| Abode.......................6 | |
| is eternal, and you are building your eternal abode in this your life, on the path you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is often said, a change from one geographical abode to another, but a change in spiritual and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| without many of the drawbacks of your current abode. You are in the impossible position of greedily | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| next stop. There you will find a temporary abode where you make yourself familiar, create new experiences | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| meant to change gradually into a more spiritual abode of unity, harmony and light. This cannot, of | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| of growth and development will create a new abode, with conditions similar to those that still prevail | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Abroad......................3 | |
| two mediums in training, one here and one abroad. This endeavor will serve many purposes, not only | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| may reach unto heaven...lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one another... 8: So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Absolve.....................7 | |
| when they say it because they want to absolve themselves of personal responsibility and guilt, it is | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| to react by resorting to pseudo-solutions. This should absolve you from destructive guilt feelings about the original | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| it comes to practical living, you wish to absolve yourself from it. Subsequently, everything in your life | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| ordeal, something in you rebels. If you fundamentally absolve yourself from accountability for your personal unfulfillment and | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| destructive guilt feelings, showing a way to truly absolve yourself from wrongs you have committed. The freer | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| it is possible to maintain these attitudes yet absolve yourself of the guilt. Therefore you go on | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| the growth process, largely comes from wanting to absolve yourself from blame or extract yourself from difficulty | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| Absorb......................32 | |
| there. Only when you feel it can you absorb and assimilate this material. Whenever human beings set | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| spiritually advanced. Thus, you should not try to absorb what you hear with your limited intellect alone | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| humanity at each particular period was ready to absorb. This went on for a long time. Gradually | 21 THE FALL |
| development, then the knowledge you are privileged to absorb in this environment will have served its only | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| human brothers and sisters gathered here: Receive and absorb this divine blessing streaming to you. Let it | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| problems are, and thus what the child may absorb from them which would be image-material. In that | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| contained in every blessing. How much you can absorb depends entirely on your own state of mind | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| not forget that especially as a child, you absorb the inner situation, you register it very finely | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| is sometimes more difficult to assimilate and constructively absorb the positive results of your inner life. The | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| layer may be formed of clay. This will absorb the spring's fresh flow and give a reddish | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| problems without this added burden. May you all absorb the powerful rays of love, truth, strength, and | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| they could not hear your call. They cannot absorb what is being said to them. The attitude | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you use your brain, your thinking capacity; you absorb, you train your memory and your logical reasoning | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the reason behind this manifestation. If you truly absorb it, wish to understand it, and go on | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| root in yourselves. May it help you to absorb all the material you have received, even though | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wisdom and truth you hear and try to absorb from the outside, it does no good. Inwardly | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| -- and therefore also of death. If you absorb nothing but this at the moment, you will | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| important for you to understand this and deeply absorb it, my friends. If you do, it must | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| with yourself, your emotions will eventually begin to absorb the knowledge of your brain that heretofore could | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| rules and regulations and laws and doctrines you absorb with your brain. This is an inner feeling | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| can the souls of these people begin to absorb more truth, even if the mind cannot follow | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| more material because you are better able to absorb and utilize it. It has a more immediate | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| truths your psyche is, as yet, unable to absorb. The simple realization that the highest of all | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| your ego to reach beyond it. What you absorb from outside must first pass your ego faculties | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| of you. Blessed be your abilities to understand, absorb, assimilate and utilize what you may receive in | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| your attention be focused, so that you can absorb as much as possible in this hour. I | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| acting, thinking, and willing, so that you could absorb into your self what was previously an appendage | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of spiritual reality and power to help you absorb and put to use what I have said | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| willing, feeling, and your physical being. Try to absorb and use what I gave you tonight. It | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| preparation on your part to be ready to absorb it, as well as preparation in the realm | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| ask God to guide you and help you absorb them. I would now like to discuss total | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to develop. You may assume that you can absorb mental knowledge from a teacher from whom you | 254 SURRENDER |
| Absorbed....................21 | |
| And this may also be good spiritually. Everything absorbed in the period of activity has to be | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| like this, unconscious shame and guilt is unconsciously absorbed by those around you. Because all this is | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| may manifest in many ways. Because you have absorbed certain teachings with your intellect, you may not | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| be another piece of theoretical knowledge you have absorbed, entirely separated from your emotions. Therefore, once you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| circle. Only after you have realized and fully absorbed all that, and after you have thought about | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| for the self, assimilating all that has been absorbed by the outward movement and applying it properly | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| it on outer levels or how much you absorbed with your brain. Some of you may wonder | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| fall short as parents, and their wrong attitudes, absorbed by the child, will cause hurt and unfulfillment | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| Yet, in my work I am entirely submerged, absorbed, and wholly concentrated. I can remain concentrated even | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| of material that you could not possibly have absorbed intellectually, let alone emotionally -- not even to | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| goes back to normal functioning, the poison is absorbed and dissolved. This poison is a necessary stimulant | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| these lectures. Much of it has not been absorbed yet, and only your will to plow ahead | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| inner intelligence will unify after all material is absorbed that keep the two separated. That is the | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| significance of life, and of meditation, will be absorbed, lived, experienced. There will no longer be a | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| key. When the lessons of these endeavors are absorbed by the soul, the reacquisition of knowledge comes | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| These feelings of bitterness and anger become so absorbed into the system that they themselves turn into | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| learn also. On this level nothing can be absorbed unless you surrender to the teacher. This rule | 254 SURRENDER |
| merely as a mental deduction is not truly absorbed. It has to become an inner reality before | 254 SURRENDER |
| been wholly made into spirit. It has been absorbed by spirit, by life, by consciousness, so that | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Life can never be truly understood and experientially absorbed when it is viewed only from the outside | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| a result of the knowledge your mind has absorbed and has found convincing. 5) In this stage | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Absorbing...................3 | |
| work you cannot get any real results by absorbing general knowledge. It does not suffice that you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| them. My dearest friends, may you succeed in absorbing and making an integral part for yourself of | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the conscious concepts an individual has gained through absorbing good education, good influences, and intellectual truth. Certain | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| Absorption..................5 | |
| on the spiritual level, self-analysis, and the thorough absorption of spiritual laws before the emotions can even | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| not even to a small degree. True, emotional absorption often comes much later, so it would be | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| exclusively intellectual understanding, which often prohibits the inner absorption and therefore growth. Try to perceive what I | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| are no longer helpless. My dearest friends, the absorption, understanding, the knowing and experiencing of all this | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| to come back after a certain period of absorption to the previous levels. I have started by | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |