| same time you need to acknowledge that the change can only come by again and again recognizing | 31 SHAME |
| -- the only right way. These conditions cannot change suddenly. The more you grow, the more you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| about things you cannot control and therefore cannot change. Whoever leans toward this sort of preoccupation should | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| whom you have the power of bringing about change. You can never change another; therefore, your efforts | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| power of bringing about change. You can never change another; therefore, your efforts are lost in this | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| however, help to influence another person by your change; he or she may then decide to change | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| change; he or she may then decide to change too. Your influence can only be truly productive | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| resent even more the fact that you cannot change them. Your resentment means that you are breaking | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| will gain a great new peace by this change of attitude. For what robs you of your | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| attitudes and inner fights against conditions you cannot change, and what is more, you are not supposed | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| what is more, you are not supposed to change. You are supposed to change yourself. Once you | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| not supposed to change. You are supposed to change yourself. Once you have done that you will | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| the surface because you assume that they might change your course; you might then fail in your | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| has to gain this major experience and fundamental change in soul development by his or her own | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| of determining your next incarnation and effecting a change from what you have prepared so far are | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| slower in the beyond and to effect a change is definitely more difficult. Up to a certain | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| only roughly as an overall blueprint, subject to change in any direction until the time of incarnation | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| had been designed for the next life--subject to change according to the attitudes and activities of the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| your family or in your environment a great change in someone who has always been known to | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| that of the father, may often determine a change. If the parents, or even one of the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| parents, or even one of the parents, should change their spiritual attitude, then the entity first planned | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| if the mother, or the father, or both, change their attitude during pregnancy, either for the better | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| pregnancy. For instance, should the first chosen parents change enough during the time of preparation for birth | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| not come true, due perhaps to an unexpected change on the part of one or several human | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| senses. The religions will subtly, gradually, but surely change in the centuries to come. You can observe | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| he did not come to destroy. People will change from within, gradually, in the only way positive | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| to find one's own violations and how to change inner currents indicates the true and mature spirituality | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| and expressing unselfish desires, already creates a definite change in the organism of your subtle bodies, as | 36 PRAYER |
| will, at least during the time of prayer, change their way of thinking and become more humble | 36 PRAYER |
| harmonious forms. These forms will eventually help you change your inner and often unconscious attitudes rooted in | 36 PRAYER |
| when you are on the path. Your phases change as you move around your personal vicious circle | 36 PRAYER |
| of your wrong attitudes, and you wish to change them with all the willpower at your disposal | 38 IMAGES |
| in your life. For instance, your inability to change what you wish to change or certain kinds | 38 IMAGES |
| your inability to change what you wish to change or certain kinds of events that seem to | 38 IMAGES |
| find your personal images? Not by trying to change the symptoms, whatever they may be, but rather | 38 IMAGES |
| you cannot twist them further and must eventually change the direction of your will. In God alone | 38 IMAGES |
| to God for further enlightenment and strength to change your erroneous reactions. Simply shift your thinking to | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| hands in your lap, waiting for things to change, instead of changing yourself from the inside out | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| the inside out. You have the power to change whatever mishap occurs in your life. You have | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| your life completely, but not if you merely change superficially, by trying to alter only your actions | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| trying to alter only your actions. You can change your life only if you search first for | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| conclusions; in short, your images. Before you can change anything, you must understand what in you brings | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| you. But do not expect that God will change your life for you. God has given you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| I am giving you, it becomes possible to change them. During the search and the ensuing change | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| change them. During the search and the ensuing change, you need the right kind of humility to | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| meditate on this daily, eventually your reactions will change. It is not sufficient that your thinking changes | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| image. The important thing is that your emotions change. The wrong conclusions always contain several of your | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| to you long before you are able to change your emotions, your images, or your habitual inner | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| b) how it is in your power to change it. (2) Find out about your fear of | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| by following through this work, you often can change your life and eliminate your conflicts. Besides, it | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| person who would not want some kind of change -- perhaps not even a pronounced change, a | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| of change -- perhaps not even a pronounced change, a conscious I want this instead of that | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| will read these words, have the power to change this if you want to. And if your | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| not so unreasonable that it wished for effortless change, you would be much further advanced. It is | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| I revolt against unhappiness and I wish for change but I am unwilling to bring it about | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| the rest of your being. It could not change and adjust and learn. For only what is | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| self-search will make such discoveries and the ensuing change possible. But this additional angle from which to | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| in reality they simply do not want to change. My dearest friends, receive the blessings of love | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| already exist. The soul is also in constant change and movement as anything spiritual is by its | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| very nature. Spirit means life and life means change. Since soul is spirit, the soul can never | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| helpful and may even enable your emotions to change sufficiently so that your outer life may change | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| change sufficiently so that your outer life may change too. This depends on you. Whoever is unwilling | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| away from this ideal, but that does not change the idea or the ideal. In the meantime | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| alive, healthy, and flexible, it must alternate and change constantly. At any given time, whoever is the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| your emotions. You so often forget that emotional change is not something that can be commanded. You | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| not something that can be commanded. You cannot change your feelings and emotional reactions by an act | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| to follow this path. But your emotions can change only after you have repeatedly had the humility | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| inner reactions. Thus will you cultivate the very change you wish to accomplish. To know yourself, my | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| another. Purification does not mean merely that you change desires. It means that you separate the good | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| How much more difficult is it then to change an opinion or attitude in which personal, psychological | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| For it also requires a certain humility to change long-held views. We often see that people hold | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| Much more patience and wisdom is needed to change an outlook or attitude in which deep-rooted emotions | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| differently, not even your own self. You can change an opinion only if you deliberate and weigh | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| be dismayed that your unpurified emotions do not change merely because you have finally recognized their unpurified | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| slowly, step by step, you will experience a change of consciousness, a change of inner concepts when | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| you will experience a change of consciousness, a change of inner concepts when your emotions really begin | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| because of these improvements, the mass image did change, and as this particular mass image began to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| being can with his or her free will change the plan made before incarnation. The guardian will | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| The guardian will not prevent that, whether the change is for the good or for the bad | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the other kind, will lessen. Your reaction will change in the measure you recognize the weak and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| In your daily self-observation, realize that you cannot change an emotional reaction merely by having recently recognized | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| I have said that often. But you can change them by constant observation, by comparing the wrong | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the right concept, then this process will gradually change your emotions. In this way you will slowly | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| moment, and also to accept one's inability to change as yet. One has the courage to admit | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| deeds, thoughts, attitudes and feelings. It does not change quickly, because change in the personality cannot come | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and feelings. It does not change quickly, because change in the personality cannot come about quickly. Therefore | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a certain form of authority, the foundation for change is laid. Without this recognition, nothing can be | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| old patterns. Then these emotions will begin to change gradually, at first almost imperceptibly. This is the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| that will wake you up and make you change your course. That is the way we view | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| -- you will be able to make a change in your personality that will eventually change your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| a change in your personality that will eventually change your life. Without exception, there are common traits | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| done or left undone. I truly want to change. With the help of God I will succeed | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| imperfections and their consequences, recognizing that one cannot change all at once by a mere act of | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| will give you peace. Accept that you cannot change your emotions in a hurry, which the wrong | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to do. Eventually your emotions will begin to change, but only after you have accepted them. QUESTION | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| certain hitherto hidden emotions, will they begin to change, slowly, gradually, when you do not expect them | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| gradually, when you do not expect them to change the very moment you understand their lack of | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| will finally get to the point where you change your inner direction. You will change, not necessarily | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| where you change your inner direction. You will change, not necessarily in your outer and conscious actions | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| it is better to have short prayers that change according to your needs at any stage of | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| more you battle against all that you cannot change -- which is everything and everybody except yourself | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the less you accept that which you cannot change. That does not mean you should accept wrong | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| You need never suffer a breakdown if you change the attitude in time. If you truly want | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| be well again if the circumstances I abhor change to my liking. This, my friends, is really | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| world around you, to conditions that you cannot change, the more your life force goes into the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| breakdown in the hidden hope that this will change people and circumstances. And when you come back | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| turn about and realize that first you must change before you can expect life to change for | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| must change before you can expect life to change for you. If you are truly willing, the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| imagined difference. The maturing of the soul will change this tendency, but until then a person will | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| of wrong motives, you will think the proper change is to do the wrong thing out of | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the right concept. Observe also your resistance to change and growth. The lower self of the human | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| ways and means of trying to avoid a change of inner attitude. But as far as your | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| else. QUESTIONER: Does that mean in essence the change from thou must not to thou canst not | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| reactions from the past. The past you cannot change, and therefore you cannot avoid facing the issue | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| emotion? It says: I recognize that I cannot change anything. Therefore, I want the world, my surroundings | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| I have no control. I want others to change. If I make my suffering clear, they might | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| is karmically stronger, then the inner desire to change may be lacking. Every case is different. I | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| find it much more difficult to desire a change and a cure of his sick psyche. Homosexuality | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| evenness or unevenness of the split, the incarnations change from one sex to another. If one part | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the cycle of incarnations. In cases where the change has to occur more often, due to a | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| new desire for your inner growth, your inner change. Nothing can be more fruitful, more permanently satisfying | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| someone who does not want to see and change his outlook will never be convinced, no matter | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| regarding recognitions. There is an unjustified fear of change. So do not fear, my dear friend. Trust | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are on the path: You are afraid of change. If you analyze this, what does it amount | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| In any kind of motion or movement, things change. If they change for the worse, this very | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| of motion or movement, things change. If they change for the worse, this very fact will make | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| this very fact will make you desire to change your direction, even though you may find yourself | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| impression that nothing changes and nothing can ever change because you stand still. In your predicament you | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| you remain under the wrong impression that no change is possible. Of course, no human being is | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| upon to make the decision yourself when to change from one phase into the other. Your personality | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| it is something in you that you cannot change. Accepting it, you would cease to have the | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| inferiority feelings because of something that you cannot change. No matter how hard it may be, it | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| who truly manifest a desire to grow and change. They receive the personal help without which they | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| You will not experience this as a sudden change. But as many of you will confirm, you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the additional honesty of knowing that you cannot change them at once. This is the most constructive | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the attitude of believing that you can immediately change your emotions simply because now you can see | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| of your reactions. Be aware that they cannot change at once. Growth occurs through self-observation from different | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| in to it or by not trying to change it after you have recognized its existence, but | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| that at all. The outer action may not change at first, even after you have made your | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| made your recognition. But your inner motives will change. In some cases, your outer actions will change | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| change. In some cases, your outer actions will change automatically, but this will be fruitful only if | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| needs. Find it and your entire outlook will change. You will become objective, you will be in | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| you are caught in the mass image, will change your life. Receive our love and blessings, each | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| continues to produce similar reactions. Only the reasons change, and the outer display becomes modified or even | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| would have had to disappear, for then a change of attitude would have inevitably occurred. As long | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| a true finding leaves you still unable to change your attitude, so that the healthy emotions could | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| live them, your life will gradually begin to change in many ways. Because by recognizing again and | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| That does not mean that one should never change the outer conditions as well. However, it may | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the strength and fortitude to effect the outer change. The more one desires something but is unable | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| profoundly successful. If the human heart does not change, nothing will ever be accomplished for humanity as | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| consideration and thereby made flexible and amenable to change. In your daily life you may experience happenings | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| daily life you may experience happenings that may change a conscious conviction. However, if you are unaware | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the abyss of illusion. Your whole life must change in many ways if you discover the truth | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |