| Fleetingly..................4 | |
| possible to be aware of them casually and fleetingly. It is possible to have gained one important | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| these centers. Those who are are charged only fleetingly, and to a relatively small degree during exceptional | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| deeper have become aware -- at first only fleetingly -- that it is truly you who reject | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| of this a long time ago but only fleetingly, because everyone had so much work to do | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Flesh.......................15 | |
| would think such a materialized spirit was of flesh and blood. But life on the other planets | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| the same spiritual knowledge were available in the flesh as when one is not incarnated. So Christ | 22 SALVATION |
| things, just as though he were in the flesh. You do not have to do it in | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| when He said, Unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man and drink of | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| entirely symbolic. As I have said repeatedly, the flesh means the earth matter that has to be | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| QUESTION: In astrology it is said that the flesh is the matter and the blood the emotions | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| sublimates when he says, The life of the flesh is sinful. It opposes the spirit. It represents | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| texts are specific regarding the consumption of fish, flesh, and fowl. It is commanded that of their | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and fowl. It is commanded that of their flesh shall we not eat. Christianity has no ban | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| compare it with the consistency of skin and flesh, but the surface of the subtle body of | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| has much greater variety than physical skin and flesh. Words are so limited that they may often | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| any entity, whether a human being in the flesh, or one who does not live in a | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| state of consciousness, whether they are in the flesh or out of the body. It applies to | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| air you breathe, as are your bones, muscles, flesh, organs and skin. They form an infinitely complicated | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| of the spirit can be born in the flesh. You will see, as you grow in stature | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Fleshly.....................4 | |
| the devil and therefore I must sublimate my fleshly impulses and spiritualize them. This leads to repression | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| Being. I do not refer solely to the fleshly creations; the principle applies to everything. Growth within | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| opposites. Pleasure, in the real sense, is intensely fleshly and intensely spiritual. There is no division between | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| intensely spiritual. There is no division between the fleshly and spiritual state. This is why there is | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Flexibility.................32 | |
| it about. This requires a certain humility and flexibility. It dissolves rigid self-love that cannot take life | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| To ask for guidance already implies a certain flexibility, a lack of self-will. So ask for guidance | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or fixed. It is always flexible. This very flexibility appears as a threat to people. They want | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| truth and light and life. The belief that flexibility is unsafe is one of the great abysses | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| flexible all the time. By its very nature flexibility, in the final analysis, is unchangeable, yet never | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| thought think of something different. This will retain flexibility of outlook and prevent misunderstanding. COMMENT: Even in | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| specific situation. They complement and strengthen one another. Flexibility is maintained between them so that none of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| that you are capable of taking criticism with flexibility and are able to learn from it. Thus | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| self-made one. The nature of the core is flexibility and individuality. Although it is human to be | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| -- reason, love, understanding, insight, strength, resourcefulness, resiliency, flexibility, adaptability, self-assertion, creativity -- that your real self | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| see, then make inner choices, which entail the flexibility of change. In accepting imperfection, you become less | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| the reality, which is often different and requires flexibility and patience, is too much for them. Thus | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| than the daydreams, but one needs courage and flexibility; one has to give up the need to | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| It will also provide you with the stamina, flexibility, and resiliency to meet life in all its | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| you are engaged in. Let us speak of flexibility versus rigidity. Flexibility is the quality of resilient | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| in. Let us speak of flexibility versus rigidity. Flexibility is the quality of resilient, elastic, healthy soul-substance | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| rigidity. Do not expect to find a healthy flexibility beneath it. Be prepared to find the other | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| of human love that requires practical involvement, the flexibility of putting one's egocentric aims below the needs | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| rightfulness of the need for interdependency, relinquishing, and flexibility. These latter aspects are most ardently denied by | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| its concomitant -- an exaggerated strength. He confuses flexibility, adjustability, the ability to take advice with weakness | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| Reality requires you to be ready with your flexibility when necessary. Because you unconsciously know all that | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| The imbalance this failure creates induces rigidity where flexibility should exist, as well as a helpless loss | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| Once the tension is abandoned, pleasure follows. The flexibility of relaxing into what is, even if what | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| own best forces, intelligence, intuition, talents, observation, and flexibility to get along with others in giving and | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| take No for an answer, you will have flexibility. You will see how very often the No | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| ugly traits in me. Truth, however, requires both flexibility and humility. It also requires courage. Fear assumes | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| go of something negative, a new energy and flexibility within the soul substance. Or it may be | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| flexible giving-in, going-with attitude; and a finely attuned flexibility to flow with your rhythm of life. Ignorance | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| This attitude of lightness in your perceptions, of flexibility, of motility of mind will make you the | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| give and take cannot be learned, neither can flexibility and openness. People in this phase continue to | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| dullness. Individualistic as they seem, they lack the flexibility and the breathing life that only being values | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| felt in the joyousness, aliveness, ability to change, flexibility, and ever-pulsating nature of the whole organism. By | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| Flexible....................85 | |
| to the goal. The outer will must be flexible; it must be prepared for change. Sometimes it | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| feelings are fluctuating, dynamic and relaxed: They are flexible. The whole universe is suffused with a number | 38 IMAGES |
| the universe, is continuously in motion. Everything is flexible and flowing. All divine forces that flow through | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| has to be established. Then you will be flexible enough to use all the faculties God has | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| In a relationship that is alive, healthy, and flexible, it must alternate and change constantly. At any | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| occasionally, but only where you are unblocked and flexible. Otherwise the voice of God cannot penetrate through | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to others. Divine law is wide and very flexible. It knows none of the rigidities and generalizations | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| patient, unconcerned with one's ego. God's will is flexible, while self-will may want to attain the same | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the word relative would have to be very flexible. Because it is impossible that a great degree | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| is laid open for consideration and thereby made flexible and amenable to change. In your daily life | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| supposed female trends in the male. The more flexible this disc is, the more these opposite trends | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| that some of you, due to a particularly flexible and willing unconscious, have arrived at facing yourselves | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| not occur to them that something wise, true, flexible and alive may be behind the ritual. They | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| differently from what you expect. You will be flexible and able to face what is in reality | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you put it in these words. Truth is flexible; by its very nature it cannot be fixed | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| be rigid, static, or fixed. It is always flexible. This very flexibility appears as a threat to | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| what is fixed is safe, and what is flexible is unsafe. Since truth is alive like anything | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| anything else that is alive, it must be flexible. So people fear truth and light and life | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| and your attitude are going to be. With flexible truth, the responsibility is automatically shifted onto yourself | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| in yourself, you will no longer fear the flexible universe. You will not need to cling to | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to a rigid law. You will see the flexible law working, and it will not be a | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you will not fear the truth of the flexible laws of the universe. Nor will you fear | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| universe. Nor will you fear life, which is flexible all the time. By its very nature flexibility | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| secure. The only safety lies in the eternal, flexible truth of the life stream, which is eternally | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| my will. Although outwardly you appear meek and flexible, inwardly just the opposite is the case. It | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| alone functions with all your capacities. It is flexible and intuitive. Its feelings alone are true and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| unification masquerade under the belief that one is flexible and always has the right judgment? ANSWER: Yes | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| raw, grasping way rather than in a healthy, flexible, receptive way; greed; craving, which leads, in crass | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| are not self-centered, you can afford to be flexible, however. You can see and experience each situation | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| and replacing it with truth, which is always flexible and knows no rules. It alone can provide | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| from showing you how the healthy, mature, and flexible person will handle confusions and the desire to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the point where real morality is alive and flexible in you, and you will then dispense with | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| pursued to the end. It is dynamic and flexible and therefore always requires the middle road which | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| until you convince the negating part to become flexible and grow with the rest of you. This | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| without doing so you can never really be flexible enough to change. Your haste, and your shame | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| But fulfillment is possible only if you are flexible and flow with life's stream. Due to the | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| reverse, so that when they try to be flexible and resilient in meeting outer circumstances that do | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| have everything well ordered. A reality, which is flexible and contradictory, for which there are no fixed | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| whole. For the parts, however, it must be flexible, must adapt to ever-changing circumstances and conditions. With | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| in regard to true spiritual experience. The more flexible you are, the less will you fall into | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| is the opposite of life, which is always flexible, always in motion. Feelings are movement, too. When | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| creative expression; the needs for self-assertion and for flexible adjustment; the needs for ego-gratification and for unselfishness | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| integrate more fully and harmoniously. Through healthy strength, flexible discipline, and mature self-responsibility the entity becomes strong | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| in the soul substance -- this time a flexible, light, truthful one which finally erases the old | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| Truthful concepts create relaxed, warm, positive feelings and flexible, harmonious, rhythmic, organic soul movements. For example, the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| self-will and replace it with a relaxed, free-flowing, flexible will, based on discriminating reasoning power, and calling | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| By itself it is not sufficiently intuitive and flexible to meet each moment as it comes and | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| to respond to it adequately. For such a flexible response the core of your being must be | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| but in a positive, wonderful way. It is flexible, alive, vibrant and full of the strong feelings | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| felt, a relaxed inner state is necessary. A flexible inner climate must prevail, producing a life-affirming, positive | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| Therefore, it cannot relax, it cannot adopt the flexible, unafraid attitude that is essential to be attuned | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| undefended in your soul substance, by allowing the flexible movements of natural pulsation to continue, you seem | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the cramp and reestablish an easy, smooth, vibrant, flexible pulsation. Making such a comparison between the physical | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| reemerge stronger and better than ever -- more flexible, wiser, and filled with the pleasure supreme that | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| everything, so that the ego is always flowing, flexible, relaxed, and permeated by the knowledge, power and | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| be the final truth. Ultimate reality is essentially flexible and movable. Humankind is not put into a | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| not fulfilled. Healthy, openly expressed self- assertion and flexible giving in constitute a balance, which is disturbed | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| healthy autonomy or of rebellion and hostile opposition. Flexible adaptability can be the manifestation of a healthy | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| life is hindered when the ego is not flexible and strong. It has to be independent without | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| whose inner unconscious problems create havoc, rejects a flexible, accepting attitude toward life, unexpected developments, people, and | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| is so important to let your mind be flexible and wide open. Do not close doors with | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| no longer confuse self- assertion with hostility, or flexible compromise with unhealthy submission. These are the aspects | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| instead of contracting against it, you remain open, flexible, pulsating, alive -- even though at first this | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| ego-trick makes rigidity appear desirable and makes open, flexible movement appear threatening and/or humiliating. Pride and fear | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| possible. The arduous task of making the ego flexible always comes first: teaching it, bending, changing it | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| only a possibility, in which you are so flexible, so much in command of yourself, that all | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| and foster the illusion that the soul is flexible and in a state of flux. By the | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| feelings have been dealt with are much more flexible and can easily decide to be angry, sad | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| inspiration. This practice of making yourself fluid and flexible is very important for your ultimate alignment with | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| this has happened, those beliefs have to become flexible. Consider other beliefs. Broaden your outlook about the | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| when you allow your mind to become more flexible and try out new alternative interpretations. If the | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| beyond the confines of the construct, the more flexible your mind will become. As the years go | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| center through the ability to be fluid and flexible on all levels. That should be the motto | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| But the mind has to be open and flexible enough to let in new possibilities. And you | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| itself. You can wait in a state of flexible desire, in a stream of soft trustful waiting | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| Instead it leads to visualization, which is a flexible, realistic, wide-open system with many alternative ways from | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| and trust; pride humility; selfwill a supple, resilient, flexible giving-in, going-with attitude; and a finely attuned flexibility | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| these two principles meet in a very harmonious, flexible, and mutually enhancing way. In any negative creation | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| yes or no to make way for a flexible trust guided by your inner God. You need | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| inner God. You need to be willing, pliable, flexible, trusting and forever ready for another change you | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| disappear. The laws of morality will be completely flexible. Each case is different. But for that you | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| do this when you resist change, for this flexible attitude requires a constantly changing world. Freedom and | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| change. Each issue requires a new, different, very flexible approach. Situations that may appear similar may in | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| when to assert yourself and when to be flexible and give in. Human beings have always sought | 228 BALANCE |
| pour forth into your world in a flowing, flexible, ever- changing way and create indeed a new | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |