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| spiritual effort can its spiritual knowledge penetrate its intellect; but as a spirit it also knows that | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| time. People usually know much more in their intellect than in their feelings, but since the unhealthy | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| of resistance; it offers nice explanations to the intellect, which are, in reality, nothing but subterfuges to | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| sense is more developed in animals because their intellect is not yet as developed as man's. The | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| is not yet as developed as man's. The intellect is very important for the human being, especially | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| will is part of it. However, if the intellect becomes the ultimate goal and not a means | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| are severe. The same is true when the intellect is neglected, as has happened in the past | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| they created the right balance and placed their intellect into the service of a higher end. This | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| with the spiritual progress. God gave you your intellect so that you can make your decisions with | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| will, and a free decision comes from the intellect. When such a decision is made in the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| become paralyzed but will develop together with the intellect. This depends on the direction into which you | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| psychic organism, and if the use of the intellect deviates from this direction, the resulting disharmony will | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| a sense of unhappiness. Be aware that the intellect is an instrument of great importance for the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| a harmonious balance within myself between instinct and intellect? Do I give enough room within me to | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| can be developed and cultivated just as the intellect can. Do I limit and constrict the instinctual | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| limit and constrict the instinctual feelings through the intellect, which itself is ultimately a limited power? Second | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| a limited power? Second, do I use my intellect for the purpose for which it has been | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| This wish must not only come from the intellect as a dutiful recognition of the right thing | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| aware of you may only know with your intellect and not also in your heart. There is | 18 FREE WILL |
| can want and will both out of your intellect and out of your soul. The intellectual willpower | 18 FREE WILL |
| brain? ANSWER: A wish can come from the intellect or the brain, or from what is sometimes | 18 FREE WILL |
| to absorb what you hear with your limited intellect alone; this would not get you anywhere. Instead | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| brain as the physio-psychological vehicle for intelligence and intellect? ANSWER: This experiment is the very best example | 21 THE FALL |
| it at all, it is only in your intellect, where perhaps you can grasp this truth. But | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| world or other people, my friends. In your intellect you may know that very well indeed, but | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| begin to follow what you know in your intellect. So the proper attitude would be to accept | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| nourishment. Your body is nourished, as is your intellect and even your emotional nature -- though the | 31 SHAME |
| Since you will be utterly unaware in your intellect that such feelings exist in your relationship with | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| Because you have absorbed certain teachings with your intellect, you may not openly admit your refusal to | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| such despair with your feelings even though your intellect does not want to accept it. Test these | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| whole inner reasoning process is hidden from the intellect. And it will remain so until the image | 38 IMAGES |
| your images. You will then see how your intellect, your conscious layers, are convinced of your good | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| may have moderated this attitude somewhat as your intellect has matured. You may now admit to certain | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| and weighing. They must learn to use the intellect to curb the wild emotions that, without necessarily | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| so much to your conscious mind, to your intellect, but to the level of your emotions where | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to formulate the proper concept, even in your intellect, to begin with. Prayer for recognition is important | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| we are doing can easily misunderstand me. Your intellect will never suffice to understand what I mean | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| my words are addressed much less to your intellect, where much of what I say seems evident | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| them on the basis of your more mature intellect. Find specifically: What are your desires? Why do | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| anyone, at random, whether he believes in his intellect that his life and happiness depend on what | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| goes so far that it is in the intellect as well as in the emotions? ANSWER: On | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| in the emotions? ANSWER: On the contrary. Your intellect is more accessible to reasoning. Once you have | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| emotions, not merely in theory and with your intellect -- as one in the long line of | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| soul-forms that make your life miserable. In your intellect you may know all I say here; you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| society, technical advancement and overemphasis on science and intellect are the outcome of the man's world, with | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| For centuries, man has developed one-sidedly, emphasizing his intellect, his resourcefulness, his physical strength, but thwarting his | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| much more than the flat understanding of the intellect alone. I have touched upon this vast subject | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| to know, rather than accepting it with your intellect only. The truth of Jesus Christ will eventually | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| plexus. The outer will comes partly from the intellect and partly from superficial soul regions. The outer | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you make with the surface logic of the intellect which ignores spiritual and absolute truth, are faulty | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| relationship exists between the conclusions and deductions the intellect forms correctly as applied to the temporary circumstances | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| may, at best, understand my explanations in your intellect, but the fear will remain, or manifest in | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| so that you not only know in your intellect that the sadness of your unfulfillment exists, but | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| face anything unpleasant, and partly because in your intellect you know better than to be so disappointed | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| thinks. The difficulty here is that in your intellect you will readily agree with what I say | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| between real affection and pseudo-affection with your child's intellect? The fact that something bothered you without your | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| and thereby made them your own. Thus your intellect can influence your emotions through your capacity to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| at the liberation you desire. The more your intellect conflicts with your hidden emotions, the more difficult | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| to you as your reasoning power and your intellect. All this is the final finding of self | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| in you in a detached way, with your intellect. You have to become acutely aware of all | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| into their intellectual, volitional nature. At times, the intellect forbids hate and negative emotions. But whenever it | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| not a mere mental process. In fact, the intellect has much less to do with it than | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| is in you will your much more mature intellect be able to make the decision as to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| your needs. You cannot do so through the intellect. You can do so only if you allow | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| should not curtail your discussions by will and intellect. When there is an urge, there is an | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| do not trouble yourself to distinguish with your intellect between the real and the superimposed self. It | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| any less. You know that now, in your intellect, but emotionally you cannot accept it. You will | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| being. You may know perfectly well with your intellect that people can be both good and bad | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| worth. So far you know this in your intellect only; emotionally you will feel unworthy as long | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| words tonight fortify your understanding, both in your intellect and in your emotions. Be blessed, each one | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| peace, my dearest ones. Be in God. 104. INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| repetition of a word is done by your intellect. Memory is the will to recapture what was | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| so conditioned to an overemphasis on thought process, intellect, mind, and willpower, that you believe you can | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| friends. The question may arise, why then use intellect, thought, and will, in your arduous work on | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| did the function of the brain, or the intellect, develop. From mineral life to primitive man, a | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to primitive man, a slow ascendancy in awareness, intellect, and will can be noticed. The more this | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| awareness. Here the human being is striving, using intellect and will, to survive in the material world | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| cycle, it is important to cultivate and develop intellect, memory, discrimination, and willpower. Without these qualities, as | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| other words, their actions are governed by thought, intellect, and will. But in the second half of | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| form of being by using the tools of intellect, thought process, or willpower, they construct what we | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the result will illustrate how the tools of intellect and will can be destructive when not used | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| perhaps understand a little better why thought process, intellect, mind, and will obstruct the birth of the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the state of becoming by first using mind, intellect, thought, and will in an organic way. When | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of these faculties. One cannot say that mind, intellect, and will cause suffering and misery, but using | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| these two areas of thought, meaning the superficial intellect and the real self, the intellect can be | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the superficial intellect and the real self, the intellect can be directed, manipulated, and governed by the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Questions and doubts are part of the superficial intellect. But the real self is the product, the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| holding on to an overemphasis on the mind, intellect, and the outer will. They believe that they | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| for, you would not misuse the tools of intellect and will, creating more obstructions. If only you | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| out by force the overemphasis on the outer intellect and will. Use them rather to see and | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| self-image. As I have said in this lecture, intellect, will, and discipline are necessary for your outer | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| best, be vaguely sensed, by feeling, rather than intellect. Furthermore, this question arises from the same complete | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| from one soul to another, not from one intellect to another. QUESTION: Could I ask you a | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| our Western culture suffers from holding onto the intellect and to the will, instead of approaching the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| teachings and ideals that reach merely the surface intellect. QUESTION: When we are angered or disturbed by | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| how you identify with others merely with your intellect. This may be very misleading. Only extensive work | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| force, and there is no conflict between the intellect, the emotions, and the spiritual center. Let us | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| place, the infant must develop its mind, its intellect, its reason, as well as its emotional nature | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| dying in full consciousness. In addition, the conscious intellect ignores the true facts of dying, but meets | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| separation or conflict between the two. The superimposed intellect, the outer intelligence, is filled with, motivated and | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| by following forced, artificial, superimposed commands from the intellect, but the spontaneous inner activity of the heart | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| mutual freedom of true love. The outer mind, intellect or will cannot resolve such a struggle. Activate | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the relationship is determined solely by the outer intellect and will, these faculties cannot find the delicate | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| determined in a prescribed way. Yet the outer intellect is an instrument that prescribes, predetermines, and thinks | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| and not try to comprehend merely with your intellect. The best way to verify such statements is | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| allow these words not only to fill your intellect, but also your inner being and become sincere | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| if you understand intellectually what I am saying. Intellect will not suffice to bring you to the | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| most intuitive being. And you must trust your intellect to avoid the typical dualistic confusion. The unitive | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| vaster than anything they know in their outer intellect as opposed to inner wisdom. Yet it is | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| artificial thought processes people use when overemphasizing the intellect. You are used to this imbalance without even | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| is even more damaging to overestimate your own intellect and thus miss out on your real inherent | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| the third level of reality, in which your intellect cannot help you. It is then that the | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| that you will understand not only with your intellect but intuitively as well. The latter is, as | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| I would like to continue living. My outer intellect knows only the philosophies of life as a | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| can't believe are happening in my mind. My intellect has been released which means that my mental | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| at best poor substitutes. These may be your intellect; your unexplored emotions, which are merely reactions to | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| nature is also in you. Bare will and intellect is sterile, as you well know. Only the | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| future. You may believe in it with your intellect, but you cannot truly ascertain it within you | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| cannot exist through your flowing, feeling being, your intellect and will take almost exclusive charge of your | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| so profoundly meaningful and organic that nothing the intellect can think up can ever match it. You | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| and more lost. Theoretical correct knowledge in the intellect does little to alleviate this painful and disturbing | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| from God. As your outer, hitherto split-off little intellect will become one with the greater intelligence that | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| a world that stresses the importance of the intellect, ideas, and the mind so much. Yet people | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| the deep meaning of this lecture. Bringing your intellect alone to it will not give you an | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| so that it can supply the knowledge your intellect cannot find. I recapitulate briefly: The first step | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| new person is not functioning from the habitual intellect. For many centuries the intellect had to be | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| from the habitual intellect. For many centuries the intellect had to be cultivated to fulfill its role | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| a new balance in the inner system. The intellect must not be left out; it is an | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| So for that stage the development of the intellect fulfilled its function. And the intellect also fulfilled | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| of the intellect fulfilled its function. And the intellect also fulfilled its function as a very sharp | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| cannot come through an intellectual determination alone; the intellect must be directed toward meaningful inner guidance. On | 228 BALANCE |
| inner being, intellectual knowledge can bear fruit. The intellect needs to be trained and used as one | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| as one of the important tools. Without the intellect grasping and understanding these laws and processes the | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| either/or, in an eternal duality. Even if your intellect already embraces the unitive system, in which one | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| these words -- not so much in your intellect, but feel them in your deeper consciousness. As | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| the ultimate you, that goes beyond the little intellect with which you are so used to govern | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| You will not have to grapple with your intellect only, which could never give you this insight | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |