| Emphasized..................23 | |
| particular developmental phase one of them can be emphasized and in the next one the other, until | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| an act of direct willpower. This cannot be emphasized enough. It often takes some time until this | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| activity, but to other trends. Woman has always emphasized her intuitive forces and neglected her intellectual capacities | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| instead of expecting it. It must always be emphasized, however, that many people are not aware that | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| point is the reason why I have often emphasized for quite some time the psychological rather than | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| am being very repetitious. But it cannot be emphasized enough. It is always forgotten, and needs constant | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| not natural or necessary hardly needs to be emphasized, once you see it clearly. From this insight | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| the psyche! But it cannot be too strongly emphasized that negative experiences and involvements occur only to | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| the general work, and the part to be emphasized. The best way to begin this lecture is | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| other people as a mirror. It cannot be emphasized enough how effective it is to work with | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| the inner or real self. This cannot be emphasized often enough, even in your meditations. Trying to | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| to this a little later. It cannot be emphasized strongly enough that self-liberation, or the transition from | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| what they let flow into you. Religion has emphasized giving. It has preached for a long time | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| becomes imperative. The ego would not be so emphasized if the false belief did not exist that | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| have deliberately set in motion. It cannot be emphasized enough that meditation, like all creative acts, consists | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| of a psychic nuclear point. It cannot be emphasized enough that the momentum of each psychic nuclear | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| I purposely repeat this, for it cannot be emphasized enough in this context -- dry, cut-off knowledge | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| human relationships. Thus group consciousness came to be emphasized. From family clans came tribes and people had | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| unwilling to comprehend. It hardly needs to be emphasized here that remaining stagnant is courting the cessation | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| lifetime. On the other hand, aspects that were emphasized in the first incarnation may die down after | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| the development of this perception is very strongly emphasized and becomes gradually more acute. If you commit | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you, you will easily see that I have emphasized this alternation systematically. I have concentrated on different | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| reactions came up. When different spiritual realities were emphasized -- Jesus Christ is one of them -- | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Emphasizes..................3 | |
| effect because it is unloving and isolated. It emphasizes the self and how it appears in the | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| to lose the outlook which aims at and emphasizes the significance of self-realization. Self-realization means, as I | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| has existed on this earth plane that alternately emphasizes individuation and group consciousness. The emphasis must change | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Emphasizing.................3 | |
| all about. For centuries, man has developed one-sidedly, emphasizing his intellect, his resourcefulness, his physical strength, but | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| appears in the eyes of others, rather than emphasizing the other person. Therefore the soul gets more | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| need is nonexistent, but you prove it by emphasizing the opposite. This, then, becomes compulsive. This is | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| Emphatically................5 | |
| Any imperfection is a hindrance. I cannot stress emphatically enough that only those who crucify their lower | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| later on. I do wish to stress most emphatically that this lecture touches the greatest questions in | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| emotional reactions to specific desires. I cannot stress emphatically enough how important this will be for you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| your actual life experience. I cannot stress this emphatically enough, for it is constantly glossed over. Nothing | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| that need to be removed. I cannot stress emphatically enough that you are not to take this | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Employ......................6 | |
| subject of will direction and willpower: where to employ willpower and where not. Let us start out | 18 FREE WILL |
| give you the ideas and the system I employ. And I may say that this could be | 18 FREE WILL |
| are unreal. All the impulses and drives you employ in their service are equally unreal, imaginary, and | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| person is, the less equipped he is to employ constructive defense or attack, and the more he | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| alone the real one. The various means you employ to gain acceptance from others -- many of | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| The shame is due to the methods you employ to placate the person who at any given | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| Employed....................3 | |
| you, creating the preposterous situation that the means employed to always get what you want cause you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| lack of it. The subsequent powerful forcing current, employed to dispel the dreaded worthlessness, becomes then the | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| their preposterousness and they can no longer be employed. But the new concepts are not yet formed | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| Employer....................4 | |
| now represented by society, government, law-enforcing institutions, an employer, or other powerful people he or she may | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a parent and a child, an employee and employer. On top of that, a person has an | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| of a father. You may truly be an employer, yet you cannot experience yourself, so you merely | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| so you merely play the role of an employer. Role-playing does not necessarily apply only to a | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| Employing...................3 | |
| the wall but strengthening the wall unconsciously by employing halfway measures. When and how does this happen | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| frankly if you more highly developed souls are employing a reason I am not capable of, because | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| of such meditative practice, nevertheless you desist from employing it. What is even more significant is that | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Emptied.....................10 | |
| muddy too. So the muddy water must be emptied first. When I say it must be emptied | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| emptied first. When I say it must be emptied, this means you must understand its contents. You | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| filled with unclear substance that needs to be emptied out, constant interaction between impressing -- stating truth | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| be filled any more than it can be emptied. When you hold yourself tight and guarded, you | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| you become completely imbalanced and your life becomes emptied of substance and meaning. Since the ego cannot | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the other hand, once your residual reservoir is emptied and you have fully experienced the past accumulations | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| to experience fully. That cup has to be emptied. Your unwillingness, in turn, created false needs whose | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| are necessary. The mind needs to be totally emptied in the sense of a recent answer I | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| of residual material has accumulated. Once this is emptied out and all of you is made known | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| thoughts, new dreams, new aims. Once you have emptied yourself, the dynamic process of soul development can | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Emptiness...................82 | |
| will always leave you with a feeling of emptiness, dissatisfaction, or even frustration. So if God is | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| voice of your guilt is wrong. Find the emptiness within you due to your unwillingness to love | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| again your state of not thinking. Observe the emptiness there. The more you succeed, the more you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| Once that happens, once you can feel the emptiness caused by an unfulfilled need and can pinpoint | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| will have to go through a period of emptiness, of awareness of your unfulfilled need and longing | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| misery is due not only to the outer emptiness of your life in the areas where no | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| the true reason for your loneliness and its emptiness will be filled. Each life has something different | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| you have grown, yet you experience a greater emptiness than before in this specific area of your | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| while and making yourself utterly empty. In the emptiness it is possible for hitherto checked and repressed | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| restoring and filling the places of disability and emptiness. When the obstructions are too great, this same | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| It will change your state from aloneness and emptiness to abundance in every respect. My friends, these | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| undesirable situation -- a lack of fulfillment, an emptiness -- cannot be eliminated and changed into a | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| long as you gloss over your difficulties, your emptiness, or you pretend that their cause has little | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| overemotionalism will cease. Both manifestations are painful, the emptiness as well as the too much. Both these | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| stream of love, resulting in increasing feelings of emptiness, helplessness, despair, and isolation. You then try to | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| another side shrinks back from this movement. Deprivation, emptiness, meaninglessness, and a sense of waste ensue. You | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| not ever have to fear frustration, unfulfillment, or emptiness. Since you fear and block the fulfillment of | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| justifiably fear nonfulfillment. Consequently, they cannot endure the emptiness, and they struggle against any frustration. The adamant | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| they have no feelings. They fear their own emptiness. And this fear is devastating. It exerts a | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| be no anguish, no bitterness, no fear, no emptiness. When you cultivate truthfulness, not just once in | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| vibrant with joy and meaning, where fear and emptiness have no more room. You can approach the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| also brings in its wake a sense of emptiness and meaninglessness. It is deadness because the life | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| attitudes that make all spontaneity impossible. Frustration and emptiness increase anger and rage, thus fear of self | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| in your life. All sorrow and unhappiness, all emptiness and unfulfillment, all frustration and suffering are caused | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| fear of emotional experience breeds frustration, discontent and emptiness which, in turn, gives rise to the battle | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| comply with your desires, it never removes the emptiness you suffer from. As long as you are | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| this to some degree, you will experience an emptiness. You will then seem to listen into nothingness | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| establishing contact with the universal spirit. Later the emptiness will prove to be a tremendous fullness impossible | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| unhappiness; if you wish fullness because you fear emptiness; then all these desired possibilities must elude you | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| receiving. All these increased abilities will fill the emptiness created by the child's unfulfilled need. The more | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| needs can never be fulfilled, continuous frustration and emptiness wipe out hope, blacken vision, and induce resentment | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| make the bridge between these attitudes and your emptiness or unfulfillment. Therefore you become more embittered and | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| desired affords you the possibility of transcending the emptiness and finding the hidden fullness behind it. This | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| own being. Only as you go through the emptiness can you find that fullness. And that requires | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| their forcing current seems to imply resignation to emptiness, suffering, pain, and unfulfilled longing. To avoid this | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| the demand and content yourself with the bleak emptiness that you fear when you renounce this demand | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| only too often, whether it be pain, confusion, emptiness, or fear. Whatever the interim state, you must | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| are actually fighting an already existing state of emptiness which is the result of your chosen solution | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| check, because giving them out would create unendurable emptiness inside you, an emptiness that can only be | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| out would create unendurable emptiness inside you, an emptiness that can only be filled by others? Let | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| accept the momentary apparent state of impoverishment and emptiness. Travel through this interim state until you can | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| may become convinced that there is nothing but emptiness. Or, perhaps, you hear occasionally the voice of | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| evolution. Be blessed, my dearest ones. 224. CREATIVE EMPTINESS My most beloved friends, blessings for every one | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| need to understand another principle: that of creative emptiness. Most human beings create an agitated mind, an | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| atmosphere within yourself in which you allow this emptiness to exist. Otherwise you perpetually deceive yourself, which | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| ceases temporarily, the resulting quiet is confused with emptiness. It indeed seems empty. The noise will recede | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| and you must indeed embrace and welcome the emptiness as the most important channel through which to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| need to comprehend in order to nurture this emptiness and make it a creative venture. Some of | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| you can never be filled. Out of the emptiness a new fullness will arise, yet you cannot | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| fear, and at the same time welcome the emptiness as the doorway to your divinity. This seems | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| inner stillness and what appears at first as emptiness. As you do this, in a spirit of | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| and smallest issues in your life. Receptive, creative emptiness must truly be nurtured. Listen with an inner | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| is therefore necessary, in order to elicit creative emptiness, that you visualize the boundaries of your mind | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| make you the most receptive to your apparent emptiness. Now, my friends, as we approach this emptiness | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| emptiness. Now, my friends, as we approach this emptiness, how does it feel? What is it all | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| at first to be a black gulf of emptiness. What you feel at this point is fear | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| decided calmly and quietly to go into the emptiness. So you empty your mind in order to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| empty your mind in order to meet the emptiness deep within. Lo and behold, very soon that | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| within. Lo and behold, very soon that very emptiness will feel, not full the same way you | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| sense you fear the aliveness more than the emptiness. And perhaps you had better face that. When | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| right now, wherever you need it most. That emptiness, that vibrant alive emptiness, is God talking to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| need it most. That emptiness, that vibrant alive emptiness, is God talking to you. At any moment | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| or pin on anything. That is the creative emptiness you have to go into, out of which | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| reserves, not on debts; on fullness, not on emptiness. For those of you who have some knowledge | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| only cause for rejoicing! 256. INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS My beloved friends, you are blessed in body | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| This is your path. Focusing on the inner emptiness is an additional exercise that is very helpful | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| to your own and your world's salvation. Focused emptiness grows, both deliberately and spontaneously, as you remove | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| At the early stages, you experience just that: emptiness, nothingness. If your mind can quiet down, you | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| the inner universe -- the real world. Focused emptiness will bring you in touch with all the | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| certain purification and integration has been achieved. Unfocused emptiness is a lessening of consciousness. Focused emptiness is | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Unfocused emptiness is a lessening of consciousness. Focused emptiness is a heightening of consciousness. The former is | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| of the mind that may lead to mindless emptiness. Sleep, or other states of unconsciousness are the | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| states of unconsciousness are the final stages. Focused emptiness is extremely concentrated, aware, and fully there. If | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| a disharmonious condition and a dangerous split. Focused emptiness brings you eventually to the light of the | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| you succeed in quieting the noise, you encounter emptiness, nothingness. 3) Recognitions about the self, connections between | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| variety, the limitless possibilities of these capacities. Focused emptiness is the ideal state to be filled by | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| death and all evil -- are overcome. Focused emptiness is therefore nothing but a threshold to a | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| the world of spirit. The practice of focused emptiness must never be undertaken in an attitude of | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| path. You need not spend hours practicing focused emptiness. That is not the purpose. But you may | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| be helped along by focusing on the inner emptiness until you discover that the emptiness is illusion | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| the inner emptiness until you discover that the emptiness is illusion. It is a fullness, a rich | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| means, to begin with, approaching what appears as emptiness. Through this void you reach the fullness of | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |