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| many times, your thoughts and feelings are spiritual creations. They create forms of all kinds in the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| way: When the artist puts daydreams into actual creations then they cease to be daydreams. When the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| put into them. The spheres are your own creations. You build them, and whatever you have built | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| helpless when it comes to dealing with the creations of your lower self-trends. Thus you load a | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| seed to become a tree, and for the creations of the mind and spirit to unfold in | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| at your disposal. Not seeing that the negative creations are your own product makes you inevitably rebel | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| I do not refer solely to the fleshly creations; the principle applies to everything. Growth within the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| still overlook the tremendous significance of your conscious creations, and your disconnection from them causes real suffering | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| can then see how fighting against your own creations augments the pain and tension in your being | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| when you are still blind to your negative creations. Sometimes certain channels happen to be unobstructed, but | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| that positive creation is also possible. As negative creations proceed, consciousness seems to become more and more | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| tools to show the way out of negative creations and confining structuring. Looking beyond the structure and | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| last lecture that you must make your negative creations, your negative pleasure conscious to overcome them. You | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| pride and fear -- bound in the negative creations, in the struggle within itself that denies its | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| create positively, and you will gradually see your creations grow. They may sometimes take a few years | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| manifest, sometimes less. They are never completed. Positive creations can be endlessly enlarged. By truly seeing the | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| trouble is that you do not know what creations you produce unwittingly. You create with every breath | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| that you can immediately cease producing these particular creations. You need to gather a great deal of | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| lose track of the volitional element of these creations and your suffering becomes very real. The more | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| recharge of the ever-evolving cyclic movements, explosions, new creations will set off an apparently endless process. If | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| universe. They can be found in the simplest creations and the most complex systems imaginable. The variables | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| new spiral organizations, new psychic nuclear points, new creations. That which has not taken form emits the | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| at your inner makeup, your reactions and the creations of your mind. For the same principle exists | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| principle exists of course with positive and negative creations. Since the universe is filled with Being, there | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| more effort and investment to dissolve these negative creations while still in the body than to change | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| that the thoughts you think now are not creations with their own cell structure and their own | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| Do this with both the positive and negative creations. In a sense you have already done it | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| your inner condition, some also manifesting as outer creations. Obviously, these infringements and restrictions are not really | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| course you do exactly that. Some of your creations are undesirable, springing from negative beliefs and distorted | 254 SURRENDER |
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| When one speaks about God's infinity or about Creation's infinity, this is part of the meaning. There | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| all wrong with this desire, for it is creation's fact that life is unending. But the fear | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| complete you will be, not less. It is creation's overall aim to bridge this gap and establish | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| necessary. They are not an intrinsic part of Creation's divine reality. They are roadblocks you yourself have | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
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| can be found in endless diversity in all creative manifestations. Consequently, they can also be found in | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| is a person. The male aspect is the creative one, not only with God, but, originating from | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| God, but, originating from Him, it is the creative principle in the universe with all beings. In | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| lesser degree within these created beings. Thus, the creative ability exists also to some extent in every | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| happiness, infinite beauty, and infinite possibilities which unfolded creative divine aspects for all beings. Here, the divine | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| way through the slow unfoldment of this special creative power. Directed to its opposite force, this power | 21 THE FALL |
| true, for nothing can be created without the creative divine force. However, it is equally true that | 21 THE FALL |
| be used for good or for evil. This creative power, this life force, can be directed into | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| forms that will definitely have effect. This most creative activity will strengthen your mind, even if it | 36 PRAYER |
| that these spirits would perfect themselves with the creative power that was given to them. In other | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| forces mingle harmoniously. The sex force is the creative force on any level of existence. In the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| really become sublimated so as to make this creative force manifest in other realms. Sublimation in its | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| into the wrong channel, becoming destructive instead of creative and regenerating -- and therefore the unhappier and | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| everything. Rather think of God as the Great Creative Power at your disposal. Therefore, it is not | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| will come to you by releasing your inner creative and healthy forces that are blocked as long | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| most healing and harmonious, the most blissful and creative you can possibly think of. My dear friends | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| my dearest friends, blessed is this hour. The creative life force or principle is all around you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| perfect happiness in every possible respect. For the creative life force does not wish you anything but | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| has not reached this state, will have a creative, uplifting effect, causing inner growth and additional strength | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the intellectual faculties in both sexes, then something creative and constructive can evolve. Now, I know it | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| A man is supposed to be intellectual and creative; a woman is supposed to be less intelligent | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| strength, of her activity, and of her true creative powers. It is true that softness in a | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| giving spiritual birth? ANSWER: Man in his real creative self can give birth to beautiful and constructive | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| principles as physical birth. Since woman is also creative, she too can give spiritual birth -- and | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| who has on the other hand a great creative talent is particularly imbalanced by this disharmony. What | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| before should not lead you to deduce that creative talent is possible only within the healthy soul | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be in God! 68. SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES Greetings, my dearest friends | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| suppresses not only negative aspects, but positive and creative tendencies in the soul as well. Our aim | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the unconscious, prohibit the unfolding of constructive and creative tendencies in you. Therefore, we shall certainly go | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| in searching for the suppression of positive and creative tendencies as they clamor for the expression of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the more unpleasant, you also suppress the most creative, the most constructive aspects in you, those that | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| individual and very personal suppressions of your most creative forces, there are others which are universal, such | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| wrong conclusions, and deviations. (2) Finding your suppressed creative forces, directions, and activities and unfolding your nature | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the time from following through with a positive, creative impulse because, as you are now seriously convinced | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| joy and liberation now in releasing something vitally creative in you, leading you to the fulfillment of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| help you to unfold the best, the most creative that you, as an individual, can be. Thus | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| wish to discuss tonight is connected with the creative and legitimate desires that are often suppressed and | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| but it is also in its own way creative, or it leads to being creative. For the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| own way creative, or it leads to being creative. For the lack of love can lead to | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| can lead to a paralysis of the soul's creative forces. In order to fulfill the soul's longing | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| desire to be loved, in itself, is entirely creative, if stripped of the childish exclusiveness and one-sidedness | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| in you such as you cannot imagine possible: creative forces, new perceptions, a growing and unfolding intuition | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| we shall deal with elements that prohibit your creative faculties in a more direct way than before | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| It goes without saying that any prohibition of creative faculties is due to negative aspects and deviations | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| masochistic self-punishment, nor will you hold back your creative forces from giving and loving. You will not | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| will have a weaker effect and therefore the creative forces will flow much freer. In such people | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| finding within yourself. It will also heighten your creative abilities. Humanity's fundamental longing is to actually participate | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| gradually fall off, like an old outworn cloak. Creative forces will flow out of you of which | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| oneness. In your present state of isolation, many creative forces, such as love or talents, try to | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| life is distorted or not clearly formulated, your creative and health-giving forces cannot be regenerated by the | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| the transition. In the new state, your own creative forces will naturally flow out of you, allowing | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| health or lack of it, your constructive and creative abilities or lack of them, your sense of | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| work that is not always according to your creative abilities and inclinations, and therefore not according to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of pleasure on all levels, the unfoldment of creative abilities, and the inner knowledge of spiritual truth | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| real pleasure, and the more will its inherent creative abilities be paralyzed. The fact that some people | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| paralyzed. The fact that some people are very creative in spite of tremendous inner conflicts does not | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| not contradict this statement. In these cases, the creative talent is so great that it is expressed | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| world. It is entirely wrong to say that creative ability is the product of sublimation or, to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| self. This brings inhibition and the stunting of creative forces, which in turn cause anxiety and frustration | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to experience, to enjoy life, and to be creative. They are oblivious to their inhibitions and their | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| question. Any conflict, distortion, or illusion interferes with creative processes, the search for truth, or any constructive | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and with life, one cannot, in spite of creative talent and ability, produce artistic truth. There is | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| emotional side of your nature, when functioning, possesses creative ability. To the degree you close yourself off | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| that very degree the full potential of your creative ability is hindered in manifesting itself. Contrary to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| many of you may believe, the unfolding of creative ability is not a mere mental process. In | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| becomes a necessity in order to give the creative outflow full expression. Creative unfoldment is an intuitive | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| order to give the creative outflow full expression. Creative unfoldment is an intuitive process. Needless to say | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| your intuitive powers are dulled together with your creative faculties. You only function to a fraction of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and situations around us, sublimating them into the creative channels which you mentioned earlier? ANSWER: Yes, of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| work constructively. This happens, for instance, if a creative and artistic person whose ability is already freed | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| normal and healthy, but is in fact most creative. Because of these misconceptions, you have deliberately starved | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| be it love, understanding, closeness to others or creative fulfillment. You strive for all this through an | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| forceful tampering that cripples their functioning. Your intuitive, creative, and spontaneous capacities cannot unfold. You substitute other | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| due to your perfectionism. You prohibited your own creative unfoldment just because of your perfectionism, so that | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| lack of imagination? It may mean that your creative faculties are inhibited. Not having conscious daydreams may | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| side of your spiritual nature. No matter how creative a person may ordinarily be, in moments of | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| thought and feeling and you short circuit your creative processes. You do not see the manifold possibilities | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| happy and give happiness. You cannot unfold your creative abilities. You cannot contribute, be it in ever | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| of thought and will, but of a spontaneous, creative experience that comes into being unbidden, when least | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| and will. Anyone who has gone through a creative process will readily admit that genuine creation is | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| channel you think might bring forth such a creative experience. Creation comes unbidden and is unexpected. When | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| is there. It is the same with the creative manifestation of the real self, a genuine feeling | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| your misery and confusion, where it prevents the creative process of your real self. Many of my | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| friends have experienced this manifestation, not only in creative art, but also when a profound thought or | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| renewal and regeneration process, the direct experience of creative spontaneity that only the real self can give | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| discipline, by an act of will? Can any creative process come into being by discipline? Can you | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| disappear. Why can one then not pursue any creative work? ANSWER: Creativity comes from the real self | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| QUESTION: But what if you are engaged in creative work and then, suddenly, you cannot do it | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |