| Knowledgeable...............4 | |
| for as long a time or are less knowledgeable. Please help each other. You will not regret | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| who believe themselves to be wiser and more knowledgeable when they ridicule other manifestations of reality. If | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| to deny this would be far from being knowledgeable or intelligent. Knowing that angels surround and influence | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| self has reached unprecedented degrees. Even the least knowledgeable people have attained a certain degree of awareness | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Label.......................16 | |
| They secretly look down on people they derogatorily label intellectuals. Yet, the extreme of this type is | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| of the word. That would be using a label, and we must try to stay away from | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| to know that. Any word can become a label if it is supposed to furnish the final | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| effects of your inner causes fate. Any other label might serve the purpose. Thus you simply explain | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to feel the real meaning. It becomes a label and that is bad. It is always necessary | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| necessarily a lack of imagination. This is a label that would not get us very far. For | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| it becomes dead. The moment it becomes a label, you repeat the word without really understanding what | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| and even then it is often misleading to label them as such. The value of an action | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| put everything into a pigeonhole, a compartment, to label human experience. This only rigidifies life and the | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| friends, my advice is: Do not try to label it. Labeling is always a dangerous procedure. With | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| of vagueness, where they hide under the collective label of anxiety. When you change your approach in | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| because they are immature. This is merely a label or an explanation of an effect. Natural movement | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| worse, the word love is used as a label behind which are hidden very different feelings such | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| is the vivid, living experience behind the stereotyped label? The experience of love is primarily the attempt | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| which you fear, something you cannot name or label or pin on anything. That is the creative | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| tendency to be glib and lazy and to label, so as to avoid feeling the reality of | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Labels......................11 | |
| very glibly and quickly certain key words and labels. This is harmful. It would sometimes be better | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| is the fault of humankind. You have invented labels to which you attach special implications. For us | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| to which you attach special implications. For us, labels like Judaism and Christianity do not mean anything | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| we must try to stay away from any labels, but rather dig out what goes on underneath | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| conscious and unconscious thinking. The result of these labels is precisely the opposite of the intended effect | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| process and may even glorify it under various labels and pretexts -- just as the over-disciplined person | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| concepts and ideas, hopes and fears. Collective, oversimplified labels are supposed to express what is really going | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| only too often you use the names as labels, as a final explanation. Thus you cannot even | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| individual work to painstakingly examine where such collective labels come from and why. The first reaction often | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| as being born with blue eyes or brown. Labels are so often supposed to take care of | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| super- figure your parents. But terms easily become labels that lose their meaning. In any case, as | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Labor.......................45 | |
| and therefore they do not require much spiritual labor for you to interpret them. The intention may | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| not have earned by his or her own labor the grace of a spiritual opening, he or | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| and you must do it through your own labor. To tell it to you would not do | 36 PRAYER |
| the real thing that comes only by hard labor and that no one can take away from | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| or she does not shy away from the labor and is willing to pay the price. Yes | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| be already at a point that only hard labor and the humility of self-recognition can attain. QUESTION | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| has really become your own, your courage and labor to free yourself from the yoke of your | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| special exercises. It is the product of the labor of development. QUESTION: Can it be possible that | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| soul, there is no other way than the labor of the search and the pains of growth | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| sphere. Learn to enjoy the serious and honest labor too that leads to it. Do not seek | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| be a shortcut to save you from the labor and pain of self-development. QUESTION: Bearing in mind | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the inner certainty, not brought about by the labor of self-development, that they are immortal in spirit | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| immortality comes as a result of the hard labor of development, it will not reduce the will | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| know so because in the sweat of their labor they have freed themselves of error. They will | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| present, I will say only this: You often labor under the misconception that true love means to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the real thing that comes only through hard labor and that no one can take away from | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| constant fear of not succeeding and unconsciously you labor to hide the failure from yourself. Thus a | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| person may wish its perfected state without the labor and effort of cultivating it. Insight into one's | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| eye for detection. My advice is: do not labor to find this phenomenon by an artificial and | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| independent thinking, of discriminating, and it shirks the labor of even making an attempt to do so | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| peaceful and joyful experience, but it requires the labor of stringent honesty with yourself. A few of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| increasing integrity and self-respect. But this requires the labor of consciously taking control in choosing one's views | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| wearing themselves out in a non-existent prison. They labor and slave and chafe with the effort of | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| can be made at any moment. But you labor under the illusion that you cannot help feeling | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| passively controlled by resistance or negative emotions. You labor under the illusion that you are at the | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| can change your concept. This is what requires labor and effort. And, unbelievable as this appears to | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| concerned with fulfilling this longing. After all the labor and search my friends have been doing, some | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| applicable to all endeavors. Whether you do menial labor, or work as an artist, a scientist, or | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the physical level you experience the voluntary hard labor giving way to naturalness when the skill suddenly | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| second aspect of mutuality, namely execution, which implies labor, effort, perseverance and self-discipline. Unless the creative idea | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| this, yet what mostly happens is that the labor of working out the inner dissensions is neglected | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| effortless creative imagination and execution, which always requires labor, investment, commitment and self-discipline. This bridge of mutuality | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| dualistic thinking. Yet the effort is not a labor of the will, but an opening process that | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| as a whole. It took many years of labor to make this possible. Wherever peace, fulfillment, light | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| without paying the price. The price is the labor of searching, of seeking and finding, of learning | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| truth -- not shying away from the mental labor of dealing with reality. This leads to the | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| if you do not shy away from the labor of purification work. But soon the work itself | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| on the surface in order to avoid the labor and risks involved in personal growth. This is | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| and receive the guidance you require. This means labor, courage, search. Obeying the outer rule prevents this | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| is different. But for that you need the labor, courage and honesty of self-knowledge so that you | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| again the cheating that wants to avoid the labor of the struggle of growth. It is therefore | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| the sheer enjoyment of the fruits of your labor as a valid expression of life, you dream | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| of probing and finding out, for this means labor. The childish dependent person wants quick, easy answers | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| to be understood by others without having to labor to make themselves understandable. For it does require | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| make themselves understandable. For it does require some labor. Communication is an art that everyone can and | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Labored.....................5 | |
| to avoid the hurts that you have unconsciously labored so hard to avoid. And, as long as | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| live. But that kind of effort is always labored, always against the stream. Inwardly, such people would | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| suffering. This includes the illusory fences and the labored, resented, tiring effort. People put themselves in the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| is not the number of years you have labored in non-commitment and impatience, but the quality of | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the intense pain of the conflict you have labored under for so long. Often you will see | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |