| being either optimistic or pessimistic. Just wish to learn from anything that happens to you. Let whatever | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| penetrate and fill your heart. Rejoice in truth, learn the joy of discovering truth that you have | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| be flattering. For this is a great joy. Learn this healthy activity. Become strong in it and | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| which are now obsolete. You also have to learn to be tolerant with your negative emotions. You | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| is a good discipline. It is favorable to learn concentration through prayer and meditation, since your thoughts | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| process and you build a certain consciousness. You learn to cultivate unselfish thoughts. Your thoughts are elevated | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| with any subject, but it is better to learn it in this way than in mundane matters | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| over and over again. Children in first grade learn something different than what they learn later. Be | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| first grade learn something different than what they learn later. Be blessed every one of you, all | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to the earth plane life after life to learn just that but do not, insanity will finally | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| divine self manifest. That is the way to learn love: first, be honest with yourself about your | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| have talked at length about this. They also learn that God is the highest authority. Therefore it | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| want to be involved any more before I learn detachment. Once I have learned that, I would | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of being hurt, but I would like to learn to stand back a little. ANSWER: That is | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| others can never affect you. You will then learn to adjust to the world. Happy or unhappy | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to eliminate frictions; what you could do to learn from them individually and collectively; and also work | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| we do not interfere, for otherwise you cannot learn. A child cannot learn to walk unless it | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for otherwise you cannot learn. A child cannot learn to walk unless it has fallen and stumbled | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| triumph? Or will you take whatever comes and learn from it to turn inward, to see what | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to turn inward, to see what you can learn instead of how wrong the other person is | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fulfill the bigger duty, beyond yourself, is to learn and to grow and to take everything that | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them from this point of view. If you learn to do that, none of you, individually, as | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| make some wrong decisions, but you should certainly learn from them. Is that so difficult to understand | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and constructive. If the outgoing person does not learn to cultivate the restricting forces, he or she | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| be of the greatest value in your work. Learn instead to investigate these reactions, and ask yourself | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| Time is relative. The years you need to learn to know yourself and gain a firm stronghold | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| universal force at your disposal if you but learn how to use it. Be blessed with this | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| life can be, even on this earth sphere. Learn to enjoy the serious and honest labor too | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| will feel very differently about it. You will learn a lot from such an event and will | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| one's own inadequacies, which enables the personality to learn healthy humility and accept being no better than | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| discover the desire for rulership within yourself and learn to give it up voluntarily, you will give | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| will now understand the meaning of that term. Learn to analyze your idealized self, what your unconscious | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| peace. Peace will be yours only if you learn to see, face, and give up the infantile | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the basic facts of the soul, as you learn them here, it is very difficult to cope | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| personal independence, what should be encouraged is to learn to evaluate something as to what was said | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| live on earth. That is the lesson to learn. If it is learned properly, it will bring | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| into it. Then and then only will you learn that you do not crash and perish, but | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| illusion therefore depend upon whether or not you learn to accept your inadequacy, and whether or not | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| accept your inadequacy, and whether or not you learn to free yourself of the phantom conclusion that | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| is actually on this path -- they will learn gradually to discriminate without exaggeration. They will cease | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of evil and ignorance. Others do not only learn from your example, but they are strongly affected | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| love, but in this in-depth work, you eventually learn and understand why you have no faith or | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| was wondering about one's attitude toward sickness. We learn that in sickness we should try to find | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| really are, and why. If and when you learn to become aware of this each time you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| to the confusion. On the one hand, you learn that it is wrong to be selfish, yet | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| tackle. The next step will inevitably be to learn that you can eliminate these doubts only by | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the past; it will be important to learn why. It will also be important to find | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| religion. The only way a human being can learn to express this important side of his or | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| By proper observation and concentration, you will gradually learn to become aware of these various layers -- | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you will experience as being true, if you learn proper self-observation. Foreground, that is, voluntary thought, is | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| background thought material into conscious foreground thought. First learn to evaluate the content of the vague background | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| and if you find that they are insignificant, learn to discard them. This process will bring forth | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| consume. Some exercise and concentration is necessary to learn first the observation and, later, the control of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| from them as long as you do not learn to transform them into foreground thoughts, as long | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| a moment. As you go on, you will learn to extend this moment. The longer you can | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| inner will is necessary to follow through and learn what we are discussing here. In turn, your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| bound to function better to the extent you learn concentration. You will learn the ability to direct | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| to the extent you learn concentration. You will learn the ability to direct your thought process and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| with a constructive attitude toward what you can learn. And each time, when you learn an important | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you can learn. And each time, when you learn an important lesson about yourself, you will emerge | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| for you. That is the only way you learn to master yourself and your life. If problems | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| long period, gradually diminishing in force as you learn from it, understand its reason; realize how you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| person who searches in the right direction will learn to have a different approach to both the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| But the person who does not will also learn from the experience that life offers. Awareness of | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| can happen, provided that I, on my part, learn to love in the right and mature way | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| step by step. During this process you will learn to let go of the fighting current to | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| fighting current to prove yourself. Your emotions will learn to give up the useless and exhausting inner | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| see that it amounts to that. You will learn how to make the generous gesture of giving | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| your favor. Thus, it is necessary that you learn to love, for only then will your attitude | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| anger you. In this process, you will also learn to evaluate the manifestation of your love-capacity. The | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as they apply to the individual. QUESTION: We learn that every sickness, or every symptom of a | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| alphabet, we never have to go back and learn it again. But with the path, it seems | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| apparent relapse should serve as a means to learn and understand more about yourself. It thus becomes | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all of you, find the specific hidden emotions. Learn to understand their language. Analyze their meaning. Only | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| many vicious circles and chain reactions. As you learn to understand your emotions, you will evaluate outer | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to find it. To the degree that you learn to give up your forcing current and become | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| all the more crushing. Hence, you have to learn to distinguish between the real and the unreal | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| away from you, is a difficult thing to learn. The fact that it is so difficult shows | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| can give this inner permission genuinely, you will learn to give up your demand without feeling hostile | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| entirely new emotional reaction in you as you learn to give up your subtle forcing current. You | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| only unrealistic but unfeasible, and therefore discouraging. To learn of your emotions through painstaking and diligent analysis | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you can truly love others, you have to learn to like and respect them even though you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| what you want to be true. As you learn to trust yourself and others, loving will cease | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to give up your will gracefully. Thus you learn human affection and respect for the person who | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| certain, I may be wrong, this willingness to learn from possible mistakes makes your ignorance harmless because | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| intuition is unthinkable. Only as you grow and learn to face and accept that which is in | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you may express the desire that they should learn. This desire should be uttered without pressure or | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| gain this consciousness by concentrating on things you learn with your brain alone. That may be valuable | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| that things were different and that people would learn to practice mature love. The remedy lies solely | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| about its destructive and illogical ways. If you learn to look at your problems and unfulfillment from | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| repetitious pattern in your various difficulties, you will learn to recognize the similarities between your parents and | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the conscious and proper outer ones. If you learn to be utterly honest with yourself and acknowledge | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| be changed. One of the first things you learn on this path is to ask yourself about | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| motives, why you desire a certain thing. You learn to ask yourself the why of certain of | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| this circle, to simply see what happens, and learn from this test. What the spirits tell about | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is the only way in which you can learn to liberate yourself from the responsible inner factors | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so to speak. Now that you analyze and learn to understand your inner reactions and attitudes, you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| loved. Then, after making your choice, you will learn that even if this attitude could bring you | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and give you the strength and perseverance to learn gradually how to communicate without exaggerated need. As | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| it be returned unto you. When people truly learn this, a change always occurs in their lives | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| bottled up as long as you do not learn to cope with death in a healthy way | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| to experience actual physical death in order to learn how to die. Not only can your occasional | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| will become part of you because you then learn to live. The life force will be released | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| a child, now manifesting as exaggerated craving. You learn to distinguish between the healthy wish for mature | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| even when they are separated in time. To learn this, you have to connect past and present | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| connect past and present causes and effects. You learn this anyway in your work on the path | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| life and in this work? How can we learn to eliminate time? ANSWER: This is a misunderstanding | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of coping you use in your emotional response. Learn to become aware of everything from which you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| that I still fear it, but I will learn to accept what cannot be avoided, and thus | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the infinitely great and ultimate issues when you learn to experience it first in your daily little | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you meet it openly and whole-heartedly, willing to learn from it, keeping your reason and faculties intact | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of desire and fear. Only then will you learn the right attitude toward life and death. See | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| Become aware of it, and then you can learn to die -- and thus to live! As | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| at the same time wanting to grow and learn from the experience, you will recognize where and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| it, you can cope with it. You can learn to understand it and therefore diminish it with | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| of these millions of unfortunates in order to learn something for ourselves individually? Two, is it healthy | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| whether or not you can or want to learn a lesson. But as to the lesson of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| very dangerous to assume that one person can learn through the tragedy of another in this particular | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| insidious and subtle way. Certain things one can learn only by going through them oneself. There are | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| ways in which one could, at least theoretically, learn through other people's experiences, if one is open | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| However, experience shows that most individuals have to learn their own lessons through their own mistakes, not | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| proclaim one particular happening as more conducive to learn from than another. Theoretically, one could learn from | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| to learn from than another. Theoretically, one could learn from any occurrence in life. Mostly it is | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| occurrence in life. Mostly it is easier to learn a lesson from one's own tiny insignificant disappointments | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| cry from the idealized self. But as you learn to do so, you will begin to sense | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| truly grow with each life experience. You will learn, accomplish and gain real power, not the false | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| that you can become aware of them and learn to cope with them by solving the underlying | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| destructively. As you proceed with this work, you learn to become increasingly aware of feelings of utter | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| I cannot emphasize this enough. As you gradually learn this by decreasing your resistance through increased understanding | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| everything must automatically be your fault. You will learn to discriminate. You will discover that some resentments | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| fall into a state of desuetude. You will learn to assert yourself where you previously let yourself | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| conceivable point of view, you will see and learn and sense that it truly is the opposite | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| soul, art and artificiality symbolize others. You will learn to perceive anything in material existence as a | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you proceed in your sincere self-facing, you will learn and you will be guided by us. Particular | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with the divine can happen only if you learn to let go, if you cease to be | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| mental side. In order to do so you learn, you use your brain, your thinking capacity; you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| go through transition periods too. You not only learn, you are also bound to make mistakes. In | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| that lodges exclusively in the subconscious. As you learn to become aware of what is really going | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| emotions were held in check. You will also learn to discriminate between genuine good feelings and the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the image you have of yourself. If you learn to accept the reality of yourself instead of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| released in a constructive way, such as you learn on this path, a so-called temper tantrum takes | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| Instead of trying to whisk away such emotions, learn to accept yourself in spite of them. Learn | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| learn to accept yourself in spite of them. Learn to see your real values in spite of | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| negative, undeveloped reactions. So the first thing to learn on this path now is the ability to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| often do not know the answer. If you learn this and at the same time still like | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| response on your part. Instead, you should first learn to accept your imperfection without losing faith in | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| emotional reaction, such exaggeration always exists. When you learn to allow your emotions to come to surface | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| to discover these reactions in yourself as you learn to take your emotional reactions out of hiding | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| yet. Simply recognize their existence in you and learn to accept yourself. This will do more for | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| taking criticism with flexibility and are able to learn from it. Thus criticism will not crush you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |