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by no longer feeling dependent on others, on circumstances, but actually comprehend your own causes and bring 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
is impossible because you cannot direct people and circumstances as you choose. This negative view of fulfillment 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
here and now. They want complete control of circumstances, which they can have only in fantasy. This 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
to be flexible and resilient in meeting outer circumstances that do not entirely accord with their preconceived 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
or slighted, and later through a variety of circumstances you became aware of certain elements in the 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
them. In certain periods of history, under different circumstances, the laws were changed. Nowadays, it is unnecessary 101 THE DEFENSE
of what you really wish for. Under these circumstances, you may envy others and covet what they 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
there is not, although envy might, under certain circumstances, lead to a healthy activity. Let us say 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
of the human personality in relation to life circumstances. But the fact that a destructive feeling may 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
wasted in sloth, time after time, finally the circumstances of an incarnation may become so unpleasant that 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
the path of least resistance as long as circumstances are not too bad. This creates for the 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
the instinct of self-preservation finally takes over when circumstances become bad enough. When that turning point is 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
right or wrong. It depends on so many circumstances. It depends on the motivation, on the kind 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
a rule, but it is possible under certain circumstances if real values are perceived. However, a careful 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
conditions emanating from others, from yourself, from life's circumstances. To do so, your healthy will has to 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
it must be flexible, must adapt to ever-changing circumstances and conditions. With this attitude you will have 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
certain children have the best and most favorable circumstances and develop so-called neuroses, while in other cases 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
at liberation does not have to fear negative circumstances. There is no need to use discipline or 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
you will not want to miss under any circumstances. The progress of the various groups depends primarily 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
self-pity, hopelessness, or a superficial rationalization, blaming outer circumstances? Test yourself very carefully and you will see 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
to know your life cannot be harmed by circumstances outside yourself, no matter how painful a situation 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
to concepts and ideas. It applies to the circumstances of living, to the world, to yourself, to 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
mate as much as possible under the present circumstances and inner conditions, yet experience yourself playing the 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
it depends on certain combinations and sets of circumstances coming together that make it possible for such 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
manifests in isolated instances, because the combination of circumstances that are necessary rarely exists. But when it 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
can possibly be dependent on a number of circumstances. It needs a conglomeration of many conditions. That 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
kind of rigidity is based on the following circumstances: When the soul is constantly exposed to deep 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
effect on the personality is heavy. Then unfavorable circumstances create suffering that goes way beyond what is 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
soul-stuff makes you incapable of adjusting to ever-changing circumstances. You cannot see and evaluate them for you 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
is trying to shift the control to outer circumstances in the hope that the damage can be 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
security. It eliminates feeling an innocent victim of circumstances beyond your control. By understanding a little more 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
form by trying to manipulate it according to circumstances. Thus it cannot flow naturally and spontaneously. A 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
examine what the specific effects of apparently pleasurable circumstances, such as growing up in a permissive, pampering 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
it, but a child cannot evaluate its life circumstances in objective terms. The same holds true with 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
and how it also connects to certain pleasurable circumstances in childhood. Perhaps you were praised for some 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
negative pleasure and connect them with the childhood circumstances that produced pain and fear. Then you can 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
none of the involved people are dependent on circumstances beyond their control. When the world spirit begins 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
this solution, but as you grow older and circumstances change, the solution no longer words. So you 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
rightfulness of the original need. Whatever the specific circumstances, early influences or personal images may be, you 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
professed and actual; one's reactions to current life circumstances -- all this has to be looked at 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
why they came into existence in the particular circumstances of your childhood. Important work as that is 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
at the expense of flexibly adjusting to new circumstances? In these circumstances you could give of yourself 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
of flexibly adjusting to new circumstances? In these circumstances you could give of yourself as you compromise 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
this stirring occurs partly through the unavoidable life circumstances and partly through deliberate processes in the pathwork 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
organically bring to your attention through your life circumstances. To realize and be on the lookout for 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
that you do not have to depend on circumstances outside your control, that you are not a 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
ways, you seek the reason for your life circumstances outside yourself. Many of you have experienced an 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
he or she becomes, and more dependent on circumstances outside one's control. This kind of person becomes 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
life force. To be in harmony when outside circumstances work according to your wishes is not really 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
really harmony because you are dependent on these circumstances beyond your control. Even if life works well 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
of being. However, due to a number of circumstances, you simply do not realize this fact. You 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
in your fate, in what seems like unalterable circumstances. For the moment, I do not refer to 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
so you must familiarize yourself with the feared circumstances until they lose their threatening aspect. As long 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
of living. Wherever fear exists, it produces the circumstances one fears. These circumstances are, at the same 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
exists, it produces the circumstances one fears. These circumstances are, at the same time, the only way 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
truth-perception is higher, it is inevitable that the circumstances that arise will be less limiting. QUESTION: Do 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
must be happy. Conversely, no matter how favorable circumstances are, and no matter how happy you may 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
so as to create favorable, or more variable, circumstances. These approaches are interdependent. In order to live 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
of self- responsibility, you are constantly dependent on circumstances outside your control. Therefore you feel helpless. You 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
the wind, having no power over life and circumstances. That much you know. But in order to 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
say, must I accommodate myself to the present circumstances or can I reach out for whatever I 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
own contradictory responses, impulses, and reactions. Under such circumstances, it might even be a salvation. But when 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
nature and is maintained long after the painful circumstances have changed and when the person is no 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
and precarious, very much dependent upon apparently outer circumstances. If people understand these processes not only intellectually 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
your body, your feelings, and your personal life circumstances is the same when it comes to control 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
your spontaneous reactions, and a number of outer circumstances. But is it true that you must be 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
work, governing your fate and your outer life circumstances. You realize that your control expands. You experience 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
or mental system, or in the outer life circumstances of a person. It is true that these 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
the individual. It is experience. It is condition, circumstances, fate, or destiny, if you will. Whatever you 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
creates all the personal difficulties, all the unwelcome circumstances. All the many souls inhabiting this earth, added 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
cannot be maintained or followed through. Under these circumstances love is not the tempting, pleasurable experience it 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
then attach itself to purely positive conditions and circumstances. Positive or pleasurable feelings will no longer be 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
feelings will no longer be derived from negative circumstances. You are now used to the latter, hence 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
this marriage between the forces of love and circumstances of, for example, cruelty. For instance, in the 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
an inevitable law, happening through habit, or other circumstances. But it would not have to be that 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
more desirable and more pleasurable, just as positive circumstances are. Between these two poles, many degrees exist 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
your personality. This includes, of course, the favorable circumstances. When you overlook and neglect the enjoyment of 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
and neglect the enjoyment of all the good circumstances in your life, you must be commensurately unaware 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
of. Specifically, ask yourself the question: Do the circumstances, the desires of the other person and the 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
inspiration must come forth. No matter how strongly circumstances seem to point in one direction, you must 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
have chosen depends on individual character traits, on circumstances and early influences. Whatever they are -- and 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
You must win over life, over others, over circumstances. You must prove yourself to be stronger than 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
reactions. If, at times, you win over the circumstances is it really enduring peace you gain? Not 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
win, you are dependent on others and on circumstances often way beyond your actual control and therefore 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
an increasing unfolding and enrichment into your outer circumstances so harmoniously and organically that it may appear 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
succeed temporarily, you remain perpetually dependent on certain circumstances -- hence fear can never be quite absent 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
The loneliness may be denied or rationalized; other circumstances may be blamed. In reality, it is your 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
be relieved, no matter how favorable your outer circumstances. Such loneliness can be relieved only when you 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
get through. This wall must never, under any circumstances, be disregarded or glossed over. You must never 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
realization is crucial and must not, under any circumstances, be glossed over or neglected in your self-confrontation 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
become helpless; you do become a prey to circumstances beyond your control. Consequently, on one level, you 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
knowledge must be brought back to your specific circumstances. What is the outer manifestation at this moment 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
friends, no matter what your present condition or circumstances, no matter how you feel, if you face 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
to its potential. It assigns power to outer circumstances and material factors, not to the energy of 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
reason, through realistic and rational evaluation of the circumstances. I have given you a lot to think 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
in the face, whatever it is, under all circumstances at all times, whatever the momentary difficulty may 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
with causes within yourself. It presupposes that others, circumstances, chance have brought this experience to you. Therefore 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
is admitted and fully experienced under the proper circumstances in a way that is not destructive to 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
emotions must be felt and expressed in certain circumstances, under therapeutic supervision, where they can cause no 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
as you express your negativity under the proper circumstances, and as this fear vanishes, the new fears 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
for your life is never a product of circumstances beyond your control, or of causes beyond those 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
results. Trust in life is impossible under such circumstances. Catch those moments and see how you do 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
you to be so bad that no redeeming circumstances exist for you. The interpretation you give to 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
psychotherapy can expect under the very best of circumstances. It would be the point at which a 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
builds your life -- your very own reality circumstances. However, if you strive unconsciously for the limitless 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
life experiences, through millennia of living under varied circumstances, each entity learns to develop the faculties of 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
faculties whose manifestations depend on others or on circumstances outside your control. You will gain an understanding 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
emanates from you. You constantly create your life circumstances with this power, but you do so unconsciously 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
one can use the activating power to create circumstances according to one's own choice. So we must 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
that you prefer to remain dependent on outer circumstances, even though accepting the great truth of your 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
blame for the lack is projected onto outside circumstances or other people. This creates deep entanglements and 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
weaken the rage with which you blame others, circumstances, people, life itself. And this already removes a 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
even defeat if only one can blame the circumstances or bad luck or other people's faults. Accepting 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
integrity, and hope than the helpless resignation to circumstances life is supposed to bring about without your 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
it. This hurdle must be overcome under all circumstances if you want at all to open up 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
freely have the power to create and recreate circumstances, to fashion them. This shaping of circumstances is 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
recreate circumstances, to fashion them. This shaping of circumstances is not done by magic, by exerting power 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
inner knowing to the surface so that life circumstances appear in their true light as the creation 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
this will make you feel constantly victimized by circumstances beyond your control. In order to perceive and 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
avoid producing, and which were then, under those circumstances, even life-preserving. But when the same responses are 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
every human's creation of positive or negative life circumstances through beliefs, thoughts, feelings and will. I have 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
more, you try to cheat life by manipulating circumstances so that you gain as much, and give 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
sake of what is most positive under the circumstances. Once again, this often requires, at first, a 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
in the eyes of others, regardless of the circumstances, it lacks self-possession. On the other hand, when 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
we have found the concept of self- created circumstances to be true in many ways. Hidden, easily 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
he felt himself to be a victim of circumstances beyond his control. But there were moments when 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
No fear will ever find room under such circumstances. Feelings will expand, and security about the self 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
which you are so apt to ascribe to circumstances that seem to have nothing to do with 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
you and how you still tend to blame circumstances outside yourself for negative experience. In reality, negative 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
be to concentrate with woe on others or circumstances outside your control, but to reach into yourself 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
of the body, until it finds new life circumstances in which to deal with the same inner 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
can be sure that regardless of the outer circumstances, the problem arises from denial and fear of 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
usually explained away by all sorts of outer circumstances, which may even be true. The partner may 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
against it, repress and project it onto outer circumstances, you cannot want pleasure for its own sake 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
which must have logically brought about the present circumstances. Such deductive knowledge, however, is often the necessary 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
After you terminate this life cycle, the conditions, circumstances, and environment of your next life into which 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
this life with such a fear, your life circumstances will bring forth the very condition that you 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
have said this many a time. When life circumstances in your early childhood again inflict pain and 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
than experiencing it to its fullest, later life circumstances will replicate those early conditions until you open 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
forces you to feel your sadness through the circumstances you inevitable attract, your terror, arising from your 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
done this, even in childhood the severest of circumstances will be experienced in an undefended way. The 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
the next incarnation. The embedded material seeks out circumstances and people for the next incarnation that will 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
self-responsibility, or to deal with less than ideal circumstances. The origin of this negation of life is 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
becomes an escape and an illusion. Under these circumstances it is not at all a truthful or 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
is so exact! You will experience your life circumstances and your inner state in accordance with the 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
your concepts, intentions, and attitudes create your life circumstances, you have your key to create a different 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
state where you constantly make others -- people, circumstances, life as a whole -- responsible for your 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
can also create consciously, deliberately, and intentionally the circumstances and the state of mind that you desire 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
a cluster of opinions and judgments under certain circumstances does exist, it is always there in abeyance 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
and emanations which in turn create the life circumstances. These sequences must be connected, understood, and fully 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
allowing fulfillment. For a short period under certain circumstances, the must may appear to yield results. This 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
for oneness remains unfulfilled, and they blame others, circumstances, and life for it. All matters of life 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
into the creation of matter, of events and circumstances, and of life experiences. When humans adopt the 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
If you cannot blame it on the present circumstances, you may use past circumstances. But whatever means 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
on the present circumstances, you may use past circumstances. But whatever means of rationalization you use, it 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
You truly seem to be a victim of circumstances beyond your sphere of influence. This impression causes 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
I am not referring here to the superficial circumstances. I mean the fulfillment of the task of 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
as organic, but it is meaningful under these circumstances and thus organic in the larger context. When 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
has chosen the best solution under the prevailing circumstances. In such circumstances, when the outer personality fights 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
best solution under the prevailing circumstances. In such circumstances, when the outer personality fights against the inner 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
available to the outer consciousness. But under other circumstances the struggle may continue and the inner self 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
much resistance, that in spite of the propitious circumstances, the outer personality may not want to live 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
real, divine self knows of the very favorable circumstances and is totally in favor of a continued 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
of these ways, it determines its subsequent life circumstances. These circumstances are figured out in a most 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
ways, it determines its subsequent life circumstances. These circumstances are figured out in a most exacting way 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
process outlined in this lecture. Time, place and circumstances, the exact setting of the stage, must be 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
state of mind depends on others and on circumstances that have little if anything to do with 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
creative nucleus from which you can create life, circumstances, love and rich fulfillment. When you no longer 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
and that there is a long chain of circumstances that is as yet invisible to you that 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
matter, in which, under even the best of circumstances, life is not easy. Matter obstructs and frustrates 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA
always a challenge. Imagine that you lived under circumstances so sublime, favorable and bliss-producing, that even the 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA
faults and flaws are triggered off by outside circumstances. So you no longer depend on perfection in 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA
real life within you that creates the outer circumstances. You thus approach reality and, at times, gain 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
a life that might have continued in certain circumstances -- according to the old seedplan -- completely 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
you dictate into your soul a belief creating circumstances that prove it. You then forget that you 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
create frustration. True leadership cannot exist under these circumstances, for which you may then again blame the 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
humanity's development, when even in the best of circumstances only some levels are conscious, the unconscious levels 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION
and ecstasy. You cannot bear it. You create circumstances around you that seem to justify misery and 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975
reason. The deeper the understanding of the prevailing circumstances, the farther the vision goes, the closer the 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
search for the particular truth of the particular circumstances will immediately fill you with the self-esteem that 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
as the acceptance of the infringement in other circumstances. You are all coming into new states of 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
you were to force an adult into the circumstances of an infant. This would be incongruous, perverse 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
free. You may for a while find outer circumstances for blame for this self-restriction, but when this 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
your subtle inner attitudes, and your overall life circumstances. The more developed a person is, the more 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
will bring new effects. Many of your life circumstances that you no longer like are the result 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
in history, under certain conditions and in specific circumstances. Continuing these same acts or attitudes or customs 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
acts or attitudes or customs under completely different circumstances, under conditions where the meaning of this tradition 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
way, in an adjusted way that fits the circumstances on this level of reality. Aside from objects 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
mass images, this too stems from individuals whose circumstances in their early environment fostered the formation of 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
patterns create inevitably negative experiences and undesirable life circumstances. Once you can admit the resistance, it will 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
Such crises can be deliberately induced under controlled circumstances when you work with your helpers or in 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
deliberate choices, by working things out in controlled circumstances. It is the result of not wanting to 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
blame it on your partner or on outer circumstances. Part of this openness consists of revealing your 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
at times, be alone as a result of circumstances beyond their control, but even then, they manage 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
you have liberated yourself and improved your life circumstances, gained new self-confidence and a sense of your 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
way. Let us say, you are convinced that circumstances victimize you, that other people are doing you 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
as your perception of reality about your personal circumstances widens, so does your perception of creation begin 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
rarely at first and seem to depend on circumstances outside of yourself. Eventually you will be so 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
as new tasks in a new incarnation. Specific circumstances and surroundings are geared to bringing out the 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
to the fore in the previous incarnations where circumstances and surroundings had to activate other material. With 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
have waited for a future incarnation under normal circumstances is released now. The inner timetable has readied 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
The process of birth is never, under any circumstances, a one-time phenomenon. It is always gradual. Even 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
the same overall task so that outer life circumstances need not necessarily change at all. Sometimes, however 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
always protects you, no matter what the momentary circumstances are. However, this total fulfillment can come only 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION

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