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| fear will increase. As a result of their choices, they have no firm ground under their feet | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| important tests have to be passed or spiritual choices made, either before or after crossing the threshold | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| understand that it was you who refused other choices because they were too uncomfortable, preferring to convince | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| People have to learn to make their own choices as to whose influence they are willing to | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only of your deeds, your obvious and material choices, but also of every emotional attitude a decision | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| In some cases, there can be several wrong choices and one that is right. Only mature and | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| considered. Then there are also cases when the choices made by the entity are still within the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| fated are considered and set down. All these choices are made in the most practical way. For | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| if it could. As I said before, the choices of the entity are never denied dogmatically, and | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| way; you want to make independent decisions and choices. If these prove good, it is to your | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| be in a position to make the proper choices and so receive the proof that your conclusion | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| limited and distorted soul has to make such choices. It is quite true that if you repress | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| in a position to discriminate -- to make choices and decisions -- because fear and anxiety are | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| and evaluate what you see, then make inner choices, which entail the flexibility of change. In accepting | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| seeing your possibilities and potentials in making proper choices. All this comes about because your entire mental | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| understand their inner problems will also know what choices to make, even long before their inner problems | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| all this had nothing to do with your choices, but was caused by a power over which | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| of self-expression and fulfillment can be had; other choices have to be given up. It is either | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| that you have to constantly deal with wrong choices -- choices that do not exist in reality | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| have to constantly deal with wrong choices -- choices that do not exist in reality. Adopting views | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| beautiful possibilities. Then you are doomed to making choices between equally undesirable and painful alternatives. The third | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the fence, you think you have to make choices. Beyond the fence no such choices need to | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to make choices. Beyond the fence no such choices need to be made. You cannot step beyond | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the opposite choice. Neither one of the two choices is better or worse than the other: both | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| people involved in a relationship have adopted opposing choices, the relationship must be fraught with friction to | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| and harsher than it actually is. The either/or choices shed a dismal light on life. Both are | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| you take the limitation to two equally undesirable choices -- and the resulting hopelessness about winning or | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| interdependent. You can then envisage the many other choices you have on any given issue. You will | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| give up what is destructive, this, as all choices, must be honored. But once you choose for | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| a choice. Often you alternate between the two choices and are driven from one extreme to the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| to blissful life -- only more and better choices. This is truly no illusion, my friends. It | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the responsibility and consequences for your actions and choices. If you go east and wish to come | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| had to lose, that you had only unsatisfactory choices, as you grow in integrity and objectivity you | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| make it impossible for you to make satisfying choices. You are then torn in inner dissension and | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| in contains new possibilities for reaction. You have choices all the time. You can be in a | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| continually swelling negative self-perpetuation. When eruption comes, the choices of recognizing the meaning or continuing to escape | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| awakens and self-consciousness is gained, such decisions and choices of attitude are possible. Conversely, to the degree | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| possible. Conversely, to the degree such decisions and choices of attitude are made, consciousness awakens and expands | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| many things -- it has options, possibilities and choices -- the first being what you are doing | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| observes, articulates, can also make new decisions and choices, and can look for hitherto undreamed-of options and | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| aspect of the self, and it has many choices. Your chosen attitude toward your demonic, undeveloped, undesirable | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| course of millennia of evolution. What are your choices as you observe the destructive attitudes and intents | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that your life is the result of your choices. And choice implies the possibility of adopting another | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and destructive impulses, the more reliable become its choices. This applies both to the conscious and unconscious | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| or to discard. The ability to make such choices well depends on the purity of the state | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| for which it has come. A series of choices in the wrong direction can set the grooves | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| consciousness below the threshold of self-awareness cannot make choices. It blindly follows the in- built pattern implanted | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| go with it or to stay behind. The choices are not always consciously made, but they are | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| active and take the initiative. These are all choices. Do you go with your inner, evolutionary process | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| wishes to avoid the responsibility of making decisions, choices, and of establishing autonomy. The person who doubts | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| stuck. Your consciousness or personality must make many choices in this world, including which of the two | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| whether or not others approve and applaud your choices -- you can afford the luxury of relaxing | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| that you fail to create through your own choices. These concepts are of utmost importance for you | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| obviously unloving and unfree. They are not deliberate choices, but blind, automatic reactions, and they bear the | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| in their development and will direction, in the choices they make every day and every hour of | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| work to guide your intuitive faculties and your choices. The choice is easier today than it was | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| of life. In both instances you may make choices in new ways. Where you would formerly have | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| children to disentangle. So there are only two choices. The first alternative is to submit to the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| be for tradition. All these dualities are false choices that separate. When you are one versus the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| sufficiently developed to make conscious, appropriate, and wise choices. The strength of their lower selves and their | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| to establish cleanliness, order, truth voluntarily, through deliberate choices, by working things out in controlled circumstances. It | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| are several inner voices to listen to; unless choices are made about which voice to trust or | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
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| hold of you -- I would like to choose this subject as the theme of today's lectures | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| be the best possible choice. Thus when people choose to cut themselves off outwardly or inwardly from | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| is a special grace -- and I purposely choose this word -- when you can pay off | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| previous incarnation, provided you are absolutely determined to choose self-awareness and purification. In this way it will | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| were affected by some guilt complex, you might choose to give it to a person to whom | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to others. Besides, one does not have to choose between giving in to the lower self and | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| In other words, you do not have to choose between becoming a cannibal, if this is your | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| will have no peace of mind. If you choose to follow this voice, if you have decided | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| or this Higher Intelligence -- or whatever you choose to call it -- is of course one | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| and gave them free will so they could choose to keep or not to keep the laws | 18 FREE WILL |
| He gave each creature the opportunity to freely choose or not choose to follow His laws of | 18 FREE WILL |
| creature the opportunity to freely choose or not choose to follow His laws of perfection. You may | 18 FREE WILL |
| should like to stress that you did not choose to leave divine law because it was too | 18 FREE WILL |
| children to follow freely or not. If you choose the word punishment for that, it is your | 18 FREE WILL |
| go where he wants and he may then choose the place he is bound to. Whatever is | 18 FREE WILL |
| I give a lecture I freely and arbitrarily choose the subject myself on my own authority. This | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| that I do not come here and freely choose a subject. Whenever people succeed in contacting God's | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| of His greatness, God created beings who could choose freely with the power given them. They either | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| creatures, ever since they came into existence, to choose freely either to live within divine law or | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| spirits during their incarnation on earth could freely choose what side to listen to: the side that | 21 THE FALL |
| your innermost being. No matter what path you choose, if it does not contain complete self-knowledge, or | 21 THE FALL |
| you should jump in -- freely, because you choose so, not because life forces you. You see | 21 THE FALL |
| so to speak, in the middle and can choose. This gives you a much greater chance for | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of all to discriminate independently, to think and choose freely, out of his or her own accord | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| these planes. It is inconceivably artful -- to choose this word -- to have the Bible constructed | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| We cannot violate your free will. If you choose to mention something, then it is a different | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a different story. But as long as you choose to keep something secret, I have no right | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| short lecture on a topic that I will choose as a beginning for the course. My friends | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| God gave to all beings the possibility to choose freely. Logically, free will includes the possibility of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| of the soul. He or she may not choose the right words. But the one grain of | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| to fight against giving in to these moods. Choose these days to reread what I am saying | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| spiritual and material, when you first decide to choose this path and trust God that He will | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| and the guidance He gives you provided you choose the proper attitude, is nothing. That realization will | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| that which could be conscious if you would choose to look in the proper direction. You are | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| you may believe, provided you truly desire and choose to do so. You have to recognize the | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| medium's subconscious, or superconscious -- whatever name you choose to give it -- that you are listening | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| to tell your secrets to everyone you meet. Choose the right person to open up to; choose | 31 SHAME |
| Choose the right person to open up to; choose the person who can help you. Then choose | 31 SHAME |
| choose the person who can help you. Then choose the people with whom you are really close | 31 SHAME |
| beg you to remember very well. Do not choose to forget these words, secretly thinking that if | 31 SHAME |
| let you present to me any fault you choose for analysis. I will show you how every | 31 SHAME |
| any good to tell such a person to choose to open up to the right people, because | 31 SHAME |
| as this may appear at first, if you choose the wrong way but with the right attitude | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| you have done that, knowing that whatever you choose there is a price to be paid, you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| should be kept in mind that one must choose properly for what purpose one trains himself in | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| ones. However, some people, through pride and defiance, choose an unfavorable one. Rejection is given only because | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| their inner attitude. Try in your meditations to choose a person whom you do not respect particularly | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| hand, an overambitious and overactive person may often choose more than he is ready for. This, too | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| yet, it is nevertheless asked how it would choose if it could. As I said before, the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| with another person whom the spirit world will choose to help you, then God will lead you | 38 IMAGES |
| In God alone lies infinity, and if you choose any other direction you must eventually turn around | 38 IMAGES |
| own freedom, given up self-responsibility in order to choose what seemed like an easier way of life | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| the image and challenge it if you so choose. So, karma and images must work hand in | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| a short life. Perhaps the spirit preferred to choose a violent, unpleasant death and get it over | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| any way Thou choosest, not the way I choose. I know that in order to be an | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| acceptance. How much more courageous it is to choose such a fate out of love hardly needs | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| examine each issue separately and then will freely choose his or her conduct. He or she may | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| If this maturity is present, you will intuitively choose the right partner, one who has, in essence | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| not a material that you use because you choose it as when you build a form in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you cannot live life entirely as you would choose, that life brings situations and predicaments which one | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you may think. The true giving up will choose the right way and the right circumstances where | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| one's own maturity. The immature person will blindly choose the object that may take advantage of the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| reality, accessible to you any time if you choose to turn inward. The obstructions within your soul | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| indirectly, thereby bringing an indirect consequence. You unconsciously choose the latter alternative, recognizing that the open and | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| likeness, meaning that you are completely free to choose as you wish. You are not forced to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| called upon to make decisions when you cannot choose between obvious right and wrong, good and evil | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| your own lack of self-love, your self-contempt, and choose the sick overcompensation. Actually, your rebellion is never | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| way it is sinful, if you want to choose this word. And because of this, people are | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is the only key to everything. Therefore we choose the simplest possible way which is the least | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| right middle way without having to deliberate and choose: not too much and not too little, just | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| physician who can help you, or you will choose to accept part of the advice of one | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| purposes, become entities, spirit beings, when they so choose, at least for a while. For none of | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unconscious, it does not occur to you to choose to act upon your healthy impulses; instead, you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| and reach the state in which you freely choose. This free choice can be made only after | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| be in a position to discriminate, judge, and choose your own actions and attitudes. You will then | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| be the case. You do not have to choose the wrong alternative now, simply because in the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| have been valid and reasonable and you may choose to continue it, even while your motives are | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| five minutes, not more, any time you wish. Choose a time and a place when and where | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| people to not love you if they so choose. That may make you sad, but it will | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| them not to love you, if they so choose. That does not mean you have to be | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| love partners. Unconsciously you will know how to choose in the partner aspects of the parent who | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| trying to reproduce the childhood situation, you unconsciously choose a partner with aspects similar to those of | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to understand how you thought you had to choose the current situation because deep inside you could | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| more wonderful it is for a person to choose this path with the wisdom and conviction that | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| will make you free. If you do not choose adulthood by adopting such an attitude toward life | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| a happiness that is selfish, or, if you choose to refrain from this selfishness, your happiness is | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| the reason why such very great ones voluntarily choose a hardship, even though it is not in | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| will all be there. And what you then choose to forget is up to you. You forget | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| which you try to do that. Often you choose several ways at once, never realizing that they | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| as dependent as the submissive type, only they choose different means to pursue their conviction that they | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| unconscious one. It determines whether or not you choose the way upward with all that this calls | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can become very fruitful for you if you choose to make it so. I go from you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| merely victims caught in the middle. Having to choose between everyday alternatives that confront you often generates | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| death. You struggle no less when you deliberately choose death out of cringing fear, in a negative | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| find strength and healing, but in how you choose to accept death. Acceptance mixed with fear and | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| means does this imply that you should deliberately choose suffering and reject happiness in the false belief | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| not getting what you really want, you deliberately choose what you don't want, you create an unhealthy | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| will recognize where and in what way you choose difficulties that are not inevitable. For the more | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| that are not inevitable. For the more you choose the latter, the more you invite and court | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| have no choice other than to sublimate. I choose it out of compromise, as a lesser evil | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and it is equally doomed to failure. People choose this solution in the unconscious belief that they | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to. You will act freely because you so choose, and you do so without inner compulsion in | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and at the same time remain what you choose to call detached? That means remaining personally uninvolved | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| on yourself and with its consequences; and you choose this particular alternative because, even though you recognize | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |