| If you discipline your thoughts and emotions, you force them to be something other than they are | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| emotions. ANSWER: When you channel your emotions, you force them to run according to what you decide | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| enlightenment, it is more constructive, than trying to force yourself away from something you cannot feel. I | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| vast masses of people who preach doctrines, who force away the emotions, who feel they must be | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| not mean that you should artificially try to force love where it does not naturally exist. This | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| realize that it cannot be pushed away by force. It can dissolve only gradually, depending entirely on | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| better. It will send some aspect of its force into your hearts where it will fill you | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| forever expanding. All the cosmic forces, the life force, strain toward expansion, growth, union, and integration. Each | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| the one hand, you feel a great love force. It is part of your nature. But it | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| the perfectionism. My dearest, dearest friends, the love force, the life force, is abundantly flowing toward each | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| dearest, dearest friends, the love force, the life force, is abundantly flowing toward each one of you | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| there too, if only they persevere. But to force the facing of real guilt before the readiness | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| may be, remains shallow. It lacks the dynamic force of experience. And such experience can come into | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| full consequence on self and others, of its force, its reason for existence. You may be aware | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| so difficult and rare. The purer the spiritual force, the more are all these various conditions combined | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| pattern is set in motion, which remains in force as long as the dent in the soul-stuff | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| so that you may tune in to this force. Not one of you ever has to encounter | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| already exists within you, but lies dormant. This force that flows from within, never from the outside | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| the barricade will be swept away by the force of the waters. When life handles you roughly | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| the situation, nor will you feel the full force of the insecurity that becomes stronger as it | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| With it, you hope to appease, coerce and force, as it were, your parents or the parent-substitutes | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| it, but a paralysis of the general life- force with all its healing, regenerating effects is the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| or that aspect of my personality. Do not force yourself, because then your anxiety will cause such | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| are honest. You do not use too much force. Then you do not breed guilt and therefore | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| at a time. Maintain your awareness. Do not force your self-revelation unduly, though some courage may be | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| each one of you. It is a vibrant force of reality. May all of you who make | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| clear how they create the various conflicts that force you to choose between two alternatives. Of course | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| of the situation. The trouble is that you force the other person into the very reaction that | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| ago, I gave a lecture about the life force. Let us look into this again with the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the greater understanding you have gained. The life force is a free-flowing energy current, manifest in the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| certain essential conditions, it tunes into the life force. The life force permeates and revitalizes it. It | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| it tunes into the life force. The life force permeates and revitalizes it. It lives. A living | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| for utter bliss is contained in the life force. It is your inborn longing to partake of | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| erotic and sexual forces contained in the life force have resulted in intellectual and technical overdevelopment compared | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| compared with the ability to love. The love force cannot grow if it is arbitrarily separated from | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| kind of human love. The great spiritual love force knows no such divisions, and its cultivation is | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| suffers by the full experience of the life force in all its aspects. Quite the contrary is | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| flow of an infant's participation in the life force, its experience of the pleasure drive is acute | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| destiny -- the utter bliss of the life force -- the more it must include others. The | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| applied, so that the movement of the life force could dissolve the fixation. Experience then could take | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| a case, love, eros, and sexuality are one force, and there is no conflict between the intellect | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| pleasure during childhood activates the erotic and sexual force in the growing individual. But often painful experience | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| entity a limited experience of the revitalizing life force, which is better than the alternative of thwarting | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| all these fixations and thus set the life force free. Frustration, every lack of fulfillment, self-dislike, guilt | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| conditions, it is equally important that the life force revitalize other areas in your life. When you | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| fail to resolve fixations, you block the life force, and this blockage has consequences. The freer you | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| masochism, it is still a blessing. The life force must enter into distorted areas, even when compelled | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| significance in the evolutionary plan. The universal life force embodies greatness, beauty, and purity. It is human | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| impurity that makes one facet of the life force seem impure. Some of my friends may yet | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| blessed, all of you! Receive the vibrant life force, containing all that cannot be evaluated in terms | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| to defend themselves against the injustice and brute force of other people. There was no civil law | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| made them dependent. The more they manifested brute force in the absence of mental and emotional development | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| resolving problems. Then you will dispense with brute force because you can rely on reason and fairness | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| a compulsive one. Too often you try to force yourself by blind compulsion, while certain emotional reactions | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| from woman, but it splits the great cosmic force within, separating affection from the procreative urge. When | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| procreative urge. When human beings experience the sex force as something wrong, regardless of how unconscious this | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| an integral and inseparable part of the life force. So whenever you gain truth about yourself, a | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| opens within you, tuning you into this life-giving force. Only when misgivings, apprehension, and the old, as | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| enveloped by and permeated with the vibrant, life-giving force that knows no barriers and no fear. When | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| forces is established; continuous supply of the life force regenerates and unifies all levels of the personality | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| of your needs and their original direction and force directly leads you to an awareness of how | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| and only feels it as a dull, vague force. The minute you can pinpoint in clear-cut terms | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| Self-will causes apprehension that what you find may force you to do something your little ego is | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| therefore shame -- of giving over to a force greater than your little ego. Love between the | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| does not want to give over to any force, even if this force is most desirable. Even | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| give over to any force, even if this force is most desirable. Even though you and everyone | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| with the contradictory directions of your soul. The force driving you into love is great indeed, for | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| misapprehension that giving yourself over to the love force is the same as heedless and headless greed | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| are caused by nothing else but the governing force of unconscious factors. The unconscious is much stronger | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| thus giving you a new incentive and motor force to approach yourself in a spirit of detached | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| expression of the supreme intelligence and creative universal force. It is the life force, whose aspects have | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| and creative universal force. It is the life force, whose aspects have been discussed in a separate | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| creation as an equal principle to the life force. It consists rather of ignorance, blindness, distortion, and | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| friends that the unconscious is the more potent force, determining the outcome regardless of the conscious will | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| Be in God! 126. CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE Greetings, my dearest, dearest friends. Blessings for all | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| should like to discuss, once again, the life force. As you know, each time I discuss a | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| Let us recapitulate certain aspects of the life force. The life force is profoundly intelligent. Its intelligence | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| certain aspects of the life force. The life force is profoundly intelligent. Its intelligence is always available | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| are separated from that aspect of the life force which can give you access to the vast | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| lost in a fog of confusion, the life force cannot penetrate to you. Your effort to arrive | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| well as your reaching out for the life force, requesting its help. The pathwork is specifically preparing | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you can be in contact with the life force. You think that the day after tomorrow or | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| be perfect to be tuned into the life force. It can happen right now, provided you clear | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| now, you are in tune with the life force. If your now is confusion, depression, and stagnation | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| to enter. Being in tune with the life force is the same as being in contact with | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| more you are in contact with the life force. Being in contact with yourself, you gain a | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| and requesting the greater truth of the life force. Little by little, you become more aware of | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| necessary for being in tune with the life force. It indicates humility and proper self-evaluation. It means | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| desire for the eternal presence of the life force, with its much greater wisdom to take over | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| again be helpless and lost. The vibrant life force will flow through you -- not in rare | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| of living and being. You and the life force will be one and inseparable. The beauty of | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| one or the other aspect of the life force. In this conviction, people condition themselves so that | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| conclusion that cut you off from the life force. As you realize that the life force combines | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| life force. As you realize that the life force combines two apparent incompatibilities and begin to reach | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the blissful, enlivening, peaceful experience of the life force, apart from one's personal images and misconceptions. So | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you from being in contact with the life force and, therefore, from happiness. A deep misunderstanding for | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| self-responsibility and accountability, true contact with the life force cannot possibly exist. When you want an outer | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| happiness, too. The great power of the life force is supposed to make all things possible. Is | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| precludes the bliss of being in the life force. You greedily demand happiness in order to have | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| yourself, and therefore from contact with the life force. Your attitude is either that of a greedy | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| your desire to tap divine truth, the life force in you. As more peace and vital new | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| It puts you into contact with the life force. A fundamental and very frequent misconception in the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| truth will make it possible for the life force to fill you with vision, wisdom, and strength | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| movement for being in contact with the life force. The soul movement is of crucial importance. In | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| a disharmonious soul movement contact with the life force is impossible. Soul movements are always a result | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| harmonious waves of the life stream, or life force. My dearest friends, when you now look back | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| immeasurable wisdom, energy, and peace of the life force. To be in harmony when outside circumstances work | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the misery. Being in contact with the life force is possible even while you are still in | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| express your desire for contact with the life force. Then you will be helped to eliminate obstructions | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| eliminate obstructions and taste the vibrant, dynamic life force. Every cell of your physical and emotional organism | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| vibrant truth of the contact with the life force, with your real self, with God. Most of | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| can be adjusted, and contact with the life force becomes possible. Now, are there any questions? QUESTION | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| touch with your real self, with the life force. QUESTION: How should we think of God? ANSWER | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| one's unconscious attitude to affect the creative life force, or one can deliberately articulate the direction in | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the direction in which one wants the creative force to work. The self-directing mind sets the universal | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| and its powers, because it uses the life force as it is meant to be used, with | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| is at work: it is the same benign force which was forced to make a detour. The | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| and becoming a part of the cosmic life force which gently guides to fruition and which wants | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| to envelop him. He struggles against the cosmic force as though it were an enemy, but in | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| this true, higher self, in acting with the force purely as it comes from the source -- | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| Give up struggling on a conscious level to force yourself to adopt truths your psyche is, as | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| must also be present. Love is a purifying force, and to the degree that it is lacking | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| phase and to liberation than by trying to force your present state away through denial and superimposition | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| Would they usually be expressed by a creative force or a creative realization? Would this expression usually | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| to comprehend the free-flowing current of the love force, and what the ability, versatility, scope, and variety | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| and expressing. The tremendous power of the life force would flow into all directions. Since this being | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| holding itself together. The holding together happens by force of will, by force of mind, and by | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| holding together happens by force of will, by force of mind, and by superimposing goodness. The natural | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| spontaneously. It, too, cannot be forced. Trying to force or deny any emotion leads to self-deception which | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| Traditional religion postulates that evil is a separate force. According to this concept, people have to cope | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| decision forgotten, and what remains is a compelling force toward cruel acts. In these instances, all harm | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| RELAXATION - SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF THE LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS Greetings, my dearest friends. Blessings | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| to follow through, my friends. The dynamic life force is an extremely vibrant principle, and this vibrant | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| or severe. In other words, when a positive force mingles with a negativity or a destructive attitude | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| somehow activated, enforced, and nourished by the life force. But degrees exist, and they are a clear | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| fully face these destructive feelings, which will not force me into actions, for I am master over | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| you and thus establish self-determination, the vastest universal force will empower and activate you to accomplish hitherto | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| letting go and giving in to the superior force within the self is necessary. Where the personality | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| you free the loved one. You do not force, you do not need to possess, you do | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |