| Forceful....................31 | |
| avoid having at present will be much less forceful, capable of doing less harm both to you | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| friends. Then you will not need an external, forceful rule to find the right attitude for different | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| quite unsubmissive, quite rebellious, behave in such a forceful way only because deep down they are afraid | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Being finally attained. But this cannot happen by forceful means and special exercises. It is the product | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| another, in the most natural way possible. No forceful measures will have to be applied either to | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| own feelings or to the other person. Such forceful measures can never really work. An organic natural | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| Thinking you must guard yourself against it by forceful measures avails you nothing. You cannot protect yourself | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| but you remain insecure. It is an unnatural forceful procedure. The other is in harmony with your | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| very life were at stake. It is so forceful that the balancing forces cause the other person | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| and damaging attempts to negate death. These artificial, forceful, and cramped attempts bring you so much nearer | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| do more for genuine self-respect than all the forceful, insincere strivings for an idealized perfection that is | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| way of saying that a false goodness, a forceful, insincere one, produces a moralizing that many people | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| motivation or a destructive impulse inverted into a forceful compulsive superstandard. QUESTION: Why do I feel so | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| old way, you are not ready for a forceful relinquishing and a drastic change. In this case | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| It may lead to repression, suppression, to a forceful, superimposed action that cannot be helpful to genuine | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| feelings can happen in many subtle ways. A forceful overemotionalism, overdramatization, exaggeration, talking yourself into stronger feelings | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| kind of caution, an unrealistic fear, and a forceful will -- the forcing current -- play a | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| from your strong repressed needs, all the more forceful because you are unaware of them, or, at | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| or weaker than they actually are is a forceful tampering that cripples their functioning. Your intuitive, creative | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| a love-power that is so demanding and so forceful. Only too often both distortions exist in you | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| of understanding. Confusion is not eliminated by a forceful act of tearing it out. This only makes | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| yes. But discipline connotes compulsion, suppression, repression, and forceful action -- all shortcuts, all illusions, all measures | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| power currents of the spirit are infinitely more forceful, their energy much stronger than the power and | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| degrees, passive resistance, spite, withdrawal, refusal to cooperate, forceful outer aggression, intimidation, and persuasion through false strength | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| to unfulfilled real needs may momentarily result in forceful expressions of crying and yelling, or of writhing | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| transcendence of evil, you gain back all the forceful vitality that you had to inactivate in order | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| awareness. Let us say that you are outwardly forceful, aggressive, and temperamentally suited to get away with | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| to recognize the hidden aspect. If you are forceful by nature, and have aspects of strength that | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| as it proves itself inefficient: you become more forceful, more possessive, demanding, jealous, and domineering. Thus the | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| have right now, especially if it is a forceful movement that disregards the rhythm of life, in | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| yet distinct difference between using this model and forceful attempts to be what you have not yet | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Forcefully..................31 | |
| and again, in one particular direction perhaps too forcefully. Your lower self resists that. Maybe I can | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| will not be fulfilled, rather than trying to forcefully prevent yourself from going through this necessary stage | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| may find along with it. You can never forcefully tear out the wrong reaction, once you have | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| natural procedure and do not happen arbitrarily or forcefully. They are created in infinite wisdom and farsightedness | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of Being, often try to attain this state forcefully, long before they can possibly be ready for | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| about it. Knowledge has to grow naturally, never forcefully. Cultivation of the awareness without pressure will eventually | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| Otherwise it wears out. Each time it is forcefully renewed a stronger inner exertion is necessary that | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| their importance. It can never be gained by forcefully superimposing right concepts on childish, illusory fears that | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the real situation, as against your imagined and forcefully wished one, and in much larger degree. There | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| down, or your shoulders sag; or that you forcefully straighten them in an unrelaxed, artificial way. Observe | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| help give you clarification. But you can never forcefully attempt a certain work process. If your search | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| unreal form is a constant hazard, and you forcefully close your eyes to it. If you do | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| that by willing it more strongly and more forcefully, the parent-partner will now yield, whereas in reality | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| order to remedy the situation, you should not forcefully concentrate during all your waking hours. Many psychological | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| is no longer necessary that it be helped, forcefully, with certain measures, to remember, as it is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| first set of feelings may not even be forcefully superimposed. It may be quite genuine, but one | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| to find how far you have gone to forcefully perpetuate infancy. Once you analyze and understand certain | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the false needs. Do not even attempt to forcefully stamp out these false needs. It would do | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| psyche retains it, will produce results. Battling it forcefully will not. QUESTION: Besides the psychological approach, is | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| wish to use it, you hold it back forcefully. But you are inwardly not yet convinced that | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| that similar trends exist in you, and try forcefully to relinquish the need, it will do you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| your conscious feelings as imperfect, you try to forcefully superimpose inauthentic emotions over them. How can you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| possible to grow out of them -- not forcefully, by superimposition, not by feeling guilty that childish | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| It is used as a force, superimposing and forcefully cutting out something. Even the word slayer suggests | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| have been concerned with on this path, trying forcefully and deliberately to eliminate it will only make | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| your capacity to give -- no matter how forcefully and artificially you may practice giving in order | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| to do after such a detection is to forcefully assert that you, and you alone, determine your | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| crushed, neither can they be denied, uprooted, or forcefully supplanted by foreign elements that seem more palatable | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| your will to avoid feared feelings and try forcefully to produce the joy that you cannot have | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| Otherwise you will put a lot of energy forcefully into something that you cannot maintain with a | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| a very new way. Imagine how much more forcefully truth will flow from a very different area | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
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| that that person becomes the plaything of the forces of darkness. This does not mean that he | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| is sufficient to become the plaything of the forces of darkness. The dark world takes its material | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| when such tests come along, for the dark forces know only too well how to make untruth | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| again in unawareness, become a plaything of the forces of darkness, your boat will be blown hither | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| the tangle of threads, woven by the dark forces; and often one person contributes especially much to | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| fewer errors and misunderstandings about one's own soul forces, and their messages will be translated correctly. The | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| magnificence of creation, and see how the dark forces must ultimately play into God's hands. I will | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| to speak, from the divine and the dark forces. You have to stand your ground alone, and | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| when you have withstood the test, the dark forces will be periodically allowed to get quite close | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| death is to give yourself over to the forces of darkness, consciously or unconsciously, that is, to | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| much bliss they lose this way! The wonderful forces and luminous rays of the spiritual world are | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| is obviously wrong. It not only attracts negative forces, it is also based on self-deception. Such people | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| true humility which will set in motion the forces of transformation from deep within. Then you are | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| this is often not understood. The more these forces work and manifest, the more unhappy will the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to you. Technology, however, achieves this with outer forces, while the person on the path of perfection | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| person on the path of perfection utilizes inner forces. That is the entire difference. The latter method | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| is prayer with feeling, it engages the soul forces as compared to the thinking forces. To get | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| the soul forces as compared to the thinking forces. To get to the second and further step | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| God, to liberate the often dormant and hidden forces of the soul, and find the connection to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| point where you determine yourself when the pure forces will be ready to move freely from within | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| There are several tools to liberate the soul forces: For some it may be helpful to remember | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| you can be led into temptation. The dark forces serve as instruments to draw it out, to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| to reach out for help, but it never forces its help on anyone. In other words, each | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| Most of you know that there are two forces within the human soul. The higher self or | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| you are lost and in the grip of forces within you that you cannot control. In other | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| not what may be sensational and phenomenal -- forces are set in motion to train this particular | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| to shine through, connection is made with the forces of darkness, according to each person's attitude and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| varying spiritual development, as well as with the forces and currents generating from our particular sphere. Some | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| or her own life but also weakens the forces of darkness, for the less they have to | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| a result, only the influence of the disharmonious forces would have an effect. Humanity would thus constantly | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| and flow in the universe, so that the forces of good become that much stronger compared to | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| good become that much stronger compared to the forces of evil, for each evil thought is added | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| accomplish almost anything by willpower. The inner psychic forces, once utilized, are much more potent than anyone | 18 FREE WILL |
| particle of life. Magic merely explores the psychic forces. The goal of the magician, even the white | 18 FREE WILL |
| the exploration and the use of certain psychic forces. True, white magic will use these forces for | 18 FREE WILL |
| psychic forces. True, white magic will use these forces for a good purpose. But magic will not | 18 FREE WILL |
| not go further than the control of psychic forces. The mystic will, on the way to his | 18 FREE WILL |
| goal, also encounter some of the same psychic forces and may even use them occasionally, but his | 18 FREE WILL |
| it because they were too impressed by magic forces which, at one point or another on this | 18 FREE WILL |
| the state of ecstasy a person experiences divine forces, divine beings, or even God. That cannot happen | 18 FREE WILL |
| strong degree that it can mate with divine forces; it is thus prepared in quality for the | 18 FREE WILL |
| ecstasy and even before the exploration of psychic forces. QUESTION: I would like to know whether people | 18 FREE WILL |
| a spirit belonging to the order of divine forces has a task to fulfill in connection with | 18 FREE WILL |
| of justice each individual and even the very forces of evil could find the way back to | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| freely, because you choose so, not because life forces you. You see, my friends, the divine laws | 21 THE FALL |
| and then step into it yourself. If life forces or pushes you into it, against your will | 21 THE FALL |
| can. It will liberate latent powers and healing forces for your body and soul. If you experience | 21 THE FALL |
| must be a war between us, between your forces and the forces of the divine world. The | 22 SALVATION |
| war between us, between your forces and the forces of the divine world. The chances would be | 22 SALVATION |
| be evenly distributed, which means that the divine forces must be numerically in the minority for the | 22 SALVATION |
| the minority for the simple reason that the forces of good are infinitely stronger than the forces | 22 SALVATION |
| forces of good are infinitely stronger than the forces of evil, perhaps twenty to one. If you | 22 SALVATION |
| war took place and even if the divine forces won and took my power away, I would | 22 SALVATION |
| children. He created various powers and strengths and forces and He distributed them in such a way | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may not represent Lucifer himself, but the evil forces. So there is a part of that. QUESTION | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| distribution, for instance, of the active and passive forces. I will soon give a lecture on this | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| soon give a lecture on this subject. Both forces have to be utilized harmoniously in the human | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| tired or weak, it is because your inner forces exhaust themselves in the wrong channels so that | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| good and evil. Did God create the evil forces and the Luciferic powers too? ANSWER: That is | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |