| Harms.......................9 | |
| light and freedom that you desire. Not forgiving harms you much more than it harms those whom | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| Not forgiving harms you much more than it harms those whom you cannot forgive. LEAD US IN | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| more and no less! To believe that it harms you more to know what you feel and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| It is not seeing what actually is that harms you! You will eventually discover this. Before I | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| that being hurt will harm you. It only harms you when you have a covert concept that | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| be reached, for you now see that what harms the self, harms others, and what harms others | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| you now see that what harms the self, harms others, and what harms others also harms the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| what harms the self, harms others, and what harms others also harms the self. Those who have | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| self, harms others, and what harms others also harms the self. Those who have acted primarily on | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Harsh.......................18 | |
| Seen from our vantage point, it is a harsh, uneven current, like a lightning flash, sometimes stronger | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| if you persevere in this work. Find the harsh, tense, rigid, and at the same time wavering | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| a craving, the soul forces will automatically become harsh, pointed, and rigid. Their movement will be sudden | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| Simultaneously you also help to change the overly harsh collective reality principle. Now I wish to touch | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| are, the more you experience unpleasant truth as harsh and unloving. Separation of concepts exists where imperfection | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| spirit. These lead often so unnecessarily to a harsh ascetic life that is joy-negating. Why do you | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| you to face all that is in you. Harsh unkindness with oneself is not a virtue, my | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| open and calmly look at them. Determine your harsh, intolerant treatment of yourself in this respect, your | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| he or she does so because of the harsh superimposed conscience which knows no mercy; which is | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| areas of living. This is due to your harsh, unforgiving and unaccepting treatment of yourself that comes | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| finer. Its matter becomes more subtle, dissolving the harsh, coarse matter, as you now know it. Almost | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| Those who are enmeshed in it follow a harsh, disharmonious, rocky, shrinking or rejecting soul movement that | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| are closely observed, if one listens to any harsh or disturbing emotion contained in them. I have | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| false ideas create disharmonious emotions, which create tense, harsh, rigid soul movements. Truthful concepts create relaxed, warm | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| universe -- the false, cramped no, creates a harsh, tight soul movement, a movement that is full | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| is again not the right way. Then the harsh soul movement may not be on the surface | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| Apart from the obvious projection of your very harsh judgment against yourself that you do not wish | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| you, that is not necessarily the truth. A harsh word does not mean you are not loved | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Harshly.....................3 | |
| And doesn't the person whom I judge so harshly have some good qualities that I lack? Then | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| she truly is, or else you judge too harshly, even though the criticism in itself may be | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| your personal standards and concepts. To judge people harshly, as though all human beings were on the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| Haste.......................20 | |
| is ask yourself. If you still find unrest, haste, nervousness, and lack of peace of mind, then | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| be directed toward that end, without pressure, without haste. The outer will does not press but is | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| large degree. Furthermore, by doing all this without haste, without tension, but with steady perseverance, you will | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| right intellectual concept. Do this quietly, without inner haste or anger at yourself that your emotions do | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| if you remain aware of your findings without haste or pressure, simply cultivating the awareness. You need | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| make the best of it. Without compulsion and haste, without pressure, simply observe your emotions and see | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| peace to find yourselves without impatience, without inner haste. May these words help you to search in | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on these exercises? See the unreality of this haste. There is some feeling in you that this | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| This desire should be uttered without pressure or haste, rather with a calm quality, in the full | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to the cause. What is done in impatience, haste, frustration, or fear inevitably slows down the process | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| will not be any distorted ambitiousness, compulsion, and haste. Serenity in the healthy way will not cause | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| it, you become more frustrated, and an inner haste and pressure is generated. It seems more pressing | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| should I do now? So insecurity and inner haste increase just because the false value and desire | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| still being in a state of restlessness, inner haste, impatience, and a kind of nervousness. QUESTION: I | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an indication of distortion as an unhealthy overactivity, haste, pressure, and compulsion. The truth combines activity and | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| never really be flexible enough to change. Your haste, and your shame for not being perfect, create | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| at all this in a calm way, without haste and the urge to get over it immediately | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| if you look at confusion without compulsion, without haste, without moralizing, without denial, then you can hope | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to grow out of it. Slaying suggests compulsion, haste, moralizing -- so that cannot be the way | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| you cannot yet prove its reality. Your very haste, on the one hand, to get into the | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| Hasten......................3 | |
| light penetrates confusion and darkness in order to hasten the realization of the divine world. Let us | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Look at it with objective eyes. Do not hasten over it, and you will find the way | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| sphere of consciousness where death is inevitable. You hasten death to the degree you refute movement on | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| Hastily.....................4 | |
| your time with it; do not do it hastily or superficially. Do not deceive yourself by doing | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| common denominator. Do not turn away from anything hastily, even if it appears to be unconnected to | 38 IMAGES |
| be done at once and if it is hastily attempted, people can suffer breakdowns and all sorts | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| on the real motivation. If variety is sought hastily, compulsively, due predominantly to reasons of fear, greed | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| Hasty.......................6 | |
| for the first time: Do not be too hasty in your conclusions. This is such a vast | 21 THE FALL |
| outlooks. Do not bar your vision by too hasty conclusions; think seriously and carefully, and do not | 21 THE FALL |
| has to offer. Let none of you be hasty. Receive at least particles of the life force | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| your mood. See if you are impatient or hasty. Then ask yourself, Where am I hurrying to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| is not always that. It would be a hasty oversimplification to answer this question with an either/or | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| to give the impression that you should be hasty and rushed in your mental attitude, but that | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| Hate........................236 | |
| For Lucifer's underlings are the spirits of evil, hate, murder, envy, prideful arrogance and other vices. They | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| too, there is often self- deception. While no hate may be left, resentment is still present; if | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| day, must have its effect. Each thought of hate, of separation, of egoism, of injustice, of discrimination | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| thoughts of anxiety, and if not thoughts of hate, then of mistrust and separation, such as between | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| know very well that it is sinful to hate, but when hatred is still in you, you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| meditation is best to use for your problem. Hate or resentment may have different causes or motives | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| actually are selfish, and feel the selfishness. They hate the pressure of their higher selves to act | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| sense. While you may give something, you may hate the idea. Not only do people remain convinced | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| only way to do so is when resentment, hate, and fear do not live in the individual | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| turns away from the parent and begins to hate and resent, feels let down and disappointed, or | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| you will find inferiority feelings, guilt feelings, hostility, hate, aggression, ignorance, resentment, childish selfishness, fear, and a | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| surface nor as bad -- as full of hate, aggression, rebellion, and anger -- as you are | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| and not faced, if hatred is ignored because hate does not correspond to your ideal and makes | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| that it is bad, wrong, and sinful to hate, particularly one's parents whom one is supposed to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| desire currents. The original split between love and hate, which started the vicious circle, causes further splits | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| how can I be perfect with those I hate? Therefore I know how much I deserve to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| Besides, there always exists a suspicion that the hate was unjustified -- which it was, but in | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the exact opposite. It is defiance, rebellion, and hate that make you hold the opinion. You are | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| that you do an unselfish act and you hate it without being aware of your hate and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you hate it without being aware of your hate and rebellion against it. Next you find your | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| and rebellion against it. Next you find your hate and rebellion for this act. You will further | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| good, loving, benign, friendly. There cannot be death, hate cannot win out. There cannot be chaos and | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I cannot take this anymore, and therefore I hate. All these emotions should be observed and followed | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| it also applies to negative emotions such as hate, resentment, and contempt. If you look deeply enough | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| often unaware of negative emotions, be they resentment, hate, or contempt. As far as valid desires are | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| entire, in the light. Nevertheless, even if this hate is unloaded upon others, the effect on the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| develop to the point where one should actually hate. This is a typical example of how unrealistic | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| intellectual, volitional nature. At times, the intellect forbids hate and negative emotions. But whenever it can be | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| false guilt of daring to rebel and to hate whatever contradicts the image of obedience and goodness | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as a child, your reactions were anger, resentment, hate -- sometimes to a very strong degree. If | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| points to the fact that inward struggle and hate still exist along with the child's desire that | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| is not true that if you occasionally feel hate, you never love, or that you do not | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| for people to understand why they occasionally feel hate, while also loving. The reason for such occasional | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| while also loving. The reason for such occasional hate is always a hurt. If you are hurt | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| will no longer be hurt and will not hate. If, for the moment, you merely understand that | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| for the moment, you merely understand that your hate does not annul your love, you will not | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| love and I mean it, but I also hate because I feel hurt. As you grow in | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| realize that you still love, even while you hate and that you hate only because you are | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| love, even while you hate and that you hate only because you are hurt. You need not | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| your consciousness, you do not forgive yourself. You hate and punish yourself. All this may be unconscious | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| may be equated with disrespect, contempt, resentment, or hate -- in your unconscious mind, of course. Beneath | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| there may be fear, and, under the fear, hate. Protecting yourself from facing this hate can mean | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the fear, hate. Protecting yourself from facing this hate can mean maintaining the exaggerated glorification, not only | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| are also other ways of holding onto the hate; they have to be found and experienced by | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| As long as you do not feel your hate, for example, you cannot rid yourself of it | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| you call it resentment or hostility, anger or hate, makes no difference; they are all the same | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| It is more or less the same with hate and with anger. QUESTION: The conquest of fear | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| commandments, will produce fear and guilt, and therefore hate. Today it is no longer possible and even | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| can be expected is that they will not hate in return because they are not defensive. They | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| human reactions. When a person is ashamed of hate and hostility, of envy and vindictiveness, these trends | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| forbidden feelings are frequently on a layer below hate and resentment. Hostility and other negative emotions may | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| feelings are kept even more securely locked than hate. Often hate is artificially fostered as an antidote | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| kept even more securely locked than hate. Often hate is artificially fostered as an antidote to forbidden | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| an antidote to forbidden pleasure, and repression of hate and anger occurs only subsequently. Thus, you must | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| combined with the pleasure drive, is turned into hate. Hate has to be covered with a sterile | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| with the pleasure drive, is turned into hate. Hate has to be covered with a sterile, false | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| covered with a sterile, false, pretended love. Hence, hate is due not only to rejection and hurt | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| because it inadvertently deviates from truthfulness, thereby breeding hate and disunity. This general explanation applies to your | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |