| the pleasure drive for other needs -- for example, to enhance the ego, to diminish feelings of | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| concepts, limited understanding and lack of self-awareness. For example, displacement and superimposition result in a conflict between | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| resentment, self-pity, and invites unjust exploitation. A good example is the need for sexual expression. I have | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| channels may take various forms, apart from the example cited above. Fear of love may, in other | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| an interim phase. Let us again take an example. Suppose you have a problem with partnership, a | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| and one is not disproportionate to another. For example, if the need for ego-gratification in a relationship | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| its natural way. Let us take one more example, assuming your main problem is a difficulty in | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| a relationship or side-activity. As in the former example, the displacement itself cannot harm, provided you are | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| false concepts, do not hear or see. For example, my friends on the path experience again and | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| instinct, a yearning for death exist, as, for example, the strong instinct to lose oneself in love | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| and investigate them for their significance. Take for example one's attitude to this pathwork, professed and actual | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| still have the feeling.... Can I give an example? I have always wanted to be an actress | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the image inevitably appears to be confirmed. For example, if you are under the basic misconception that | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| and flexible, harmonious, rhythmic, organic soul movements. For example, the fear that non-fulfillment of a wish is | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| great deal of difference. Let us take the example of hostility. First, in the stage of blind | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| I should now like to give a simple example of the healing value of knowing the truth | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| have experienced moments like those described in the example, although surely not often. Maybe you have occasionally | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| not only understand, but know and live. For example, you must become capable of living in a | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| do with superimposition or wishful thinking. Declare, for example, that you wish this kind of relationship instead | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the truth of immediate cause and effect? For example, you have a disharmonious relationship, but you do | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| can't visualize a sphere. Could you give an example of another sphere? ANSWER: In a different lecture | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| exist. Let us take a very simple common example so as to make it easier for you | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| has to deal with. Let us take an example. In a distorted view, the life of the | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| and the distorted versions of an attitude. An example would be demonstrating healthy assertion without deviating into | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| areas inaccessible to your outer will -- for example, inner body processes -- you overexert yourself, weakening | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| degrees and variations of this. There are, for example, situations where a child experiences partial acceptance and | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| the forces of love and circumstances of, for example, cruelty. For instance, in the case of children | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| the result of misconceptions. These particular resistances, for example, create a confusion of motions: either the strained | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| more and more confused. A typical and important example of this state is the dichotomy between desire | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| control can best be demonstrated with the following example. Each human being needs and wants love. When | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| think about you. Let us take a practical example to make this more understandable. You feel slighted | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| these aspects are equally strong in everyone. For example, with some of my friends the area of | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| of the illusion. Here you have an exact example of what I demonstrated in this lecture. It | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| positive and negative attitudes are self-perpetuating. Take, for example, any healthy, positive attitude. When you are outgoing | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| and constructive direction. Let us take the following example, which might prove useful for all of you | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| in the negative pleasure principle. This is an example of how insidiously this can happen whenever the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| whose force can be directly exerted. A simple example will clarify the difference between direct and indirect | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| determine that you will move a hand, for example, how you will move it, and what action | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| this lecture. You are a wonderful demonstration and example and it is therefore good that you bring | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| in it. Let us now return to our example and demonstrate how this is so. The more | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| one approaches the unified state of consciousness. Our example is a banal one and can be translated | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| be contacted. Let us again return to our example in order to see how. The hardest act | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| daily life. What I described is a typical example of unified, intuitive understanding: of knowing the truth | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| of fear and conflict. Let us take for example a particular fulfillment that you greatly desire. You | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| find certain facets of their idealized self-image, for example, and content themselves with that, not wanting to | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| must produce more opposites, more irreconcilable poles. For example, a false feeling of excitement is supposed to | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| on the dualistic level. Let us take the example of love. The false feeling of love breeds | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| different from what you feel defensive about. For example, you might try to exonerate yourself because you | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| of them may predominate on the surface. For example, just because you fear your cruelty, your need | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| is fearfully overcontrolled and rigid will use the example of the crass opposite -- the weak, self-indulgent | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| whatever you do in this self-search -- for example, in finding the answers to whatever issue is | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| organism is healthy, harmonious and undisturbed. Think, for example, of the heartbeat of the healthy person. It | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| appear irregular and haphazard. The expansion cycle, for example, may be longer or shorter than the restricting | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| register when you cramp up in fear, for example. I discussed the phenomenon of soul movement again | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| existence, of their meaning. You will see, for example, the tremendous difference in soul movements when you | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| covered up as well. A person may, for example, fear any aspect of living. All the power | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| as a spontaneous expression. Such spontaneity exists, for example, when knowledge manifests intuitively from within yourself, not | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| manifestation, for this is its natural form. For example, once rage is admitted and fully experienced under | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the freedom creation has granted all beings. For example, when people shift the blame for their present | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| manifestations of this law of life. Take, for example, a journey, a change of domicile. People invariably | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| themselves. Quite a few of you have, for example, experienced how anxiety can loosen up as you | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| it happen. Let us take self-dislike as an example. It need not and cannot be deliberately abandoned | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| reality -- knowing what you think exists? For example, it is not at all impossible that you | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| to its consequences. You fail to see, for example, how this assumption affects what you believe about | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| Let us take a frequent occurrence as an example: your fear of rejection. This fear runs through | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| specific assumptions are what you must unearth. For example, you may believe that you are worth nothing | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| harbor seem to dictate keeping them secret. For example, should it be true that you actually are | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| respond to it in a certain way. For example, when you see the color red, you generally | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| in the lecture. Let us now take the example of a human being who neglects his or | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| and in all respects. Let us take, for example, the masculine and feminine principles I discussed in | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the creative universe. Let us take a further example where, for a halfway healthy mind, opposites are | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| connection with other more limited aspects -- for example, fear of feelings. But isn't such a fear | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| forces in a person's inner life? A simple example will also describe the basic Yes and No | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| Group consciousness can be extremely dim, as for example in animals or plants; or it can be | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| the art of self-observation. Let us say, for example, that you feel hurt. In many instances, you | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| are now, you cannot perceive yourself correctly. For example, if you are unwilling, and therefore apparently incapable | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| certain attitude. Let us take a simple universal example: The fear of death contains the desire to | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| permeates your whole personality. Let us take for example a problem at work. How can your work | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| your thoughts and feelings creates the obstruction. For example, if you do not believe it is possible | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| now, be concerned with some new approaches, for example, a combination of breathing, together with meditation. QUESTION | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| problem, no matter how hard you try. For example, let us say that a man has a | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| It may be a purely emotional manifestation. For example, the individual may assume responsibility for others in | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| and loving act of wanting to help. Another example might be a woman who is too self-effacing | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| person needs to open the locked gate. For example, a person suffers from loneliness and lovelessness. It | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| elsewhere: a violation of integrity may exist, for example, in any number of ways that seem to | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| a benign circle of pleasure and happiness. For example, a young man recently discovered his insecurity about | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| It is right to be self- assertive, for example, when they merely cover up the unhealthy distortion | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| might sometimes be interpreted as separate centers. For example, the center at the base of the spine | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| energy centers. Fear of frustration is an important example of error creating tension and negative emotions. What | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| substance of life. Let me give you an example of the power of imitation and creation of | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| does not affect others as well. Self-hate, for example, always manifests also as the inability to love | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| compulsion to hate others. This is only one example. This is not a theory; you will discover | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| the hate of others. This is only one example. The game itself must be exposed not only | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| ungenerous attitude creates further negative, limiting aspects, for example, fear and greed. Both fear and greed stem | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| -- are varied. One of them is, for example, materialistic blindness, where only what is seen and | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| to what you have already produced. If, for example, you have not freed your innermost psyche of | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| by inhibiting your energies. This is only one example; all indirect manifestations have to be explored. It | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| involvement is inverted. I will choose a third example of apparent opposites that make a comprehensive whole | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| current will compound, though not ad infinitum. For example, you know that misconceptions create behavior patterns that | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| entanglements. The same principle applies to feelings. For example, fear could easily be overcome if it were | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| even vagueness, will create a block. If, for example, you conceive of the greater intelligence within you | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you help me? ANSWER: This is a good example. I hope to hear many more personal problems | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| To illustrate this principle, let us take this example. First the idea of the object must be | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| aware of itself and its various voices. For example, a certain vocational pursuit may appear completely acceptable | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| than any outer change could be -- for example, change enforced in order to cover up an | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| you breed trouble for yourself and others. For example, when you are in denial, you need to | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| influence for the good, and you set an example, although your strength will at times be misunderstood | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| traits be good or evil, such as, for example love, perseverance, sloth, laziness, impatience, kindness, stubbornness, or | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| feeling compounds itself so that it multiplies. For example: denied fear creates fear of fear, and then | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| a false need. Let us take a specific example. A child needs to be taken care of | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| illusory. You started off with the premise, for example, that you could not live without total approval | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| increased on all levels. You should connect, for example, a physical symptom such as pain or tension | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| one area prohibits awareness of another. So, for example, if you manage to stave off awareness of | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| with realistically and honestly. Let us assume, for example, that you meditate for more fulfillment with a | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| their unconscious ambivalence and give up. If, for example, you have a strong unconscious neurotic desire that | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| with the different parts of your being? For example, if you exclusively identify with the ego -- | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| desirable, healthy and fruitful, or the opposite. For example, you might think, How can it be destructive | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| beyond your familiar self-experience. Let us assume, for example, that you have grown accustomed to experience yourself | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| be totally brought out into the open. For example, if you harbor spite, stubbornness, rebellion, malice, hate | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| to hold on to hate, revenge, vindictiveness, for example. Yet, even so, you are not yet able | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| you have reached in your development. Take, for example, an infant. When an infant experiences a painful | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| another. But an older child can realize, for example, that a tummy-ache is a result of overeating | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| like a fate beyond one's control -- for example, where one is born, as what, how one's | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| short, to everything that distinguishes consciousness. Think, for example, of electricity and atomic energy. Even the energy | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| reactions and thoughts that must be explored. For example, you may admit an irrational anger or hate | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| If you fear and ward off pain, for example, or if you do not know that you | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you totally and makes you totally self-responsible. For example, if you doubt that you can overcome an | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| into positive intentionality. The positive expression is, for example, to give up the jealousy because you can | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the state of mind that you desire. For example, if you now feel that you cannot bear | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| help reacting as if they were true. For example, you believe no woman is trustworthy because you | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| up your negative intentionality. Let us take for example the common and pervasive attitude of wishing to | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| a new way. Let us take the same example: I want to punish my parents by my | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| the soul is in a fluid state. For example, the less you fear your repressed anger and | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| feeling, and mind, otherwise distortions will occur. For example, the deliberately produced feelings may be distorted through | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| Let us take the physical level as an example. Suppose you have sufficiently worked on the physical | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| state, or the state you long for. For example, if you feel sorry for yourself because of | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| self that cannot be tolerated and accepted. For example, you might conclude that if a certain negative | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| in former times necessitated a different approach. For example, people in the Middle Ages were apt to | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| would help. Now all this has changed. For example, today humankind's greatest hindrance is egotistical pride. People | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| is a prerequisite to the self-creating process. For example, if you do not want a new and | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| new light and in another dynamic expression. For example, you may look into existing resistances and problems | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| and details that cannot possibly be generalized. For example, if both the guilt and the ensuing self-punishment | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| distorted and destructive. Let me give you an example. A small child believes that it is omnipotent | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| is often more painful than desirable. In the example we have chosen this would manifest in creating | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| the inner voice sends forth. It requires, for example, awareness of your wishful thinking, of your stake | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| put into practice -- you will set an example for world government. It will come, perhaps in | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| it does not exist. That will set an example. For that reason the growth must be slow | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| a new state to grow into unless an example of some sort exists. Therefore a prototype provided | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| to develop in the same direction as your example will spring up in you. You will not | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| be a world like this material world, for example, but with different conditions, dimensions, and laws which | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| that brings forth a new creation is, for example, very strong, unified, purposeful in terms of the | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| a certain point in the individual's development. For example, you may feel a rush of intense energy | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| of creation. Let me give you a simple example on the physical level. Let us suppose you | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| scheme of creation itself. Let us take another example. Suppose you wish to build a house. Again | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| many smaller ones, which extend and extend. For example, the purpose of the house itself is only | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| now point through displacement. Let us take the example when you love a person dearly who hurts | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Thus it must create fear and fragmentation. The example I used is a very frequent one and | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| history different words were used, like sinfulness, for example. Whatever word you choose, the fragmented aspect of | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| conscious mind are divided? Several possibilities exist. For example, if the personality stubbornly refuses to heed the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the problem that the whole is blurred. For example, if the outer personality refuses to give up | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| is therefore never in truth. Let us, for example, examine desire. In the realm of duality, like | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| patience and commitment. Here you have a typical example of a dualistic confusion that arises when you | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| consciousness, but not states of self-consciousness. Take for example the life of a plant: it follows its | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| out of the substances within matter. Take, for example, the need to have a piece of furniture | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| what or who started it going. Take, for example, a motor car, or a machine you use | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| may be given in a different form. For example, when you choose to enter such a path | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| illusory realities. Life on earth is the best example of it. It is therefore essential that you | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| potentiality is not developed. If you are, for example, ready to follow such a demanding path of | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| connections between inner aspects -- problematic aspects, for example -- is something you begin to experience as | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| between the apparently disconnected attitudes and aspects. For example, what connection could there be between a difficulty | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| times, but also times of life learning. For example, you older children can gain the freedom you | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| the process extensively can be helpful, as, for example, the instrument through whom I manifest. However, even | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| the fundamental step on this particular ladder. For example, you say: I recognize the old way of | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| anxiety that is quickly and easily overcome. For example, if you find yourself secure only if you | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| What are the real motives for doubting? For example, you doubt the existence of a supreme intelligence | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| numerous reasons for this personal stake, as for example the fear of having to face one day | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| the right kind of doubt is necessary. For example, when you hesitate to leap, you must doubt | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| another substantial step in the right direction. For example, ask yourself questions like: Why do I refuse | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| a dualistic conflict will become a unification. For example, instead of seeing unselfishness versus selfishness, you will | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| enriching life, enriching others, and setting a desirable example. For how can the poor enrich? Nor is | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| their own lives, whether through instruction or through example, transmitting joy, love, or the capacity to be | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| have already made the connections. You know, for example, what your lower self wants and why you | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| half-truths, though they can have relative validity. For example, in the past, people were like beasts, undisciplined | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| deeper in consciousness. Let us look at an example. The more self-responsible you are, the more you | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of development, then on the other. So, for example, a small infant is almost entirely in the | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| inner process. Let me give you a specific example of something that is happening right now. Humanity | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a proof that their side is correct. For example, some say introspection is the only way of | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| to the inner law of God. A simple example on the crassest outer level of manifestation is | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| mention, are not so in reality. Take for example warmth and cold. In the right measure they | 228 BALANCE |
| It is not a fifty-fifty proposition. Take for example the balance between rest and wakefulness. The proper | 228 BALANCE |
| scheme. But let us now stay with this example -- the active and receptive principles. The balance | 228 BALANCE |
| There are several levels to this answer. For example, on one level -- the lower self -- | 228 BALANCE |
| of ignorance that both rest and work, for example, have their place in life. The same principle | 228 BALANCE |
| human level of development this break occurs, for example, with death. But death is only a break | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| make that connection. Let me give you an example: When you are attacked or judged or criticized | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| differentiate between the word and the thought. For example, if you think you are unworthy of the | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| courage to say the word of truth. For example, I can and will give the best. I | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| and life when it is really death. For example, when you deaden your faculty to feel and | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| a false medicine against its own underdevelopment. For example, rather than visualizing yourself in a productive vocation | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| from the spiritual reality that you know. For example, at the beginning of the century you experienced | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| with it. You will discover various states. For example, a black hole of nothingness to begin with | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| apply love to these functions. In the following example we will see that love is literally all | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| of animals -- of birds or ants, for example. Animals living free in nature obey the structure | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| that directly express your own limited consciousness. For example, the conflict we discussed before that comes equally | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Take the need to be always indulged, for example. Again, as long as you fight it, you | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| where this is not appropriate and organic. For example, a person rigidly holds on to a defensive | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| over and over again, within the individual? For example, is not the struggling consciousness always straining to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| no longer need to battle them. So, for example, you know your own power to create, to | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| When someone in your presence maligns another, for example, your silence is not goodness, gentleness, peacefulness. Far | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| tools for the development of your soul. For example, if you do not believe that a negative | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| mode of being, of reacting, of feeling. For example, loving no longer appears weakening and humiliating. On | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| path is representative of the new-age person. For example, it is no coincidence that a mixture of | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| right and wrong exist in both camps. This example is very obvious, but the same problem exists | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| alienate creation from the Creator. Here is an example of how the three principles interact. Confusion and | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| attraction and repulsion is purely relative here. For example, if you have reached a comparatively high level | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| with many other realities, such as love, for example. So many varieties of the manifestation of love | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| way and differentiations have to be made. For example, now it is essential that you understand about | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| of the above pains are obviously interrelated. For example, the unwillingness to clearly face and make restitution | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| different, even though they create one another. For example: Guilt creates fear, fear creates anger, anger creates | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| many different issues and aspects of reality. One example is the assumption that the experience of God's | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| pretended giving, in more than one way. For example, you either project your mask self to the | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| prerequisites for specific guidance for subsequent reincarnations. For example, the antagonism that generally existed between men and | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| as they did at the opposite extreme. For example, today's sexual freedom is a reaction to the | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| suffering on this plane of existence. Take for example the suffering of animals who become the prey | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| changes in perceiving reality. A simple and current example, on a very practical level, is precisely what | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| very dynamic way. I have used a familiar example that demonstrates the process of extending human vision | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| nature's cruelty fall into a different category. For example, one species may depend on another to maintain | 254 SURRENDER |