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 Checked.....................10
account is made; everything is minutely and justly checked so that there can be no difference of 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
overcome and the tasks that were fulfilled are checked off. What still remains to be done will 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
down and the conditions and preparations on earth checked, the entity is led into a different sphere 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
the existence of such currents, development cannot be checked, for the result of wars and similar upheavals 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
be the dominant, clear-cut, unselfish motive, consciously cultivated, checked when it is diluted or weak, and strengthened 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
be left to itself. It, too, must be checked and nursed. Every day the wish should be 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
has many destructive impulses which can only be checked by self-discipline. But I do not speak about 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
which should direct the search for pleasure, is checked, so that the pleasure principle cannot unfold in 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
In the emptiness it is possible for hitherto checked and repressed material to surface, if you express 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
thought processes have tremendous power and must be checked out. So many thoughts and automatic reactions are 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
 
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your life. In meditation, in serious self-probing, in checking your emotional reactions about the past and present 38 IMAGES
your complete sincerity and self-honesty, listening into yourself, checking out your reactions, analyzing them, and trying to 53 SELF-LOVE
can find the line only by asking yourself, checking your emotions, analyzing them for their meaning, for 53 SELF-LOVE
consciously and in such crass terms. But by checking and analyzing your emotions as to their real 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
with the questions -- at the same time checking your inner resistance to receiving the answers -- 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
You need to consciously actualize it by constantly checking up on the imbalances in these two directions 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
 
 Chemical....................3
to law, that is like the laws of chemical bonding. You must not imagine that first the 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
acceptance of the condition is inevitable. Even purely chemical medication attempts to artificially loosen up the cramp 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
changes occur in the cellular system. Actually, the chemical components totally change in the outer structure. Again 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
 
 Chemistry...................4
to a pretty high degree. Something in the chemistry of your body and soul begins to change 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
scientific plane. This principle can be found in chemistry, in physics, in practically every field of science 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
could not hold together. All laws of physics, chemistry, biology -- of every conceivable science in your 228 BALANCE
Just as there are laws of physics and chemistry and laws of mathematics, so are there laws 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
 
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childish to imagine that whatever you do not cherish in you does not exist because you avoid 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
way, the part I do not like or cherish. I want to accept this aspect as part 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
imagined inability to change and thus come to cherish yourself. When you have made such and other 31 SHAME
you really do not like and others you cherish in some way. Then, when you feel that 31 SHAME
is registered, may affect another wish- fulfillment you cherish. It may even concern a fulfillment of a 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
to realize that growth occurs slowly. Use and cherish the recognition and wait for your emotions to 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
you were unworthy, you no longer have to cherish your self-rejection. Do you understand? QUESTIONER: I will 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
relationships with objects. There are some objects you cherish, need and enjoy. They perform well for you 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
self-expression, ready to seek change as something to cherish and trust. Visualize yourself that way so that 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
unsound means to coast along on pretense and cherish the illusion that you can go on indefinitely 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
and have become, and affirming life because you cherish the task your life on earth means. You 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
 
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also find out whether you desire to be cherished for your shortcomings as a compensation for your 31 SHAME
contained in the images that contradict your most cherished conscious desires, the image-desires overrule the outer ones 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
things are contrary to one's dearest and most cherished expectations. For example, a child lives with the 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
for love, and wants to be loved and cherished, cared for and admired even by people the 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
begin with, and who might have loved and cherished you in a much more satisfying way. To 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
is caused by resistance to giving up the cherished self-image of the good person. The need for 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
about the childish need to be loved and cherished which is so often confused with love. For 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
cost of facing negative aspects, of shattering one's cherished ideas about oneself. When this is done, the 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
difficult to sever than the tie to a cherished parent. It is very important to understand this 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
say No to a special desire or a cherished fulfillment, you reach a major transition in your 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
of a subtle but distinct No to a cherished fulfillment, a fearful cringing from it that you 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
way and avoid the imagined annihilation of your cherished images and misconceptions. Now, these fears are founded 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
this be a belief, a fear, or a cherished way of being. When I say relinquish, I 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
would mean the recognition of facts that contradict cherished illusions about the self, discipline becomes a rigid 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
appear frightening as long as bad feelings are cherished. To the extent you abandon the claim to 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
does not wish to expose its vanity, its cherished prejudices and illusions. Yet your total personality must 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
of honesty is required to challenge one's tightly cherished convictions. Such challenge cuts out the negative self-perpetuation 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
clear-cut awareness of the negation of their most cherished desires. It can be considered as homework and 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
it always seems most difficult to abandon one's cherished illusions. Whenever an original experience -- say, of 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
This is not easy to do at first. Cherished self-images and pretenses prevent almost everyone from doing 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
it may first be to give up a cherished illusion about the self. No matter how ugly 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
you the key to actually working toward that cherished future point. Or you hang on to something 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
divine self. It is a state to be cherished for spiritual self-realization. At the same time, it 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
will of God; to let go of every cherished attitude, action, or goal that proves damaging and 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
means a letting go of the ego, of cherished ideas, goals, desires, and opinions -- all for 254 SURRENDER
 
 Chest.......................3
while meditation comes from here pointing to the chest, what I call the spiritual field of the 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
a heavy pressure will be lifted from your chest; you will feel as if you had been 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
lecture that when something weighs heavily on one's chest, we should ask ourselves what in us is 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
 
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brother is different from your love for your child, your love for your father different from your 4 WORLD WEARINESS
it means to want the impossible, like a child. An immature person does not have enough reason 4 WORLD WEARINESS
are the children of God. Calling yourself a child of God is justified only when you allow 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
beauty and perfection of God's laws, every single child of God will return; return to the enlightenment 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
is because less can be expected of a child in a lower grade than of a child 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
child in a lower grade than of a child in a higher grade. You must be dissatisfied 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
mean. But that does not mean that the child was in the womb. The child is not 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
that the child was in the womb. The child is not in the womb at that time 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
create forms in the spirit world and the child perceives them afterward. It may also be that 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
repeat the same words after birth and the child can hear and remember them. Such incidents may 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
that this is memory from the time the child was in the womb. Humankind ignores the many 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
If you go on it like a blindfolded child, full of wishful thinking, then you will be 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
immature. You often desire the impossible, like a child; you find yourself desiring something that cannot be 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
is a good question you are asking, my child, and I will answer you. Though some people 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR
beware of making your decisions half-heartedly like a child, going into them with closed eyes, wishfully thinking 32 DECISION-MAKING
so, because you want to be a good child, still doing it against your will. You must 32 DECISION-MAKING
she is something special to God, a favorite child; he holds a very particular position in his 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
parents now deserve a higher-developed spirit as their child. It may also be that the being first 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
They have to be worthy to rear a child who has greater tasks to fulfill. Such worthiness 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
for birth to warrant their receiving a different child, the first intended child will go without difficulty 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
their receiving a different child, the first intended child will go without difficulty or delay to another 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
nothing. That the first mother would lose her child was known in the spirit world, and the 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
of the life span and the elimination of child death. Since everything is so beautifully planned, how 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
take over entirely? How can you be a child of God if worldly considerations matter more while 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
wants God, wants to experience yourself as a child of God, wants to develop and purify. Yet 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
harmony into disharmony, and so on. For any child of God and for any created being no 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
in the parents or others around the growing child. That is how the image brings out a 38 IMAGES
me give you a very primitive example: A child has taken a bath; the water was boiling 38 IMAGES
was boiling hot and therefore has injured the child. This child may come to the conclusion that 38 IMAGES
hot and therefore has injured the child. This child may come to the conclusion that taking baths 38 IMAGES
the conclusion that taking baths is dangerous. The child will never take another bath if it can 38 IMAGES
will arise. In youth the parents force the child to take a bath, and every time this 38 IMAGES
a bath, and every time this happens the child will go through untold and quite unnecessary misery 38 IMAGES
a shock may also happen, particularly to a child, in a more gradual discovery that things are 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
dearest and most cherished expectations. For example, a child lives with the idea that its parents are 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
and omnipotent. When the realization dawns upon the child that this is not so, it comes as 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
new discovery makes its lasting impression. When a child finds out that what it used to believe 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
it loses its security. It is frightened. The child does not like what it finds and therefore 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
consciousness temporarily or have other symptoms. Thus the child will experience a shock because parents, the world 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
world, or life, are not the way the child thought them to be. Although the impression that 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
not be objectively correct, still, the deduction the child is capable of making must be wrong. Because 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
are its world, its universe, therefore what the child concludes after the shock must be applied to 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
when the orderly world and concepts of the child were destroyed. The wrong conclusions derive, first, from 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
conditions of life are similar to those the child discovered in its own surroundings. Second, the defense 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO

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