| this wise provision and admonition. With rigidity, the inner meaning gets lost. People follow through blindly and | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| amount of time should be devoted to the inner life, to reflection and contemplation, to self-observation. Thus | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| invitation, so to speak, to think about the inner meaning. Try to look beyond the ritual for | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| simple. Your wrong conclusions, misconceptions, distortions, create an inner world of illusion. They create fears and tensions | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and strong enough, eventually also in your body. Inner errors cause you to fear life, therefore, often | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| therefore, can only come about by solving your inner conflicts. QUESTION: Once something is learned, like the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have a vast amount of insight, since no inner deviation is separated from other inner conflicts. They | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| since no inner deviation is separated from other inner conflicts. They are all tied together. As long | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| come to the fore when you are provoked. Inner change takes a very long time, you all | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will be the best way to achieve the inner change. You must understand that this change cannot | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| manifestation, too, must be the product of the inner state of being, something that the person must | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| degree by raising your consciousness, through eliminating your inner conflicts which is a consequence of the work | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| knowledge that has no real root in your inner world. By becoming aware of the unreality within | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| contentment that they are unaware of their deep inner yearning. Their lack of awareness is a self-deception | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| It can be attained only by changing your inner world of unreality into one of reality. You | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| in comparative reality in one area of your inner life, while in another you are in deep | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| forcing current and become free of a great inner tension, to that degree will you be free | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the event. Thus, the maturing soul who approaches inner reality, ready to meet life, unafraid of loving | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the hardship will not be so great. Your inner child's exaggeration and distorted black-and-white perception of life's | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| necessarily done by outer actions. More often, your inner reactions work in that way, and you feel | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| all human relationships. It applies to your entire inner life and therefore ultimately to your outer life | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| met. Thus the benign circle continues. In such inner freedom -- the freedom you have and, therefore | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| provided it is not done instead of the inner work. If you recall what I said, you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| by mere discipline, while neglecting to find your inner obstructions. Such proficiency certainly makes you more fit | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| is why both approaches are favorable. Although the inner search and change are indispensable and can bring | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| work on this path, who progress in their inner search have, after much digging and exploring, come | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| other words, you often unconsciously create your own inner concept of what love is, which parallels the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| as they wish. If you can give this inner permission genuinely, you will learn to give up | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| applying it to a particular aspect of your inner life. It may be that certain people do | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| a force, but as the expression of your inner will. While you may realize perfectly well that | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| where you are still confused and what your inner, unanswered questions are. Last but not least, there | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| unaware would they acquire an understanding of the inner world, its laws, its reality, and the interplay | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| in human relationship as this happens in the inner world of emotions. Therefore, in order to understand | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| perceive more and more the reality of the inner universe, thus also understanding the larger universe with | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| all its spiritual laws. Only by perceiving the inner universe, with all its infinite possibilities, with its | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| most concentrated activity, because it is really an inner state and has nothing to do with the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is outwardly completely inactive may be in an inner state of impatience. Is that clear? QUESTION: Yes | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is accompanied by such feelings as tension, anxiety, inner pressure -- all of which are based on | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| self- correction is very contrary to your present inner behavior which we shall now consider. All people | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| now, if you really want to proceed in inner growth. You have to reexperience the acute pain | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| your childhood truly behind and start a new inner behavior pattern that will be infinitely more constructive | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the further steps indicated. To work on this inner conflict is of great importance for some of | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the attitude of the person with the unrecognized inner problem. He or she fosters something in the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| is a sign of some mismanagement in your inner makeup. Every person needs an occasional rest during | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| actions. You yourself are unaware of what your inner actions are. Your inner actions or reactions are | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| unaware of what your inner actions are. Your inner actions or reactions are accurately perceived by your | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| hear that voice or perceive it with other inner sense organs of hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting. That | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| their outer right actions but leave out the inner unconscious motivations which exist in addition to the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| You know from our previous talks that any inner problem, in one way or another, manifests as | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| The outer problem is the result of the inner one and, at the same time, it can | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| correct the wrong attitudes which create both the inner and the outer problem. When outer manifestations occur | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| you, be it merely a mood, an unpleasant inner reaction, or an actual outer happening apparently caused | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| questions -- at the same time checking your inner resistance to receiving the answers -- you will | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the time being things go well outwardly, your inner peace is lacking in this area of your | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| exactly where you have either manifest problems, or inner feelings of anxiety or disharmony. Then check out | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| on the one hand, release an entirely new inner force and energy, and, on the other, you | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| needs the outer happenings to point to the inner condition. Thus the little everyday confusions, the by | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| fear, but by constructive work of self-analysis and inner growth through understanding the unconscious motivations and reactions | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| act and often diminishes the importance of the inner state. I do not condemn or condone here | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| Now how do we determine the outer and inner motivations? You cannot do so unless you gain | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| -- not just theoretically -- only with the inner understanding which alone is valid and constructive, as | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| in some way, perhaps in a very subtle inner way -- you will gain deep insights that | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| of its own life. By insisting that the inner child remain in this state -- no matter | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| to divert the soul forces and increase their inner separateness, thus prohibiting creativity. Creativity can function only | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| In such cases, the work of self-search and inner re-education is most essential. But in all cases | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| is most essential. But in all cases such inner re- education would be most important in order | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| make the best of his calling, is the inner desire to help. This must be the dominant | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| motive must be clarified and nursed constantly; the inner wish to help unselfishly should be expressed in | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| them. But this does not mean that the inner power of truth did not actually bring more | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| powerful, and financially secure, may be full of inner unrest and unhappiness, guilt, and anxiety that you | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| sense of what really counts: his happiness, his inner security, his inner peace. By the same token | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| really counts: his happiness, his inner security, his inner peace. By the same token, the powerful church | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| question of training one's awareness to perceive the inner content of something, and not to focus on | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| resistance to finding yourself. If you approach your inner findings in a spirit of guilt-producing moralizing before | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| have already gained an overall understanding about your inner problems, it will become necessary to now evaluate | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| proud, fearful and withdrawn. Search deep within your inner conflicts for these traits, even if on other | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| In fact, your outer knowledge may contradict this inner state of experiencing life. Yet, in your real | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| path progresses steadily, and if you train your inner perception by meditating and trying to feel these | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| change is bound to occur in your entire inner and outer outlook. From a separate, self-centered being | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| right to be happy and important. If the inner error, that you are fighting for your individuality | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| new opinions, but a very natural, gradual, organic, inner growth. The change comes slowly; it is an | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| growth. The change comes slowly; it is an inner change rather than an outer. Your outer opinions | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| out of you, but due to your basic inner state of self-centered separateness they are turned back | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| and against harmony. This basic rebellion of your inner nature causes many conflicts that can never be | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| easily put into practice. It needs all your inner senses, your intuitive nature, as well as your | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| through trying to feel and use your own inner findings with the help of this overview, you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| state is one of continuous joy and deep inner security. I do not mean that difficulties cannot | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| must be changed. The results of changing your inner direction are freedom and joy, purpose and security | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| further goal beyond the mere dissolution of your inner problems. Or, to put it differently, you cannot | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| have this wrong impression as long as your inner self-responsibility is not fully established. When that comes | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| self- responsibility, even if only on a subtle inner level; (3) guilt: the feeling of I do | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| in length, according to the personality and the inner problems to be solved -- the flow is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| their respective religions taught and -- due to inner fears -- held on to these teachings ferociously | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| you have set in motion through your own inner causes. And if you drink the pain instead | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| and show freely to your consciousness what the inner problem is. It projects these pictures, but then | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| camouflage messages that lead you toward self-recognition and inner change. That is all it can do, if | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| has maintained its etheric double due to its inner state of mind. During natural sleep, the etheric | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to see that your conflicts, images, misconceptions and inner problems prohibit your real self from manifesting. At | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| bring further conflict. On the one hand, these inner strivings are directed toward finding fulfillment. On the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| So, my friends, once you have established this inner reality by removing the untrue premise and forever | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| with love. It may look similar, but the inner content is very different. When you try to | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| substitutes that leave you in a state of inner frenzy? Those who are outwardly calm and well | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| a constant reaction. You will have the deep inner knowledge -- not in your brain but in | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| is, once you dissolve the fearful and tense inner clamoring, I want, I must. When the tension | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| with questions, the better it is for your inner readiness and for the shedding of your inhibitions | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| utter justice of cosmic law, or of your inner psychological law. The more you work on the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this universe is. Only when you reach certain inner depths, perhaps after a long time of hard | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| rigid, merciless law, but it is your own inner law. And in that you realize the glory | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to see, not only outwardly, but also the inner view and vista. In other words, understanding. The | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Some time ago, I mentioned the contagiousness of inner attitudes and reactions. All this is an explanation | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a path. The mere fact of your own inner growth and change has made it possible for | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| next symbol after that. QUESTION: You mentioned an inner psychological law. Would you explain that, please? ANSWER | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can learn to liberate yourself from the responsible inner factors. Resisting evil, translated into terms of your | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wanted to make by assuming a defensive, wrong inner attitude has much stronger repercussions that you realized | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in place. This symbolizes a certain kind of inner action. Such actions may be significant and important | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| activities and reactions -- the outer and the inner -- the many little, in themselves seemingly unimportant | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the action that does not necessarily affect the inner being. The outer being, perhaps. But this is | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one's conscious attitude is not necessarily the real inner and unconscious one. It determines whether or not | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| any idea what it could symbolize? Sacrifice. Purification. Inner desire for development. ANSWER: The fire of love | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ANSWER: My dearest friends, as long as one's inner growth is not sufficiently developed, there is absolutely | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the harm that truth can bring. Hiding the inner sense behind symbols is one way in which | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| As you now know, there are two predominant inner attitudes, currents or forces in the human being | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| QUESTION: Is there a corresponding organ of the inner eye, located between the two outer eyes? ANSWER | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| friends. All your outer organs are duplicates of inner organs. In fact, you have more inner than | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of inner organs. In fact, you have more inner than outer organs. Not all of your real | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all the selves. The lower self, higher self, inner self, mask self, psyche and all. Could you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| friends, you see, the higher self and the inner self, are of course the same. If I | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the higher self, can be distorted by your inner deviations and conflicts and therefore be abused by | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self, lower self and mask self. The term inner self will now make you more aware of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ready-made words which have by repetition lost their inner meaning for you. That is the trouble with | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has, of course, nothing to do with the inner self, although it is not always on the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that you analyze and learn to understand your inner reactions and attitudes, you no longer need to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in your individual work. The psyche indicates your inner world of feeling and reacting, generally speaking. Is | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| many years of constantly repeated habit patterns, these inner habit patterns are established. When not constantly watched | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| material that needs to be worked on. Your inner guidance will show you clearly how to proceed | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| outer circumstances lend themselves to explain it, an inner wrong conclusion, a wrong impression about the facts | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| problems in life exist, as you well know, inner problems must be their cause. Such inner problems | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| know, inner problems must be their cause. Such inner problems are always connected with this process of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this I mean the attitude of impatience. The inner child causes you to rush ahead, to think | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way, but, believe me, it is not. The inner processes are at the root of it. If | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that you may not believe possible now. Your inner strength will flow out the moment the subterfuges | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| produced strength, and investigate its origin and the inner reasoning processes. I cannot be more personal than | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| deformity stands more in the way than an inner one, merely because you can see the one | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| other. In case our friend should find the inner obstacles, it would be possible to achieve outer | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| each problem. There are certain problems in some inner makeups that are not as locked and blocked | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| very impatience that is a result of the inner processes described before is a problem in itself | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| absolutely right. If the will is there, any inner problem can be solved. It is also right | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and erroneous and of limited logic, as the inner child always is. These motivations do not go | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a certain way, even if not in the inner work. Maybe just because all the concentration is | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| because all the concentration is focused on the inner work which progresses very well, there may not | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| person may still shy away from a fundamental inner problem. Since, due to general good progress, this | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will take more time. You will find the inner reactions to this subway problem similar to other | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it work with you. Use it for your inner will and stamina in the one direction that | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that the other soul withdraws, because the corresponding inner forces restrict, and seem to reject, the overeager | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |