| of a shock, you think of a sudden experience with a very strong and unexpected impact, like | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| or have other symptoms. Thus the child will experience a shock because parents, the world, or life | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| made that all fire hurts. Another dog may experience fire only as something pleasant. When the fire | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| affected the soul, one does not assimilate the experience consciously, and therefore one's mind remains childish. It | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| long as you do not go through the experience of image-finding. Once you get started, you will | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| and wrong conclusions, you will understand, see and experience in your own person the truth of the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| it was not good for the entity to experience a shock, it would not have gone through | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| a grown spirit, makes sense or not, the experience will be evaluated and assimilated afterward and whatever | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the little images, you may at times already experience this feeling of freedom, but how much more | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| approach. The reason-type finds it more difficult to experience the divine within. The emotion-type encounters other difficulties | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| goes through life missing a great deal of experience, mostly out of fear and pride. This type | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| type fears that emotion might lead to an experience he or she will be unable to cope | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| is sometimes less afraid of feeling and inner experience than is the reason- type. However, the emotion-type | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| not only a major part of life's necessary experience, but beauty and happiness as well. The emotion-type | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| also misses an integral part of the life experience, of giving one's self up to a feeling | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| erotic force carries the entity from the erotic experience, which in itself is of short duration, into | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| is concerned. Without eros, many people would never experience the great feeling and beauty that is contained | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| nearest thing to love the undeveloped spirit can experience. It lifts the soul out of sluggishness, out | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| be able to make a sacrifice during the experience of eros. So you see, my friends, eros | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| unaware and even unwilling to go through the experience. Only if the soul is prepared to love | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of their own walls of separation. The erotic experience puts the seed into the soul and makes | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and unhappiness must be its lot. The erotic experience enables the personality to long for union with | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| avoid -- subconsciously and ignorantly -- the great experience of unity. Although this fear exists in many | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| them. For the fear-ridden soul that resists the experience, this is good medicine regardless of the fact | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| life, they are not afraid of this particular experience. In fact, the beauty of it is a | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| souls that they avoid this part of life experience entirely and so shortchange their own development. This | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| in a former life they had an unhappy experience with eros, or perhaps because the soul has | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and will has to be achieved. The erotic experience often mingles with the sexual urge, but it | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| alone and aloof. They will not touch the experience of revealing themselves and of finding the soul | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| may be unwilling and unprepared for the love experience. It is what you call falling in love | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| it is in you that longs for this experience and what is your true self, which is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| this far, has gone through the true partnership experience, and comes for a specific mission. There may | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| is fear of love, fear of the life experience, but the fearful renunciation is rationalized as a | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| can well see in your world. This life experience will bring the soul closer to God than | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| even if the marriage is not the ideal experience that I discussed tonight. Few people are ready | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| that way, slowly, step by step, you will experience a change of consciousness, a change of inner | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| life, and learn and develop slowly by their experience, or remain at a standstill. Such people have | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the divine is beautiful, harmonious and blissful, to experience the very opposite is an indication that something | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| have planted in your soul and then directly experience divine harmony! You have to understand the wrong | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the sense of scope. You can sense and experience an infinitesimal part of all this, even while | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the stony and steep road of self-finding will experience gradually, little by little, changes that are unbelievable | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| believe even for an instant that what you experience is unjust and unfair, no matter how much | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the recognitions, and experienced inner changes. Before this experience and sense of relief, one person would not | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| when you ask yourself, Did I have that experience? Am I completely convinced? Did I overcome certain | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| seem to contradict one another, yet you may experience both. The first is the tendency to dismiss | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| have of yourself. At different times you may experience any one of these reactions. Beware of each | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| wrong emotional conclusions. Acknowledge your anger and rebellion, experience what you have suppressed for so long, but | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| path to find this circle within yourself, to experience it, particularly as to where, how, and in | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you. All this has to become a personal experience before you can really dissolve it. If you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| dear friends, work through this vicious circle and experience how it is active in your personal life | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| that are most important in your life. Children experience their first conflict with authority at an early | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| probably, be colored and influenced by it. Children experience all kinds of authority. When they are prohibited | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| prohibited from doing what they enjoy most, they experience authority as hostile. When parental authority indulges a | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| attitude toward God. In many instances, however, children experience a mixture of both. Then the combination of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| unconscious currents, the better will you understand and experience the truth of these teachings, the deeper will | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| good or bad, favorable or unfavorable. Once you experience this, you can dissolve your God-image, whether you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| they weaken you, it is not the negative experience that is the cause of your weakening, but | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of your weakening, but your attitude to the experience. This does not exclude a certain caution. It | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| masks and into the denial of all sexual experience. QUESTION: Homosexuality seems to be gaining wider exposure | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| must have love; I desire love, yet my experience has shown me that I cannot really get | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| take place to demonstrate symbolically what everyone must experience inwardly. The greater significance of his life and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| further. This, too, can only be understood by experience. QUESTION: Is the static sort of halfway in-between | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| within yourself and not outwardly. Then your past experience will take on new meaning. It will become | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| inside it, instead of outside. You will not experience this as a sudden change. But as many | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| reasoning processes. What is important is that you experience the existence of this image within you. When | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| existence of this image within you. When you experience it, then the time is ripe for you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| I say as a dogmatic statement. You will experience the utter truth of these statements yourself. But | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of events in a positive direction. When you experience the existence of this mass image in you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| possible ones. Believe me, my friends, whenever you experience something that hurts and that you do not | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| with someone else who has not had personal experience in this particular method. The method of the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to approach a state of being beyond the experience of most human beings, belonging to a much | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you do not want to have a happy experience and so you sabotage it by all these | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| instead. Once you find out all that, and experience it to be a truth in yourself, as | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| face all this within yourself, when you truly experience these emotions and live them, your life will | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to come to the point where you really experience all these emotions, where their presence ceases to | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| find these feelings now. If you find them, experience them, lift them out of their hiding places | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| occurs at the same time as the painful experience takes place. When this state is reached, pain | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| for that. Simply try to make the painful experience a constructive one. That is the best, the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to you, will be that sometime after the experience you will come to insights you did not | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to insights you did not encounter before. The experience in the Spirit World is due to your | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ever happen to you. The personal knowledge and experience of this truth is bound to come to | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to change. In your daily life you may experience happenings that may change a conscious conviction. However | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| you not to take my word for it. Experience the truth of it! This abyss varies in | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| is so unless you go right through the experience. Only after accepting your own or the other's | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| phantom quality, is first to visualize, feel, and experience its existence in you in the various manifestations | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| how subtle, as you go through an unwelcome experience, you will cease being afraid of the world | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| you accept these words intellectually; you have to experience them in yourself. This can only be done | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| take this particular approach on your path and experience the truth of my words personally will know | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| it is a re- enactment of frustrated childhood experience. Such a person unconsciously wants to make up | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| motives, desires and conflicts. Then, as you all experience it, cause and effect become apparent. Before these | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will penetrate as the result of an inner experience, and not by any outward acceptance of a | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| free. This, in turn, will enable you to experience the truth you need to have and to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Christ will eventually be part of the inner experience for all people who develop their souls. With | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| who die in agony. Can they apply this experience in their spirit form toward further development? ANSWER | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of a human being to use an earth experience in the realm of the spirit world. It | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| prevails. When one changes one's attitude, the past experience will then become valuable retrospectively. If a person | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| approach to pain -- or any other unpleasant experience -- the value is a tremendous one. The | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- the value is a tremendous one. The experience will be the medicine, as I have stated | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you understanding of the inner causes of this experience. It will thereby make you free and further | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be achieved. Yet you all have had the experience that you wish very much for something, but | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| When you find that out, you will often experience that the disturbance diminishes greatly by the mere | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| so untrue, so very untrue! Only when you experience a few major liberations in this work that | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be so. Then, in addition to its own experience of rejection, the child witnesses the apparent or | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| real self, and add to it the newer experience that remaining aloof brings censure and loneliness. The | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| your real self out, will cause you to experience a wonderful new inner strength. The awareness that | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| term it a temporary reality. The things you experience, the deductions you make with the surface logic | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| each a little bit of death whenever you experience them. As long as you have not worked | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| survive. In that moment, however, would I not experience a terrible fear and shock, even if right | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| people it may be entirely unnecessary to ever experience hypnosis. They can go through life being perfectly | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| impair your joy in your self-work. You may experience a certain sadness when discovering that you did | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| involuntary. What I now tell you, you will experience as being true, if you learn proper self-observation | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| involved in unbidden background thoughts. Rather, use the experience as a means to understand what I am | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| viewpoint, I cannot imagine this as a joyous experience. It will be painful all over again. ANSWER | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| course, due to negative motivations. However, you will experience a great joy and liberation now in releasing | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| comes with gaining a deeper and more meaningful experience of life. The constant changes between good and | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the searcher and worker on the path will experience the essence of life in a fuller dimension | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| who does not will also learn from the experience that life offers. Awareness of the significance of | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| life offers. Awareness of the significance of this experience may not come until later, however it may | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| utterly aware of the substitution. You have to experience the emotions which constantly fight for approval. You | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of all this means nothing. You have to experience your emotions in this direction step by step | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you let go of this fight you will experience liberation and a new strength. You will feel | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| if you don't force it. You can never experience the free gift of love as long as | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| that is within yourself, without reservation. As you experience the truth of these words, alive in you | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| no bearing on the fact that they may experience certain times of outer ease. One aspect of | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one of you has occasionally had such an experience. And yet you keep falling into the same | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| forcing current is absent, you are bound to experience, provided you are certain of yourself, that the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| these words, you will perhaps understand and somewhat experience what the term reality actually means. It means | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| can perceive reality. It is then that you experience the real situation, as against your imagined and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| To benefit truly from my words, you must experience your emotions and understand their language. I cannot | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you peace and harmony, security, and a full experience of life such as you cannot possibly imagine | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| situations that prohibit reality also prohibit your full experience of what life has to offer now. If | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| and unreality will persist and hinder your full experience of life, the full manifestation of your capacities | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| gaining a little distance from it, you will experience a certain amount of peace and relaxation. The | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| lack of it is the result of the experience of the child in you. Realizing this will | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| aware of your fear theoretically. You must actually experience the fear. Most people who do not wish | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| detached in character. Also, when you discover and experience the existence of the unfair demands of the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| of growth and maturity, you will not immediately experience the great, encompassing love your soul strives for | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| merely by hearing about it. You have to experience within yourself where and how you deviate from | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| But the unknown becomes known as you actually experience all the things I have been telling you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| serve as an incentive to begin, unless you experience all the emotions we mention here as living | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you analyze it you will find through the experience of your emotions that impatience, whenever felt, is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| difficulties and problems, because only very few people experience personally -- and not just recognize in theory | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| not only readily believe it, but will soon experience the truth of these words in their own | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the hurt of not being loved. When you experience the hurt of not being loved in your | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| emotion and will feel, even in the temporary experience of acute pain, that in that moment it | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |