| Chooses.....................28 | |
| will can clearly manifest, no matter how He chooses to reveal Himself to you. In many instances | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| own surroundings. Second, the defense mechanism the child chooses with a limited understanding of the world is | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| suspected of having sickly motives. Why one person chooses to manifest his insecurity and dependency one way | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| be masked. For example, a basically emotional person chooses, because of fear and immature currents, a mask | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| searching for truth, yet escapes from himself and chooses the easy way out? ANSWER: That depends entirely | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| think about God as a person who acts, chooses, decides, disposes arbitrarily and at will. On top | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| being all, is personal as well if He chooses to be, but His personal aspect has no | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| free will. In other words: If my neighbor chooses with his free will to commit a wrong | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to break loose of the bondage, but it chooses the wrong way to go about it. You | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| and make conscious that part in you which chooses sickness as a solution to something that troubles | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| longing to be loved, the human being often chooses a wrong way. This is so partly because | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| difficult for me to understand that one continually chooses a love object who has exactly the same | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| happiness by self-imposed hardship. In other words, he chooses unnecessary hardship because he so greatly fears another | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| course, is due to the defense mechanism that chooses a particular view as necessary and safe, but | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| cause and effect, that is, visible if one chooses to see and understand. How many times do | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| where cause and effect is obvious if one chooses to see it, has nothing to do with | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| false processes set in motion. One no longer chooses either excitement or peace; one is driven to | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| This led to the awareness that he deliberately chooses his sick state, for his own reasons. We | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| crisis. Crisis can mean, if one's consciousness so chooses, the end of continually swelling negative self-perpetuation. When | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| your own negative will. That the self deliberately chooses a course of denial, spite, and hate even | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Such identification is not something the conscious ego chooses. Once again, it is something that must be | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| task before it goes into an embodiment, it chooses to take certain aspects of consciousness along with | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| the will directs it, which thought the mind chooses in any given instant. This is an important | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| most difficult and momentarily painful -- anyone who chooses to forgo the temptation to concentrate on the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| voice is the anesthesia that your self deliberately chooses for the incarnatory process. In the negative sense | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| consciousness. Consciousness permeates all being. Your divine self chooses certain aspects to manifest, and others not to | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| melding with a specifically chosen other, and who chooses passing partners without heart and mind and is | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| in real inner freedom and independence that voluntarily chooses monogamous commitment because it yields infinitely greater fulfillment | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Choosing....................46 | |
| in no way is this state eternal. 3. CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE Greetings | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| that you face yourself in honesty instead of choosing the more comfortable way of pushing away what | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| human or spirit -- has the possibility of choosing to live according to the laws or not | 18 FREE WILL |
| course, can only be accomplished through your own choosing and your own free will. All this will | 18 FREE WILL |
| directing free will contrary to divine law. In choosing freely and correctly and in abstaining from abuse | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| it of your own accord and your own choosing. Free will is the greatest gift with which | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| to give in to the immediate comforts is choosing the line of least resistance. The disadvantage here | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| while he propounds the religious truth of his choosing. But do not forget that, in principle, the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| these two currents work together, expressing themselves in choosing a partner of the same sex. QUESTION: The | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| escape certain unpleasant facets of life by unconsciously choosing to be ill. Or you punish yourself for | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| anything to do with a person's choice of choosing the road of evil, that is rejecting the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| as a solution. And, since this process of choosing was unconscious, the same unconscious reasons still make | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| of heedlessly letting go all control, of not choosing the right aim, the right place, and the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| two dissatisfying alternatives you can see, and then choosing one merely because it seems the lesser evil | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| in the true sense, a manipulation. As for choosing withdrawal, which is connected with underplaying what you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| a deadline, limited in kind to your own choosing. Relationships include others, and they, too, have to | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| so your life instinct can prevent you from choosing death out of negative, destructive motivations. This strengthens | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| clear way presents itself, a concrete possibility, for choosing liberation. Knowing the truth means already being in | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| requires the labor of consciously taking control in choosing one's views and taking the risk of giving | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| key to selfhood. The self is realized in choosing accountability and letting go of the tightness in | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| abuse. Quite the contrary. Full commitment presupposes wide-awake choosing, the freedom to do so without compulsion, conflict | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| so without compulsion, conflict, or guilt. But such choosing requires you to be very much aware, and | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| self-choice and self-responsibility. Only it does so by choosing the wrong way. Since the entire process is | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| the more certainly does this instinct function in choosing the right defense at the right time. This | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| experience yourself in a new way. Instead of choosing the nagging self-doubt, you gain insight into why | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| let your feelings be without acting upon them, choosing your actions deliberately instead. Perhaps it is still | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| single instant of living contains the possibility of choosing the attitudes that will bring you into contact | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| produce bitterness and the sense of being victimized. Choosing to feel victimized only increases blindness and makes | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| negative creating by destructive attitudes of your own choosing. There is a world of difference between such | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| denying the lower aspects, because the conscious, determining, choosing self does not take up the challenge to | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of the consciousness which determines the state by choosing the will direction of the thought process and | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| your own victim. You have trapped yourself by choosing not to be honest. Whenever human beings unfold | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| the basic theme of tonight's lecture -- by choosing love, rather than separateness, as your way of | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| this case, one's own distortions may lead to choosing false heroes, and at the same time make | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| come to the state of deliberately and consciously choosing to commit themselves to the divine will and | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| in your entire psychic system. The power of choosing which thought to think in itself stems from | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| must result in accountability and the seriousness of choosing thoughts, attitudes, actions and responses. This state of | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| reality and become more disconnected, confused, empty -- choosing not to understand why and accusing life of | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| mental and emotional position of dependency, thus actively choosing enslavement, no matter how much she tried to | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| flourish when the groundwork is done and that choosing to do so freely is in itself a | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| complaining about this or that unhappiness or unfulfillment, choosing not to connect with those very attitudes. They | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| do you apportion your energies and direction in choosing what to cultivate on your road to unfoldment | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| not the case, it certainly occurred unconsciously by choosing the influences that corresponded to the intentionality of | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| a path such as the one you are choosing for your development and growth, one that goes | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| money, power, and social advantage became motives for choosing mates. Mass images, appearances, idealized self-images were nourished | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| to comprehend this lecture, by being capable of choosing to use it in the most positive way | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Chore.......................8 | |
| realization that effort is bliss, movement is no chore but happiness itself; such people do not fear | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| being, while the state of activity represents a chore, a difficulty you fear you cannot live up | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| Or do we regard life as merely a chore one has to get through as best one | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| to choose the distortions. Being alive becomes a chore, a peace-robbing and difficult endeavor; being peaceful becomes | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| is not to be dreaded as a difficult chore. Every step is the most joyful thing in | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of joy. Movement is then no longer a chore; it is a pleasure. As long as movement | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| a pleasure. As long as movement is a chore, the temptation to become stagnant and give in | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| scientific project, or the smallest, most insignificant daily chore makes no difference. It is just as important | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |