| Children's..................5 | |
| Jesus' advice to become as little children praises children's willingness to experience life intensely. Jesus' disciples have | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| subjects. Prepare your questions about the two topics: children's upbringing, and the prospect of making a sanctuary | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| II. GUIDE SESSION AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE CHILDREN'S ROOM Greetings, my dearest young friends. With great | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| children act destructively toward their environment or themselves. Children's self-destructive acts must be discouraged by their elders | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| as helpers have started what we call a children's seminar where we discuss the problems of working | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Child's.....................64 | |
| project their conclusions onto all other situations. A child's parents are its world, its universe, therefore what | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| what you thought they should be. In your child's mind you assumed that your case was singular | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| it represents the first hurdle of life. The child's attitude toward authority is carried over into adult | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and their compulsive childish need to receive the child's utopia of perfect love and care. This may | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| differently as your feeling is different from a child's. Your reaction would be quite different from the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| of a child in certain circumstances. If the child's favorite doll is broken, it will think the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| God. An image is formed, and whatever the child's, and later the adult's, relationship to authority is | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| gives most pleasure is prohibited, usually for the child's own welfare; this the child cannot understand. Parents | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and fear. Thus it is impressed on the child's mind that for everything most pleasurable in the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| assume that overindulging and doting parents fulfill the child's every whim. They do not instill a sense | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| is the predominant factor, the atmosphere in the child's home is filled with fear of this parent | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| battle because both concepts are false. In every child's life both kinds of authority are experienced, no | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| a confusion arises in the soul. In the child's vaguely felt emotions, love and acceptance from this | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| to be unloving is a desirable state. The child's psyche says: If I am unloving, I will | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| its own quite understandable limited logic in the child's mind. No conflict that arises in the psyche | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of strength, at least in the unconscious. The child's desire is to be as strong as the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of some insights, the entire significance of the child's world within yourself would still be hidden. Your | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| unconscious? Let us first examine the reason. The child's desire for love is limitless, but it is | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| hardship will not be so great. Your inner child's exaggeration and distorted black-and-white perception of life's happenings | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| exclusively and without limits. In other words, the child's desire to be loved is unrealistic. Yet it | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| emotions, habitually overlook the strong link between the child's longing and unfulfillment and the adult's present difficulties | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| distinction between real affection and pseudo-affection with your child's intellect? The fact that something bothered you without | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| and in the other. As long as the child's conflict remains unresolved in you, the difference seems | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| question of life or death to satisfy the child's craving, you will not have to resort to | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| on the time element. Instant gratification -- the child's way -- often sets one's own pleasure against | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of their existence. Unhappy circumstances exist in every child's life; pain and disappointment are common. If such | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| use the muscles at all, to feel the child's emotions at all, with the rationalization that such | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| struggle and hate still exist along with the child's desire that manifest conflicts should be resolved while | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| a cursory way. We all know that the child's first impressions come from its first environment, in | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| anyone who plays an important role in the child's life. Since the child's capacity to evaluate is | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| important role in the child's life. Since the child's capacity to evaluate is limited, its emotional experience | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| own real self, which is your reality. The child's fragmented impression of reality causes distortions which influence | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| do with your worthiness is reached. In the child's perception, the parents are powerful super-creatures. It does | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| destructive feelings that are evidently responsible for the child's fear. The more compulsively you want to get | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| of experiencing life is as poignant as a child's. But when your impressionable mind has made an | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| on the child than the words. Whatever the child's mind really takes in will have its effect | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Parents are the most important influence in a child's life. The relationship to them is of primary | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| role in forming the original impressions in the child's malleable soul substance. But these others are only | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this correct? ANSWER: It is absolutely correct. The child's helplessness and insecurity makes him strive desperately for | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| will create as many problematic conditions in the child's psyche as hurts and frustrations do. If parents | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| it is one or the other. Moreover, the child's inborn health or its lack determines whether it | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| too will have no adverse effect on the child's psyche if no corresponding problems exist. Now let | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| this earth sphere. To the degree that the child's psyche is free and healthy, the relationship with | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| are assimilated. The freshness and impressionability of the child's psyche causes early experience to have a more | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| life. This strong impact of life on the child's soul can be clearly observed. How much more | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| movement are as yet hindered. Thus, in the child's early years, its pleasure is directed to its | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| principle. This principle enters into all of the child's activity. The child's type of experience and the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| enters into all of the child's activity. The child's type of experience and the psychic condition with | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| in the foreground at certain periods of the child's development. This is normal and healthy for these | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| which might otherwise have been unbearable for the child's undeveloped ego. If painful experience is eroticized or | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| problems were too often discarded as wrong. The child's mind lacks the power of independent thinking, of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| responsible for the blockage are thoroughly understood. The child's immature ego faculties make adequate dealing with the | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| of your own child. Excessive guilt for your child's problems is based on a misconception, although you | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| by commission. The climate of omission in a child's life is indeed often more difficult to cope | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| abilities will fill the emptiness created by the child's unfulfilled need. The more the pain of the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| on to them. Why? Often it is a child's only way to preserve its selfhood. If the | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| only way to preserve its selfhood. If the child's inner resistance to letting go of this intent | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| let's say the sweet part of myself, the child's voice that was squashed, I am afraid that | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| teaching must become a substantial aspect of the child's curriculum. Then there will be a significant portion | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| and able to handle this aspect of the child's education. Therefore it must also be part of | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| it is currently practiced smothers and discourages the child's innate curiosity. Children have millions of questions from | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| teachers or other people equipped to answer the child's questions. Make a real effort. Such questions may | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| deliberately created from within that will help the child's higher self express itself to everyone's immense joy | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| under it? The dynamics are similar to a child's hardly feeling his painful conditions simply because he | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Choice......................211 | |
| of their existence can you make the inner choice to clearly follow either one or the other | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| the other way; therefore I must make a choice. This is an example of an inner decision | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| though it may not be the best possible choice. Thus when people choose to cut themselves off | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| -- they will understand right away what this choice implies. Selfishness, anxiety, oversensitivity and pride have won | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| would, after all, prefer to make the true choice and that it would be worthwhile to give | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| Most damages are caused by not making any choice and allowing all emotional currents to mingle in | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| wrong direction often begins with a seemingly trivial choice, but the more one moves away from the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| more one moves away from the point of choice, the farther one will stray into a dead-end | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to the person you love most. Such a choice however might easily be too selfish. On the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| I decide for this or for that. The choice can be made for the spiritual life and | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| evident to all of you who make this choice that the willingness to help and serve is | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| decision to go this way. She has the choice to not do anything about it or to | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| the person's free will or, more precisely, the choice to go into a direction that seemed most | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| of God. God does not force any creature: choice has to come from the free will of | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| act of necessity, of compulsion, instead of free choice. With such superimposed goodness does not count in | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| person would be convinced that one has no choice in determining where one is born, as what | 18 FREE WILL |
| darkness into which you have put yourself by choice; no one else has put you there. This | 18 FREE WILL |
| celebrating the birth of Christ, I feel my choice of this subject is an appropriate one. Not | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| even though he was the natural and logical choice. Someone had to come to earth and go | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| is involved concerning even the smallest detail. The choice of lecture subjects also necessitates a considerable amount | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| never happens that the spirit contacted has free choice of subject matter because too much has to | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| in union with Him. Free will and free choice entails the possibility of directing free will contrary | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| divine aspects is free will or freedom of choice, this had to turn into its opposite too | 21 THE FALL |
| used this power. God gives the freedom of choice and this has deeper significance than most of | 21 THE FALL |
| it contrary to the divine laws. If no choice were available, there would be no freedom and | 21 THE FALL |
| it cannot be attained or maintained by free choice. By the same token, the opposite of God | 21 THE FALL |
| His laws must be the prohibition of free choice and the domination of the stronger over the | 21 THE FALL |
| power by overruling the free will and the choice of those who decided to use the given | 21 THE FALL |
| time come back to him out of free choice and reattain divinity, it was imperative that he | 21 THE FALL |
| understand now that this must happen in free choice, too, so that questions like, Why has God | 21 THE FALL |
| development can proceed, and in which a free choice for God can be made -- which is | 21 THE FALL |
| on this plane possessing the power of free choice. Conditions and circumstances on this earth sphere are | 21 THE FALL |
| regardless of the difficulties encountered. By such free choice, God's law concerning this aspect of life was | 21 THE FALL |
| so that each individual could make a free choice. An equal influence had to come from both | 21 THE FALL |
| living spirits can use this power in free choice. Part of the expression of this power are | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| weighing the meanings of the various influences. The choice has to come freely by proper and independent | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and even if you do not like the choice that might prove to be His will for | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| not accepting beforehand the disadvantage implicit in your choice. In this way, you harm your soul a | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| advantageous sides of all alternatives in making your choice, but also and equally the disadvantageous. When you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| fought and succeeded in some measure. Make your choice, for even making a negative choice is healthier | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| Make your choice, for even making a negative choice is healthier than not seeing the issues clearly | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| for higher forms of consciousness and happiness. Their choice may often be an easier life than would | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| this of course takes considerable time. The proper choice of parents, nationality, religion into which to be | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| is given the chance to make its own choice in certain respects, and where it cannot possibly | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| and where it cannot possibly make its own choice yet, it is nevertheless asked how it would | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| The outer challenges are provided for in the choice of parents and other conditions in the incarnation | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| that entities have their own free will and choice to a large degree. Others may prefer to | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| much to learn. He may be given the choice to remain in the spirit world for two | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| I am focusing on a relationship where the choice is a mature one and yet the partners | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and readiness to embark on this journey. The choice of a partner who is unwilling comes out | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and gain maturity together. Even where an immature choice was made, it could still become a successful | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| other cases when divorce is reasonable because the choice to marry was made in immaturity and both | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| a positive outcome, a free, strong and independent choice has to be made. As I often say | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| form in your material world. You make your choice of material according to taste and necessity, but | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| do the duty because you have no other choice, you are acting under a compulsion, against your | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the intuitive powers that will make the right choice where no one takes undue advantage. QUESTION: How | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| so as to bring about fulfillment. If the choice of the personality is directed against it, the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| escape this reality, my friends. You have the choice either of remaining on the downward curve, in | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| acts where a person is confronted with the choice of an obviously selfish or unselfish act. The | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| am I not a victim of the arbitrary choice of my fellow-creature's free will or self-will? The | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| are always consulted and are given a free choice first. Together, they then consider what this choice | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| choice first. Together, they then consider what this choice may mean, what results it may produce from | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to this subject, in some instances their own choice is fully considered because it is wise. In | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| other cases, it is pointed out that their choice may be dangerous. It is shown to them | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| their wish is considered. In other cases, their choice is too easy and therefore the coming life | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| accept. And again, in yet other instances their choice must be denied outright because it is so | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the divine Spirit World, will make his choice within the framework of his own causes. If | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may not accept the advice. Only when their choice is too obviously against the natural law of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| something compulsive about it. There cannot be a choice for you, such as: I go that far | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| way this applies to practically everything from your choice of profession to your choice of government. But | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| everything from your choice of profession to your choice of government. But the area where humanity has | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| unblurred manifestation of truth on this earth. Your choice lies only in finding it to a greater | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of responding compulsively rather than out of free choice. If you are true to yourself, you cannot | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only that we are responsible for our own choice and also for the consequences. It has nothing | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- no rigidity in any direction, but free choice used wisely. One can overwork and yet keep | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Let us suppose you have to make a choice between a selfish and an unselfish act. The | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| way without ulterior motives and out of free choice, you will reap a reward of another sort | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| then are you capable of making a free choice that is not driven by compulsion. This, in | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| state in which you freely choose. This free choice can be made only after you realize that | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| yours. QUESTION: Although I have made the free choice myself, knowing all these wrong motives, but at | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| a particular way of life not of your choice, because your environment seems to disapprove of your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| apparent, important part of your life, such as choice of profession or main activity. It may be | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| in the world for distrusting your judgment, your choice, and the other person. Therefore, you shy away | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| attempting to remedy the situation is in your choice of love partners. Unconsciously you will know how | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| self-preservation has anything to do with a person's choice of choosing the road of evil, that is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| accepted, admired and loved. Then, after making your choice, you will learn that even if this attitude | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| no matter how camouflaged, never expresses a free choice for healthy independence and interdependence. Now, my friends | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| spirit of weakness. It is an altogether different choice to accept death in a healthy way, out | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| at least to some degree. So the difficult choice between happiness and unselfishness exists only in the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| to my pleasure drives, that I have no choice other than to sublimate. I choose it out | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to others. It is a compulsion, not a choice. And you cannot be in reality when you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| circumstances. It will enable you to make a choice: to relinquish one thing in order to eventually | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| then at a future time. You make this choice freely, because you have the necessary awareness. If | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| symptoms of helplessness, dependency, inability to make a choice, and of seeing only two equally dissatisfying alternatives | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| in a trap, unable to make a constructive choice. A festering, twisted condition prevails in the psyche | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| what you are really facing and make a choice. You are driven. As within, so without you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the outcome and the physical act, believing one choice must be right and the other wrong, while | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| potentials, then you must become yourself. But the choice has to be made by you. QUESTION: I | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| are gone. In making a proper and mature choice you can distinguish between that which is real | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| of those persons who cannot make an independent choice because they cannot risk being different. The outer | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| constructive. You never even have to make a choice. It just is there as the one and | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| a point where they have to make a choice: they can look at their inner life squarely | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| part of the soul itself. But the particular choice of the pseudo-solution is an expression, or manifestation | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| not be at peace with yourself. Any personal choice and decision, any action or emotional direction or | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| karmic link, the reason and the necessity of choice. You had to respond to them the way | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| release you from a straightjacket, from a hopeless choice between two dismal alternatives -- your previous basic | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| becomes possible only when it is a free choice. This, in turn, is possible only when you | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| maturity. This integration must be a willing, free choice, not a compulsive one. Too often you try | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| secluded. These false alternatives lead to a false choice, for whatever is chosen is based on wrong | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| believe that they are based on freedom of choice, rather than on compulsion; on reason, rather than | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| but one voluntarily does so, as a free choice, because the desired result is worth the effort | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| us now look at the second either/or, the choice between two equally undesirable alternatives. Such a limited | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| but all fear the consequences of the opposite choice. Neither one of the two choices is better | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| is their own hidden tendency toward the opposite choice. Most human beings harbor this false concept at | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| is preferable. To discover that this kind of choice does not have to be made brings incredible | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| result is the giving up of the limited choice. It means knowing the truth that love and | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| either/or: you believe that you must make a choice between either disregarding these creative powers and trusting | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| creative universal powers is upset the moment the choice becomes a question of one versus the other | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| in motion only by consciousness. One has the choice of letting the motion happen automatically, allowing one's | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| Through such awareness, reason, vision and freedom of choice, commitment is not a hazardous, self-destructive process, not | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| will make me free. I will have the choice of my actions only to the degree of | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| mean: When you are aware you have the choice, and when you are not aware, you do | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| are not aware, you do not have the choice. The more you are aware of the possibility | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| are aware of the possibility of making a choice, the more freedom you gain and the less | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| the awareness that you are making a free choice, rebellion against restraint becomes superfluous. There is a | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| actions, over the words you speak, over your choice of thoughts. You seem to have no control | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| link in the chain reaction is a narrow choice between good and bad, which forces not only | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| Almost every issue turns into a narrow either/or choice. The choice is impossible to make, because even | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| issue turns into a narrow either/or choice. The choice is impossible to make, because even the so- | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| has its effect. When it comes to your choice of action or your attitude toward what you | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| it closely, in detail. It is always your choice. As long as you refuse to look at | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| energy than is necessary to make this specific choice. The wasted energy produces failure and disappointment when | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| so that the person is faced with a choice. Often you alternate between the two choices and | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| I give you material which you have a choice to use as much as you desire. Are | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| denial of the good feelings themselves. If the choice of the love object is inadequate, it is | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| nature, it is bound to produce fulfillment. The choice of love objects who leave you unfulfilled and | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a key. You will have a freedom of choice you never possessed before. The words given tonight | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| about. A human being must exert discrimination and choice. You have the freedom to choose certain experiences | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| at one point the self must make this choice: to stick with the old, excluding, restricting way | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| as in so many other instances, with a choice that is no longer necessary when you enter | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| trap because you think you must make a choice between dualistic -- therefore erroneous -- alternatives, based | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| there is no false alternative, no split, or choice to be made between pleasure and goodness. But | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| impossible for you to find peace while this choice seems to be imposed on you. Therefore you | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the tremendous truth that there is no such choice to be made. Then you can reach for | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| ones. On that level you have made a choice. You would rather indulge in resentments and self-pity | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| doing. This aspect includes self-responsibility, independence, autonomy, free choice, and the power of the self. The other | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the individual is called upon to make a choice, but cannot do so successfully. When the distribution | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| such a dualistic struggle -- the struggle against choice between polar forces in a person's inner life | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| you really want it. Your mind has the choice. This year, again, great and wonderful forces are | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| to express, to let out your feelings by choice when and how long you desire, in the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| human beings today are still oblivious of this choice and still move away from the center. They | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| what counts. This is where you have a choice to assume a constructive or destructive attitude, a | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| power to create circumstances according to one's own choice. So we must differentiate between those who rightfully | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| strength. When the letting go means a deliberate choice of forgoing the active principle because the person | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| hopeless, complaining and feeling angry about it? This choice is yours. Your anger and complaints against the | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| truth in yourself, which gives you an honest choice of your future direction. But when you are | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| that which is love. May you make your choice over and over again. Be the Gods you | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| to go off, you can make a different choice. You can claim this right for yourself. But | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| right for yourself. But once you let the choice slip by, you become truly lost and helpless | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| person or entity is forced by its own choice to live in a constant state of frustration | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| easier for you to make a deliberate, conscious choice: to let the latter influence the former. Love | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| your demon, you seem to have no other choice but to annihilate yourself; yet you dread annihilation | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is not magic. It is an immediately available choice. You can start now with the attitude that | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you in the present. Then you have no choice but to give up the future. The energies | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| place in this area. Here you have the choice of either a vicious or a benign circle | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| self is in charge, and makes a deliberate choice, intending to do, act, and to be in | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| life is the result of your choices. And choice implies the possibility of adopting another attitude. In | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the self is ready to make a new choice, the mere availability of another road, another approach | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| that hard, stiffened, limited self. Here lies your choice. It cannot be claimed that when you give | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| life or anyone else. It is always your choice. This knowledge will make the apparent risk of | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| who are conscious of and admit their deliberate choice of a negative attitude are indeed significantly ahead | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| alone, of course, but you have made a choice; you know it and you pay the price | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| misery seems a just punishment rather than a choice you are free to alter whenever you so | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| sense, the responsibility is yours. Everyone has the choice of either using the other's bad intentions as | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| then this must inevitably also manifest in your choice of partner and in the way you conduct | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| This applies both to the conscious and unconscious choice of figures we want to identify with, and | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| have not yet discovered that there is a choice. You are frightened of the momentum of the | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| -- a statement made by consciousness, by deliberate choice and disposition. This statement brings forth an inexorable | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| yes, literally choose -- not to know. That choice creates a very potent negative energy field. This | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| its ride, but the ego consciousness has a choice. It can choose to go with it or | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| your life, that is as much of a choice as when you choose not to do so | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| matter, that is as active and distinct a choice as when you allow yourself to feel the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| and inert, it is as much of a choice as when you are active and take the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| evolutionary process, or do you stay behind? The choice is determined by how much you give in | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| an understanding will help you make the deliberate choice of finding out what your outer life means | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| terms of your inner process. Renew the daily choice and commitment to trusting the movement of that | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| find it and thus light new candles. That choice always exists. Denial of the truth of the | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| within you. Your outer mind always has the choice to allow it to rule you. But you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| human consciousness, so everything seems to pose a choice between either the self or the other, and | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| and do it joyfully because it is their choice. The whole inner climate of educating will be | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| truth that all possibilities exist. It is your choice which one of the many roads you wish | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| growth. Can you perhaps now make a different choice whenever the old negative reactions still recur? Now | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| be made conscious. Then the personality has a choice. It is in its power to strengthen the | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| You fail to comprehend that through freedom of choice you have the power to create and change | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| intelligent recognition of the structure and from the choice to accept it. This choice is made not | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| and from the choice to accept it. This choice is made not out of fear and weakness | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| whatever truth you find in that state. The choice is totally voluntary. You may want to choose | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| your freedom. In that frame of mind, your choice will be a totally different act from submission | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| intelligent assertion, comprehending the deeper meaning of the choice. Again, this will never be confused with blind | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| conscious personality always has the possibility and the choice to overcome it. If you confine yourself to | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| uniformity, conformism supersede free unfoldment and expression of choice, of talent, of development. Now how does this | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| guide your intuitive faculties and your choices. The choice is easier today than it was in former | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| a specific issue surrendering would be the appropriate choice, and that refuses to surrender to the divine | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| being set, always according to the will and choice of the individuals in question. I think I | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| much depends on his or her conscious, deliberate choice of where he or she wants to be | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| the highest or by the lowest forces. The choice is up to you. It is also important | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| channel for divine inspiration; this will affect your choice of words, the nuances as well as the | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| His will. The resistance is perpetuated by your choice to follow the voices of the dark forces | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| the pulse beat of your life force. Your choice to want to master the situation, make the | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| is obviously true that your salvation is your choice, your intent, your responsibility, your will, your effort | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| truth in difficult or confusing situations, by your choice to fulfill the law of brotherhood and overcome | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |