| Camp........................5 | |
| If, for instance, somebody dies in a concentration camp, which is a karmic effect, how does that | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| for many cruel deaths, like in a concentration camp. Since this example was chosen before, we will | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| many individuals, like for instance in a concentration camp, and that such a large group is burned | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| dangerous that they decided to join the enemy camp. The fear of their own exposure makes such | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and your approach to decisions prove in which camp you belong. More and more of you have | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Camps.......................3 | |
| remain undecided; you continue to vacillate between two camps. If many people were capable of totally committing | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| to the salvation they half-heartedly seek in both camps. You are all in this struggle, every one | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| see, that right and wrong exist in both camps. This example is very obvious, but the same | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Candle......................3 | |
| your negativity, is a lighting of yet another candle. You bring light into your soul by bringing | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| no longer quite so dark. You light a candle with this truthful admission. And as you accept | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| the infantile egocentricity within you, you light another candle. For by accepting it, you will come to | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Candles.....................6 | |
| that you light as a symbol: many, many candles have to be lit and be aflame within | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| face your own shadows, you cannot light the candles. The great lighting of the whole tree -- | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| -- is an ongoing process. And the more candles are lit, the greater the joyousness and the | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| creativity, true love, true security, all these are candles that spring aglow from your honesty, your courage | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| bigger tunnels on your path and light more candles. QUESTION: I judge others all the time. What | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| You will find it and thus light new candles. That choice always exists. Denial of the truth | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Candor......................14 | |
| physical being because you face yourself in utter candor. But this is the first type of change | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| Only you can determine the truth. Only utter candor with yourself will enable you to distinguish between | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| you need your will to observe yourself in candor and without self-deception, and from this observation your | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| are truly willing to face yourself in absolute candor, and dispense with any hankering after what you | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| how imperfect it is. This attitude IS prayer. Candor with oneself IS prayer; alertness to one's resistance | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| as you face these emotions within, in the candor I so much advocate. So I wish to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| jeopardize yourself, in the misunderstood idea that foolish candor, or unwise exposure, or cruel honesty are proof | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| example, by talking to the wronged person in candor. This in itself may take away the wrong | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| to change, and face the self in utter candor, so as to make growth possible. The dignity | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| is the facing of your self in utter candor that represents the principal contribution which ensures the | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| your inner growth, through facing yourself in complete candor, through dispensing with all defenses and resistances, you | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the way of your facing yourself in utter candor, painful as it may appear at times. The | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| in fear, I cannot look at myself in candor because then I may have to let out | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| this state? Admit these reactions with the same candor you already use toward your negative feelings. Observe | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| Capabilities................5 | |
| a task which is suited best to your capabilities and will make you happiest. You will then | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| from your higher self. You will find the capabilities you need. Clear-cut, concise formulation and articulation of | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to trust faculties other than its limited conscious capabilities it will find a previously undreamed- of new | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| has not possessed before. Growth brings expansion, increased capabilities, more power and unity where there was limitation | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| strength, and love even your best intentions and capabilities in bringing harmony to your inner, and eventually | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| Capability..................3 | |
| world. The outer personality, with its willpower and capability to decide one way or another, has the | 22 SALVATION |
| from allowing yourself to love to your utmost capability, or you give your love full force to | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that emotional maturity is the willingness and the capability to love. It seems to me that intellectual | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| Capacities..................30 | |
| who fulfill completely, to the best of their capacities, in accordance with God's plan, their earthly life | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| within the realm of the possible, knowing the capacities of each soul much better than the human | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| emphasized her intuitive forces and neglected her intellectual capacities. Inquisitiveness and intellectual curiosity is considered a male | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| experience of life, the full manifestation of your capacities and creativity. This is why both approaches are | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| utterly fulfilling yourself. You will develop all your capacities, and then the great stream of life, of | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| is the only way to really free inherent capacities. The very impatience that is a result of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| guide you. It alone functions with all your capacities. It is flexible and intuitive. Its feelings alone | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| indirectly the result of the discrepancy between your capacities and the standards of your idealized self and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the real you with its real values and capacities will evolve through a process of inner and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| this need. Everyone is endowed with the requisite capacities to fulfill all needs on all levels. If | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| function in a healthy way, some of these capacities will be paralyzed or incorrectly chaneled. Since humans | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| cripples their functioning. Your intuitive, creative, and spontaneous capacities cannot unfold. You substitute other faculties for the | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| Whatever confidence you have in yourself, in your capacities and potentials, you can have in life. The | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| of the brain arteries, impairing a patient's mental capacities? Why does it happen? What can be done | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| mean by the ego faculties. These are the capacities you have direct access to: your volitional thinking | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| they are meant to according to their inborn capacities, can completely surrender to the life force with | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| exclusively attached to the ego. For the ego's capacities to cope with life and to live life | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| it: the conscious intelligence, the will, all the capacities and feelings, which may already be unfolding or | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| you is that you realize the function, the capacities, but also the limitations of the conscious ego | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| weak and do not believe in their own capacities to actualize the infinite powers of the Universal | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| that these powers transcend by far the human capacities considered normal in your sphere of being. These | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| you will use your physical energies, your mental capacities, your feelings, and your will to activate the | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| new possibilities. And you must cultivate your spiritual capacities so that you can entrust yourself to the | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| now. It is, however, possible to activate the capacities of the larger self, to focus on it | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| to claim your true self with all its capacities, potentialities and uniqueness. You will allow yourself the | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| When the infant is ready to unfold dormant capacities to learn how to speak and walk, new | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| it, that you have the equipment and the capacities and the resources and the creativity to do | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| constantly changing aspect of life. It contains innate capacities to transform the worst into the best. Taking | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| As you become more open, more accessible, new capacities of perception grow in you. What you previously | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| richness, the variety, the limitless possibilities of these capacities. Focused emptiness is the ideal state to be | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Capital.....................3 | |
| murderer? ANSWER: From the spiritual point of view, capital punishment is wrong. That may sound like a | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| mission. In general, this does not hold true. Capital punishment is not a necessity. However, war often | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| That is the only basis for peace. But capital punishment is not necessary. QUESTION: You said in | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| Capitalism..................4 | |
| in particular are now predominant. One is called capitalism, the other is called communism. Being arrangements, they | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| and the point of fusion is approached. Democratic capitalism or capitalistic democracy is such an expression, but | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| monarchy and feudalism, socialism and communism and democratic capitalism. Yet it is so. For as I outlined | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| politics, in which democracy, communism, socialism, monarchy and capitalism are all combined in their truths in the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |