| Forgiving...................12 | |
| can ask for help. And understand that not forgiving burdens you, makes you unhappy, blocks the light | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| the light and freedom that you desire. Not forgiving harms you much more than it harms those | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| to do it, but another part enjoys not forgiving. If you recognize that, you have a further | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| above all, the obligation to be understanding and forgiving. If you lack that ability, all your superior | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| closer to a true concept of God -- forgiving, good, loving, indulgent. This causes the personality to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| resentment exists in you, which prevents you from forgiving them for the hurt. You can only forgive | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| go on from where you are, forgetting and forgiving truly inside of you, without even thinking that | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| Between these two sets of feelings -- one forgiving and understanding, the other angry -- there is | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| cannot reconcile the two. You are afraid of forgiving yourself because you fear your craving for self-indulgence | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| major phase on our path together. Accepting and forgiving means to recognize and then stop the tendency | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| sees no lack of character in understanding and forgiving. Many such little incidents loosen up the block | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| you lose your bearing is not accepting and forgiving and therefore acting out. In every negative quality | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Forgo.......................6 | |
| resolving your own problems. It causes you to forgo the experience of living in the true sense | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| so firmly rooted that the personality will needlessly forgo the use of the activating principle, not yet | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| based on utterly wrong assumptions, induces you to forgo contact with divine wisdom, claiming that you cannot | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| destructive, spiteful and resentful; often you will even forgo your own happiness just to punish someone from | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| so whole that you are deeply willing to forgo the little vanities for the sake of the | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| and momentarily painful -- anyone who chooses to forgo the temptation to concentrate on the real or | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Forgotten...................42 | |
| read my words should know they are not forgotten. You are all welcome, and even though this | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| has done such and such, but he has forgotten it. However, this does not alter the fact | 18 FREE WILL |
| you are not responsible merely because you have forgotten them. At one time you freely chose to | 18 FREE WILL |
| unconscious, the part of your soul where the forgotten truth may be found. Train yourself for future | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| you further in that direction. It is often forgotten that the human personality has many, many facets | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| Some you have tried, some not, or have forgotten. Now let me make a new suggestion which | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| -- which is again so often ignored and forgotten -- the third principle: the moment in which | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| you were a child, but you may have forgotten this hurt on a conscious level. Yet it | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| on a conscious level. Yet it is not forgotten at all. The hurt of your current problem | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| must exist. This simple truth is being constantly forgotten, even by my friends who work on this | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self-alienation. When much of the past material is forgotten and thus cannot be linked with the current | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| mean something at the moment, but will be forgotten in no time. This even happens to you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| this so many times, but it is always forgotten. You cannot find the truth about the existence | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| it cannot be emphasized enough. It is always forgotten, and needs constant reminding. This emotional experience, being | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| living and fulfilling yourself. What is so easily forgotten is that depression needs to be considered a | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| loving. I repeat this, because it is constantly forgotten by my friends: An action, a thought, an | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| Much of what I constantly tell you is forgotten when it is most needed. I recently discussed | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| detect such hidden erroneous outlooks. It is often forgotten that the unconscious not only harbors petrified wrong | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| but it always does. Yet this, too, is forgotten, as are your victories after overcoming resistance. Let | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| moment. The little that has registered is easily forgotten, for memory is also dependent on a free | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| is in you. This must never, never be forgotten. It exists in you right now and is | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| many times I have said it, it is forgotten. The inner psyche fears that acknowledgement of negative | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| moment such reasoning is gone, the conscious decision forgotten, and what remains is a compelling force toward | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| friends need it badly. The truth is easily forgotten when it has not become second nature in | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| a helpless straw in the wind, a little forgotten tool in a vast universe, and feeling one's | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| is initiated purposefully, playfully, deliberately, this is soon forgotten, pushed away, and what was a false anger | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| were split asunder artificially. One part was then forgotten, its existence denied. It is the same as | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| before this life. Even that is but momentarily forgotten because you thought it more expedient to forget | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| separated itself from this knowing and has therefore forgotten. This is true for the erroneous, destructive part | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| It is only that the outer brain has forgotten its true nature and has lost the contact | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| it, come to a large extent from having forgotten that you cannot do it without divine help | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| it becomes second nature and is no longer forgotten. When you blindly and self-righteously act out destructiveness | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| chosen to ignore it, until you have finally forgotten that it is there. Sustained, deliberate looking away | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the memory of other states of consciousness. These forgotten states are much less confined, much freer, much | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| into the void. Wherever your manifest consciousness has forgotten its connection and lost touch with its divine | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| degree it exists, is blotted out; it is forgotten. Whatever state of development you may be in | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| you had to be born in anesthesia, having forgotten what you know, to purify totally all aspects | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| whenever you face a lower-self aspect. You have forgotten to pursue this approach, so you often dwell | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| particular area. Most of you, my friends, have forgotten this very important tool that I have given | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| time its true meaning may be disregarded or forgotten, the rituals involved may be mechanically repeated and | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| were given in the past. But it is forgotten that these truths came as a result of | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| nevertheless a true origin that should not be forgotten. The name of divine manifestation in human form | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Form........................631 | |
| human life appears as a tableau representing the form and substance of earthly life as a sea | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| themselves since all thoughts and feelings have a form and a substance in spirit and thus bring | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| reactions and chain reactions will ensue. A spiritual form is created which will make it even more | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| on earth. Every act, thought, feeling has its form, which then builds the spiritual home -- even | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| love currents, and they all have substance and form in the spirit. Their colors, shades, sounds, and | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| the soul then produce warning signals in the form of feelings of world weariness. Another source of | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| I wish to convey to others in some form, even if I have to make a sacrifice | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| soul, until it becomes such a powerful spiritual form that it penetrates your entire being on the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| God will always show you how, in what form, your love and knowledge and happiness can be | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the concepts through faulty transmissions. As everything has form and gestalt in spirit, so does truth, that | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| that is, the true state of things. The form is unchangeable and yet in constant flux, since | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| all. Imagine a wheel, unchangeable in its basic form, but constantly turning. At various places and at | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| and individual consciousness remain in existence in some form? ANSWER: First I want to mention again that | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| which truly and eternally exists in a heightened form. Both are true. The reason that the concept | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the spirit. And the individuality, in its pure form, that is without ego, is purely of the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| it remains forever, perhaps in a somewhat different form, but fully maintained in its essence, that is | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| speak. Yet everybody can make contact in some form with the spirit world. Be open to this | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| about faults and shortcomings, are nothing but a form of pride and arrogance. You want to be | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| visualizing the positive you create a new thought form and direct your will toward it. As I | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| a crust that takes such and such a form. Only when this is done can the layers | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| have clearly crystallized your lower self into definite form and see it as a foreign body within | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| self, you can begin to build the positive form toward which you move in the process of | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| others to a lesser degree, one in this form, the other in another, but everyone has at | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| had wished only for yourself. In time, this form will become so powerful that it will stand | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| entangled skein, which actually exists as a spiritual form. On this path it can be disentangled, knot | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| your development, to obtain answers in a different form. You are not yet able to judge why | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| do, you will receive the answer in another form. The accustomed way might still be used when | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| the earth plane was created in its present form, other ways were tried, but they were not | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| training but also because each thought builds a form. With the thoughts of prayer you build harmonious | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| one person, feelings of disharmony might take the form of general religious doubts which ultimately are connected | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| then you are liberated from a dark spiritual form in you, which attracts harmful energies and dark | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| spirit; everything that for you is formless, is form in spirit, form composed of higher matter. The | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| for you is formless, is form in spirit, form composed of higher matter. The difficulty you may | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| so that it again becomes an entity of form and shape -- although of such fine substance | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| one has to become a complete and harmonious form. And since God is creator -- that is | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| over again into the purest and most perfect form. Thus the element of God that simply is | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| have experienced God in His other manifestation, as form, as creator, believe that this is the ultimate | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| like to continue in the question and answer form. QUESTION: As an authority whose opinion I hold | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| and the separated halves will come together and form one being. This happens only after the necessity | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| with the purpose of active creation, contracts into form, then the masculine principle is at work. The | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| as incarnations are necessary, the unification in the form of spiritual merging cannot take place. QUESTION: May | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| what we talked about before. Even in the form of meditation we find the masculine and the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| that should not discourage you. For the outer form of the inner conflict you may be working | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| that will give you the answer in picture form. Often such answers are given a little later | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| path. Since your thoughts are reality, they have form and substance. Unclean thoughts build disharmonious forms, which | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| yet made conscious. Although thought creates a different form than a feeling does, nevertheless, both create very | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| actions. In this way, no mask self can form. However, too often people try to believe in | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| I have explained, each thought creates automatically a form and becomes apparent. So that is our language | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the medium, is necessary. It is a different form of materialization or transfiguration. There are, for instance | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| and His great plan, do you know what form we see in the spirit world? We see | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| know, there is no thought without substance and form. Daydreams create their forms, too, and these thought | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| thought contained in the written word is a form. Every thought is form, whether it is written | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| written word is a form. Every thought is form, whether it is written, spoken, designed, or played | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| is a particular purpose; otherwise we see the form. QUESTION: In the writing, do you see the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| other planets is not exactly in your material form. Radiant matter varies greatly. What may be for | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| any one of you who really wants to form a judicious opinion has the duty to find | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| I have no time. Or they take the form of doubts. These are all rationalizations but, being | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| resist them. Later on, all of them will form a clear picture. As with a puzzle, when | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |