| Ideology....................3 | |
| ideologies, but at least there is always some ideology behind it, even if there are some ruthless | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| place, the individual does not count in this ideology. The individual is supposed to serve the state | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| effect this has on the soul. Hence, the ideology in the so-called free world is closer to | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| Idiosyncrasies..............7 | |
| opinions if they are very deeply rooted, your idiosyncrasies and your fixations, all this is not part | 18 FREE WILL |
| understand why you have certain opinions, tastes, or idiosyncrasies; even your good qualities may be partly influenced | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| what all faults really are! Think about your idiosyncrasies, your prejudices, your tight emotions in certain domains | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| your conscious aims and reactions, your tastes and idiosyncrasies, and so on. But there are so many | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| your own personal symbols for your personal little idiosyncrasies. A myth, on the other hand, deals with | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| patterns, the characteristics, the temperament, the emotions, the idiosyncrasies -- everything that is behind the physical being | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| a more superficial level in terms of personal idiosyncrasies and neuroses, as spite against a specific person | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Ifs.........................6 | |
| conditions and provisions; there are always so many ifs and buts. The lack of love, which comes | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| this truth is allowed to take effect. The ifs and buts of the dualistic state cease to | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| faith in a principle of opposition. You invent ifs and buts that really do not exist. This | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| and furnish solutions to apparently unsolvable problems. All ifs and buts in daily practical living are loosened | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| doubt about the rightfulness of your bliss, no ifs and buts because your bliss interferes with the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| cannot disentangle the many pros and cons, the ifs and buts. This is always so when self-alienation | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Ignorance...................174 | |
| to manifest in a concrete way. If through ignorance of these laws unfavorable forms are created, each | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| unwilling to give. It is just that, in ignorance, genuine feelings are channeled through the sick lower | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| who revolt against them out of defiance and ignorance -- either because they cannot as yet understand | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the greater their anxiety will grow. In their ignorance, they will violate more spiritual laws and thus | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| has perhaps reacted to you only from blindness, ignorance, and a great inner insecurity, erroneously attempting to | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| only your faults and weaknesses but also your ignorance and all the attitudes by which you consciously | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| that vary with each person, but also of ignorance and laziness. It hates to change and conquer | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| deviates from spiritual law is sin -- or ignorance, if you wish. They are the same. Now | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| I said, your faults, your fears, and your ignorance of spiritual law. These layers have to disappear | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| wrong, and twisted currents become apparent along with ignorance and shortsightedness, and not only do faults and | 18 FREE WILL |
| of superficial curiosity, but in good faith. And ignorance and wrong conceptions of some of these points | 21 THE FALL |
| will not save you from the consequences, because ignorance does not alter the law of cause and | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- it can only exist because of your ignorance. And the more you come here, the more | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the will of God. But it is the ignorance of the lower self that makes you think | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| will touch off a particular fault or reveal ignorance of an emotional current running contrary to Divine | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| of self-knowledge, deviation from divine law: it is ignorance that creates a wilderness through which you have | 36 PRAYER |
| conclusions that form an image are drawn from ignorance and half-knowledge and thus they cannot remain in | 38 IMAGES |
| and problems. Regard your wrong inner attitudes as ignorance and error. Actually, that is what all faults | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| going through the unhappiness, self-inflicted by error and ignorance. The outcome will be the clear light of | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| Something in me does not accept my own ignorance or selfishness or my desire to find the | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| personal faults, if you also understand where your ignorance lies and the resulting wrong conclusion, you will | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| ANSWER: No, not for development, but out of ignorance. From self-will and pride. Everything that the Fall | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| deviation from law and truth occurs out of ignorance and error or is committed willfully. The principle | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| prove dangerous. Goodwill alone is not enough protection. Ignorance of many factors can bring a great deal | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| abuse -- even if it was done in ignorance. In the same vein, the over-fearful coward will | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| relate to your own fear, unwillingness, and your ignorance of the facts. Search and you will know | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| will sex become integrated with love. Out of ignorance, humanity has long believed that sex as such | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| that this attitude was adopted unconsciously and in ignorance does not alter the results. To achieve a | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| long, and has driven the law-breaker deeper into ignorance and darkness, instead of lifting him out of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| that is ineffective because of wrong conclusions and ignorance. Do not forget that the purpose of the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and impatience. Your impatience mounts because in your ignorance you think and wish to attain perfection more | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you can wage a healthy battle with your ignorance and resistance. Only you yourself can find out | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| images, your wrong conclusions, your conscious and unconscious ignorance and errors, you do not live in truth | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| wickedness in their extreme forms. It is all ignorance, all error, all deviation from truth in every | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| common denominator: The constructive attitude is: In my ignorance I believe -- perhaps unconsciously so far -- | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| find inferiority feelings, guilt feelings, hostility, hate, aggression, ignorance, resentment, childish selfishness, fear, and a few other | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| unintentional -- out of your imperfection, blindness, and ignorance is justified guilt that you should meet squarely | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| evil that rage in you due to your ignorance and emotional immaturity. Are there any questions on | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| lack of divine love, the child in its ignorance craves an exclusive love that is neither divine | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| hurt others; these situations arise from your former ignorance. In such instances you must deliberate and weigh | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| are wrong. When you face them -- their ignorance, selfishness, and immaturity -- without being ashamed, and | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| understand. Parents may also prohibit pleasure out of ignorance and fear. Thus it is impressed on the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the consequences of other people's shortcomings, but your ignorance, your fear, your pride, your egotism that directly | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| wrong remedy. For such artificial means, sought in ignorance, will eventually cause a complete stalemate of fulfillment | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| misapplied principles we discussed. A further proof of ignorance of these cosmic principles is that Eastern teachings | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| underneath the good motives. Again, this misinterpretation shows ignorance and a misunderstanding of the necessity of blending | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| counterpart in a negative force, emanating from confusion, ignorance, and wrong motives. Your personality registers extremely accurately | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| words, you seek the wrong remedy in blindness, ignorance, and immaturity. You can be quite certain, my | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| for lack of incentive and because of intellectual ignorance could not unfold. But where deviations, complications, and | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| soul, freeing you forevermore of some chains of ignorance and darkness. The moment this recognition is reached | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| through the hardship you yourself created by your ignorance or distortion of truth. In order to be | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are left to taste the result of your ignorance. The same applies to humanity. All this is | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life, or fate, or through the cruelty, the ignorance, and the selfishness of others. This fear is | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| justice and at the same time assume that ignorance and imperfection on the part of other people | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the forces of darkness because of the people's ignorance and the outcropping of their negative currents. To | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| infinitely stronger than the power of evil and ignorance. Others do not only learn from your example | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| something very vital about the self, and this ignorance prohibits healthy growth. Emancipation, apart from some healthy | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| it can happen. But all the layers of ignorance and fear soon erect a separating wall again | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| Sin, as you all know, is nothing but ignorance. It is distortion. No one is wicked or | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| all times. It will help to remove remaining ignorance and blindness. Knowledge you have gained will always | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| The person who is still in darkness and ignorance about the facts of human existence and the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| must perforce, cause unhappiness and conflict, darkness and ignorance. Thus, maturity is really the ability to love | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| willingness to learn from possible mistakes makes your ignorance harmless because you are aware of it. In | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| kinds, many degrees and many variations. In your ignorance, you shy away from the kind of love | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| people would try harder. All suffering comes from ignorance, from lack of wanting to face the truth | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| self-centered and ignorant. Out of this self-centeredness and ignorance selfish motives arise, unconsciously or sometimes even half-consciously | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| may obstruct it and fear it in your ignorance, but the longing always remains. For in the | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| forces are constantly blocked and halted by your ignorance, confusion, lack of awareness, or the wrong perspective | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| self- preservation, if unblurred by all layers of ignorance, would always lead a person to take the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| through the self-inflicted unhappiness out of error and ignorance, not to shirk it. At the end of | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| soul-sickness and error, productive of fear, pride, arrogance, ignorance, darkness, confusion, you are not only unhappy, but | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them truth, but leave them rather in outer ignorance. COMMENT: Jesus himself said, For the letter killeth | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that which really hurts you. Because of your ignorance of what really hurts, you are also unable | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is in disharmony with these laws, because of ignorance or lack of development, then the laws become | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| friends, the many people who outwardly admit this ignorance do not necessarily mean it, feel it, and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| circumstances occur that remove the difficulty, such as ignorance of this fact, life conditions produce sufficient material | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to mass images, and to mass misconceptions. Your ignorance and the ignorance of educators and parents have | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and to mass misconceptions. Your ignorance and the ignorance of educators and parents have created a distorted | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| be encouraged in a constructive way. This overall ignorance fails to recognize that which is intrinsically human | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| narrower, until it finally ends at one point. Ignorance of this process often causes distress because you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| must, as a first step, accept the blindness, ignorance, and imperfection that still exist in you, realizing | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| destructive kind. Your confusion here arises out of ignorance, in that you believe you are expected to | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| also contribute, and not by badness, but by ignorance, distorted concepts, and shortsighted defenses -- once you | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| that brought about the original unfulfillment. In your ignorance, the need -- or lust -- swells to | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| some vital information about your own psychic life. Ignorance is a result of your inner unwillingness to | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| you miss out on it through your inner ignorance. It may be perfectly true that the other | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| ones who do not wish to expose their ignorance, and, second, the pride of the boisterous ones | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| certain eras and the subsequent upheavals due to ignorance of the real meaning of the knowledge could | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| all unhappiness and strife is the result of ignorance and misunderstanding. Every inner problem you uncover is | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| is important to know, however, that not only ignorance and poor guidance are responsible for the struggle | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| every possible respect. Opposing it out of blindness, ignorance, stubbornness and fear is bound to cramp and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| at the expense of others. This limitation and ignorance -- just like the infant's -- made them | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| need to express natural masculine aggressiveness, out of ignorance that it is a healthy need. When you | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| your pride, your self-will, and your fear, your ignorance and your stemming against, or hurrying ahead of | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| effectively through awareness of their existence than through ignorance. Please realize and understand this important truth. Make | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| determine the relationship. Being in a state of ignorance about this, and not being able to grasp | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| to the life force. It consists rather of ignorance, blindness, distortion, and lack of awareness. Ignoring truth | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| hardship, which is the result of your past ignorance, you obstruct the removal of the cause that | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| across the fence. The consequences of your past ignorance have to be accepted, but only as long | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| long as you persist in retaining the particular ignorance or misconception that has created the suffering. The | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| in the belief that suffering is inevitable, in ignorance of the power inherent in your knowing, and | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you remove the wall of doubt, fear, and ignorance. There comes a point when you actually feel | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| being involved in a world that expresses this ignorance -- for only through such a real involvement | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| only through such a real involvement can the ignorance of the truth that there is nothing to | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| accordingly. The denser the matter, the greater the ignorance, error, misconception, prejudice, limitation, and darkness -- hence | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| stubborn, lost child, in its full irrationality and ignorance, to grow up, it must learn what is | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| prevail. The imbalance is always caused by the ignorance of, and lack of differentiation between, outer and | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| yearning for the pleasure of love and the ignorance about the fact that one rejects its actual | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| contact with it, hence more confusion, error and ignorance arise. The less aware you are of this | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| must recognize this fact and thus eliminate your ignorance. The moment you consider that whatever you experience | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the dark regions of conflict, error, separation, doubt, ignorance and destructiveness. There, if you use the key | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| this integration is hindered due to misunderstanding and ignorance, the energy will turn destructive. The result of | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| The less you observe them -- whether through ignorance or deliberate self-destructiveness -- the more you move | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| violation, error, confusion, and destructiveness? Fundamentally, it is ignorance of this process. When you ignore the inherent | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| one of those negative, self-perpetuating chain reactions. The ignorance that all possibilities -- all perfection, all fulfillment | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| most significant obstructions to the real self are ignorance of its existence and the possibility of connecting | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| dualistic approach to the problem and your prevalent ignorance that there is another approach. The resulting tension | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| opposition, a no- current, out of fear and ignorance. It can show how you stop the natural | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| significance and its effects. As long as such ignorance, such glossing over, such vagueness exists, transformation cannot | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| life within yourself. You no longer flounder in ignorance and alienation, believing life and you are two | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| channels had been clogged up due to one's ignorance of their existence and personal little lies and | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the entire human race -- primarily out of ignorance and fear, out of distrust of nature, not | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be one aspect of the distortion. A general ignorance has also influenced those who were responsible for | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| expansion into one's life experiences is based on ignorance that such fulfillment could exist or that you | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| that humanity's unhappy condition is due primarily to ignorance about the real self. At best, the more | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| off from the real self and remaining in ignorance, living with false ideas. Let us begin with | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| sloppy thinking processes, your fears, your misconceptions, your ignorance -- in short, by allowing so much material | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| harassed it becomes. Isolated ego- existence arises from ignorance and pride in the ego as the highest | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| specifications. These specifications are often based on stark ignorance of the lawfulness involved in human interchange, on | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| of the lawfulness involved in human interchange, on ignorance of the existing conditions produced by yourself that | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| relationships logically impossible. However, quite apart from such ignorance, this tentative bargaining and petty, distrustful withholding of | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| self is obviously the greatest obstruction there is. Ignorance is a greater cause of fear than any | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| in one specific way. Therefore it reveals distrust, ignorance of the universe, fear that one may not | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| removed from its center and is therefore in ignorance and error, duality comes into existence. The entire | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| nature of creation brings inner security, trust, fearlessness. Ignorance creates fear. Fear creates an inner atmosphere of | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| mental attitude. As the mental attitude changes from ignorance, fear, alienation, distrust, and hostility, to an open | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| lacking, only this is not directly recognized. Such ignorance is all the more damaging, for you are | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| of life itself, is your own enclosure, your ignorance of this truth -- your momentary state of | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| are unaware of it and, victims of their ignorance, are constantly creating destruction without ever knowing it | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| step of growth, each victory over conflict, confusion, ignorance and helplessness, represent a new skill and mastery | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| It is every single entity's destiny to bridge ignorance by struggling toward these unifications. The most difficult | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| does not claim any special dispensations for his ignorance and destructiveness. This attitude unites the right acceptance | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the unconscious egotistical child level, with all its ignorance, destructiveness, and claims to omnipotence; and (3) the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| fear of your own destructive attitudes, and your ignorance about how to handle them. Admitting this brings | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| levels of your and other people's destructiveness and ignorance. All human beings suffer from a basic conflict | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| penetrates the poisonous walls of separation created by ignorance, illusion and malice. And you now know what | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| manifest. Hence you can bridge the gap from ignorance and alienation to an open state of mind | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| from self-will, pride, or fear, whether it is ignorance and negation of what is, does not matter | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| whole self is involved. Wherever there are misconceptions, ignorance, false ideas, and withheld emotional matter -- spite | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| partially responsible. This ego-pride is connected to your ignorance of the nature of the devil in you | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| intrinsically foreign and other than divine. This is ignorance. I would like to invite you now, my | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| deeper consciousness, split off in fear, pride, selfwill, ignorance, greed, and hate. These same aspects can be | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| flexibility to flow with your rhythm of life. Ignorance becomes awareness, perception, understanding and wisdom; greed a | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| the pain you yourself have created out of ignorance, dishonesty, and negativity, you cannot help but stay | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| way to come out of this state of ignorance, limitation, powerlessness, of being severed from the nucleus | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| reality, when you are still in blindness and ignorance about yourself and therefore commensurately about the universe | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| task which is destined to reestablish the connection. Ignorance of these principles and truths leads to hating | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| I mean immature. Immaturity is the misunderstanding, the ignorance of the very young who have to learn | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| reason, usually out of wishful thinking, laziness and ignorance. Therefore, in today's intellectual climate, faith stands in | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| dishonest, and selfish; it is also ignorant. This ignorance makes it stubborn, unperceptive, as well as destructive | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| divine flow. Whether you deny it because of ignorance, stubbornness, or anything else makes little difference. So | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| On another level, the imbalance is due to ignorance of the reality and importance of balance. Perhaps | 228 BALANCE |
| The lower self can create imbalance out of ignorance that both rest and work, for example, have | 228 BALANCE |
| movement of your soul that your fear and ignorance try to stop. Let the light of truth | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| and channels have later deteriorated because of the ignorance of these dynamics. The inner God never forces | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| negativity, a block, a destructiveness, a problem, an ignorance, you find a direct obstruction to the Christ | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| selfish reasons, or it may really be innocent ignorance, if there is such a thing. But the | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| split, and vision is limited; hence come error, ignorance, and fear, creating, in turn, further evil attitudes | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| and unbelief, trust and fear, hate and love, ignorance and wisdom, separateness and union, death and eternal | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| working constantly on cleansing the psyche of impurities, ignorance, confusion, false images, emotional tightnesses and the displacement | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| between your lower self, which, due to its ignorance, fear, and lack of faith, creates destructive defenses | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| find it necessary to reject yourself. (2) The ignorance that indeed there is a way -- which | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| artificial constructions due to a false attitude and ignorance. Once you awaken to your inherent potential to | 254 SURRENDER |
| the lowest spheres, with destructive intent and/or spiritual ignorance, will be capable of wreaking havoc on your | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |