| deliberately try to deny them and thus stunt growth -- in order to live your fantasy. You | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| the benign quality of its movement and the growth it can foster, you could allow yourself to | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| is true. Only when children grow, provided this growth occurs organically, will they gradually cut the ties | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| a certain point. In order to effect further growth, the baby has to evolve; the umbilical cord | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| to be cut. Only then is further physical growth possible. The process is no different for the | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| unrealistic fight for survival; how you spoil the growth of mutuality and fulfillment. The need for control | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| ugly or wicked. In the final analysis, arrested growth is always life-defeating and self-centered, but the emphasis | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| of you concerned with spiritual development and inner growth may pose the following questions: What is most | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| than self-recognition can bring me spiritual development? Is growth possible without it? Are my efforts sufficient, or | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| essence of life itself. Where there is no growth, there is no life. This does not only | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| are, of course, different stages and manners of growth. In some instances the growing process is indirect | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| being unaware even of the possibility of inner growth. Then the growth can be perceived only much | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of the possibility of inner growth. Then the growth can be perceived only much later, in a | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| since spirit is eternal, it must potentially be growth; spirit cannot die. Its growth and unfoldment can | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| must potentially be growth; spirit cannot die. Its growth and unfoldment can be arrested if its manifest | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| manifest forms are not in the process of growth, and therefore not alive. Non-life is non-growth. Life | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| therefore not alive. Non-life is non-growth. Life, as growth, proceeds in degrees. Between being alive or not | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Between being alive or not alive, being in growth or not, there are many gradations. We have | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| those who are truly in the process of growth may often feel temporarily discouraged, believing they are | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| they occasionally already experience and see their inner growth. They feel it. First this happens only after | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the deeper regions of your personality. Considered superficially, growth and stagnation often seem similar, because both follow | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| I said previously, life is movement; life is growth; life is consciousness -- and more -- all | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| its movement is also more perceptible. And so growth proceeds along the scale, from animal to human | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| or a recluse, but the process of inner growth cannot be gauged by apparent outer harmony. It | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the very area in which you most need growth. Beware of a quick, superficial evaluation. Only when | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| not shy away from taxing involvement and mutual growth through it, while the latter may hide his | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to an experience of God is through inner growth and liberation of feelings, perception and determination. If | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| introversion leads to healthy extroversion, it furthers true growth. If self- preoccupation is fruitless, not constructive, and | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Rather, he should release all the material of growth that has accumulated in him. It will bring | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| should be. If you would only allow the growth that has taken place in you to manifest | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| capable of loving. And if, through your inner growth, through facing yourself in complete candor, through dispensing | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| search is profound enough and thereby an inner growth is set in motion, if it does not | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| one of those misunderstandings I mentioned which prohibit growth and unfoldment. The misunderstanding comes from the idea | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| in either alternative you have equal possibility for growth if your actions and decisions are derived from | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| As I have said so many times, without growth there is no life. And since growth is | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| without growth there is no life. And since growth is a movement, without movement there is no | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the parent of the same sex. But as growth continues, he or she reaches out to the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| is reached. Then, and then only, can organic growth take place and the personality unfold in its | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| may harbor fear and guilt, thus preventing organic growth. Your instincts remain in the primitive childhood state | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| becomes, at least partly, a substitute for emotional growth and awareness. You need to find the entanglements | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| to develop, and the effects this lack of growth has on your life and interrelationships. You can | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| implies lack of movement, and therefore lack of growth. It implies lack of consciousness, for in consciousness | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| keeps you rigid, what prevents your complete organic growth. Do not be afraid of facing these feelings | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| process. This step means a substantial and significant growth of lasting value, of lasting impact. Be blessed | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| Blessed be your path, your development, your continuous growth as individuals. Most of my friends who have | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| remove the outer provocation. Certain unalterable laws of growth and development apply to all living organisms in | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| understand, or evaluate. Therefore you cannot compare the growth processes of these organisms with your own. But | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| comparison between the individual laws and processes of growth and those of humanity as a whole. Sufficient | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| exists between them and their fellow-creatures. For this growth process to take place, the infant must develop | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| nature. When all of them mature in harmony, growth takes place on all levels and the individual | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| or humankind as a whole. Each transition in growth, small or big, is fraught with crisis. Humankind | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| went through many crises -- the crises of growth. Let us look at transitional periods of growth | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| growth. Let us look at transitional periods of growth in the individual from the point of view | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| challenge. The physical system also undergoes crisis in growth. A teething baby experiences pain. Puberty is psychologically | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| is the best demonstration of the law of growth. In fact, my introductory words to this lecture | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| more willing you are to be in the growth process by your inner determination to understand and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| of infancy may be relatively much longer than growth periods of adulthood. The time element cannot be | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| of maturity. But I repeat that phases of growth cannot be measured in fixed states as with | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| Keep the inner light burning so that further growth, further individuation, can proceed within each one of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| be this hour. Blessed be every step toward growth and unfoldment each of you undertakes. To those | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| is superimposed and not the result of natural growth -- brings disharmony, resentment, self-pity, and invites unjust | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| hold themselves in check. How can true overall growth occur with such inner timidity and lack of | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| beyond itself and into its spiritual potentials. Its growth will enable you to dare take personal risks | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| link within yourself, you are bound to experience growth, liberation, strength, confidence. It cannot be otherwise. Blessings | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| when you are in a dynamic process of growth and development do these words become real. Until | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| This is a misunderstanding of the processes of growth and development. It is impossible to adopt a | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| have destructive side-effects, apart from hindering the personal growth process. Disharmony may be spread unintentionally, often out | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| you leave behind is unnecessary hardship, and the growth you move toward, the new way of life | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| to fear. Dissensions are reconciled, sickness healed, and growth overcomes stagnation; calm prevails where frantic unrest created | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| and more self-expression. Therefore constant knowing effects constant growth. When evaluating where you stand, do not be | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| than sustain your own efforts. The initiative toward growth must always come from you, at each stage | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| destined for your pleasure and expansion, for your growth and experience. Not making use of these forces | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| in a vocation, in a rewarding relationship, in growth and in self-unfoldment. Regardless of how much of | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| not my resistance. My will for truth and growth is in power, is real, and not my | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| is not up to him to accomplish the growth. There is nothing in the world he can | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| same interrelationship. There always is a period of growth, its duration depending on the kind of seed | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| time, then the period of incubation, of quiet growth beneath the surface, is longer than when you | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| to trust, because having ignored the period of growth, you have torn out the seed you have | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the real and healthy power resulting from spiritual growth. This is the self-sufficiency that does not exclude | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the necessary time of incubation, the inner, invisible growth underground. The more complicated the problem, the more | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| to make a detour. The principle of indirect growth becomes obvious, once it is fully understood. Then | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| crowned with success in your endeavors for spiritual growth. People are often confused by apparent contradictions in | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| order for maturity to take place, for this growth pattern to be fulfilled, there must be this | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| the key to fulfillment, to security, to creative growth. And yet love cannot be commanded, nor can | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| of positiveness, of productivity and expansion, of meaningful growth both in and with the universe. Its natural | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| of disturbance is clearly defined as a malignant growth, rather than as a diffuse overall climate permeating | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| harmony rather than furthering it. It destroys healthy growth. Anger can be as healthy and necessary an | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| real feeling is healthy and constructive and furthers growth in the self and in others. Real feelings | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| know quite well that in the process of growth problems do not vanish in one sweep. Remnants | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| real thing! This is the way progress and growth must happen. Gradually, through this process of growth | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| growth must happen. Gradually, through this process of growth, one individual after another reorients the soul movements | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| blessing is the result of your efforts, your growth, your struggle in the right direction. Every one | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| many possibilities for desirable solutions and for creative growth. You cannot emerge from any difficulty if you | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| for every step and effort you make toward growth and development. May this lecture be another stepping | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| the universal creative forces is toward light, life, growth, unfoldment, affirmation, beauty, love, inclusion, union, pleasure supreme | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| Once this area is totally faced, relief and growth become possible. As you acknowledge that you fear | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| unity. Let us apply this distinction to the growth process. As long as human consciousness is geared | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| geared to duality and cannot transcend it, the growth process is very problematic. Growth is movement in | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| transcend it, the growth process is very problematic. Growth is movement in time and space; therefore, growth | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| Growth is movement in time and space; therefore, growth on the dualistic plane automatically moves toward its | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| In ever-changing rhythm, the cyclic, eternal movement of growth must inevitably approach its opposite. It moves from | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| is one of the major reasons you resist growth. It is a deep resistance, beyond the psychological | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| psychological quirks of neurosis. This fundamental opposition to growth is still found even after neuroses have been | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| you perceive life in dualistic terms, you fear growth; for you fear that reaching a goal will | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| movement in the distorted sense. As long as growth takes place on the dualistic plane, there is | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| to grow again in spring. This is the growth process. The joy during the upward curve can | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| you to the transition from dualism to unity. Growth on the dualistic plane must always be fraught | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| with fear of the undesirable opposite. Therefore your growth process will be stunted as long as you | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| as long as you view your goal of growth as good, as opposed to bad. On the | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| as opposed to bad. On the unitive plane, growth is not threatened by an opposite; hence it | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| it need not be feared, nor opposed. But growth cannot come by opposing the opposition; it comes | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| the unitive plane -- are entirely different. Dualistic growth is a cyclic movement, with an upward curve | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| It is the state of cause and effect. Growth in the unitive state expands infinitely. It never | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| self-deceptions -- then an entirely new approach to growth takes over. Along the road of transition from | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| you did when you perceived reality dualistically. The growth into the unitive state definitely manifests in increasing | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| in increasing trust in the self, in life. Growth also brings with it a peaceful joyousness that | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| will again be making a substantial step toward growth into the unitive principle. I extend the deep | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| People who are oriented toward striving and growth will have all the contact necessary in their | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| you must be concerned with your development, your growth, your search. When you come to this area | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| than others, you have your own quota of growth to fulfill for yourself, you will not have | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| and not in the least hostile to spiritual growth. This is one of the most tragic errors | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| in bliss, in a moving stream of evolutionary growth. On a deep and subtle level that is | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| not ready to see. No matter how much growth occurs, people fail to utilize moments in their | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| come to this very decisive step in your growth, pay attention to it. Long before you are | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| second of life an occasion for expansion and growth. Anyone who seriously pursues this path can corroborate | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| greatest stepping stone, the best material for further growth, or you can allow it to influence you | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| but equally to favorable events. They often retard growth as much as life's traumas do. Favorable events | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| of others. It is a temporary phase of growth. Growth is stopped when feelings are stopped. If | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| others. It is a temporary phase of growth. Growth is stopped when feelings are stopped. If the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and inspiration, creative processes, undergo their law of growth as does any other part of the human | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| any given moment, the degree of self-realization and growth, or their lack. It expresses the particular meaning | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| their lack. It expresses the particular meaning where growth is most needed, where it may be overemphasized | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the transition is always in the service of growth, completion, perfection, additional creation, pleasure supreme. For growth | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| growth, completion, perfection, additional creation, pleasure supreme. For growth and pleasure are one. One cannot exist without | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the restricting and static movements indirectly further organic growth -- through assimilation, digestion, utilization of what was | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| danger. Misconception must always lead to resistance to growth. The disturbed organism is in fear, and fear | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is therefore completely opposed to the law of growth. I shall explain how to react meaningfully and | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |