| Insistent...................6 | |
| advantage has a disadvantage. So when, with your insistent inner crying and demanding, you get the supposed | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| form. You then, unconsciously, try to gratify their insistent claims in a manner that cannot do justice | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| one's control. This kind of person becomes more insistent on some outer event to prevent the catastrophe | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| frustration, the less one experiences the pleasure. Rigidly insistent people lose the pleasure they strive for, either | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| Do this not by willing in a tight, insistent, constricted way, but in a relaxed, confident way | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| But it also means letting go of the insistent attitude that says, in effect, I can be | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Insisting...................17 | |
| dignity. You may well have to give up insisting that you must preserve your dignity at all | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| is the heavy price you must pay for insisting on your Utopia. In truth, you cannot possibly | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| of taking care of its own life. By insisting that the inner child remain in this state | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the other soul back into withdrawal, or by insisting on your own isolation and refusing to risk | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| want to have everything cut out to perfection, insisting on a guarantee against all mistakes, knowing perfectly | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| adult responsibility exists can be maintained. Simply by insisting that your parents continue to care for you | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| in your own concept of yourself is by insisting, by not giving up and letting go. The | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| disadvantage, again death, in the deepest sense, or insisting on your total rightness. Any way you turn | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| fearless state, but fear cannot be relinquished by insisting that what one fears stay away. For even | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| opposite is true. Confinement is the result of insisting to be taken care of. You are beginning | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to others, becomes a real alternative to greedily insisting on receiving. All these increased abilities will fill | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| this very distortion of pursuing false needs and insisting on their fulfillment. This mechanism seems at first | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| a pseudo-strength that comes from the weakness of insisting on having it your own way: This I | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| creative receptivity. By the same token, the grabbing, insisting, self-righteous yes equally prevents creative receptivity. Both yes | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| state of consciousness that produces these tight, untrusting, insisting attitudes is antithetical to divine consciousness. An imbalance | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| selfhood individually, and being unwilling to do so, insisting that others -- parents or groups -- give | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| assumptions in a questioning and open spirit without insisting that they be the truth, then you can | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Insists.....................8 | |
| medium be. The more stubbornly such a person insists on his or her old way of thinking | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| ashamed of the goodness another person's idealized self insists on and would consider it as weakness, vulnerability | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| way. It is directed toward others who, one insists, have to behave in a certain way to | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| This is directly connected with relinquishing what one insists upon to the extent one fears that the | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| not give up, denies the ever-unfolding life-possibilities. It insists on one specific thing at one specific moment | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| totally ignored and willfully denied. The desiring person insists on his or her illusion and is angry | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| is hurt -- maybe because he or she insists on never being criticized or frustrated. But if | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| of the obvious pain that this inflicts. It insists on living life on its own terms, even | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| Insoluble...................13 | |
| But your conviction that you are in an insoluble situation causes you to try to get out | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| even to problems which had hitherto seemed absolutely insoluble. I can assure you, my friends, that this | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| good and battle to maintain painful struggle and insoluble conflict? Why do you fear the good that | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| fear with this treasure? There are no longer insoluble problems. Since this power exists all through the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| coming out of you that suddenly conciliates apparently insoluble problems. You will become free as you let | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| ego. The ego is constantly ensnared in apparently insoluble situations, problems, and conflicts. The ego is adapted | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| here is where you are caught in an insoluble conflict as long as you remain stuck in | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| more entangled a man becomes in this apparently insoluble conflict, the more he must hold back his | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| this, although the pain that ensues and the insoluble conflicts that follow are infinitely disproportionate to the | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| hopeless, depressed, fearful or anxious, entangled in apparently insoluble conflicts with yourself and others. This is a | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| destructive impulse. You are thus confronted with an insoluble predicament: either you give up all pleasure connected | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| is constantly self-renewing; it is constantly conciliating apparently insoluble conflicts. Your spiritual essence furnishes you with all | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| most wonderful way problems that at first seemed insoluble. Since then, much of what the Guide had | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| Insomnia....................12 | |
| sleep, what is the reason for old people's insomnia and what causes insomnia in younger people? ANSWER | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| reason for old people's insomnia and what causes insomnia in younger people? ANSWER: What causes insomnia in | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| causes insomnia in younger people? ANSWER: What causes insomnia in general for all people? The cause of | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| in general for all people? The cause of insomnia is usually a fear -- a fear of | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| something one may not wish to hear. If insomnia exists, it should be a very good indication | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| For if you had faced everything in yourself, insomnia would be impossible. That I can promise you | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| who sleeps well and does not suffer from insomnia should not think that he or she is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| may have other symptoms. Older people often have insomnia because, approaching the time they must go into | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| has set out to fulfill will suffer from insomnia. It is an entirely different matter that older | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| require as much sleep, but that is not insomnia. QUESTION: Why did Jesus call Himself the Son | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| because they are too enmeshed in their ego. Insomnia occurs precisely because the ego is too predominant | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| sensations drugs give, why a person suffering from insomnia will resort to sleeping pills rather than remove | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Inspection..................4 | |
| is overly soft in substance. But upon closer inspection you will find that this very softness, devoid | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| you in a given respect. Only after closer inspection did you find, deeply hidden, the very opposite | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| secure, and beneficial it is to love. Closer inspection of the areas where you discover a determination | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| to defy an outer law. Again, very close inspection of the real motives and attitudes is the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Inspiration.................88 | |
| spirits. Then you can open yourself to the inspiration of truth by observing yourself with all your | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| world. In one case the influence is through inspiration, in the other it operates directly. But the | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| different state. Then you can ask God for inspiration and knowledge and thus be ready to receive | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| what a spirit is trying to convey through inspiration; even when they perceive it, they often misinterpret | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| because you are unwilling to awaken to the inspiration coming from the divine spirits. For it is | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| too one has to rely on intuition and inspiration. QUESTION: Perhaps he would need loosening exercises? ANSWER | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| Still, each one of you might find tonight inspiration and help to overcome a particular difficulty, for | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| or not, there must have been guidance and inspiration coming from such spirits. It is extremely harmful | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| way, and it is called the way of inspiration. Later on you may directly perceive a new | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| be made known to you through guidance, through inspiration. Do not worry about it now. First you | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| too, you will receive help, opportunity, and the inspiration as to when and how to do it | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| able to find the necessary help, guidance, and inspiration to accomplish this does not matter much, even | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| beyond took place not only through guidance and inspiration, but -- what always existed and what will | 21 THE FALL |
| this faithfully for a while, asking God for inspiration, help and strength, you will begin to feel | 21 THE FALL |
| a very strong direct communication by way of inspiration. The spirits recognize where the possibility exists; they | 21 THE FALL |
| now incarnated to bring to mankind, either through inspiration and guidance, or through communication with God's world | 22 SALVATION |
| the influence comes in the form of direct inspiration or through unwitting human instruments. Then it will | 22 SALVATION |
| surrender to God and ask for guidance and inspiration. Otherwise, it may be either fake -- and | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the hypnotist is open to this guidance and inspiration. Such a hypnotist will also have to go | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| their openness to truth. Thus, the measure of inspiration always depends on the person. You are always | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| plan with a long view, knowing that their inspiration has an ultimate purpose that can rarely be | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| religion, they would not be open for any inspiration, because their minds are too strongly set. Whenever | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| is the case, the doors are closed to inspiration coming from the spirit world. Nevertheless, enough sincere | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| stubbornness exists, no one of you can receive inspiration for something that may be contradictory to your | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| or him. If you pray for guidance and inspiration and keep yourself open, the right moment will | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| give stronger doses of truth, always asking for inspiration and guidance. If you do that, your spirit | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| way and to make preparations by guidance and inspiration. Once in a while they may report back | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| together in sincere prayer asking for divine guidance, inspiration, and enlightenment. We have many good reasons to | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| form of knocking in order to receive divine inspiration. After you have proceeded as far as you | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| this daily discipline by sending you the necessary inspiration and mood. You have to learn how to | 36 PRAYER |
| they can and should go in guidance and inspiration. If and when the human being makes the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| become aware of the Holy Spirit, of the inspiration of the divine world. Reach out for it | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| words asking that the other person receive guidance, inspiration, and insight most necessary at the particular time | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be enriched. If this is done, guidance and inspiration will automatically come. Such enrichment is often very | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| inner will active and able to receive new inspiration in order to change an old ill brought | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| If you are so intended, open yourself for inspiration. If there is any way to give strength | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| come to your mind when you search for inspiration in a spirit of sincerity. Do not do | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| to express, and how to do either. Request inspiration to know to what extent your volitional mind | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| one of you. May it give you the inspiration and the help you need to proceed a | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| the way. Things fall into place by themselves. Inspiration, guidance, one's own best resourcefulness -- all function | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| desire to be in truth is genuine, the inspiration must come forth. No matter how strongly circumstances | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| May this lecture be a help and an inspiration for every one of you. In this discussion | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| lies and self-deceptions. This vaster intelligence manifests as inspiration, guidance, and a new form of intuition that | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the fact that feelings, intuition, spontaneous thoughts and inspiration, creative processes, undergo their law of growth as | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| self to come forth with its intuition and inspiration that set the pace and direct the individual | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| according to the highest wisdom, that of creative inspiration, necessary for all successful work. It, too, consists | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| work. It, too, consists of the two aspects: inspiration must be deliberately activated by the mind, and | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| accurately how to perceive it, and for the inspiration and depth of feeling to meditate in a | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| the universal truth of being as the guidance, inspiration, and knowledge that spontaneously flow into you when | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| an alternative process develop. The involuntary yields recognitions, inspiration, guidance and revelation until the puzzle fits together | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| their potential, the strength that will arise, the inspiration that will come. Only when you decide to | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| denial, repression and evasion. Such understanding requires continual inspiration from the higher forces within and deliberate requests | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| be formed in the mind. Without the creative inspiration and imagination by which the mind extends itself | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| be created. The first aspect, creative thinking and inspiration, can never complete creation unless the second aspect | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| and errors; in the second case they lack inspiration. Both of these lopsided attitudes gradually balance themselves | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| to obtain from your spiritual self the necessary inspiration for whatever awareness may still be missing, and | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| of your life. By using existing consciousness, new inspiration, new realms of vision and understanding and of | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you. This open, relaxed state also makes available inspiration and resources that are otherwise inaccessible. You will | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| for yourself. Answers may come in various ways: inspiration, sudden new ideas, usually when you least expect | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| that you think deeply about this and request inspiration and guidance about it in mediation. This is | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| meditate; that you can ask for guidance and inspiration to find the right topic, concentration, concern, word | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| realistic attitudes in comparison. Ask for guidance and inspiration for this process. Ask for help in experiencing | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| to where you have to go. Let the inspiration come, so that all of you who are | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| This is, as you know, not easy. The inspiration of the spiritual self is blocked off to | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you generate more of this beautiful energy, for inspiration. Use the energy to move you where God | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| more in your everyday life. Be infused with inspiration and wisdom, with joy and peace. These are | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| decide to concentrate on certain feelings or your inspiration will direct you. Always work with meditation, asking | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| Always work with meditation, asking for guidance and inspiration. This practice of making yourself fluid and flexible | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| to do this and request inner guidance and inspiration so that your mind can step beyond the | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| and activate the inexhaustible fountain of strength and inspiration within, the easier and faster will you deal | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| here. Be in peace. 209. THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER This lecture was given | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| much should each higher self infuse its guidance, inspiration and energies? Too much becomes pointless, and the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| them such words make sense and are an inspiration and encouragement. There are of course many degrees | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| friends, let these words be an incentive and inspiration to you to make a fuller and more | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| arise. From the point of view of consciousness, inspiration, wisdom and guidance will come for the biggest | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| how about this same law with respect to inspiration for your personal life and decisions? Here, too | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| great pianist can be a channel for higher inspiration only when he goes through the finger exercises | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| vitality, health, happiness, joy, or perhaps of some inspiration that you would need but that cannot come | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| all, you can open yourself to the inner inspiration that will guide you to experience how you | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| the ship, is always a channel of divine inspiration. If that inspiration is not sought and put | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| always a channel of divine inspiration. If that inspiration is not sought and put above all else | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| by those who cultivate a channel to divine inspiration. Those who do not possess such a channel | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| the question, especially without personal contact. However, inner inspiration can also work to guide your intuitive faculties | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| many teachings and on helping you through guidance, inspiration and advice, to alternate from level to level | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| that either deliberately or unwittingly listened to the inspiration of evil entities and then gained power and | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| can you hear His guidance, advice and loving inspiration. Thus you cannot summon up the courage you | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| you become an increasingly open channel for divine inspiration; this will affect your choice of words, the | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| that, in the end, if you allow divine inspiration to reach you, can only become a blessing | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |