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world, the existence of which is so often doubted, the world which you cannot see and touch 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
not been such that even Christ might have doubted at times, His task would not have been 22 SALVATION
was touched again. Reincarnation as a hypothesis was doubted and rejected by someone, and the statement was 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
as a theory, its living reality will be doubted as long as personal misconceptions are not eliminated 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
your problems resolve -- something you have always doubted in your hearts. You now form closer and 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
to be in truth. If your sincerity is doubted, you must know in your heart where you 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
in a way you never believed possible and doubted could really exist, in spite of having given 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
is unnecessary. Doubt of this kind is seldom doubted. It is always justified with this happens to 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
of previous distortions. Before marriage began to be doubted as a valid institution by many, the attitude 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
 
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this kind of knowledge will be vague, unreal, doubtful, and will not support them. The more such 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
fulfill it unconditionally, even while you are still doubtful, will receive the answer. And rather than trying 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
would be well justified in being suspicious and doubtful, even though you might undoubtedly prefer to hear 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
days when you feel low and discouraged and doubtful. Then it becomes imperative for you to know 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
price it requires. The goal thus becomes of doubtful value. Wherever you have such hidden reasoning in 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
of you enjoys just that, it is a doubtful joy. It weakens you and is bound to 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
recognize this fact, the outcome must always be doubtful. You know this from your personal work; it 62 MAN AND WOMAN
relaxed, unhurried. The outer will is anxious and doubtful. The inner will is certain, knowing neither anxiety 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
pursue and fulfill a real need for the doubtful benefit of holding on to the illusion that 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
of certain happenings in life. Are you not doubtful of your strength and resourcefulness to go through 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
outer brain, the difference between the tight, anxious, doubtful, greedy pseudo-yes-current and the relaxed, calm inner knowledge 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
and allow it to act, regardless of how doubtful, resistant or frightened you may be. This is 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
state of feeling threatens you and makes you doubtful you can cope with it. This doubt results 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
pleasurably -- even when the outer experience is doubtful and not necessarily desirable. This fearless meeting of 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
see that the price he pays for the doubtful satisfaction of punishing his parents is so horrendous 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
bliss because I can let go of the doubtful pleasure of being negative, which I now fully 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
you are basically unwilling to change and/or are doubtful about the reality of the higher forces within 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
circle by reinforcing the withholding of commitment. Because doubtful withholding makes liberation impossible, the doubt itself is 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
at this point, where you are conflicted and doubtful, meditation should be used. Examine what the doubtful 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
doubtful, meditation should be used. Examine what the doubtful side wants and does not want. Let it 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
very secure in that area, but feels very doubtful about ever having abundance and security on the 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
When you cheat, the personality may become seriously doubtful that anything beyond the mind exists, because no 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
if I may say so. It makes you doubtful of everything you do, of everything you think 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
 
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be so. Once you clearly understand that your doubting part is not the whole of your personality 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
difference. Once you have acknowledged in yourself the doubting part, follow this advice: Know that it is 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
barricade, does. It is a pretense of not doubting, it is not the reality. Doubt is only 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
from the no-current, that has a deeply hopeless, doubting, destructive, dark, negative outlook, into the yes-current with 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
commit yourself honestly to the problem of your doubting. As long as you doubt and do not 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
to the universal self and wait patiently without doubting or impatiently pushing. This waiting needs an open 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
means, justify your defensive hardness by judging and doubting. This is your greatest defense against who you 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
negating the riches of the universe, and then doubting the universe and its natural laws which want 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
trap of an ego trick and sit in doubting judgment, flattering yourself that the doubting attitude is 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
sit in doubting judgment, flattering yourself that the doubting attitude is intelligent because it is not gullible 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
heart and feelings. If you recognize your own doubting, negating ego in the tricks it produces, and 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
pain: feel it without crumbling, without exaggerating, without doubting your divine heritage. If you can do this 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
feel with your innermost being, and let the doubting mind rest, you will find exactly what you 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
you doubt. What are the real motives for doubting? For example, you doubt the existence of a 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
Very often those who are proud of their doubting because they do not wish to appear gullible 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
on its evolutionary journey. When this separated, fearful, doubting part remains unconscious, the longing for eternal life 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
True. There is of course the pain of doubting, the pain of not experiencing God's existence. However 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
 
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disharmony might take the form of general religious doubts which ultimately are connected to personal problems, for 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
wrong with your own thinking if you raise doubts about the medium just because of this, and 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
because you think that it can eliminate your doubts. Doubts are, in themselves, understandable enough. However, your 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
you think that it can eliminate your doubts. Doubts are, in themselves, understandable enough. However, your doubts 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
Doubts are, in themselves, understandable enough. However, your doubts can never disappear by the sort of proof 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
after the first effect has worn off, the doubts in you would surface again. You would say 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
to free yourselves of your inner chains, the doubts will come less and less often. They will 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
and with less impact, assailed by their original doubts. For these inevitable times of doubt I wish 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
may know how to go about meeting the doubts. Most of you know that there are two 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
self knows the greater truth your conscious being doubts and wants to convey this knowledge to your 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
is, to convince you and to overcome your doubts; rather, the proofs will be more wonderful than 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
ability. QUESTION: Why should an answer to our doubts come as an anticlimax? ANSWER: I will tell 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
a very general and broad picture, will eliminate doubts that may stand in the way when deciding 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
think for this hour about any of your doubts. Just let your soul speak and give you 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
no time. Or they take the form of doubts. These are all rationalizations but, being inexperienced in 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
have on these subjects. Even if you have doubts, and probably most of you here still have 19 JESUS CHRIST
some extent, provided you do not let your doubts shade your feelings. If your feelings are receptive 22 SALVATION
But this was precisely the point. To have doubts at these crucial times, doubts about everything, about 22 SALVATION
point. To have doubts at these crucial times, doubts about everything, about His true identity, and about 22 SALVATION
to God and ask Him, if you have doubts. He will answer you provided your heart is 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
that than for your body -- then fears, doubts, and questions bar your way. But they cannot 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
it, however because you do not evaluate these doubts as to their proper merit. Instead you have 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
train yourself to understand what is underneath these doubts or fears that want to lead you away 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
at all times. Learn to see through your doubts and your hesitancy; learn to see the real 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
His spirit world so strongly that all your doubts will dissolve like snow in the sun. It 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
hidden corner of your heart where you harbor doubts may manifest. It will then be extremely important 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
become a profound reality for you, all your doubts will cease. Many of you, my friends, do 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
of you does not want to have these doubts. And somehow you think that by hiding them 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
the unconscious. You are afraid to let the doubts rise to the surface because you assume that 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
will not fear that the recognition of your doubts may lead you to give up your spiritual 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
of chained. Even those who have no more doubts about the reality of reincarnation should consider this 38 IMAGES
different. While before you had all sorts of doubts, misgivings, excuses, and pretexts about entering this path 47 THE WALL WITHIN
neither anxiety nor doubt. Impatience arises when one doubts the desired result. Upon examination, we find that 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
you don't deserve it. Needless to say, these doubts are the gravest hindrance to the functioning of 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
will blocked, examine where and why you have doubts about the rightfulness of your desire. At times 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
to be ashamed of. Only by facing such doubts directly can you deal with them properly. As 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
deal with them properly. As long as the doubts are hidden out of a false sense of 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
if to say, I should not have these doubts, but since they are there, I want to 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you do face the fact that you have doubts, you can ask yourself further questions. Is it 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
be to learn that you can eliminate these doubts only by finding yourself, by purifying the hidden 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
will not really, profoundly and permanently eliminate your doubts. At the moment you would certainly be glad 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you would feel about the continuance of your doubts, and therefore suppress them more and more. Doubt 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
exist in the same measure as the psyche doubts himself or herself. If you find the roots 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
If you find the roots of all your doubts, namely the doubt in yourself, then you can 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
not have to ask yourself constantly, before your doubts can really disappear: Is it true? Is it 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
point, even before you succeed in eliminating your doubts. You will be able to leave such unanswered 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
your soul, the real roots of all your doubts regarding life and death, God and man. This 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
being offered to you. Once you face your doubts in their true light, you will no longer 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
in others makes no difference. But basically the doubts are the following: Is God a reality or 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the battle in you that contains all other doubts, such as the continuation of life after death 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
in all the truths while another part has doubts, is simultaneously afraid of having these doubts and 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
has doubts, is simultaneously afraid of having these doubts and is therefore hiding them. By bringing them 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
seek contact in the hope of stilling existing doubts, even though the hope and the doubts may 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
existing doubts, even though the hope and the doubts may not be conscious, then it furthers something 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is beyond you. With that knowledge, all your doubts and guilts must disappear, because you can be 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
fear, and believing something after having faced your doubts and come to terms with them as well 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
in a glory of faith without the human doubts and fears he expressed in the hour of 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
begin to crumble. You may be full of doubts about the very existence of God. This is 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
a wishful-thinking spirituality, by avoiding your fears and doubts; not by using religion as a crutch to 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
you that is not yet convinced, that still doubts that this is good or advantageous or safe 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
truth, without any question or doubt. Questions and doubts are part of the superficial intellect. But the 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
a step closer to unearthing your present hopelessness, doubts, guilts, confusions, illusions. May you thus free yourself 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
those feelings that you would rather evade -- doubts, aggression, jealousy, possessiveness, self- centeredness, and self-importance -- 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
does not know the truth, that still nurtures doubts and fears, and that fails to express the 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
when you find and remove unconscious reservations, limitations, doubts, and opposite desires. If you are afraid of 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
do not need unjustified hope. Even if my doubts -- that I do not have these powers 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
the guilt-producing patterns. Even if something in you doubts, you may shed the patterns anyway in the 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
of the personality's unresolved problems, insecurity, guilts and doubts, uncertainties and contradictions. The issue itself may warrant 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
I understand it quite well. Now, supposing my doubts and need for reassurance concern my masculinity. How 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
at least in principle; others may have their doubts about accepting them even in theory. Let us 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
you cannot hear it. QUESTION: What if one doubts that one's needs are justified? Isn't it also 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
and its ramifications. You will see that your doubts about the possibility of establishing a full, rich 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
more resources manifest. Whenever and wherever you have doubts regarding your fulfillment, your possibilities to create a 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
doubt and confront its real nature. Having your doubts in the open will, at least, protect you 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
principle. The more one-pointed, unconflicted, uncontaminated by secret doubts due to unrecognized negativities your statement is, the 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
superimposing a wishful kind of faith over inner doubts, negativities, negation. Unfortunately, this is what happens all 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
there is also another part in me that doubts it could be true. Yet I will give 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
correlation is extremely important. The same applies to doubts: the more you fear that what you want 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
you put to rest your thoughts and your doubts, which are a trick of the ego, and 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
it produces, and if you then doubt your doubts, you can open your hearts, my friends. You 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
waiting is truly relaxed, you will have no doubts about the fulfillment. You know that the seed 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
victimized, and hopeless. Even if the personality still doubts, at this point, its own capacity to change 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
the bliss imaginable. If you can confront your doubts that the best could indeed be yours, then 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
body, but whether or not you have these doubts, it is a fact. There is a whole 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
blurs the picture. Some unhappiness comes to you, doubts, heaviness, anxiety. It is a sign that you 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA
choices, and of establishing autonomy. The person who doubts in the right way moves toward faith and 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
and is in faith. But the person who doubts in the wrong way creates a tremendous split 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
in the eyes of others never doubt their doubts. So you must question your doubts. Do you 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
doubt their doubts. So you must question your doubts. Do you have a stake in what you 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
doubt? What are the honest reasons for your doubts? On what real considerations do you honestly base 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
what real considerations do you honestly base these doubts? If you doubt your doubts, if you question 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
honestly base these doubts? If you doubt your doubts, if you question them, you will arrive at 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
the self-doubt that gnaws behind the suspicions and doubts you harbor about others. This projected self-doubt must 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
If you use pseudo- intelligence to substantiate your doubts, distrusts and suspicions, in order to avoid the 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
you have shared joy. You have shared your doubts about yourselves and your lives. You have shared 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
is often nothing but the necessary outpicturing of doubts, fears, negativities, negation and denial, in the personal 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
for some idealized parental figure to assuage your doubts, to come forth and tell you, No, no 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
level. When you meet this deepest of all doubts and fears, existing in all human beings, and 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
being in the previous state in which these doubts and fears are covered up and consequently manifest 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
indirectly. To know, feel, experience and suffer these doubts and fears is the first step on this 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
eternal life is also unconscious. As the fears, doubts and terrors manifest indirectly, so does the longing 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
and the longing. To the degree the fears, doubts and terrors are unconscious, the longing is unconscious 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
first step toward transforming the level of fears, doubts and terrors into faith, knowledge of truth, security 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
through, and transform the deep, universal, existential fears, doubts and terrors. Let us now deal with two 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
their rebellion, for underneath it they carry some doubts about its legitimacy. The truth is that they 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
will make you automatically challenge your fears, your doubts, your distrust and your negative beliefs. This, in 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
Just begin to observe your moods. When do doubts come up? What brings on the doubts? Are 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
do doubts come up? What brings on the doubts? Are they not always in some way connected 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
you. Whenever you allow this to happen, all doubts about His reality will vanish. Once you are 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION

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