| 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 |
| Kill........................23 | |
| 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 |
| Killed......................11 | |
| 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 |
| Killing.....................18 | |
| 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 |
| Kills.......................4 | |
| 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 |
| Kindly......................6 | |
| 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 |