| Contractions................3 | |
| you now. Therefore you remain locked in the contractions and cannot convert them into expansions. So, the | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| is necessary therefore that you cease seeing your contractions as bad. You hinder yourself in that way | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| manifestation. In this blindness you contract about your contractions, as it were, and then it becomes a | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Contracts...................8 | |
| too. The active element of God that creates contracts over and over again into the purest and | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| When God, with the purpose of active creation, contracts into form, then the masculine principle is at | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| move, respond. Quite the contrary. It expands and contracts like breathing -- is rhythmic and relaxed, effortless | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| fear makes expansion appear painful and threatening. Fear contracts into unpleasure. Hence the disturbed organism unpleasurably contracts | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| contracts into unpleasure. Hence the disturbed organism unpleasurably contracts when it should pleasurably expand. When the natural | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| happens, as it were. To experience itself it contracts instead of expanding; instead of exploring further light | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| souls who fulfill the task planned in their contracts. The death of the physical matter is equally | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| may call spirit. All life pulsates, expands and contracts. Matter comes into existence by spiritual forms pulsating | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Contradict..................43 | |
| Jewish and Christian concept, though they seem to contradict each other. The Indian concept refers to the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| cases, when human theories about Creation diverge and contradict each other, each of the conflicting theories can | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| accuse you and will even be inclined to contradict your self-accusations; thus the ego is bolstered. Furthermore | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| reject the new findings as wrong because they contradict another part of their being. In their confusion | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| wall you defeat your own purpose and you contradict your desire to develop, which exists just as | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| if desires are contained in the images that contradict your most cherished conscious desires, the image-desires overrule | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| face at first. The two obstacles seem to contradict one another, yet you may experience both. The | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| therefore to be feared even more. It may contradict the idea of His infinite love. Neither is | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| it be not you. This may seem to contradict what I said before, namely that to cause | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| as the psychological factors. The spiritual factors never contradict the psychological ones. They are only an extension | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| divine harmony, the three principles will clash, will contradict one another. They will not be understood properly | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| is in constant movement. This may seem to contradict the statement that the highest form of existence | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| true and that these two statements do not contradict each other at all. There is just one | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| so consciously. In fact, your outer knowledge may contradict this inner state of experiencing life. Yet, in | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you defeat your own purpose, and you illogically contradict your desire to develop that persists just as | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| because, in humanity's limited understanding, they seemed to contradict his other teachings. It is not mere coincidence | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| truth. At times the great truth may not contradict the little truth at all. The little truth | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| in spite of tremendous inner conflicts does not contradict this statement. In these cases, the creative talent | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| But they are hidden, and since they crassly contradict the morally high standards of the particular idealized | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| that none of these three attributes can ever contradict or interfere with another. However, in the distorted | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| Such emotions of contempt and resentment in turn contradict the standards of the idealized self. Consequently, they | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| do not feel they exist, either because they contradict the demands of your idealized self, or because | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the wrong conclusions, the false solutions -- directly contradict the spirituality that you all aim for. Then | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the mental and emotional faculties. One will not contradict the other. As long as you cannot rely | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of these sins intermingle and overlap. They may contradict one another and yet exist simultaneously. This is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| to act out what you feel. It may contradict your idealized self-image. All this has to be | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| found as a personal experience within, does not contradict the accessible reality if the latter is profoundly | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| may have been difficult to face because they contradict one's idealized self- image and bring disapproval and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| self- exploration, you find areas within which completely contradict your conscious convictions. Emotional reactions either contradict conscious | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| completely contradict your conscious convictions. Emotional reactions either contradict conscious views, or are split within themselves. When | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| still immature aspects of itself into submission would contradict the freedom of spiritual reality. However, the more | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| -- to a new outlook that seems to contradict previous convictions and experience. This obstacle of denying | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| unconscious attitudes, opinions, thoughts and feelings which completely contradict your conscious attitudes, opinions, thoughts and feelings. This | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| vigilance would mean the recognition of facts that contradict cherished illusions about the self, discipline becomes a | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| levels, self-interest, self-assertion. In this duality, all these contradict goodness and unselfishness and must therefore be sacrificed | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| that there are hidden layers of consciousness that contradict what you may pay lip service to on | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| a structure that is built on premises which contradict the laws of cosmic truth, love, and bliss | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| psychic nuclear points. Some of them converge. Some contradict each other. Some are mutually reinforcing. Every instant | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| not important, and that may indeed appear to contradict what I have just said. I always emphasize | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| real fulfillment. Your outer ego-self will no longer contradict your Godself. This state, however, comes only after | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| dualities cease to exist and contradictions no longer contradict; where you experience two previous opposites as valid | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| specific individuals and specific events. The latter may contradict your idealized self-image, your moral standards, your overall | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| outside and out of context, may seem to contradict what I say. In your era, there is | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Contradiction...............91 | |
| about them every day. Here I find a contradiction between your teachings and the book. ANSWER: There | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| teachings and the book. ANSWER: There is no contradiction. It is a question of how to confront | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| a mood is meant. So here is a contradiction. Actually, nuclear physics casts a light on the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| Actually, nuclear physics casts a light on the contradiction that reveals that both talk about the same | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| At the same time, I am explaining a contradiction that is inherent in human understanding. It also | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| ultimate truth. Here is the origin of the contradiction, and I tell you that both God-experiences are | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| masculine elements in the woman will act in contradiction, leading to great inner conflicts that will create | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| in change, and yet in equilibrium. This apparent contradiction cannot be squeezed into your verbal concepts, just | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| punishment is wrong. That may sound like a contradiction when compared with the last answer, but it | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| life is no life and therefore a meaningless contradiction. The life force contains all divine attributes. It | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| truly advantageous for you. But it is no contradiction. Both are true on this earth sphere. When | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| war with one another; they will be in contradiction. Each created being is governed predominantly by one | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| and therefore apparently without motion. It is no contradiction, my friends, although I realize it is extremely | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| realize, my friends, this seems like an utter contradiction. I say here on the one hand that | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| not found its conclusion. ANSWER: There is no contradiction, although I can easily see that it appears | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| existence, you will see that there is no contradiction. It is true that as long as the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you would have seen that there is no contradiction. You might have understood it clearly by thinking | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way will bring you closer to the inner contradiction. By going deeply enough, your answers will be | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| of general conduct. Ascertain if there is a contradiction of right principles. Put this confusion down concisely | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| show you that Jesus' statement is not a contradiction at all. It may seem so, it may | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| evil. So this saying of Jesus is no contradiction, but serves only to extend and amplify the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| meaning, it is just the opposite of a contradiction. All sayings in the Scriptures have a much | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so hopeless, so despairing, and stands in such contradiction to my pleasure drives, that I have no | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| Needless to say, the conscious awareness of this contradiction is missing until this particular work is well | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| subjective truth, but actually this term is a contradiction. Truth is objective. Artistic truth is the result | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| lectures, the so-called psychological approach is not in contradiction to the spiritual one. Of course, prayer is | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| path of self-purification? ANSWER: Do you see any contradiction between our path and faith in God and | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| to fulfill. Again, this may appear as a contradiction, but it is not, my friends. Keep in | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| no superimpositions and displacements occur. What appears as contradiction to the conflicted, blind person is no contradiction | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| contradiction to the conflicted, blind person is no contradiction in reality, but merely proof of the richness | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| while other levels express the opposite, such a contradiction affects the soul substance negatively, even if the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| any great goal. What appears like the greatest contradiction to the spiritually and emotionally immature person becomes | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| and the psyche is free from division and contradiction. When you reach the state of oneness with | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| for guidance and enlightenment. This seems like a contradiction, but only as long as underlying problem areas | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| God wants your happiness? Is this not another contradiction? The greedy child wants happiness, too. The great | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| things possible. Is this unlimited power not in contradiction to the aim of this path which reiterates | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| cause suffering, one is in illusion. This seeming contradiction will split a concept. When one realizes that | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| have an idea why it is really no contradiction that it is your birthright to be happy | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| I would like to say this: the apparent contradiction is that man has to be able to | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| go. Where truth is known, there is no contradiction. But where illusion and false concepts create duality | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| or anything. Of course, this sounds like a contradiction, my friends. But all spiritual principles, when clothed | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| situations, it is important to understand an apparent contradiction. On the one hand, through a deeper understanding | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| in inner harmony. This seems, indeed, like a contradiction which may give rise to puzzlement and confusion | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| This is what I explained about the apparent contradiction between acceptance and the knowledge that suffering is | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| your psyche fear the desired result. Finding this contradiction means great liberation and a giant step closer | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| It should become clear that there is no contradiction between your being taught that you are responsible | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| are apparent contradictions. Not seeing the absence of contradiction in these two approaches must lead to confusion | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| words -- and this may sound like a contradiction, but it is not -- no matter how | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| dispensed with. Now, this may sound like a contradiction, my friends, but it is not. For if | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| truth, harmony, and dynamic progress. Again, a seeming contradiction: The more you go to the spot of | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| Likewise, when children are confused because they perceive contradiction and conflict around them, equally contradictory emotions arise | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| dualistic level does this appear to be a contradiction. This point can best be demonstrated in your | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| mature, the same attitude continues, and an apparent contradiction ensues: the less one can endure frustration, the | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| absolute. Relative eternal life may seem like a contradiction, an absurdity. Yet, eternal life in the absolute | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| always effortless effort. This, too, may appear a contradiction. Let us come back to those fundamental human | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| part of it. What appears to be a contradiction on the ego level becomes a unification on | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| bridging a chasm, resolving a real or apparent contradiction. This applies to all levels of being. When | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| point he is no longer aware of this contradiction. He now begins to see that his hopelessness | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| twofold approach to the understanding of this seeming contradiction. If detachment is indifference because you are afraid | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| sense rejection you must deal with your inner contradiction and use the creative process of meditation to | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| its manifestations. Here you have right away a contradiction that seems apparently insurmountable. As long as a | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| an infinity in the inner regions. Here a contradiction may appear in dualistic human terms. How could | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| you may become involved in some confusion and contradiction. Confusions and apparent contradictions come from the dualistic | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| for the true spiritual life is never in contradiction to practical life on earth. There must be | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| state of joy. It may sound like a contradiction when I say you have to be willing | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| it is divided, and often in conflict and contradiction. The God-consciousness in you is One. The Godself | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| then push out of consciousness. Thus a tremendous contradiction occurs. The blissful now point is truly a | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| and fear. Illusory reality may sound like a contradiction, but it is not, for you constantly manufacture | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| the other; you learn to deal with apparent contradiction; you learn to keep a record of your | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| and freedom from obstruction. This is not a contradiction. Your individual fulfillment, which cannot exist as long | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| only through self-fulfillment. In other words, the apparent contradiction proves, once again, to be a faulty perception | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is not. Both attitudes are necessary. Another apparent contradiction: It is extremely important that you be receptive | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| and what should happen. Still another related apparent contradiction: You need to be specific, yet this specificity | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| receive it honestly. Again we have an apparent contradiction. On the one hand, it is necessary that | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| your own. These laws are apparently full of contradiction. You need to acquire knowledge, the mind must | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. It is a contradiction in terms. Just as you need to trust | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| and fairness for all. It may seem a contradiction if I say at the same time that | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| not equal, of course. Is this really a contradiction? I should say not. Owing to the dualistic | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| human consciousness, things often appear to be in contradiction which are not. So it is simultaneously true | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| So we can say that there is no contradiction in saying that they are both equal and | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| to when one truth seems to be a contradiction to another truth. With such exclusiveness the dualistic | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| every one of these systems -- not in contradiction, but as an integrating whole. It may sound | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| channels and see the unity within the apparent contradiction. This has to start, and has of course | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| format is appropriate, there will never be a contradiction. Whatever problems arise will not be ascribed to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| leaving the body? This seems to be a contradiction. I shall talk about this very important facet | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| sense, individuation, and, what may appear as a contradiction, total surrender to God's will, which is the | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| came to mean an opposition to spirituality, a contradiction which, of course, is utterly false. So you | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| himself to rejoice in it. Another kind of contradiction also exists that has led to many confusions | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| All these questions seem fraught with conflict and contradiction -- at least on this level of reality | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| will sense very clearly that there is no contradiction or duality between surrendering and standing firm. In | 254 SURRENDER |
| salvation that create a lot of confusion and contradiction among humankind. I am speaking here specifically of | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |