| Dutiful.....................4 | |
| not only come from the intellect as a dutiful recognition of the right thing; this wish alone | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| for them. Therefore any effort at atonement is dutiful, something you do because you wish to be | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| is infinitely better than speaking out of a dutiful and harried self-discipline, doing something you are not | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| ploy; you must not force yourself in a dutiful way to be dedicated and selfless, in order | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Duty........................34 | |
| superficial thought, formed out of a sense of duty, or whether the wish penetrates your whole being | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| development, the more it is your responsibility and duty to perfect yourself. The more you are free | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| wants to form a judicious opinion has the duty to find out, otherwise you have no right | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the happiness which such reunion entails lies a duty to fulfill something. Certain other incarnations have to | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| serve people's lowest instincts. It is your sacred duty, just as it is to do your best | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| factors about previous lives, then I have the duty to fulfill even more in my own development | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| often convinced that they are only doing their duty; they do not see the whole picture. They | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| there may be instances when it is the duty of a person to violate a human law | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| entity has the right, and often even the duty, to make personal decisions about the circumstances of | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| so when praying, in direct awareness of the duty to do God's will. Otherwise, one is tempted | 36 PRAYER |
| expected of you, and the greater is your duty to overcome what is most difficult for you | 36 PRAYER |
| gives you a certain satisfaction, as of a duty done. As long as the daily discipline is | 36 PRAYER |
| QUESTION: Where does a must end and a duty start? How do you distinguish between the two | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a result of untruthful, mixed, and confused motives. Duty is something entirely voluntary. If you fulfill a | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is something entirely voluntary. If you fulfill a duty without compulsion, you do so because you decided | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| as it is. Then you voluntarily accept a duty. If you do not accept it emotionally and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| do not accept it emotionally and do the duty because you have no other choice, you are | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| spirit. This includes also things that become your duty. He who constantly rebels against these imperfect conditions | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| between saying yes to an imposed or inevitable duty, or struggling against it and being forced to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| do, the only way to fulfill the bigger duty, beyond yourself, is to learn and to grow | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| others? And does the reality principle stand for duty, responsibility, work, achievement, and is therefore constructive? On | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| done in a spirit of fulfilling a superimposed duty. The more you grow into life and into | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| your life. It is not to fulfill a duty, but to make yourself more capable of being | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you give you do so only out of duty, the awareness will bring about changes in you | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| and idolized parent. You feel it is your duty as a child to continue to do so | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| a spirit of superficiality, glibly disposing of a duty done. In both cases -- only talking it | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| wholeheartedly and not because you fulfill an unpleasant duty. Those of you who have not, as yet | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| try to love as if it were a duty demanded by conscience and obedience, the less does | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| since love has nothing whatever to do with duty. The vague emotions, on the other hand, if | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| up its force, then it becomes an unpleasant duty. Humanity fluctuates between these two extremes: either to | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| developed person refuses to undertake the appropriate spiritual duty to assume responsibility for the relationship and look | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| discharge only the minimal amount of rebelliously executed duty, resenting anything that is demanded by life. Being | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| an empty word. As you have the self-responsible duty to liberate yourself from all personal images because | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| he engages in surreptitious mating as a marital duty. Both are afraid of the love-sex current that | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Dwell.......................25 | |
| his masculinity. Since it is woman's nature to dwell on emotional subjects, on anything personal, she is | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| us what Goethe meant by saying, Two souls dwell in my breast? ANSWER: It can be interpreted | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| to many of my friends who linger and dwell in their hopelessness. Instead, say: If I feel | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| will possess the world; but these inherent powers dwell in the inner person, not in the outer | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| a little later. Let us for the moment dwell on the nature of life on the absolute | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| able to take the step immediately. You will dwell a while in this teetering position and observe | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| to get to this point you must first dwell on this thought with an intellectual understanding. Further | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are fully aware to what extent you still dwell in the state of pre-reality. Most of you | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| subtle level in your feelings. Do not morbidly dwell on a negative emotion, but do not shrink | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| our attitudes to our self-produced fate. We can dwell in self-pity, resentments, and helplessness and thus increase | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| the power of thinking, feeling, and willing. Just dwell on this significant fact, my friends, and it | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| then perceive that it gives you pleasure to dwell on all this within yourself and not change | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| war within yourself. I do not wish to dwell too long on the cosmic meaning of pleasure | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| This is why there is no need to dwell too much on the philosophical aspects of pleasure | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| as these seem wishful thinking. The longer you dwell in the defenses of accusing and self-victimizing, the | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| all the way with themselves and would rather dwell on blame. But those of you who follow | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| not know, when you continue to avoid, you dwell in a dark mire which feels very uncomfortable | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| and often painful state in which you temporarily dwell. Only aspects of you are here, to be | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| train in some areas, my friends, and perhaps dwell in an interim station and then try to | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| whole, wonderful universe, an ongoing, alive phenomenon. You dwell in this universe and it dwells in you | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| forgotten to pursue this approach, so you often dwell longer than necessary on the purely negative manifestation | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| gain trust in the universe in which you dwell and operate as an integral part, so will | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| dwells in you and in which you simultaneously dwell. It surrounds you just as much as it | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| had before. Yet, you must not stay and dwell even in this new improved state. Still better | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| the cosmic reality of life in which you dwell is the dualistic error of this is right | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Dwelling....................11 | |
| of the world of God occasionally visit creatures dwelling in spheres of lesser light and development for | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the case, regard it as a symptom without dwelling on the hypnosis itself. QUESTION: Do you mean | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| spoke about the immediacy of the selfish child dwelling to some extent in all individuals. But these | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| different, vaster kind of being seems to be dwelling within. It is as though two brains existed | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| can also appear as a separate, foreign consciousness dwelling within. In the first attempts to bring hitherto | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| longer be frightened by the greatest positive power dwelling within you. You will be able to use | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| person's negativity. You begin to talk yourself into dwelling more and more on that person's faults and | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| this problem can be directly resolved, instead of dwelling on the in-between levels, we find the intense | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| own distortions that might affect the child. Thus, dwelling on the childhood experience alone can give at | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| believe in the power of the Universal Intelligence dwelling in you at all times, which goes to | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| of learning how to activate the greater consciousness dwelling within every human soul. Often the second phase | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Dwells......................20 | |
| the nostalgia for one's true spiritual home that dwells in every human being. For here on earth | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| This cannot be an easy process, for what dwells in the unconscious is hidden from conscious awareness | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| But while this selfish, self-centered and limited infant dwells within, it must always be in conflict with | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the need for expressing -- for facing what dwells inside, for overcoming resistance and the unreal fear | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| highest source of all wisdom and happiness. It dwells in-between. It is not completely outer or inner | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| and deliberately activate the vaster divine self that dwells deep within you. This is not difficult to | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| creative innermost being -- the superior intelligence that dwells in the depths of you -- to help | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| even more so by the great strength that dwells in you. Be in peace. Be in God | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| the brightness and lightness of the spirit that dwells deep within the encrustations, and long to come | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| living energy and to the divine consciousness that dwells within you. Only then are you in harmony | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| deep inside of you that divine nucleus which dwells in you and of which you are an | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| will become one with the greater intelligence that dwells within, so will all experiences be one and | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| phenomenon. You dwell in this universe and it dwells in you. You can discover it by focusing | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| indeed an expression of a divine reality that dwells deep in me, even if I have not | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| believe in a divine spirit that governs and dwells in all that is, you can safely use | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| with the blessings of the divine spirit that dwells within each one of you. Believe in this | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| into the service of the divine consciousness that dwells deep within you. I have told you before | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| and give form to the soul substance that dwells in you and in which you simultaneously dwell | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| you could only see the immense power that dwells in your thoughts, your beliefs, your attitudes, and | 254 SURRENDER |
| vast world of eternal life in which it dwells. There are many stages and phases to go | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |