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 Keys........................18
I have described is one of the many keys to your liberation from the prison into which 18 FREE WILL
against it; And I will give thee the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever thou 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
at the same time it would furnish more keys for tuning into one another. In this way 62 MAN AND WOMAN
new freedom. They contain one of the important keys to let your real self out of its 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
mistakes. For they too may become the great keys to freedom and reality and love. Once again 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
step closer to obtaining the greatest of all keys to the true life -- not by following 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
into step with you. There are two important keys for you in this lecture, which may be 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
their spiritual development. Sacrifice and renunciation are the keys to spiritual development. We do not have to 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
This is truly one of the most important keys. But that key is unavailable as long as 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
prerequisites for attaining this cosmic feeling, the four keys which make it possible. The cosmic feeling is 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
and space. Now I shall discuss the four keys or prerequisites for becoming strong enough to bear 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
power and the intelligence become manifest. The four keys are aspects of the pathwork. But they must 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
So this is one of the most important keys you need. Facing the guilt for the pain 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
is also a defiant refusal to recognize the keys contained in them. In such cases these manifestations 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
undertaking for you, one that will yield many keys. The more specific you can be, the more 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
to look forward to. It will offer many keys and deeply desired answers to life. This is 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
The classroom will be where life unfolds, where keys of understanding are handed to the child. Children 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
appropriate? Let me show you a few important keys which will eventually enable you to find this 254 SURRENDER
 
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it. Divine law comprises that you should not kill, steal, or commit recognized crimes or sins. These 18 FREE WILL
anymore and could never induce whole nations to kill each other for their selfish interests. Deep down 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
say ugly things behind their backs, or to kill, or anything like that. You may harm another 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
to give in to these instincts and perhaps kill someone. If this temptation can be overcome, even 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
a murderer to come into his house and kill his wife and children without defending them. He 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
objector who sincerely follows the admonition not to kill and considers the whole of the universe as 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
they hated each other but did no longer kill because of their different ways to come to 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
he may in the next incarnation wish to kill without doing so, suppressing his desires, keeping them 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
sex urges. This is all wrong; you cannot kill off something that is alive. You can only 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
for healing; or you can use it to kill. That does not make the electric current good 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
nature remains dominant, he might say, I can kill and plunder and be as selfish as I 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
to know about the commandment, Thou shalt not kill in everyday life, in different emotions, for instance 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
have taught her that it is bad to kill anything. However, what do you do when there 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
killed, you would destroy yourselves. You would not kill germs either. Germs, too, are life-organisms, only smaller 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to live due to a rule not to kill, you would kill just the same, though you 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to a rule not to kill, you would kill just the same, though you would not see 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
stifling effect. Even though such an approach cannot kill the vital stream within yourself, it does not 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
feel slighted that I feel the desire to kill those who seem to slight me. Yet, I 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
Those who attempt this merely deceive themselves. They kill the spontaneity and freedom of the real self 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
actions. So, if you hate and wish to kill and destroy, you need not feel guilty about 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
and purifying cold becomes frozen iciness. Both can kill. The same goes for imbalance and exaggeration in 228 BALANCE
what is right for them. They will not kill, steal, harm or destroy, but it will not 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
If you commit an overt act -- you kill someone -- the consequences will be obvious. But 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
 
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not a question of how many people are killed. The question is the motive. And the motives 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the thing to do. Then the more you killed, the greater a hero you were. The rulers 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
not matter so much how many people are killed and that this is not regrettable? ANSWER: My 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of view, the question how many people were killed in a war is not the important matter 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
observe this trend already. Some time ago, people killed each other just because they thought differently. Yesterday 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
and accidents happen in which many people are killed, you can be sure that this is a 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
from their fears and anxieties. QUESTION: Do animals killed for the purpose of being eaten go into 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
by the rigid rule that nothing must be killed, you would destroy yourselves. You would not kill 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the destructive infant grows up. It is not killed or annihilated. It is not exorcised. Its frozen 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
energy into hard knots of defense. You had killed your aliveness with this artificial fullness. So you 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
parents and forebears were wrong, and my ancestors killed in Jesus not only a good man but 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
 
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from committing a crime such as stealing or killing, but you cannot possibly force yourself to feel 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
the case of war, is the act of killing by a soldier contrary to divine law? ANSWER 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
QUESTION: A question in connection with war and killing: How are we to regard a conscientious objector 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
not be held against him, the same as killing in a war by a soldier will not 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
not merely refer to the act of physical killing. As you rightly said, thoughts and emotions can 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and in that sense they are acts of killing. The terms life and death do not merely 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
your destructive emotions and thoughts negatively affecting -- killing -- others, but also to your own life 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is a typical and frequent act of emotional killing. There is only one way for salvation and 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
easy answer. QUESTION: I have a question about killing anything that is alive. I have a little 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and I will again. This view of not killing something, even if it is destructive like vermin 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
arrived when humankind is ready to give up killing higher animal species, but it is not too 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
fact or in thought and attitude only. When killing and hating are embedded in sexuality, sexuality becomes 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
structures. When it comes to destructive acts of killing, stealing, or in other ways robbing others of 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
honest communication with this person, your thoughts are killing him. This secret killing has just as severe 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
person, your thoughts are killing him. This secret killing has just as severe consequences as a physical 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
has just as severe consequences as a physical killing. At first the effects of such actions may 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the human race has outgrown the stage of killing each other for being a Jew or for 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
an overall balance in nature. Yet one animal killing another for its nourishment appears cruel and seems 254 SURRENDER
 
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but they are not identical. If a criminal kills someone, this is not an unconscious act and 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
The act of inflicting pain on others simultaneously kills off one's own ability to feel. Hence, it 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
the learning process becomes a dull must that kills the spirit and the life of learning. Education 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
one that is overcautious and examines everything and kills spontaneity, and the other, which gives in with 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975
 
 Kindled.....................3
crises, that is, in a completely voluntary manner, kindled by the knowledge that the self-search cannot be 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
much better than in any other way. Love, kindled by eros and the sex impulse, can flower 62 MAN AND WOMAN
other hand, love, kindness, and intuition, if not kindled by discrimination, which is the result of reason 62 MAN AND WOMAN
 
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want to harm anybody, ever. You may act kindly toward another, but you cannot force yourself to 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
another, but you cannot force yourself to feel kindly. Neither can you force yourself to have love 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
to the last expression you used. Would you kindly define emotional maturity? ANSWER: Emotional maturity is, foremost 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
humility of self-recognition can attain. QUESTION: Would you kindly repeat what you have said previously about expectation 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
no bearing on this lecture. QUESTION: Will you kindly explain the phenomenon of sleep? ANSWER: Your subtle 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
need to atone. And you could very easily, kindly, and without any defensiveness -- when it is 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN

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