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| feeling. The most difficult task is on the emotional level. This is the highest level, because, first | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| people cannot make the inner decisions, however. Their emotional currents and inner, emotional reactions make them completely | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| inner decisions, however. Their emotional currents and inner, emotional reactions make them completely incapable of deciding inwardly | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| value, or they give over to sick, unpurified emotional currents. These use up much energy. It is | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| pride, and personal advantages so seriously. Such an emotional current comes from the higher self that knows | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| when you have become aware of the hidden emotional currents and can pinpoint where they run into | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| tiredness, weakness, and even sickness can come from emotional short-circuits. The more frequently the opposing currents clash | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| against the unalterable is in itself a sick emotional current. The inner conflicts can increase to such | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| by not making any choice and allowing all emotional currents to mingle in the unconscious, without the | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| other areas either -- whether spiritual or material. Emotional cross-currents or short-circuits are not equally strongly present | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| longings should know that his or her unconscious emotional currents are not completely healthy and free. You | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| do not want to comprehend them for unhealthy emotional reasons -- must become increasingly unhappy with the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| continue daily, even hourly, to push the same emotional reactions into the unconscious, piling the new upon | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| important person. Now perhaps you can change these emotional attitudes. Of course you cannot make yourselves desire | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| of God. I bring you God's blessings. Each emotional reaction, thought, opinion or tendency, even the smallest | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| a better understanding about his personality and unconscious emotional currents. After a certain time these efforts of | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| danger is that you may cover up the emotional reaction, pretending it is not there, until the | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| to avoid the lie and identify the false emotional currents underlying your correct outward actions. You will | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| established. With this help you can remove any emotional distortion. Some of my friends have already experienced | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| one, will find themselves caught up in an emotional current in which their fear will increase. As | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| with time will affect and alter the imperfect emotional currents in the soul. Who does not work | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| or more spiritual laws, in action or in emotional reaction. Only then is it possible to ask | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| What the teaching describes is not only an emotional state the way you people imagine it, neither | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| reveals that both talk about the same: that emotional states are actually spiritual spheres which are found | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| it is a deviation, if only on the emotional level. In this rebellion is contained a rebellion | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| of meditation, the spiritually active and another, more emotional? For example, meditating on Be still and know | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| involved with thought, therefore masculine; the other is emotional and flowing, therefore feminine. Both of them are | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| is not a bit different with spiritual or emotional growth. Shortcuts never have any lasting effect and | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| way you have, be it only by an emotional reaction, broken spiritual laws. Step by step, as | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| only conscious thoughts have this effect but also emotional reactions and subconscious thoughts. In any case, the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| all other conditions of the physical being. The emotional, intellectual, or spiritual reactions show in the aura | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| walk this path and be cured of your emotional sicknesses, it is important for you to understand | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| The same applies to the spiritually undernourished; the emotional problems, the lack of inner peace, and all | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| person is unaware of certain faults, attitudes, opinions, emotional reactions. People carry many of these trends with | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| you really want. Make an inventory of your emotional trends and soul currents. By re-examining them you | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| tiredness, all weakness, all weariness -- physical or emotional -- will disappear if you sincerely mean that | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| happiness on every plane of existence: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. But as long as you have | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to be accomplished is the reeducation of certain emotional currents. If you go about it seriously and | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| of detachment so necessary for attaining spiritual and emotional maturity. The other flows freely, strongly, and vitally | 18 FREE WILL |
| inner trends, in your soul currents, in your emotional reactions, and not only in your outer deeds | 18 FREE WILL |
| I assure you. You will learn to recognize emotional reactions that you had been completely unaware before | 21 THE FALL |
| solar plexus. Your soul, however, manifests in your emotional life, in your feelings and in your subconscious | 21 THE FALL |
| people are unaware of their real feelings and emotional reactions and are thus slave to them; they | 21 THE FALL |
| only after some considerable progress of spiritual development, emotional maturity and stability, only then should this treatment | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to be harmony between the spiritual and the emotional levels. For the time being, it is important | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| no quarrel with this truth, but on the emotional, psychological, and spiritual levels you wish for a | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you get your inner self to understand the emotional self? ANSWER: Do not try to make it | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the process. You cannot educate or reeducate your emotional self before it is completely on the surface | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| enable you to gradually change inner currents and emotional reactions, and this will automatically free a strength | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| seek security either in financial terms or through emotional ties. People also seek happiness, love, and security | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| relationship with God can provide. Financial success, satisfying emotional ties, and professional recognition can also be yours | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| way, you are often caught up in an emotional confusion about the nature of your soul. You | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| have obviously deviated from divine law in your emotional currents. Sometimes, when you discover the nature of | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| be surprised how often you find a personal, emotional, subjective reason behind your convictions. QUESTION: What is | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| this be applicable. We are focusing on the emotional currents of self-will within each one of you | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| elevated level above your fellow- creatures, in an emotional sense. Only in that way will you be | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| nourished, as is your intellect and even your emotional nature -- though the latter not always with | 31 SHAME |
| in full force and carries you into deeper emotional conflicts until you develop the courage and humility | 31 SHAME |
| about it. Check all your faults and your emotional reactions to them in all honesty. As you | 31 SHAME |
| a particular fault or reveal ignorance of an emotional current running contrary to Divine Law. If you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| obvious and material choices, but also of every emotional attitude a decision holds. The majority of human | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| risk- proof plan. This, too, is important for emotional health, my friends. In that way you act | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| I do not see anyone who always makes emotional decisions maturely. I am again giving you strong | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| you wished to avoid. If you test this emotional, and for the most part unconscious, current, what | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| that good and true desire by a contrary emotional current which you ignore. But, of course, you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| this, you will be able to redirect your emotional current gradually by growth -- the only right | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| is therefore not properly understood on the deeper emotional level, something sick and negative is felt and | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| force of truth into the person's psychological and emotional world. As for outer action, there the procedure | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| if you do not consciously think so. Your emotional reactions to other people may amount to that | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| from the innermost recesses of the mind. If emotional currents do not follow suit in harmony with | 36 PRAYER |
| thoughts in prayer that gradually will affect their emotional currents and their entire outlook on life. People | 36 PRAYER |
| of pride? Doesn't the personality often react in emotional outbursts: Why should I be unhappy? I do | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| hurt the vanity of the other person, and emotional reactions followed. One can then always rationalize one's | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| conclusions are not thought out; rather they are emotional reactions, general attitudes toward life. They are not | 38 IMAGES |
| personality grows up, your intellectual knowledge contradicts your emotional knowledge. You therefore push down the emotional knowledge | 38 IMAGES |
| your emotional knowledge. You therefore push down the emotional knowledge until it disappears from consciousness. The more | 38 IMAGES |
| knowledge until it disappears from consciousness. The more emotional knowledge is hidden, the more potent the image | 38 IMAGES |
| himself to bathe in spite of his strong emotional revulsion. Thus, he will develop certain symptoms in | 38 IMAGES |
| very primitive example. Most of the time the emotional reactions are much more subtle and complicated. I | 38 IMAGES |
| In meditation, in serious self-probing, in checking your emotional reactions about the past and present, and through | 38 IMAGES |
| a great deal of courage. By uncovering certain emotional reactions, tendencies and inner conditions, they come face | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| their courage. Yet their discovery of certain cowardly emotional reactions is also valid. So it is important | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| is the meditation in depth, on the deep emotional level you have discovered. If you do neglect | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| not succeeded in integrating and unifying your erring emotional reactions and wrong conclusions with your intellectual knowledge | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| for yourself. You will not be under the emotional, subjective impression that you alone have such feelings | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to exist. When you look at your erroneous emotional conclusions, you will discover that fighting your imagined | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| yourself about the why of some of your emotional reactions. If you do not find the answer | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| Often you are not even aware that your emotional reaction is guilt. And if you are, you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| knowledge of the universe, the manifested world, or emotional self- knowledge? Clearly, emotional self-knowledge is more important | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| the manifested world, or emotional self- knowledge? Clearly, emotional self-knowledge is more important. But what do you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| case was unique, and the whole thought and emotional process had to be hidden away because of | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| cannot grow. It is the same with every emotional current or tendency. Therefore you should not be | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| to discuss the images, I mentioned the term emotional maturity. Now you will understand better how it | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| recognize the primitive way in which your inner emotional reasoning functions. Considered in the light of this | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| believe that emotions and thoughts are forms, creating emotional magnetic fields that draw events, people, and experiences | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| and concentrate on your own spiritual, mental, and emotional development and on your own path of purification | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| or unintended untruth. All this emanates from the emotional level of one's being. As you do the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| others lies a very significant factor of your emotional state that needs looking into. If you cannot | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| or she will be unable to cope with. Emotional life necessarily carries uncertainty and risk, whereas the | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| at sea. The emotion-type is equally onesided. Predominantly emotional people often pride themselves that only they are | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| and development. Due to their overemphasis on the emotional side, they neglect the equally important reasoning functions | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| nature may be masked. For example, a basically emotional person chooses, because of fear and immature currents | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| should serve equally the reasoning process and the emotional and intuitive faculties. The will-type makes a master | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| cripples the reasoning process, which, joined with the emotional nature, leads to wisdom. Without such wisdom, people | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| situation. The person of will also neglects the emotional side, fearing emotion as much as the reason- | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| do with it. A person can be very emotional but the emotions may be all covered up | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| at all. One who by nature is more emotional may fear emotion and thus assume a mask | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| your beloved. But to do that, a certain emotional and spiritual maturity has to exist. If this | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| tries to get into a conversation touching the emotional understanding. That makes it very, very difficult for | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| changing your emotions. You so often forget that emotional change is not something that can be commanded | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| be commanded. You cannot change your feelings and emotional reactions by an act of will. You can | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| thought is nothing compared to an utterly unconscious emotional current. You will soon discover this truth in | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| thoughts cannot be changed quickly even without personal emotional involvement; how much longer then does it take | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| effort and humility. Changing thoughts that have no emotional impact needs certain skills, not always easy to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| contributed or are contributing by your own unconscious emotional reactions to set an avalanche rolling. In this | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| daily self-observation, realize that you cannot change an emotional reaction merely by having recently recognized its faulty | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| off your high horse is healthy; and health, emotional or otherwise, must have a very good effect | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the wall. So you can hide your faults, emotional conflicts, fears, and negative trends behind a truth | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| in a whole lecture recently. This kind of emotional association with the concept of law is completely | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the intellectual concept is completely different from the emotional behavior and attitude. This should furnish an important | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| not easy, because you are unaware of your emotional self-centeredness. You may be aware of your fears | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| but I am addressing myself now to the emotional levels you are uncovering through self-search and not | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| made and are continuing to make, to an emotional reaction of yours that at first glance seems | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| and you lift from your unconscious mind an emotional reaction that is creating conflicts in your soul | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| inflicted the hurt by deed, word, thought, or emotional reaction; by what I have done or left | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| rage in you due to your ignorance and emotional immaturity. Are there any questions on this subject | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| last expression you used. Would you kindly define emotional maturity? ANSWER: Emotional maturity is, foremost, the capacity | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |