| Advancement.................6 | |
| another wish for an opportunity for rapid spiritual advancement, having already come to understand that the temporary | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| experiencing a heavy fate often already brings an advancement and an evening out of karmic debts and | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| highly developed spirit offer a stronger chance for advancement. So, there is a schooling connected with the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| inadequacy is added to it. In society, technical advancement and overemphasis on science and intellect are the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| determine. You can reach a stage of relative advancement in this respect by recognizing your problems in | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and your inner state in accordance with the advancement you have made on your own inner path | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| Advances....................5 | |
| memory will come to them. And as development advances, more of the curtain will be withdrawn. The | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| receiving the answers -- you will make great advances and prepare for most important new insights that | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| a burden remains hidden. And the more one advances, the less knowledge of previous deviations will be | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| and spirit will be the goal that simultaneously advances your self-purification -- for one cannot exist without | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| humanity experiences. The further the movement of life advances, the more these split concepts unify and eliminate | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| Advancing...................5 | |
| pain. With a human being who is truly advancing on this path one can observe this to | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| judge them -- assuming that energy wanes with advancing age -- rather than seeing the true underlying | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| exists, but in the process of penetration, the advancing, spreading life and allness is partly diminished in | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| life forms, is part of this great, slowly advancing wave that fills the outer regions. Your own | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| moving back to its source for reunification, forever advancing in this back-and-forth flow. Each reunification movement back | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Advantage...................97 | |
| of justice, which seems to be to his advantage. Then one day he is arrested for a | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| element, be it inner or outer, becomes an advantage. When you do not enter the spiritual path | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| do not enter the spiritual path, even an advantage must turn into a disadvantage and a problem | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| an earlier incarnation or are they given this advantage as a test? And if they will not | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| go on this path and does not take advantage of it, then the door to the spiritual | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| any other way. The person does not take advantage of the possibilities to reach this wonderful goal | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| inspire you to the best of your spiritual advantage because they are blind. Sometimes their guidance may | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| Sometimes their guidance may be to your material advantage, which may or may not interfere with your | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| your free will to your actual or apparent advantage, you yourself set the respective causes in motion | 18 FREE WILL |
| and wisdom to guide everything to the best advantage of all concerned, including those whom you do | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| anyone else's before or after. This was an advantage as long as God's world was close to | 22 SALVATION |
| if the person is on the right path, advantage can be a cure, too. Through differences of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| allow the lower nature of others to take advantage of your meekness. Finding the right course between | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| can be evaded. Each alternative will have an advantage and also a disadvantage, as long as you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| however, no alternative carries with it a so-called advantage. For you, an advantage and a disadvantage will | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| with it a so-called advantage. For you, an advantage and a disadvantage will continue to exist until | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to risk a higher price because the possible advantage seems worthwhile. You will then have accepted another | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| decision; you had somehow hoped to gain the advantage without accepting the disadvantage. And often you even | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| -- to at the same time gain the advantage of both alternatives and to be spared the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| -- as the child ignored -- that every advantage has a disadvantage. So when, with your insistent | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| inner crying and demanding, you get the supposed advantage, you also get its disadvantage. You do not | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| images covered. Therefore you certainly have a great advantage through self-awareness, knowing your own stupidities, while others | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| feeling without knowing the outcome and the possible advantage of doing so. These are three broad types | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| will blindly choose the object that may take advantage of the giving up the self. And the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the right choice where no one takes undue advantage. QUESTION: How does the spirit world judge a | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| was behind it. Now you feel abused, taken advantage of, without realizing that it was not true | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| sell out your truth for an imagined personal advantage, which increases your self-contempt, though this is usually | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| is not. For nothing can be to your advantage that is to the disadvantage of another person | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| you will see that although there is an advantage for yourself in considering others, this is still | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| light or position than one's fellow, wanting an advantage that is unfair to the other. Then there | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| so that you will fully realize that an advantage to you that at the same time is | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| untruth that any other's disadvantage may be your advantage; there are moments every day when you react | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| will come to understand fully that any possible advantage gained over a brother or sister who thereby | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| and desirable: In reality selfishness cannot offer any advantage to you, even if it seems so at | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| or feel that selfishness would be to your advantage, you are leaving out the obvious. You fail | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| wholeheartedly gives added self-respect that is a decided advantage manifesting in many ways. It will give you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| healthy sense, and that it is to your advantage, provided your motives are right, your decision free | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| that the selfish act would be to your advantage. Thus you force yourself, and this makes you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| realize that the unselfish act is to your advantage, while the selfish one is not. The misconception | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| unjustified and unnecessary, that other people have taken advantage of you in a way that will ultimately | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| a saintly life that is not to your advantage. That is so untrue, so very untrue! Only | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one. God's way works to your immediate, direct advantage and is not something goody-goody and saintly that | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or laziness - - can only be an advantage. True patience will always know how to discriminate | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| You have to find out what your imagined advantage is when you are aggressive and hostile. QUESTION | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| at stake, or to prohibit others from taking advantage of you. But most human beings are submissive | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cynical, and out for his or her own advantage. The need for protective love has a certain | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the world prevents self-realization and abuses and takes advantage of one's goodness. This is projection. Second, they | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| existing power drive of others will indeed take advantage of them. The more they are taken advantage | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| advantage of them. The more they are taken advantage of, the more they are bound to rebel | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| yourself where you previously let yourself be taken advantage of. You will, gingerly at first, stop this | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| it does mean giving up a shortsighted childish advantage, even if it does mean the recognition of | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| believes that its existence provides you with some advantage, or protection. Instead of forcing it away, rather | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| to find in what respect you believe an advantage exists for you in maintaining the twisted condition | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| it away without understanding the irrational belief of advantage versus disadvantage. As long as such understanding is | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| offers escape. As I said before, the imagined advantage of the false solution pushes to the surface | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| you give up or allow others to take advantage of you, you do so only because you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| as your emotions still doubt the validity and advantage of the new way, you are not ready | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| daydreams, then, is in your failure to take advantage of the benefits they could bring to your | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| But what about all the people who take advantage of such warm, loving feelings? If I do | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| then as a consequence, one is really taken advantage of. Since all you do is done without | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| weakness that allows others to exploit and take advantage of them. Such inability to assert one's self | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| lean over backwards to allow others to take advantage of you, which is a false way to | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| energy left to defend yourself against being taken advantage of, to develop your potentials, or to work | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| remain a child. Children seem to have the advantage of being given what they need to be | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| on one's own feet. The recollection of this advantage of childhood combines with the fear of touching | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| in which one is capable of foregoing an advantage if it creates undue pain and unfair disadvantage | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| on guard. Aren't many people out to take advantage of one's love, or one's need to love | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| They are so blind that what is their advantage seems like a disaster, and what is their | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| to their disadvantage to grow and to their advantage to remain static. This fundamental misunderstanding about life | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| is possible occasionally to forfeit your own immediate advantage for the sake of a loved one, without | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| maintaining what is, in actuality, of no conceivable advantage to you and to others. The specific realization | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| to love because then I will be taken advantage of. Since I ought to love and do | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| of the limbs of your psyche to take advantage of that unlimited freedom and possibility was the | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| and are solely concerned with your own little advantage can you enrich yourself and do justice to | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| using the best and highest powers for your advantage. These powers remain unused; they are covered up | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| Irrationally, I fear that I may be taken advantage of and lose my integrity. I have a | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| helpless -- and therefore no one could take advantage of you, because your free decisions to take | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| -- that you allow yourself to be taken advantage of. The guilt makes you go overboard in | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| that you do allow yourself to be taken advantage of; that you are uncertain, uneasy, and weak | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| expresses itself in a tendency to be taken advantage of; you will always manage to put yourself | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| kind, who will reject and hurt and take advantage. These may indeed be valid objections, but only | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| now. They truly shortchange themselves by not taking advantage of this. QUESTION: I am now allowing myself | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and by withholding yourself you add to your advantage. This belief is always there, underneath, half-conscious or | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| creates the predicament of having to balance your advantage with that of others, you will have to | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| each different. Once, you will forsake your own advantage because you see that what is on the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| from the unfulfillment. This insensibility is not an advantage. It creates more self-alienation, less aliveness, and it | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| give up an imaginary or even a real advantage -- you will create a hard wall out | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| will never be ridiculous or invite being taken advantage of. There will be order without a trace | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| Every age has its own particular beauty and advantage. QUESTION: (an adult question): So many children are | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| love. You do not abandon the little immediate advantage for the sake of truth and love. Thus | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| him. The immature soul of both wants the advantage without paying the price: man wants the superior | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| taking care of a parasite. Woman wants the advantage of being taken care of, of not standing | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| through laborious search. And that is the great advantage of reincarnation in the same life. QUESTION: In | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| aggrandizement nor for any other ulterior motive or advantage. That thought, that attitude, will actually bring you | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| is to lose, to be impoverished or taken advantage of, or that to love means to be | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| manipulation and then abused their position and took advantage of their power. How does this political system | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Material greed was fostered; money, power, and social advantage became motives for choosing mates. Mass images, appearances | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |