| the outside as the distorted, immature personality expects. Growth can only unfold from within, for within you | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| will set an example. For that reason the growth must be slow and sometimes arduous. It is | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| way. The individualized personality in the process of growth and expansion must always evolve toward new states | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| asserts that only outer form matters. True inner growth must eventually also manifest outwardly, though not necessarily | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| like specifically to discuss three basic stages in growth and development as seen from the point of | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| of spiritual development. All the seekers of spiritual growth who avoid this delude themselves and must at | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| you once again that your work and your growth is an ever-increasing beautiful energy form in the | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| assistance and guidance you could possibly require. Your growth continues to the degree you truly desire it | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| As you persevere on your genuine path, your growth becomes more and more tangible. It progresses in | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| largely responsible for the exhilarating movement, expansion and growth, individually and in your group as a whole | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| and serve a very important purpose for the growth of the soul. In such phases, persistently holding | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| of the eternal Now is attained through honest growth, sexual union will be but one expression of | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| who is thus committed to his or her growth above all other considerations in life, will make | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| You may even use it for your spiritual growth in one manner or another, so the purely | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| animals, plants and even minerals, which have their growth and change processes, though much slower ones than | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| wider possibilities of self-expression, commensurate with its own growth. It is very obvious that within the human | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| angry, very self-rejecting, very impatient because its own growth process is only halfway accomplished. Let us assume | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| an adult. Would that not be foolish? The growth process is in itself beautiful, meaningful, and to | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| of the effect of negativity -- is the growth process free to evolve. Rejection of the current | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| into a tight container. This would thwart the growth and cripple the organism. It is the same | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| processes. Misunderstanding the dynamics, meaning and necessity of growth -- with its process of purification, consciousness-expansion and | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| in distortion and is far from furthering the growth process. You can see where you are once | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| follow such a demanding path of self-confrontation and growth, but resist your experiences and states of mind | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| all of you that there is so much growth, so much change happening in so many of | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| reawakened, deeper knowledge is reacquired, provided that the growth process takes place as planned. When a person | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| the person has stopped the movement of the growth process, his life train, that interruption will prevent | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| come to pass. For, as you well know, growth and change always imply a momentary anxiety. You | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| is the third step in the venture and growth of faith. It expresses: Yes, I have experienced | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| avoid the labor and risks involved in personal growth. This is why religions lose their power of | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| your search, and in your process of personal growth. The reason I tell you this now, my | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| also about what is to come. For more growth and liberation, peace, and joy will come to | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| terms of your community, your individuality, and your growth. The planet Earth is an entity of which | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this movement. It fears, distrusts, and resists such growth. Which part you ally yourself with depends on | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you see, the crisis is healthy and unavoidable. Growth cannot take place without crisis, and to the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| without crisis, and to the extent you resist growth, you create crisis. The lower self is not | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to go around in circles, yet if the growth is real, these are not circles that repeat | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| receiving. You share and experience the struggle of growth and the joys of life, the pain and | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| be immediately applied to your personal development, your growth, your self-confrontation, and your immediate microcosm. If you | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| inner reasons for resisting and distrusting change and growth. This illusion is so primitive that it is | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| wish to give you another vision of the growth process in which you as individuals, and the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| level of manifestation. Let us take the outer growth of a human being. You can see very | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| You can see very distinct phases in human growth. When the infant is ready to unfold dormant | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| to cope with others outside the home. Such growth continues throughout its entire life span. When full | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| throughout its entire life span. When full physical growth is reached, these phases are less noticeable than | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| distinct and real. These phases always mean change, growth, and higher levels of creative self-expression in dealing | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| is nevertheless very real. The same stages of growth and change apply even more dynamically on the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| become extremely beneficial. They aid the process of growth, of change, of expansion, of reaching into new | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| is an entity, and the same laws of growth, the same stages of unfoldment apply to it | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| these are problems. They express a rhythm of growth and expansion. Some people are already prepared for | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| to undergo your own purification work, your own growth process, so that your inner vision will be | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| the immensely powerful energy stream of your spiritual growth process. With this new awareness, you also gain | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| your Center and experience so much life and growth, pain and joy and true peace through this | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| whatever obstructs this movement. For there cannot be growth and creation without also a destruction of destructiveness | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| symbolize creative forces and currents indispensable to physical growth and sustenance of life. I am not speaking | 228 BALANCE |
| Thus two equals help each other in their growth as individuals, as man and woman. This is | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| and summarizes your inner path so far. Your growth is heartwarming and a most joyous sight to | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| or the difference between the struggle of real growth and search and the false struggle of covering | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| degree, and you see the fruits in the growth and expansion in depth and width of the | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| to avoid the labor of the struggle of growth. It is therefore obviously necessary for the growing | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| necessary in order to follow the curve of growth. In the New Age, everything leads to a | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| being into another, establishing new roots and new growth. A period of gestation is necessary that requires | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| minute of your life. The enormous change and growth that has already occurred in so many of | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| into all of life. Each step in your growth aids not only your own happiness and fulfillment | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| than ever before. But precisely because of this growth the remaining stagnancies have heavier impact and more | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| more serious repercussions. This is a law of growth. Can you perhaps now make a different choice | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| carelessness rather than a trust in the spontaneous growth. I find that when we discuss individual cases | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| space becomes available as a result of their growth, and they make use of their powers to | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| abused sense. It must proceed, as all cellular growth does, from inside outward. You start with yourself | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| I could not directly speak to you. Your growth and progress, as individuals and as a group | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| support indifference, selfishness, nonparticipation, promoting stagnation and hindering growth and change in the self and the environment | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| apart from fighting the obvious resistance to your growth process. Such movement is necessary in the smallest | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| spiral movement exists in the personal development and growth process of each individual. You cannot fail to | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| freedom and abundance is added on to you. Growth is not possible otherwise. It can only exist | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| movement is intact and as unobstructed as possible. Growth must combine the old and the new. It | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| the individual's potential, on all levels. For this growth to take place, a variety of approaches are | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| is one of the most important aspects of growth, of self-liberation, of purification, of self-esteem. The defense | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| slow and often hindered by personal resistance to growth, by habitual ways of thinking whose pattern is | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| one you are choosing for your development and growth, one that goes into these depths and hidden | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| consciousness, so with a collective entity: if overall growth and potential for more understanding and for acceptance | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| was ready to take a step in its growth process, in the expansion of its collective consciousness | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| being. Many of you are struggling in your growth and, as I said before, it is a | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| for this wonder that springs from your personal growth, from your commitment and devotion to serve a | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| you manifest on this level of reality. Expansion, growth, development -- all these terms mean only one | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| monogamous commitment -- with concomitant limitations on personal growth for both men and women -- to recognition | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| easily. It is the result of infinite patience, growth, change, transformation. But it should live in your | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| themselves, represent a dark barricade that hinders the growth of the whole. You need to make this | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| cannot and will not follow this process of growth and development will create a new abode, with | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| disturbed through humanity's thoughtlessness or greed. The recent growth of awareness in this area is most important | 254 SURRENDER |
| states can become a means to make further growth possible. I want to remind you once again | 254 SURRENDER |
| much more does this hold true for spiritual growth! Your refusal to surrender has to do with | 254 SURRENDER |
| fulfillment and positive states you now enjoy. The growth you have experienced on this path is in | 254 SURRENDER |
| find your way out of the mazes, your growth and expansion, is a golden light that illuminates | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| with the will of the Highest. This gradual growth process depends on your willingness to open your | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| confrontation, who ignores even the possibility of inner growth and development, these previously concealed aspects are taken | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| in the continuity you have gained through your growth and development? The break in consciousness can be | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| of this influx. In fact, without them the growth and expansion of consciousness inherent in this New | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| the world has a definite impact on spiritual growth. Isolation and separateness between people in the past | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| of individual consciousness. The more people nurture this growth, the stronger the new plants will become on | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| watch the parallels between the outer and inner growth and the expression of your group entity's higher | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| necessary. If the imbalance between inner and outer growth does not become too great, it can easily | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| come when you can consciously help the outer growth catch up and make it more an expression | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |