| Deficits....................10 | |
| on your path are meant to bring your deficits to the surface of your consciousness; they prevent | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| your consciousness; they prevent you from ignoring the deficits. This path is directly designed to create an | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| The temporary pain of exposing your debts, your deficits, comes from the wrong conclusion that by doing | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| temporarily work on the surface, but as your deficits increase inwardly you cover up the impoverishment you | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| lower self that you never dare expose your deficits and the inner bankruptcy that smolders underground. When | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| You go through the shame of showing your deficits, you finally desist building on them, and you | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| the result of not wanting to expose the deficits, so that true abundance can follow. Such governmental | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| their vision will be blurred, so that new deficits will accumulate. Thus the solution never lies only | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| you will soon see where and how their deficits are created. Sometimes the direct, material deficits are | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| their deficits are created. Sometimes the direct, material deficits are obvious in a particular country's economics. It | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Defies......................5 | |
| remotely open to receive it is something that defies your imagination. Human beings can have such wishes | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| a new reality so widely expanded that it defies your present imagination. You cannot even conceive yet | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| the truth of God. This newly revealed reality defies the narrow confines of the little mind. It | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| a whole so finely woven together that it defies human understanding. It is of a grandeur that | 228 BALANCE |
| presence in all that is, that it simply defies description. You are surrounded by a universe in | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Define......................15 | |
| the last expression you used. Would you kindly define emotional maturity? ANSWER: Emotional maturity is, foremost, the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| one's life. There is no rule that would define where you may deviate and where not. Only | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| respect of the work. QUESTION: You didn't exactly define pity and compassion, as I remember, and I | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| Both are based on a form of pretense. Define this pretense clearly, and you have found a | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| spite of the rational sadness. Let us first define the difference. In sadness you accept without self-pity | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| mediumship, or automatic writing. There one can clearly define the difference. But when it comes to intuitive | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| to intuitive perception, there is no necessity to define whether it is the one or the other | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| it is creation. It is more accurate to define the real self this way than to say | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| as those who are helpers, very clearly to define your aim. What is your aim? How far | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| definitions on the assumption that you have to define and understand love intellectually in order to make | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| that is unhampered by pain. QUESTION: Would you define pleasure as expansion and pain as contraction? ANSWER | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| truth of these words. Let us try to define again what the universal life principle is and | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| then also believe that these traits mark and define your person? That is the great struggle, my | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| use the term images in the pathwork to define misconceptions and generalizations which form very limited and | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| to focus in the right direction. I might define this evolutionary process that exists within all aspects | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| Definition..................7 | |
| thank you. I would like to hear a definition of patience. ANSWER: Many definitions are possible. But | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| your next question? QUESTION: What is the true definition of ability in a human being? ANSWER: Above | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your questions. QUESTION: I would like a clear definition of what the soul is. I think it | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| gradations. We have discussed life, its meaning, significance, definition and manifestation, from many points of view. Each | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you do not need an intellectual concept or definition, and you certainly cannot produce love from the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| in perfect form within yourself. The only useful definition is that whatever furthers unity, inclusion, expansion, union | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| this does not apply only to the general definition of life, but also to every particular belief | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| Definitions.................3 | |
| to hear a definition of patience. ANSWER: Many definitions are possible. But in the frame of our | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| only because you fear it. There are many definitions of love, and you grope for these definitions | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| definitions of love, and you grope for these definitions on the assumption that you have to define | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| Definitive..................3 | |
| so much better than trying to force a definitive conclusion. Do remember that this voice does not | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| can easily feel every must as a very definitive movement in you. And every must defeats healthy | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| and attitudes -- positive and negative -- has definitive results and effects? Little by little the personal | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Deformity...................5 | |
| further insight and progress. QUESTION: I have a deformity which is a hindrance in my thinking and | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| much more difficult because he talked about a deformity which is very difficult for him. What he | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it in this life. ANSWER: The outer, physical deformity is no graver than the soul deformities all | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is your human illusion to believe an outer deformity stands more in the way than an inner | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It will then be seen that the outer deformity need not stand in the way. What you | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Defy........................9 | |
| violate myself, become untrue to myself, or else defy dependency by rebelling against it. I can now | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| resent this demand and struggle against it. You defy the world, while still wanting to find your | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| are free, and, according to all appearances, they defy conformity. But whenever the stringent need to prove | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| decency, while you are merely not daring to defy the world and the rules which seem to | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| be negative and destructive -- to cheat, to defy, to pretend, not to give but to take | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| immobile and resort to trickery in order to defy the natural movement toward the being's ultimate fate | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| but also will resent and blame, hate and defy you for it, even though being party to | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| to stand up for the inner truth and defy the outer law. But people can lose themselves | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| in order to justify a lower-self trend to defy an outer law. Again, very close inspection of | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Degeneration................4 | |
| called, happened gradually as a slow process of degeneration, whereby everything divine very slowly and gradually turned | 21 THE FALL |
| process of development as the Fall with its degeneration is natural enough. You will readily understand now | 21 THE FALL |
| Life force is regeneration. Petrified life force means degeneration. In your images, your wrong conclusions, your conscious | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| on our physical bodies, its processes, developments, its degeneration through disease and aging, and how we may | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Deity.......................13 | |
| unconsciously maintains the distorted God-image rightly fears this deity and resorts to cajoling for favors. Here you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the false concept of a punishing or rewarding deity up in the sky, and from the equally | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| for opening the door, not to an outer deity -- for another person, as it were -- | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| and externalizing the universal powers into an outer deity, which must let you down. Both alternatives are | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| not reincarnated into the same sphere because any deity sends or commands you to do so; this | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| immediately very accessible within yourself -- no faraway deity separated from you, but an immediate and integral | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| wishful thinking as the childish hope that a deity will do your salvation for you, or that | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| to do with religious precepts of a removed deity, or a life beyond this physical life. These | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| level, to the equally haphazard will of a deity, far removed from the individual. When development proceeds | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| way it is. This is not because some deity predestines it for you in a spirit of | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| that creates illness and neurosis. Rejecting the punishing deity concept, humanity had to tend toward the opposite | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| think of it in terms of a punishing deity, a cruel, unmerciful ruler who would impose more | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| are not directed toward a specific person or deity. They form a more general, diffuse, but nevertheless | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Delay.......................15 | |
| difficult and in no way diminished for the delay. It is, however, only a delay. The experience | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| for the delay. It is, however, only a delay. The experience of the spirit cannot be ultimately | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| must make a person tense and will only delay the process. The inner will must want the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| first intended child will go without difficulty or delay to another pregnant woman. Therefore, it is advisable | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| right now, there must be reasons for the delay. Some of those reasons may be in the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| of finding and dissolving the obstruction will not delay the realization. Even though the work may be | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understanding. In order to accomplish this without unnecessary delay, do not consider this interval of inactivity in | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| without experiencing extreme discomfort. This impatience at the delay engages you in a battle with yourself which | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| can work constructively for you. The longer you delay this painful process, the more difficult is it | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| not stem against the downward curve and thus delay the coming through into the upper movement of | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| precautionary attitude, just because you might experience frustration, delay, criticism, or the negativity of others. I think | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| again. Each stopping is much more of a delay than you realize. When I speak of delay | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| delay than you realize. When I speak of delay, I do not want to give the impression | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| are destructive responses to your rhythm pattern that delay its natural flow. Equally disruptive is the self-rejecting | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| What could my response be to this seeming delay that would most further my development? If there | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |