| Groove......................4 | |
| it is geared to function in a certain groove, so to speak. After many years of constantly | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| disposal in ways other than your habitual old groove. Such new thoughts may take into consideration that | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| can help me lift myself out of the groove that has been set by the negative force | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| instances it is quite possible to change a groove deeply engraved over considerable time, even in advanced | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Grope.......................41 | |
| substance is a curtain and man has to grope to open that curtain. Jesus Christ had to | 22 SALVATION |
| these create obstacles through which you have to grope your way. The more unconscious such attitudes, convictions | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| certain real situations. You may often have to grope when you find yourself not knowing what is | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| I cannot help feeling this way because I grope in the dark, and I, as a human | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| dark, and I, as a human being, often grope in the dark. I do not know many | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| possible? As long as you are puzzled and grope in the dark about what effect you have | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| exerted where you are lost now; where you grope and clutch tightly because you are driven by | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| There are many definitions of love, and you grope for these definitions on the assumption that you | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| center in yourself? Why do you have to grope so ardently to experience something so deep within | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| both become one. In this pathwork you tentatively grope in both directions. In the very center of | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| are powerless; but with this comprehension you can grope in a hopeful and meaningful way. If at | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| must come, that is good if you honestly grope and pray for understanding. These words will suddenly | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| to. Instead you must use your will to grope for a deeper understanding of the problem, seeing | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| price of denying it is enormous. You may grope in confusion until you find a way to | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| right blend of self-acceptance. But you have to grope for this realization again and again until it | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| to begin with, it can merely observe and grope for some deeper understanding of the underlying dynamics | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| me. I will have to struggle again and grope to find, over and over, my key. I | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| like, without being identified with it. I will grope for new ways of understanding it all, so | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that meditation cannot be practiced. Again, you must grope and honestly seek to unblock little by little | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| is faith. At the beginning, you can only grope for faith by an honestly experimental attitude. You | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| scope of experience, and the good will to grope for the way should help you. If you | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| know where they are true and where false. Grope for that reality when those little, inadvertent, emotional | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| this path you must be concerned with, and grope for an understanding of, how to transcend the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of your negative intentionality, or whether you blindly grope, act out, and consequently suffer a special kind | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| become confused. Confusion and disorder interact as you grope in the dark, struggling to make a patchwork | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| muster the courage, perseverance and steadfastness necessary to grope one's way out of darkness and suffering? Only | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| not yet fully aware of others. Thus you grope with the manifestation of others. In your blindness | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| As you grow physically, mentally, and emotionally, you grope to rediscover your inner knowledge. At first you | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| kind of security. When you sincerely do this, grope and patiently wait for the revelation from within | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| negativity. Again and again you will have to grope your way back through these stages, until, in | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| in the mutual venture of learning. As I grope to find the words best suited to a | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| and animates a unit of consciousness tries to grope with the split concepts until they become clarified | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| when to be receptive and quiet. You all grope in these and many other areas to find | 228 BALANCE |
| know who you are. So you flounder, you grope, but not in a healthy way. You are | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| can use the being value system as you grope, ask and wait receptively for the answer. That | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| you to deal with. As long as you grope, perhaps without even knowing it, you will feel | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| of deserving and claiming the abundance you desperately grope for in faulty ways. That attitude must prevail | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| you will assume the responsibility to search, to grope, to make the effort to extend your vision | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| split. Continue your struggle and cease all struggle. Grope for where struggle must continue and where it | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| for the good cause of truth. As you grope for the fine line of when and how | 254 SURRENDER |
| it will be much easier for you to grope and search, to struggle and stretch to find | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Gropes......................4 | |
| person on the evolutionary path, who searches and gropes -- incarnation after incarnation -- fulfilling his or | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| Since the limited and blind human consciousness merely gropes in the dark, very often your attraction to | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| of proportion. It is the little ego that gropes in the dark and fights in all the | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| The real kind of doubt selects, weighs, differentiates, gropes for the truth -- not shying away from | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Groping.....................36 | |
| are, as you must show yourself to God: groping, insecure, uncertain. In other words, to show your | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| and know. If you can own up to groping in the dark, you might be able to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| do you, in your anger, perceive them as groping, vulnerable, blind, and troubled humans? Or do they | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to the child that they are human beings groping to solve their own problems and struggling with | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| with you, but was a result of their groping, pathetic, human struggle to live which, when viewed | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| reality is. Then there is no necessity for groping in the dark, fearfully half-trusting, half- distrusting, thrown | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| these words shed light and clarification into your groping search for liberation. I should now like to | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| passive, receiving function. The human mind is constantly groping to find the right balance of these all-important | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| be mutually exclusive, annul one another. In the groping for a solution with such erroneous premises, one | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the dynamics of growth. It requires a continuous groping for the right balance of letting the destructive | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| small minority. And even you who are here, groping to solve your inner problems and struggles, are | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| of disconnectedness, going into yourself requires probing and groping to find the right measure of self-discipline, self- | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| The voluntary faculties require effort. You must persist, groping and searching for new approaches. This calls for | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| the effort is equal in measure. Months of groping with the voluntary processes of mind and will | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| with an inner readiness. It requires your intuitive groping to combine and alternate these two functions. The | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| activity of the person is confused. Search and groping cannot yield truthful answers as long as the | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| of self-acceptance without losing a sense of proportion; groping for new ways; learning from mistakes and failures | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| experience. It requires a bit of growing and groping before the personality can accept all feelings, experiencing | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| hate. Your inner split widens until you start groping your way back. There is no feeling in | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| I have made mistakes. They were blind and groping, and so was I. They were in darkness | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| past still influences you only after much laborious groping. This influence makes you react to something that | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| frightening and why your outer consciousness is blindly groping its way back to its connection with the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| real self. This happens through an often laborious groping search, through attempts of the mind to expand | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| be. To become more aware often requires intense groping and searching. And that is indeed part of | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| about. And all of it is necessary: the groping process, the process of trial and error, searching | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| is always the danger, the difficulty in the groping. The wishful thinking that the positive voice is | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| out ready-made. It must be earned through the groping process. You must learn to question yourself about | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| It can come only through the process of groping, learning, making mistakes. Eventually the inner knowing will | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| of blindness, of not knowing or comprehending, of groping in the dark, floating on a groundless, unreal | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| until, as a result of long suffering and groping, the mind turns around and starts thinking and | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| built on sound and deep self-esteem. However, the groping that is healthy, that is necessary, that is | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| to defend your uncertainty, where you were truly groping in the dark in an eternal either/or, in | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| meaning can fully materialize. More steps, effort and groping may be necessary before outer consciousness follows suit | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| relatively undeveloped find themselves in the darkness of groping through the webs of cause and effect, more | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| that keeps nagging you because you are still groping in the dark about how to establish an | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| requires a great deal of deliberate awareness and groping while you grow into this state, until your | 254 SURRENDER |