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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 |