| Once this happens, the insight you gain, the experience you feel exactly as I say here, will | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| This seems paradoxical yet is not. As you experience for yourself the interactions set forth tonight, you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| from coping with problems, assimilating them and the experience they give, instead of being stultified by them | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| of you in this life will come to experience the changes along the lines of this discussion | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the height of your potential, you no longer experience life within the confines of your restricting, separating | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you find union with all people. You feel, experience, and think in an entirely different way. You | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| around you, loving and sharing with you, you experience your life as essentially unique, separate and peculiarly | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| in your real feelings, this is how you experience life as long as you are still in | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| experienced what I am describing. But then the experience vanishes, and you are back in the old | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| glimpse the new state of being, you will experience a liberation from the confining wall of isolating | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| completely new point of view. You will deeply experience union with all beings and the importance of | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| that it cannot harm you. A common first experience in the new state is the feeling that | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| new state is the feeling that whatever you experience at the moment is also felt by millions | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| from the new outlook is an essentially different experience. As long as you harbor the illusion that | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| fight easier. The truth -- and you will experience it one day -- is this: In the | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| may essentially remain the same, but you will experience and feel them differently. People are so afraid | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| oversimplify this by saying, Things are depressing. I experience unpleasant things and that is why I am | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| body was asleep. You know that often you experience events in sleep. You are taught or advised | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| such a memory, this soul-impression from a spiritual experience will eventually affect your life, your endeavors, your | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| two kinds of picture languages. The one you experience in dreams only appears more limited to you | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| as much as they now imagine. They could experience happiness and the joy they think they do | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| whereas now they vegetate without any real life experience. Although a person with this predominant attitude may | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| it. Once you reach that state, you will experience feelings which are almost impossible to convey in | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| Most of you know this from your own experience in this work. Tooth: What is a tooth | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life, the incidents which could truly become an experience by proper assimilation, you are bound to exert | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you have not properly understood and assimilated the experience. This creates negative emotions which are bound to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| religious concept, but also from your personal work experience as you work on yourself. This is very | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| In your fullness, you progressively attract more positive experience. In your soul-sickness and error, productive of fear | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the spirit world, like the picture language you experience in dreams. The difference between a symbol and | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| is relative to one's specific psychic activity and experience? ANSWER: Yes, that is true, but it also | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| tedious process. It not only takes knowledge and experience, but it also demands a great deal of | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| its aspects determines your ability to live and experience pleasure. The healthier your attitude toward death, the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| say, you do not have to wait to experience actual physical death in order to learn how | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| a knowledge. It will come from an inner experience of the truths which so far you have | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and make room for true conviction and the experience of spiritual truth. Then it will become part | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| is no such a thing as a true experience of bliss at the expense of another. Realization | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| in the healthy way, you are bound to experience that you do obtain what you want eventually | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| that it is unknown. Before you can truly experience that death is pleasure in a healthy way | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| out of weakness and fear, but as actual experience. And you can experience this only in the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| fear, but as actual experience. And you can experience this only in the infinitely great and ultimate | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| great and ultimate issues when you learn to experience it first in your daily little deaths. When | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| many levels. One is that children live and experience very acutely. All their senses and faculties are | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| faculties are new and fresh, and every life experience, on any level of their being, is much | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the soul who goes through life rejecting the experience of life with all its meanings, deadens its | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| they fled from their soul-experience, so that the experience they have avoided can be learned by fully | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| Only those who have gone through the feared experience will arrive at true serenity. The soul whose | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| courageous enough not to flee from the life experience. But it often happens that the former believes | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| whether or not your soul benefits during the experience or only much later. Even a blind and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| paralyzing and deadening the capacity to feel and experience. However, a blind and ignorant attitude toward suffering | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| become as little children praises children's willingness to experience life intensely. Jesus' disciples have this quality; they | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| intensely. Jesus' disciples have this quality; they too experience fully. And Jesus Christ himself showed this amply | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| those who have this great childlike openness can experience true joy. This he demonstrated not only during | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| in a similar spirit of truthfulness, you will experience life and joy while still in the body | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| time wanting to grow and learn from the experience, you will recognize where and in what way | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| it, except in the positive sense, because the experience caused you to grow. It added to your | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| in looking back you can admit that the experience is no longer a horror. The horror therefore | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| time goes by. Yet as long as you experience something that is unreal as a reality, the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you to go through the suffering and really experience it. For only a wholehearted entering into the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| For only a wholehearted entering into the life experience with all its components will help you to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| flowing life force which will truly make you experience pleasure and joy, on all levels of your | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| can arrive at it only through your own experience. If you superimpose a belief that is not | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| make it quite clear that real knowledge and experience of the continuation of life after physical death | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| increase of creativity. People like that begin to experience the reality of the spiritual laws and truth | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| rather, the presence of their own private realization, experience, inner proof and knowledge. These are all byproducts | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of its misconceptions, distortions, and deviations. The true experience of pleasure on all levels, the unfoldment of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| death or unhappiness begins. Birth is a painful experience for the infant. Other painful experiences are bound | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| to cope with quite well and does not experience as drastic unhappiness, another temperament and character feels | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| It may take a great deal of life experience and inner will to find the truth. Then | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| progress in this work before you begin to experience the difference in feeling between the genuine desire | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| with each new insight. Then you will truly experience the truth that the more egocentric you are | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| other people's experiences, if one is open. However, experience shows that most individuals have to learn their | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| adopts such a solution is hardly able to experience love. In order to receive love, such people | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| work is to feel these emotions, to truly experience them. It is impossible to get rid of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| life, and on fate, will become a conscious experience you absolutely need. At first sight, this will | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| real self can manifest. You also need to experience this. Such experience must happen if you allow | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| manifest. You also need to experience this. Such experience must happen if you allow your emotions to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| Thus you will truly grow with each life experience. You will learn, accomplish and gain real power | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| will not cause you to hide from emotions, experience, life, and your own conflicts; love and power | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| become more objective. True serenity is not avoiding experience and emotions which may be painful at the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| to enjoy, to give and receive, and to experience pleasure and happiness. In other words, your yearning | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| For instance, it is very possible not to experience any longing for pleasure, fulfillment, happiness. In fact | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| to be flexible, however. You can see and experience each situation anew and adjust to its particular | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| concerned with the inner truth, with the inner experience, with what you really feel. And that is | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| is sometimes easy for a person successfully to experience a big defeat in an important issue in | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| examine the surface reactions and behavior patterns. To experience defeat in a healthy, mature way presupposes true | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| disaster, a loss of face, another will not experience as such. A professional setback may not be | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| as such. You have to find what you experience as defeat, humiliation, failure. Search in this direction | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| self -- to that degree you automatically sense, experience, and reach the real self of the other | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| work, my friends. You will then know and experience the conflict, not as a theory, but as | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| beauty, but an integral part of the life experience. Needless to say, such a soul suffers a | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| important it becomes for you to feel and experience all your emotions, to appraise their significance and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| The acute anxiety and fear that you occasionally experience will be ascribed entirely to outer provocations, and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| only a small percentage of their capacity to experience, to enjoy life, and to be creative. They | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| unattainable by deliberately initiated outer actions. As you experience this layer of resentment and find what you | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| problem evolve into emotional awareness. You will then experience these emotions. This is a painful process, my | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the security and safety, the marvel of life experience can be fully yours only if you have | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| thing. But spiritual living, feeling, being, and inner experience is an altogether different matter, and can be | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| appear exaggerated. You have to uncover, feel, and experience the truth of these words. When you really | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your unconscious beliefs. If you do not live, experience, and feel these right ideas, they become powerless | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| both true and false religion, but the inner experience is entirely different. Both the false and the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you have first reached this true inner religious experience. When you no longer need grace as a | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you will not disassociate yourself from this realization. Experience of unity with the divine can happen only | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| all, the capacity to feel. The capacity to experience feeling is synonymous with the capacity to give | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you shy away from any kind of emotional experience, to that extent you also close the door | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| extent you also close the door to the experience of happiness. Moreover, the emotional side of your | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the degree you close yourself off from emotional experience, to that very degree the full potential of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| root anyway. In the world of feeling you experience the good and the bad, the happy and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| Contrary to just registering such impressions mentally, emotional experience really touches you. Since your struggle is primarily | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| I wish to prevent the pain and the experience of unhappiness. In the past we have discussed | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| that you can anaesthetize your capacity for emotional experience, and therefore cannot feel immediate pain, it is | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| solution. Using such evasive tactics you do not experience life at its fullest. By withdrawing from pain | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| happiness and, most of all, you withdraw from experience. At one time or another -- and you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of false protection against the impact of emotional experience. If and when you cannot help but feel | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| But this can only be done if you experience your emotions as they exist in you now | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to be hurt, you did not wish to experience the pain of feeling unhappy. You also found | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| What has not been properly assimilated in emotional experience but has instead been repressed will constantly be | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the original solution that brought on such unassimilated experience in the first place. Such a reminder may | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| insights about your inner self in a meaningful experience. It is not enough to say that there | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| your faculty of feeling, how can you truly experience love? Is love an intellectual process? Is love | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and do what is so necessary will first experience a host of negative feelings. But after these | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| emotions will abate. Yes, you will, of course, experience negative emotions, but you will never fear that | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| understand theories, but it is altogether different to experience these tendencies within yourself. Only exploring the depths | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| has the power to color your entire emotional experience of yourself. This is not an intellectual, conscious | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| moralizing attitude. You will also discover how you experience your reactions and the reactions of others quite | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| about you. In the first case, emotionally, you experience yourself as wonderful, good, perfect, lovable, faultless. In | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| always providing you with a perception and inner experience of reality. With such a foundation the inevitable | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| found and experienced emotionally, my friends. You should experience the depth, width, and far-reaching significance of these | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| a very distinct difference as to how you experience the one or the other. Any words I | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| very misleading. But I can describe the emotional experience of each. If it is the voice of | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| myself. But do you really develop because you experience this state? Not if it is artificially produced | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will, for the longest time, have no such experience whatsoever. He or she will not even crave | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| escape and a real foretaste of genuine spiritual experience. A combination of mixed inner trends may have | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it will lead you away from seeking such experience for the sake of an unconsciously wanted shortcut | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| increased if only a particle of such an experience were real. I repeat: To the extent that | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| real. I repeat: To the extent that such experience was genuine, to that extent must the subsequent | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| improvement is bound to come if such an experience strengthens the intent and execution of finding one's | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| improvement simply because you have had such an experience is a misunderstanding. The truth is that the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is a misunderstanding. The truth is that the experience influences one's actions and attitude to obtain improvement | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| difference in this outlook. In addition, such an experience is almost always the result of serious efforts | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the pattern without the necessary understanding, you would experience extreme anxiety. This, in turn, would produce other | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| long as I am imperfect, I have to experience imperfect situations, unfulfillment and frustration. Therefore, I must | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| does a person go about re-establishing an emotional experience about God? I am not speaking about the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to find out how you attain this inner experience, what to do, where to go. There is | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self-respect will evolve that will be a great experience for you. At the beginning it will only | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |