| Falling.....................24 | |
| in the sense that your great sin of falling, of not remaining faithful to God, and of | 22 SALVATION |
| The puzzle will be complete, with every piece falling in its place. So there is no test | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the love experience. It is what you call falling in love, or romance. Through eros the personality | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| never make a mistake. Making a mistake means falling into the abyss. Here again you can test | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| a laborious thought process, but because everything is falling into place as if by itself as a | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the path, it seems that one is forever falling back. How is this possible, after a certain | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| like the alphabet. ANSWER: It is not really falling back, my friends. It merely means that you | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| had such an experience. And yet you keep falling into the same trap. You know very well | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you use spiritual values to castigate yourself for falling short of a false perfection; when you understand | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of them. You can then see them without falling into the error of picturing yourself as all | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| rather the role that you play in it, falling short of your ideals, which require that you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| attitude that makes you moralize with yourself for falling short of perfection. Discover where and how you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| out, you may feel as though you were falling into an abyss. You will feel yourself defenseless | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| more convinced of the danger of letting go. Falling back into the other extreme of holding on | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| the emotional reaction to and the apprehension of falling and crushing when the ego is given up | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| makes you so perfectionistic that you must fear falling off the self-erected pedestal. Many fears will dissolve | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| ignorant, irrational child in you express itself, without falling into the trap of believing its truth is | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| How can you accept and like yourself without falling into the danger of self-indulgence and self-justification for | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| nevertheless maintain your self-respect? How can you avoid falling into the danger of destructive guilt, self-rejection, and | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| to evaluate such impulses and desires realistically, without falling into the trap of projection, self-justification, self-righteous exoneration | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| dealing here with personality types -- one person falling into the former, another into the latter category | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| into what appears to be a bottomless abyss. Falling into it threatens to annihilate the entity. I | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| not know that you can experience pain without falling apart, you cannot possibly be in an open | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| prefer the status quo in which you avoid falling into those other states of consciousness of your | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| False.......................858 | |
| and the search, the person will look for false goals and false fulfillment. However, those who reach | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| the person will look for false goals and false fulfillment. However, those who reach the stage of | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| wrong channel. Moreover, you always cling to the false belief that death and pain are the worst | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| life, much of the energy will go into false channels and thus be used up without sufficient | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| and the oversensitivity is a sign of a false sense of self-importance. This entire inner process centers | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| channeled through the sick lower self into a false direction. It is not even that individuals who | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| love creates a natural dignity very different from false dignity, which is based on pride and vanity | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| of the personality wants what is evil and false -- yet this evil or falsehood does not | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| wallow in their faults, immerse themselves in a false guilt which I have already mentioned several times | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| and it is just as much at a false extreme as its opposite: wanting to see oneself | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| able to avoid the lie and identify the false emotional currents underlying your correct outward actions. You | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| without being upset by it. Slowly, slowly, old, false currents will transform themselves and be in line | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| of human understanding. You have altogether too many false opinions -- not only you who are here | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to Creation, whether you have more or fewer false ideas is not the issue, since you have | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| usual vague ideas about the kingdom of God, false thought forms that you erect in your imagination | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| truth cannot penetrate. When the thought forms are false, God's kingdom cannot come to you. GIVE US | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| about your own guilt. Humans tend to produce false, unhealthy, exaggerated guilt feelings which are not justified | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| into the daylight. This is the difference between false guilt and real repentance. The experience of all | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| their real guilt lose automatically not only all false guilt complexes which pull them down, but feel | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| and opinions. Even when people are free of false reactions concerning society in general, but react in | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| It is what you might call phony or false; it is unreal. I will return to the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| drugs? ANSWER: Not in that way; that is false ecstasy. You have certain little and insignificant ecstasies | 18 FREE WILL |
| innermost motives will be bare, no pretexts and false justifications will exist. He will be judged in | 18 FREE WILL |
| new habit of seeing yourself clearly, without any false motives and excuses and blindness, for a while | 21 THE FALL |
| is not entirely correct, it will give a false idea. Co-creation would mean that God actually went | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is absolutely true is that the sincere, though false motive is not evaluated in the same way | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| also play a role in that, such as false interpretation of what was seen. QUESTION: So the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| much too great not to let errors and false interpretations slip in -- not to speak of | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| right and good instinct or a wrong and false one guides you is by the happiness, relief | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| rebuilding only after you have torn down the false edifice. If you have the courage to stumble | 31 SHAME |
| strength to risk losing the love given on false premises. So the person feels compelled to create | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| shortcomings within you. This would give you a false reassurance and might make you overlook where exactly | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| master the subtleties involved and to discover the false posing for the true. Before we turn to | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| encloses you in darkness, loneliness, fear, guilt, and false shame. Only in this way can you evolve | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| head high, instead of being governed by your false impressions and shame. It takes only a moment | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| life work if I did not have this false, protective measure -- this image? The answer will | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| and unhappiness, will make you stronger than any false security ever could. Whether you have looked for | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| ever could. Whether you have looked for this false security in your relationships with others, in ideas | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| good and true sense, but actually against the false note in the equally unaware law-upholder. This is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| gain real control over them, rather than the false control of suppressing them. In emotional maturity you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| true goodness that was so unrewarding but rather false and compulsive goodness. Drawing the wrong conclusion, you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| your former unselfishness was ineffective because it was false, not because unselfishness as such is ineffective. This | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| not understand that this concept of God is false and that God is not what is experienced | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| often a reaction to and compensation for the false concept. The personality may grapple between these two | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| never winning the battle because both concepts are false. In every child's life both kinds of authority | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| may not even be aware that it is false. Even in your intellectual perception you are partly | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| free yourself from the enslaving chains of the false belief. So the second step is to set | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| should never be superimposed on the still-lingering emotional false concept. This would only cause suppression. On the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| your surface consciousness, but realize that they are false. Formulate the right concept. Then these two should | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| you include the word justice, this idea is false. For God is. His laws are made once | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| a fallacy. Such fallacies very often turn into false piety. What in your view is obvious devotion | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| upon you, nor do you indulge in a false piety by suffering the consequences of your wrong | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in despair and depression, as long as a false God-image exists in you, you keep blaming God | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| Hence a vicious circle, always built on a false premise, is activated within you. Again, I say | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| point in self-recognition, you become aware of the false concepts you harbor unconsciously. Each time such a | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| concepts you harbor unconsciously. Each time such a false concept is observed and therefore becomes more and | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| within yourself -- and you will be free. False concepts are always held on to in the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| real self and the illusory side, where the false God-image rules, do not coincide, they are not | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| prison of self-inflicted suffering due to errors and false concepts. This is very important for all of | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| misunderstanding and must therefore be equally unhealthy and false. They must also lead back to the old | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| the recognition that the solution proved to be false and the conscious wish for health remained on | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as the doubts are hidden out of a false sense of shame and guilt, as if to | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can really disappear: Is it true? Is it false? Is it the subconscious of the medium? Is | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| In both cases you have to remove the false layer and look where the real self is | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| phantom world you have created out of the false impressions of your childhood. You have no idea | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| spirits with many and long-standing images, wrong conclusions, false concepts, compulsions, and so on, which are all | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| love you yearn for by resorting to the false remedy of substitutions. This shame is so great | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| in unreality because your concept of time-quality is false when your childish emotions are involved without your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| not substitute the genuine you with a slightly false one. It takes a great deal of work | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the confines of your restricting, separating barriers of false beliefs and misconceptions. Then you find union with | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| cannot happen with all the deviations and basic false premises. In an artificial manipulation you prevent your | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| this is one way of distinguishing real and false recognitions. In the former, you hardly realize what | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| no longer distinguish between the real and the false you. Only this work will finally bring you | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| realize, sometimes quite suddenly, that these emotions are false. You have them because of a wrong conclusion | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only of their constructive purpose, while ignoring the false motivations beneath. After some exploration in the right | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self, which is entirely covered up by the false layer of a pseudo-self. Another factor that contributes | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| pretense. In fact, these two are often interacting. False motivations cause impatience. The strong, often unconscious, desire | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| need merely festers underground, covered by layers of false detachment, which is nothing but fear and withdrawal | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| of not getting what you want. Since such false protection automatically precludes the fulfillment of your desire | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| much more difficult. When you have found the false means you have tried to use, you will | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| who aggressively antagonizes people, shows an unhealthy, uncaring, false independence that comes from and also leads to | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| core lies in the psychological problems, in the false safeguards people have built for themselves, and in | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| deliberately choose suffering and reject happiness in the false belief that pleasure and joy are contrary to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| tomb as a story of promise are entirely false, and not a factual account. ANSWER: No, not | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| significant countermeasure to which people resort in the false belief that it will circumvent unhappiness, unpleasure, and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| guilty secret, and you started to build a false self. This, you thought, was your protection and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| life, happiness, security, self-confidence. The awareness of this false front began to vanish, but you were and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| You strain harder and harder to become this false self, this idealized self. You were, and unconsciously | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you started building an unreal self on a false foundation and leave your real self out. In | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| idealized self, and this robs you of the false self-confidence you falsely tried to establish with the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| discrepancy and struggle between the real and the false self. Only upon solving this most vital and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| not living up to the standards of your false self. Do not let it get away with | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| once and for all to seek them by false means. Are there any questions? QUESTION: So the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| from life as such. Underneath the withdrawal, or false serenity, that soul is still torn in half | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| aware of it. Such a strong facade of false serenity has been built that, as long as | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| conflict finally emerge, and it will show how false this serenity was. It will be borne out | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| it become possible to let go of the false value of your idealized self. It is a | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| mutual process: by allowing yourself to see the false values, however painful this may be, your real | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| emerge so that you no longer need the false ones. Since the idealized self alienates you from | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| values. Throughout your life you concentrate unconsciously on false values: either on values you lack but think | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |