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| to be healed in this respect. When people concentrate all their love on one person, and they | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| know yourself fully. Forget about your inability to concentrate generally for the time being and start searching | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that is in your way. I mean to concentrate on this in the course we will begin | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| other things, prevent you from being able to concentrate as much as you desire. You are not | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| advised, because this writing down helps you to concentrate on and condense what you have found out | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| do your meditation, this is what you should concentrate on. Perhaps it is better for you now | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| present stage of your development you need to concentrate on finding out what your lower self really | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| much nearer. If you have difficulties, try to concentrate on this. If you cannot advance, although you | 31 SHAME |
| be taken on; how much the entity should concentrate in this life on one character trend, or | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| or whether it would perhaps be better to concentrate on a heretofore unsolved psychological problem. For entities | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| are taken into consideration. Certain highly trained specialists concentrate on the physical shell. Other specialists, equally trained | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| on the physical shell. Other specialists, equally trained, concentrate on psychological and spiritual factors. It occurs also | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| that constitute your vicious circle. You have to concentrate on one after the other so as to | 36 PRAYER |
| exercise for learning concentration. Without the ability to concentrate you cannot achieve anything in life. You need | 36 PRAYER |
| in life. You need to be able to concentrate when you are on the path. Many systems | 36 PRAYER |
| There is no better way of learning to concentrate than by a systematic way of praying. By | 36 PRAYER |
| on the path if you are unable to concentrate on the mainstream of your life, specifically your | 36 PRAYER |
| life, specifically your spiritual development? You learn to concentrate when you pray, for instance, for your loved | 36 PRAYER |
| the purification process of more and more individuals. Concentrate on the thought forms of everything you have | 36 PRAYER |
| day to prayer, making a disciplined effort to concentrate on others and expressing unselfish desires, already creates | 36 PRAYER |
| lies not only in training your ability to concentrate, to discipline yourself; you also learn to cultivate | 36 PRAYER |
| daily prayer. Ordinarily your thoughts run wild. You concentrate, perhaps to excess, on a minor detail, overemphasizing | 36 PRAYER |
| or even months at a time. You cannot concentrate with equal strength on all the points in | 36 PRAYER |
| changing path. Gradually, you will be able to concentrate better on what is needed each day and | 36 PRAYER |
| There are many whose call it is to concentrate mainly on their spiritual development and they fulfill | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| give up thinking about it at all and concentrate on your own spiritual, mental, and emotional development | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| possess. Thus your judgment is colored, for you concentrate your objection on one sore point, while you | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| stage of your development. So the power to concentrate can be combined with cultivating constructive and unselfish | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| and the capacity to love. The more you concentrate on how you have been hurt, the more | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| your inner and outer actions. Humans like to concentrate unduly on the apparent injustice that has happened | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| be accomplished inwardly. This would not be healthy. Concentrate on your endeavors to develop yourself. In your | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your endeavors to develop yourself. In your prayers, concentrate on finding the truth about yourself, on realizing | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| time or another you find it impossible to concentrate in this manner because your thoughts always come | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| express themselves, have to be fully experienced first. Concentrate on this proving in your daily review and | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| try to see yourself as you sit there. Concentrate as though you were outside yourself, or as | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| your mind. You do not have to steadily concentrate on a particular subject. That is not the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to remedy the situation, you should not forcefully concentrate during all your waking hours. Many psychological factors | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| know their actions were quite all right. They concentrate on all their outer right actions but leave | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| with. Those you can hold on to and concentrate on. You can formulate your thoughts and questions | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| At the same time, the few people who concentrate on the teachings of truth without overt power | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| subjects on which it may have to particularly concentrate in the next semester. I realize that this | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| fresh outlook. Sometimes it may be necessary to concentrate temporarily on something else that appears to have | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| which you do not acknowledge to yourself. You concentrate on all sorts of other hurts which are | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| My advice here is not to work and concentrate on this issue. This is an indirect manifestation | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of your real values. Throughout your life you concentrate unconsciously on false values: either on values you | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| others that you do have them, or you concentrate on values which are potentially there, but have | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| say at the expense of? Because, if you concentrate on being successful, on impressing others, on receiving | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| and cannot find the way out because you concentrate on the outcome and the physical act, believing | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| because they do not will it so. They concentrate on what they enjoy because it is already | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| you really feel, the outcome is obvious. Do concentrate on this now, my friends. It will yield | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| realistic danger, all your mental faculties will automatically concentrate -- with the help of the poisonous stimulant | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| -- on the issue at hand. You cannot concentrate on anything else. You will not be capable | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| to normal, and your thought processes can again concentrate on the many aspects of life, on others | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| it encourages self-destructive and unproductive guilt. Instead I concentrate on the underlying conditions. However, in this context | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| aspect of the willingness to change. What you concentrate on today is surely not the same as | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| pressure to talk is relieved inappropriately, one will concentrate on matters that are not connected with one's | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| result of attitudes. Sometimes one needs merely to concentrate on one's attitudes, and harmonious soul movements automatically | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| displace its effects on others, to rationalize and concentrate on that which is not vital for your | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| cultivate only one of these two approaches. Some concentrate only on activating the hidden powers; others concentrate | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| concentrate only on activating the hidden powers; others concentrate on meeting themselves and their outer destructiveness so | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| still needing to be unearthed. QUESTION: I usually concentrate too much on studying the negative aspects, centered | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| that I don't want to look at. I concentrate on this mixture of a father image and | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| get out of this? ANSWER: Yes. I would concentrate in the moment -- as you issue into | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| Lately, I have had mental blocks. Whenever I concentrate and work and use the methods you just | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| The only solution then seems to be to concentrate all energies and forces in your outer ego-self | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| periods they tend more in one direction and concentrate more on certain aspects of living, while in | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| both should be cultivated. Some schools of thought concentrate on one aspect, others on the other. Each | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| course. But let us not hurry ahead. Just concentrate on these three questions, without taking anything for | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| this lecture, even if you did not always concentrate on my words, something went into your heart | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| very soon. This is the road we shall concentrate on this coming year. I would now like | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| more accessible; it may facilitate your capacity to concentrate and meditate; and it will increase your general | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| can take many subtle forms. You may constantly concentrate on the faults of others, because at first | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| your life, your attitude should not be to concentrate with woe on others or circumstances outside your | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| turn, manifests only indirectly. Tension, anxiety, inability to concentrate, absent-mindedness, a sense of futility about one's life | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| ever. Unfortunately, again and again, the temptation to concentrate and focus on the other person's shortcomings or | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| because it is difficult. It requires you to concentrate your mind and use your good will, and | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to human spirituality. One is to emphasize and concentrate on the divine potential within until this potential | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| to shift focus to the other; when to concentrate on the higher self so as to strengthen | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| At other times your helper may decide to concentrate on certain feelings or your inspiration will direct | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| that. The disorderly person is never able to concentrate. The same applies of course also to the | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Such focusing implies, of course, some ability to concentrate, but this is not too hard to learn | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| movements, you have to cultivate the ability to concentrate. This is not as difficult as some of | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| and uncreative, is a focus you need to concentrate on very specifically to expand into new states | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| my dearest ones, you will increasingly learn to concentrate and use energy in certain directions. This will | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| that this shortchanges the former. The more they concentrate on outer material living without bringing it into | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| that each one is a nucleus, a fundamental concentrate so highly charged with creative matter that a | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| anyone who chooses to forgo the temptation to concentrate on the real or apparent wrongs of others | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| comes later -- gratuitously, as it were. To concentrate on that would be pursuing a delusion. Knowing | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| movement. In my coming lectures I will increasingly concentrate on helping you comprehend the difference between the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| people need to gather their energies inward and concentrate all their faculties on their personal lives. In | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| which, whether you know it or not, you concentrate first on one form of development, then on | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| are still in a phase where you must concentrate mainly on your individual process. Of course, this | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| abundance can be spoken in truth. Let us concentrate now on specific words that reach very deep | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| have more meaning for you. I will specifically concentrate on the principle of contraction because there is | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| level. At one time you would have to concentrate more on the emotional level, learning to accept | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| and denied. At other times you had to concentrate on your mental processes and images, in order | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| rhythmless existence. Once you can visualize the difference, concentrate on it daily and ask your personal guidance | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |