| Differentiated..............7 | |
| symbolizes major changes, decisions, attitudes. All life is differentiated between these two kinds of actions: the actions | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| shows the way out. Thus, recognitions can be differentiated. Are they of the kind mentioned here? Or | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| centers of a human being are infinitely more differentiated and complicated than those, say, of a blade | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| unification out of disunity. Out of a highly differentiated disunity, you can work toward an undifferentiated unity | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| to mutuality. Of course, these stages cannot be differentiated in such exact terms. They often overlap, fluctuate | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| acting out. States of consciousness can roughly be differentiated into the following three groups: The first and | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| flow. Giving and receiving will no longer be differentiated, for they are indeed undifferentiated. But in your | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Differentiation.............7 | |
| knowing how different they are. However, sometimes the differentiation is not easy because both sadness and depression | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| person. QUESTION: I should like to hear your differentiation between feelings and emotions. ANSWER: There is a | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| fear, and to be aware of the fine differentiation between wanting happiness for the sake of happiness | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| caused by the ignorance of, and lack of differentiation between, outer and inner self. All suffering is | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| nothing must be denied and ejected. But the differentiation must be made between its original and its | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| can spend time in your meditation practicing this differentiation. For a long time the main goal in | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| same. There need not be a very strict differentiation between those who are in the old and | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Differing...................3 | |
| a grain of truth in such opinions, perhaps differing from how they were expressed to you or | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| live up to it, at the price of differing from your environment, you will automatically respect yourself | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| carries immense energy powers of its own kind, differing from other energies. The word is what is | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Difficulties................257 | |
| best for yourself and are unhappy over the difficulties of life. Have you ever asked God, What | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| cannot easily achieve this, and that, once incarnated, difficulties, tests, and even so-called disasters are often necessary | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| world, exactly because it is easier there. The difficulties on earth are mainly connected with matter and | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| so much temptation. Only those who overcome these difficulties can win and make the best of their | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| greatest benefit. When you have overcome the initial difficulties and have won some mastery over yourself, at | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| Even those friends who have overcome the initial difficulties do not always use their quiet hour in | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| those hurdles where you are struggling with the difficulties in your spiritual development on this path toward | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| this so that you can think about your difficulties and find out whether you are paying for | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| give you every possible help to overcome the difficulties on your path. You can only help others | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| motion by your past actions or attitudes. Your difficulties will substantially diminish when you know how to | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| have. For only the victory over the self-created difficulties, even if you don't yet understand their origin | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| you find yourself in disharmony. This causes the difficulties which you so often, and so erroneously, believe | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| you remove yourself from the roots of the difficulties by covering them up and pushing them into | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| you, it will be easier to overcome the difficulties and free yourself of the fetters of the | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| without reservations. I explained how to overcome the difficulties. Since then I have observed you, my friends | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| on this path. You already know about the difficulties, about carrying out the resolutions and sticking with | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| lifted, and the person is able to overcome difficulties more easily. Moreover, the individuals will receive help | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| receive help with their strictly mundane problems and difficulties -- something which before was not possible. I | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| ANSWER: It only seems so to you. The difficulties that come up are there because the individual | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| the subconscious is an obstacle. Wherever you have difficulties to attune to the vibration, wherever you sense | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| name, ask the question within: Where are my difficulties, what are my problems? I must be violating | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| to God must always consist in conquering the difficulties one has originally created. QUESTION: Does this refer | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| how they use the given conditions -- the difficulties as well as whatever makes their lives easier | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| to my heart. And you seem to have difficulties to manifest through the medium. Why is this | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| the medium. Why is this so? ANSWER: The difficulties do not lie in the meaning of my | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| you are bound to experience after the initial difficulties on this path are overcome. Only you will | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| Once you have found why you have such difficulties with the lower-self resistance, you have attained a | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| will, there is a way. And whatever the difficulties, it is my task to help you overcome | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| your fellow humans with whom you might have difficulties. They might have hurt you and you cannot | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| cake and eat it too. If you have difficulties in your lives, you all know that they | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| quarrel with God and destiny whenever they encounter difficulties and hardships. You may accept intellectually the truth | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| that God did not want you to have difficulties in the first place and that you yourself | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| are unwilling to pay. Paying means accepting your difficulties, knowing that they are only temporary, for God | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| heard often, from me or others, that your difficulties are not as important as the manner in | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| have shown you how you should meet your difficulties. He who wants to win his life will | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| of the self in order to avoid certain difficulties, unpleasantness, or disadvantages of all sorts. Thus people | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| many things in your present life, such as difficulties, hardships, and tests. If that feeling does not | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| will for you, no matter what your outer difficulties may be, you must be happy. That should | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| are expected to turn to God with your difficulties. If you really want this help with all | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| Show me, Father, the real reason for my difficulties, so that I can solve them. Do not | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the right way, trying to learn from your difficulties, you will be answered. And perhaps you will | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| this dear one has to go through some difficulties for the sake of his or her eventual | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| understand this is perhaps one of the greatest difficulties for humankind. However, I will try to give | 18 FREE WILL |
| details of the journey. There are certainly many difficulties to overcome in your own personality, many faults | 18 FREE WILL |
| to push them ever upward regardless of the difficulties encountered. By such free choice, God's law concerning | 21 THE FALL |
| something, whether materially or spiritually. Everyone has different difficulties, and each one of you can find out | 21 THE FALL |
| course only concerning your spiritual development or psychological difficulties -- this will help others much more than | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| depressed any more by your life and your difficulties. I can promise you that your tiredness will | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| will have the strength to go through your difficulties and to bear your cross in the right | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you will enjoy life in spite of your difficulties even before they have actually begun to cease | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| equally far from the truth to overestimate the difficulties on this path. I can see that some | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| will be able to talk openly about your difficulties, your weaknesses and your problems, and receive criticism | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| have accomplished so far, where you still have difficulties, what your inner reactions are, and perhaps plan | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| give you a clue where he has his difficulties. And then take every day five minutes, whenever | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| understand why you had to go through particular difficulties, and why so many incomprehensible experiences happened to | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| You must not try to disregard whatever the difficulties in your life immediately in front of you | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| not quite happy in spite of occasional outer difficulties, you have denied your spirit some of the | 31 SHAME |
| ones, will be much nearer. If you have difficulties, try to concentrate on this. If you cannot | 31 SHAME |
| later on these supposedly best things might create difficulties and tests that might only begin to work | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| and meditation to think of all the tragedies, difficulties, and troubles of your life up to now | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| something helpful and forget your own worries and difficulties, you are doing something worthwhile all around, for | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| rules and not shirking from the sometimes necessary difficulties. It encompasses all that you are learning here | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| that a karmic debt may be paid off. Difficulties and advantages in the life to follow are | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| path, you find your way through all the difficulties that exist within yourself. The path is not | 36 PRAYER |
| You have to learn how to overcome the difficulties of making this daily cleansing process second nature | 36 PRAYER |
| pitfall for many good things. One of the difficulties in experiencing the perfection of divine harmony is | 36 PRAYER |
| and the anxiety connected with them will present difficulties that cannot be overcome unless the image is | 38 IMAGES |
| from the risks and hardships of life. Your difficulties will cease to be necessary once you can | 38 IMAGES |
| with the attitude of self-moralizing, you will have difficulties. That is why I have advised you to | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| deeper realms of your being, you will eliminate difficulties that exist only because you ignore some facts | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| eliminate the negative causes. There are, however, certain difficulties you cannot overcome in this life; you just | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| help but come if you overcome the initial difficulties. Indeed, it is the only endeavor on your | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| experience the divine within. The emotion-type encounters other difficulties. Furthermore, the reason-type has great difficulty with intuitive | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| to just live for yourself and have no difficulties? Isn't really this what you feel deep inside | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| existence; where you understand the origin of the difficulties, the sorrows, the longings, the unfulfillments of your | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| group work where you can discuss your problems, difficulties, and successes. At the same time, it will | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| their concept on the subject they apparently have difficulties with. Then begin to question the person about | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| much in darkness, so ensnarled in your own difficulties, that you could never have open eyes for | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| that the psyche produces, or by various mishaps, difficulties, failures, or conflicts in any area of life | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| fortified by the inherent desire for self- punishment; difficulties in this respect will constantly arise in the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| whatever the decision, whatever the outcome, whatever the difficulties may be. Very few people can penetrate to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| balance must be reestablished, so that through your difficulties you will finally get to the point where | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| present development, also paying attention to your present difficulties and inner obstacles. The power of concentration you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the kingdom of love. Yet, you encounter innumerable difficulties with other human beings despite being full of | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| more that it is you yourself who inflict difficulties, conflicts and hurts on you, no matter how | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to dissolve this cross, to go through the difficulties, through the crucifixion in as positive and healthy | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for you to deny the existence of the difficulties, but to accept them knowing that you have | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cross upon yourself. You neither rebel against the difficulties by trying to tell yourself that an unjust | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| conscious of. You may be burdened with certain difficulties in your life which you take for granted | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| light. You will realize that many of your difficulties need never exist if you were free of | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| sought with the aim of avoiding certain human difficulties that other, less privileged people, do not avoid | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| most part, spirits who find through these very difficulties the conditions most adequate for their present stage | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| commits a crime through which he gets into difficulties. It is easy to see the connection between | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| extended, a person does not have to encounter difficulties he or she ordinarily would have to go | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in this respect, you can investigate your particular difficulties and try to keep in mind how the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| ANSWER: You must realize that we have many difficulties to overcome. The limitation of human language is | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| their doctrines. This represents one of the main difficulties for the human being. Only inner health and | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| at least the awareness of where the main difficulties in the self are. As to the patient | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| themselves for a few months or years, no difficulties or life problems would come to them any | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the changes in your reactions to troubles and difficulties. This begins to happen when all inner barriers | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| be recognized, problems, illness, worries, frictions and other difficulties will therefore simply cease is, putting it mildly | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| progress will little by little diminish the outer difficulties -- with perhaps an occasional big crisis still | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you started to work on the path, your difficulties will cease is just as wrong as the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| that because you are on the path, added difficulties will come your way. Both errors are represented | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you from life's downs or bring you more difficulties than you would otherwise have are totally wrong | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| are on the path, have to go through difficulties, or that the path does not work in | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| my friends, you neither have more nor fewer difficulties because you are on the path now. The | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| because you are on the path now. The difficulties you now encounter are the fruits of what | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| that you are conscious of their significance, the difficulties will be easier to tackle, will be handled | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| efforts must be wholehearted and transcendent. If the difficulties in your life come to a climax shortly | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| one learns not only to deal better with difficulties, but also with happy times. The person who | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| by the fact that troubles, illness or other difficulties still come your way. That is not the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of the significance of your inner conflicts? When difficulties are removed, they continue to slumber in hiding | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| child's longing and unfulfillment and the adult's present difficulties and problems, because only very few people experience | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| looking over the repetitious pattern in your various difficulties, you will learn to recognize the similarities between | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| who struggle and try, but always encounter new difficulties within themselves. These words may help you to | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| a condition exists, you are bound to have difficulties, unfulfillment and frustration. The difficulties may either be | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| bound to have difficulties, unfulfillment and frustration. The difficulties may either be outer obstacles, or if outer | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| deep inner security. I do not mean that difficulties cannot come your way any more. I have | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| the idea that if you proceed properly your difficulties will cease. That expectation is, of course, utterly | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| the path of development while having his own difficulties brings a great deal more than the mere | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| always revolves around the unwillingness to accept the difficulties of life with all its obstacles. You reject | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| difficulty of life, you try to escape these difficulties by various, often unconscious means. Imbibing matter, symbolized | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| You will find how you cause all your difficulties. You have already stopped regarding these words as | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| recognize where and in what way you choose difficulties that are not inevitable. For the more you | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| based on this dilemma, rather than on outer difficulties. These difficulties then become an added menace beyond | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| this dilemma, rather than on outer difficulties. These difficulties then become an added menace beyond their objective | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| beyond their objective hardship. The existence of the difficulties is a proof to you that you are | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the wrong way. In order to master the difficulties created, not only in childhood but also later | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| see your life, and your past and present difficulties, with a new outlook. You will understand that | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| have created many, if not all, of these difficulties, just because of your solution. It does not | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| but the power to master yourself and your difficulties without proving anything to anyone. When you seek | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the instinct of procreation. In distortion, when psychological difficulties are not consciously dealt with and pseudo- solutions | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| such an attitude as a solution to life's difficulties. The various aspects of the idealized self-image we | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| work out the particular problem with the ensuing difficulties. However, if circumstances occur that remove the difficulty | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this happen. Some of you have tasted the difficulties you have to face in order to overcome | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| still function way below normal ability until the difficulties and wrong conclusions are resolved and the person | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| your own strength and resourcefulness in handling your difficulties. But all this necessitates first accepting yourself as | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| of hopelessness, a fear of coping with life's difficulties. It might be said that the tiredness comes | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and therefore the fear of coping with life's difficulties exists. The tiredness is a result of it | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to whether or not an escape from the difficulties of life played a role; whether there is | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| guilt, weakness, unfulfillment, and many outer frictions and difficulties which are the final result of not relinquishing | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| you expect the solution of your problems and difficulties to come out of only one or just | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| strong. My possibilities are manifold, and if outer difficulties come to me, I can overcome them, first | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| Of course, you have to deal with the difficulties of life that accrue from being in matter | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| You will understand at least some of their difficulties. You will see that they could not have | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| will learn to cope with the mishaps and difficulties, rather than becoming broken by them. You will | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| also about the other being punished and having difficulties. This is, of course, entirely irrational, but the | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| its aspects -- making the best of the difficulties and fully enjoying life's offerings. In other words | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| yourself the reasons for your unfulfillment and the difficulties which cause you to strain away from them | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| reason does not eliminate their presence. The inevitable difficulties of life can be met only if the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| basic life situations and expresses your basic personality difficulties. When you discover how you relive your father | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| for such additional help. To clarify confusions and difficulties, bring examples of the split concepts and subsequent | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| fulfilled and essentially happy, regardless of occasional outer difficulties. In such a case, love, eros, and sexuality | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| upheavals, crime, starvation, and all sorts of other difficulties if humanity's organism were not similarly split and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| which you wish to cope with your personal difficulties and the world's difficulties. This attempt may combine | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| cope with your personal difficulties and the world's difficulties. This attempt may combine a number of facets | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| From this basic predicament derive all other problems, difficulties, fears, and tensions you have to contend with | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| fashion. Such stirring occurs through the frustrations and difficulties life brings. It also occurs through constantly questioning | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| on those who help, dramatizing and exaggerating actual difficulties until the pathwork is no longer possible, or | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| of their resistances only with the greatest of difficulties. This is the sad irony. They are so | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| are unfulfilled in certain areas, why you have difficulties, and why life is so hard and so | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| mature person has to learn to accept the difficulties in life. In order to cope with life | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| acceptance breeds disharmony, anxiety, and tension, increases the difficulties, and destroys peace of mind. The ability to | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| fear. Nothing one truly knows, even the greatest difficulties, are really feared. In order to make the | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| Conversely, all strife, such as war, poverty, quarrels, difficulties of all sorts, sickness and dying, are the | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| emotions that are hidden underground create problems, hazards, difficulties that manifest in the physical, emotional, or mental | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| pleasure principle. This attachment creates all the personal difficulties, all the unwelcome circumstances. All the many souls | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| QUESTION: For the longest time, I have had difficulties with meditation. Now that I have overcome some | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| cannot succeed. You must run into confusion and difficulties, fear and pain. You inevitably struggle in a | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| different roadblocks to recognize and eliminate. Each time difficulties and negative moods appear, you must halt the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| All of you, in the areas of your difficulties, go on misinterpreting reality. You do not perceive | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| least know, my friends, what causes your outer difficulties and unwelcome situations. Even before you are capable | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| But as long as you gloss over your difficulties, your emptiness, or you pretend that their cause | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| his or her healthy state would overcome all difficulties, for this is the strength of true spiritual | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| use to win the fight, the deeper your difficulties, until you actually damage yourself and the other | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| between countries at war. It exists in all difficulties humanity encounters, individually and collectively. As long as | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| it also reveals important aspects of your general difficulties and makes their elimination easier through this understanding | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| personality which copes with personal limitations and the difficulties of life in such a way that these | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| point you must work on to consolidate all difficulties into one simple unifying inner movement. Without your | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| good. It is not true that all your difficulties come from these misconceptions, which you embrace as | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| resistant. Then, and only then, can all the difficulties, all the apparently insurmountable obstructions dissolve so that | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| and it is responsible for many of your difficulties. Finding the source of the misconception within yourself | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| forces can become available only through overcoming outer difficulties, which are the direct reflection of inner obstructions | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| conflict, far beyond the individual neuroses and personal difficulties the child experiences that later cause inner conflicts | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| us now try to overcome some of the difficulties in understanding these principles. First of all, it | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| to make decisions, to make mistakes, to meet difficulties. You will rely on your own resources, will | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| and your subjective reactions. One of the great difficulties in life is the inevitable downward curve in | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| after you have overcome your blindness, disconnectedness, and difficulties. You must become a finished product, as it | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| as such, but you have overcome blocks and difficulties within yourself. Only a short time ago they | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| are on. The more you face your inner difficulties and the true causes of your suffering, the | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| one, but actually it is not. All these difficulties are illusory. Your unconscious fear about finding the | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| specifically, wherever the problem areas and the daily difficulties lie, it is most important to approach life | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| you. You will eliminate some of the illusory difficulties so that your inner guidance will manifest itself | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| Finding this balance is one of the great difficulties each person encounters on the path to harmonious | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| to the distortions in the first place. The difficulties are truly illusory, as illusory as the split | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| or confusion about the Pathwork's purpose creates unnecessary difficulties and misunderstandings. The function of this path is | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| In that case you will inevitably get into difficulties with your environment, no matter how accomplished you | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| what still lies in store for you. The difficulties you experience are a kind of disease, as | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| For the majority of human beings experience their difficulties as if they came to them by accident | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| and joy-bringing as the full understanding of your difficulties. That is indeed the transcendence and evolution of | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| deny and fear it because you still have difficulties accepting and meeting your undesirable destructive traits. If | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| shoulder mature self-responsibility? How can you accept the difficulties of the temporary reality which surrounds you and | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| a positive attitude, even if there are occasional difficulties and disappointments, which you more or less master | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| pain, anxiety, as well as inner and outer difficulties. Some aspects of your personality are in truth | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| can ever carry the burden for the actual difficulties of others. This can never be. What I | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| can never be. What I mean is that difficulties of interaction in a relationship are usually not | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| various effects of a relationship where both people's difficulties are laid bare and accepted, is by no | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| will no longer fear any kind of interaction. Difficulties and fears arise to the exact degree that | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| indicate projection and denial of self-responsibility for the difficulties in relating. This denial fosters dependency on the | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| and inner growth? Do they use the inevitable difficulties in the relationship as yardsticks for their own | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| the relationship as yardsticks for their own inner difficulties? Do they communicate in the deepest, most truthful | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| almost invariably more or less dead in feelings. Difficulties that arise in a relationship are always signals | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| denial of one's own share in the relationship's difficulties. Anyone who ignores these principles, or who pays | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| receive the best. I am willing to accept difficulties along the way, for I know that in | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| life. I am willing to grow from my difficulties rather than childishly complain about them, as if | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| are the reason for your darkness, for the difficulties of your fate, which you are so apt | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| deal to do with your unhappiness, with your difficulties and your unfulfillment. Could you truly feel fulfilled | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| strength growing from tackling and challenging the self-produced difficulties, you will experience an inner growth, an inner | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| whether it appears in the form of pain, difficulties, upheaval, uncertainty, or merely the insecurity that comes | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| in relationships that are painful and problematic. If difficulties, upheavals, and pain in the individual's life, as | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| becomes a string of beauty even though initial difficulties are still to be overcome? How much do | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| they childishly refuse to be bothered by the difficulties, the trials and errors; in the second case | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| she recognizes the true underlying significance of the difficulties encountered during the times of tentative relationships, the | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| life, depression, lack of energy, and often physical difficulties characterize this state. These manifestations are the consequences | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| big; you are unwilling to deal with any difficulties and therefore cannot effectively assert your personality. Whatever | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| new, better, and more creative ways of meeting difficulties, for more realistic and constructive ways of reacting | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| enough to say that these people find the difficulties of life too much for them because they | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| it comes to having the willingness to accept difficulties, to giving up long- established destructive patterns, the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| a hurt or a deprivation. The moment these difficulties are not channeled into unreal needs, the pain | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| out. As you know, human language itself presents difficulties and limitations, so that misunderstandings can easily occur | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| need. The more you are prepared to accept difficulties should they occur, the easier it will be | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| ego's task is always first to accept the difficulties, the hardships of the learning process. Only when | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| a joyous way; and if you regard occasional difficulties as meaningful stepping stones, then you have already | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| you fulfill your task in the universe. Whatever difficulties have to be overcome are an expression of | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| will have its effect, and one day the difficulties and frictions that are inevitable in such a | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| progresses in ever-accelerating beauty as you master the difficulties. You resolve your problems in an ever more | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| When sexuality is an escape from the problems, difficulties and unpleasant aspects of reality, then it is | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| wished for as the final escape from life's difficulties which are not meaningful and remain unresolved as | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| redirecting the mind. In the truly fulfilled life, difficulties are increasingly treated as steppingstones, doors to yet | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| liberations, which finally cease to be experienced as difficulties. So when neither fear nor desire to escape | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| inner -- such as faults, shortcomings, impurities, conflicts, difficulties whose inner dynamics you as yet ignore -- | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| manifest in any other way. QUESTION: I have difficulties in interpreting the messages that I receive and | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| change that may, at the moment, present some difficulties in the process of adjusting to new modalities | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| divinity. And that is why you are in difficulties, crisis, and suffering. You are in fact blocking | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| the misconceptions that it is too difficult, those difficulties must first be accepted. They will then prove | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| their life do not also share, naturally, their difficulties. But I am not talking about this here | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| you have already created, such as frustration, pain, difficulties, struggle. Obviously this distortion is destructive. It implies | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| many dichotomies and conflicts, in all the apparent difficulties of decisions your dualistic life seems to consist | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| work, the outer work will dry up. Many difficulties cannot be resolved unless this inner work is | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| in crisis asks for the help, then the difficulties will be relatively small. When the person refuses | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| undertaking that must never be shirked. Even its difficulties become bearable and meaningful in the understanding of | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| so you can see the pitfalls and mental difficulties that assail the human mind in its present | 254 SURRENDER |
| they encourage you and warn you of the difficulties. But in a state of greater consciousness and | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| determining factor is, of course, your attitude. When difficulties come, it is human to be discouraged. When | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| able to accept that you will also encounter difficulties, boredom or strife. You can lend your best | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| the distorted part with compassion for the momentary difficulties. But it sees no tragedy, for it knows | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |