| This power current is one important aspect of God where it touches you most. This may lead | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| most. This may lead you to think that God is entirely impersonal and therefore to be feared | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| idea of His infinite love. Neither is true. God, being all, is personal as well if He | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| love of the law -- and therefore of God -- is also contained in the fact that | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| -- is also contained in the fact that God lets you deviate if you wish; that you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| you wish. All this means the love of God. It is not easy to understand, but those | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| in your own life, do not think of God as He -- although, of course, God can | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of God as He -- although, of course, God can manifest as a person too, since He | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| do anything and is everything. Rather think of God as the Great Creative Power at your disposal | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| Power at your disposal. Therefore, it is not God who is unjust, as your subconscious may believe | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| have ignorantly abused the power current in you, God will answer you. This I can promise. If | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| can free you of this fallacious view of God that distorts your soul and your life. I | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| way, regardless of your simultaneously sincere love for God. Find out whether you fear God more than | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| love for God. Find out whether you fear God more than you love Him. If you do | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| do, you can be sure this image of God exists in you and you are living in | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and lifeless. This indicates that the distortion about God has progressed to a considerable degree. To a | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| way. Be blessed. Be in peace. Be in God! 53. SELF-LOVE Greetings, my dear friends. God bless | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| in God! 53. SELF-LOVE Greetings, my dear friends. God bless all of you, God bless this hour | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| my dear friends. God bless all of you, God bless this hour. God bless our work. Now | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| bless all of you, God bless this hour. God bless our work. Now that I will part | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| want the world, my surroundings, my loved ones, God, to see how much I suffer and how | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| to force others, be it people, be it God, be it life, to do the changing instead | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| Be in peace, my dearest friends, be in God! 54. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Greetings in the Name | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Greetings in the Name of God. I bring you blessings, my dearest friends, blessed | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- the essential is that your devotion to God and to Christ, who has contributed such great | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| beings try to seek salvation and union with God, with the divine, by outer means, by religious | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Only then will you know the meaning of God. Then you will find Him, find union with | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unable or unwilling to make decisions wait for God to take care of their decisions for them | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them, what will happen will not be what God has decided but the result of their own | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| along the following lines: Why do you feel God should make decisions for you? Didn't God give | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feel God should make decisions for you? Didn't God give you free will? Does not free will | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| too easy to do nothing and wait for God to run your life? Is it really devotion | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| run your life? Is it really devotion to God that forms this concept or is something else | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is healthy. It is unhealthy if you let God make the decisions for you so that you | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| decisions. Certainly it is advisable to trust in God and ask for guidance and not to go | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not to go about making decisions without asking God for help. When you ask for guidance and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| rather believing it to be the will of God that you simply suffer without understanding the origin | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| outer obstruction. Hence, we, in the world of God, are not interested in producing phenomena. We are | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| my dear friend. Trust in the wisdom of God, in the wisdom of nature, and everything falls | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Our love is constantly with you. Be in God! 55. THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES Greetings! God bless all of you, my dearest friends, blessed | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| the surface, in the outer world. To find God, I have to retire from the outer world | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| so I bless you in the name of God, in the name of Jesus Christ, in the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| holy spirit world. Be in peace, be in God! 56. CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE Greetings, God bless all of you, my dearest friends, blessed | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| will help you avoid further wrong impressions about God, fate, and life. You will give yourself time | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| false God-image exists in you, you keep blaming God, perhaps unconsciously. You believe that somehow it was | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| be. Be blessed, be in peace, be in God! 57. THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE Greetings, my | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE Greetings, my friends. God bless all of you, God bless this hour | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| Greetings, my friends. God bless all of you, God bless this hour. We have often discussed inferiority | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| special consideration. Because of religious mass images about God, one feels all the more guilty and inferior | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| rejoice in it. Be in peace, be in God! 58. THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS Greetings! God bless all of you, blessed be this evening | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| mostly one particular aspect: your unreasonable fear of God, the monster created by your misconceptions, residing in | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| unconscious. As you know, in your God-image this god seems unjust, inadequate, weak, and therefore arbitrary and | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| happiness according to your idea, and life, or God, denies it, God is to be feared all | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| your idea, and life, or God, denies it, God is to be feared all the more. It | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| an omnipotent ruler, I have to be a god myself. Therefore, I want to be God. Why | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| a god myself. Therefore, I want to be God. Why should I submit to this cruel, vindictive | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| I submit to this cruel, vindictive, vengeful, inadequate god who inflicts so much suffering on us? I | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| what I want. Therefore, I know better than God, and so I want to assume rulership of | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| lighten your burdens. Be in peace, be in God! 59. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Greetings. I bring you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| your inner obstacles. Be in peace. Be in God! 60. THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self-responsibility. Thus you wish for a pampering, indulgent god, like a parent who spoils his child. If | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| a parent who spoils his child. If this god cannot be found -- and of course he | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| in your eyes and you turn away from God altogether. The expectations you have of this god | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| God altogether. The expectations you have of this god you also project onto human beings, either to | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| punishes some less fortunate creatures. The other imagined god who rewards you for being a good child | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| a distortion, no less monstrous than the first. God is in you, and that godlike part of | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| we come to you. Be blessed, be in God! 61. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Greetings. Blessings for all | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| you. Without this understanding you stand nowhere, and God will never be a reality for you. This | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| usually people think of as fate preordained by God who determines it that way. The law of | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and effect is thereby broken. People think if God extends grace, He eliminates trouble for you. Of | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| my dear ones, be in peace, be in God! 62. MAN AND WOMAN Greetings, my dearest friends | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I do not speak now of union with God. In the highest sense, union is the melting | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| walls, whether they stand between human beings and God, between humanity and spiritual truth and reality, between | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| your self-inflicted prison. Be in peace, be in God. See lecture 44, The Forces of Love, Eros | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| wrong as saying, You have to believe in God. It only creates harmful reactions, such as compulsion | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one resists. Both alternatives are wrong. Faith in God, faith in Christ, faith as such is, of | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| If not made aware of the existence of God to whom thought and feeling should be devoted | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| inner sense and fall short on one's obligations. God is not to be thought of only on | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Nothing must be a must, least of all God. QUESTION: What does your world think about man | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| still held by orthodox religious people, is that God created each species in itself on the earth | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| love to others. For that is the way God wants you to be, not suffering, not in | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| happiness. Be blessed, my dearest friends, be in God! 64. OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to obligate others, or because you believe that God will reward you for having been a good | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| my dear ones, be in peace, be in God! 65. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Greetings, I bring you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| therefore suppress them more and more. Doubt in God, doubt in the laws of the universe, doubt | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of all your doubts regarding life and death, God and man. This will make you strong and | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| But basically the doubts are the following: Is God a reality or is this a universe where | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| my dear ones, each one of you, in God and in Christ. Be in peace, be in | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| my dear ones, be in peace, be in God! 67. QUESTION AND ANSWERS Greetings. I bring you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| bring you divine blessings, my dear children of God, blessed is this hour. I will be happy | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. My question is manifold but I shall reduce | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| and the state takes the form of a god. The individual has no right for freedom and | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| all of you. Be in peace, be in God! 68. SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| Be in peace, my dearest ones, be in God! 69. THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| aware of this unfair demand you extend to God, and change it, you will notice that the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| change it, you will notice that the help God gives you in finding yourself always exceeds your | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| up. Be blessed, be in peace, be in God. 70. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Greetings, God bless all | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| be in God. 70. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Greetings, God bless all of you, my dearest friends. Blessed | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| respect for the other as a child of God. You will not distort his or her negative | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of ritual in pursuit of the path toward God? ANSWER: Let us take the first question first | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| his inner life. Thus, he devotes himself to God. On this one day, he should desist from | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that could ever come to man? It is God. And God will give you strength if you | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ever come to man? It is God. And God will give you strength if you try to | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your misconceptions and illusions, your limitations and blindness. God in you can manifest only by way of | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| According to the distorted God-image, people feel that God requires them to be unhappy, to forfeit pleasure | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that you can only be spiritual and find God within yourself if you are happy. But happiness | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you. Peace for all of you, be in God! 71. REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES Greetings, my | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES Greetings, my dear friends. God bless all of you and your dear ones | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| such an instruction in its direction, or ask God for help. How much does your subconscious cooperate | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to approach reality. Be in peace, be in God! 72. THE FEAR OF LOVING Greetings, my dearest | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| that are unhealthy, childish, and resistant. After all, God lives deep down within yourself. I assume that | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| end, a positive perception of our being in God. ANSWER: One of your questions seems to ask | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| his fellow-creatures, can a human being truly sense God and His creation. Thereby unity will be achieved | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| are the highest reality, one in mind with God, then we will truly have self-responsibility. It seems | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| love and creativity, which has it source in God. In this regard, the attainment of self-mastery...there | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is a comparison of love and fear of God to the wings of the bird. I wonder | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| in our work. As to the fear of God, this has absolutely nothing to do with the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| we just discussed. Any reference to fear of God in Scripture is due to translations on a | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| are not attained. Whether you fear an avenging God, life, other human beings, or yourself, it is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is the start of the upward turn toward God. The awareness of God is the beginning of | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| the upward turn toward God. The awareness of God is the beginning of wisdom. ANSWER: Yes, that | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| Go in peace, my dearest friends, be in God. 73. COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless all of you. May the divine blessings | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| blessed, my friends, be in peace, be in God. 74. CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS Greetings, my dearest | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless each one of you. Blessed is this | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| may unconsciously fear that there is an arbitrary god who metes out punishment and reward according to | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| you do not actually believe in such a god, that is your concept of life and your | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| caused it, and not a chaotic universe or God, you will automatically lose some of your fear | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| wholeness within yourselves. Be in peace, be in God. 75. THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| my dearest ones, be in peace, be in God! 76. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| responsibility to the innermost person, the responsibility to God, the responsibility to oneself, the acknowledgment of being | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| this kind there is certainly nothing selfish. For God wants you happy. It is a long tradition | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| was incarnated as a man. The Son of God was born as any other man. That was | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| birth happened in accord with universal law which God created in perfection. In this statement a truth | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| your real feelings are the same as creation, God, life, fate, the cosmic life force, the stream | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| yourself, you cannot trust life, the world, or God. So, my friends, once you have established this | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |