| Inflicted...................40 | |
| can no longer be blamed for the pain inflicted by the wrong conclusions and misconceptions of the | 38 IMAGES |
| to recognize how, where, and why you have inflicted this dependency on yourself. If you understand your | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| hurt them. It makes no difference whether I inflicted the hurt by deed, word, thought, or emotional | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the direct or indirect hurts my attitude has inflicted upon others. Then, think about the hurts you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| upon others. Then, think about the hurts you inflicted on other people. Ask God to give you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| reactions as you recognize the hurts you have inflicted on others: hopelessness about yourself -- the negative | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| when you realize the hurt you have unwittingly inflicted -- unintentional hurt because it was committed out | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| truly sorry for the hurts you have unwittingly inflicted on others, if you can take that justified | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the mass image with which you, too, are inflicted. In that part of your being you feel | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| happiness is denied me and unhappiness inevitable and inflicted on me against my will, I may just | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to alleviate the humiliation that the unhappiness is inflicted upon me against my will, making me a | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| thus to ward off greater punishment, to be inflicted upon you by others and not by yourself | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be avoided at all costs. But the indignity inflicted on the individual by such self-denial results in | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| fraction of your potential. The damage you have inflicted upon yourself with this pseudo-solution, and go on | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the slight and hurt he or she has inflicted on you becomes nullified, as it were. You | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| let go of your insistence that the hurt inflicted on you was unjust in the extreme, your | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| was never you who was rejected. The hurt inflicted upon you, due to their blindness, irresponsibility, and | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| realized the extent of the damage you have inflicted upon yourself and upon others and have seen | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| is comparatively easy for obvious wrongs one has inflicted, but it is not so easy to make | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| fully aware of the pain you may have inflicted on others, your desire will be strong enough | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| not want to face the pain you have inflicted, you cannot truly want to make good for | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| to become aware of the pain you have inflicted, you do not want to face your lower | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| hurt due to the hurt one has unconsciously inflicted upon others. Ruthless indifference to inflicted hurts is | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| has unconsciously inflicted upon others. Ruthless indifference to inflicted hurts is not as different from deep suffering | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| mean little if the attitudes that have involuntarily inflicted hurts are not changed. And don't forget that | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| make good for the wrong that you have inflicted, you definitely will find ways. Sometimes restitution will | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| parents' unresolved problems. This applies not only to inflicted hurt, but equally to pleasurable overindulgence. It too | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| run. The third stage of numbness is actively inflicted cruelty. This stage arises from fear of others | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| and forget what harm life seems to have inflicted on you -- that you do not want | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| no matter how much it seems to be inflicted upon the self from the outside. It is | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| believe that your unhappiness and your suffering are inflicted upon you by others or by life is | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| creates your real suffering. No matter what is inflicted upon you from the outside when you are | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| intend to do so. This pain can be inflicted every bit as much by omission as by | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| dishonesty is your guilt for pain you have inflicted, or are still inflicting. I touched upon this | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| pain you have endured, pain that has been inflicted upon you, first, by your parents when you | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| feeling the pain of your guilt for having inflicted pain on others. This is so for partially | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| you learn to feel the hurts you have inflicted and still inflict without feeling annihilated or worthless | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| entail experiencing the pain of guilt for having inflicted pain, especially on one who came in love | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| is certainly much less than the suffering willfully inflicted on animals by the indifference and cruelty of | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| patterns are connected with pain you have unwittingly inflicted because you have not allowed yourself to know | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Inflicting..................9 | |
| upon yourself with this pseudo-solution, and go on inflicting upon yourself as long as you adhere to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| without the other. Both are one current of inflicting pain. The so-called sadistic person inflicts pain on | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| wards off fear and guilt. The act of inflicting pain on others simultaneously kills off one's own | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| passively. That is, pleasure is experienced either in inflicting cruelty or in enduring it -- or both | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| because the shame of the desire for either inflicting or enduring cruelty may prohibit all spontaneity and | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| for pain you have inflicted, or are still inflicting. I touched upon this subject before, but the | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| warmth, good feelings, and closeness? Well, you are inflicting the same on others by your vindictive imitation | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| my friends, let yourself feel the pain of inflicting pain: feel it without crumbling, without exaggerating, without | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| deceive yourself that someone or something else is inflicting suffering on you. You know it comes from | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Infliction..................3 | |
| Psychology has used certain terms to describe this infliction of pain. Spiritually it is absolutely true that | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| any degree of pain. Frustration of pleasure or infliction of pain cause violent anger. The infant knows | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| more nor less desirable than suffering through direct infliction of pain. It is simply a suffering of | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Inflicts....................12 | |
| human being to some degree. Thus the personality inflicts punishment on itself. This may happen in various | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you approach them through the misery the deviation inflicts. This misery will cause you to turn around | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to this cruel, vindictive, vengeful, inadequate god who inflicts so much suffering on us? I could do | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| current of inflicting pain. The so-called sadistic person inflicts pain on others as a protection for the | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| negatively oriented pleasure principle tears you apart. It inflicts pain on you by itself, but it does | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| it, when you also see the harm it inflicts on others, then, and only then, will you | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| character. When frustration is not handled properly, it inflicts pain on the self and on others. The | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| denial of their inner truth, their real feelings, inflicts pain on you just as much as you | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| negativity, only dimly sensing the hurt that it inflicts on others, you are caught in a battle | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| in spite of the obvious pain that this inflicts. It insists on living life on its own | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| numbness, created out of confusion and chaos, inevitably inflicts pain and suffering just as the lie must | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| higher, for such pain must turn against whoever inflicts it, or against whoever colludes with those who | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Influence...................183 | |
| instrument of God's world. In one case the influence is through inspiration, in the other it operates | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| the more the laws of God extend their influence, the fewer henchmen will Lucifer eventually have. QUESTION | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| the help of spiritual protection. Then this protective influence will step somewhat aside and you are left | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| reduced there. For instance, a living person can influence another especially effectively by overcoming his or her | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| by overcoming his or her own faults. Indirect influence is always effective and lasting. Example is always | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| so according to spiritual lawfulness. This is indirect influence, but eventually the result becomes evident to everyone | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| a person can again become receptive to the influence of the spirits of Hell, since through the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| and the greater your opportunity to help and influence them. However, people's first reaction is to do | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| threads of the greater reality, and so beneficial influence and help cannot reach you. And now, my | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| more they remove themselves from any positive divine influence -- and the greater their anxiety will grow | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| something to do with it, as the mutual influence of the spiritual and the physical is very | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| who are like humans are at work and influence humans in their way. This, however, does not | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| being on the path of perfection, by the influence and light you spread, work for God's kingdom | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| no longer be a hindrance, it will not influence the person, or taint the work. So at | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| But the same element will have a supporting influence and even change into a positive, good quality | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| you call conscience. Thus the higher self can influence you to fight your lower self. The higher | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| self, as well as various other circumstances, also influence the outer manifestation, intensity, degree, and direction that | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| often touches your heart. Be in God. 15. INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| decades. Tonight I wish to speak about the influence between the spiritual and material worlds. Much has | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| material worlds. Much has been said about the influence of the world of spirit on the world | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| of matter, but not as much about the influence the other way around. For both affect each | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| affect each other. First I will discuss the influence of spirit on your earthly sphere. There are | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| not so. Certainly, evil spirits can and do influence you, but only if and when you permit | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| by putting the blame on evil spirits whose influence on them, they like to believe, is merely | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the world of God can guide, help, and influence you, it can be so only because your | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| for you to permit it to take over, influence you and thus live through you. This gives | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| blind in many respects. They often seek to influence human beings because it helps them in some | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| are not stronger than they are, they will influence you, sometimes not harmfully, but, even though they | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| interfere with your spiritual progress, and sometimes their influence may be harmless, or appear harmless, but is | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| this can happen is again no coincidence: their influence is inevitably called forth by your own inner | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the different spiritual spheres with their respective creatures influence humans. Human beings are not helpless prey to | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| influences, but determine them. And by rejecting any influence that does not come from the divine world | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| must eventually lose. Humans have another kind of influence on the world of spirit. I will try | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| less and less. As a result, only the influence of the disharmonious forces would have an effect | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| material to the world of darkness, and its influence in turn would be that much greater on | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| them from an early age, due to some influence in their surroundings and certain happenings in their | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| With this power the spirit could affect and influence many other spirits, little by little. But not | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| in the creation of this earth sphere. The influence of both worlds exists and will manifest itself | 21 THE FALL |
| their spiritual world. And on earth where the influence of God's world also existed, for the first | 21 THE FALL |
| your own lives in particular. How did the influence of the world of God manifest itself? Could | 21 THE FALL |
| free will, had the right to manifest its influence on earth. The answer is that pure spirits | 21 THE FALL |
| few were incarnated at one time, but the influence of one such being outweighs by far the | 21 THE FALL |
| such being outweighs by far the strength and influence of a hundred creatures of the world of | 21 THE FALL |
| mission with their incarnation on earth, and their influence was much more far reaching than might have | 21 THE FALL |
| might have appeared at first sight. With this influence growing steadily through the ages, the fallen spirits | 21 THE FALL |
| individual could make a free choice. An equal influence had to come from both sides. This meant | 21 THE FALL |
| because their strength always outweighs and outlasts the influence of evil. However, especially during the early times | 21 THE FALL |
| the influences of the Luciferic world, whether the influence comes in the form of direct inspiration or | 22 SALVATION |
| immune to human failings and thus to the influence of the powers of darkness. This would make | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| They cannot do this if there is an influence by a glorious apparition. And this is why | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to make their own choices as to whose influence they are willing to accept by weighing the | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you allow anything that touches you personally to influence your course of action. When your small ego | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| fight each other? And how far can they influence human beings? ANSWER: In all the spheres, and | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| in this direction. You can, however, help to influence another person by your change; he or she | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| she may then decide to change too. Your influence can only be truly productive if you set | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| character produces a lack of harmony, which must influence proper judgment. Only when the character becomes more | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| prepared properly. Some genes will therefore have an influence; some will not. In one instance the genes | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the genes of the mother have a greater influence, in another those of the father. In one | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| An infinite variety of good and bad currents influence one another. I promised you that I would | 36 PRAYER |
| law, like the law of gravity. Your images influence the universal current entering your personal life sphere | 38 IMAGES |
| factors. It is a question of development, environment, influence, and most of all, of course, personality traits | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| divine spirits. How much an unorganized spirit can influence you is again up to you. The more | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| yourself, and therefore the more independence from the influence of other beings, spirit or human. A person | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| to some degree will easily fall under the influence of other people, although he or she may | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the fact. The same holds true of the influence spirits can have over such a person. The | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| In other cases, the guardian may prevent such influence. This depends on so many circumstances that they | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| in this area, the less will the environment influence the psyche. Other factors also play a role | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| parent may be doting and permissive. Although this influence is outwardly weaker, it may have a much | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| instills fear in you and has a greater influence on your inner growth than you realize. Or | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| language and use her thought process which I influence through her subtle bodies. Thank you. QUESTION: Tell | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| principles. They manifest in nature; they govern and influence everything that has ever been created and ever | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| Every quality, reaction, attitude, or tendency must invariably influence everything else in the soul, sometimes more directly | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| is hardly ever understood, and the existence and influence of the mass image is rarely connected with | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| aware of it. In order to counterbalance the influence of the mass image of self-importance, you overcompensate | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| according to a great number of factors that influence this magnetic field. Many of their manifestations I | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| have a particular strength with which they can influence general conditions. They are, each in their own | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or physically even more distorted. ANSWER: No outer influence can ever make you more distorted. This is | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| happens in a more roundabout way. An outer influence may temporarily fortify a wrong concept, just as | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in truth and honesty, no teaching, method or influence can encourage wrong inner concepts any longer. In | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will pick out especially those aspects of the influence which encourage turning away from the root of | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| overlooked. If it were true that any outer influence can really harm you, life would be impossible | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understand how you are not harmed by the influence of others. But if your spirit and your | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be found in a teaching, or method, or influence that you know can never err, you could | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and many other groups of people seem to influence your life. If you think this through, you | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| affect you, and over these you have no influence whatsoever. All these conditions are apparently true. They | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and try to keep in mind how the influence of these general misconceptions and mass images sustain | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| provocations compounded to enlarge the respective spheres of influence and to frustrate the adversary. The cold war | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| such a path, it would have a tremendous influence on humankind as a whole, such as you | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| any kind of teacher or person who has influence over others. And yet, harm cannot come to | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| something else. How do the two interplay and influence each other? ANSWER: Both are necessary functions of | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| made them your own. Thus your intellect can influence your emotions through your capacity to think. On | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the other hand, unchecked and childish emotions can influence your thinking capacity by coloring your views and | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| increasingly less affected by the other person's negative influence on your unconscious. At the same time you | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| knowledge. Such an emphasis would ultimately affect and influence the soul currents. It would help them indirectly | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| would have to be re-educated. The importance and influence of their own problems on their children would | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| at all. You may completely ignore the strong influence it has on the cosmic forces, an infinitely | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| has on the cosmic forces, an infinitely stronger influence of the few than of the many, notwithstanding | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| that you are the victim of other people's influence on you and of factors existing beyond your | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you are never a helpless prey to the influence of others, nor are others to you. QUESTION | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| this. For, on the one hand, it might influence your subconscious, which should move freely. On the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| in this connection. In addition, your knowledge might influence the spirits to the extent that they can | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| instituted from the outside, and you have no influence over it. This is an error, even if | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by an effort of will, you cannot simply influence and control them as you do actions and | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| strong guilt feelings. This is due to the influence of the environment, to mass images, and to | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| before you can convince yourself of its destructive influence, which causes many unnecessary and unfavorable results. Let | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| child's fragmented impression of reality causes distortions which influence the way you relate later to others and | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| sense of this pathwork has an infinitely greater influence on the entire cosmic development than do millions | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to the vast reservoir of cosmic forces and influence evolution and general spiritual development. The fulfillment and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| also contagious. In other words, outer behavior will influence outer behavior, while thought influences thought, and unconscious | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| behavior, while thought influences thought, and unconscious feelings influence unconscious feelings. The contagious actions, at least in | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| or a shoemaker, makes no difference. You will influence your surroundings, not so much by what you | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| of -- that hinder the will and subsequently influence the outcome. QUESTION: How do you explain the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| whether fairy tales or myths have a good influence on a growing person, and also on an | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| story. The adult's feelings have a much stronger influence on the child than the words. Whatever the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| a cycle in which inside and outside forces influence one another. But the controlling factor always lies | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| grasp its impact. Parents are the most important influence in a child's life. The relationship to them | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that they harbor similar unconscious attitudes. The destructive influence of this factor often manifests in a disturbance | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| your parents. One distorted attitude exists because of influence exerted upon you by one parent and your | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| your emotional response to it. An entirely different influence by and emotional response to the other parent | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| questions on this subject? QUESTION: Is not the influence of brothers and sisters almost as strong as | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| the general development of the personality is the influence of deeply ingrained prejudices and misconceptions. This world | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| psychic condition with which it is born subsequently influence its attitude toward the pleasure principle. Hence, when | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| becomes impossible to relate to others without the influence of these early feelings. Then layers of destructive | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of previous lectures, particularly those dealing with the influence of parents and the behavior patterns deriving from | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the pain by allowing the pleasure principle to influence the painful experience, which might otherwise have been | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| for those limping behind. The general atmosphere and influence will be conducive to faster development. Again, this | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| one generation to the next have a tragic influence on humanity, particularly in this respect. People either | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| The triad of pride, self-will, and fear also influence one's attitude to death. Dying ultimately means giving | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| is the realization of your far-reaching sphere of influence. When a person finally recognizes the significance of | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| a power over which you have has no influence. Even those of you who have already experienced | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| not happen, while not seeing how you can influence it; (b) the exact cause of your unfulfillment | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| I am afraid, for I feel powerless to influence others to like me. After ascertaining such an | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you are not helpless, that you can constantly influence and mold your fate, your immediate life, then | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| such a false concept of life exerts its influence on you. Translate your emotional reactions into concise | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| change, what is beyond their direct sphere of influence. It says that lack of acceptance breeds disharmony | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| afraid of being controlled by factors beyond your influence, you will have no need for selfwill. Fear | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| borderline up to which you have obvious direct influence to mold events and results, and beyond which | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| Neither can they see that they have an influence over those areas of their lives in which | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| further growth, or you can allow it to influence you adversely. This applies not only to unhappy | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| and constructive convictions of the conscious mind can influence and gradually eliminate the unconscious stumbling blocks. By | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| are always in its field of vision and influence. The movements of both are completely coordinated. But | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| for more understanding so that you can indirectly influence these destructive feelings, until one day you suddenly | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| consciousness, your concept and expectation of life, directly influence life's manifestation. When you are aware of life's | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the most acute anxiety when not under the influence of these drugs. Completely unable to cope with | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| lower state of development, which also govern and influence your thinking, feeling, willing and acting. Thus you | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| given you. The power given to you will influence stagnant soul substance and can go to work | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| great deal of patience and searching finally to influence it with the free consciousness, allowing the fluid | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| free consciousness, allowing the fluid, flowing energy to influence the stagnant mass. For if free enlightened consciousness | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| a deliberate, conscious choice: to let the latter influence the former. Love comes to every one of | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| thoughts create a corresponding attitude in life, they influence actions, behavior, responses, reactions, emanation and deeds. Such | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| words, you have a particular strength, a direct influence for the good, and you set an example | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| every step of their development has a beneficial influence and thus teaches others, whether they realize it | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| you must assume responsibility for it -- the influence of the divine self may take place on | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| in your sexual attitudes and therefore do not influence your capacity for fulfillment, fusion, and bliss? That | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| earth. Little by little, politicians and people of influence will be drawn into this circle -- perhaps | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| patterns of behavior have a particular power to influence us; we might almost say they are contagious | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| It is known that some people's opinions can influence others enough to make them adopt the same | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| adopt the same opinions. This entire process of influence through exemplary figures leads to imitation, emulation, and | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| a victim of circumstances beyond your sphere of influence. This impression causes a great deal of fear | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| influences you only after much laborious groping. This influence makes you react to something that takes place | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| know it, to deal with it, and to influence it rather than be influenced by it. This | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| you speak, the word you think, and the influence you have with every word whether thinking it | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| your attitudes are. They can hurt, they can influence, they can harm -- or they can heal | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| of high development, whose force and sphere of influence merge with your love, truth, goodwill and giving | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| ever new expressions. Your Center holds a great influence over many other light centers and could thereby | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| ongoing development, so does the sphere of your influence and positive power widen and encompass more followers | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| for his personal presence and help, can you influence the involuntary currents and attitudes, and change them | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| renewed. This new person will gradually overtake and influence, step by step, those who want to obstruct | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| as well as their manifestations, their effects, their influence in your realm, and their personification as spirit | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| said that the individual's free will determined whose influence would predominate in one's life. While human beings | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| In the last hundred years or so, the influence of the second principle has taken over. With | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| knowledgeable or intelligent. Knowing that angels surround and influence you need not lead to worshipping the angels | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| evil to have its sphere of activity and influence, for only in this way can evil be | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| see the entities surrounding him or feel their influence. The effect may come only some time later | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| entities of different nature and development who then influence you and reinforce the force field within your | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| of evil entities and then gained power and influence over the rest of the world. Those who | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| fact that lower-self aspects have effects, and they influence more of your thinking and acting, your perceptions | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| upon which your state of consciousness has no influence whatever. To submit to this false reality seems | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| capable of wreaking havoc on your earth. Their influence will dissolve like snow in the sun. This | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| may appear entirely negative. Through their sphere of influence and activity they affect events, which then conspire | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| of them are misguided. Many succumb to the influence of destructive forces and evil spirits. This can | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| be allowed to destroy their environment and to influence events through their concealment. The courage and strength | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| not be possible for you to see this influence directly and immediately, you will gradually sense it | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |