| Impoverish..................4 | |
| real self and the more you weaken and impoverish it. In the course of this work, you | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| richness of feeling is prohibited and thus you impoverish yourself. You live on the periphery, which is | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| the image forms that to love means to impoverish oneself. Loving acquires the connotation of self-sacrificing deprivation | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| feelings. If you do not, you will always impoverish yourself and shut out your feeling nature. You | 254 SURRENDER |
| Impoverished................11 | |
| to the misery of life. If you feel impoverished, if your personality feels impoverished by such a | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| If you feel impoverished, if your personality feels impoverished by such a separation, then there must be | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| cooperation of the spontaneous inner nature life becomes impoverished. But the acceptance of this cooperation hinges on | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| that by giving to others you will be impoverished, put to some sort of disadvantage, while by | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| equated with the terrible danger of being totally impoverished, even robbed of your very life, how can | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| foundation outside yourself, you become more and more impoverished and hence can give nothing away. On the | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| to life. Thus you become more and more impoverished, unhappy, embittered, and feel justified to withhold, give | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| they feel rich and some where they feel impoverished and therefore needy. It is hardly ever just | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| that to love is to lose, to be impoverished or taken advantage of, or that to love | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| outer and the inner universe are empty and impoverished, you automatically create a vicious circle. This belief | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| The person who refuses to surrender becomes truly impoverished. Surrender is such a movement of fullness, of | 254 SURRENDER |
| Impoverishes................4 | |
| energies and soul forces into the superstructure, which impoverishes your life, your capacity to experience real feelings | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| give out of yourself. Sickly, distorted, false love impoverishes and breeds conflict between self-interest and the interests | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| as a pleasureless, sacrificial, and depriving act that impoverishes the self for the sake of being good | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| could and should stream into you. Because guardedness impoverishes and deprives, you inevitably become enraged. Most people | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| Impoverishment..............12 | |
| unable to prevent it -- or numbness and impoverishment of feelings in other areas, are frequent indications | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| immediate and least conceptualizable, you resist seeing your impoverishment, so that you are unable to find the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| spiritual -- that is, your total being. Your impoverishment is self-inflicted because you cannot face that moment | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| restrictions and fear, the self-alienation, the aridness and impoverishment of the souls who cannot thrive in a | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| You cannot receive and are therefore deprived. The impoverishment of your own good feelings -- and therefore | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| to block off your capacity to feel, the impoverishment creates the need for a substitution. The mind | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| In order not to feel your deadness, the impoverishment of your inner being, and to have a | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| where they have fulfillment and abundance, and where impoverishment and want. It is therefore one of the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| here you create for yourself a climate of impoverishment in which you must indeed doubt your capacity | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| so because your distortions and your concept of impoverishment will draw to you someone who is incapable | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| person and accept the momentary apparent state of impoverishment and emptiness. Travel through this interim state until | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| your deficits increase inwardly you cover up the impoverishment you have created in order to avoid the | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Impregnated.................5 | |
| up all succeeding lives because your psyche becomes impregnated with the process of self-search. It becomes second | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| holds true for you personally. Is your soul impregnated with similar wrong concepts? If and when a | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| self-realization. Life speaks so clearly, but human beings, impregnated with false concepts, do not hear or see | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| Often the most rebellious human beings are most impregnated with mass opinions and false limitations, considering them | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| it. This substance changes constantly as it becomes impregnated by conscious thought and intent. This is how | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| Impress.....................32 | |
| self-analysis and self-testing. Vanity or the desire to impress other people may be in the way; this | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| without the superiority with which you try to impress people. For yet another it may be most | 21 THE FALL |
| have gained a major victory. I want to impress this upon you; take it with you tonight | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| learn. Ask for His help. This will gradually impress your unconscious mind so that a good imprint | 36 PRAYER |
| have this general understanding, my friends, if you impress this knowledge on your mind, it will be | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| I mean, that, for instance, the desire to impress others is also harmful. What happens when you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| harmful. What happens when you set out to impress others? You might trigger off envy -- and | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| serves something else -- namely your need to impress others, to make yourself bigger and better, enviable | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| desiring financial security. Suppose you desire it to impress those who have humbled you -- or who | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| do with actual material value with which to impress others. It is completely irrational. It outpictures symbolically | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to shine, to be better than others, to impress people, to be important. Somehow this seems less | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| ardently desire to be loved by or to impress a particular person, you imagine situations in which | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| has on you. At any rate, you cannot impress yourself enough with the truth that you are | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| block than the problem itself. Therefore, I cannot impress upon you strongly enough that the fact of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| rather living in that house in order to impress your neighbor, or to make your neighbor like | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| people's expectations, either out of a need to impress, or out of fear of rejection, mature people | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| boisterous ones who show off their knowledge to impress others. Both have burning questions. Some of these | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| must negative experience, resulting from previously unresolved conflicts, impress the psyche! But it cannot be too strongly | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| the act of perception. Hence the truth cannot impress itself upon the soul. What is experienced becomes | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| untruth and the truth behind it. You cannot impress yourself with a specific truthful concept before you | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| is necessary, at the time, to comprehend and impress the self with truthful statements. This impressing has | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| also request and wish awareness of when to impress and when to express, and how to do | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| outer standards. Such behavior aims to please or impress others, to conform with outer standards. Moralizing always | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| of the same coin -- a need to impress others or be better than they are, try | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the change, strengthen its own will, formulate thoughts, impress the distorted soul substance with the truth, with | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| incredibly powerful energies. These energies have impact; they impress the all-pervading creative substance -- the stuff which | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| to prove yourself better than others and to impress the world. However, you must also dispense with | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| With the help of meditation you can gradually impress correct beliefs upon your soul substance. You first | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| substance hard and brittle, therefore much harder to impress and imprint. To comprehend this process to at | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| craving approval and selling out one's truth to impress others or to be thought of in the | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| yourself as a great person in order to impress others, perhaps your family or those who have | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| and meditate, after you use your mind to impress your soul substance and align it with divine | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
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| However, those who constantly allow themselves to be impressed by the outward aspects of life on earth | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| speaks through me. The others would also be impressed and would perhaps look down on those who | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| obstacles. At the moment you would certainly be impressed. You might say: Indeed, this is strange; this | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| way, but abandoned it because they were too impressed by magic forces which, at one point or | 18 FREE WILL |
| you, while you continue to be very much impressed by things that may be true and beautiful | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| out of ignorance and fear. Thus it is impressed on the child's mind that for everything most | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| help bring out what your soul has been impressed with. Even without such a memory, this soul-impression | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| with you may cause your subconscious to be impressed by it, so that a clairvoyant perceives it | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| is already afflicted will be negatively influenced and impressed. The healthy soul-substance will not even have a | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| When the soul is sufficiently experienced and deeply impressed with the truth that there is nothing to | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| mass image exists about dying, which is deeply impressed on all souls who come, again and again | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| where the answer is. The concept you are impressed with is that happiness is attainable only in | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| events. Mind or consciousness impresses; life substance is impressed upon. Everything around and within you participates in | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| live and which lives in you is then impressed by the thought form, which molds it. This | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| loose, resilient, and receptive. It will be easily impressed and malleable, and creation can continuously flow forth | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| 1) concept (2) impressing and allowing to be impressed (3) visualization (4) faith. Let us see how | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| to relax, allowing the soul substance to be impressed. You can then create good life, new attitudes | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| directly affects the second stage: impressing and being impressed. With a unified consciousness, impressing will be strong | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| needed, so your soul substance will be readily impressed with the truthful concept you send into it | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| strongly, but inwardly nothing happens. They cannot be impressed because they have not removed the defenses that | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| visualization comes in. In conceiving, impressing and being impressed, visualizing and having faith, you express and act | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| and my soul substance too brittle to be impressed. This will reinforce my doubt and negation. Conversely | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| let it respond. The spiritual self is being impressed and called forth by the conscious good will | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| identifies with it, or is in that sense impressed by it. Rather, the conscious mind listens and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| about the proper concept, with impressing and being impressed, visualizing and faith in the result. The creative | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| beings. Matter is still malleable and can be impressed by human consciousness. Since consciousness is capable of | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| just geared to respond and react, to be impressed and molded. Its energy field will be affected | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| are, all you think, will, and feel, is impressed into a malleable universe. Do not let the | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| your life, when your soul has to be impressed with certain aspects that need focus. This does | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |