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| understand that this life is one of many learning periods, one link in a long chain, you | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| by accepting them for what they are and learning from them what is necessary, and by taking | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| when you go through this schooling successfully, by learning to know and to apply the spiritual laws | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| pursues this kind of training goes through a learning period very similar to a doctor or a | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| make on the path: self-knowledge, overcoming one's faults, learning the spiritual laws generally and applying them particularly | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| have outer perfection often too quickly, merely by learning thought control. This is not enough. Your lower | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| doing this, you are at the same time learning a lot of other things. Thus spiritual strength | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| language. But there are special instances where the learning of a language becomes necessary and for that | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| of spiritual truths; even repetitions are important! The learning of spiritual laws is also important. The outlook | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| only this kind of mutual activity, but also learning. You see, with the spirits of darkness it | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| undue interference, you would not be capable of learning what you have to learn. QUESTION: Even if | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| its inevitable purpose must also be to increase learning and thereby strengthen awareness of each individual's weakness | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| serves the good purpose of necessary testing and learning for those people with strong arms and shoulders | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| one of you can find your way by learning how to go about it, where to begin | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| reality, accepting yourself as you are and thus learning true humility. This awareness will generate a new | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| seeing other means of reaching God and of learning something from that. But in the beyond they | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| loud voice. Explain certain things that you are learning that he may not believe as yet. That | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| on a path of purification, for example, or learning to love are such. Overcoming your weaknesses, or | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| voluntarily as a means of growing faster, of learning to accept that which cannot be altered by | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| which cannot be altered by the self, of learning humility, and other positive attitudes. Then the obstacles | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| so to avoid completely unnecessary hurt feelings. In learning to become aware of these currents, you must | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| attaining a healthy attitude toward your shortcomings, and learning to live according to life's rules and not | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| necessary difficulties. It encompasses all that you are learning here. Only after this is accomplished will you | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| best way to find God is always by learning to love other people. As you know, this | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| first place, prayer is the best exercise for learning concentration. Without the ability to concentrate you cannot | 36 PRAYER |
| be combined. There is no better way of learning to concentrate than by a systematic way of | 36 PRAYER |
| in what stage of development the medium is. Learning about the facts of Creation, about God, and | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| or remaining where you are for a while, learning, developing, purifying. This is the explanation for all | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you finally succeed in answering these questions by learning to make your emotions conscious and articulate, you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| wonderful temple and contribute in this work by learning from the frictions in your everyday life. Do | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I am willing to pay the price of learning from my possible mistakes. In reality, by avoiding | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| universal truth. You cannot get it outwardly by learning things, or by performing certain rites, or whatever | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| by applying certain methods in your work, by learning how to analyze your findings from a new | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and making the best of it, and for learning from it -- for there is so much | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| from taking the reins into your hands through learning to control your thought-world. Thought control increases awareness | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| To become master over your thought process by learning to make foreground thoughts from background thoughts and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| powerful than the apparently stronger foreground thoughts. By learning to observe your thought process, you will discover | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| own particular way. (3) Understanding of, and gradually learning to control the thought process. These three approaches | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| that will result in their loving you. In learning how to love, the first step is to | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| becoming objective in your evaluation of others and learning to give up your will gracefully. Thus you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| do not know lies the possibility of seeing, learning, and eventually knowing. Intuition will never be a | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| a spirit of courage and constructive self-analysis -- learning where you fall short in some way, perhaps | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| first -- to form plans for activities, for learning and purification in the Spirit World, as well | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| class to another. While in the middle of learning, it does not have the perspective to scan | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| are directly or indirectly responsible for, therefore not learning from life. It is the attitude in which | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| confronting the fear of it. The task is learning the strength to die, for only the person | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| my disposal. As to the practical approach in learning to face death in your everyday life, it | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| death is, meeting it, and in so doing, learning to discriminate between that which is inevitable and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| embedded in us after so many decades of learning the false attitude. Wouldn't prayer change too if | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| without repressing them, but expressing them constructively and learning from them. Find the area in which you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| is to become aware of them, while gradually learning to do what is realistic and adequate to | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| makes you blind, self-centered, and fearful. Only in learning acceptance can you attain the state of inner | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| learn something that is constant and alive by learning a few rules, by hearing a few words | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| luxury of letting the emotions flow, observing them, learning from them and recognizing the true state of | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| useful symptom they are meant to be by learning about yourself, your real needs, your drives, your | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| from the outside without your creating it by learning and experiencing in a productive way. First you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| just accepting your immaturity, and by doing so, learning more about it. Such activity will relieve the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| grow much faster because of the resistance. By learning to go with the resistance, you develop inwardly | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| more realistic relationship with themselves. All growing and learning is determined by curves and cycles. If the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| faith, no hope. Truth does not mean the learning of principles, philosophies, theories. You have to begin | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| dimensions can never be made accessible by verbal learning, but only by inner experience which, in turn | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| you find yourself in a negative mood without learning the deep lesson behind it, or seeing its | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| requires a certain technique, the same as in learning any new language. It means practice, perseverance, and | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| more comes to you by itself than suddenly learning a new language without organized effort. Only it | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| many other things, this path is also the learning of the language of the unconscious. When you | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| projected onto others. Discovering all these mechanisms is learning the language of the unconscious. This is a | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| about yourself. This is a vital part of learning the language of your unconscious. I will now | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| possibly be dispensed with. They are the tools, learning to use them in the appropriate way is | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| not be given in an intellectual way, like learning a lesson by rote, however. They must yield | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| and cycles of embodiments, one after the other, learning to die until dying is no longer a | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| also help from outside in, by cultivating and learning from without the art of mobility in relaxation | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| from it, but by seeing and accepting it, learning to understand its nature. This is what is | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| manifests intuitively from within yourself, not through a learning process introduced from outside. Only people who do | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| step aside in a more passive, listening and learning attitude. The ego can be likened to hands | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| into the open with the constructive view of learning how to handle them from here on. This | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| you are now cannot be avoided. Only by learning to do this can you come to your | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| numbed to some extent are active again. My learning processes, too, are enhanced. I feel very much | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| Only as humanity matures is it capable of learning that the instinctual life does not need to | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| unity where there was limitation and disunity. Not learning to walk creates unhappiness, weakness, pain and limitation | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| the way I have outlined above? Unless by learning to do this you purify yourself, there must | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| know, the road is not easy. It means learning many new attitudes, new aspects of yourself. Above | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| the life-energy at your disposal. The key is learning to encounter the destructive force so that you | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| a sense of proportion; groping for new ways; learning from mistakes and failures; refusing to give up | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| residual feelings, alternating with your present feelings. By learning to give up the fight against them, you | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| once deemed to be unacceptable and unbearable, and learning to sustain and to handle them, is the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| to accept the difficulties, the hardships of the learning process. Only when the ego has learned the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| actually is, happening through you. If you are learning a manual task, the manual rules have to | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| artist who wants to bypass the effortfulness of learning the ground rules can never unfold any creative | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| within you to unite with your consciousness. 2. Learning the ability to feel all your feelings and | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| channel was established. I have given exercises for learning concentration and ways to still the mind. Yet | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| so, as you expand your nucleus of spiritual learning and purification. You are indeed blessed. Every step | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| toward movement. Hence, on your path, you are learning to move your body; learning to move your | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| path, you are learning to move your body; learning to move your feelings; learning to move your | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| move your body; learning to move your feelings; learning to move your mind, so that your spirit | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| your physical energy. You move your feelings by learning to let them out and feel their movement | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| The second and most important phase consists of learning how to activate the greater consciousness dwelling within | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| is it something that you can acquire through learning or effort. It unfolds organically as a byproduct | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| problems, the fulfillment of your real needs. By learning self discipline, you will establish order in your | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| the wondrous journey into the inner world and learning the many difficult lessons. The very act of | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| of. My friends, it is a question of learning to use this knowledge. Look at your sexuality | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| You on this path are indeed pioneers in learning the all-important art of making this distinction. Only | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| not deal with it safely. You are now learning a new and marvelous method of freeing your | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| you came here to learn. Through the very learning of this lesson the deeper connections establish themselves | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| have come to fulfill. The organic process of learning creative meditation, recreating life experience, will come as | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| to go, in which direction to focus. But learning how to listen is an art in itself | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| process is the patience to let things be, learning to trust life to express back to you | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| labor of searching, of seeking and finding, of learning, of growing, of changing, of self-purification, of traversing | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| each entity. Here, on this path, you are learning to eliminate the obstructions and the obstacles. At | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| joy and fun and also a lot of learning, although this will not necessarily be school learning | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| learning, although this will not necessarily be school learning. You know there is another learning. Let us | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| be school learning. You know there is another learning. Let us call it life learning. Life learning | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| is another learning. Let us call it life learning. Life learning is even more important than school | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| learning. Let us call it life learning. Life learning is even more important than school learning. Life | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Life learning is even more important than school learning. Life learning is what the path can teach | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| is even more important than school learning. Life learning is what the path can teach you. You | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| have joyful times, but also times of life learning. For example, you older children can gain the | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| always, earlier, which can coincide with the outer learning. You have children on your path who early | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| realize that I did. ANSWER: That is the learning process I spoke about. By experience, by trial | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| can come only through the process of groping, learning, making mistakes. Eventually the inner knowing will come | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| your own part in the mutual venture of learning. As I grope to find the words best | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| that is supposed to eliminate the growing and learning process. Now, this ultimate power is supposed to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| in order to avoid the initial tedium of learning and becoming, the channel will remain closed. For | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| its function as a very sharp tool of learning, of discriminating. But when it ends there it | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Group consciousness at this very early stage meant learning to get along with others. In this phase | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the first phase in this particular lifetime of learning how to get along with a group. As | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| approach to life -- the approach you are learning as you delve into the depths of your | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| for the understanding of the principles you are learning on this path, and also of the levels | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| consciousness of the process. The complementing approach is learning from outside, without which such bringing out is | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| this double purpose, a very different process of learning and education will unfold. The inner voice will | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Then there will be a significant portion of learning about the inner being, on bringing out the | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| the higher self as the fundamental road to learning. Intellectual knowledge will then become secondary. It will | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| cultivate the curiosity of the child to make learning intensely interesting and fascinating. Unfortunately, education as it | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| cultivate this curiosity. Once it is squashed, the learning process becomes a dull must that kills the | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| that kills the spirit and the life of learning. Education can be intrinsically exciting, enjoyable and adventurous | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| task. Approached in this way the material makes learning an exciting process instead of a dull, compulsory | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| would like to have over and done with. Learning will become something to look forward to. It | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| freedom and self- discipline. This applies equally to learning and education. The freedom to want to learn | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| all possible. Adults who harbor an image that learning is a hardship, a boring and dull task | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| a similar way. An attitude that assumes that learning and homework is the price to be paid | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| pleasure can begin can guarantee a hatred of learning even in a child who is eager to | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| child does not respond to the freedom of learning, if he or she is not willing to | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| to go through this, for it is a learning stage which represents a doorway to yet another | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| topic, but are even more important. This life learning -- this all-encompassing knowledge of life, self and | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| the approach to teaching all other topics. Other learning will then not only be easier but will | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| a privilege they look forward to, even though learning includes hard work and the relinquishing of some | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| disappear, when what is really called for is learning from them through acceptance and thus transcending them | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| great. When you are still battling with it, learning about it and its ramifications, discovering it on | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| one. The next step on the ladder of learning to transcend frustration is the active, deliberate and | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| or linking. A mutual giving and exchanging and learning can become an ongoing process that will yield | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| have to concentrate more on the emotional level, learning to accept and deal with feelings whose force | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| outlook of creation as a whole, and on learning meaningful prayer and meditation. Without this constant interfacing | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| could be based on the principles you are learning. In running your business, in matters of administration | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| your creative processes in an entirely new way, learning to release your blocks. Why, then, would you | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the new values and truths you are constantly learning here. Many of these values have already become | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| is true to a degree. But in true learning much more is involved than outer mental processes | 254 SURRENDER |
| a meaningful relationship with one another. You are learning to do so on this path. All your | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| the preliminary phase. The next organic step is learning the great art of communication. This requires intention | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| You can establish clarity, light and truth. By learning the skill of communication, and practicing it as | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |