| Commitments.................9 | |
| which would require radical changes in one's lifelong commitments, then it could be very disturbing. ANSWER: Outer | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| passivity. It is one of the most active commitments a person can undertake. QUESTION: Why is it | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| again a step further to make new positive commitments. Whenever you find another trace of still lingering | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| people for? If I do not make these commitments, do I have the right to want to | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| as a result of your combined efforts and commitments to your innermost being. In this lecture I | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| to work on them, to meditate, to make commitments toward a new way of being, to ask | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| levels on the spiral and enter into new commitments to your God and to your truth, little | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| cannot exist unless you make the forever renewed commitments about specific issues on the new levels. It | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| I will answer some questions. Before making your commitments, I say to all of you here, the | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Commits.....................11 | |
| of the person who follows this path, who commits himself or herself entirely to God, not only | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| on the path of self-recognition and purification. Whoever commits himself to the path will obtain all imaginable | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| a person so afraid of death that he commits suicide. That is what you all are doing | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| attitude will be found in the person who commits antisocial acts. The mildest form may not even | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| it in motion. Let us assume a person commits a crime through which he gets into difficulties | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| society proclaimed that everyone who does not write commits a crime or is inferior, then, in addition | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| this topic? QUESTION: Is the life center one commits oneself to located in the subtle bodies or | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the inner will is expressed, as your ego-personality commits to wanting help, you will become calm, open | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| rhythm and reality that is the path. Whoever commits to do the work of this path will | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| lazy, too fearful, too selfish, too self-indulgent, he commits as grave an injustice and dishonesty as the | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| either cause or effect. The primitive person who commits murder may truly believe that his act has | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Committed...................62 | |
| Then they would reach out with a fully committed love, not afraid of taking risks, even to | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| Let us suppose that a criminal who has committed several crimes has gotten away with it every | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to pay for something that you have not committed -- but what you are really paying for | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| for which you have to pay now was committed in a past life, the insight can come | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| example. Suppose a murderer, a man who has committed an act not only against divine law but | 18 FREE WILL |
| his memory and has had amnesia since having committed this act. So he finds himself in prison | 18 FREE WILL |
| does not alter the fact that he has committed the crime. Whether or not he knows and | 18 FREE WILL |
| dying on the cross for sins others have committed. If you have committed a sin, you yourself | 22 SALVATION |
| for sins others have committed. If you have committed a sin, you yourself have to straighten it | 22 SALVATION |
| or for others. If you are too strongly committed to an idea, or to something you desire | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| occurs out of ignorance and error or is committed willfully. The principle remains the same. But when | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| you cannot say that every crime that is committed and every punishment for it is due to | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| part. Although your purification work through a deeply committed relationship manifests differently than it does in the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| unwittingly inflicted -- unintentional hurt because it was committed out of your wrong image conclusions -- is | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| in. Understand that none of your faults are committed out of malice; or because you wish evil | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| have to be as though I had actually committed the wrong act? Isn't the most important thing | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| brother. At present, about half the world is committed to collectivism, and half the world to individualism | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| You may feel divided about it, may have committed it out of fear, compulsion or greed, to | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| many people in different ways. But in marital, committed love, mutuality is a prerequisite for a mature | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| -- be they hurts, resentments, envies, or wrongs committed by you or someone else. You are powerless | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| find ways to make up for the wrongs committed. You can inflict pain by not daring to | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| it. I may be all that, I have committed these sins, but it hurts me too much | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| divided, taking full responsibility for all consequences, fully committed to the relationship on whatever level it exists | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| to truly absolve yourself from wrongs you have committed. The freer you are of inner unresolved problems | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| work. I now know that I have never committed myself really to anything, out of fear. I | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| motivated by love and truth and have totally committed yourself to a course of honesty and integrity | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| to do that precisely because you are so committed to your false ideas that a different mode | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| another. Those who find their way toward a committed path such as this, in which they try | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| degree a growth process, either quite deliberate and committed or haphazard and unconscious, obstructed by blind opposing | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| when you give it your best by being committed to the truth of the issue at all | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| woman stay together in a more enduring and committed relationship, maintaining and even increasing bliss depends entirely | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| daily living and being. You must be totally committed to the truth, because then you are also | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| to the truth, because then you are also committed to the Universal Spirit. If you thus commit | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| contraction. Expansion takes place when a positive, open, committed, honest, loving, giving attitude exists. When the good | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| will, its already existing capacity to be positive, committed, truthful, courageous and persevering in the struggle to | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of course, those of you who are really committed to and involved in your own intensive work | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| so again. Many human beings, no matter how committed to this path, are not always capable of | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| remove your own obstructions. If you are honestly committed to it, you will feel increasingly free to | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| whatever the commitment may be. If you are committed to give your best to whatever you do | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| by negative counterforces. In order to be fully committed, no negative intentionality must exist. Commitment exists in | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| mundane little task. To the degree you are committed, what you do will be pleasurable, free from | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| link in question. Many of you who are committed to this path have begun to admit some | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| pain, longing, sadness, fear. When you are totally committed to feeling what is in you, you will | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| one who is not deeply involved in and committed to a path such as this, in which | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| the faith, and the volition to be totally committed to living my life in a good, deeply | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| only when you are totally engaged in and committed to seeing yourself truthfully. The moment you do | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| the emotional level only when you are fully committed to learn to expand your own capacity to | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| your life. Some of you may be very committed to God on a conscious level, but you | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| longing also occasionally besets those who are basically committed to a path like this one. New phases | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| avoid the self -- and who is thus committed to his or her growth above all other | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| be simply stated as follows: Are you totally committed to all of yourself, to the whole truth | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| a path. They may, on the whole, be committed to it, but keep a part of themselves | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| cause-and-effect chain-reactions. As I said, this requires dedicated, committed, wholehearted work, the utter will to be truthful | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| and start afresh. When you are determined and committed to change and bring out the divine potential | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| for connectedness with your highest wisdom and are committed to it will you know when and how | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| function in your giving mode in a deeply committed sincere spirit, then whatever you do is a | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| a word spoken, known, held, believed in and committed to, in each area of specific creation. The | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| habit. It is the result of still being committed to the imaginary safety measure of the superstition | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| has not been made conscious. When you are committed to an intense path like this and follow | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| each other. It must be understood that the committed relationship is not a moralized edict that deprives | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| the real, peace-bringing, unifying truth if you are committed to it more than to anything else. Wanting | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| however. You know very well how important your committed active effort is, how noble your struggle, as | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |