| Acknowledgment..............5 | |
| responsibility to God, the responsibility to oneself, the acknowledgment of being responsible for one's own trouble and | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| that the first step toward understanding is always acknowledgment and concise verbalization of what one does not | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| perverse pleasure of your own negative production. This acknowledgment is essential. Without it you cannot grow out | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| So are the roles you play. Each objective acknowledgment of your pretenses -- the pretense of your | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| that the key to life is the honest acknowledgment of your primitive, destructive part. This key will | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| Acquire.....................38 | |
| you work on this continuously until you slowly acquire mastery in it, you can penetrate not only | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| with yourself, attend to yourself, examine yourself, and acquire the discipline to overcome the resistance which is | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| with a strong will must have worked to acquire it some time in the past, so he | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| show you how each one of you can acquire willpower. For God never asks for the impossible | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| arrogance have given rise to. Thus he will acquire a better understanding about his personality and unconscious | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| case, while another person has to struggle to acquire it. If he or she does that, then | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| for nothing, unless you use the knowledge you acquire as you follow the path of soul-knowledge. Now | 21 THE FALL |
| true nature; you have to train yourself to acquire the strictest possible self-observation. QUESTION: How do the | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| greater merit than what people of higher development acquire. What counts is the effort to overcome one's | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| or reading these words has sufficient means to acquire this food. In my previous lectures I have | 31 SHAME |
| have discussed love at great length: how to acquire it, what stands in its way, how to | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| of which they were heretofore unaware would they acquire an understanding of the inner world, its laws | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| actions and thoughts. The general knowledge you can acquire about them will not really help your spiritual | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not, can only increase untruthfulness. The ability to acquire a deeper, wider, and greater perception of truth | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| discoveries are one way of helping humanity to acquire a broader awareness. But if a technical discovery | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| work on this factor, expressing the wish to acquire a truthful concept about her frantic fear. Then | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| forever deeper and more beautiful, and life will acquire more meaning. Conversely, fear of intimacy implies rigidity | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| tall order, but it is certainly possible to acquire this attitude if you make a sincere effort | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| conflict. The discipline will be much easier to acquire, the willingness to do so will grow, when | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| experience. Or, to put it differently, when you acquire a new reaction and approach to both life | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| is still automatic -- can you proceed to acquire a different reaction. Begin to first want to | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| again. One of the most important attitudes to acquire for proper self-respect and self-acceptance is the ability | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| against an undesirable feeling or experience, you automatically acquire evil, that is, negative attitudes. Hence, the first | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| of your own adequacy and your potential. To acquire new knowledge or skills, on whatever level, always | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| place in the safest possible way. Then you acquire new territory: a territory that was at first | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| others, nor is it something that you can acquire through learning or effort. It unfolds organically as | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| courage and honesty, which I invited you to acquire ever since I manifested through this instrument, the | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| these two ways of seeing life, you will acquire the ability to make the transition to the | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| the mind. At this stage you need to acquire a new habit pattern. It takes time. Perhaps | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| your path who early in life begin to acquire and comprehend inner knowledge. This can happen because | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| aspects would not flare up and would not acquire their own ingrained knowing. They would merely be | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| of the stages you must go through to acquire a new and better way of functioning and | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| extend your thought in that way, you cannot acquire new knowledge, let alone consciously change the deeper | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| are apparently full of contradiction. You need to acquire knowledge, the mind must be expanded, it must | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| It will open up, puncture its limitations, and acquire new concepts -- lightly, not tightly -- with | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| one you have now entered. You have to acquire the strength of character to withstand temptation before | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| deserving it. You fear that if you did acquire these desirable assets, it would only be by | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| your daydreams, you don't have to earn or acquire it, it will be given to you. Just | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Acquired....................30 | |
| enough. There must be a continuous balancing. The acquired knowledge must always be applied on a personal | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| both sides. New outer knowledge has to be acquired when the old has been integrated and assimilated | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| cannot grow. You can use the knowledge thus acquired as material, as the building blocks, with which | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| to a certain extent, according to its already acquired vision and capacity to judge -- as to | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| brings into this life or what one has acquired -- advantages or disadvantages, positive or negative factors | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| free again of all outer layers it has acquired. In your own life, you will be able | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| its present form. Only then will you have acquired the humility not to wish for protection from | 38 IMAGES |
| humankind takes with the new knowledge that is acquired? Everything is contained in the answers to these | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one time you said that spiritual knowledge once acquired, in any lifetime, is never lost. Would that | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| unconscious conclusion that something must be had, attained, acquired. But by the time this reaches the outer | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| consequence of the strength and self-reliance you have acquired on the way, and of the knowledge that | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| not come. One side of the personality has acquired much higher standards than another side -- and | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| will be taken forward if this capacity is acquired; a step leading directly to freedom from fear | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| they have not yet reached, so that newly acquired faculties are put into the service of escaping | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| of the fact that he or she has acquired a damaged heart. The only way to correct | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| more strength than unhappiness. This strength can be acquired by facing the truth and shedding illusions about | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| all overcome when the ability to walk is acquired. Each phase of a human being's life signifies | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| willing to look at the truth, can be acquired. It is not a childish attitude that wants | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| no longer any doubt. Real faith can be acquired only by those who are ready to risk | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| physical and intellectual knowledge and skills to be acquired increase in some way your present ability to | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| task, mental knowledge has first to be painstakingly acquired, often through quite mechanical processes. Then the new | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| rhythm of your life stream, you have already acquired a certain amount of self-awareness and you are | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| holding and then let go of what you acquired through this forcing attitude of selfwill and pressure | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| is not from the outer knowledge you have acquired in the first two decades of your life | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| happiness, and to the meaning your life has acquired as you serve a greater cause. The time | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| on this path is impossible unless self-discipline is acquired and used constantly against the ever-lurking resistance to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| differently, you believe only in the illusory wealth acquired through scheming, pretense and greed, and not in | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| establish inner and outer harmony, health and honestly acquired wealth -- that is, divine abundance. Here are | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| apply the same honesty and openness you have acquired toward yourself toward others as well. If you | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| instances considerable time. Accomplishments which the soul has acquired in previous lives need to be nurtured. The | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Acquiring...................13 | |
| accord -- and not because your images keep acquiring new twists so that life is becoming too | 38 IMAGES |
| in a constant compulsive and senseless action of acquiring objects. This action is almost like an automatism | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| allowed to. It is the very compulsiveness of acquiring things that have absolutely no value which indicates | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ladder. Perhaps one of the first steps is acquiring the ability to allow other people to feel | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| gained, in all its favorable and unfavorable aspects, acquiring thereby the ability for happiness, love and pleasure | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| very thing you envy which are necessary for acquiring it. This would lead you to the realization | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| cannot be generalized -- are primarily focused on acquiring outer knowledge. Provided the process is meaningful and | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| and organic, the focus should then go to acquiring knowledge that transcends the physical reality: inner, spiritual | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| a substantial first step in the practicing and acquiring of faith. In fact, it is the first | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| outer mind must go through the steps of acquiring whatever knowledge is necessary. You all see this | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| a very complicated transactional situation in relation to acquiring the rest of the property in our Center | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| vessel that needs to be filled. Becoming implies acquiring something that you do not possess already. But | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| women. Marrying a woman meant nothing more than acquiring a slave who obeyed the master of the | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |