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wants, and God wants to make free and independent human beings out of you. Real liberation can 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
God's divine kingdom, the spirit entities also have independent power according to their development; their area of 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
always insist that every person should establish an independent connection to God's world as soon as such 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
detached in the way I mean, you are independent; you do not need outside conditions to give 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
are doing by trying so hard to appear independent, hard, and oh, so perfect! Yet if you 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
in that way can you become strong and independent. If there would be undue interference, you would 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
choice has to come freely by proper and independent discrimination. As I said, there are cases when 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
way. In reality God wants you to be independent and strong, and you can only be that 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
way for you to become truly free and independent. However, there are certain exceptions in this respect 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR
exception to the law of the necessity of independent selection and recognition, but at certain times light 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR
the world of God encourage humans to become independent. We do not like to be asked at 35 TURNING TO GOD
way can you remove the obstacles for your independent channel to open to receive God's will and 35 TURNING TO GOD
difficulty cannot occur only once in your life, independent of any inner image. That is possible. This 38 IMAGES
applies to everything. No soul current is entirely independent of its physical manifestation. The physical body is 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
of spiritual childhood, toward becoming a strong and independent child of God, growing in spirit, strength, and 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
achieve a positive outcome, a free, strong and independent choice has to be made. As I often 47 THE WALL WITHIN
it cannot make mature decisions; it cannot be independent of weak and selfish motives -- and therefore 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
vicious circle. Thus you will become free and independent. The human soul contains all the wisdom, all 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
Be in the Lord. 51. IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS Greetings, my dear friends. God bless all 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
of you, they make you wholly free and independent. In order to help you find the proper 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
one that will truly make you free and independent. Self-pity is a complete rejection of self-responsibility. It 53 SELF-LOVE
of a show you will make about being independent. The more one is basically afraid of it 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
It is God's will that you become mature, independent, and responsible for your decisions. By no means 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
It is a complete error to believe that independent decisions are necessarily selfish and self-willed, it is 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
happiness in its highest unfoldment is: I am independent of outer circumstances, regardless of what they are 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
unaffected by negative events and is therefore truly independent. Pain, or what would cause pain to someone 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
freedom in every way; you want to make independent decisions and choices. If these prove good, it 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
you could easily perceive that you are indeed independent. You are the master of your life and 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
the reason why you reject self-responsibility. By making independent decisions, you are bound to make mistakes. The 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
perish if you do, and therefore thinks that independent decisions for which one is responsible must not 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
contains much benefit. You know that. A really independent person need not be afraid of bad influences 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
need not be afraid of bad influences. The independent person cannot be influenced. Your security will lie 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
coming to terms with your confusions, by making independent decisions for carrying out unselfish acts, thus being 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
will make you strong and certain and truly independent. That is the only proper approach to all 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
truth of the life stream, which is eternally independent of small wish-fulfillments. If you cannot trust yourself 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
herself into believing that he or she is independent, standing alone and fighting alone, never bending to 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
however, can exist only if you are truly independent -- not of the other person, but of 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
is by becoming so strong and invulnerable, so independent and emotionless, that nothing and no one can 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
or to love everyone, or to be entirely independent of others, this becomes more and more impossible 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
communicate in love and understanding while being truly independent. Love, power, and serenity will not be used 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
they think they should be proud, aloof, and independent, not seeing that one could yield sometimes, while 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
regardless of how bent they are on becoming independent. Nor do they see that when all is 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
If you are supposed to be free and independent, where does grace come in? You would not 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
lead to misinterpretation. If you force discipline, without independent decision and full conviction, the motives are unhealthy 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
need to see your possibilities and opportunities and independent ability to choose, instead of being utterly helpless 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
and thereby decrease your helplessness and increase your independent strength and resourcefulness. In a previous lecture we 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
behavior of those persons who cannot make an independent choice because they cannot risk being different. The 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
time when you will have arrived, in full independent freedom, at the stage of wishing to make 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
to exist. It will enable you to become independent of the dire need for recognition by others 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
one can certainly find a flaw underneath. Truly independent, free individuals do not have to make a 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
effect to what we seek to attain -- independent understanding, creative thinking. Therefore occasionally we need to 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
appeasing, and blindly following it. Never developing the independent faculties of thinking and discriminating, one becomes weaker 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
their temporary usefulness. People's self-alienation and lack of independent thinking make them cling to what is handed 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
accepted facts that even the most enlightened and independent spirits blindly accept certain postulates about why certain 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
of purpose and interest. They are free and independent, which is not to be confused with omnipotence 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
self-centered instincts. If the child were self-sufficient and independent while possessing self-centered drives, you may imagine what 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
aspects which are quite mature, responsible, concerned, free, independent, while harboring problem areas in which the selfish 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
wrong. The child's mind lacks the power of independent thinking, of discriminating, and it shirks the labor 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
their true inner state. You will become more independent, more free, more responsible, less isolated. Our love 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
this help has to be requested by the independent person as an act of will. The immature 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
of the immediate causes and effects, hence the independent role you play in your fate, in what 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
therefore fear. From this idea that a strange, independent power seems to play with you, the concept 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
who deny themselves the experience of spontaneously discovering independent, self- responsible concepts by which one can conduct 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
A special temptation strengthens the tendency to forsake independent inquiry and the forming of one's own concepts 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
which you fear and shirk, you are truly independent of authority and help that comes from outside 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
you can then integrate and establish your full, independent selfhood. Be blessed, all of you. Be in 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
about indirectly and seem to have their own, independent life, their own laws, their own logic and 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
is wrong and selfish -- how strong and independent you must become not to be influenced and 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
she is merely refusing to be self-assertive and independent and wishes to cling to another person, who 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
not flexible and strong. It has to be independent without believing it is the only function to 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
The weak back and ego, the lack of independent self-responsibility, have a counterpart in a rigid front 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
gullible because deep down they refuse to be independent. Craving approval more than having the integrity to 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
spiritual reality. If you are not strong and independent -- self-responsible in the deepest sense -- the 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
loss, believing that what life brings is totally independent from your own willing and knowing. Any path 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
to the extent that the form seems entirely independent from the deed, the deed from the thought 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
be strong, truly right and not self-righteous, truly independent, and fulfilled. The admission of heretofore apparently inadmissible 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
into submission and rebellion. You can truly be independent only when you cease making the demands. This 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
the outer event appears to you to be independent of anything you have within you. As long 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
the soul. When people refuse to become truly independent and self-responsible, they do not under take to 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
sense, you will be more active, more truly independent than you were before. For when the mind 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
and again, that an organic process unfolds completely independent of your mind and conscious expectations. Such a 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
blossom only when the woman is free, autonomous, independent in the best sense of the word. So 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
hold of you as if it had an independent life of its own that has nothing to 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
accessible. The older the child grows, the more independent he or she becomes. The child gains more 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
to experience their strength, their capacity to be independent, self-responsible, creative, and resourceful. As long as this 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
also need to feel the pain that is independent of you, but can help liberate you by 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
away your ability to discriminate and to make independent decisions forever. It may perhaps indicate a change 254 SURRENDER

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