| Lessons.....................25 | |
| such as taking up some new kind of lessons that might rob you of time and effort | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| Apart from all hardships there are certain general lessons to be learned by everyone alike in every | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| they can prove that they are accepting life's lessons. Actually negative attitudes are just another way of | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| of kicking and struggling -- and refusing life's lessons. Another distortion of a divine attribute concerns dignity | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| scan the whole curriculum. The child learns its lessons day by day. But there are subjects on | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| that most individuals have to learn their own lessons through their own mistakes, not by the mistakes | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| or sphere represents different conditions so that different lessons have to be learned. None can be completed | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| better one, is unlimited in creation, and repeated lessons are necessary in every stage of overall development | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the midst of life, not avoiding its lessons even if they cannot, or will not, understand | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| as to enrich the soul and learn the lessons life has to offer. This period will enable | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| spite of extensive recognitions of images and childhood lessons. You will now detect the destructive feelings in | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| you resist this temptation, you are heeding life's lessons and signs. On a day you spend in | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| the inner world and learning the many difficult lessons. The very act of revealing all parts of | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| the beginning will have taught you the necessary lessons. By handling obstructions in a truly honest, open | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| the soul may at least learn some important lessons, which it can then utilize in the next | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| will make you happy if you learn these lessons and stop thinking that you will not be | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| other. This process is the key. When the lessons of these endeavors are absorbed by the soul | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| existed the need to cooperate with others. The lessons learned at this stage could then be brought | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| increase in recent years. Humanity had learned certain lessons in bridging the gap from the self to | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| be applied to a higher evolutionary level. The lessons learned recently in the phase of high individuality | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| will do homework now and learn my daily lessons, even though I would rather go out and | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| these perceptions seriously, they cannot learn two important lessons. One is that they are not fantasizing but | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| own inner greatness because you have learned the lessons, you must be in one way or another | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| seen out of context. Of course, the true lessons must be learned individually. This is exactly what | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| it takes a long time, much experience, many lessons, many trials and errors, untold incarnations until your | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Letter......................7 | |
| to work according to my words to the letter; certain details of method and timing may vary | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| is so proud of its law and its letter. His is the kind of authority you should | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| always have the tendency to go by the letter and not according to the deep meaning. Rigid | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| outer ignorance. COMMENT: Jesus himself said, For the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. ANSWER: Yes | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| After all, you have obeyed, often to the letter. But, obedience of this sort always has the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of the living spirit of truth, and the letter of the law has been substituted. Because people | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| standards that you comply with, often to the letter but seldom in the spirit. These lead often | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| Letting.....................292 | |
| when you hold on to yourself instead of letting yourself flow and surrender in a healthy way | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| a way; just be open and free to letting yourself be guided. Then guidance will come at | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| feeling how much joy you can experience by letting others also have that which you hitherto had | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| little problems and uncertainties. You are prone to letting the uncertainties ferment in your feelings and create | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| battle and you should know what you are letting yourself in for as you go into it | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| within, and it is only a question of letting it come to the surface. As with willpower | 21 THE FALL |
| to follow in His footsteps and remain humble, letting God take over. Immediately after Christ had successfully | 22 SALVATION |
| And if you can really give up without letting the other person involved know, then, once you | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| receive an answer from Him. Before I consider letting Him make my decision, I will ask God | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| always involves giving up something. It may mean letting go of an opinion, a desire, perhaps a | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| on so very strongly and are incapable of letting it go for the sake of the Lord | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| understand the other person's point of view without letting your so-called dignity stand in your way. You | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| of isolated information about your inner reactions. By letting your emotions come to the surface and putting | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| fear and self- will, which prevent you from letting go of the self. The other extreme is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| yourself back renewed and freer than ever by letting go of yourself entirely. The fear of giving | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| healing forces of nature to take over. After letting out the pus -- your errors, your wrong | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the gap until you reach the perfection of letting your divine self manifest. That is the way | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| remedy is in finding the inner fear of letting go, of giving oneself, of revealing the self | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| using and cherishing your findings I mean not letting them slip back into hiding, for then the | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| a bleak world. You need not despair over letting go of a desire and venturing into what | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| to let go of the fluids, expanding them, letting them flow out, so to speak, the state | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is a connection between improved health and the letting go of the inner tension that self-will produces | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| healthy approach that should follow the work of letting go of the compulsive wrong way. ANSWER: As | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| concentrating on a state of nonthinking, not by letting your thoughts float away in a haze of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| removed from your soul. The next step is letting go of a certain hostility once you have | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| seems no danger to you in being loved. Letting go of the self-willed forcing current results in | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| but not least, there has to be a letting go of all resistance to facing yourself fully | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is usually a fear -- a fear of letting go, a fear of letting the subconscious rise | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| a fear of letting go, a fear of letting the subconscious rise, a fear of going into | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| by visualizing a soul movement of tensing and letting go. When you struggle away from something frightening | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the basic damage it causes. It makes the letting go of many an attitude impossible. It makes | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| distinct soul movements. One holding on tightly, not letting go of obsolete things so that new material | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| also know how great the resistance is to letting this happen. Some of you have tasted the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the right people, and the destructiveness of heedlessly letting go all control, of not choosing the right | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| calls for awareness of what you really feel, letting out your true emotions and reactions. Without that | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| pinpoint this tendency, but this does not mean letting go of all the moral standards you have | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| why you resist. Why are you afraid of letting out your emotions to the full extent? Usually | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| needs a great amount of understanding; or not letting up on efforts of self- observation and taking | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| growth and change and to the fear of letting go of familiar, although defective, behavior patterns. If | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| require outer or material giving up, but rather letting go of an attitude of emotional grasping. Be | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| receive something for nothing. The unconscious resistance to letting go is the strongest cause of self-contempt, guilt | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| because your own experience will teach you that letting go is something utterly good and beneficial. This | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| yourself at all, but accomplish nothing more than letting go of your frenzy and rebellion, it would | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| than all the fault- finding and self-accusation without letting go of the very situation that makes such | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| This part puts up a last fight against letting go of all the old, obsolete defenses. QUESTION | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| increasingly understand my insistence on the necessity of letting your emotions come to the surface. If and | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| interdependent, as are all extreme attitudes. Only by letting go of both attitudes can the healthy, constructive | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| instance do you afford yourself the luxury of letting the emotions flow, observing them, learning from them | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| spiritual life. May you thus become capable of letting go, of receiving, examining, discriminating, and objectively looking | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the proper combination of wanting and willing, while letting free: the self- will goes out, while the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| Forcing leads only to self-deception and illusion. By letting an undesirable aspect be, letting it float on | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| and illusion. By letting an undesirable aspect be, letting it float on the surface, you can observe | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Channeled emotions are negative emotions manipulated. Only by letting them free will you be able to transform | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| be no conflict between two unsatisfactory alternatives: either letting all destructive impulses loose, or incarcerating the living | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| stems from egocentric fear and an over-cautiousness about letting go to feeling and to being. Therefore manipulation | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| tend to compensate for their real guilts by letting themselves be exploited. It is true that if | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| in the wrong way. He holds on where letting go would be productive and harmonious and he | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| word, to that degree must his fear of letting go of himself disappear; then letting go of | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| fear of letting go of himself disappear; then letting go of himself and disciplining himself both function | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| practices both these inner activities of discipline and letting go, but in reverse, which necessarily impedes self-fulfillment | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| femininity. So she, too, fluctuates between discipline and letting go of herself, exercising both in the wrong | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| the two primary aspects of discipline and of letting go -- they might well be termed as | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| they are both the same! When discipline and letting go of oneself occur through wisdom, truth, strength | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| all levels of the personality. When discipline and letting go of oneself occur through blindness, weakness, fear | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| principles of discipline and strength versus self-surrender and letting go of the self meet in the last | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| the fear of death is the fear of letting go of the barriers which separate you from | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| of control that stands in the way of letting oneself go into the state of being. When | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| And so does the fear of loving, of letting go of yourself in this great experience. Find | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| the yes-current is so desperately urgent. Instead of letting this mislead you into assuming that this proves | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| own unconscious in connection with your fear of letting go into union with a mate and, the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| true self. Do not dissipate the energy by letting yourself be tempted away from it, depriving yourself | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| of the considerable progress already made, rather than letting yourself slide into inertia again. Then you will | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| for you, but doing it now yourself by letting the infinite intelligence manifest in yourself. The slightest | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| is nothing to fear in God's world, in letting one's own organic development proceed, in not halting | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| knowingness. This is the confusion concerning control and letting go. Some of my friends have made their | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| principle or soul movement which combines control and letting go. Where truth is known, there is no | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| control exists where it should be released, and letting go where control is needed. Misunderstood and misapplied | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| wider sense, can come. True control comes through letting go of control; through the apparent risk of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| fear, not wanting to take the risk of letting go of control, my words could easily be | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| follow suit. The same holds for control and letting go. When you cross the threshold from understanding | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| other-centeredness; as well as right, healthy control and letting go. When these two tendencies are perceived, experienced | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| fear of pain, fear of trust, fear of letting go of control, fear of self. This last | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| You often just say, I have a resistance, letting it go at that, as though you had | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| only by consciousness. One has the choice of letting the motion happen automatically, allowing one's unconscious attitude | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| all the necessary conditions -- and passivity -- letting the universal powers do their work, entrusting the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| entrusting the self to them with a full letting go of the self in total commitment. When | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| The self is realized in choosing accountability and letting go of the tightness in the mind, as | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| be successful, because you are too afraid of letting go of it. It is necessary to establish | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| go must be learned. The more one fears letting go, the greater the imbalance of the soul | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| unknown, by giving up the tense holding. Such letting go eventually results in full mastery without the | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| patterns and stages of this work rather than letting them out and then seeing the stages into | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| to your own development. It may facilitate a letting go that can happen only when you trust | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| what you said tonight about the reluctance of letting go of this childish desire for omnipotence, the | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| is by insisting, by not giving up and letting go. The weakness creates fear, and fear generates | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| now prevents you from giving yourself up, from letting yourself be. You must distrust yourself if you | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| and vision of the ego, rather than through letting that most real part of nature: life and | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| false idea for a truthful one. This means letting go of tense, anxious self-will and replace it | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| understanding of self and others, an ease in letting your soul- movements flow forward in the beautiful | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| you. The great spiritual laws always seem contradictory. Letting go of the self into the harmonious flow | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| of mind, and by superimposing goodness. The natural letting go is not a self-indulgent lack of self-discipline | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| are honest with yourself all the way, thereby letting go of the last vestiges of control over | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| is needed: Where the personality forces and pushes, letting go and giving in to the superior force | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| version of love or the false version of letting free. To love in a distorted way is | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| loved -- lead to the false version of letting go, which is withdrawal, indifference, non-involvement, non-commitment, numbness | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| any inkling, any realization, of a fear of letting go of destructiveness, of a fear of the | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| where you can let go of it. This letting go appears frightening. It is a question of | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| yourself, you cannot trust the universal forces. By letting go of the little ego, you will become | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| which you say, I let go. Whether the letting go means giving up destructiveness, cruelty, evasion, or | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| other unproductive way of life, or whether the letting go is entrusting yourself to the flow of | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| happiness is directly related to the fear of letting go of one's outer ego faculties. By the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |