| Legs........................5 | |
| relaxed, and also not to sit with your legs or arms crossed. Hold your hands with the | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| once put it, they are like the two legs you need in order to walk through life | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| often there is an imbalance between these two legs, with one leg more developed than the other | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| your hand, to get up, to move your legs in this or that direction, to utter a | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the world. They learn to stand on their legs, they learn to walk, their hands reach out | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| Leisure.....................4 | |
| will get more benefit from your times of leisure; you will get more pleasure out of life | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| also one's attitude to nature, art, pleasure and leisure, spiritual reality, self-development and permanent values, together with | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| manifestations, such as the balance between work and leisure, are regulated by this principle, each of these | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| forth from a healthy organism flows effortlessly, while leisure cannot possibly be invigorating and revitalizing if it | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| Lengthy.....................3 | |
| emotions. To achieve that is, of course, a lengthy process. Only a person on the road of | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| To really understand and interpret dreams is a lengthy and often tedious process. It not only takes | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| honest search, for it almost always entails a lengthy practice of concentration exercises and sometimes even a | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Lenient.....................4 | |
| You must not expect that God's world is lenient in this respect. It may be lenient in | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| is lenient in this respect. It may be lenient in many other ways, but here the responsibility | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| spontaneous reactions, will follow. You will become more lenient with yourself and will no longer need perfection | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| one instance it may be right to be lenient, in another to restrict and even punish. Those | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| Lent........................3 | |
| which cometh out of the mouth. However, during Lent, dietary restrictions are observed by Christians. My two | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| is holy; and what is the meaning of Lent and of the counting of the days? ANSWER | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| The original symbolic meaning of the time of Lent was to give people a period of going | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| Lessened....................3 | |
| small, precarious success you had before is temporarily lessened. You now find it harder to assert yourself | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| understood the true nature of this fear, it lessened. This is what you now experience. QUESTION: How | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| yourself; self-delusion is eliminated. Thus the destructiveness is lessened, no matter how much you still want to | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Lessening...................4 | |
| introduction of a new approach does not mean lessening of one's efforts in the old direction. You | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| say that neither such a crisis, nor the lessening little upheavals are given to you because you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| lives are fuller, pleasure is greater, fear is lessening, security grows. You become more firmly rooted in | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| integration has been achieved. Unfocused emptiness is a lessening of consciousness. Focused emptiness is a heightening of | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Lessens.....................5 | |
| your courageous recognition and your goodwill changes and lessens their impact. Their impact is strongest when you | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| together, and therefore the illusory character of time lessens in your perception. You begin to sense something | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| fulfilling your real needs. Needless to say, this lessens your dependency on others and consequently increases your | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| fear mends the split of the duality. It lessens the intensity of both pleasure and pain. It | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| go on, the resistance to making these connections lessens. The stake you have in maintaining the fiction | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Lesson......................61 | |
| unfavorable if you do not learn your spiritual lesson from it. So everything that happens to you | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| and to meet it freely yourself. Then the lesson will be learned and life will have other | 21 THE FALL |
| will find out faster and faster what the lesson is. The moment you will understand the significance | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| or similar form until you have learned the lesson. Those who have experienced what it means to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| inevitably be that life will teach you a lesson and you will reap the disadvantages of both | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| was faulty, this then will be a good lesson and maybe the only way it could have | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| are the wishes disregarded and the type of lesson to be learned, namely to go through one's | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| humility to withhold judgement. May this be a lesson to all my friends who hear or read | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| that I reject through pride and self-will the lesson life has to teach me? Am I afraid | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| to teach me? Am I afraid of this lesson, of this sign that I love myself too | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| self at times, you will learn an additional lesson from that. Only those who do not escape | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| torturers to victims until all have learned their lesson. In some instances the paying off of such | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| welfare of others, he has to learn a lesson. But if that happens, it is partly because | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| can come into existence from which an important lesson cannot be learned. An entity going from one | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| growth. Let the frictions and irritations be a lesson to you. They are sometimes unavoidable and will | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| possibility to live on earth. That is the lesson to learn. If it is learned properly, it | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| And each time, when you learn an important lesson about yourself, you will emerge from the shadow | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| Spirit World in order to teach us a lesson, why then are they so covered by symbolism | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| evil is self-created, and thus it is your lesson and medicine. It is the only way in | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| element of pain the instant you recognize the lesson it can teach you. By no means does | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| doubt and fear was an important directive and lesson for all. But even though they did not | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and death. It meant much more than a lesson to each individual about the history of evolution | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of death and destruction? Three, can any positive lesson be learned by mankind through reviving this? ANSWER | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| this? ANSWER: Answering first the question: Can any lesson be learned about life and death, or any | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| not you can or want to learn a lesson. But as to the lesson of death, I | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| to learn a lesson. But as to the lesson of death, I venture to say that every | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| life. Mostly it is easier to learn a lesson from one's own tiny insignificant disappointments than from | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| Again it depends on the individual. A positive lesson could be learned by individuals, as well as | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| era of destruction and cruelty. And a negative lesson could also be learned through it. By the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| token, a positive as well as a negative lesson could be learned by not reviving it. There | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| these emotions remain predominant, there will be no lesson. If, on the other hand, the main motivations | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| not only proclaimed, but truly felt -- the lesson will be a positive one. On the other | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| opportunism, resignation. This would then be a negative lesson. Not reviving it could as well come out | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| relapse serve as a further stepping stone, further lesson, the new patterns will eventually establish themselves in | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| in a negative mood without learning the deep lesson behind it, or seeing its significance for your | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| realize that each negative phase contains a special lesson, that each disturbing happening harbors a knowledge you | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| given in an intellectual way, like learning a lesson by rote, however. They must yield a deeply | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| this way you will derive more of a lesson, more help, and you will also contribute more | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| that you take the occasion as a meaningful lesson to effect further growth. To do this requires | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| an insurmountable struggle. This is perhaps the hardest lesson for the human being to learn. How can | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| This is where human nature is caught. The lesson must then be repeated until the illusory fear | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the burning sensation an effect. It learns a lesson of life: if it wishes not to experience | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| are close together. It has obtained, with this lesson, its first degree of maturity on the road | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| to learn. Through the very learning of this lesson the deeper connections establish themselves again spontaneously. However | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| connectedness with the inner being, so that the lesson the ego has to learn is not comprehended | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| represents an aspect within yourself that becomes your lesson. And everyone of you can recognize it as | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| traversed. Human consciousness had to learn this particular lesson of cooperating out of fear. So for extended | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the individual state. Do not believe that no lesson is learned in that phase. School age is | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| alternation, each fulfills a purpose and presents a lesson. This constitutes a third spiral within the larger | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the undeveloped state becomes its own medicine and lesson. I have often mentioned this divine law, which | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| to determine for themselves have learned a major lesson of life. Having learned self-determination and self-responsibility, having | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| I choose so freely, they have learned the lesson of real freedom very early in life. This | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| the best of it. I will learn a lesson from this particular frustration and will not act | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| that does not contain a joyful, valuable, liberating lesson for you. Most of the time you are | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| on battling the occurrence of frustration that the lesson gets lost and you pass by a valuable | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| astound you. The realization of how necessary this lesson is, what you gain from it in new | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| outlook toward frustration, so that when another such lesson comes you will be much less afraid of | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| point of frustration, after you have learned the lesson it has to teach. And flow with it | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| will also have utilized it as a beautiful lesson and found the divinity of it, where all | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| infringe on you in some way. Recognize its lesson and begin to love it. This is tonight's | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| be a stepping stone, a threshold, a necessary lesson. The strength to do this can come only | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |