| Feelers.....................3 | |
| you. And if you send out your inner feelers, you will all know that you are not | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| You sabotage communication either by frightening the tentative feelers of the other soul back into withdrawal, or | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| become a reality if you use all your feelers, your inner sensitivity, to attune to the meaning | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| Feeling.....................1009 | |
| into these levels. They are: Doing, thinking and feeling. The most difficult task is on the emotional | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| your future life on earth. Every act, thought, feeling has its form, which then builds the spiritual | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| subject as the theme of today's lectures. The feeling grows from several roots, therefore there are a | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| greater the deviation is -- then a vague feeling of sadness and longing can grip them at | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| of the word; they cannot move out a feeling which is vital in the life of a | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| in the right and fulfilling way. Then a feeling of weariness is the answer of their souls | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| in the soul which then can elicit the feeling of world weariness, since the person will remain | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| I with its vanity and pride. Then the feeling of unfulfillment, of vague yearning, will disappear, since | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| someone very much, you often have the vague feeling that then you must be taking some love | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| love even more, and you have the same feeling about someone else's love for you; it seems | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| all its strength, with every single current of feeling, to abide by the spiritual laws. It wants | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| in self-pity you try to reproduce this remembered feeling, but in circumstances which are no longer the | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| your pain. Because of this difference, the same feeling can in one case be right and healthy | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| path. When the highest steps are reached, the feeling of brotherhood, of love, of at-oneness with the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| requirement for a spiritual experience and for the feeling of great bliss that accompanies it, it is | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| given by those who have had them. Any feeling is difficult to express in words. The higher | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| reaction, pretending it is not there, until the feeling sinks into the unconscious. It is precisely this | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| the action is not supported by a corresponding feeling, it becomes a lie. If you courageously fight | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| other fault you may still have, and by feeling how much joy you can experience by letting | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| entirely on God, yet they cannot experience the feeling clearly, and they waver in their loneliness, because | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| while completely takes possession of one. This wonderful feeling, though, does not stay with you forever. Hearing | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| will one day come to the point of feeling the need to give God something back in | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| attitude is, how mistaken both in thought and feeling. It is much better to start with the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| a matter of thinking, meditation is prayer with feeling, it engages the soul forces as compared to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| though they may not have the power of feeling forms, can nevertheless manifest their own greatness when | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| concentration in prayer, and the liberation of the feeling currents, which brings about some loosening of the | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| It does not have to be always a feeling of hatred; it is enough to be irritated | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| a personal nature. But whenever there is a feeling of heaviness, of anger, of resistance, of fear | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| for real what they can see and touch; feeling states cannot be seen or touched. When we | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| can experience a faint echo of this blissful feeling of melting into oneness when overtaken by a | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| of melting into oneness when overtaken by a feeling of immense bliss. You can perhaps sense how | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| larger meaning and connect your knowledge with your feeling. Then insight will grow in you, for which | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| here. Only when you bring together knowledge and feeling will you gain insights by reading inspired literature | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| right path, however, and you have that deep feeling of contentment and fulfillment yet there are still | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| experience it again, looking at the film, a feeling of endless peace. It gives you a sense | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| the imperfection living in your lower nature without feeling too disturbed about it, after a while you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| by thoughts, but also by feelings, since a feeling is really just an unthought thought not yet | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| Although thought creates a different form than a feeling does, nevertheless, both create very definite and substantial | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| all of you -- you must have a feeling of victory, or liberation. It is as if | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| such as difficulties, hardships, and tests. If that feeling does not accompany such information, do not trust | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| through a dream perhaps, or through your own feeling of enlightenment. Nothing can shake this deep knowledge | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| other spheres. QUESTION: If there is a sudden feeling of happiness about us or an occasional pleasant | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| has given you, in some way, a disharmonious feeling or reaction. And no matter how wrong the | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| that way. As you know, each thought and feeling is a substantial form in the spirit world | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| result. There is no action, thought, or even feeling that does not produce a result. Some effects | 18 FREE WILL |
| shell behind. Your whole personality, your thinking, your feeling, and your opinions if they are very deeply | 18 FREE WILL |
| So when a person dies with a fanatic feeling of patriotism, he or she will not feel | 18 FREE WILL |
| these thoughts quite so far; nevertheless, that slight feeling of resistance against Christ in a number of | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| for light. This would perhaps constitute the only feeling these beings had at that time. Very gradually | 21 THE FALL |
| one of the subtle bodies, just as all feeling is in another subtle body. The subtle bodies | 21 THE FALL |
| body, where all purified and perfect thinking and feeling will have integrated into the last, ultimate and | 21 THE FALL |
| life in its various aspects. But thinking or feeling belongs to different realms and therefore take place | 21 THE FALL |
| -- for as you know, every thought, every feeling, every ambition, and every act is formed in | 22 SALVATION |
| truth, and rather believe you are living and feeling and thinking in this or that respect according | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| what you have been so far incapable of feeling. Instead, use your efforts in the direction of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| lives, and because wrong habits of thinking and feeling have implanted themselves deeper and deeper in you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| actual results can manifest in your life. A feeling of deep contentment and peace will come to | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| God, it will always leave you with a feeling of emptiness, dissatisfaction, or even frustration. So if | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| is always the same: you cannot conquer any feeling as long as you are afraid to face | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to face it. I promise you that any feeling you have will not be half as frightening | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| will feel so right in every respect. This feeling is what distinguishes God's way from your human | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| not a thought or an idea but a feeling -- is a vague impression of a very | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| You let them slip by. If an unpleasant feeling comes up in you, you are very quick | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| you may see once again how every inner feeling can be right when it comes from the | 31 SHAME |
| this fault, so as to prevent you from feeling guilty. For no fault has been added on | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| that I am not speaking personally since this feeling exists in so many people. In other words | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| In the last lecture you talked about the feeling of shame that manifests itself in guilt feelings | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| of this kind there often is an unrecognized feeling that he or she is something special to | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| possess God for himself. This is a harmful feeling -- and also a dangerous one. Dangerous because | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| anyone else in the eyes of God. The feeling that you are something special to God can | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| should be, is there not somewhere a hidden feeling you have never acknowledged in which you believe | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| God than other people? The root of this feeling may even exist in people whose faith is | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| process unfolds. And if you find that the feeling of being special may apply to you at | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| one person will grow up with a strong feeling of God-consciousness, perhaps even in spite of atheistic | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| person in frustration often turns to God. The feeling is, God will not disappoint me. God has | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| act of unselfish giving will bring you a feeling of happiness and security that never comes to | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| accepted all that life stands for. Any disharmonious feeling you have in connection with the adversities in | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| yourself. Ask yourself: What do I mean by feeling as I do? Am I struggling against life's | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| you have discovered deeper levels of consciousness. This feeling cannot be forced; it cannot be controlled. It | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| inappropriate defenses. But if you realize that this feeling of isolation is common to everyone, that it | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| manifestation. You can no longer connect with the feeling of reality you have tasted at other times | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| an unpleasant sensation. To encounter them with a feeling of guilt will get you nowhere. Realize that | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| you are, you do not realize what the feeling of guilt really means. In fact, it is | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| you as great a power, as great a feeling of security as surging ahead on this road | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| But if you face your wrong conclusions by feeling them, by reexperiencing all the emotions consciously, you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| bodies that they can endure dreadful injuries without feeling any pain. They have learned to accept the | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| in these chains, you kick against the world, feeling it unjust, and often even wallow in self-pity | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| my dear ones. You will have a strong feeling of certainty. It will appear to you as | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| knowledge of it will make you free. That feeling of freedom I mentioned may occasionally occur already | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| images, you may at times already experience this feeling of freedom, but how much more so when | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| or else hides the discovery in the unconscious, feeling guilty about having found something unworthy in the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| will discover that your embarrassment comes from a feeling of humiliation. When you pray to God you | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| will cancel out all the disharmony, all the feeling of injustice or sadness, defiance or misery. Just | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| themselves that only they are capable of truly feeling. They secretly look down on people they derogatorily | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| good intuition and is sometimes less afraid of feeling and inner experience than is the reason- type | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| experience, of giving one's self up to a feeling without knowing the outcome and the possible advantage | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| Aside from this triad -- willing, thinking, and feeling -- are there any other types? ANSWER: Yes | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| eros, many people would never experience the great feeling and beauty that is contained in real love | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| known. The utterly selfish person will, while this feeling lasts, have unselfish impulses. Lazy people will get | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| be. As I said before, many use this feeling of happiness carelessly and greedily, never passing the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| currents will weaken with time. I cannot help feeling that way now, but I hope to become | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| intensity, not in the characteristic or type. A feeling is more potent and intense than any thought | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| law of affinity, because the forms of thought, feeling, and desire attract that which corresponds. The whole | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| point, there is so much controversy and personal feeling that the image prejudice will prevent nearly everyone | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| actually remember -- perhaps only as a vague feeling, but nevertheless remember -- just when you decided | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| have already integrated the right concept at the feeling level -- seeing how your emotions still deviate | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| other hand, is the product of your thinking, feeling, and being, and it is formed from them | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the problem which is that you cannot help feeling dependent on the one you love, and therefore | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| or rather exactly these -- has experienced a feeling of peace, strength, and a sense of being | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| is the kind of pain of becoming sick, feeling the symptoms of an onsetting illness. One is | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| to help another. You must have had that feeling to know what it is like; only then | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| to stress that it is an unjustified guilt feeling when you blame yourself for not being perfect | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| as such. Its existence is no reason for feeling guilty. You act on a misunderstanding when you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| feel guilty about a God-given force instead of feeling guilty about your fear of loving, which is | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| friends realize that an illogical way of thinking, feeling, and reacting exists in every personality, even though | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| guilt has a further, and again inevitable, reaction. Feeling guilty, the unconscious says, I desire to be | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| eradicated, yet, due to this deeply hidden guilt feeling, the stronger one desires happiness, the guiltier one | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| in humanity as a whole. Only by deeply feeling into yourself and only by complete self-honesty -- | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| these goals? Inevitably the result must be a feeling of inadequacy and inferiority. Since you do not | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| Would such a child still have a guilt feeling? ANSWER: Outer manifestations often occur in children. Whenever | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| different from her or his surroundings, has a feeling of not belonging, of being isolated and unique | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |