| Diminishing.................17 | |
| you have made a gift to others by diminishing their loneliness in their supposed imperfection. All people | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| simply add on to your other activities, thus diminishing the strength, time, effort, and zest that would | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| light of what they are, neither exaggerating nor diminishing them, will not be able to affect your | 31 SHAME |
| can only cease after a long period, gradually diminishing in force as you learn from it, understand | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| humans distort true concepts into fixed opposites, thereby diminishing their truth. It was very significant that you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| longer interpreted them in the same personal, self- diminishing way. It is exactly the same with your | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| yourself a small sinner, of flagellating yourself, or diminishing your own value. In so doing, you would | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| unhappiness is aggravated by comparing yourself to others. Diminishing the urge and the compulsion to compare will | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| leads one to level off the difference by diminishing one's own masculinity and femininity and assuming the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| width and depth on the path, instead of diminishing. If you progress in the right direction, you | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| and inwardly experiencing, new boundaries of reality, thus diminishing your fear and your illusory, isolated, ego-existence. How | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| unflattering facts about yourself without in the least diminishing your sense of worth and integrity -- on | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| reality and bliss; fulfillment of your duties without diminishing your freedom in the least. It contains everything | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| truly encounter the negative experience, without aggrandizing or diminishing it, without any manipulation, do you really master | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| circular. They are highly charged, and instead of diminishing when the chain reactions compound, they become stronger | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| forces this is never the case. Instead of diminishing, force and momentum become stronger, as do the | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| end. The importance of the individual is not diminishing, but the emphasis is again shifting to the | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Dimly.......................3 | |
| forces in the universe. If you could even dimly realize how each of these feelings and emotions | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| are only vaguely aware of your negativity, only dimly sensing the hurt that it inflicts on others | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| the nucleus finally become apparent, but only very dimly at first. Human development is an in-between state | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| Dimmed......................10 | |
| times, with a great part of his knowledge dimmed out, with matter standing in the way, and | 22 SALVATION |
| and outer circumstances combine, their rebellion will be dimmed to a dull defiance. As far as the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| plane in which their activating forces must be dimmed so as to no longer express the distorted | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| successful if the activating principle is lacking or dimmed and if you are not sufficiently outgoing and | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| and frozen or whether this consciousness is momentarily dimmed does not matter. Meditation must mean, above all | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| moving actually intends to make blocked energy and dimmed consciousness moving and aware again. The best way | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| do this is to allow the frozen and dimmed consciousness first of all to express itself. Here | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| integration and transcendence is possible when consciousness is dimmed, when awareness is blocked. Awareness of the evil | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| are, even if your direct awareness is still dimmed. When fulfillment is absent, you must really probe | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| the brain through the matter and through the dimmed experiences of earth life? Is it not much | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Dint........................3 | |
| possibly perceive the other person as real. By dint of your feelings of helpless weakness and inadequacy | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| In other words, the difficulty exists exclusively by dint of a false belief: the belief that facing | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| find the way back on their own, by dint of reawakening the divine potentials always present, even | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| Dip.........................5 | |
| blocks that prevent and separate you from life. Dip deeply into the reality of the divine within | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| self-forgetfulness makes it possible for the ego to dip into the vast sea of universal power and | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to surge forward; you will be able to dip into the resources of your innermost being that | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| Certainly not. But you may temporarily have to dip into your bleakness so as to dissolve its | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| one of you. With great joy I again dip temporarily into your world and show you another | 228 BALANCE |
| Dire........................9 | |
| call hell is not only one sphere of dire darkness and misery. As there are many gradations | 22 SALVATION |
| but they do not have to live in dire misery either. It depends on so many considerations | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| for nothing. To give up your Utopia seems dire misery. The world becomes bleak and hopeless with | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| will enable you to become independent of the dire need for recognition by others which makes you | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| you do everything to nourish its continuance with dire effects on your personality; you prohibit the very | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| clarity to acknowledge your real needs without imagining dire consequences and creating false guilt. You now understand | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| authority and help that comes from outside. Your dire need for such authority cripples you, for you | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| will see how what seemed at first like dire threat or unbearable pain, to be avoided at | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| not appear as an overt act, has the dire consequences of hurting and depriving not only yourself | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| Directing...................11 | |
| know how to instruct the conscious and will- directing part of the person to use this information | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| And as long as the conscious and will directing part of the personality does not take charge | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| will and free choice entails the possibility of directing free will contrary to divine law. In choosing | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| might even deceive yourself that you are not directing the flow of your emotions at all. We | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| and loving by controlling your thoughts, and by directing your willpower to be so. From all our | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| for those who are incapable as yet of directing their behavior into constructive actions. Because education is | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| and reality. The second is impressing, molding and directing the powers within yourself, so as to create | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| a minor degree and which you misuse in directing your attention and hopes to the dualistic plane | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| life is a constantly working, powerfully imprinting, molding, directing, dynamic force. You use it whether you know | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| at your disposal many possibilities of thinking, of directing your thoughts, thought processes, and attitude patterns to | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| like inanimate matter, receives the imprints of a directing, stronger, and more connected consciousness, and fuses with | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Directions..................81 | |
| but feel upset, rebellious, and torn in many directions, possessed by very disharmonious feelings. Therefore, the more | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| that one cannot move simultaneously in two opposite directions. Therefore it is absolutely necessary to make the | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| becomes possible. The spirit will help and give directions. Of course, at the very beginning of a | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| always enough leeway left for that, in both directions. Nevertheless, up to a certain point of development | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| free will works in any number of other directions, the plan is modified accordingly, fitting the circumstances | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to recognize where your desires surge into wrong directions. If the active pressure of the wrong desires | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| them. The currents within you run in different directions: the self-will desires very strongly something that is | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| applies to distance. You also have definitely designated directions -- right, left, up, and down. In the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| one, pull them apart, and then trace their directions. Each of the little strings in the knot | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| In the highest realm, constant movement in all directions exists simultaneously with the static state. There is | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| feel. This conflict arises out of two different directions: one direction is the God-image, the other direction | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| compulsion. Thus, guilt and compulsion -- two contrary directions -- further afflict the inner will. You may | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| not flow. It pushes and pulls in all directions. Seen from our vantage point, it is a | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| this impossible. It disperses the mind in many directions and therefore exhausts it without your knowing it | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| and deviations. (2) Finding your suppressed creative forces, directions, and activities and unfolding your nature as it | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| background thoughts come, dispersing your attention in all directions because you do not control them, the more | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| a current is set up, flowing in two directions. One calls for your pushing ahead, trying to | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| risking anything, they will be pulled into opposite directions. Still another way of trying to cope is | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| bars, one horizontal, one vertical, indicating two opposing directions. As long as the opposites cannot be brought | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| proceed. I only point the way in certain directions if and when a person is stuck and | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| pretense can go in either of two opposite directions, again according to your personality structure and chosen | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| guilt in you. The hostility flows in two directions, toward others and yourself. If your pseudo-solution is | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| your eyes do they appear as two different directions. Evolution is always the movement of a circle | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and images. Let us consider the three major directions of our work so far. At first, we | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| some degree if he made efforts in certain directions. The real need for being loved was already | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| is that you have split it in two directions. We have discussed it at length before. If | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| for moral reasons, but it does not. Both directions may be morally adequate, but the fact that | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| rigid. Exaggerations of truth bring untruth in both directions. This holds true for everything and has often | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| setting your soul forces to work in opposing directions. The result is stagnation of growth, as well | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| no longer tug at time in diametrically opposite directions. Have you ever thought, my friends, why it | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| healthy person creates a balance between these two directions of being. A preponderance of one is surely | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in which you see yourself fulfilled in all directions. Observe how you shrink from such a visualization | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| person. The healthy psyche requires fulfillment in many directions. The entity is destined by nature to attain | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| and find ways to compromise with the contradictory directions of your soul. The force driving you into | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| two currents pull the personality in two opposite directions, creating stronger and stronger tension and pressure. The | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| movements themselves and approach them simultaneously from two directions. All false ideas create disharmonious emotions, which create | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| concerns motivations -- energy currents going in conflicting directions -- but also separates you from the highest | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| of the life force would flow into all directions. Since this being would be free, there would | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| more the universal forces flow into the many directions and possibilities, the more do they in the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| that people are pulled and pushed in opposite directions. This causes a tremendous strain. The pain of | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| conflict because you pull and push in opposite directions. The moment you change your attitude in the | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| result of conflict. It occurs when two opposite directions exist in a personality. The direction of the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| an opposite direction, the pull of the two directions creates the pain. You can tell that this | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| spiritual plane is unity itself, therefore conflict, opposing directions and, consequently, pain are unthinkable and illogical there | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| tendencies which are the life and the anti-life directions. They can also be called the direction of | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| isolation and fear, or the positive and negative directions. The outer layers of personality must suffer as | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| spheres of consciousness operate exactly according to the directions that we have discussed. In other words, to | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| hour to hour, because at different times different directions come up. They alternate in predominance at any | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| similar fight within. Both the positive and negative directions are attached to the pleasure principle. It is | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| both sides. Where division of direction existed, the directions must unify; where conflicting desires existed, the stream | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| greatest pain because you are pulled in opposite directions. Whenever you get closer to the fulfillment of | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| conscious frustration. The soul movements in two opposite directions make you feel literally torn apart. The pain | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| constant inner tension, you pull simultaneously in opposite directions -- on the one hand, into life; on | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| In this pathwork you tentatively grope in both directions. In the very center of the human personality | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the individual can take either of two basic directions of life. One is directed toward unfoldment and | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| constant; feelings branch out of it in all directions, spontaneously and wondrously forever self-renewing. Its life pulsates | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| changeability, its endless possibilities to move in new directions. You can constantly expand your thinking, take in | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| realizations, and therefore bring to yourself new will- directions, new expansions, new aims, new energies, new feelings | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| you need to see what positive and negative directions consciousness can take. You have within you the | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| there are always conflicts, contrary longings and will directions that weaken the force. In the constructive, expanding | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| being torn apart by going into two opposing directions? This struggle is more painful, confusing, and paralyzing | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| urge that motivates people to go in certain directions. They may be unaware of the deep meaning | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| levels of unconscious attitudes, thoughts, feelings, and will directions -- forms life experience, which then appears to | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| destructive attitudes, its primitive reasoning, its self-defeating will directions, must become as conscious as your positive attitudes | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| as conscious as your positive attitudes and will directions. Paradoxical as this may seem, the more this | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| results. They may search in all sorts of directions for the cause and the answers -- maybe | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| be overcome by moving your mind into new directions; by deciding to move on all levels, so | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| learn to concentrate and use energy in certain directions. This will come out of the organic process | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, intentions, feelings, emotions and will directions -- conflicting as they may be -- creates | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| the dark and fights in all the wrong directions. This series of lectures is coming to a | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| tear at you, as it were, from both directions. Crassly speaking, it is this lack of awareness | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| make you understand the signs, the messages, the directions of your inner process, so as to get | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| all your life, all your actions, all your directions, all your goals to the truth and love | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| checking up on the imbalances in these two directions and modifying them. Only to the degree you | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| be pointers to the spirit's special inclinations and directions. Answer them again and again as the child | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| easy to detect. Inwardly, in many activities and directions you subtly focus on secret, semi-conscious expectations and | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| them in. However, opening up works in two directions -- not only toward the outside world. When | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| creating new leaders in many fields, in many directions, in many ways. The purification you undergo makes | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| more destructive when channeled into inappropriate and negative directions. Therefore I suggest that your meditation and your | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| in your soul between these two opposite will directions. When you do so, you will be able | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| heal this pain. They are two opposite will directions. At this point, you need to understand that | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |