| to be uncovered in deep self-exploration. Your every effort, even if at the moment you feel discouraged | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| It takes a considerable amount of time and effort before you become aware of those facets within | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| only too often due to emotional stagnation. The effort to increase consciousness is itself movement. On the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| you -- until you summon the courage and effort to do what your spirit is waiting for | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| sake of which it functioned, often with much effort to overcome the infantile drives to destroy what | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| right direction, but it is still a greater effort than for an adult. Humankind, too, has to | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| around in circles. But when you make the effort to look behind the appearance -- behind the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| each one of you. Blessed be your every effort in the direction of self-development, liberation, and self-realization | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| once you experience the connection yourself, in the effort of self-understanding. You will then know the truth | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| language. But it also takes as much time, effort, and practice. It no more comes to you | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| than suddenly learning a new language without organized effort. Only it is infinitely more rewarding, more essential | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| it strongly enough without shying away from the effort to reach the goal. Though difficult at the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the goal. Though difficult at the beginning, such effort will after a while establish a channel to | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| and rightness of it are worth all the effort of overcoming resistance. It alone can truly guide | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| that you must not shy away from any effort, for without divine help you are incapable of | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the life force cannot penetrate to you. Your effort to arrive at clear formulation and exact awareness | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| a human being is a person's attitude toward effort. Free, voluntary and joyful effort is the result | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| person's attitude toward effort. Free, voluntary and joyful effort is the result of spiritual awakening. Effort made | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| joyful effort is the result of spiritual awakening. Effort made against one's will, forced on the individual | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| limited understanding of spiritual reality. Yes, that requires effort, too, for the person who ceases effort ceases | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| requires effort, too, for the person who ceases effort ceases to live. But that kind of effort | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| effort ceases to live. But that kind of effort is always labored, always against the stream. Inwardly | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| Inwardly, such people would rather not make any effort. Their idea of bliss, their final goal of | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to be laborious and fraught with the forced effort they are used to. They hanker after a | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| those who have already attained the realization that effort is bliss, movement is no chore but happiness | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| they do not wish it. At this stage effort becomes effortless. It is joyful movement in beautiful | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| choice, because the desired result is worth the effort. Overcoming the resistance quickly leads to a state | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to a state where energy becomes self-generating. The effort becomes free-flowing and soon ceases to feel like | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| becomes free-flowing and soon ceases to feel like effort. It becomes perfect movement, swinging on and on | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| and on into constructive further unfoldment and self-expression. Effort, against one's will, in order to conform, to | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| thus causes greater resentment by making every further effort even more laborious. Free and voluntary effort, accepted | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| further effort even more laborious. Free and voluntary effort, accepted in fairness, never makes one tired. If | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| important answers. How do you feel about the effort required for any of your daily chores, for | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| for any of your daily chores, for the effort of this pathwork, for the effort of living | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| for the effort of this pathwork, for the effort of living as such? Do you have to | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| at least in certain areas, to where your effort is free- flowing, where you have already brought | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| brought yourself into the momentum, where the self-generated effort carries you and you no longer have to | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| discipline? In this case, you no longer feel effort, but feel movement and you enjoy it. Then | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| truly over a major threshold. But the voluntary effort has to be exerted first, by the self | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to express to want to put in sufficient effort, without resentment, is possible only when it is | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| possible only when it is understood that this effort does not lead to hardship, slavery and suffering | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the illusory fences and the labored, resented, tiring effort. People put themselves in the paradoxical position of | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| They labor and slave and chafe with the effort of rattling the illusory prison bars, while they | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| own momentum, so that you swing into effortless effort to further your development, the removal of your | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| of your fences, your self-unfoldment and self-expression. Effortless effort should become the movement of this path itself | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| She has tried and used a lot of effort, but it was not effortless -- I can | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| research patiently and laboriously, without shying away from effort, time, trial and error, who does not expect | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| but the quality of full commitment with patient effort that alone will bring results. Neither the years | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| results. Neither the years, nor the amount of effort can replace full inner commitment. The universal forces | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| my friends, who have grown through years of effort in this pathwork have occasionally noticed that where | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| latter, it responds only to a direct, deliberate effort of the outer mind. It is this two-step | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| on the other, mobility is viewed as tense effort. This is particularly important to understand, because these | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| movement that is a tense, anxious, grabbing, striving effort. Seemingly, you have to decide between these two | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| exist, immobility appears a welcome relief from the effort and fatigue to struggle against the self. When | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| striving away from what is now -- hence effort, tension, fear -- or not wanting to change | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| activate the inner nucleus, you need to apply effort and will. Unfortunately, too often the line of | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| process of integration, which cannot exist without conscious effort. You must work for integration by the same | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| thought and desire. This is the only constant effort you need to go through life, my friends | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| needlessly exhausted. You do not make that one effort to deliberately contact the inner power, to activate | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| need most. When you do not make the effort, you use a hundred times more energy than | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| you need to persevere. You make a tremendous effort to escape the negativity you have produced and | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the divine power within. You must make that effort. You must clearly formulate the desire to emerge | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| fact, you no longer have to make an effort with your outer mind to formulate constructive desire | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| for this meeting and for every step and effort you make toward growth and development. May this | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| and brings dynamic peace. Everything else is strain, effort, and difficult discipline, which is not conducive to | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| occur in harmony, in rightness, without strain and effort. Anyone meditating in such a way increases the | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| receiving truly become one. When there is no effort in giving oneself, there will be no effort | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| effort in giving oneself, there will be no effort in receiving and therefore no frustration. The person | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| seems that to obtain it would require much effort and struggle. Once one discovers the knack of | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| one of you, for every step, for every effort you undertake on your road to liberation. In | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| seem to have it easier. You resent the effort required of you to fill in this conscious | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| give it a chance. When you make an effort to comprehend the laws, to correct the impairment | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| a change in your blood circulation? If this effort would have any effect at all, it could | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| to awaken to follow through, without shirking the effort that such a deep change requires. When caught | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| try to counteract these feelings with the laborious effort of trying to love with your ego. These | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| I feel, waiting to feel differently without any effort on their part. But resolution can come only | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| its existence. The denial manifests in a continuous effort to talk oneself into the opposite state. The | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| The ego must make its most constructive inner effort to let go of this. A tiny point | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| let go of this. A tiny point of effort is often all you need. The rest follows | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| acknowledged, pride and cowardice will drop away without effort. Cowardice, in its compliance and conformity, self-negation and | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| possibility, with all sincerity and without shirking any effort, in any direction that may prove to be | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| Its manifestation is always an indirect result of effort. It occurs when it is least expected. By | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| illusions. This does require a great deal of effort. You must summon all the strength and courage | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| you can muster at all times. But the effort needs to be expended for the sake of | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the unnecessary pain of avoidance and flight. The effort to shrink back from yourself and from what | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| conditions -- is much more strenuous than the effort needed for the course I show you. When | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| from the real self, no matter how much effort you put into it. In fact, the real | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the real self is effortless. Wherever it manifests, effort exists, but it is always effortless effort. This | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| manifests, effort exists, but it is always effortless effort. This, too, may appear a contradiction. Let us | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| its task of deciding for truthfulness, integrity, honesty, effort, and good will, it must step aside and | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| ego must lend its wholehearted support, its one-pointed effort, its most constructive attitude and undivided attention to | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| this is your birthright. The price is some effort of overcoming laziness, resistance, and false safety devices | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| which works freely. You no longer need any effort to overcome fear and resistance before contacting the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| it then automatic that you trust completely, without effort? ANSWER: Yes, it is automatic. It is like | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| guidance and truth, but primarily by every inner effort made toward the realization of your true being | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| will be the spiritual leaders of humankind. Every effort on this path is aimed at reestablishing such | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| your concept. This is what requires labor and effort. And, unbelievable as this appears to one who | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| disappointed and discouraged; they start to use less effort and thus fall back into destructive patterns of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| humanity finds itself. You have learned, through much effort and many incarnations and experiences, to channel and | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| them into action and removing all possible obstructions. Effort and endeavor are an integral part of setting | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| person. Nor must one shy away from the effort of finding the cause of the unhappiness within | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| loneliness and lovelessness. It may have taken considerable effort to uncover these feelings, which might have been | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| physical responses to your inner erroneous state. This effort will prove extremely enlightening and liberating. It is | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| makes it also impossible to summon the necessary effort for bringing change about. The energy, the discipline | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| requires a great deal of honesty, discipline, and effort to overcome resistance to make this all- important | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| second nature to you is too great an effort. It seems too great because you still believe | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| obstructions to light. You will devote time and effort to this venture. You will feel increasingly that | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the entity confronts the block and makes an effort to overcome it. This is the only way | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| responding to voluntary ones. The voluntary faculties require effort. You must persist, groping and searching for new | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| it would have happened anyway, without all the effort. Conversely, when the result is expected as a | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| of the growth process. The balance of conscious effort and relaxation applies to the smallest details as | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| toward the voluntary and involuntary functions, balancing poised effort and discipline with relaxation. Each step of growth | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| forth into a new unity because of the effort that is necessary. If the effort is perceived | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| of the effort that is necessary. If the effort is perceived as something that you should not | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| attitude you will find the right distribution of effort and effortlessness, the right balance of voluntary and | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| occurs you no longer need to put laborious effort into the new way. While you are torn | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| the unification is not yet total. More voluntary effort must follow suit, new material must be unearthed | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| effortless and spontaneous unification is the result of effort and struggle. It requires a poised and relaxed | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| poised and relaxed forward movement into life. The effort must be disciplined and relaxed rather than tense | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| tense and rigid. When you feel that relaxed effort is impossible, search for unconscious reluctance to move | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| yourself the opportunity to experience it. All your effort will be wasted if you do not allow | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| By harmony I do not mean that the effort is equal in measure. Months of groping with | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| a lot of fear and hopelessness and wasteful effort. You will become more patient with the time | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| more obstacles within yourself and may entail greater effort and patience. But in the very process of | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| hand. It may still take considerable work and effort to comprehend further the deeply embedded misconceptions responsible | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| negative side and strengthening the positive side. This effort then leads to the new, greater consciousness, where | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| the three levels of interaction combine in the effort of purification and integration. Meditation functions here as | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| consciousness. The initial actualization of these powers requires effort, but once the process is flowing, it is | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| acquire this attitude if you make a sincere effort and truly pray that guidance be given to | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| aspect of mutuality, namely execution, which implies labor, effort, perseverance and self-discipline. Unless the creative idea and | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| is more mechanical and laborious, requiring consistency and effort. It has totally different characteristics from the spontaneous | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| the conscious volitional self must make a deliberate effort to remove the blindness that makes you believe | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| with the illusion. To give it up requires effort and the willingness to change and chance unknown | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| how good your intentions are and how much effort you use in other ways as a substitute | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| reawakening the self requires a great deal of effort, commitment, work, and also the willingness to sacrifice | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| you make a real commitment and a real effort to awaken yourself, no matter how painful this | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| the self in life. This demands making an effort to come out of old mindsets, and leave | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| limitations can only be a conscious and deliberate effort toward the goal of transcending dualistic thinking. Yet | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| the goal of transcending dualistic thinking. Yet the effort is not a labor of the will, but | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| away. You will not have to make an effort. You will just emanate creating. You will live | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| rather unwilling to abandon this attitude. A great effort to overcome resistance is necessary before you can | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| this fact extensively and profoundly takes considerable struggle, effort, and patience as well as an inner overcoming | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| made them available for yourself through a deliberate effort. For there was a state in which you | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| anything else could exist that would warrant the effort and the lowering of your pride. This doubt | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| acquisitions a spontaneous, living, effortless experience. Ego means effort; spiritual self means effortlessness. This desirable effortlessness is | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| every activity or skill. First there is always effort. It becomes pleasurable only when it seems, and | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| they think they have eliminated the need for effort and investment. They do not permit life to | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| on any level first requires accepting a temporary effort with self-discipline, faith, courage, and humility until the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| with self-discipline, faith, courage, and humility until the effort becomes effortless. Spiritual movement is effortless. By spiritual | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| because it requires an enormous and often unconscious effort in order to sustain the resistance against the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| natural inclination to follow its destiny. This unconscious effort then manifests as tiredness, exhaustion, weakness, which furnish | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| dangerous attempts, the entity always seeks to avoid effort, pain, inconvenience, and those aspects of life with | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you do, provided they really want to. Their effort, their investment and commitment to themselves determine the | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| something that you can acquire through learning or effort. It unfolds organically as a byproduct of your | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| this path. But if you expect a real effort and are prepared to embark on the journey | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| same. One makes a decision to devote time, effort and care to the smooth running of one's | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| one's life. The greater the accumulation, the greater effort one will have to expend to establish order | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| follows. Creating order always requires an investment of effort. The spiritually mature person does not live in | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| mind and comfort can be attained without investing effort, realizing that the gains outweigh the investment. The | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| is summoned -- perhaps, at first, with some effort -- energy will be re leased. Then more | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| your day will run smoothly. Devote time and effort to create this new order and to clean | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| creation. It may require a great deal of effort to find such a breaking point, and even | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| find such a breaking point, and even more effort to follow through with the decision to break | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| familiar to you who have spent time and effort on this path. They are even known by | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| beyond a certain point, it takes far more effort and investment to dissolve these negative creations while | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| often experience yourself in this way. Then the effort you need to re-establish connection, to probe the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| difficult, is much greater. Only with this greater effort and goodwill can the direction be changed, however | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the disconnected, conscious mind must make a deliberate effort to be ready for other possibilities. The conscious | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| to spur you on to make a redoubled effort to find again the harmony with the inner | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| each such decision that making it seems an effort. But that effort in itself is one of | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| that making it seems an effort. But that effort in itself is one of the illusions you | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| effortless and movement is struggle. In reality, the effort lies in staying behind and resisting the movement | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| will never take on deeper meaning without serious effort and commitment. To the degree you do not | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| To the degree you do not make this effort and commitment, your life will be sterile and | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| your outer consciousness is willing to make the effort to overcome the always existing temptation to yield | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| with it. Make, on the one hand, all effort possible to see, to comprehend, to search deeply | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| mutually interdependent. Use the positive ego-attributes for the effort to overcome resistance and also surrender the ego | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| arrived at that juncture. After having invested considerable effort, time and energy, as you go through the | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| key unlocks your wisdom as a result of effort and sincerity in being in truth with yourself | 228 BALANCE |
| active movement becomes what I sometimes term effortless effort. It is not a strained effort. Activity is | 228 BALANCE |
| term effortless effort. It is not a strained effort. Activity is strained, tiring and effortful only if | 228 BALANCE |
| they shy away from movement, from becoming, from effort. They tend toward stagnancy because their effort is | 228 BALANCE |
| from effort. They tend toward stagnancy because their effort is so strained. But if they could think | 228 BALANCE |
| so strained. But if they could think of effort in this effortless way, coming through the cohesion | 228 BALANCE |
| in proper balance, then you have action and effort that are relaxed, effortless and calm. And you | 228 BALANCE |
| the questions. Parents can also make a concerted effort to find out meaningful and truthful answers and | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| to answer the child's questions. Make a real effort. Such questions may be pointers to the spirit's | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| conversely, that self-discipline means the dullness of laborious effort without reward. Most of you, my friends, begin | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| how strong and apparently loving or creative the effort and goal may be, always connote an insincerity | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| of others' opinions or even their noticing the effort and the effect. Whether you make an important | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| tremendous expenditure of your energy system. The tremendous effort is only necessary because your energy system functions | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| have tried so hard, I used so much effort to accomplish this and that and the other | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| or state. The less you invest in the effort that could make desirable events or states a | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| along and give you fulfillment gratuitously, without any effort on your part, without your removing the obstructions | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| very simply and firmly -- yet without pushing effort -- formulate another thought. The thought might be | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| the inner meaning can fully materialize. More steps, effort and groping may be necessary before outer consciousness | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| could you give to yourself than making an effort to create a channel to that in you | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| care of, be given to without the slightest effort on his or her part? Such a personality | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| And you can tap this knowledge. With some effort and focus, you can experience the fear and | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| repeated again and again, never ceasing the inner effort, never relinquishing this new goal. Doubt is, of | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| it not an excuse for staying inert, avoiding effort and risk? Only when you are very sure | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| certain very definite laws. When one makes the effort to question one's own thoughts and to claim | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| to hear, and to begin to make the effort to understand the new values and truths you | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| different ways. I ask you to make every effort possible to comprehend this lecture. Complete this understanding | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| secret is disclosed. Keeping secrets also avoids the effort and responsibility of finding an equitable, honest solution | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| quick thing to achieve. It requires patience, time, effort, and all the good will that can be | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| high, too absurd. Conversely, the cost of the effort necessary to open up the secrets, to enable | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| transmit all the nuances, you will make the effort to communicate and you will be surprised to | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| is an essential part of self-revealing and openness. Effort is needed, a lot of effort, but this | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| and openness. Effort is needed, a lot of effort, but this effort will be highly rewarded. What | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| is needed, a lot of effort, but this effort will be highly rewarded. What first appears to | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| responsibility to search, to grope, to make the effort to extend your vision. The same process applies | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| must feel them as so undesirable that the effort is well worth taking. But one must also | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| know very well how important your committed active effort is, how noble your struggle, as I point | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| The entire Plan of Salvation is a conjoint effort to penetrate all with life, with consciousness, with | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| know what you feel. It means making the effort to explain, to reach out, to search through | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| means mutual understanding. Yet for understanding to grow, effort and goodwill are necessary. In other words, love | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| communication. And communication is a result of serious effort, with a commitment to use your attention and | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| enhance communication if you made a more profound effort to explain yourself, and to help others to | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| become clear to you after only a slight effort on your part to want to see it | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| choice, your intent, your responsibility, your will, your effort -- and often what seems to be your | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |