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 Involvements................6
their negative involvement. Only after having overcome negative involvements will the cycle of births into this sphere 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
be too strongly emphasized that negative experiences and involvements occur only to the degree that the psyche 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
progress. Some of you find yourselves in negative involvements you cannot fully understand and, therefore, cannot resolve 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
from the opposite approach. Examine your present negative involvements, disturbing emotions, the impasses from which you cannot 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
-- due to your current problems and your involvements which make you temporarily blind -- do not 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
and the new woman are free of emotional involvements that block truth. There is no stake in 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
 
 Involving...................5
be a basic way of life of not involving yourself, and only when you are called upon 101 THE DEFENSE
none of you can afford to neglect is involving yourself with others and using other people as 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
the feelings. As life is essentially rich and involving, so are the natural feelings when they are 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
will, and determination can alter. Creating becomes so involving, and the pleasure of it so engrossing that 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
will be able to follow the process by involving the ego personality rather than letting it stay 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
 
 Invulnerability.............4
assert myself and my power, my omnipotence, my invulnerability, nothing can happen to me. As a result 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
you will not only ensure your safety and invulnerability, but this very facade will simultaneously bring you 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
love will be fulfilled. You never see that invulnerability makes love impossible. The more you try to 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
the accompanying hostility, ruthlessness, pride, superiority, pretense at invulnerability, the underlying core may be the helpless child 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
 
 Invulnerable................11
-- or at least to appear -- superior, invulnerable. Many of my friends have overcome and many 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to live up to and pride in being invulnerable, aloof, and superior. The co-existence of these mutually 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
be safe is by becoming so strong and invulnerable, so independent and emotionless, that nothing and no 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
this dependency on love, who strives to appear invulnerable just as much as he craves to be 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
in the unconscious belief that being omnipotent, strong, invulnerable will bring love and devotion. This attitude implies 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
more you try to convince others of your invulnerable strength, the more frightened they will be of 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
other words, somebody who appears powerful, strong and invulnerable, whose acceptance you may particularly desire, takes on 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
still exist in you as one who is invulnerable and cannot be hurt, just because he or 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
observe how you then proceed to make it invulnerable. In other words, you continue to use the 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
serve to make the vulnerable spot within you invulnerable, because this seems the only safe way. You 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
pray for help to purify it, you are invulnerable to evil. To the degree you commit yourself 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
 
 Inward......................45
first reaction is a great relief and an inward joy that for a while completely takes possession 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
the acceptance of one's imperfections. Then follows the inward integration of spiritual laws which with time will 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
beings divest themselves of their bodies, they go inward into the spiritual worlds, because the whole universe 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
when the person begins to turn upward and inward. The only solution to your life's problems is 38 IMAGES
dear friends, you see that when you go inward and downward, you gain an understanding of the 39 IMAGE-FINDING
person and voluntarily reveal and share your own inward search determines whether you have used eros as 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
the necessary with a willing spirit, with an inward yes. In other words, the borderline is in 47 THE WALL WITHIN
you any time if you choose to turn inward. The obstructions within your soul can exist only 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
whatever comes and learn from it to turn inward, to see what you can learn instead of 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
from getting out of control. It represents introspection, inward movement, caution, patience, thoughtfulness. It also represents self-search 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
is not. The restrictive principle is movement -- inward or backward -- while the static principle is 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
search for the other, putting the ego behind; inward movement -- searching for the self, assimilating all 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
when this face of the disc may tilt inward. Man, on the other hand, has the female 62 MAN AND WOMAN
the female, birth-giving side of his nature turned inward at all times. It is almost impossible to 62 MAN AND WOMAN
to carry this burden if you but turn inward and look into yourselves, instead of always trying 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
and mental, will decrease in proportion to one's inward progress. That is what I tried to convey 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
the situation, will search elsewhere instead of turning inward to finally release the real self from within 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
evaluation from an ethical and spiritual viewpoint. Look inward to determine where you are selfish and proud 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
state of resistance points to the fact that inward struggle and hate still exist along with the 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
fact, outwardly the very opposite may appear. But inward moralizing exists to some extent in all human 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
in the right direction, you will eventually turn inward and seek the reason for your unfulfillment. However 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
of perversion tends only to drive undeveloped instincts inward, as is true of any other human reactions 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
direct the solution of its problems by looking inward, behind the effect, into the inner causes. So 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
QUESTION: I feel that I have the no-current inward and outward; everything is No. Can you help 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
it. This can happen only when you turn inward and allow yourself to listen to your soul 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
use the intellectual maturity thus gained toward moving inward, always to a deeper level. The fulfillment which 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
QUESTION: In other words, she has to turn inward? ANSWER: Of course, that is always absolutely necessary 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
that such a thing exists. But by turning inward -- observing the distinct movements of your psyche 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
up and congest. It remains organic. During the inward movement the consciousness, on its deepest levels, corrects 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
move in a certain direction -- outward or inward. These are its functions. But it is not 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
lack of it, reveals something about where the inward person stands. The spiritually unified person is therefore 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
grows in the course of your development, turn inward to detect the nature of your soul movements 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
to be created by the decision to turn inward into the direction of the real self. This 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
inside your nucleus is an infinite essence. This inward essence is eternal life, eternal reality, eternal beauty 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
gradually. The energy recedes, the life forces pull inward into the real, eternal, infinite world, into the 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
the struggle is for task fulfillment, for going inward to find out where the personality most needs 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
much more is yet to come. The increasing inward and outward abundance you experience as a result 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
use these teachings to escape from their hidden inward selfishness. Thus they will cultivate a service through 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
one period, people need to gather their energies inward and concentrate all their faculties on their personal 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
is the purpose of a path that leads inward. The person who is completely disconnected from the 228 BALANCE
are ready to expand farther outward and deeper inward into the real universe and adopt a new 228 BALANCE
isolation and separateness. It is a movement reaching inward that is motivated by fear, distrust, ungivingness, and 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
-- and more importantly -- as an opening inward. Have the courage and faith in your deepest 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
yourself, others, and life. Yet when you go inward, you find that totally opposite thoughts, feelings, will 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION
in outer experience that forces you to turn inward in this direction. Unfortunately, most human beings do 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
 
 Inwardly....................182
emotional reactions make them completely incapable of deciding inwardly, and they do not even know it since 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS
of anxiety and over-sensitivity, then you must also inwardly reckon with the fact that you will stay 4 WORLD WEARINESS
this way you will at least unify yourself inwardly and will no longer be torn by inner 4 WORLD WEARINESS
people choose to cut themselves off outwardly or inwardly from others -- and often this happens only 4 WORLD WEARINESS
free not only on the outer level, but inwardly also. Those who lust for freedom out of 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
follow his or her destiny will always be inwardly unhappy, plagued by problems, and feel unfulfilled even 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
wants to become happy, healthy, and at peace inwardly, needs, in order to truly fulfill this present 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
or other people. People are inclined to revolt inwardly when things do not go according to their 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
yourself that everything has a price. To fight inwardly against this fact is not only disrespectful of 32 DECISION-MAKING
remain in you. However, the more you fight inwardly against other people as they are right now 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
always be that you feel and react differently inwardly. The rest follows later. So, my dear friends 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
feel that their behavior is not quite genuine. Inwardly they are hiding many reactions that are contrary 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
often suppressed. Then the same tantrums may continue inwardly in the adult with no age limit, and 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
The right attitude would be to turn about inwardly and seek what can be learned from the 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
by giving up the battle against it, relaxing inwardly, and concentrating on the cause in you that 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
yours is being offered, when you feel angry inwardly or when you feel the great need to 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
and disharmony of any kind. Then something vibrates inwardly. Yet, when everything goes smoothly, although a part 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
of soul, briefly, comes about when people withdraw inwardly and put an invisible wall around their soul 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
place to demonstrate symbolically what everyone must experience inwardly. The greater significance of his life and death 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
outwardly and consciously you tensely desire something, while inwardly and unconsciously you hesitate and do not wish 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
limit, would cast aside, what should be accomplished inwardly. This would not be healthy. Concentrate on your 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to speak. The outer active side is passive inwardly, and vice versa. This applies not only to 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the person who is ready to grow up inwardly. The very reluctance to assume adulthood and self-responsibility 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and attempts to achieve it to some degree inwardly. In rare moments it can happen. But all 62 MAN AND WOMAN
the unhealthy layers. What you outwardly wish you inwardly question. Not only do you doubt that you 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
find yourself unhappy and frustrated. You often rebel inwardly and try to force the people around you 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
about it. But the effect would wear off. Inwardly the gnawing question would come up all over 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
try to give up the fault compulsively, while inwardly you cling to it for the reason I 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
may be much more domineering than the other. Inwardly, the situation may be just the opposite. Or 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
Or, outwardly neither is domineering and strong, but inwardly such an imbalance in the relationship exists very 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
other. The more you succeed in becoming calm inwardly and focusing your thoughts on what you desire 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
work for a person who does not resist inwardly. When the psyche is only half willing to 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
occur. But the real change is taking place inwardly, and that is what counts. Inner change is 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
as though your life is at stake -- inwardly you do. You need to recognize this conflict 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
you. Therefore it will not make you unpleasant. Inwardly, you constantly want to force others to love 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
others to give you something that you are inwardly unwilling to give them. You request unconditional love 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
reacted as a child -- and still react inwardly, although now you observe it -- and how 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
urgency of your contradictory emotions as they manifest inwardly, not necessarily outwardly. It is sufficient that they 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
necessarily outwardly. It is sufficient that they exist inwardly. In this predicament, you have an unreal picture 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
governed by the child in you who cries inwardly when its wish is slighted. Is it any 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
outer manifestation. The person who acts can be inwardly patient. The person who is outwardly completely inactive 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
not think it, or consciously observe it, but inwardly children keenly feel the difference between mature, genuine 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
are not yet on the horizon, you may inwardly feel ill at ease, guilty, tense, full of 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
the work of self-recognition, and so to grow inwardly to his or her optimum, to establish a 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
humanity was still too immature to use it inwardly. By making outer rules and regulations they imposed 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
successful outwardly, but is not remotely so successful inwardly. The neglected truth teachings of gnostic religions may 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
proponents of them that you know of. But inwardly, there abides a strength which you may not 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
about it? ANSWER: Do you mean that the inwardly existing fear of leaving the old state will 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
will. Although outwardly you appear meek and flexible, inwardly just the opposite is the case. It is 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
handled with care and responsibility. If people are inwardly ignorant, it is better not to feed them 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
exclusive forces serve the same end, you must inwardly be torn apart. Only conscious awareness of this 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
see clearly yet, where you cannot get ahead inwardly. This is bound to happen when one doesn't 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
In this way, you go around in circles. Inwardly, of course, you know, but outwardly, so far 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
not want love. The same happens when you inwardly try to convince yourself that you do not 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
But even though they did not consciously understand, inwardly they felt more strengthened than ever, because truth 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
naturally as a result of removing errors, you inwardly and subtly try to force others to give 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
to take place. You will cease being -- inwardly or outwardly -- aggressive where it is unjustified 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
QUESTION: I understand that people who are submissive inwardly, for example, may have an underlying power drive 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
the helplessness of having to adopt rules one inwardly rebels against. This holds true even if the 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of these attitudes will show you how you inwardly deviate from your conscious beliefs. So where there 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
that, at least in some respect, you deviate inwardly. It will be your task to find how 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
find what your expectations really are, how you inwardly complain. You will find what you yourself could 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
you hold it back forcefully. But you are inwardly not yet convinced that you can dispense with 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
the need, you will be able to relax inwardly. All this is difficult to explain in words 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
your defenses -- how they make you behave inwardly, and therefore also outwardly. You will come to 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
absorb from the outside, it does no good. Inwardly, something remains locked. You remain incapable of coming 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
at all, but it accounts for much resistance. Inwardly, you are confused and fluctuate between these two 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
very decisive way of acting, whether outwardly or inwardly. It requires your determination to no longer follow 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
yourself, you cannot have the fulfillment that everyone inwardly strives for. You therefore create substitute fulfillments, which 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
be cultivated. Determine first whether or not you inwardly desire the truth. As long as you reject 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
may act outwardly in the right way, but inwardly the motivations may be selfish, vain, unloving, and 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
within of which Christ spoke. If you are inwardly pure, inwardly open, and inwardly fulfill the will 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
which Christ spoke. If you are inwardly pure, inwardly open, and inwardly fulfill the will of God 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
If you are inwardly pure, inwardly open, and inwardly fulfill the will of God, perhaps sometimes at 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
you are sufficiently aware of them to be inwardly ready to give them up. Some of you 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
to do so and have begun to change inwardly, outer change does not come at once. In 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
may be dulled to a considerable degree, but inwardly they still exist. They smolder underground and do 101 THE DEFENSE
though some new being took hold of you inwardly. You may perhaps experience the same with thoughts 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
that you do not want what you want inwardly. And it is this self-deception that causes the 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
such as this, you will come to experience inwardly what some doctrines may teach you in words 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
learning to go with the resistance, you develop inwardly to just the right degree, to the proper 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
to live up to ideals that you are inwardly not yet ready for, you would not misuse 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
could be encouraged from the beginning to develop inwardly by facing the truth. Outer, superimposed standards would 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
all things on earth, that man is actually inwardly already in a new stage, while he outwardly 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
he clings to, in his conscious mind, while inwardly he is already beyond it. The mind is 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
moment, into a state of being and you inwardly perceive the truth of God as Being without 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
of a supreme Being. A person who is inwardly not ready, cannot possibly understand what I am 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
is a result. As long as you are inwardly greedy and selfish and do not even know 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
reaching toward each one of you. Make yourselves inwardly calm. Detect your fears, your guards, your shames 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
the action that outwardly appears more noble is inwardly less so than another deed that has the 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
and find ways and means to do so inwardly and outwardly. You will give up your little 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
your evasion cripples its unfoldment. Therefore, you are inwardly torn. The inner conflict confuses you because you 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
is superimposed from the outside and not experienced inwardly, is as much a part of the fear 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
opposite is true. Mature people stand, outwardly and inwardly, on their own two feet, and this stance 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
even more. It is so important to understand inwardly what I explained to you about using others 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
because they are going through the motions, but inwardly they know that this is not so. On 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
discouraged, believing they are going around in circles. Inwardly, however, they occasionally already experience and see their 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
matter how hard you try to feel what inwardly you are as yet incapable of feeling, your 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
found that my no-current is more superficial, while inwardly there is more of a yes-current than I 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
go. When these two tendencies are perceived, experienced, inwardly lived, there is no limit to your expansion 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
effort is always labored, always against the stream. Inwardly, such people would rather not make any effort 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
of this weakness and dependency. Therefore, as an inwardly weak and dependent person, how can you afford 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
actual work on this path must have grown inwardly, for otherwise you would not even be here 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
what these words mean. As you learn to inwardly assimilate these words, you come closer to passing 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
destroyed your life may be upset. You feel inwardly threatened and at a loss. Outwardly, even the 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
the universe. Wherever you succeed because you are inwardly free you will see new manifestations in your 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
lecture. It has to be accepted, understood, and inwardly lived through in full self-acceptance before you can 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
form. Outwardly you may engage in contacts but inwardly you remain uninvolved, isolated, separate. This isolation cannot 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
a life-affirming, positive, inclusive attitude. The person who, inwardly or outwardly, rebels against postponed gratification is angry 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
wish, any fulfillment you desire. If you feel inwardly tense and are unwilling to relax into an 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
only study but seeing how you yourself are inwardly tense about not getting your way. Or, perhaps 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
will lend meaning to all you do -- inwardly and outwardly. Pleasure supreme lies in every fraction 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
perish? This is the state in which you inwardly find yourself. It can be resolved only when 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
could widen your horizon in thinking about, and inwardly experiencing, new boundaries of reality, thus diminishing your 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
or stark fright or anything in-between -- remain inwardly relaxed. Observe the automatic reflex reaction in your 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
own best feelings. This is where you are inwardly locked in battle. The more you face these 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
possible. There comes a point when a person inwardly gives up. There is not a single human 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
your control, or of causes beyond those you inwardly set in motion. It is always a product 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
you claim that your weakness is love, when inwardly you are seething with resentment and vindictiveness? You 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
and dominating will to control is love, but inwardly you merely want to win and have your 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
that an arrogant, unhealthy pride is self-love, when inwardly you merely wish to be better than others 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
You can do your best by opening yourself inwardly, your heart as much as your mind, so 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
control it. Let it be. The more you inwardly tense up against pain, the more unbearable it 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
diminish. Your very awareness of what you do inwardly will lessen the intensity and the compulsive drive 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
relaxed. They are in rhythm with the unfolding, inwardly imploding life energy. The cramped desire is the 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
distrust, born out of the unconscious knowledge that inwardly the yes is blocked off. I want to 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
life force cannot penetrate them. When, however, you inwardly open up for pleasure, joy, happiness on all 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
This should not discourage you. When you are inwardly ready, you will know, and the opening will 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
centers are open, the person is completely -- inwardly and outwardly -- in a relaxed state in 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
no cramp. Let us examine what the words inwardly and outwardly mean. These words may easily be 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
subtle bodies exist. For this discussion, the terms inwardly and outwardly are sufficient. There exists an inner 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
aliveness, and blissful, joyous relating. When you are inwardly ready to relate to another human being in 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
of fortune and home, illness. Yet you may inwardly have been much less agitated and in pain 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
say that an outer crisis may leave you inwardly in greater peace than an inner one. The 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
way in which you are whole, instead of inwardly divided and racked by the pain of this 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
eliminate what is undesirable. When you dare experience inwardly what comes to you, it will cease to 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
place, this task begins to be felt and inwardly experienced until it becomes a reality. It is 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
not lie. It expresses exactly what you really inwardly believe. You may consciously claim that you are 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
the proper concepts, they may imprint strongly, but inwardly nothing happens. They cannot be impressed because they 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
grow sufficiently to sense, and later even to inwardly know, important connections between causes from former lives 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
under the guise of intellectual considerations, and yet inwardly begrudge what others have. I cannot emphasize enough 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
be open and receptive means to be undefended, inwardly relaxed, unafraid of whatever may come, whether from 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
experience it now. Calmly wait. Learn to become inwardly relaxed. See your own inner rushing, driving, grasping 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
any woman. Regardless of your outer, conscious belief, inwardly you now discover that this is how you 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
from parents or parent substitutes, you will look inwardly where you can never be disappointed. For that 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
psyche, the following interaction takes place. Suppose you inwardly say, I will punish you for not fulfilling 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
or catch me. Suppose the other person is inwardly struggling with giving up a similar defense. Their 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
put in action depending on where you are inwardly. Admitting your negativity is always an act of 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
you are aware of it or not, you inwardly strive to make sure you will obtain all 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
as a gauge of where a person stands inwardly. Outer disorder diverts so much energy that the 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
others and exonerating yourself. This always means that inwardly you totally blame yourself, but do not wish 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
manifestations -- in the changing of your life inwardly and outwardly, the changing of your personality -- 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
inner concept, so that you can visualize both inwardly and recognize outwardly exemplary figures. Later you will 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
draw a picture of what it is like, inwardly as well as outwardly, to come to the 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
strengthened, then certain other manifestations begin to appear, inwardly and outwardly. You will find an immense security 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
seemingly causeless change is so frustrating that you inwardly start rebelling and objecting. This occurs to the 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
you are still in the body. You will inwardly experience it and it will make you stronger 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
guidance and the need for self-discipline and self-responsibility. Inwardly, however, people do rebel against the momentary uncertainty 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
this is only temporarily true. If you have inwardly accumulated a negative image of your life in 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
create the false reality of the three-dimensional world, inwardly you are still connected with the greater reality 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
way you would never have believed possible. Life, inwardly and outwardly, is an entirely new, joyful, rich 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
moment you lift your face to it, allegorically, inwardly, symbolically. Lift your hands to it, allow it 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
subtle and covert, not so easy to detect. Inwardly, in many activities and directions you subtly focus 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
may be very indignant, defensive and argumentative, but inwardly cannot find your center since you doubt your 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
-- you can afford the luxury of relaxing inwardly and letting out your true self, with its 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
not have joy and abundance -- outwardly and inwardly -- you must be speaking a word that 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
stream into your being -- both outwardly and inwardly -- you shrink back. This is not simply 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
need to expand. They will encourage the movement inwardly, will recognize the resistance to it, understand the 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
that is not so remains unrecognized, you may inwardly accuse yourself of much more than is warranted 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
again: I will let go and move ahead inwardly in my state of consciousness, in my attitude 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
begin to happen. You will have released the inwardly held movement. At first this movement may create 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
not want to give it up, and stagnates inwardly as a result of it. Consequently a compulsive 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
issue that comes up, that presents a problem inwardly or outwardly, in your feeling reactions or in 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
importance of physical life because they sense and inwardly experience the eternal life of the soul, misunderstand 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
higher-self and lower-self attitudes. They may set you inwardly free and respect your dignity, so that the 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
values alive, it is necessary to feel and inwardly experience the particular truth in question. Ritual celebrations 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
in this regard, sooner or later you experience inwardly, within yourself, the truth of reincarnation. The new 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
your mask self to the world, while you inwardly despair about who you believe you really are 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
on the surface, but as your deficits increase inwardly you cover up the impoverishment you have created 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
byproduct, my beloved ones. As you cleanse yourselves inwardly and leave behind aspects of your personality that 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
mental knowledge from a teacher from whom you inwardly keep aloof, and this is true to a 254 SURRENDER
outwardly what you were previously only secretly and inwardly, and to communicate this state to others. Just 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE

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