| Farce.......................9 | |
| any lasting effect and are therefore always a farce. Shortcuts and other sudden measures supposed to eliminate | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| is better than staying together and making a farce out of marriage. Unless both are willing to | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| will always fall short. It will be a farce and a self-deception. It is often the case | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| complete atheism and materialism because it makes a farce of truth, of the dignity of the freedom | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| understanding and truth. Any spiritual development is a farce if you deny this part of your being | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| perception turns to a superstition, that makes a farce out of God; when he can no longer | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| But when it ends there it becomes a farce. Humans who cannot become animated by their divinity | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| cannot become animated by their divinity become a farce. By the same token, the practice of leaving | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| open yourself up. The word friendship becomes a farce if you feel there is anything between yourself | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Fare........................3 | |
| than your own and yet they seem to fare better. You do not understand the reason for | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| have to accept without understanding the reason, often fare better. They may not discover their self-created underlying | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you know, in the belief that you might fare better than by taking the chance of entering | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| Far-reaching................15 | |
| if you cannot see them. These forms have far-reaching effects: in ever-spreading circles, actions create reactions, which | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| always karmic. Its exact roots would need a far-reaching explanation which we cannot give at this point | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| as long as they are on earth, how far-reaching the effect of the smallest endeavor in this | 21 THE FALL |
| tendency to generalize and standardize, which has more far-reaching effects than you realize. It also affects your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| yourself, whether you are fully conscious of their far-reaching significance or not. But, to the degree that | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| into clear-cut language. You will then see how far-reaching their significance is. For instance, you will recognize | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| friends. You should experience the depth, width, and far-reaching significance of these emotions. Then, and only then | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the development of the soul has even more far-reaching significance in the evolutionary plan. The universal life | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| such as this is the realization of your far-reaching sphere of influence. When a person finally recognizes | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| not refer to mystical connections of a more far-reaching nature, karmic conditions, causes and effects that are | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| immediately correct the faulty thinking that has such far-reaching effects on your entire evolution, on your very | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you can possibly envisage. The truth is so far-reaching and so directly accessible that no further conflict | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| If these words are truly understood in their far-reaching significance and are taken literally, as they are | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| hour of the day, so deep and so far-reaching is it. We shall discuss those aspects of | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| with your self-interest in the best and most far-reaching way. The Godman or Godwoman -- the New | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Farsighted..................3 | |
| clean, strong, healthy love, and therefore a more farsighted and benevolent love, intent on giving you the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| immediate gratification if you keep in mind the farsighted knowledge that postponing the gratification serves the interests | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| not sufficiently motivated by love and are not farsighted enough to restrict the child, if necessary, then | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| Farthest....................4 | |
| the last to come back, because he is farthest away from God in his attitude. So if | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| attention to the symptoms only. Even my friends farthest advanced on the path are tempted to look | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| too far from awareness. QUESTION: What religion is farthest away from the truth? ANSWER: One cannot make | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| experience. In the first stage, that which is farthest removed from reality, all events seem totally disconnected | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Fascinating.................5 | |
| of this creative power is a challenging and fascinating undertaking. Right now you can explore the recesses | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the complexities of this other being. What more fascinating experience could there be? When you have no | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| that is forever more desirable, more alive, more fascinating. And, as the threat of tomorrow is taken | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| the child to make learning intensely interesting and fascinating. Unfortunately, education as it is currently practiced smothers | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| of the curriculum. It will be the most fascinating study and will alter the approach to teaching | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Fascination.................20 | |
| The mystic will not be sidetracked by the fascination of magic which represents a great temptation and | 18 FREE WILL |
| manifests more and more in you. 175. CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION Greetings, all my friends here who | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| as a living reality of indescribable bliss and fascination. The whole universe is open for exploration, for | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| more worlds, more experience, and more effects. The fascination of creating is endless. Since the possibilities are | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| to feel and experience darkness. Creating is pure fascination. This fascination is not eliminated simply because what | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| and experience darkness. Creating is pure fascination. This fascination is not eliminated simply because what is created | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| brilliant. Even in that may lie a special fascination and adventure. Then the creation begins to take | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| know it. It is all a play, a fascination, an experiment, from which your real state of | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| yet want to really try. They still find fascination in the exploration of negative creation, at least | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| of negativity. This is not easy, for the fascination with any creative process takes hold of a | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| two. When you begin to discover the same fascination with creating in a positive way as in | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| the discovery of this connecting link of positive fascination with creation, you will need to recognize the | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| discussed how negativity creates misery and yet how fascination with the creative process makes it seem difficult | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| new and more varied experiences of bliss, self-expression, fascination. It is everything, literally everything, that the mind | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| are, perhaps, the most important aspects of the fascination and attraction of a negative outlook. If you | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| be recaptured again and again, for the old fascination with the negative belief is deeply ingrained. You | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| peace which surpasses all understanding, an excitement and fascination with life and its manifold possibilities of meaningful | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| to your surroundings. The joyous excitement, the peaceful fascination with living and with all that is created | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| periods of elation, vibrant peace and security, excitement, fascination, profound joyousness, and intense aliveness can then serve | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| makes sense; everything is tinged with loveliness, meaning, fascination, joy, and security. But where you hold back | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Fast........................15 | |
| as well as they could. After all, how fast each individual will proceed is up to his | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| of their incarnations, prove themselves capable of standing fast under any circumstances. QUESTION: I perceive a great | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| and material progress has been going on so fast in comparison to spiritual progress will force people | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in you, there is one wonderful, sure, and fast way to experience the reality and presence of | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the cycle of incarnations. Someone who develops very fast and desires to take such a path, and | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| reminder because discoveries slip out of awareness so fast. Neither should you imagine that you can jump | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| as much as you desire it or as fast as you would have it. Recognize your fright | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| came up? Try to pinpoint it. Hold it fast. When you collect this information over a period | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| accepting spirit, slowly -- and often even quite fast -- the feeling of pain transforms itself into | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| within its narrow confines, which your spirit is fast outgrowing. On the other hand, your mind must | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| beings have always sought refuge in hard and fast rules that can be accepted without thinking and | 228 BALANCE |
| understand your obstructions. Your community is growing very fast. It needs more and more responsible pillars who | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| yet -- the obstructions will be eliminated relatively fast, and a kind of vibrant fulfillment comes even | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| not always possible, but sometimes development proceeds very fast and well when this opportunity arises. However, as | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| on your soul. Your ability to move relatively fast from one corner of your earth to the | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Faster......................52 | |
| of view, one can develop on earth disproportionately faster than in the spirit world, exactly because it | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| one of you can approach this goal much faster than you may think possible. And for the | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| development. In the earth sphere, development proceeds infinitely faster. Your earth sphere, with all that is contained | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to enable them to progress spiritually farther and faster. However, it must always be left according to | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| all sorts. This is why development cannot proceed faster; for all the incarnated beings were at first | 21 THE FALL |
| This gives you a much greater chance for faster development. At the same time, you live surrounded | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| This very difficulty can be the key to faster development, because you can certainly overcome your weaknesses | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| development, because you can certainly overcome your weaknesses faster if they are challenged. And this they are | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| difficult. But therein lies the possibility of infinitely faster development. Is that clear? QUESTION: Yes, thank you | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this direction so that you will find out faster and faster what the lesson is. The moment | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| so that you will find out faster and faster what the lesson is. The moment you will | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| other categories, humanity can become stronger and advance faster in spiritual development precisely because frictions exist. Without | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| be met voluntarily as a means of growing faster, of learning to accept that which cannot be | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| of your personality. Thus you approach perfection much faster than you think, in spite of some of | 31 SHAME |
| though not always, the higher the development, the faster the effect will follow the cause. Thus, you | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| finding out the causes and eliminating them, the faster you will get over it. And then you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| to go through in the desire to develop faster, to overstep many levels in one sweep. But | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| you, because it would naturally be a little faster and more direct in showing you how to | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| are weak, and the forms can dissolve much faster than those in which opinions and views are | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| gradual, slow way -- and there is no faster way -- to dissolve all the walls, rocks | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the shorter the period of suffering and the faster the arrival of the moment when the negative | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to start incarnation, or ready to resume it faster. This may create certain earth problems, but these | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Whether you succeed in your work a little faster or slower makes no difference. For all of | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reaction. Generally speaking, however, cause and effect work faster when one is on the path. It may | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| helps to liberate the spring of life much faster. We are all of us well-diggers. The more | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more effectively we dig from the outside the faster will it come forth and reach the light | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| quite a while to truly assimilate it. The faster you advance in your personal work on this | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| matter. This is how you can grow much faster because of the resistance. By learning to go | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| is why development on earth proceeds so much faster. Be blessed, each one of you. May these | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| character, in being. A feeling may truly change faster than an emotion, and yet it is permanent | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| will help humanity to produce greater inner freedom, faster growth and development, and therefore outer peace and | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| However, the more humanity reaches overall maturity, the faster progress will be for those limping behind. The | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| general atmosphere and influence will be conducive to faster development. Again, this can be likened to the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| its matter more and more subtle, its vibration faster due to its correspondingly higher degree of consciousness | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| way must be removed. The removal, too, happens faster and more adequately when the inner being is | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| will be speeded up and the harmony established faster. This is very important for you to follow | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| error, destruction and suffering will give way much faster than otherwise. Little by little you will see | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| you attain the lower stages perhaps a bit faster and more painlessly, perhaps a bit more safely | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| in the scheme of things, ultimately contributing to faster development. It is always up to the individual | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| manifest. The fewer preconceived notions one has, the faster help will come forth and be recognizable. Help | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| are truly willing you can accomplish more, and faster. As far as it is possible to generalize | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| people still cannot remove a nagging dissatisfaction. The faster they run, the more they grab, the more | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| being is, the purer is its energy, the faster its frequency and the more radiant its matter | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| pain is experienced in its full intensity, the faster it dissolves into its original state -- flowing | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| be accomplished. The more you know that, the faster it will be done. Open yourself up to | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| of strength and inspiration within, the easier and faster will you deal with the obstructions. It is | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| momentum increases in a spiral movement that goes faster and faster until the force converges into one | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| in a spiral movement that goes faster and faster until the force converges into one point so | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| an open and intelligent frame of mind much faster than you think, if you will only stretch | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| discouraged and wonder why you do not grow faster, why you do not succeed in resolving problems | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| that the more an entity is developed, the faster effects follow causes. Beings who are still relatively | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| it is infused with the Christ spirit, the faster the burden will be dissolved in the most | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |