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you can see that the level of your conscious thinking is influenced by both your destructive side 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
not know this and suffers. Let us review. Conscious processes can swing the pendulum from destructive creating 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
upon the universal power within to fortify your conscious mind with the necessary creative energy. The will 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
to recognize it and receive it in your conscious brain. This is a rough outline or plan 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
is streaming forth, and increase it by your conscious, deliberate, willing expressions and formulations. Express your willingness 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
is tap it, use it, build with your conscious mind the channels that can free it, and 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
what you want will be so. The less conscious you are of what you want, the more 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
considerable degree. Fear of pleasure must be made conscious in order to battle it. One of the 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
must make your negative creations, your negative pleasure conscious to overcome them. You must also be in 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
an ever-increasing degree. Only when you are acutely conscious of how you fear and deny your pleasure 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
When the battle goes on unbeknownst to your conscious mind, it is extremely painful. When you know 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
to settle the conflict. Once the struggle is conscious, it can be met, but not when it 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
when it is unconscious. This is why becoming conscious of any inner condition is such an important 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
self puts its stake only into the outer, conscious ego personality and completely disregards, ignores, and rejects 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
their dormant potentials, have made the urge quite conscious. Others are still grappling with the vagueness of 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
sides of the growth process. The balance of conscious effort and relaxation applies to the smallest details 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
cannot be directly willed and are never quite conscious. You must identify the disunity before the work 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
different brains: the inner and the outer, the conscious and the unconscious, the directly available and the 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
no control. The woman jumped up excitedly, completely conscious of what she had been told. We recently 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
this area, too, in that he has become conscious that his fear of others is largely a 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
counterreaction must also be neurotic and destructive. Only conscious perception can prohibit this. Only then will you 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
frighten you, will no longer beset you with conscious or unconscious fears when you use this all-important 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
powerful currents and attitudes that still elude the conscious perception evoke as much fear in a human 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
entity grows, such unconscious, displaced emotions become keenly conscious, although, at first, one ignores their deeper meaning 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
reasoning, its self-defeating will directions, must become as conscious as your positive attitudes and will directions. Paradoxical 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
your surface consciousness? If you let yourself become conscious of them you could indeed create beautiful life 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
the substance that forms life experience. Not only conscious and unconscious concepts create. So does the feeling 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
you may pay lip service to on the conscious level. This is why the exploration and confrontation 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
this fact and make the hidden intention more conscious. Then consider the possibility that this condition is 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
fundamental personality levels we may call: (1) the conscious ego level, with all conscious knowing and willing 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
call: (1) the conscious ego level, with all conscious knowing and willing; (2) the unconscious egotistical child 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
events in human life. In effective meditation the conscious ego level activates both the unconscious, egotistical, destructive 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
amount of alertness on the part of your conscious ego self. The conscious ego must be completely 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
the part of your conscious ego self. The conscious ego must be completely determined to allow the 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
daily situations that are unpleasant or unsatisfactory. The conscious ego has to reach down and say, Whatever 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
has powers that surpass the limitations of the conscious self. These higher powers should also be called 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
with the undeveloped part of the self. The conscious ego-self must decide for this integration and fight 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
personality, my friends. In the first place, your conscious ego-personality itself becomes stronger and healthier. It will 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
down. The little self wants to seduce the conscious ego to stay within the narrow confines of 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
morbid capitulation, which always cover unexpressed hatred. The conscious ego must prevent this stratagem using all its 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
bear on it all the knowledge of your conscious ego. If this is not sufficient, request the 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
the capacities, but also the limitations of the conscious ego. On the conscious level the ego's function 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
the limitations of the conscious ego. On the conscious level the ego's function is wanting to see 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
that the part of you that is already conscious and moving actually intends to make blocked energy 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
the accepting and understanding attitude that enables the conscious ego to assert its benign dominion over violently 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
you need to widen the limitations of your conscious ego expressions to include saying at any moment 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
fully recognize. This is the task of the conscious ego. Then and then only can it also 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
it was necessary for making the destructive side conscious and exploring its deeper meaning. Reeducation depends on 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
Reeducation depends on the efforts of both the conscious ego, with its instructions to and dialogue with 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
accepting its direct refusal to budge. When the conscious ego does not recognize that there is a 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
of meditation. This is the expansion of your conscious concepts in order to create new and better 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
desire. These concepts must be fostered by the conscious ego, and the universal consciousness must intervene to 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
be executed only by the ego. The willing, conscious self alone is incapable of doing it. The 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
missing when you consider yourself exclusively as the conscious, willing, ego-self. Resistance is partly an expression of 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
absolutely passive state, waiting for it. Again, the conscious self does not try where it should. False 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
you will sense an awakened trust that the conscious ego is not alone. It is not the 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
taken active steps. Your being here signifies a conscious and unconscious search for the real meaning of 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
little more, the longing becomes stronger and more conscious. There are many degrees and many alternatives, but 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
side. Conversely, if there is a rift between conscious striving for goodness, love and decency, and the 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
be acknowledged, so that the rift between the conscious awareness of self and the unconscious denial of 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
the individual to bridge the gap between the conscious good and the unconscious evil! How much struggle 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
between you and others unless you are fully conscious of your own self. Becoming conscious is to 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
are fully conscious of your own self. Becoming conscious is to begin mending the rift; consciousness diminishes 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
within yourself. And when this split is not conscious, the split mirrors itself in your relationships, or 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
can you sustain pleasure; only as a fully conscious person can you be whole. Only then can 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
has been rejected because you refused to become conscious of it, will immediately produce a greater acceptance 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
fate. Each one of you has an outer conscious will and an inner unconscious will. The second 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
intention, which is so different from the outer conscious one. At the beginning of one's path, one 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
an actual inner No exists which contradicts one's conscious desires. So it is not easy to accept 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
to change it, you are at least quite conscious of your self-determining power. You no longer feel 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
will remain out of reach as long as conscious awareness of the split is absent. In spite 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
awareness and acceptance of the negation of your conscious affirmation. The ever- present, ongoing blessedness and richness 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
what your inner being expresses that opposes the conscious wish. Then state further, very exactly, that you 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
way that I make it impossible for the conscious wish to fulfill itself? On what beliefs, assumptions 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
I base the negation in contrast to the conscious striving? When you answer these questions as concisely 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
legitimate human fulfillment, that creates on a less conscious level an urgency which, in turn, manifests only 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
we have two manifestations. Some people are very conscious of a lack in their lives and suffer 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
work until the layer of longing becomes more conscious. People in this predicament should deeply listen into 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
by everyone. It serves to make you more conscious of your longing -- and this is good 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
it easier for you to make a deliberate, conscious choice: to let the latter influence the former 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
as you open to it more and more, conscious of its reality, becoming more receptive to it 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
new. But they will strengthen as you pay conscious attention to this new process and nurse it 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
at work and at cross-purposes with the affirmative, conscious striving of the personality. The negative attitudes create 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
adverse effect on you if you are truly conscious of them, if you understand them in proper 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
to the surface. It is up to the conscious personality to make the best of these periods 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
the key to breaking this vicious circle, the conscious volitional self must make a deliberate effort to 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
work on the path before you are really conscious of your fear and of your running away 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
Does it respond with involuntary contraction, notwithstanding your conscious desires and aims? This observation will allow you 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
and easily glossed-over reactions, which sorely need your conscious awareness. As you are aware of this absolute 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
as this happens can the dialogue between your conscious mind and the involuntary responses of your soul 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
of the dialogue can begin, in which your conscious self also speaks, but this time in response 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
your honest attempts to make your own destructiveness conscious without justifying it by the destructiveness or limitation 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
therefore also on you. You may be quite conscious of this fear, but you only gradually begin 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
struggle and search is ongoing, and the more conscious the struggle is, the better. Any path of 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
right now which you can immediately realize: your conscious self at its best, as it exists right 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
of development is reached. To the extent your conscious self can use its already existing knowledge of 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
sake of denying the lower aspects, because the conscious, determining, choosing self does not take up the 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
self. Now let us discuss further how the conscious self can be more activated and utilized, so 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the way I outlined in this lecture, your conscious mind can expand sufficiently to let in the 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
is different. We shall now return to your conscious mind as it already exists in you at 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
now you can explore the recesses of your conscious mind to search for new, better, and more 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
submerged spiritual self will integrate itself into your conscious mind, and you will become it. As I 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
in a threefold dialogue: the dialogue of the conscious self with the demonic aspects, the dialogue of 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
with the demonic aspects, the dialogue of the conscious mind with the divine self, and the dialogue 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
in you which are either not at all conscious or not sufficiently so. Unless this awareness is 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
the original experience it fights against. Your whole conscious self has to gather all its faculties, all 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
generate have learned that the specific focusing and conscious direction you give to your meditations evokes an 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
experiences will add little, if anything, to your conscious life. Often a full outer experience without the 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
poisonous, toxic energy. Fear that is not even conscious and therefore appears indirectly is that much more 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
constant state of guardedness -- unbeknownst to your conscious mind. Therefore, the first task on your path 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
to explore yourself deeply, so that you become conscious of your defenses. Only then can you explore 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
discuss here. The overactive mind -- not necessarily conscious -- produces the image, I will perish if 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
to giving up long- established destructive patterns, the conscious commitment to the positive goal suddenly disappears. With 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
a legitimate, healthy need. When this need becomes conscious, a positive goal and direction can be set 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
you repeat the experience. Conversely, as you become conscious of your past feelings, you also become aware 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
suffering is accepted and worked through on the conscious level, the person does not remain crippled, in 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
case is. You may even deceive your outer conscious self. But you can never deceive your real 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
All these aspects of the personality can be conscious or unconscious to varying degrees. The less awareness 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
when the lower and mask selves are entirely conscious and their exact manifestations understood can misconceptions be 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
its own momentary limitations can only be a conscious and deliberate effort toward the goal of transcending 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
with them will greatly speed up if the conscious mind calls the higher self into play and 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
be adopted. It means shedding the light of conscious awareness and experience upon one's inner distortions, ugliness 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
and physical expression. When all these levels are conscious and when their inevitable divergence from each other 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
this must be clearly perceived, understood, and made conscious. Eventually it must be experienced emotionally, for it 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
creative expression of feelings. Misconceptions can be quite conscious without your knowing that they are misconceptions. Therefore 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
your knowing that they are misconceptions. Therefore your conscious beliefs must also be tested and investigated. Misconceptions 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
be tested and investigated. Misconceptions can be vaguely conscious. This is the case when your actions and 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
In that case, the pathwork must make them conscious. This can only be done by examining the 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
must be dealt with by looking at the conscious mind and searching in the unconscious: these two 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
also have to be scrutinized, understood, and made conscious. Where distortions, misconceptions, and negativities exist in a 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
The Level of Feelings Again, where there are conscious or unconscious misconceptions of the mind and an 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
be. Feelings must be dealt with on the conscious level before they can be rechannelled constructively. Destructive 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
this is done for the purpose of making conscious the distorted levels of your soul substance, and 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
further guidance to unblock more, to become more conscious of what is still hidden, and to experience 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
reality. Just as the mind level can be conscious or unconscious, so can be the will, the 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
pass that at certain times you may be conscious of your divine heritage, and at other times 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
higher and the lower self can be fully conscious or unconscious, or manifest at any degree between 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
higher self is masked. Again, you can be conscious of this tactic or not. At times, you 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
first and foremost a process of making things conscious. This self-awareness unifies you and unifies the split 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
truly open attitude, willing to listen to a conscious ness that is you and yet is greater 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS

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