| friends, blessed is this hour. The creative life force or principle is all around you. It is | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| in every possible respect. For the creative life force does not wish you anything but good -- | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| that enable you to tune in on this force, and the conditions that keep you away from | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| question cannot see it either. The constructive life force has its counterpart in a negative force, emanating | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| life force has its counterpart in a negative force, emanating from confusion, ignorance, and wrong motives. Your | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| without reserve, to pay this price? Do not force yourself to say, Yes, I am ready, when | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| could tune in on the great, invigorating cosmic force at your disposal. It is all around you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| them to tune in, will pass by this force without being able to be affected by it | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| able to tune in on the great universal force in all aspects of your life right away | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the necessary contact to partake of this wonderful force, so that you will be inside it, instead | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| of you will confirm, you approach the life force and invigoration by the mere fact of being | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| shortcut is possible to partake of the Life Force by simply exchanging a truth for an untruth | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| great Universal Truth, as well as the Life Force have access to your soul. I do not | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| you can tune in on the great, universal force at your disposal if you but learn how | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| you rebel against a world that tries to force you into behavior patterns. But this, too, is | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| far, there is no sense in trying to force yourself into something your feelings cannot yet follow | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| too often struggles against the tide, trying to force life into the wrong concept. When this proves | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| well that your desire is unreasonable in its force and subjective importance, yet you cannot help it | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the constant effort you waste in trying to force life into the mold of your illusion in | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| capacity to love truly unfolds -- not by force and compulsion, but in reality -- you have | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| we should go about it? ANSWER: Do not force it. The way you can go about it | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| spirit substance becomes part of the great cosmic force. What is so often misunderstood about this state | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| frustrated. You often rebel inwardly and try to force the people around you to break this law | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| of you as long as you try to force it upon yourself; as long as you act | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| act would be to your advantage. Thus you force yourself, and this makes you tired. You cannot | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| who -- so you wish to believe -- force you into it. The next step will be | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| I have stated. Therefore, I say, do not force it, for forcing cannot succeed. Rather try to | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| tears apart the human heart. You try to force yourself to love, while your natural desire coming | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| actually about being helplessly exposed to an evil force and not so much about pain and death | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| you suppress any other manifestation of the life force. Although you may now give yourself the right | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| calm. Relax completely, without trying to exert any force, strain, or pressure. Begin to follow the abdominal | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| cease after a long period, gradually diminishing in force as you learn from it, understand its reason | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| encounters a delayed reaction from the past full force, at the very time one starts the work | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| make you unpleasant. Inwardly, you constantly want to force others to love you. The outer cover is | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| but in the last analysis you want to force people to love you. And forced love is | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| experiencing this free gift only if you don't force it. You can never experience the free gift | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| friends, do not misunderstand. When I say you force others to love you, I do not refer | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| very devious current with which you try to force others to love you -- mostly by trying | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| utmost capability, or you give your love full force to those who may still be afraid of | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| there can be no rigidity. You cannot artificially force the stages, they grow out of your work | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not dare to live it out. Thus, you force the world around you in fantasy only. You | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| other. It does not mean that you should force the joy away. But humor it and look | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| observe the child in you working. You cannot force it away, even after you have fully recognized | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to appear so bad and thereby try to force others to sympathize with you, to pay attention | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| about withdrawing. Find also how you need to force others to love you in order to atone | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the cultivation of your intuition as a growing force. It means self-respect, trust in others with discrimination | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is not to use such instructions as a force, but as the expression of your inner will | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| very healthy way, the smoldering, unhealthy drive and force will be taken out of your emotional reactions | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the one hand, release an entirely new inner force and energy, and, on the other, you will | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| remaining essentially the same individual. The second basic force is the inverted, egocentric principle by which most | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| is the condition of tuning into the particular force or principle of an already existing emotion. This | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| different vibration; you will tune into a different force or current. As yet, the vibrations emanating from | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| no good at all. For only a spiritual force coming out of your soul will have any | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| you do not vibrate with it. You cannot force this by will. But what you can and | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| One calls for your pushing ahead, trying to force life, people, and circumstances to succumb to your | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| the various means by which you try to force or defend against these wrong conclusions, are unreal | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| as creation, God, life, fate, the cosmic life force, the stream of life, or reality. In reality | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| therefore you give life to others. The life force penetrates through you and finds you an instrument | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are alive, when you are the life force. You have a life-giving effect on others. Life | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the other hand, you unconsciously use the aggressive force to overcome your insecurity, your feelings of inadequacy | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you also gain love. In reality the aggressive force, in its healthy way, is supposed to serve | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- others, but also to your own life force, how you darken and deaden life itself. The | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| stream of water. It can move rocks and force for itself an outlet wherever it gathers the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| But the intrinsic quality of purity and life-giving force will be there forever. 80. COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to worry, plan or direct your emotions, nor force your feelings to go in any specific direction | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| your attitude toward death, the more the life force can flow through you, and therefore the more | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| to terms with it, thereby freeing the life force in you, which remains bottled up as long | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| own soul. Hence you cannot free the life force that lies within unutilized. So examine your faith | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| because you then learn to live. The life force will be released and a great measure of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| This motivation is negative and negates the life force itself. But if you face and come to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| that you grow in this direction the life force will flow through you and give you a | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| self-deception and a complete denial of the life force. The principle of death is feared so much | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| death is feared so much that the life force is completely negated. It is a very self-destructive | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| a negative occurrence -- you free the life force in you, which will then invigorate you to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| in the body -- by the flowing life force which will truly make you experience pleasure and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| will become quite apparent. Since the freed-up life force must flow through the body, it makes the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| If this basic premise is the main governing force of your motivation for perfection, any discovery of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| knowledge, accomplishment, of strength. Thereby they hope to force others to feel loving and protecting toward them | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| to this ideal of yourself so as to force others to comply with your needs. In other | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| be found. If the attempt is made to force the compulsive behavior away by discipline, the best | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| best you can hope to achieve is to force the symptom away, while other symptoms will develop | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| removing errors, you inwardly and subtly try to force others to give you security by trying to | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| distortion is a tight holding down of a force that should be fluid. It is an inverted | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| that to recognize these childish emotions does not force you to act upon them. This is constantly | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| instinct of procreation. This is always the underlying force of your resistance, no matter what the outer | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| it seems much better to remain helpless, to force the powerful adult world, or God, or any | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| even while you feel temporarily alone, an inner force begins to grow in you, long before you | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| You will feel that you are the driving force of your life. You can help yourself if | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| frame of mind is not to try to force the issue. The more you want to penetrate | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| feel very much the opposite of what you force yourself to feel. As the first few tentative | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| while false needs have an excessive and compulsive force. Because of this you often repress them; they | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| do justice to their real demands. The driving force to still the hunger is misdirected. Real, legitimate | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and should not be used to moralize and force the need away. This would only lead to | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| severe reaction, is partly due to trying to force it away without understanding the irrational belief of | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| it. He will slowly realize that a stronger force urges him on and on. At first he | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| unquestionably divine quality like love, the most potent force in the universe, is often misunderstood and rejected | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| step toward reality than if you tried to force yourself into it before you were ready. Here | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| and can easily lead to misinterpretation. If you force discipline, without independent decision and full conviction, the | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| before new, constructive, positive causes can go into force and produce comparable effects. This does not happen | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the error in this respect. Therefore, do not force yourself, or discipline yourself in your actions toward | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| have more trust in life, in the life force, in God, in the wisdom and love that | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| you with the ability to relinquish; a new force and security will grow in you. You will | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| condition, as always, it is important not to force such feelings away and deceive yourself into a | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| you manipulate your emotions: by prohibiting their full force, and stultifying their intensity. Both procedures tamper with | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| the universe. You may call it the life force, an aspect of God, pure reason, pure love | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| repressed, unrecognized needs may create an even stronger force, just because they are repressed. This force then | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| stronger force, just because they are repressed. This force then must have an outlet. If healthy need | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| one's isolation and separateness, may paralyze the life force so much that the person no longer strives | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| not the most important, you need the love force in your heart; it is your spiritual life-blood | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| is your spiritual life-blood. This is the driving force -- in a good and healthy sense -- | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| inner channel through which the life and love force can flow and lubricate your soul, so to | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| lubricate your soul, so to speak. Without this force, inner drought cannot be prevented. This dryness of | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| confusion and unreality. You do not have to force the issue, but in an organic way your | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| protection he wants. So he will invert this force that exists in him due to unresolved negative | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| it to himself. Only the dissolution of this force will stop the sadistic and the masochistic current | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| become stronger, but only if you do not force it directly. The best way to get to | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the strength, the ingenuity, the creativity and love force that is inherent in you, waiting to be | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| truth, involvement, and life itself impossible. These alternatives force you to stay on your guard and be | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| realistic, truthful, and productive reactions, without trying to force yourself to feel the latter. Merely compare and | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| When the need to receive is a greedy force that is intrinsically selfish, then one can speak | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| have learned that it is very harmful to force yourself to feel love when you do not | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| it. Therefore, consciously or unconsciously, you try to force it. You use your will to produce a | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you had such a genuine and strong love force. If this love force was not entirely free | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| genuine and strong love force. If this love force was not entirely free of childish currents, then | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| wish to love comes out in a stronger force than what the other person is capable of | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| feeling of respect and liking if the strong force of your love is not welcome. In your | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| affection is unwilling to receive the powerful, demanding force that they emanate. If you were less defensive | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| feeling in such a mature way, do not force yourself into it. Rather, see yourself as you | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| see yourself as you extend this strong, demanding force and observe your reaction when it is repelled | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| your reaction when it is repelled. See the force in action, experience it without judging yourself. This | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| what you think they are. Thus you may force yourself to live with something that is by | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| what you say. Whenever a person wants to force something on another, whether this be love or | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| exist between these people, but the strong will force pushes the real possibility out of the picture | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| is true of the will. Will is a force that overcomes the resistance of matter, the resistance | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| self cannot be governed by will or by force. It is a direct manifestation, not of thought | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| for. Do not try to cut out by force the overemphasis on the outer intellect and will | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| often used wrongly. It is used as a force, superimposing and forcefully cutting out something. Even the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| and, slowly, this aspect truly begins to lose force and impact. Whenever it still reappears and you | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| again and again is that disciplinary action is force, and therefore leads away from self-knowledge. The intent | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |