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| and sometimes illness. Above all, they prevent spiritual growth, or at least hinder maximum development. Therefore I | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| also through your own insights, through your own growth. Your spirit will become increasingly lighter, stronger, more | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| come to the conclusion that the continual, spiritual growth of a being is not dependent on whether | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| open you up, and guide you to spiritual growth, so that you will be ever more happy | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| to you by a miraculous outer happening. Physical growth happens slowly but surely, step by step; you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| proceeded and attained a new stage. All physical growth happens gradually, and the process is not a | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| not a bit different with spiritual or emotional growth. Shortcuts never have any lasting effect and are | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| measures supposed to eliminate the effort of slow growth are in accordance with the laws of the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| very effective, very quick, but never lasting. Slow growth and development, however, are in accordance with divine | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| be dissolved by the process of slow, organic growth. As long as this process lasts, honor God | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| rather its fulfillment, will bring happiness. By spiritual growth, what one desires merely changes. However, desirelessness should | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| oneself; it is the natural result of spiritual growth; you can attain this state of being only | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| is used for a spiritual purpose, for spiritual growth, for God, with God, and in God. The | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| first. That means you have to achieve spiritual growth, purification, and complete self-knowledge as much as possible | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| Both should be taken simultaneously to further the growth of love within you. If you can bring | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| not mean that their love ceases, but spiritual growth means that gradually all creatures are included in | 18 FREE WILL |
| to learn to love gradually. The more the growth proceeds, the more beings can be included in | 18 FREE WILL |
| and His great Plan of Salvation. The proper growth of your community is of imperative importance in | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| state of being and the state of slow growth and organic building. Whenever God wills it so | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| world of emotion can only change by organic growth, not by pressure and voluntary action, except in | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| of spiritual progress, everything that pertains to your growth will be brought into awareness at the proper | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| able to redirect your emotional current gradually by growth -- the only right way. These conditions cannot | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| the limitations that the particular entity needs for growth. Fewer, indeed, will present the proper environment for | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| gradually, in the only way positive and constructive growth can ever take place. And this is what | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| and bring you deeper insights necessary for spiritual growth. To ask and to obey is better than | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| jungle, seeking the way through wild shrubbery and growth, setting down one foot after another in a | 36 PRAYER |
| soul as unruly shrubbery and often as poisonous growth, instead of turning away from them as you | 36 PRAYER |
| it is good for your development and spiritual growth. Pray for the ability to embrace pain as | 36 PRAYER |
| guidance will come. Anyone truly desirous of spiritual growth will find help; of that you can be | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| temporary inability to react differently, knowing that slow growth is the only possible way. Take the newly-found | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| avoid this apparent descent and yet attain spiritual growth is utterly unrealistic. It is self-deception and wishful | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| grow out of them. Gradually, in the organic growth that spiritual development always is, the hurts will | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| Greber book that the only means for spiritual growth is through mediumship or spirit communication in some | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| break clean than to let one prevent the growth of the other. That, of course, happens. It | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| to God for your good efforts, for your growth. It is our greatest joy and our greatest | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and has a greater influence on your inner growth than you realize. Or it may be another | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| concept. Observe also your resistance to change and growth. The lower self of the human personality is | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| breaking point -- once you decide through inner growth and understanding that you no longer wish and | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| new understanding, and new desire for your inner growth, your inner change. Nothing can be more fruitful | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| It is the same with spiritual and emotional growth. Let the frictions and irritations be a lesson | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life would not offer them any chance of growth. Again they are advised and shown; again they | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| drawn into incarnations almost like the development of growth that you cannot stop. If a human child | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a child in body, it cannot succeed. Natural growth takes place. It is similar in this respect | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hard you may try; it lies in mature growth into integration with love. No force, no principle | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| its pure and harmonious form manifests as creativity, growth, building, forward movement, search, activity, the outgoing quality | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| if it is used in a constructive way, growth cannot occur harmoniously. All healthy growth is organic | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| constructive way, growth cannot occur harmoniously. All healthy growth is organic, slow and steady. Here the principle | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| the principle of restriction is at work. Unchecked growth cannot be assimilated, and is, therefore, more harmful | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| principle of restriction also stands for assimilation. Unassimilated growth must, eventually, turn harmful. Only assimilated, step-by-step growth | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| growth must, eventually, turn harmful. Only assimilated, step-by-step growth is organic, healthful and constructive. If the outgoing | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| being, timelessness, passivity in the healthy sense. Healthy growth occurs in three distinct stages: outward movement -- | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| fruition cannot take place. If you observe the growth of plants, you will notice this same threefold | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| movement, there can be no progress and no growth. Since you have conditioned yourself to be motionless | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| It must eventually be found in your inner growth. When you make an effort to go forward | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| the further honesty and wisdom to realize that growth occurs slowly. Use and cherish the recognition and | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| that you can jump over the period of growth by forcing your emotions and being impatient with | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| Be aware that they cannot change at once. Growth occurs through self-observation from different angles. If you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| of the unconscious happens just as gradually as growth. It is no sudden plunge. And now, my | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| labor of the search and the pains of growth. It is good that way, it could not | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| it is a natural result of your inner growth. The first thing you should be concerned with | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| it in a process of inner maturing and growth. The infant realizes very early that the kind | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| they recognize that it holds a seed of growth. For them such times are not useless, they | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| will have a creative, uplifting effect, causing inner growth and additional strength and freedom. While pain is | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| no importance. From a point of view of growth and personal independence, what should be encouraged is | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the world is now in fear of excessive growth of population, of population explosion? ANSWER: If people | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| confused. In reality it is part of the growth that can take place after this painful procedure | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| make such times a major contribution for inner growth and liberation, by following through what I constantly | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is one of the most important criteria in growth, health and freedom. When this has been accomplished | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is always opposed to evolution which is real growth. Real growth is a slow unfoldment based on | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| opposed to evolution which is real growth. Real growth is a slow unfoldment based on profound understanding | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| about the self, and this ignorance prohibits healthy growth. Emancipation, apart from some healthy aspects where true | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| Emancipation, apart from some healthy aspects where true growth was involved, was based largely on rebellion. Therefore | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| always as an effect. It is a natural growth that can never be forced directly. When your | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will thereby make you free and further your growth, independence and happiness. QUESTION: Might I ask, how | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that it would not add to your own growth. You can unfold your intuition, sensitivity, and your | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| good and important. However, if without the organic growth of self-development, the inner conviction of immortality -- | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of the soul, but also to encourage the growth and unfoldment of that in you which is | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you, those that would lead you to personal growth as befits your individual personality. You will come | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| your soul needs most to attain its maximum growth. In your present way of life you may | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| spirituality is an eminently private affair. The maximum growth of one human being may be based on | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| ways of life and expression than the maximum growth of another person. Organized religion does not take | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| your environment, the consequences are that the maximum growth of your personality is gravely thwarted. Just as | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| process is a very important aspect of personality growth. Without it, full expression of your very best | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| comparatively long time of this kind of work, growth and progress will little by little diminish the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| important phase in this area of development and growth. I cannot emphasize enough that the intellectual knowledge | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| hurt that may result. In the process of growth all this will change, not only because of | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has nothing to do with the path, with growth, with the freedom that you are all bound | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It thus becomes the best means for the growth that you desire. QUESTION: When there are so | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fear loving others. In the gradual process of growth and maturity, you will not immediately experience the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| in mind and accept beforehand that change and growth are a slow process. QUESTION: With regard to | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| every living organism goes through. As this general growth and awakening continues, mankind will perceive more and | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| if you really want to proceed in inner growth. You have to reexperience the acute pain you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| unforced way. It is a gradual process of growth that happens without direct volition, without forcing. If | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| but by constructive work of self-analysis and inner growth through understanding the unconscious motivations and reactions. QUESTION | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| measures can never really work. An organic natural growth will bring an organic natural change. If a | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| opinions, but a very natural, gradual, organic, inner growth. The change comes slowly; it is an inner | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| no magic formula. You can accelerate the automatic growth process by cultivating certain thoughts, by obtaining spiritual | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| The negative result is that you prohibit the growth of a living organism, for feelings are that | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| path. The mere fact of your own inner growth and change has made it possible for others | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| My dearest friends, as long as one's inner growth is not sufficiently developed, there is absolutely no | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you more and more insight, liberation, happiness and growth. For the moment, the finding should simply help | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| tackled eventually along the road of development and growth. For some it will surface sooner, for others | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| connection and learns from it. The process of growth therefore is determined also by the ability to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| It is much better for the development and growth of an entity to go through many heights | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| more and longer than necessary; the process of growth can commence only when your consciousness has learned | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| healthy attitude that retains awareness will obtain immediate growth and liberation. That which formerly made you suffer | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| general issues will never get you anywhere. True growth happens only when you tackle your seemingly insignificant | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| everyday issues, holds the soul imprisoned. It prevents growth, produces some form of stagnation on all levels | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of retaining what one cherishes, can produce true growth. So the wish for immortality through art, or | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| process can never attain genuine self-improvement, self-purification and growth, because you started building an unreal self on | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| between the genuine desire to gradually work toward growth, and the ungenuine pretense imposed upon you by | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| of your being, which alone is amenable to growth. This center of your being is the only | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| evolve through a process of inner and natural growth. Your individuality will then become stronger and stronger | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| Therefore you do not give the chance for growth to the parts of your intuitive nature that | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| and learned. It is a natural byproduct of growth and awareness. You become more seeing, more alert | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| self-preservation instinct is resistant to any change or growth. That is its nature. It is static and | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| salvation and safety: the pseudo-solution. It makes change, growth, and liberation extremely difficult. The reason you cited | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| less you are your real self. Change and growth will bring the real self into the foreground | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| is a sign of spiritual progress and emotional growth. So it cannot be judged whether lack of | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| or other negative emotions, is a sign of growth and harmony, or whether it is a sign | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| artificial or genuine. The very first step in growth and the process of gaining maturity is to | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| them work. This defensive reaction causes the rigidity. Growth, development, maturity and the healing of distorted soul | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| physical ones, but any threat to the healthy growth of the individual -- are warded off. But | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| season we hope you will accomplish further insight, growth, and self- understanding. In order to accomplish this | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in its own way, a time of further growth, even though this may be accomplished in a | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| emotions will constitute a major step toward spiritual growth. This is why the emphasis has been, and | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and that acceptance is the only basis for growth and change. This fact requires the neutral approach | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |