| Arduously...................8 | |
| feelings is other than those of which one arduously tries to convince oneself. It is of great | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| of self- alienation that people unconsciously and so arduously bring about, induces a sense of unreality about | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| tragedy of human beings is that they so arduously struggle against happiness by fearing truth and holding | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| golden mean it remains elusive, no matter how arduously it is sought. And yet, this universal key | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| that promises to feel good. If self-realization is arduously forced and looked for, it cannot come. It | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the world and of whose genuineness you try arduously to convince yourself. The artificiality of this role | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| of the misconception that makes you struggle so arduously and painfully against the sadness. When you then | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| false solution. It will come when you search arduously to attain a truthful balance in facing your | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Arena.......................3 | |
| humans tend to be underdeveloped in the emotional arena, it is logical that their unfulfillments are primarily | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| very regrettable effects. But it also created an arena in which people could no longer blame the | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| The earth plane is particularly designed as an arena to serve the purpose of breathing into the | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Argue.......................8 | |
| more so. As two normal people would not argue whether a round table in front of them | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| something you cannot be blamed for. Thus you argue with your inner voice of absurd guilt, trying | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| out consciously; yet this is the way emotions argue below the surface. So the circle closes where | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| which divides you within yourself. You may well argue that it is justified to be on guard | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| of the greatest importance that you do not argue it away, that you are not impatient with | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| every vicious circle can be broken. You may argue that actual pain can be very much feared | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| cannot come out, regardless of how long you argue about it. You must make the actual move | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| to manifest if it exists. If you merely argue against it, you are not honest in your | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| Argues......................5 | |
| punished coexists with it. Thus a hidden part argues, Perhaps I can get around it. Perhaps I | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to it in reality. This little inner voice argues, If I am so perfect, if I have | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| great vicious circle. Again, your unconscious little voice argues, I have failed. I know I am inferior | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| damaging in the long run. Unconsciously, the person argues: Since happiness is denied me and unhappiness inevitable | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| an extremely unhealthy and damaging way. The psyche argues: Since I cannot avoid unhappiness, I may just | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| Argument....................16 | |
| a fraud. If you are looking for an argument to disbelieve, you will always find one -- | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| doubt is to retire into quietness. Formulate this argument in clear-cut, concise thought and ask God the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| let us remain for the moment with the argument that I have observed among some of you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| there can be no difference of opinion or argument about it. For everything is out in the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| not misunderstand me: there is no prohibition of argument. It is not that the spirits of higher | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| but fails to pray not receive it? This argument seems, at first sight, logical. But the simple | 36 PRAYER |
| soul. In the unconscious of the personality, the argument goes on: If I were perfect, I would | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| also takes the form of the following inner argument: Since there is only black and white, and | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to him that he not only loses the argument, but also a part of his masculine dignity | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| with the universal laws of the cosmos. The argument can be advanced that other planets also afford | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| religion under the half-true and only partly valid argument that humanity was too much enslaved by its | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| divine strength in humanity. It puts a powerful argument into the mouths of the antireligionists. So it | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| If it were possible, for the sake of argument, that such an evolved being could enter into | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| that I need in order to live. This argument means that somewhere deep down you believe that | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| excuses valid by giving seeming justification to their argument that it is an unfair world they live | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| confusion can ever exist in the record. Much argument, dissension, painful struggling in dark and confused states | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Arguments...................9 | |
| Of course, among human beings there are these arguments about various matters, where one school of thought | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is constantly on the lookout to use such arguments to justify itself and its image. With the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| and to justify your distrust with rationally well-founded arguments. But once you have overcome the resistance for | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| objective and you expound it with very good arguments, while being utterly unaware that notwithstanding all the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| being utterly unaware that notwithstanding all the good arguments you are deeply and subjectively involved. QUESTION: Did | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| thoughts are ever conscious. They are entirely unconscious arguments. You can only trace the emotions and reactions | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| one can convince you. You will find excellent arguments to prove that it is not so. But | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| with group consciousness and will use the rightful arguments against the former to blot out the existence | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| who did not want religion. Each of these arguments came from the fear of expanding into who | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Arise.......................69 | |
| what you actually want, problems are bound to arise. Once you have given yourself the answer, thus | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| so consciously. That is always where the misunderstandings arise. I often speak of the desires of your | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| Some are prepared so lightly that they will arise immediately, others only after definite conditions are fulfilled | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| avoid it. Out of this misconception conflicts will arise. In youth the parents force the child to | 38 IMAGES |
| go on believing that. Eventually the situation must arise when you are cornered in your own errors | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the conflict we are discussing here would not arise. But even in this case, the inner problems | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| desire love in return, this conflict could not arise. The very fact that hatred exists for the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| self- punishment; difficulties in this respect will constantly arise in the person's life. Or, if an image | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| it is inevitable to hurt others; these situations arise from your former ignorance. In such instances you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| truths and the importance of love. These obstacles arise from the blindness in which you are encased | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| thinking, feeling, and action. An inner confusion will arise, since life as it is in reality does | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| fear. As you well know, fear can only arise out of self-will and pride. It may sound | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| into a turmoil. These and many other conflicts arise out of the mass image of self-importance. You | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| double problem. Needless to say, these problems cannot arise solely out of existing mass images. They always | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to pray for others. But the question may arise in some of you, What if I pray | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| manifest by contrary drives and compulsions. Heartbreaking problems arise from this conflict. They can be eliminated only | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| Out of this self-centeredness and ignorance selfish motives arise, unconsciously or sometimes even half-consciously. You are unclear | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| change will grow. The desire to change can arise only out of true and genuine repentance. With | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| another, a new strength, a new certainty will arise out of you, because these real feelings, unmanipulated | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| of wishful daydreams. One comes from thoughts that arise from drives. These drives are connected with your | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| and problems -- which, in the last analysis, arise only because you do not want to come | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| They are an indirect byproduct of self-awareness and arise spontaneously, not determined by your outer will, which | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| I have shown you many times how confusions arise when opposing points of view can be both | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| This cannot succeed, my friends. The question may arise, why then use intellect, thought, and will, in | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| teachers point out. Then inevitably conflicts and tensions arise. All truthful spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical concepts, ideas | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| it is fully understood, no possible doubt can arise about reincarnation which, for many people, is but | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| maturity. All images, pseudo-solutions, misconceptions and inner conflicts arise from the infant's struggle between attaining pleasure and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| against what is. Gradually, a new understanding will arise from the deepest recesses of your soul that | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| higher, it is inevitable that the circumstances that arise will be less limiting. QUESTION: Do we reincarnate | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| -- an image! Out of this imaginary problem arise a number of general and particular misconceptions and | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| contradiction and conflict around them, equally contradictory emotions arise in their own psyche. Children cannot cope with | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| all know, strange and even more disquieting compulsions arise, with the result that you feel even more | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| with it, hence more confusion, error and ignorance arise. The less aware you are of this inner | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| fourfold one. Imagine the many mathematical possibilities that arise from such a situation, with all their psychological | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| so, a free, happy, uninhibited feeling that cannot arise out of conflict must exist. The first prerequisite | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| a clear pattern or a common denominator will arise. This may be comparatively easy for you to | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| errors from which your daily disharmonies and disturbances arise. The most insignificant problem can show you how | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| Only when pain, misconception and misinterpretation of pain arise, is the natural flow diverted or stopped altogether | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| aware of them; to face where false feelings arise. The attention will then focus itself, with the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| one-time condition that then dissolves when new conditions arise. No, these are the problems in your life | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| to the old restrictions and measures, anxiety must arise. Whenever the sexual force is allowed its free | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and no longer yield satisfaction. New, deeper pleasures arise that are not the opposite of anything. They | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| you. Out of these questions more questions will arise, of course. But let us not hurry ahead | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| and unsentimentally, the courage to be yourself will arise in you from such truthful vision. All falsity | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| it, a new sense of cosmic reality will arise within you. You are indeed strong enough, all | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| real, much more gentle hurt. No destructiveness will arise when the soft and gentle original hurt is | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| of it soft and gentle good feelings will arise, swelling stronger and rooting more securely, carrying the | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| illusion can sometimes be maintained that the problems arise from the other person when one feels disturbance | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| fear any kind of interaction. Difficulties and fears arise to the exact degree that you still project | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| more or less dead in feelings. Difficulties that arise in a relationship are always signals for something | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| the destructive emotions, attitudes and behavior patterns that arise from them; the pretenses and the defenses. But | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| not know their potential, the strength that will arise, the inspiration that will come. Only when you | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| you can truly deal with the complications that arise out of human interaction on the concealed levels | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| feel consistently anxious and uncomfortable as unwelcome conditions arise in your environment. The belief in catastrophe is | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| and affects the receptive soul substance, other possibilities arise where the various levels of human consciousness assume | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| in a path such as this. It may arise from an intent stemming from before the present | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| supernatural, mysterious manifestation. All sorts of erroneous philosophies arise from this misconception. One of them is the | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| From this forever greater blessings must and will arise. When you are troubled, seek the truth and | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| are always interconnected. All other manifestations of evil arise from this triad. Furthermore, each of these three | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| pride of the ego makes this difficult. Questions arise such as: What will others say? Will they | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Out of the emptiness a new fullness will arise, yet you cannot disregard your fear. It must | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| warmth. Strength you never knew you possessed will arise. From the point of view of consciousness, inspiration | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| a deep, secure and intuitive inner knowledge will arise about issues and matters where you were uncertain | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| a sense of futility and hopelessness about life arise. You say to yourself, I have invested so | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| foothold in you, particular kinds of fear may arise: fear of death, fear of illness, fear of | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| there will never be a contradiction. Whatever problems arise will not be ascribed to the outer format | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| you are free from the confusions that inevitably arise as a result of denying your soul movement | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| seemingly new organizations, orientations, or schools of thought, arise constantly. The old is either being calcified by | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| meaning gets lost again, the same deficit will arise through different means. The forces of darkness can | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |