| Grown-up....................7 | |
| image-conclusions conform not at all to your otherwise grown-up intelligence. The same process exists with animals. A | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| in later life. Your image-conclusions conflict with the grown-up desires and aims of your life, and thereby | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| was not a child spirit. It was a grown-up spirit and it voluntarily undertook a short life | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| up between the child and the authority, the grown-up. It is worse if love is missing, or | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a helpless child in order to make the grown-up world -- or God, or life, or human | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| much wish to have, you so much envy grown-up people for. You can gain more and more | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| not set a wall between you and the grown-up world. There is no wall unless you make | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Grownups....................3 | |
| grow; you know that. Therefore, even in many grownups, sex remains childish and separate from love. And | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and you do not trust some of the grownups to depend on? All that may be part | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| are as much for you as for the grownups. You have as much right to this help | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Grown-ups...................3 | |
| can often approach truth with clearer eyes than grown-ups. At the risk of boring you, I must | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| come only much later. This, too, happens to grown-ups. Most grown-ups do not immediately understand what I | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| much later. This, too, happens to grown-ups. Most grown-ups do not immediately understand what I say, my | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Grows.......................122 | |
| as the theme of today's lectures. The feeling grows from several roots, therefore there are a variety | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| This thought will grow, and the more it grows the more you will see how right it | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| for all divine processes. Anything substantial and permanent grows slowly with a maximum of personal effort, little | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| of the absolute, and your sense of it, grows. It is not only people at the beginning | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| a lot of other things. Thus spiritual strength grows as you learn to apply absolute self-honesty. Once | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| attracts like inevitably, magnetically. When a human being grows up, he or she is surrounded by guardian | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| will lessen in impact and frequency, as harmony grows in your soul and as you take charge | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| your means of fighting evil. As spiritual development grows, you will learn to go more to the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| detail there is a reason. The physical shell grows in the mother's body, although there is no | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| some consciousness will return as the human being grows while other types of consciousness must remain hidden | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| remain in the conscious mind. As the personality grows up, your intellectual knowledge contradicts your emotional knowledge | 38 IMAGES |
| right away in consciousness and when the child grows up, the conclusion will alter with the growing | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| child, being different means being inferior. When he grows up this trend sometimes remains and manifests in | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| selfishly. Only if and when the whole personality grows and matures harmoniously will sex become integrated with | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| will cease to exist. But when the child grows up, authority merely changes: instead of parents and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| nature revives. The life force penetrates everything that grows: plants, trees, grass, flowers, fruits, vegetables, the animal | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| is incapable of unselfish love. The mature adult grows into it provided the whole personality matures harmoniously | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| We are told that love is something that grows. However, if we don't possess too much of | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| active life, the feminine side of his nature grows disproportionately. On the other hand, if a woman | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| distorted concept sets off. The more the child grows and learns to live in this world, the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| or come to terms with as the personality grows. If you consider all your personal images with | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| bring them to the fore. When a person grows up, these problems can be solved, but hardly | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| about parental rejection in the unconscious, the personality grows into an otherwise mature being, but retains the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| connection may at first seem. As your understanding grows, each mishap loses more of its darkness and | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| picture language, in simplified terms. When the child grows up, it becomes more intellectualized and more open | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| worry, responsibility, or hardship. The more the entity grows, the more it has to face the realities | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and also what you fear. As this awareness grows, you will understand what I have been talking | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| facing yourself, your ability to perceive truth automatically grows. It cannot grow by a direct technique or | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and wrong conclusions are resolved and the person grows out of the powerful negative emotions. Then there | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| This is relinquishing in the real sense. One grows into it by insight, by full understanding of | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| human struggle exists because a part of you grows organically and healthily according to the laws of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| superimposed. Then, as time goes on, she really grows into this ideal picture. Then, when one works | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| development proceeds, and with it awareness of reality grows. The more you are in reality, the more | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| intellectual understanding. It is an inner process that grows organically. As you now deeply understand that no | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| If you do not receive enough, your demand grows out of proportion, especially when you are unconscious | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| capacity to love is automatically set free. It grows by itself. All of you, regardless of how | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| step is always self-understanding, from which your love-capacity grows. Although this is not new, it needs to | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| this observation your capacity for loving and living grows automatically. Find the unifying forces that lie beneath | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| genuine God-experience and relationship. But then, as he grows more conflicted and fearful, after his desires become | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| a projection of himself. The more the mind grows in one direction only, without being used to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| its reason for existence. In this process, he grows out of it. As man cultivates this attitude | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| are fully understood in that process, one's awareness grows into wide areas. As long as you are | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| as well as negative -- that the entity grows. The malleable, soft substance of the soul is | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| assimilated realistically, so that the personality learns and grows from the experience, whether or not it was | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| little deeper. When the infant is born and grows into a child, its ego is still so | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| understanding of the self, the understanding of others grows, and through that a perception of the divine | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| yet completely aware of it. As your awareness grows, liberation becomes imminent. This can happen only when | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| and, consequently, your comprehension of your personal limitations grows. As they are truly perceived, the limitations instantly | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| your freedom increases, your vision extends, your security grows -- and your inner harmony is established. This | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| mental and spiritual awareness and the entire personality grows harmoniously, the sexual drive changes. It undergoes the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| as general human development. The more the person grows, the more he or she reaches out, first | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| not sinful, shameful, or wrong. As the psyche grows out of this primitive state, the flavor, emphasis | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| is with the world. The average individual who grows into adulthood may have a number of aspects | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| short-sighted and destructive elements. But the more humanity grows, the less confused it will be about what | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| an attempt to do so. As the individual grows capable of dissolving destructive, childish trends through reason | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| you now know it. Almost imperceptibly, as evolution grows, the individual creates a new kind of body | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| this interplay is learned and lived with, self-trust grows, and positive chain reactions between ego, real self | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| run from yourself, the more this foreign body grows. QUESTION: As I see it, this love you | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| guilt and shame will be removed. As understanding grows, the pleasure principle will gradually respond to positive | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| center from its consciousness. However, when the child grows into an adult, when the ego becomes mature | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| find yourself again. The trust in the self grows commensurately with the giving up of destructiveness. The | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| of being and becoming. In nature, the plant grows in spring toward fruition in summer. In the | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| expression, can be abandoned, while the pleasurable aspect grows stronger, negativity can transform itself. When you have | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the shame, the anxiety, and the tension. Opposition grows, conflict increases, and the vicious circle continues. The | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| self-dislike are removed, the courage to be oneself grows in proportion. Many times the real reason for | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| Within three-dimensional time itself the sense of eternality grows, life itself expands. As a person becomes healthier | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| must be experienced, as the being expands and grows into further dimensions. The truth of these words | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| increase anger and rage, thus fear of self grows, and so on. Those who are unable to | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| this one area so that the whole personality grows lopsidedly. Your adult conscious mind ignores the fact | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| undesirable results in motion. Such strength and ability grows from direct, head-on facing, not treating the fear | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| to love and to be in truth -- grows proportionately. The most effective and intense form of | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and give forth happiness. Only an individual who grows according to his or her potentials and life | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| way than ever. Just as every living thing grows more aware of itself as it develops, so | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| to discipline all spontaneous impulses. When this consciousness grows and the negativity of the feeling world becomes | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| you become, and the more violent your anger grows from this uninterrupted frustration. Then this anger frightens | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| that can be perceived as your own consciousness grows and ventures forth. I would like to talk | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| has already been born is forever renewed, it grows and changes, it is in a process of | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| result of wanting his own destruction. His hatred grows to the extent he feels victimized and helplessly | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| could not be recognized, but as an entity grows, such unconscious, displaced emotions become keenly conscious, although | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| balance becomes a steady state, the destructive infant grows up. It is not killed or annihilated. It | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| capacity to cope with the negativity of others grows only to the extent that you can do | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| it to be. When you resist change, fear grows because your innermost being knows that crisis, eruption | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| other times, outer changes occur gradually, as awareness grows. This does not mean that there is no | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| fuller, pleasure is greater, fear is lessening, security grows. You become more firmly rooted in the reality | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| system, your whole organization of the human apparatus grows, you become more acclimatized to happiness, to fulfillment | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| this self-observing way, your ability to endure pleasure grows. You become acclimatized to functioning on a higher | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| of spiritual and psychic potential and power, bliss grows. Fearlessness increases. Solutions to all problems become increasingly | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| disappointments and disillusionments. This hope slowly but surely grows into manifest reality and fact, resulting in self- | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| follow if you gave up the lower self grows stronger and the negativity becomes self-perpetuating. You then | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the effect -- the pain. When the infant grows into a young child, it begins to be | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| doing; the impact of everything you issue forth grows likewise. The more you advance, the stronger the | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| is a devastating soul climate in which confusion grows and the genuine sense of self gets more | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| assuming responsibility for it, your capacity to love grows commensurately. By willingly experiencing your fear, you grow | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| this group venture are so wonderful. The power grows steadily through your progress and liberation and the | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| power could be abused. But whenever this ability grows organically as a byproduct of knowing your own | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| no longer be confused and torn! This ability grows from giving up your stake in hiding, projecting | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| stake in hiding, projecting, denying, and distorting; it grows from giving up an attitude that not only | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| is not a decided, harmonious, firm strength that grows out of true dignity and self-value. It is | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| rejection of life's pattern. As your meditation practice grows in the course of your development, turn inward | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| that the heart may possibly desire. This trust grows gradually every time you overcome your resistance and | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| yourself, the further attitude of letting go inevitably grows. This attitude says, If others want what I | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| has now just about left kindergarten. When consciousness grows and matures a little and therefore perceives life | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Answer them again and again as the child grows older and can take in more. Schools in | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Perfection is a breathing, living force that heals, grows and creates because it exists for its own | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| a sea of intense joyous awareness. Your community grows in depth, in beauty, in truth, in love | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| the will to understand fully, and consequently understanding grows from love. Other times the understanding occurs first | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| it his or her own. As the child grows older, more abilities emerge to make more new | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| more new experience accessible. The older the child grows, the more independent he or she becomes. The | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| journey, on your path of moving. As everything grows and moves, so your capacity to visualize and | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| without your outer intention, as it were. It grows as a tree, in whatever field you activate | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| talents and fulfill your task. As your stature grows due to your ongoing development, so does the | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| soft, yielding, life-accepting, life-affirming attitude, your own strength grows effectively, powerfully, and yet so softly. Conversely, your | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| more palpable reality for you as your vision grows. Be filled with the love of Christ, be | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| greater the real guilt becomes. With the guilt grows the resistance whose purpose is to ward off | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| can and will become comfortable as the soul grows in stature. This happens through a process of | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| more easily. The art of communicating, of self-expression, grows as you grow. Thus you become an increasingly | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| more available to others. A state of mind grows in you which has nothing to hide, for | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| pain about causing pain to others. This then grows into debilitating guilt and indirect self-punishment. You also | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| outer meaning to your life. As your community grows, the cleansing process must be an inexorable byproduct | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| of outer truth increases. As understanding of self grows, so does understanding of the world. As you | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| your own and your world's salvation. Focused emptiness grows, both deliberately and spontaneously, as you remove inner | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| to reach the inner person. The more humanity grows, the greater the influx of the Christ light | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |