| to the will of God. You can only learn to put your own will aside. If you | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| down. For you will thus be able to learn more about yourself, and about spiritual law, about | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| your failures with the attitude, What can I learn about them? Where do I still have to | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| to be very unfavorable if you do not learn your spiritual lesson from it. So everything that | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| from a spiritual point of view, if you learn from it so that you can continue to | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| will rise higher in its development; it will learn -- not directly, not immediately, because it is | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| belong anywhere. They are often around you and learn from your victory in a much more direct | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| or indirect hindrance to love. You can never learn love through forcing yourself, but love will grow | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| within you. If you can bring yourself to learn to do what I will tell you now | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| same diseases as human beings, but human beings learn from their disease. What can an animal learn | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| learn from their disease. What can an animal learn from having a disease? ANSWER: That is not | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| before the human incarnation, there is nothing to learn; it is just something to go through. QUESTION | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| be capable of learning what you have to learn. QUESTION: Even if we ask for certain specific | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| if you ask the right way, trying to learn from your difficulties, you will be answered. And | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| laws. And anyone who is seriously trying to learn and keep the divine laws will gain the | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| will currents one should become aware of and learn when and how to use. It is true | 18 FREE WILL |
| of and cast off, and many things to learn. All this could be accomplished more easily if | 18 FREE WILL |
| the strong pressing of your ego, you should learn detachment from it. By viewing again and again | 18 FREE WILL |
| the drive of your ego you can gradually learn to let go of it. Once you have | 18 FREE WILL |
| spiritual development goes, the more a being will learn to detach itself from its relatives and from | 18 FREE WILL |
| and dear ones. The spiritual infant has to learn to love gradually. The more the growth proceeds | 18 FREE WILL |
| follow the teachings of your religion whereby you learn and do what alone matters, namely work for | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| way in Absolute Reality. No matter how you learn it, if you learn to give love, you | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| No matter how you learn it, if you learn to give love, you come a step nearer | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| the Fall, they now had the opportunity to learn, to change, to turn to God and thus | 21 THE FALL |
| because the main thing for you is to learn to know your own soul and to develop | 21 THE FALL |
| will accomplish nothing, no matter how much you learn and read and do this or that. All | 21 THE FALL |
| reactions quite differently, I assure you. You will learn to recognize emotional reactions that you had been | 21 THE FALL |
| your feelings. By observing your reactions you will learn to ascertain how far you have to come | 21 THE FALL |
| path of perfection. If in this life they learn just enough to become a better person, to | 21 THE FALL |
| think and feel somewhat like this: If I learn certain factors about previous lives, then I have | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the more you come here, the more you learn and especially the more you become a better | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you live in. Therefore, a being has to learn first of all to discriminate independently, to think | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that indicates their spiritual standing. People have to learn to make their own choices as to whose | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be quite new to them. Then you will learn, my friend, how exactly to go about dissolving | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to go about it, and that you will learn gradually by following this course. There is a | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that there must be something for you to learn and you will learn it. I cannot emphasize | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| something for you to learn and you will learn it. I cannot emphasize strongly enough that the | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| message that there is something quite special to learn about the self is conveyed by each difficult | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| continue for a while as before, until you learn from it that which is so necessary for | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| path to begin with, a challenge you can learn from if you meet them maturely. However, I | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| conscious of that fear. It is important to learn to interpret and translate such perhaps vague feelings | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and your shame of it, and if you learn to live with this truth and knowledge, you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| others. Then you might ask, What can they learn from that? Indeed, they, too, have something to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| from that? Indeed, they, too, have something to learn. Perhaps they need to learn the responsibility that | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| have something to learn. Perhaps they need to learn the responsibility that arises from being spared sufferings | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| do so. First compare these two currents and learn for the time being to accept your present | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| on you. By following this procedure, you will learn to follow the law of reality, accepting yourself | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| The latter are unhealthy and unproductive. You must learn to take yourself realistically and say, In so | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| change, you have so many other things to learn from this very imperfection in you. Learn the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| to learn from this very imperfection in you. Learn the proper attitude with which to meet your | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| path in everything is part of the path. Learn to accept yourself without fear, without shame, and | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| place, and keep in mind at all times. Learn to see through your doubts and your hesitancy | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| to see through your doubts and your hesitancy; learn to see the real meaning of an occasional | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you will help each other and you will learn a lot in brotherhood, in humility, and in | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you for your sincere endeavor to improve, to learn about your faults, and for listening to them | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| being able to accept a hurt, and perhaps learn from it. But you must not allow the | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| your self-will; right then and there you should learn to accept humbly that your ego prevents your | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of will, but they will change if you learn first to observe them. Get a little distance | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| many years without any recognition; you must really learn to sacrifice. Not only must you give up | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| like a hardship at first, but if you learn to be entirely relaxed, you will be able | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| be a basic, underlying problem which you can learn to recognize. Doing your review will not take | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| direction, you cannot make order in your soul. Learn to recognize where your desires surge into wrong | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| waste. You use it up unproductively. If you learn to examine yourself in this manner, you will | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| fighting evil. As spiritual development grows, you will learn to go more to the roots of the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| though another human being were humiliated. No. Rather, learn not to make yourself so important, for your | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| much as your feelings tell you. If you learn to be more detached about this vanity of | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| not an iota of difference. They have to learn, just as you have to learn and to | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| have to learn, just as you have to learn and to distinguish between right and wrong, between | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| does not merely mean to read, hear, or learn about spiritual truth or law, about God and | 31 SHAME |
| imperfection. It means that you first have to learn to accept your state of imperfection. You should | 31 SHAME |
| faulty reactions to the ideal state. Thus you learn humility. The moment you do not wish to | 31 SHAME |
| the actual weakness you are treating. You will learn the right kind of shame and self-acceptance, which | 31 SHAME |
| with open eyes and a healthy attitude and learn even while you are still stumbling over them | 31 SHAME |
| free will whether or not you want to learn from them. You can either open your eyes | 31 SHAME |
| are lacking in humility. Do not try to learn humility where there are no shortcomings within you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| from the self to others, but should also learn to channel the self- occupation into a different | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| then in their emotions and thoughts. My friends, learn to accept other people's shortcomings, as you must | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| to accept other people's shortcomings, as you must learn to accept your own. Here, too, the right | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| Think of that too, my dear friends! So learn to accept people as they are and become | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| for the next life. The entity has to learn something from this alone. I may add that | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| out a relationship with another human being--perhaps to learn to love and to accept this other person--and | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| such hospital spheres existing on various levels. They learn in these spheres. However, a great number of | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| in it. They have more responsible tasks. Others learn under them. The hospital sphere consists of several | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| that made such defeat inevitable. What can I learn from it? Help me to overcome my cowardice | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| only from what they themselves are able to learn but also from their helpful attitude and unselfishness | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| By focusing on an object you will not learn concentration any better than you will by zeroing | 36 PRAYER |
| on some non-essentials. Anyone on the path must learn to focus attention on what is really essential | 36 PRAYER |
| has no belief in God may at least learn concentration. Daily prayer is important because of the | 36 PRAYER |
| of your life, specifically your spiritual development? You learn to concentrate when you pray, for instance, for | 36 PRAYER |
| initial hurdles, eventually, little by little, you will learn to pray better. When your thoughts wander, just | 36 PRAYER |
| ability to concentrate, to discipline yourself; you also learn to cultivate thoughts you are unable to sincerely | 36 PRAYER |
| prayer is necessary. It is vital that you learn to focus your attention on yourself -- not | 36 PRAYER |
| maintained without your unceasing efforts. You will then learn to realize, deeply, that your outer problems are | 36 PRAYER |
| that they are the most important beings, will learn to feel differently by cultivating thoughts in prayer | 36 PRAYER |
| a favor. When they pray they have to learn that. A special kind of humility is summoned | 36 PRAYER |
| that a sign of pride? In prayer you learn to humble yourself; it is another medicine for | 36 PRAYER |
| the necessary inspiration and mood. You have to learn how to overcome the difficulties of making this | 36 PRAYER |
| Ask God each day what you have to learn. Ask for His help. This will gradually impress | 36 PRAYER |
| answers that you need; each of you will learn where and how you deviate from the right | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| in distorted self-love, self-pity, and cowardice. If you learn from the hard times and ask God in | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| what it is that He wants you to learn and what it is in you that has | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| struggle in unhappiness? Every one of you can learn that in difficult times. Your fear can only | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| Your fear can only leave you if you learn to embrace unhappiness as a necessary medicine, without | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| the medicine. Try to translate your feelings and learn what they mean, so that they gain clearer | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| the two groups. In this way you will learn from one another. There should be a constant | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| to win the battle, you also have to learn depth prayer, depth meditation, and depth thinking, my | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| but that life is given to you to learn both from happiness and unhappiness, will not give | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to the lower self at times, you will learn an additional lesson from that. Only those who | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| be changed. One of the first things you learn on this path is to ask yourself about | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| into the channel of self-knowledge. You have to learn to accept on all levels of your emotions | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| not expecting a miracle overnight. Understand that you learn also by meeting the pain, by accepting it | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| through until they learned what they have to learn and what they could learn in this search | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| they have to learn and what they could learn in this search. You are always so concerned | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| being. It could not change and adjust and learn. For only what is out in the light | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| that. Only much later in life does one learn to evaluate more objectively and not according to | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| has debts to pay, he has much to learn. He may be given the choice to remain | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| hundredfold when the time is ripe. If you learn to put aside your self-will and can say | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| such a crisis, my dear ones. If you learn to see and love other people as they | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| healthy for some of my friends. You will learn to evaluate the people you love, and your | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| conflict? By recognizing it I will continue to learn and develop. A wealth of further recognition must | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| of thinking, discriminating, selecting, and weighing. They must learn to use the intellect to curb the wild | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| is really just that. The true reason-type will learn balance, so that reason will function properly in | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| bound to dissolve if the personality does not learn to love, by cultivating all the qualities and | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| deep meaning of Eros. They are unwilling to learn pure love, and simply use the erotic force | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| turn, is always determined by your will to learn how to love. Only in this way will | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the ideal. In the meantime you have to learn to make the best of it. And you | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| fortunate enough to be on this path can learn much wherever you stand, be it only in | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| truly reveal yourself to God, you have to learn to reveal yourself to another beloved human being | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| good marriage? ANSWER: If both are willing to learn love for one another and gain maturity together | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| both are in any way willing. One can learn a lot from one's past and present mistakes | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| make the best of your past mistakes and learn from them. My dearest friends, think carefully about | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| There is not a single person who cannot learn something from them. I want to close this | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| a certain technique, a training. First you must learn to conduct your daily review, which I have | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| point is premature. One thing at a time. Learn first to establish a concise, articulate awareness of | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| you must just observe their existence. You will learn further from your ability to do this. Becoming | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| what you would call an average life, and learn and develop slowly by their experience, or remain | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| And this you can find out if you learn to understand yourself. This is neither as easy | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| of development in this respect. You will then learn not to react automatically against anyone or anything | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to the welfare of others, he has to learn a lesson. But if that happens, it is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and why. It will take some time to learn to observe and recognize your daily reactions, as | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you have looked away from. The more you learn self-honesty, the deeper can the truth penetrate into | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| daily reactions. Find your attitude toward them, and learn from them to find what lies behind them | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| becomes the authority because of an overdependency will learn that though in a healthy and true love | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| causes and has constantly caused pain. You must learn to distinguish between two basic kinds of pain | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| you do not need further improvement and practice. Learn now to see the other side. Be the | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| results equally disadvantageous. The only solution is to learn gradually to rid yourself of selfishness. This happens | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| that is completely wrong. Then you need to learn how harmful selfishness is -- harmful not only | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| this attitude and I am now willing to learn exactly how I hurt them. It makes no | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| consciously think. It is much more important to learn to become aware of what you unconsciously feel | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |