| Impersonally................4 | |
| cause and effect which works quite naturally and impersonally. So I ask you not to consider the | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| exercise. However, do not do it abstractly or impersonally; try to apply it immediately to yourself; try | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| all around you and within you. It exists impersonally, as do all spiritual laws. The person who | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the universe. Cosmic principles, forces, and laws exist impersonally for all alike. If you would but realize | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| Impetus.....................16 | |
| thought to be enough; it is only an impetus, only the seed which has to ripen into | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| words are also necessary; they give you the impetus to do what is needed. This should be | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| so, because these two emotions produce the necessary impetus and strength to defend yourself. All other emotions | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| can often be very helpful in giving renewed impetus to your work on the path. Let me | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| damage done by repression. You need a new impetus in order to be inspired to remove the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| why the old concept is untruthful. The real impetus to transform oneself can never come unless one | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| experience from within. The lectures first give an impetus to this process and later fortify and confirm | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| may need other reminders and incentives, or another impetus that gives them a motor force with which | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| consequences. The action following the driving force or impetus actively builds, affects, causes, and determines. When the | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the unfulfillment. This will give you an additional impetus and motivation to want to feel the old | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| resisting for too long and still lacks sufficient impetus of goodwill, there is only one way out | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| your commitment to truth takes on a new impetus and if you unearth your negative intentionality and | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| original components, you will find new strength and impetus to go through the smaller and bigger tunnels | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| so that the Christ force gains an ever-greater impetus. QUESTION: This lecture seems to apply to my | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| as many others, is entirely dependent on the impetus, the strength, the power of the pulse of | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| within. In the New Age the energy, the impetus, the power of the Christ has newly risen | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Implanted...................3 | |
| because wrong habits of thinking and feeling have implanted themselves deeper and deeper in you from one | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| erroneous assumptions, can the truthful concepts be gradually implanted in the psyche. Therefore our work until now | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| choices. It blindly follows the in- built pattern implanted in its substance. The human state is capable | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Implication.................5 | |
| off a debt. You all know what the implication of tests and unhappy occurrences are. But the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| words has a positive, rather than a negative implication. It does not mean: If you do wrong | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| without hindering you by ever so slight an implication of moral judgement. There is also another reason | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this thought is truly understood in its full implication, any doubt about the continuation of life must | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| as pointing an accusing finger at you. The implication of you do not love should be avoided | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| Implicit....................9 | |
| with half-closed eyes, not accepting beforehand the disadvantage implicit in your choice. In this way, you harm | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| any kind of pity. ANSWER: The answer is implicit in this lecture. Find where you identify with | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| will increase ad infinitum the expressions and attitudes implicit in the underlying thoughts. If the underlying concepts | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| never discussed one particular feeling, though it is implicit in everything else I said -- for in | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| when you take a step beyond the dualism implicit in this dilemma. It is true that you | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| of experiencing certain feelings: it is perhaps your implicit belief that you will perish if you experience | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| of all your conscious, semi-conscious, unconscious, explicit and implicit thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, intentions, feelings, emotions and will | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| a mate. You also know how such an implicit desire is bound to destroy any relationship. It | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| made in so many words, but they are implicit in their messages and reach the consciousness of | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Implicitly..................3 | |
| are not natural -- explicitly as well as implicitly -- you believe in laws that are not | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| not having what you want. Therefore each unhappiness implicitly holds out the promise or knowledge of its | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| indeed possible. Guidance can be very explicitly and implicitly given for this aspect to grow in children | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Implying....................3 | |
| previous question the word backward countries was used, implying that we are forward. Does it seem that | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| QUESTION: Yes, I do. You seem to be implying that I have sadistic feelings toward women. I | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| assume that spiritual people are weak and meek, implying that they are without courage, for courage requires | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Impose......................12 | |
| do not live up to the super-standards you impose upon yourself, it may appear as the voice | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not do. Others will not be able to impose their will on you, hence your integrity will | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| unified principle, through which things become opposites that impose conflicts. This creation of irreconcilable opposites generates a | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| projecting onto the outside world the non-fulfillment you impose upon yourself. This confusion always induces bitterness, a | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| the mind becomes frantic in the attempt to impose a false order, which heightens the discomfort and | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| can produce fulfillment for you without having to impose your ideas over others, no matter how right | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| all the obligations and changes that this might impose on you. You must travel through both these | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| them even when they at first seem to impose a momentary disadvantage on you. You can cultivate | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| the few stronger, more willful individuals may then impose disadvantages on those who are not willing to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| punishing deity, a cruel, unmerciful ruler who would impose more injustice on them. This ancient concept confused | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| acts of factual, psychological, emotional, and spiritual cheating, impose unfair disadvantages on others, and therefore also on | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| -- God -- be so cruel as to impose at the end of one's existence an inevitable | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Imposed.....................17 | |
| very fine distinction between saying yes to an imposed or inevitable duty, or struggling against it and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| inwardly. By making outer rules and regulations they imposed restrictions that distorted it. If you study the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| struggle and work for daily subsistence, and obligations imposed upon you that you may not like. Life | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| gradually work toward growth, and the ungenuine pretense imposed upon you by the dictates of your idealized | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you not only fail to eliminate your self- imposed helplessness, you encourage it, as well as encouraging | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| unconscious emphasis on becoming perfect according to standards imposed on you by the world, by religion, by | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| find peace while this choice seems to be imposed on you. Therefore you are both selfish and | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| leads either to actual or imaginary discipline being imposed upon the person by others. When such imposition | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| childish and self-indulgent consciousness does need such rules imposed from the outside. Without them there would have | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| chosen by the self and discipline that is imposed from the outside. Discipline imposed from the outside | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| discipline that is imposed from the outside. Discipline imposed from the outside, if we are to discard | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| freely chosen self-discipline, as opposed to necessary discipline imposed when the self-discipline is absent, can be made | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| most pleasurable at the moment -- the outwardly imposed discipline is essential for the child as well | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| self-discipline and no longer need to have discipline imposed from outside. External discipline can then be a | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| position of leadership, deprived you of something or imposed something on you that is unfair. You act | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| the impression that your lack of freedom is imposed on you by other people or conditions, you | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| has to be seen not as a shackle imposed by a moralizing outer or inner authority, but | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Imposes.....................12 | |
| from the inability to die. Civilized life constantly imposes on you the alternatives of pleasure and unpleasure | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| resent the condition which the other's domination unconsciously imposes. They will let go and quietly preserve their | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| resent the obligations, responsibilities, and duties that life imposes upon you. Your fight for physical and psychological | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| would have to be. It creates self-punishment and imposes shackles which prohibit the manifestation of every divine | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| integrity. It appears as though this correcting process imposes a heavy toll. In reality, the heavy toll | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| rigid. When the heaviness of the false discipline imposes too much stricture, some personalities break. The strain | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| It is never a fate that someone else imposes upon you, or something anyone else can do | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| is off center. The illusion that outer life imposes experience on you is so widespread that the | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| because the will of a few power-driven individuals imposes itself over others -- stemming from and creating | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Mass consciousness does not require individuation; instead, it imposes a blind following and conformity. The halting of | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of course within the human soul. Such orthodoxy imposes on society a heaviness and a resistance to | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| to the line of least resistance, who never imposes any frustration, who offers this kind of utopia | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |