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| the thorough absorption of spiritual laws before the emotions can even begin to change. The less developed | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| when they start weighing their innermost motives and emotions do they come to realize what has been | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| only rationally but eventually also by bringing your emotions in accord with it -- you are better | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| matter of either/or. In some cases the opposing emotions surge with equal power and clash with such | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| which I call the lower self, pulls your emotions into quite a different direction. This part does | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| and not absolute or objective. The conclusion, based emotions, is that there is no absolute spiritual truth | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| Sometimes your answer will correspond to what your emotions desire: however, in that case, you would not | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| case, you would not have followed blindly your emotions, but comprehended the will of God by honest | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| answer might be very different from what your emotions would like to hear. What I meant by | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| freedom. Then see that until now, in your emotions, you wanted these things for yourselves alone, because | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| you wanted to be happy. Again, in your emotions, until now you considered yourselves number one, the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| this because the realm of spirit, its movements, emotions, and thoughts are for you like air, but | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| you do not think it through clearly, your emotions contain this attitude. I do not reproach you | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| if you want to discover unconscious trends and emotions, or if you find yourself in some kind | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| past and present. When you know all your emotions, shortcomings, and wrong attitudes, you will be able | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| every single person who, with impure thoughts and emotions, pollutes the cosmic reservoir, and this, one day | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| when you purify yourself from within, cleanse your emotions and thoughts and so best fulfill your destiny | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| feelings, so that you can perceive whenever your emotions are not always parallel to your thoughts or | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| often unconsciously fear, because you are afraid of emotions which you are not yet mature enough to | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| intellectually. This understanding has not yet reached my emotions. Watch yourself continually, every day. Sometimes there will | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| lie to oneself and not think about one's emotions and true motives at all, but merely let | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| true motives at all, but merely let the emotions react without thinking, may appear at times adequate | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the spiritual magnetic field, where not only all emotions exist, but where all factors pertaining to the | 18 FREE WILL |
| and carefully, and do not let your unconscious emotions play you a trick by blurring your judgment | 21 THE FALL |
| proper direction of inner self-development, of making hidden emotions, fears or problems conscious and dealing with them | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have real faith in God. Whatever pertains to emotions is not dependent upon your direct actions or | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| trends in you which are connected with your emotions and cannot be directly forced to respond to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| any direct endeavor on your part. If your emotions begin to change after a few years, you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| because it constitutes the method of purification of emotions not influenced by an act of direct willpower | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| To be in a hurry to change these emotions is not only an impossible goal and therefore | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| constant self-recognition where you make comparisons between your emotions which conflict with what you have long recognized | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| find God, you need to recognize your hidden emotions and evaluate them in the light of divine | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| know that very well indeed, but do your emotions always know it? Certainly not! It remains to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| not! It remains to be seen whether your emotions will or will not begin to follow what | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| control. Accept these really and truly in your emotions as well as in your superficial knowledge, and | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| thoughts alone, deceiving yourself, but in your innermost emotions, you will have a new strength and life | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and your days are often full of such emotions -- stop rationalizing it away by thinking of | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| way. I certainly do not say that all emotions are wrong, but unpleasant emotions must have a | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| say that all emotions are wrong, but unpleasant emotions must have a faulty premise somewhere, no matter | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| not deceive yourself; realize how far away your emotions still are from your prayer. By seeing this | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| is entirely destructive and negative. What do your emotions actually say -- even though you certainly do | 31 SHAME |
| thoughts consciously, but if you would test your emotions, examine their demands as to what they actually | 31 SHAME |
| shame, you do escape reality, for what your emotions express is that you will not accept yourself | 31 SHAME |
| you know and think consciously and what your emotions claim and desire. It is not at all | 31 SHAME |
| is not at all difficult to make the emotions conscious if only you are willing to take | 31 SHAME |
| thoughts, but it needs a little effort. Your emotions claim perfection before this perfection can be yours | 31 SHAME |
| up for who you really are because your emotions say that if you were yourself, you would | 31 SHAME |
| When you have made such and other unreasonable emotions conscious, it will be easy to direct them | 31 SHAME |
| your inner attitude. In order to adjust your emotions from the wrong kind of shame to the | 31 SHAME |
| you have to do is delve into your emotions and, as I so often say, translate them | 31 SHAME |
| yourself can find, by testing and probing your emotions and their meaning. True repentance in the positive | 31 SHAME |
| can never reach the hidden motives, currents, and emotions without that. If you fulfill the necessary requirements | 31 SHAME |
| in conformity with spiritual law, but also your emotions. You must come to love God in your | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| You must come to love God in your emotions. To achieve that is, of course, a lengthy | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| you will have to dig deeper into your emotions in order to find the answer. Within your | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| in order to find the answer. Within your emotions, sooner or later you must find -- provided | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to do the work. This means that your emotions still resist, that you are still not one | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| will be a sign to you that your emotions have followed suit to your outer good will | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| I were not to feel that way, my emotions want to steal something. I desire to steal | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| I often speak of the desires of your emotions by translating them into concise language, for otherwise | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| not be interpreted for your intellectual understanding. These emotions are often unconscious. And then, my friends, you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| my friends, you take my translation of your emotions as an injustice because consciously, of course, you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| sufficient that you are that way in your emotions. You should understand that overambitiousness creates an unhealthy | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| being gratified. Because humility is lacking, the unconscious emotions claim that the personality must not be rejected | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| yet learned to apply spiritual law to the emotions. But this realization will only dawn on you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| There is nothing as contagious, my friends, as emotions, thoughts, and attitudes, conscious or unconscious. This, too | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| you well know. It is necessary that your emotions be pure and without deceit. In order to | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| self-criticism and analysis of your deeds, thoughts, and emotions as compared to spiritual truth and law. For | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| breaking a number of spiritual laws in your emotions, if not in your thoughts and actions; that | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| others, if not in words, then in their emotions and thoughts. My friends, learn to accept other | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| aware of reacting negatively to life. Test your emotions and your fears of other people, the hazards | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| out the truth. These are subtle and hidden emotions, and only the most severe and sincere self-testing | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| not ever forget, my dear ones, that your emotions are mixed. The conscious part that is right | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| to manage and rechannel. These are your uncontrolled emotions -- uncontrolled only because you do not understand | 36 PRAYER |
| dimly realize how each of these feelings and emotions drain into a big ugly pool and finally | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| have understood your images, the reeducation of your emotions, long-conditioned to follow a distortion, takes time, effort | 38 IMAGES |
| Such guilt is always a twist of the emotions and is connected with the image. Actually, true | 38 IMAGES |
| Think about your idiosyncrasies, your prejudices, your tight emotions in certain domains of life. Think how you | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| reactions and wrong conclusions with your intellectual knowledge. Emotions are more habit-bound than outer tendencies; moreover, they | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| and how dependent you still are on the emotions your dependency has created. When you first come | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| calls attention to itself. To make the distorted emotions whole and healthy, one has to work on | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| you are as yet able to control your emotions, to understand their hidden meaning and to recognize | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| their hidden meaning and to recognize how these emotions have influenced your life. Many of you constantly | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| will you gradually be able to reeducate your emotions, dissolve your images and create new, productive forms | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| learn to accept on all levels of your emotions that you are imperfect at this moment. I | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| all know consciously that you are fallible, your emotions do not know it. In your emotions you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| your emotions do not know it. In your emotions you want to be perfect, and when you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| information about your inner reactions. By letting your emotions come to the surface and putting them into | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| conclusions by feeling them, by reexperiencing all the emotions consciously, you can then see what the right | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| an image. The important thing is that your emotions change. The wrong conclusions always contain several of | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| long before you are able to change your emotions, your images, or your habitual inner reactions. It | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| it is so important that you integrate your emotions with your superficial outer knowledge, if the latter | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| very layers you reach by digging into your emotions. An entity may be incarnated with a certain | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| created. But you will not remember offhand your emotions, your reactions, your inner intentions, and your conclusions | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| very young child knows only the most primitive emotions. It knows what feels good or bad. It | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| all, even if you do not believe that emotions and thoughts are forms, creating emotional magnetic fields | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| and experiences toward you. The more unconscious the emotions and the greater the complexity of thoughts, the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| review your reactions. You will reexperience the wrong emotions and compare them, in theory, with the right | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| call karmic results. An inner violation in the emotions, remaining hidden in the unconscious, will create an | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| with his thought forms, the forms of his emotions, as well as with his deeds is a | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| be humble is what a part of your emotions wants to avoid. In the presence of other | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| or predominance. For instance, where reason should prevail, emotions do, or vice versa. When, in your inner | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| the reasoning process are apt to neglect the emotions. They are afraid of emotions. They thwart and | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| to neglect the emotions. They are afraid of emotions. They thwart and cripple them, and in doing | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| the reasoning process, seldom paying attention to the emotions or intuitions, which also should be heeded. Such | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| whereas the emotion- type is carried away by emotions and uses willpower unconsciously and erratically. The harmonious | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| all times where one stands, and avoiding the emotions, which leave one at sea. The emotion-type is | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| to use the intellect to curb the wild emotions that, without necessarily being impure, flow without purpose | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| then can they use the will properly. Uncontrolled emotions bring havoc into the extreme emotion-person's life, as | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| surroundings. The temptation to give in to the emotions is at first manageable, but the longer one | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| simply carried away by the torrent of uncontrolled emotions, which destroy everything in their wake. Such a | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| but inside is caught in a storm of emotions, unable to find peace until starting to work | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| different purpose in mind, which is often unconscious. Emotions are acceptable to the will-type only so long | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| she or he remains master of them; otherwise, emotions might hinder this person's aim. The will-type, like | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| A person can be very emotional but the emotions may be all covered up so that this | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| from separateness. People who are afraid of their emotions and afraid of life as such will often | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| should prove helpful and may even enable your emotions to change sufficiently so that your outer life | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| men. Because of this the revealing of his emotions is a very difficult step for a man | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| it easier to reveal herself, to let the emotions come out. The mature woman who is earnestly | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| long before you are capable of changing your emotions. You so often forget that emotional change is | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| searching for a clear-cut meaning to your confused emotions. You can certainly use your will to decide | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| decide fully to follow this path. But your emotions can change only after you have repeatedly had | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| truth in following the path. By making your emotions conscious, you turn them into thoughts, and then | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| much longer then does it take to alter emotions! For instance, you have harbored certain opinions all | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| attitude in which personal, psychological factors, and your emotions are involved! How habit-bound the human soul is | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| change an outlook or attitude in which deep-rooted emotions are involved. Not even a mere thought can | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| may decide the old opinion seems right. With emotions, which are stronger and more potent than thoughts | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |