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 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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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

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