| as well as the whole book of life. Feelings, wishes, or thoughts evolve not only from the | 18 FREE WILL |
| who have gone to the beyond still have feelings of love for their children or relatives. ANSWER | 18 FREE WILL |
| will be your world because your thoughts, opinions, feelings, and attitudes create the world around you. I | 18 FREE WILL |
| Why? This is not just. These thoughts and feelings are often lurking in the souls of human | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| Only in your material world are thoughts and feelings abstract: in other worlds spirits create their own | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| in mind that your attitudes, your thoughts, your feelings, your opinions, and your goals create your world | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| human -- that your attitudes, your opinions, your feelings, and your thoughts create the spiritual worlds, even | 21 THE FALL |
| manifest, not only outwardly, but also in your feelings. By observing your reactions you will learn to | 21 THE FALL |
| however, manifests in your emotional life, in your feelings and in your subconscious. Even to become conscious | 21 THE FALL |
| your subconscious. Even to become conscious of your feelings, a great deal of self-knowledge is necessary; most | 21 THE FALL |
| necessary; most people are unaware of their real feelings and emotional reactions and are thus slave to | 21 THE FALL |
| you do not let your doubts shade your feelings. If your feelings are receptive and open, you | 22 SALVATION |
| let your doubts shade your feelings. If your feelings are receptive and open, you will be able | 22 SALVATION |
| attitudes, their mentality, their longing, their goals, their feelings, their deeds and thoughts. Is that clear? QUESTION | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| searching for your own soul, your own innermost feelings and motives. This is the only way you | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| first step is again self-honesty. Compare your actual feelings to the true course you know to be | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| actions or even on your thoughts. Changing your feelings requires the slow process of self-development and self-recognition | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| Primarily this path is about changing your innermost feelings. How to go about that is the question | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| not think so in exactly these words, but feelings of this sort go on in you without | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| without your quite realizing them. However, these hidden feelings exist. Even if you turn away from your | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| or think or feel certain things. If these feelings still exist in your lower self, you turn | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| will fill you and will automatically generate these feelings without any direct endeavor on your part. If | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| learn to interpret and translate such perhaps vague feelings into concise thoughts. This fear is an important | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the lower self come out. Listen to your feelings in connection with incidents that have always brought | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| trend in you. Then try to translate these feelings into concise thoughts and words. Do this constantly | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| with humility. If you do that constantly, your feelings will change. Constant self-observation and self-honesty will have | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| of this kind of training, very gradually your feelings will begin to change. This is the only | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| accepting yourself in the right way, without guilt feelings and self-abuse. The latter are unhealthy and unproductive | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| can observe the forms of your thoughts and feelings. I can see your lower self that fights | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| will eventually find out where in your deeper feelings, reactions, and thoughts, if not in your deeds | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| so. Think back in your life; examine your feelings in these rare moments; analyze them from this | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| deed if it is not supported by purified feelings. And purified feelings are your goal on this | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| is not supported by purified feelings. And purified feelings are your goal on this path, for which | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| through actual bad deeds, bad thoughts, and impure feelings, but also by lacking the love and understanding | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| time you will find that your reactions, your feelings and your views, even on quite general subjects | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| be a keen detective of your most hidden feelings and their true nature; you have to train | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| belongs to them. They have built with their feelings, with their thoughts, and with their general and | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| terms without trying to change yourself immediately, because feelings cannot be changed by a mere act of | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| even aware yet. Test yourself concerning your real feelings. Only by taking this road and by really | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to allow into your consciousness the reactions and feelings that will come up and give them clear | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in their own way. If unhappy events or feelings recur constantly, they are a clue to your | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| discovered. Ask yourself questions as to what your feelings are, what your desire currents really want, and | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| your desire currents really want, and whether these feelings and currents are truly in accordance with divine | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| do not know how to find your real feelings. Knowing how to begin is not half as | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you begin to focus your attention on the feelings, noticing what the desire is behind them, recognition | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the past few hours and think what your feelings actually were during them or during any particular | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| of daily review. Use self-honesty to examine your feelings and the desires behind them. That is the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| a constant process of self- analysis of your feelings every day. You will automatically get to know | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| him. What counts is a person's inner attitudes, feelings, reactions, motives, and sense of responsibility. QUESTION: How | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and as long as people cannot refine their feelings, there cannot be peace. It is impossible. War | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| that you muster the courage to test your feelings, to translate them into clear and concise words | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| surely do more for you than any self-deception. Feelings change indirectly and not by force, nor by | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| will be the best means to change your feelings gradually also in this respect. I do not | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| it by trying to muster up the same feelings of hurt vanity as though another human being | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| do not matter half as much as your feelings tell you. If you learn to be more | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| lightforce cannot be liberated as long as your feelings do not correspond to spiritual laws. Thus, you | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| spiritual laws. Thus, you are unjust in your feelings: you put yourself on a higher plane than | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| you a number of opportunities to observe your feelings in exactly this way. Unfortunately, you bypass most | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| food that helps you to discover where your feelings still deviate from the ideal state. Find the | 31 SHAME |
| are able to reveal consciously hidden thoughts and feelings, you need, with our help, to try to | 31 SHAME |
| I do so to avoid completely unnecessary hurt feelings. In learning to become aware of these currents | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| fault is in a situation when you have feelings of rejection, culminating into feelings of resentment? ANSWER | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| when you have feelings of rejection, culminating into feelings of resentment? ANSWER: In the first place your | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| you become resentful. In order to overcome these feelings, this current should be examined separately at first | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| feeling of shame that manifests itself in guilt feelings, and so on. This often has an effect | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| the person who has the shame and guilt feelings. There is nothing as contagious, my friends, as | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| get to know myself; I must analyze my feelings; but nothing of the sort is ever done | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| to me. If you cultivate these thoughts and feelings, continuing to battle with your lower self that | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| be utterly unaware in your intellect that such feelings exist in your relationship with God, it is | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| apply to you. When you have discovered such feelings -- even to a small extent -- think | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| to whom this may apply to test your feelings when you think about God, when you feel | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| stands against another. Your deeds, your thoughts, your feelings, your reactions and your attitudes create definite forms | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| point of view. Since all thoughts, endeavors, and feelings create spiritual forms, such a group striving sincerely | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| all, never, never be afraid of your own feelings and of life as it is. That is | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| if you withdraw in fear from your own feelings while you are trying to believe that the | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| you constantly create soul forms with your thoughts, feelings, and actions. In the average human soul there | 36 PRAYER |
| then to that mental process you bring your feelings and the depths of your soul, your deepest | 36 PRAYER |
| may not be so difficult, but uniting your feelings with your good will may be a lengthier | 36 PRAYER |
| thought passing through your mind; even your unconscious feelings will be prayer. Oh, I know there are | 36 PRAYER |
| chasm that exists between your thoughts and your feelings -- prayer is necessary. It is vital that | 36 PRAYER |
| thoughts create forms of confusion, so thoughts and feelings you cultivate in prayer create good, clear, and | 36 PRAYER |
| here again be careful that you keep your feelings alive. Listen to the strength of your feelings | 36 PRAYER |
| feelings alive. Listen to the strength of your feelings. Take your daily needs -- not material needs | 36 PRAYER |
| pray for them. Then try to observe your feelings when you wish them happiness. Do not deceive | 36 PRAYER |
| to take the medicine. Try to translate your feelings and learn what they mean, so that they | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| anymore. You may indicate such despair with your feelings even though your intellect does not want to | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| does not want to accept it. Test these feelings. People often think that by being negative and | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| on it and not on your thoughts and feelings that have probably been influenced by hurt pride | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| person who you think has hurt you. Bad feelings and bad thoughts add to the destructive forces | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| could even dimly realize how each of these feelings and emotions drain into a big ugly pool | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| have the courage to say: These are my feelings; I know they might be wrong, but they | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| are that way. If you can observe the feelings with detachment and acknowledge them, then you have | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| your own proper purification; the wrong thoughts and feelings that you cannot avoid having at present will | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| absence of a wrong image, all thoughts and feelings are fluctuating, dynamic and relaxed: They are flexible | 38 IMAGES |
| suffused with a number of divine forces. Thoughts, feelings, and attitudes that are unconnected with an image | 38 IMAGES |
| way, you cannot experience and relive the original feelings that led you to form the attitude in | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| Work with the newly-found knowledge by reexperiencing the feelings it evokes. Then think about it again as | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| Once you have the courage to bring your feelings out into the open, you will see for | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| emotional, subjective impression that you alone have such feelings. For that is what you unconsciously believe when | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| are very afraid to face the world, their feelings, and the unavoidable disappointments, so they withdraw and | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| If you listen within yourself and interpret your feelings, you will be able to see where your | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| expect, this healthy attitude, this analysis of your feelings will lead you to a major recognition. Formulate | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| lead you to a major recognition. Formulate the feelings. Be aware that the unpleasant reaction often occurs | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| the recognition actually is. The formulation of your feelings into concise thought is a major part of | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| you are resentful, angry, and hurt. Mostly these feelings are so superfluous, so unfounded. You know that | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| that the remedy is not to push these feelings aside as though they did not exist, but | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| angry and resentful. With many of you these feelings occur now to a lesser degree and less | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| others is modesty. Still, when you analyze your feelings about why it is so embarrassing to say | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| ANSWER: You can rationalize and cover up your feelings with many explanations. What is shyness anyway? What | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| is. So if my friends examine their inferiority feelings from that point of view, they will get | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| They are often so carried away by uncontrolled feelings that they not only lose control over themselves | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| may go from one partnership to another, sustaining feelings only as long as eros is at work | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the position of being unable to handle sexual feelings with the person they really love. This occurs | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| can still direct the way in which the feelings take their course. Discretion, and a healthy balance | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| emotion, and will are necessary to prevent the feelings from going into an improper channel. QUESTION: Is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| that can be commanded. You cannot change your feelings and emotional reactions by an act of will | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| them. Do not ever try to force your feelings. It cannot be done. I cannot emphasize this | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| toward your purification than by trying to force feelings away. You try to force your feelings with | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| force feelings away. You try to force your feelings with the best of intentions: you know certain | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| your unconscious. Humanity makes a definite distinction between feelings and thoughts. You know that in spirit both | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| of subtle matter. The way we see it, feelings are essentially the same as thoughts. The only | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| as thoughts. The only difference between thoughts and feelings is in the strength and intensity, not in | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| under the control of your unconscious thoughts or feelings. You know that thoughts cannot be changed quickly | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the conflicts ferment underneath. And since your desires, feelings, and thoughts are potent magnetic fields, they attract | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| this path should do so mainly with conflicting feelings that contain elements of disharmony. And this can | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| she may be dependent upon. Unconsciously, your old feelings are carried over from childhood, and authority now | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| can and should retrace all this to childhood feelings and reactions to your early environment. Only then | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| be noticeable to others. Nevertheless, the same rebellious feelings do exist there, too, in subtle ways, in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| do not want to expose. Exposing their true feelings was exactly what had seemed so risky and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the courage to give vent to their true feelings, their predominant qualities and faults are different. For | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the meaning of your various desires, motives, and feelings. From there on, the path becomes easier. Recognize | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| human soul. You all know that thoughts and feelings create forms of subtle matter which are of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| truth you are misusing. Only by examining your feelings, by listening into your emotions can you get | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| A current is actually a result of your feelings, your thoughts, emotions, attitudes. It is the sum | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| up by the person's deeds, thoughts, attitudes and feelings. It does not change quickly, because change in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a very warm interest in other people, positive feelings, also a certain basic detachment. The time element | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| You withhold from others your outgoing love and feelings, which always seem to involve a personal risk | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| individual. In every image you will find inferiority feelings, guilt feelings, hostility, hate, aggression, ignorance, resentment, childish | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| every image you will find inferiority feelings, guilt feelings, hostility, hate, aggression, ignorance, resentment, childish selfishness, fear | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| incarnation, they finally realize that others consider such feelings bad and wrong and that it is a | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| long as you try to push the deeper feelings away because of an outer or inner must | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| discuss tonight is your reaction to your guilt feelings. As I said before, everybody has guilt. Every | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| personality and integrate with warm, loving, giving, unselfish feelings. Instead, it has remained childish in its self-directedness | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |