| Granting....................3 | |
| your plane of existence. Your desires and the granting of them do not really make you happy | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| well as yourself, to be the self. Not granting this freedom, in a subtle way one wants | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| seeking satisfaction in the wrong way and not granting the other person the same freedom you wish | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| Grapple.....................4 | |
| the treasure out unless you are willing to grapple with the mud first. The simple logic of | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| compensation for the false concept. The personality may grapple between these two concepts, unconsciously trying to find | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and duality; nevertheless, they meet the illusion and grapple with it, which is honest and growth- producing | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| or her motives. You will not have to grapple with your intellect only, which could never give | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Grasp.......................107 | |
| this. My words tonight are not easy to grasp and I ask you to think about them | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| and order is increasingly understood. These people will grasp evermore clearly how their spiritual path should proceed | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| endlessly difficult undertaking and for human beings to grasp it is difficult. But the present difficulty is | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| right, or left are concepts that you can grasp in your earthly habitat, but they do not | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| human measurement; it is the smallest you can grasp. In spirit, however, the smallest is also the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| is so real to us. Somehow I cannot grasp what you mean. I am not quite there | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| as to understand it. And if you cannot grasp it today, that does not matter. Later -- | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| what I have said before, in order to grasp what I am going to say now. People | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| do that is what really counts. You can grasp this truth only if you view life and | 18 FREE WILL |
| but those who have a deeper understanding may grasp a little bit of what I am saying | 18 FREE WILL |
| the chance should be offered them. If they grasp it, it means a great victory for them | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| guidance put in action. Thus you may also grasp the fact that the inner picture of each | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| to come. Even the highest spirits cannot fully grasp the love, wisdom, and perfection of God and | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| of utmost importance for all of you to grasp this idea, for then you will be able | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| only in your intellect, where perhaps you can grasp this truth. But you will have to come | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| but there is hardly a person who can grasp all the levels contained in it. QUESTION: The | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| part-souls on the down-curve are concerned. Can you grasp at all what I am saying? Yes. QUESTION | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is terribly difficult to understand, but I somehow grasp that they have to collect themselves later in | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| person is open and has the understanding to grasp these things, one may feel one's way around | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| an exceedingly difficult procedure impossible for you to grasp entirely. The period of processing and treatment of | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| your faults with each other? Can you really grasp and understand your fears, insecurities, and complexes from | 36 PRAYER |
| to follow the vicious circle through until you grasp it well enough so that you can break | 36 PRAYER |
| point, you will still be unable really to grasp, on all levels of your being, what your | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| and how you have caused them. You may grasp some perhaps, but not all. Some of you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| disappointment that can only be understood when you grasp these truths. Raw sexual instinct also enters into | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| strange to you and you may still not grasp what I mean. Let me try to make | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| no point in that since you could not grasp it, my friends. In my discussion I will | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the new layer that you discover. You will grasp that your former unselfishness was ineffective because it | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| have learned to some degree -- can you grasp the meaning of the true and real conscience | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| realize it is very difficult for you to grasp and understand that you are never, never dependent | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| an explanation of it. Human beings simply cannot grasp this much wider means of communication. Their own | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the photograph. I know this is hard to grasp. Incidentally, do not try to force this new | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| is no need for it. In order to grasp all this, it is essential that you become | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| often just the opposite. But you could only grasp this if you had the overall view, knowing | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have gained. Only by doing this will you grasp the reality value of your current problems and | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| a prey to circumstances beyond your control, you grasp for chance and luck. You feel like a | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| deeper meaning than their surface suggests. If you grasp this deeper meaning you will gain an entirely | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the individuals to whom it is revealed can grasp it. But it is, in itself, a representation | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| It can be fully understood only if you grasp the meaning of this lecture and the previous | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| unhappiness and your idealized self-image. You need to grasp the significance, the effects, the damages that follow | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| abuse himself, not knowing that it cannot possibly grasp the universal mind: God. Knowing that is wisdom | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| and the realization of one's own limitation to grasp the Creator, may come simultaneously. A divine aspect | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the humans' doing. The only way you can grasp and understand why it should be that certain | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| fear stop you, but face it, examine it, grasp it, instead of repressing it, and then come | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| yet it is impossible for humanity to fully grasp this. The best you can do is to | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| a general, overall readiness of this earth-sphere to grasp higher truth. If, in spite of its possibility | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| growth that brought such higher truth into its grasp, humanity still does not learn the deeper meaning | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| you reach an entirely new understanding. You then grasp the difference between intellectual and emotional understanding. For | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| are under- utilized. You will not have a grasp of the situation, nor will you feel the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| taken place, but you cannot as yet fully grasp its impact. Parents are the most important influence | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of your immediate, accessible reality, you cannot possibly grasp the extension of your limited reality on a | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and remain because of humanity's limited ability to grasp eternal values. The temporary needs are dictated by | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| which go beyond a mere intellectual and theoretical grasp of the subject. Sometimes this understanding comes only | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| widen and raise your consciousness, to strengthen your grasp on reality. The most powerful aspect in your | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| ignorance about this, and not being able to grasp what is going on, must leave you hanging | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| source, and provides you with a realistic, comprehensive grasp of things, so that outer manifestations are seen | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| order will come so near that you can grasp it -- and this, indeed, is a wonderful | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| to it. It means the extension of your grasp, the deepening of your understanding. You are becoming | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| object in your outer environment you wish to grasp, touch and see. Finding such a No must | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| with your ego faculties and use them to grasp truths that you later experience on a deeper | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| a child. Some of you have begun to grasp, if ever so slightly, that at the moment | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| Vague attempts have been made by psychology to grasp this factor, and it has been understood in | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| The greater the scope of the mind to grasp blissful, joyful experience, the more of it must | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| it will be fairly simple and easy to grasp, to feel, to experience the world of truth | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| where you no longer have to reach and grasp and want, but know that it is already | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| principle of cause and effect. When somehow you grasp this, no matter how vaguely, it first appears | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| appears in your inner feelings -- and this grasp comes from facing personal inner errors and self-deceptions | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| life, rather than to make an impression and grasp for approval. When the immediate barriers to transformation | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| those who really think about it and properly grasp the whole meaning of this important question, clearly | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| have occasionally had an inkling of it will grasp the power of what I am saying and | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| for fulfillment. These ideas are not easy to grasp when you first hear them. They will require | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| It is important for you, my friends, to grasp and appreciate this fact. The bliss I speak | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| has not approached the threshold of self-realization cannot grasp the wonder and beauty of this part of | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| set of movements will expand your self-realization, your grasp of your own inner truth as it relates | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| for you to perceive, to sense, and to grasp it. Knowing and understanding this principle of creation | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| your own possibilities of happiness, your mind must grasp the principle that you cannot bring something to | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| misconception of this duality is impossible to fully grasp unless one contemplates its ramifications very carefully. Sacrificing | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| a phantom or ghost -- which you cannot grasp or touch and, because of that, inordinately fear | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| intensely push away. Anything you desire you intensely grasp. You grasp for the good because you fear | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| away. Anything you desire you intensely grasp. You grasp for the good because you fear the bad | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the misery in your soul forces when you grasp on the one side and ward off on | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| understanding which is not necessarily connected with intellectual grasp, although the latter is usually the first step | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| real sustenance. This, too, is very important to grasp in its full significance. Those of my friends | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| self, it still possesses some reason and some grasp of a limited reality. Without the ego, the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the horizon of your concepts, of your mental grasp. This increases your creative power to alter the | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| frustrations are, the more you will strain and grasp for a solution. As you are not conscious | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| done right to fight against the bad and grasp for the good. Why, then, are you so | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| all they could ever need, they try to grasp whatever they need from others, from substitutes, from | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| is the only one possible, you will not grasp the possibilities and powers in your life. Thus | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| at your disposal, with which you try to grasp and comprehend, is itself as fragmentary as the | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| perception, your consciousness itself, so that it can grasp the meaning behind the manifestation? You invariably mistake | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| desire and desirelessness as mutually exclusive, you cannot grasp or feel the necessary attitude. Desire must exist | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| unrealistically overlooking their ugly side. You cannot yet grasp the presence of duality in yourself, and therefore | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| they deal with concepts the human mind cannot grasp. You must use your intuitive faculties to sense | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| is not intuitive and not aware enough to grasp what is happening. The physical level of action | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| the little mind and push and grab and grasp on the one hand, and deny and negate | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| can hardly contain the multidimensional verities beyond human grasp. Nevertheless, if you deliberately allow the understanding of | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| what the dualistic way of seeing reality can grasp. One confusion might be: Am I longing for | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| its course that I still do not completely grasp? -- that you will gain meaningful answers, that | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| to gain an overview, so that you can grasp the deeper meaning of what is happening today | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| It is so important for you to truly grasp that these reactions, these feelings exist in you | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| state, so that you can further attempt to grasp and sense it, to make it eventually your | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| As a next step, it is important to grasp fully how the striving for physical life is | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| new phase, it will be very helpful to grasp the deeper meaning of Be in the world | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| them. For it is necessary to know, to grasp, to experience what-ever truth exists so that you | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| truth. Such people are still too immature to grasp the immense strength, autonomy and freedom that lie | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| an overall evolutionary direction, otherwise you cannot really grasp the inner meaning of these changes. In all | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |