| Evolvement..................3 | |
| upheavals is always toward the one end: spiritual evolvement, union, freedom from one's own inner chains. If | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| a major role. After a certain degree of evolvement, consciousness can determine the strength, vigor, and length | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| apart from the tremendous value for your personal evolvement and your overall task in the great plan | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Evolves.....................8 | |
| claims are distorted and unrealistic. Thus a battle evolves that overshadows the potential for a real relationship | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| the tortured level a new way of being evolves. You will simultaneously experience both. I venture to | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| forms and the ways must change as humanity evolves, but the fundamental path remains the same. Before | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| desire is too strong, too tight, if it evolves out of a misconception that implies any kind | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| the denial of going with the process that evolves out of your innermost being as the wisest | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| making connections. When connections are made, the process evolves in its full glory. When connections are not | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| of morality and conscience. The Christ consciousness that evolves within brings humanity into a state in which | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Godman or Godwoman -- the New Person -- evolves out of this work that includes the totality | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Evolving....................18 | |
| has a thought, an idea, or a wish evolving from the spiritual field will be completely filled | 18 FREE WILL |
| spirit was created separately. But incarnated humans are evolving in a slow re-climbing from the Fall? ANSWER | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| want means terror, darkness, and unhappiness. Simultaneously, the evolving conscious part has realized that you cannot always | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| innermost self. You prevent your innermost self from evolving. You prevent your feelings from maturing, from manifesting | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| out and you will be in control of evolving negative emotions without repressing them, but expressing them | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| on than the cause. Now that humanity is evolving, more attention must be given to the inner | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| may come up -- and recognizing that the evolving material fits into this or that lecture or | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| and ignore the full significance of the thus evolving struggle. The struggle varies from individual to individual | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| of self-realization who have taken some steps toward evolving out of your errors have found these truths | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| a greater extent than you know, you are evolving into a new reality, but you still block | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| follow through, you will experience shortly something new evolving out of you whose existence you never expected | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| They must be dissolved in the process of evolving spiritually. You may note that for the longest | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| with a new consciousness, with a new being evolving within you. Although you yearn for this, you | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| One cannot discuss this topic without noting the evolving relationship between the sexes. As the planet is | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| physical manifestation is weak and contracted. The inner evolving life is stronger than ever. Because this lecture | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| would like to speak about a state of evolving love in you that, as a result of | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| and expands it, filtering it through the newly evolving and expanding consciousness. The new-age person is so | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| that would previously have remained secret. Through the evolving group consciousness a great interplay and interaction takes | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Exacting....................8 | |
| inner morality. However, the real self has extremely exacting standards of real morality, of a far deeper | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| kind of self-rejection is based on a very exacting mechanism in you that, regardless of your conscious | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| over and taken for granted without particular and exacting insight, the task is only half done. Meditation | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| the involuntary expression of a lawful process, so exacting, intricate, and meaningful that to convey it to | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| These circumstances are figured out in a most exacting way that you cannot even imagine. Every detail | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| even imagine. Every detail is part of an exacting and intricate equation in which every possibility is | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| other variables, that you cannot possibly envisage requires exacting research. You must also imagine that all other | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| ensure this ultimate overcoming of evil that very exacting laws and rules exist, preventing Satan from acting | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Exactitude..................3 | |
| interfere. The divine laws must be observed in exactitude, the activities of the powers of darkness are | 22 SALVATION |
| there is unfulfillment, which works out with the exactitude of a mathematical equation. Of course, people are | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| principle of order; this universal order has an exactitude and mathematical precision that escapes human vision. Only | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Exaggerate..................17 | |
| this. Try it! You do not have to exaggerate; you do not have to go to strangers | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you, everything gets out of proportion. You may exaggerate one thing and underestimate another. But a person | 31 SHAME |
| of destructive wrong guilt feelings that make you exaggerate your own badness and lead you to feel | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| this to be true. While sometimes you may exaggerate a hurt, at other times you do not | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| your real feelings. You do so when you exaggerate and dramatize a positive feeling about a person | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| and in life. You will not need to exaggerate. You will not believe that you must have | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| lock and key. Thus you superimpose and artificially exaggerate other hurts. As your work progresses, you sometimes | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| rather strengthen you. You will not need to exaggerate the badness of the trait in question, nor | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| your intellectual understanding, still feel that way. You exaggerate the importance of your current situation. You are | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| you believe are the injustices, which you unconsciously exaggerate in order to hold on to yourself, so | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| a strong man. You even go overboard and exaggerate this image of masculinity. This overcompensation would not | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| destructive emotion, you will not masochistically aggrandize and exaggerate it. Nor will you deny it -- either | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| You will become aware of your attempt to exaggerate and drag out old injuries, to quite deliberately | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| as to deny your own. You distort and exaggerate to falsify. You deal with half-truths -- for | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| you have received. In both instances you can exaggerate it and make yourself incapacitated for life, or | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| your inner self; it devastates you and you exaggerate it, playing a game with yourself. Shame applies | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| you will easily see that I do not exaggerate. This is a quite accurate description of your | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Exaggerated.................67 | |
| you will realize that the terrible upset, the exaggerated guilt feelings about faults and shortcomings, are nothing | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| own guilt. Humans tend to produce false, unhealthy, exaggerated guilt feelings which are not justified. The inner | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| it to all of a sudden lose its exaggerated proportions, and some of its fearful aspects. Being | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| positive aspects to cleanse this current of its exaggerated, distorted, and negative aspects which are: a certain | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| is perhaps a strong trend of nationalism and exaggerated patriotism. They remain in this country, and it | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| because of your forcing current, because of your exaggerated need to have everyone approve of you. That | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| or overanxious, if your desire for communication is exaggerated into a craving, the soul forces will automatically | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| be quite unaware of your hidden craving and exaggerated need; you may have covered it with a | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| is what matters. And when you discover your exaggerated craving, you will understand that this hitherto unconscious | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| cause the other person to withdraw from the exaggerated motion of your demand. If the person has | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| involved on either end. On some occasions the exaggerated need surged out of you and was repulsed | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| worth nothing. You will understand that your childish, exaggerated craving has nothing to do with healthy love | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| between the extremes of over-eagerness coming from an exaggerated need, and withdrawal. Strange as this may sound | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| perseverance to learn gradually how to communicate without exaggerated need. As you know from my previous talks | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| subsequently become able to let go of the exaggerated need, you will find that need to be | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| you are genuinely and healthily detached, but your exaggerated need merely festers underground, covered by layers of | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| never be fulfilled, because it has been wildly exaggerated, and therefore you put it out of sight | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| subject? QUESTION: Did I understand correctly that the exaggerated need is a neurotic streak? ANSWER: Of course | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| this, because if you free yourself of the exaggerated need, your innermost self -- your real self | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| your unfulfillment as a child, now manifesting as exaggerated craving. You learn to distinguish between the healthy | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| your wish would create unbearable frustration of your exaggerated belief that the nonfulfillment of your wish is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| even though your reason knows that they are exaggerated, irrational, and often entirely untrue. Yet, you cannot | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| your shame out in the open will its exaggerated character vanish. And with that you will gain | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| your guilt feelings. It would also strengthen the exaggerated demands and standards of your idealized self-image. It | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and when explained in crude language they appear exaggerated. You have to uncover, feel, and experience the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to express my inner conflicts. The words seem exaggerated. How can I keep my words level with | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the error of picturing yourself as all bad. Exaggerated self-condemnation is connected with the second condition we | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| as a result of your work that such exaggerated emotional reactions exist. You have begun to sense | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| truth that all these painful emotions -- whether exaggerated or repressed -- are illusions, and that you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| will tell you. You see, the failures are exaggerated because you tend very much toward building up | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| he or she still becomes inhuman from your exaggerated overglorification. Your fixed and static view, due to | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| from facing this hate can mean maintaining the exaggerated glorification, not only because the world seems to | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the lack of courage to be yourself; the exaggerated need to please; or any number of other | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| true or not, or true in part but exaggerated in importance. Still another is the overconscience, an | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| surface, it will be apparent that under this exaggerated vulnerability still lies a certain hypocrisy, as well | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the weakness and shame its concomitant -- an exaggerated strength. He confuses flexibility, adjustability, the ability to | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| need into another channel. Wherever there is an exaggerated involvement, an involvement which disrupts inner and/or outer | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| may, in other personalities, create an overemphasis, an exaggerated need for purely sexual expression. A compulsion for | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| for ego-gratification is acknowledged, but it is not exaggerated at the expense of other functions and expressions | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| To make the denial successful, you produce its exaggerated opposite. You not only try to convince yourself | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| be overcompensated by false sentimentality, dramatization, and insincere exaggerated sympathy. But these are only substitutes for the | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| self is also unrealistic because it is as exaggerated and distorted as the goal you feel you | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| I also sense that my reactions may be exaggerated. What should I do about this now that | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| destructive? ANSWER: Of course, everything that is over, exaggerated, implies an imbalance, a disturbance. QUESTION: How can | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| fears, while the fear of death has been exaggerated and made into a big and seemingly rational | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| unnoticed, you cease to live. This may sound exaggerated, but it is not. It explains why your | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| to blockage. Hence, the feeling is manipulated, artificially exaggerated or dramatized. Again, this may apply to positive | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| come to terms with, create false guilts and exaggerated standards of perfection. It is therefore always a | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| with too tightly held convictions, too intense and exaggerated emotions, overreaction, as well as muscular tightness. All | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| control? Unless you trust the involuntary processes, the exaggerated ego control cannot be relinquished and you can | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| true when one says the ego's predominance, its exaggerated strength, is the greatest hindrance to productive living | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| at least retains a modicum of sanity. The exaggerated self-governing of an aggrandized ego condition is preferable | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| The interpretation you give to those incidents is exaggerated and distorted a hundredfold. You need to look | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| build on top of this structure a false, exaggerated hurt -- the game of, See what you | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| you to act differently. This kind of artificially exaggerated hurt results from all the false layers that | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| these threatening feelings become more and more aggrandized, exaggerated and misunderstood. Then it seems indeed as though | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| does not. Conversely, the man who expresses an exaggerated form of the masculine principle must harbor areas | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| One end of the active-passive spectrum will be exaggerated which inevitably will affect the other end. Introspection | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| he also sees that his blame is totally exaggerated. He is now at the point of renouncing | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| to me. I will overcome all self-pity and exaggerated fear because I know that they are only | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| danger, it is something you can overcome. Even exaggerated fear of an outer occurrence would not be | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| creates fear, and often, as the assumption becomes exaggerated, fear turns into terror. The terror of sadness | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| accusation. One can always find actual, imagined, or exaggerated and distorted reasons for focusing the weight of | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| hiding and camouflaging or whitewashing must have stopped; exaggerated self-blame must be relinquished. What is necessary is | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| the struggling consciousness always straining to maintain an exaggerated independence and individualism at the expense of others | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| to go through some stages that may seem exaggerated, or may even be exaggerated, before further sexual | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| that may seem exaggerated, or may even be exaggerated, before further sexual liberation -- the unification of | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |