fears may be assuaged. But sooner or | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| there is another factor important to understand. A young human being starts out in life with personal | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| is afraid of in life. While you are young and vigorous, you do not yet realize that | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| It exists deep within every individual. In a young person, a child, it manifests as a very | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| outer or inner conditions -- or both. When young children encounter conditions in the outer environment that | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| indeed no longer helpless and dependent. Infants and young children truly are helpless and dependent on the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| know that this is no longer true. The young child is dependent on its parents for all | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| cope. At a time when one is very young, self-numbing may indeed be a temporary solution. For | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| also observe that those human beings who stay young long do not lose the desire to move | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| lose the desire to move because they stay young for a long time. Rather, they remain young | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| young for a long time. Rather, they remain young because they continue to want to move. The | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| circle of pleasure and happiness. For example, a young man recently discovered his insecurity about his masculinity | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| state, for his own reasons. We asked this young man for permission to reproduce the summary of | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the pain. When the infant grows into a young child, it begins to be capable of inferring | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| listening impossible. Premature and violent deaths, as when young people die in war, often, though not always | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| INAUGURATION OF THE CHILDREN'S ROOM Greetings, my dearest young friends. With great joy do I speak to | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| do not immediately understand what I say, my young friends. They cannot always do that because the | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| you to remember. In the first place, my young friends, if you can believe that much more | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| guided to this particular path in your very young years so that you can free yourself of | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| really learn that, even while you are as young as you are. You can begin to learn | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| is the misunderstanding, the ignorance of the very young who have to learn and see what life | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| equally potent negative way. The spiritually immature and young appear in the human sphere quite often as | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| requires a tremendous amount of maturity -- and young people can be mature -- which means a | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| errors, however. Too often individuals who were too young and immature to form a really meaningful union | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| formed early in life. If the participants are young, they will have reached considerable maturity as a | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Younger.....................16 | |
| be enough for a person who is a younger soul, but not for any of you, my | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| self still contains such dark trends in a younger spirit, or whether the lower self simply contains | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| ready for incarnation. Just because he is a younger soul, less is expected of him -- by | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| development count more than the liabilities of a younger soul. The maximum expectancy according to the overall | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| old people's insomnia and what causes insomnia in younger people? ANSWER: What causes insomnia in general for | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| and more uneasy because less time remains available. Younger people may subconsciously tell themselves that they may | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| those who are afraid of death can in younger years push this thought away. The nearer the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| are also bound to make mistakes. In your younger years you often hold opinions which you later | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| it often the case that when one is younger one daydreams, but when one gets older and | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| and comprehension between older, more developed spirits, and younger ones, relatively new to this state. But they | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| this means. It means looking out for your younger friends and helping them, giving them understanding, instead | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| to put yourself in the place of the younger ones and in that way you can take | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| own age. I can relate to older or younger people, but never to my own age. ANSWER | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| accept that help or not. You, all my younger friends, have the right to ask for help | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| you make this Center grow, including you, my younger friends, who will, when you grow up, be | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| like to say to all of you, my younger friends, that this is a very meaningful meeting | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Youth.......................8 | |
| a certain time in his life, in his youth -- and we can see this picture now | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| scientist, in spite of contrary environmental influences in youth. This is due to the effect of certain | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Out of this misconception conflicts will arise. In youth the parents force the child to take a | 38 IMAGES |
| parent or a teacher harm you in your youth! A child is hardly able to discriminate, yet | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by certain occurrences and conditions in childhood and youth. Hence, it certainly appears as though the parents | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| right as they seemed to you during your youth and see another side that earlier eluded you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| stop its movement, or even go backward into youth. People want two impossible things: the fulfillment of | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| you fear the aging process, you prevent eternal youth. If you fear poverty, you prevent abundance. If | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |