| Girl........................4 | |
| am reminded of someone who, as a young girl, wanted very strongly to leave her home. It | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| anything that is alive. I have a little girl and, naturally, I have taught her that it | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Thank you. QUESTION: About self-alienation: Say a young girl has an image of how she would like | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| damage as of a hurt. PARTICIPANT: If a girl loves her father very much she may ask | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| Girls.......................3 | |
| is the feeling of being unacceptable -- by girls, especially. I worked on this in the past | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| frustrated and rejected. If you feel unacceptable to girls, it is only because you do not accept | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| back, into non- movement toward the world, toward girls, toward your own best feelings. This is where | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Gita........................2 | |
| beings. QUESTION: At our lecture on the Bhagavad Gita it was asked why certain spiritual geniuses, like | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| here. Why is it that in the Bhagavad Gita anger is considered the worst sin of all | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Give........................1738 | |
| only very few who ask, What can I give? What can I contribute to God's Plan of | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| and demands, but they are not willing to give anything to God's world, to the great struggle | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| for? My answer is that such communication can give you one of the parts necessary for your | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| must ultimately play into God's hands. I will give you this example: Lucifer has his henchmen; in | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| is spiritual death? ANSWER: Spiritual death is to give yourself over to the forces of darkness, consciously | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| walk the road of least resistance and to give in to their weaknesses. Thus they belong to | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| duration in comparison to the gain. This should give you food for thought. I suggest to each | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| nothing that is of spiritual value, or they give over to sick, unpurified emotional currents. These use | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| owe God some attention. And you can also give thanks to Christ for all that he has | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| about my words, which I was permitted to give to you today. They should take you a | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| yearning for love and are even willing to give love, yet only on condition that they are | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| The fear within the person says: If I give first, without being sure, my pride might get | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| to your own self so seriously, you can give your love freely. Then your love is pristine | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| a person may be petty and unwilling to give. It is just that, in ignorance, genuine feelings | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| compromise your dignity. You may well have to give up insisting that you must preserve your dignity | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| dignity at all cost, but exactly because you give up the insistence on your dignity can you | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| can you win what you were ready to give up. This is the immutable spiritual law. You | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| clearly in your soul that you have to give up your pride, the importance of your ego | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| your ego, but you do not have to give up being true to yourself. This may be | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| must be in fear; those who do not give themselves that much importance do not have to | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| human beings strive, in their soul's core, to give, to fulfill and even to sacrifice. Yet where | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| out. One part of the soul wants to give love -- and therefore also to receive love | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| and therefore also to receive love. Whatever you give comes back to you as a wave in | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| of the personality wants comfort, convenience, and will give up nothing. From time to time it sees | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| they desire directly opposite goals. The cross-currents then give rise to many other conflicts that extend much | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| in full knowledge of what you have to give up and what you stand to gain as | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| and accept. He or she can thus freely give up the impossible, whereas emotionally sick and immature | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| solitary life because you do not want to give love, out of anxiety and over-sensitivity, then you | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| I prefer to pay this price rather than give up my negativity. It will be precisely through | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| choice and that it would be worthwhile to give up what at first seemed so difficult to | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| my dear friends. It is my task to give you hints, to awaken you. May each of | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| individual in this respect? Is anyone willing to give something up for the sake of another? Ask | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| my ego-gratification. Please show me how I can give out to others all that I have received | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| of your endeavors. That is, the I will give up its self-importance for the sake of the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| on the contrary, the goal will be to give happiness to the other, to others, and your | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| is not; the equation balances out. I will give you an example. Let us suppose that a | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| giving our happiness to others, that is, to give something to another. If, for instance, I can | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| happy with a small gift, but I can give this gift to only one person, to whom | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to only one person, to whom should I give it? Should I give it to a stranger | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to whom should I give it? Should I give it to a stranger or to someone I | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| or to a relative? If I can only give it to one person, who should have the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| mind is a material object which you can give to only one person. In this case, you | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| you follow your love feelings, you would certainly give it to the person you love most. Such | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| by some guilt complex, you might choose to give it to a person to whom you find | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to whom you find it most difficult to give. Both of these solutions might be wrong in | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| For instance, one person may be required to give a little time. Many people have more time | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| time than they need, so that they can give of it -- not in the way they | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| healthy people they may be able to really give and truly become links in the chain. Such | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| see oneself in truth, to open oneself, to give up faults. If you do not do it | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| be a means to make others happier, to give and love more. If you have such an | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| have such an intention, the spirit world will give you every possible help to overcome the difficulties | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| unconscious level. To make other people joyful, to give them love, warmth, consolation, and deep understanding when | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| much easier, much more convenient. You have to give yourself. For, if you can give yourself in | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| have to give yourself. For, if you can give yourself in the right way, you can give | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| give yourself in the right way, you can give to everyone with whom you come into contact | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| you come into contact. However, before you can give yourself, you must have gained yourself. You cannot | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| yourself, you must have gained yourself. You cannot give what you do not have. Few people truly | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| you cannot possess yourself and therefore cannot really give yourself. A consequence of this state is that | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the path of light, no longer have to give some specific thing. Such people can give themselves | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to give some specific thing. Such people can give themselves totally, not only to a loved one | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| life where God has placed them. They can give themselves with their whole soul and with their | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| about the dark ones -- who would gladly give you instructions about what to do or not | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| what to do or not do; this would give them power and flatter their vanity. But an | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| always contain material referring to it. I could give you a course, if you want it. But | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| with the ego one would also have to give up the individual personality. QUESTION: A friend of | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| human beings where Lucifer would fail. Thus they give over to Lucifer indirectly, through matter. These are | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| get into a state in which they unwittingly give over to Lucifer, since their vision is blurred | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| within myself between instinct and intellect? Do I give enough room within me to the activity of | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| will also be strengthened. Now I want to give you some general instructions. There are people who | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| know which relationships to keep and which to give up. The stronger you are, the better grounded | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| them, and so they do not wish to give them up. They persuade themselves that they can | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| kindred spirits and avoid those who do not give them pleasure. They are inclined to apply what | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| idea suits you and you don't want to give up control. The issue is -- and you | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| uncomfortable at first, they will upset him and give him a bad conscience. These feelings in turn | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| It is precisely this split and repression which give rise to the unhealthy soul currents. You may | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| source with each individual, and therefore I cannot give general rules as to what is at its | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| unavoidable relapses and occasional failures, it will then give increased spiritual protection. This, too, is spiritual law | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| But the outer words are also necessary; they give you the impetus to do what is needed | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to the point of feeling the need to give God something back in gratitude. At first, it | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| you must pay, on what you have to give. The happiness that will come from such victory | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| connection becomes possible. The spirit will help and give directions. Of course, at the very beginning of | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| for the person who has material goods to give them away so as not to be burdened | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| fanatical to say that a person has to give everything away and live in poverty so as | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| discipline, regular work, and the best will to give each day some time to get closer to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| is within you. You always think, if you give it a thought at all, that God's kingdom | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| wrongdoing or error of another human being can give you disharmonious feelings if there is not something | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| are false, God's kingdom cannot come to you. GIVE US TODAY OUR DAILY BREAD. This, too, is | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| is Lead us not into temptation. These words give rise to misconceptions and can do harm. For | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| Certainly not. But you can be tempted to give in to your faults, whatever they may be | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| measure how much happiness you are able to give. If you are filled with the desire to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| important things -- to expect the medium to give her time and service for free, unless the | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| long time without being paid. God's world will give help and guidance, so that meanwhile the person | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| Maybe you can understand the concept if I give you an example, however insufficient: Think of opera | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| would need a far-reaching explanation which we cannot give at this point. In time, however, you will | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| for the next incarnation would say, We cannot give you effortless unfolding of the spirit. On the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| is to know about this subject, I will give a very brief outline. Whenever you wish to | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| will be a humble servant and will always give God the honor. It will not claim to | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| for contact with God's spirits you should not give up, but persevere in humility. Seek what is | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| spiritual development and spiritual values. Yet whatever you give you are returned a hundredfold when spiritual values | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| ideas. Or you may see something that will give you the answer in picture form. Often such | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| higher self -- whatever name you care to give it -- or is it another entity? It | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| own spirit body leave for a time and give room to another spirit. Even this is difficult | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| If you ask yourself that question, you can give yourself the answer. If you have the why | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| from without, the more right answers one can give oneself, from within. QUESTION: You speak of meditation | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| But if Goethe should speak here it might give the medium the opportunity to say, Goethe speaks | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| her insecurity, not yours. And ask God to give you the light of truth and knowledge to | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| of the I and by asking God to give you the full vision of the truth. If | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| be much shorter and less painful and will give peace and satisfaction. This is the truth behind | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| these inevitable times of doubt I wish to give you, my friends, some simple advice, in order | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |