| Grab........................17 | |
| other person, you want something. In fact, you grab for it, not waiting for it to be | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| according to character structure: acquisitiveness; reaching out to grab and receive in a raw, grasping way rather | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| no longer have to exhaust yourself senselessly to grab at victory that cannot be yours at all | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| because the greedy child within you wants to grab, the other because the child conforms and obeys | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| in you already. You do not have to grab for these things outside. They lie as a | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| find where you fear the negative and therefore grab for the positive alternative. When you find the | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| Conversely, you erroneously believe that only when you grab and are solely concerned with your own little | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| They look for relief and so often inadvertently grab for false and even dangerous means just to | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| dissatisfaction. The faster they run, the more they grab, the more elusive life seems, because the capacity | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| up the childish, cheating position from which I grab at life angrily and resentfully while refusing to | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| struggle with the little mind and push and grab and grasp on the one hand, and deny | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| You wish to examine in what way you grab without accepting the necessary conditions which you refute | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| way. The temptation to use spiritual practices to grab happiness and fulfillment, and to avoid already existing | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| unfairness and dishonesty is always present when you grab and do not let go and let God | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| you fear and guard against it, and yet grab for leadership because you like its advantages, the | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| is then an inner guilt for wanting to grab a pleasure in a selfish way without lovingness | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| in order to avoid the necessary bankruptcy. You grab outer, temporary, unsound means to coast along on | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Grabbing....................11 | |
| real self of the other person. Contrarily, the grabbing, craving motion I described in this lecture, the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| person to withdraw, because the movement is too grabbing. On the other hand, the distortion of the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| without restrictions. Then you cannot reach out without grabbing and without urgent demands. You cannot give without | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| to a movement that is a tense, anxious, grabbing, striving effort. Seemingly, you have to decide between | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| put to some sort of disadvantage, while by grabbing for what you want and by withholding yourself | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| to one thing, which creates a tense, urgent grabbing movement in the opposite direction, which in turn | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| reason. You will consequently become frightened, defensive, distrustful, grabbing, anxious, and ruthless. Instead of changing the counterforce | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| prevents creative receptivity. By the same token, the grabbing, insisting, self-righteous yes equally prevents creative receptivity. Both | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| turns from loving receptivity and nurturing to grasping, grabbing, stealing, holding tight, catching, and taking without letting | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| the inner movement in you when you cease grabbing, and then visualize yourself in a confident, patient | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| comes from sincerity rather than from the cheating, grabbing, acquisitive little lower self. If you have something | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Grabs.......................3 | |
| giving in a relaxed and calm way. It grabs and demands. Such a person wants to give | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| final control over destiny. The tight control one grabs at is a pseudo-control that merely increases tension | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| daydreaming on the other. Wistful, resigned daydreaming that grabs fantasy as a substitute for drab reality is | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| Grace.......................131 | |
| all that they have received in help and grace, in happiness and fulfillment, in divine intervention and | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| a higher state of consciousness is the utmost grace, to which the door must be opened by | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| direction of your development. It is a special grace -- and I purposely choose this word -- | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| trust in God. But, as I said, the grace of recognition can be given to you even | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| is lack of faith. The conditions for the grace of living faith were not fulfilled; therefore such | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| knowledge in this area is a gift of grace which has to be earned by everyone. When | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| You will understand what these words mean: the grace of faith. That can be given to you | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| earned by his or her own labor the grace of a spiritual opening, he or she can | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| the case. QUESTION: Is a painless return a grace that one has merited? ANSWER: I would describe | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| it as cause and effect -- or as grace. It can be both, it can be a | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| understanding, faith is knowing, and this knowing is grace. Grace has to be earned. It is earned | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| faith is knowing, and this knowing is grace. Grace has to be earned. It is earned when | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| nature is decisive, the basis for receiving the grace of deeper knowledge and experience of reality is | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| is that the highest state of happiness and grace -- the experience, the fact of the existence | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| It is, at any rate, a sign of grace. It means that help and strength are given | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| -- realize that it is only through the grace of God that you can do it, not | 21 THE FALL |
| Jesus Christ as a person is an occasional grace that can come unexpectedly, without any knowing or | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and ask at the same time for God's grace to help you, you will get further and | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| unless it is through an act of God's grace that may only come in rare instances. Such | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| that may only come in rare instances. Such grace has to be earned in other ways. As | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| owe Him; then you are worthy of His grace; then you are truly on the path. Then | 31 SHAME |
| sure of. The help you need is the grace of God. Without it you cannot reach your | 31 SHAME |
| the way. But if you wait for the grace of God in defiance and anger, saying to | 31 SHAME |
| hard, then you push away the time for grace, because your attitude is not humble. You take | 31 SHAME |
| how much you have suffered, and when the grace is due, and how hard you have tried | 31 SHAME |
| spirit of true humility and patience, then the grace, my dear ones, will be much nearer. If | 31 SHAME |
| could, so it is not the lack of grace -- and if there are blocks you cannot | 31 SHAME |
| have decided to do so. One day God's grace and help will affect you so that what | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| follow this advice: Know that it is God's grace when this complete knowledge to which I do | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| to yourself: I have not yet deserved this grace. I am not the judge of what I | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| I will patiently and humbly wait until the grace of God is given to me. If you | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| convinced. However, just as other people's experiences and grace cannot be convincing for you regardless of how | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| still battling for the attainment of this divine grace -- complete faith. Each individual has to gain | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| who is responsible, that without His strength and grace none of His creatures could lift a finger | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| purification and who honestly desire to help, divine grace will not come to you in the measure | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| pride. All faults bar the way to divine grace; every effort to overcome the slightest fault opens | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| overcome the slightest fault opens a door to grace. It is pride that makes you shy. I | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| should God grant a human being help or grace simply in response to prayer? Why should someone | 36 PRAYER |
| now try to explain this to you. God's grace, God's help, and God's light exist all over | 36 PRAYER |
| wall that separates the lower self from God's grace, God's strength, God's mercy, God's love, and all | 36 PRAYER |
| of your soul, your deepest wishes for God's grace. The same procedure should be practiced in praying | 36 PRAYER |
| be forced; it cannot be controlled. It is grace, my friends. And it will become a more | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| help you in that. If you have the grace and the privilege to communicate with God's world | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| up as the patriarch who deserved all the grace of God -- in other words, that he | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| be afraid and hopeless, a universe where God's grace comes to a few chosen ones, but you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| friends. In that way you will honor the grace of this communication and preserve the teachings in | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on the individual case. QUESTION: What exactly is grace? ANSWER: I can see that it would be | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| difficult for you to understand the concept of grace after hearing from me constantly that the law | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to take its course. Although this is true, grace nevertheless exists. It is not easy to explain | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it easier if I briefly mention first what grace is not, but what is often taken to | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not, but what is often taken to mean grace. It is often thought that when grace is | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mean grace. It is often thought that when grace is extended, a person does not have to | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is thereby broken. People think if God extends grace, He eliminates trouble for you. Of course, this | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this is an entirely wrong concept. In reality grace is the Plan of Salvation with everything therein | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spirits could never return. This is the basic grace. The help of the spirits who did not | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or of those who have evolved, is further grace. Without this constant help, the return would be | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the law of cause and effect is broken. Grace is the coming of Jesus Christ. One Being | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| subject, this will become clearer to you. Divine grace constantly happens where the spreading of light penetrates | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| To come out of this darkness unassisted, without grace, would mean to go through so much hardship | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| very, very much longer, than it does with grace. Grace may take many forms. It can happen | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| very much longer, than it does with grace. Grace may take many forms. It can happen through | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of you can also be an instrument of grace. If, by your development, you come to understand | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| act of self-unfoldment, makes you an instrument of grace. The power of good and love is infinitely | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| think that it means nothing; it cannot be grace or guidance or anything divine because you did | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| any human being can be an instrument of grace or of any other divine manifestation. There are | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from a source and that source is divine grace. That it finally takes effect through various chains | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| takes effect through various chains of instruments of grace -- also human instruments -- does not alter | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way? ANSWER: Again this indicates the wrong concept. Grace is not extended to a few chosen ones | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a few chosen ones and withheld from others. Grace is all around you. If you want it | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| corner of your being to remain in blindness, grace will not be accessible to you. But those | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by it. It is there for everyone alike. Grace is there as the product of the divine | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to a wonderfully just law that is mercy, grace, wisdom and love. COMMENT: May I add something | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it unless God intervenes with an act of grace. You do not muster the inner will and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| false and the true religions say that God's grace exists. Even though you are on your own | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Even though you are on your own, the grace still exists. But this understanding will not come | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| for yourself. As long as you expect God's grace to make up for your human laziness and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| isolated case of neglect, partly unworthy of His grace and help and partly unjustly treated. So you | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| could easily infer that there can be no grace of God. If you are supposed to be | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| supposed to be free and independent, where does grace come in? You would not even need it | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| not even need it. This is not true. Grace does exist. But no words can convey the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| But no words can convey the concept of grace unless you have first reached this true inner | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| inner religious experience. When you no longer need grace as a substitute for your own weakness, when | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| while you will live without any understanding of grace, but then the true concept will dawn on | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| comfortable intervention of an outside God and spiritual grace. The other outlook is that life is to | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Fall of the Angels, or the fall from grace. What does this mean? Humankind usually interprets the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| and will have seemed to be the saving grace that controls, prevents and dominates the realm of | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| experience delusions. No exercises, efforts, or hope for grace intervening from outside can bring you genuine awareness | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is as though the personality needed this outer grace, this helping hand. For the dishonest placing of | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| of your innermost nucleus to give you the grace of loving. The grace of God may manifest | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| to give you the grace of loving. The grace of God may manifest through you in making | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| about the so-called fall -- the Fall from grace or the fall of the angels, or whatever | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| and sharper light. This sharp light is the grace of truth and love that is freeing and | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| outer personality. This is already a state of grace. Confidence and trust have been established as a | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| health and harmony. It will show in the grace and poise of your movements, the balance and | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| you can accept the not having with good grace and still feel, perhaps even because of it | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| not a punishment, my friends. It is the grace of God that has made it so, in | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| precarious balance between patience and humility for the grace of knowledge to communicate itself on the one | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| new way of being, to ask the inner grace of God to help you change. And I | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| you sink back and lose this state of grace, as it is often being called, you doubt | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| release is pronounced in daily meditation, when God's grace can go to work within the consciousness of | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| perceive divine love and moves itself out of grace, as it were. But being removed from grace | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| grace, as it were. But being removed from grace is only an illusion. It becomes reality for | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| essence of yourself that is the state of grace I just described. Your innermost universe is also | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Your higher self is of course the ever-existing grace of God, the mantle of love, truth and | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| necessity to be in a state of divine grace without which you cannot accomplish anything. You feel | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| the universe wants to give to you. The grace of God is everywhere around and within you | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| why you can sense, at certain times of grace, that somewhere deep within exists a realm of | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| balance. We pray to the Lord for His grace that this will continue. Let us make a | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| all facts of life! 250. INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT Greetings and blessings, my | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| I wish to speak about the meaning of grace. For many of you this is a difficult | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| to comprehend. In former times the concept of grace was much more acceptable, for it was understood | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| At a time when self-responsibility was little developed, grace was interpreted in this manner and was therefore | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| experiences -- good or bad. How then does grace come in? Is it totally eliminated from your | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| of life and reality? No, it is not. Grace is as much a reality as self-creation and | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| another equally important topic, that of faith. The grace of God is. It exists at all times | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| nature of ultimate reality, which is thoroughly benign. Grace means that all must work out for the | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| always be the ultimate reality and therein lies grace. So, truly, you cannot help but live in | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| truly, you cannot help but live in the grace of God. The very air you breathe is | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| is constructed, all are an expression of divine grace. You live and move and have your being | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| is not that you need to draw the grace of God to you. For it is already | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| you and prevent you from perceiving and experiencing grace. In reality the walls are mist and must | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| can be certain that you partake of God's grace that surrounds and permeates you, that you are | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| your faulty vision, have separated you from the grace of God in which you swim, even now | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| misinterpretations of life that prevent you from experiencing grace. The automatic habit of this reversed thinking extends | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| is the assumption that the experience of God's grace is something to be given to you. Another | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| right now you lack it. You lack neither grace nor faith. As everything else, they, too, already | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| So you can release your intrinsic awareness of grace. You can release the faith that is already | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| giving and receiving is stopped, so that the grace of God, with all its manifestations, cannot enter | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| and live in divine order and in divine grace. This obstacle is very important, yet seldom recognized | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| you from perceiving and partaking of ever-present divine grace. Then you can release the faith that is | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| rare moments occur, you are bathed in the grace of God. All your prayers flow into one | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |