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direct your life. One person is a trained, experienced, skillful captain and as such is not afraid 1 THE SEA OF LIFE
of God, here or elsewhere, can be personally experienced at an intensity that leaves no room for 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
as I said before, everything is felt and experienced equally in the self and in the other 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
all capable of comprehending -- have to be experienced personally to become genuine inner knowledge and so 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
than you can imagine. Only those who have experienced guidance can know the wonder of it in 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
emotional distortion. Some of my friends have already experienced the truth of these words in their lives 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
difficulty concentrating. Time and again my friends have experienced that, at first, their thoughts wander, that something 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
completely ready to forgive others. And whoever has experienced, comprehended, and felt God's forgiveness should also be 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
only and final truth. Others, however, who have experienced God in His other manifestation, as form, as 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
do not know how that being is factually experienced in touch. You could then mistake the mirror 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
other party will increase steadily because you have experienced it yourself and it has become part of 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION
truth. All my friends on the path have experienced how they must occasionally encounter unflattering or unpleasant 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
to recognize that Eastern teachers and philosophers have experienced God in the female and passive manifestation. That 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
to know about these things; because they have experienced God differently and not in His active aspect 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
this implies. Once you have done so and experienced the peace and joy that comes from it 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
scientific, you agree, even though you yourself never experienced it. Why then, when communication with the spirit 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
communication with the beyond is possible. They have experienced it; they have no possible doubt about it 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
many people living on earth who have not experienced such a call. They are still in their 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
for the person who feels, knows, and has experienced the truth of the law of cause and 18 FREE WILL
know that as long as you have not experienced this difference to some degree, my words will 18 FREE WILL
if you keep trying, and once you have experienced it, you will know and understand very well 18 FREE WILL
also from this part. Many people have not experienced this yet. When they want something, or when 18 FREE WILL
person's higher self or divine spark. Whoever has experienced this will confirm it. Whoever has a thought 18 FREE WILL
is always a certainty that has been personally experienced, although the experience cannot be conveyed to others 18 FREE WILL
artificial means. And only a person who has experienced it can confirm the vast and tremendous difference 18 FREE WILL
of eternity after the self-inflicted misery has been experienced. The scales show this so clearly that a 20 GOD: THE CREATION
own dark powers. On the one side Christ experienced nothing but suffering -- both physical and psychological 22 SALVATION
even if the benefits can only be fully experienced at a later period, when a being finally 22 SALVATION
you have learned the lesson. Those who have experienced what it means to understand the message of 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
faith must be yours. Then you will have experienced God in such a way that you will 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
spark. Contact with other human beings can be experienced as hazardous, not bringing the blessings you seek 35 TURNING TO GOD
parents, perfect home conditions, and only you alone experienced this shocking uniqueness that had to be hidden 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
longing for it. The more strongly one has experienced eros, the less contentment will the soul find 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
beings, there are few indeed who have not experienced some opening in the soul where eros could 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
life force to work in you. Whoever has experienced even a slight victory has overcome a resistance 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
one -- or rather exactly these -- has experienced a feeling of peace, strength, and a sense 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
tales. The reality I show you can be experienced by everyone, provided that he or she does 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
path, felt the relief of the recognitions, and experienced inner changes. Before this experience and sense of 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
effects in one's own life must have been experienced. QUESTION: On rereading the last lecture, on the 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
long as this fact is not felt and experienced, you cannot shed inferiority feelings. You have to 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
false and that God is not what is experienced in the psyche. Then the person turns away 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
depend on the particular kind of predominant authority experienced in childhood, but also on the characteristics the 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
every child's life both kinds of authority are experienced, no matter how much stronger one manifests. You 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
my friends who have learned, and at times experienced, this truth. Your own unconscious affects the unconscious 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
it only for a short instant, have already experienced this great truth, although afterward it may evaporate 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
truth, although afterward it may evaporate again. Once experienced, it is easier to recapture the knowledge and 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
my friends. Those of you who are not experienced and trained to some degree in the work 53 SELF-LOVE
of the issue. Many extremes have to be experienced before the healthy middle road is found. This 53 SELF-LOVE
one overall, comprehensive picture. This has to be experienced; it cannot be conveyed in words. As a 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
in a constructive way. Most of you have experienced this occasionally. You know what a wonderful feeling 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
events. There are few people who have not experienced grief and disappointment because they felt betrayed. They 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
done the very thing he has so painfully experienced as a victim. Therefore the hurt is double 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
I have often told you that. You have experienced it in some ways on your path of 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
will be infinitely more gratifying. Until you have experienced the infant in you, you cannot understand certain 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
are incarnated on Earth, this can only be experienced to a limited degree; nevertheless, with very mature 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
be a truth in yourself, as you have experienced other truths in the course of your work 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
human language something that can hardly ever be experienced by a human being and is therefore outside 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
have often said, and many of you have experienced it, that your subconscious affects the subconscious of 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
that I am sure many of you have experienced. When you are shy and reticent, it creates 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
done. As many of my friends have already experienced, the negative occasions will prove to be the 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
have taken this path for some time have experienced that, in some cases gradually, in some cases 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to the question on creativity? I myself have experienced the sudden appearance of a new talent and 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
proper light. Each one of you has surely experienced both kinds of willpower, but without awareness that 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
be conveyed through words. It has to be experienced. The healthy soul will not call forth adversity 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
your emotions express themselves, have to be fully experienced first. Concentrate on this proving in your daily 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
cause. All that has to be explored and experienced in your emotions. You will inevitably find behind 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
intelligently. In isolated moments you may even have experienced what I am describing. But then the experience 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
or painful -- have existed and people have experienced them. That you seem to produce a feeling 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
in the new approach. The instant you have experienced that first glimmer of understanding you will recognize 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
is more than just superficial, that is not experienced in the spirit of being a part of 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
all depends. Thus, some of you have already experienced that I received your messages, because answers were 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
intuitive nature manifested in your life and you experienced a deep and peaceful certainty, at that moment 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
strongly felt reality. What you have so far experienced only on isolated occasions, the manifestation of your 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
individual variations are possible in which this is experienced in the subconscious. Perhaps the only way you 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
mean -- not only theoretically, but through having experienced this truth. Your real seeing and understanding begin 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
friends who really work on this path have experienced this to be true. Perhaps you experienced it 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
have experienced this to be true. Perhaps you experienced it only temporarily, nevertheless you know what I 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
for you. Some of you, my friends, have experienced that people in your environment suddenly began to 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
has progressed somewhat in this work has personally experienced this to be true, at least to some 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
entire process. Once you have found, acknowledged, and experienced the underlying need, you can try to determine 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
understand how it was possible that the master experienced doubt in his hour of death. Most did 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
as all forms of suffering, must also be experienced in order to discover that they are not 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
physical one. However, this complete pleasure can be experienced only if the soul is healthy. An unhealthy 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
shame, and so on, have to be acutely experienced. But as you courageously proceed, you will gain 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
creation of the idealized self-image. Emotional insecurity, is experienced to some degree by every person in childhood 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
All of you who do this work have experienced it, and traditional psychoanalysis in any form knows 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
only when these tendencies are individually verified and experienced, possibly in entirely different terms than those mentioned 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
every individual, have to be acutely felt and experienced by each one of you as you proceed 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
well as at the core, has to be experienced. Life and this path will help you if 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
is an altogether different matter, and can be experienced only after the inner world of feeling has 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
this interim state of aloneness must first be experienced. The great mystics designate it as the dark 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
common. If such pains and disappointments are not experienced consciously, they are allowed to stagnate in a 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
feeling, and only after the feeling is fully experienced and expressed, will wisdom, and perhaps even intellectual 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
that nothing good and favorable can ever be experienced. Children feel that any momentary situation is permanent 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
reactions, and needs, remain to be found and experienced emotionally, my friends. You should experience the depth 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
also manifests when, emotionally at least, everything is experienced as either good or bad, right or wrong 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
that matter, then moralizing occurs. When issues are experienced in terms of good or bad, moralizing occurs 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
understanding and imagination. In any case, the child experienced an acute lack of affection, warmth, and understanding 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
frustration; it is the same hurt from childhood experienced all over again, but it increases his inner 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
real need, once it is truly felt and experienced in its full impact, will automatically diminish the 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
is not alive, not real. Everything you have experienced from those limited traits in them which to 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
the hate; they have to be found and experienced by each one of you in your individual 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
importance -- and they all have to be experienced. If self-rejection can be cured by other insights 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
always be found. Until this core can be experienced through extensive self-finding, rather than just listening to 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
will not be sufficient, it has to be experienced in your emotions. The continuation of this work 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
many areas of your soul have to be experienced until your psyche is truly equipped to make 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
is it really merely the pain you once experienced as a child? Is it really the frustration 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
to reality. The real pain has to be experienced in all its shades and varieties. You have 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
are no longer in truth. The hurt you experienced, unpleasant as it may have been, is no 101 THE DEFENSE
even stronger when it is not yet consciously experienced. You may deceive yourself because that which you 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
life where you have realized your potential and experienced a measure of fulfillment, you will have had 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
will by something that is superimposed and not experienced by your still childish emotions, you are in 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
is the will to recapture what was once experienced. When the recapturing is done simply by the 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
shed your physical body, but it can be experienced occasionally, and increasingly so, while you are still 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
your real self. Many of my friends have experienced this manifestation, not only in creative art, but 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
have once been for the person who has experienced it, the authenticity of the experience gets lost 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
way. Haven't most of you on this path experienced this phenomenon already? Whenever you come across an 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
I doubt that anyone who has perceived and experienced the truth can advocate slaying. Those who do 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
to give to the world what one person experienced. Such concepts as slaying lead further away from 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
relationship to God comes into existence. God is experienced as being. I repeat, you cannot come to 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
reality. Only then can the great Reality be experienced. The latter will first come occasionally and in 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
To a slight degree, many of you have experienced this. You have experienced that when you fear 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
many of you have experienced this. You have experienced that when you fear something before it happens 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
actually go through it. And you have also experienced how your pains take on a new face 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
who has not, at least to some degree, experienced the peace of true self-awareness, without self-condemnation or 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
many false, illusory ways. Most of you have experienced this, at least occasionally. Your lack of peace 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
believe you can all remember instances when you experienced the one or the other, knowing how different 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
due to the unfounded danger that the growth experienced was illusory. I close with very special blessings 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
misunderstanding that your natural feelings should not be experienced. Since this misunderstanding is not out in the 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
this guilt is not found, verified, acknowledged, and experienced, the other work on images and misconceptions will 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
another facet of being. Yet none will be experienced as a role. Observing this feeling may give 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
favorable impressions cause exhaustion. You may all have experienced that you become overly excited when something good 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
causing hurtful dents on the soul-substance, which are experienced as oversensitivity. The wall is hard and brittle 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
unutilized. To those of my friends who have experienced liberation from such emotions with an influx of 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
diligently on this path have, at least occasionally, experienced the special peace that is full of the 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
it is superimposed from the outside and not experienced inwardly, is as much a part of the 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
found that every earth upheaval that humanity has experienced is a result of broader knowledge used without 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
upsetting, or disadvantageous. For each living moment, fully experienced in the reality of the now, will then 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
fear will still be present, it will be experienced in a very different way. Immersion is due 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
need to be proven. This reality can be experienced only if all that stands in its way 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
once enjoyed. He or she seeks what was experienced as love during childhood, over and over again 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
examine those aspects in your childhood which you experienced in a pleasurable way. It took considerable insight 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
vague belief, a theory. Everyone who has profoundly experienced the reincarnational aspect of creation recognizes that it 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
check, so that no real fulfillment can be experienced. This is so because consciousness does not penetrate 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
attained deep understanding. Many of you have already experienced the joy and freedom of being able to 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
to forget it if you have not repeatedly experienced the blessings of working yourself out of unpleasant 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
yourself. A few of my friends have already experienced this phenomenon. After thorough exploration and self-confrontation about 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
diligently working on this path, have you not experienced time and again how fruitless it is to 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
more specific, if the drive toward union is experienced a priori as something wrong, it will inevitably 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
In rare moments of bliss, this can be experienced right in this life on earth. The disappearance 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
that degree death will not be feared but experienced as an organic development. The unknown will no 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
of you have occasionally tapped this source and experienced it, only to lose it again. When you 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
and an overestimation of yourself. Someone who has experienced some previously unmanifested creative, constructive soul material may 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
of it. It must be dealt with, felt, experienced, in its deep original manifestation. In order to 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
process truly hopeless. Many of my friends have experienced that so often before one comes to the 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
brain determine your life. Many of you have experienced that your real self responds -- sometimes instantly 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
effect of these two important activities will be experienced by anyone who follows this advice. Again, I 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
life circumstances outside yourself. Many of you have experienced an immediate answer to the godself in you 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
advantageous, many of my friends would not have experienced liberation and ease following a breakthrough, following the 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
eventually lose it less often. The spiral movement experienced in other phases of the path happens here 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
am sure that most of my friends have experienced moments like those described in the example, although 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
letting go. When these two tendencies are perceived, experienced, inwardly lived, there is no limit to your 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
influence. Even those of you who have already experienced considerable insights on this path still do not 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
is first feared, later tentatively tried, and then experienced as the key to selfhood. The self is 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
fearfully hold on. When the soul is sufficiently experienced and deeply impressed with the truth that there 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
is possible to fear something one already has experienced, either consciously or unconsciously. But while experiencing something 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
cannot impress itself upon the soul. What is experienced becomes hazy, due to a very low consciousness 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
be blotted out unless the truth can be experienced in full consciousness, and fear barricades such a 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
the childish striving for perfection, but you have experienced it within yourselves. The little child at birth 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
strivings are unrealistic, even destructive. You all have experienced in your pathwork that you first have to 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
conceive until the inner live center has been experienced. The foreign substance covers this very experience of 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
else. But there comes a time when, having experienced the real self more and more often, the 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
ultimate reality of you because you will have experienced sufficiently often the reality of your real inner 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
say, constructive in this case. Yet, the anger experienced may be the unhealthy kind because of the 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
theory is bound to turn into fact, into experienced reality. If you wish to exert control over 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
life, and of meditation, will be absorbed, lived, experienced. There will no longer be a problem or 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
have already incorporated in your personal work as experienced fact, not as a mere theoretical teaching; at 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
overall climate of humanity's emanation. If you have experienced cruelty, whether this act of cruelty was an 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
either actively or passively. That is, pleasure is experienced either in inflicting cruelty or in enduring it 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
it might also be that pleasure can be experienced only in connection with being rejected again, or 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
I don't quite understand how pleasure can be experienced at all when someone is rejected, except in 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
be not only intellectual, but actually felt and experienced. You must remove the restriction, to allow this 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
not empty promises. Those of you who have experienced to some degree the truth of what I 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
Even if some of you have not sufficiently experienced it yet, even if you still doubt, follow 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
have nothing to lose, for you have amply experienced that relying solely on your outer faculties was 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
these powers exist, even before you have fully experienced them, must activate them in whatever constructive way 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
yourself, as something faraway you have not yet experienced. There are many occasions when you vaguely and 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
a path of self-realization have, at least occasionally, experienced this. On the spiritual plane, my friends, it 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
Where you felt uncertainty and guilt as you experienced friction with another person, you now experience a 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
is an illusion as long as life is experienced on the dualistic plane, as long as one 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
pain. And this state behind the acutely, momentarily experienced state can be liberated and brought to the 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
occurrences can you make these words a personally experienced truth. It cannot happen by paying lip service 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
and harbors widening vistas of perception never before experienced. At the same time you continue to react 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
of a new self you have not consciously experienced before. This path gives you the means to 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE

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