| Convictions.................34 | |
| too, even the most ruthless ones have deep convictions about their own ideas and ideals, wrong as | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as well as about the errors of their convictions. But if these happen to be stubborn people | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| their views, particularly if, due to their personal convictions, they are incarnated again into the same surroundings | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| that may be contradictory to your own stubborn convictions, unless it is through an act of God's | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| find a personal, emotional, subjective reason behind your convictions. QUESTION: What is the opposite aspect of vanity | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and intense than any thought you can harbor. Convictions and opinions unfortified by emotion are weak, and | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| yourself. Do not be deceived by your conscious convictions. Rather try to examine and analyze your emotional | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| know, my friends, that thoughts, feelings, attitudes and convictions create forms -- forms that are just as | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the spirit. If you harbor truthful attitudes, opinions, convictions and emotions, these forms will exist in a | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| never dissolve, nor can they ever be destroyed. Convictions and emotions of untruth or unreality have the | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| attitudes in the personality prevail. The stronger these convictions and attitudes, thoughts, and emotions are, the greater | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| are the product of your inner attitudes and convictions, thoughts and emotions. Many of these create obstacles | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| grope your way. The more unconscious such attitudes, convictions, and erroneous conclusions are, the more powerful they | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| according to what they represent, how strong the convictions are, and what is linked with them. This | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| everything, especially if those entities held very strong convictions during their lifetime. Such strong convictions will not | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| very strong convictions during their lifetime. Such strong convictions will not automatically disappear. They may linger on | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on public opinion rather than on your own convictions, on pseudo- solutions and defense-mechanisms that you have | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| you experience others and yourself, concepts, ideas and convictions. It is here that you will have certainty | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| sincerely answered from the depth of one's own convictions. They must be deeply examined. Only then can | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| find areas within which completely contradict your conscious convictions. Emotional reactions either contradict conscious views, or are | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| is that way only because of your wrong convictions, you fully face the now, your own now | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| You will further notice that relinquishing ideals and convictions also feels like annihilation, for being wrong means | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| in turn, are the sum of your secret convictions about life. To discover the discrepancy between your | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| a new outlook that seems to contradict previous convictions and experience. This obstacle of denying a fact | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| indentation, which is connected with too tightly held convictions, too intense and exaggerated emotions, overreaction, as well | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| to reveal themselves, the more truthful and constructive convictions of the conscious mind can influence and gradually | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| blindness. The egotistical infant's antisocial desires and claims, convictions and attitudes must be exposed in exact detail | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| honesty is required to challenge one's tightly cherished convictions. Such challenge cuts out the negative self-perpetuation, the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| and can set out to investigate the motivations, convictions and assumptions that create the split in your | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| is to face and accept those aspects, feelings, convictions and attitudes in you which are either not | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| still hardened by preconceived, unchallenged, and even unarticulated convictions, by insistence and tight selfwill, and by the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| your feelings, your conscious and unconscious opinions and convictions are, by your conceptions, which determine your actions | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| expression. Do not hug your negative thoughts and convictions. The force is there the moment you embrace | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| must clearly enunciate and then examine the feelings, convictions, and ideas for their truth and their effect | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Convince....................60 | |
| woes feels so good to you, and you convince yourself that the pain you experience must be | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| may not be so? Or would you rather convince yourself of the contrary, just because you want | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| choices because they were too uncomfortable, preferring to convince yourself that everything is senseless anyhow, so why | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| you see reality as it actually is, to convince you and to overcome your doubts; rather, the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| it tries too hard to induce you to convince yourself about something that exists merely on the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| to the very people you had hoped to convince and were unable to reach by merely lecturing | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| difficulty. Come to the friends of this group. Convince yourself how much God likes you to do | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| idealization is love and tolerance. You try to convince yourself that you are tolerant and good when | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| your inner voice of absurd guilt, trying to convince it that it has no reason to bother | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| or when you feel the great need to convince others that your opinion is right, then you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| more of the picture so that you will convince yourself of the falsity of such an assumption | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the eyes of the world in order to convince yourself that your inferiority feelings are unjustified. You | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| at stake, will you be able to truly convince yourself that nothing adverse happens to you. As | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| and emotions in this respect, no one can convince you. You will find excellent arguments to prove | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| child in you requests. But as you steadily convince yourself that not receiving it is no abyss | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| who are the center. Your concern is to convince the other to love you according to your | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| failing human being work that way, that would convince me -- while the very person raising such | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| it, or losing it again. You try to convince yourself that you do not want love. The | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| The same happens when you inwardly try to convince yourself that you do not want life because | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| makes love impossible. The more you try to convince others of your invulnerable strength, the more frightened | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| it were a foreign body, before you can convince yourself of its destructive influence, which causes many | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| greatest resistance. You go through great pains to convince yourself and others that this situation is different | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| may take a little while longer until you convince the negating part to become flexible and grow | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| current. Another reason may be the need to convince others because you yourself may not be really | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| had deep down all along. Your hurry to convince another person is often a reflection of your | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| reality of your being? How then can you convince yourself of the utter truth that all these | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| than those of which one arduously tries to convince oneself. It is of great importance, my friends | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| fear that produces resistance. Only then will you convince yourself how useless, unreasonable, unfounded was the illusion | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| its exaggerated opposite. You not only try to convince yourself that the need is nonexistent, but you | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| every conceivable point of view in order to convince yourself that your wishing and striving for fulfillment | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| cannot be successful. Now you are able to convince yourself of the unreasonableness of maintaining the non- | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| at the same time, the only way to convince the self that the fear is unnecessary. The | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| by painstakingly acknowledging your selfishness can you truly convince yourself of your potential unselfishness. This requires the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| to exposing that which you fear, you cannot convince yourself of your innermost being, which is utterly | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| room, you need not remain there. You cannot convince yourself of this fact unless you walk out | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| much as possible. Only by testing can you convince yourself of the positive nature of life. Then | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| control cannot be relinquished and you can never convince yourself of the benign nature of the creative | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of the involuntary processes. For then you will convince yourself of the deeply meaningful lawfulness of their | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| you must punish yourself for the selfishness and convince yourself that you do not deserve pleasure. The | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| see its power within your consciousness, and to convince yourself how preposterous this fear is. That experience | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| of the real self one cannot help but convince oneself of its reality, wisdom, and utter goodness | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| here pretend in a deeper sense. As you convince yourself of the pain, you produce waves of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| through the pain of some feelings, you will convince yourself very quickly that the realm of feelings | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| and of whose genuineness you try arduously to convince yourself. The artificiality of this role you indulge | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| willing to give any, although they try to convince themselves that they would love if only they | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| concoct theories to justify the fear. If people convince themselves that it is indeed dangerous to feel | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| me from all unpleasurable feelings. My hopelessness will convince you that this is what you must do | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| that your resentful, blaming self-pity and helplessness will convince life, others, fate, to give you the desired | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| of meeting yourself in honesty, so that you convince yourself more and more that outside factors -- | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| to be the cause for your misery. You convince yourself quite successfully of this because you choose | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| your mind with your tightly fixed conclusion to convince yourself and eliminate disturbing self-doubts. Probe with your | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| to do with your experience. You try to convince yourself that they can have no real power | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| physically weaker. He needed slaves in order to convince himself of his own value. This applied to | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| He does not require an inferior mate to convince himself of his acceptability, which, of course, is | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| a fairy tale manner that does not really convince you, so of course you cannot believe in | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| morbid self-recrimination and guilt. The accusations never deeply convince you, because no matter how accurate some of | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| inflict pain on others. They also want to convince you of the illusion that you are separated | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| ways and aims to deceive your helper, to convince him or her that your coverups are valid | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| make you believe that all is futile, or convince you to give in to their whisperings of | 254 SURRENDER |
| to listen deeply and openly. You need to convince the other of your goodwill for the truth | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |