| without courting the dangers of self-judgment, more substantial growth has to take place. True development is indicated | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| opposite, and as you advance in your own growth and development, you will perceive cause and effect | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| heavens. It cannot be done. Attaining development and growth requires much less pretentious and ostentatious means than | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| advanced that other planets also afford opportunity for growth and development. That is quite true. However, each | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| process. It is an indirect outcome of inner growth, self-awareness, and self-facing. QUESTION: Can one draw a | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self-responsibility. Both indicate spiritual and emotional adulthood, freedom, growth, creativity, strength, trust in the self, and real | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the long run, it cripples you and your growth. I sometimes have to refrain from stating a | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Conflicts in the World of Duality 89. EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION Greetings, my dearest friends. God | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you put in the way of your own growth. Hence it is necessary that I discuss the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| beings to particularly neglect, repress, and cripple the growth of their emotional nature. This neglect is universal | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and your logical reasoning. All this furthers mental growth. But why is the emotional nature generally neglected | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| will be hindered if you have neglected emotional growth and discouraged yourself from experiencing the world of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| in your world today on physical and mental growth and a conspicuous neglect of emotional growth? Several | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| mental growth and a conspicuous neglect of emotional growth? Several general explanations could be advanced, but I | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| an instinct with the function of promoting the growth of certain organic matter through strong use of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| period so dangerous that you proceed to stop growth altogether. You not only hinder excesses as a | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the case with every one of you, the growth period of experiencing and maturing has to happen | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| mental sides of the personality than to the growth of the emotional nature. Hardly anyone recognizes that | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| in these terms, you believe that the emotional growth process should come about without growing pains. Most | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| exists at all, let alone that it needs growth; neither do you know how such growth is | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| needs growth; neither do you know how such growth is to be accomplished. You who are on | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| longer object to going through a period of growth now. In this growing period, immature emotions have | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| being, but through an organic process of emotional growth wherein feelings will naturally change their direction, their | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| unreliable in this state. Since you discourage their growth, you live by your mental faculties only -- | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| in the courage to make this maturity and growth possible, will you gain the security within yourself | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to accomplish this without tending to your emotional growth. You want to believe that the one is | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| mind as to whether you really want emotional growth or you still want to cling to the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to cling to the childish hope that spiritual growth is possible while you neglect the world of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| is a direct outcome of emotional maturity and growth. True faith in God, in the sense of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and faith possible. Anyone who ever attained spiritual growth, known or unknown in history, had to have | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| experiencing negative emotions in a way that promotes growth. You will derive insight from them, even if | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| are those of repression and therefore obstruction of growth occurs. That you call it sublimation because certain | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| wonderful opportunity here, my friends, to foster the growth of a side in you that has been | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| wisdom to conduct your life and your inner growth so that you do not stand still. For | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| thing that gives meaning to life -- continuous growth. The better you accomplish this, the more you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| does not come from natural insight and inner growth but from fear: the fear about your imperfection | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| at all. The healthy, constructive solution is inner growth that must eventually make you outgrow destructive impulses | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| you cannot ever find what prohibits your true growth. This work demands that you discard the outer | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| perfection that is not the true aim of growth. By the mere act of repeatedly observing your | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| desired approval, people who work on their emotional growth will try to discover how they have shortchanged | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| rebel against. Genuine goodness, coming out of real growth, will never have this effect on others. QUESTION | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| false moralizing nor true morality based on inner growth, which is based on the real self. The | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| not on a path of self- development and growth would know this if they questioned how their | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| well. QUESTION: In a previous lecture about emotional growth and its function, a question was asked as | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one's entire nature. Only this combination can produce growth, and growth cannot be speeded up. The necessary | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| nature. Only this combination can produce growth, and growth cannot be speeded up. The necessary step before | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself as average, is the greatest sign of growth and maturity. In a private session some time | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| own personality. It will be the outcome of growth and will produce further growth, in addition to | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the outcome of growth and will produce further growth, in addition to happiness and fulfillment. You will | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| it only vaguely. The child in you resists growth, desires to remain immature, and is burdened with | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| are not due entirely to the resistance to growth and change and to the fear of letting | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| only after a great deal of deep insight, growth, and change in particular areas. All this is | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| go through the slow process just described, organic growth occurs and the relinquishing happens in a natural | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| here, my friend. The answer is very simple. Growth, maturity, unfoldment, makes you able to withstand, if | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| based on the laws of evolution and organic growth. But there is also another type of change | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| living to your specific inner problem. No real growth and happiness can exist unless a change in | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| living, growing being, you do not see the growth taking place. You notice it only retrospectively. But | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| part of the human struggle. If you find growth and change pleasurable because of past development that | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the same time your resistance to change and growth where the hard work of facing and initiating | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| is by fuller and fuller awareness of reality, growth, change, on all levels of your being. So | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| superimposed action that cannot be helpful to genuine growth. Your concentration and determination should go rather in | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| each step onward will mean further realization of growth and happiness. Be in peace, be in God | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| his very special desires and instructions concerning my growth. I ask from all my heart to be | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| bitter, unreasonable rebellion. And on such a foundation growth is really not possible. Therefore, you should first | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| make the rebellion and frenzy your incentive for growth. These unhealthy, self- destructive emotions have to disappear | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| fully and derive the joy of experience, of growth, of feeling, to a much greater extent than | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| ever exist. At the same time, your spiritual growth stagnates because your perfectionism keeps you from changing | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you accept imperfection, and to be capable of growth only if you accept your own imperfection seems | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| exactly the attitude of perfectionism about your spiritual growth. Your unconscious expectation is complete perfection, and not | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| unconscious expectation is complete perfection, and not step-by-step growth. You do not have to be problem-free. You | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| being perfect, create a rigid wall that makes growth and change impossible. The trouble is that people | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| mean to stagnate and not even attempt any growth and change. These two extremes are interdependent, as | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| your real self. If your focus is on growth rather than on perfection, you will live in | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| grow. The very existence of your perfectionism stunts growth, causes rigidity and inner extremism. You are so | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| to such discouragement and rigidity and pretense, that growth becomes impossible. You already know this to some | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| for pretense and rigidity -- and this excludes growth and development, as well as change. Only when | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| grow, only then is the soil fertile for growth. QUESTION: May I ask about this subject too | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| fear? ANSWER: Where there is perfectionism, which prohibits growth rather than encourages it, all three are present | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| aspect of his being waits for unfoldment and growth that cannot be reached merely by doing good | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you. Continue in your work, in your step-by-step growth, for that is the glory of your life | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| them may indeed indicate the direction of your growth. Determining this is very beneficial. Moreover, daydreaming of | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| them. They will teach you to further your growth and strength until your needs can find partial | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| it. Due to your progress and to the growth that has taken place within you, the mature | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| best way to get to this point of growth, maturity, and productive living, is by simply observing | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the more you will speed the process of growth that finally will enable you not only to | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| I must repeat again and again that inner growth cannot happen suddenly. First you have a glimpse | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| not so in reality. Only the process of growth will give you the inner understanding and conviction | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| further key and a help for your continued growth and liberation. May they help you to become | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| there can indeed be no life and no growth. If you wish to fulfill yourself and your | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| cultivation of your will -- be it for growth, self-awareness, realizing a potential, or establishing a meaningful | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| which often prohibits the inner absorption and therefore growth. Try to perceive what I say with your | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| yet it cannot be stressed enough that inner growth and freedom can come only by being yourself | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| only belief that is genuine and that furthers growth. QUESTION: When you were talking about the will | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| the roots. Accept this slow process of your growth. Remove the compulsion and the impatience, and the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| ourselves. Could you explain how this works? ANSWER: Growth and self-development can, to a degree, take place | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| where the hindrances and obstacles are greatest, there growth can be most effective, provided the person in | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| these faculties cannot directly bring freedom and spiritual growth. When used wrongly, thought and willpower create confusion | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| being in awareness, yet they oppose the organic growth into it by artificially holding on to an | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| outer will. They believe that they can attain growth and experience the real self by curbing the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| step by step, you will not obstruct the growth that you are inherently ready for. Do not | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| a shortcut, and there is no shortcut to growth and genuine spiritual and emotional health. When you | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to manifest. But when it comes to the growth of your inner being, discipline is very harmful | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| that are of utmost importance for his individual growth. This does not mean that I advocate atheism | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| They exist because of man's inherent rhythm of growth that cannot be hurried. Yet it needs encouragement | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the world, unless it is sustained by inner growth and transformation which is the product of self-awareness | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| social reforms were way ahead of man's inner growth, they may have a temporary effect, only to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| not mean that the continued process of inner growth need be halted. It depends on you how | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| each former year, you may surely expect further growth and liberation. This applies to all who truly | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| who feel liberated and are aware of their growth have also gone through phases when they felt | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| will be so much farther toward liberation and growth. It is easy to focus on superficial actions | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| always right. It takes quite a bit of growth, maturity, and wisdom to realize that one may | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| no longer a crushing shame to be wrong. Growth, in this respect, often proceeds in stages. At | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| curves and cycles. If the cycle is stopped, growth is stopped and the person eventually reverts to | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| wrong, due to the unfounded danger that the growth experienced was illusory. I close with very special | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| alternatives, you undermine the organic process of emotional growth, manipulating your feelings in a most negative and | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| cosmic forces, the life force, strain toward expansion, growth, union, and integration. Each individual entity, being a | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| a universe unto itself, follows this movement toward growth and outgoingness. If these forces are disturbed or | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| fact, when this stage is reached through organic growth and development, such a possibility will be welcomed | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| in your own faculties that develop through your growth. Your previous insistence on psychic phenomena was also | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| deepened understanding for their further development and inner growth. When a new child enters this earth, its | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| it engages all your faculties, thus arresting the growth and functioning of other aspects of the psyche | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| with -- it is a decisive step toward growth and self- realization. At that moment you understand | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| been reached through the steady progress and organic growth that persevering work is bound to bring eventually | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| overall development of the soul, its potential for growth in particular areas of development, is still limited | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| self in utter candor, so as to make growth possible. The dignity of this endeavor becomes evident | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| changes, which represent milestones in its process of growth. When I speak of a living organism, I | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| foundation, enabling many more individuals to cultivate their growth. Every one of you who participates in this | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| participates in this work contributes to the inner growth of the group. Many of you are doing | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| has a different possibility of contributing toward the growth of this body of truth, but it is | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| this group on its present healthy foundation. The growth of a living organism cannot always be measured | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| with an open and sensitive mind can perceive growth and inner health, even if, at times, there | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| forth to all of you who made this growth possible; the new venture is blessed. Whenever milestones | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| is blessed. Whenever milestones are passed in the growth process of an organism, the inner reality can | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| the degree they fulfill their potential through inner growth, their life will be a dynamic and full | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| whole and nevertheless miss many an opportunity for growth. How many times does it happen that you | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| source of conflict. If you use each such growth opportunity for going to the root of the | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| meaningful way, using each moment and incident for growth. Not straining away from the future, you will | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| in opposing directions. The result is stagnation of growth, as well as lack of the full experience | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| a final result of missed inner opportunities for growth and unfoldment of the soul -- for the | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| truth. If, in spite of its possibility for growth that brought such higher truth into its grasp | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| help humanity to produce greater inner freedom, faster growth and development, and therefore outer peace and justice | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |