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or brings the plan to fulfillment before the life span is over. In this case, what was 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
beware of rash judgment; an easy and pleasant life is not always an indication that your last 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
or four incarnations ago. Similarly, a very difficult life may or may not be the result of 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
make changes for the better in your personal life plan. It is up to you to annul 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
it quicker if you fully realize what this life is all about. When life on the earth 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
realize what this life is all about. When life on the earth plane is finished, an account 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
time between incarnations is spent also determines the life to follow. The length of time between incarnations 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
parents, nationality, religion into which to be born, life circumstances, certain phases in life that are called 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
to be born, life circumstances, certain phases in life that are called fated are considered and set 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
in the soul. For that purpose the next life needs certain imperfections in the environment, for if 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
be paid off. Difficulties and advantages in the life to follow are considered from the point of 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
how much the entity should concentrate in this life on one character trend, or whether it would 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
planned to remain hidden in this particular earth life. When all has been considered, the entity is 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
study, the final plan is made for the life on earth to come. Special spirits are sent 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
then other karmic ties are used for this life that would have been concentrated on in a 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
who have died in an accident or whose life ended in another type of sudden and violent 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
one who will lead him through the coming life. The guardian delivers the plan to the spirit 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
of its knowledge will only come back after life on earth has been completed; another part of 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
part of knowledge will come back during earth life, but only when the entity leaves the body--in 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
for the person to work on in this life are energies or currents. These are treated in 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
only if and when the plan of this life has been fulfilled. All this must be carefully 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
is just waiting in an unconscious state. Sometimes life needs to start a little earlier because the 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
a little earlier because the conditions to begin life may be more suitable, and the parents also 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
determined by the spiritualized way of looking at life. So, last-minute changes can be made if the 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
the human beings themselves, because the Book of Life is available there. So tentative arrangements may be 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
to you, there is a plan for each life. But I also told you that there are 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
I wish to emphasize that the fact that life can be longer than projected in one of 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
is not always a sign that this longer life has been fulfilled at its best, though it 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
really fulfills his or her very best, his life may be prolonged because through his special fulfillment 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
possibilities to help others. But then, again, a life may be cut shorter because the entity has 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
cannot bluntly say that an unforeseen prolongation of life is necessarily a proof of good fulfillment. It 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
necessarily been given many alternative plans for a life. This will also clear up another question, namely 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
you.) QUESTION: My question concerns the prolongation of life through science, the extension of the life span 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
of life through science, the extension of the life span and the elimination of child death. Since 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
to have some part in the extension of life? ANSWER: Science can find only what God's Spirit 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
away, as it has happened before. So, if life is longer, it is because it fits into 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
you need to solve your problems and your life. The more you seek, the more will be 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
so has not even entered the school of life. To turn to God because this is less 35 TURNING TO GOD
God is out of the fullness of your life. The fullness of life means to enter life 35 TURNING TO GOD
the fullness of your life. The fullness of life means to enter life without cowardice, to open 35 TURNING TO GOD
life. The fullness of life means to enter life without cowardice, to open yourself to everything life 35 TURNING TO GOD
life without cowardice, to open yourself to everything life may bring: hardship and joy, unhappiness and happiness 35 TURNING TO GOD
be afraid of your own feelings and of life as it is. That is entering the fullness 35 TURNING TO GOD
it is. That is entering the fullness of life. But if you turn to God because it 35 TURNING TO GOD
are not consciously aware of reacting negatively to life. Test your emotions and your fears of other 35 TURNING TO GOD
of other people, the hazards and risks of life and love as you know them, and then 35 TURNING TO GOD
me to overcome my cowardice. Let me meet life with all its pains courageously. Then you do 35 TURNING TO GOD
creatures can open you to the fullness of life, which alone is the proper basis for finding 35 TURNING TO GOD
about it. Has it not happened in your life that other people loved you as best they 35 TURNING TO GOD
if any kind of hardship exists in your life, it is because you have violated some spiritual 35 TURNING TO GOD
your soul, as well as in your outer life. These may be seen as rocks and stones 36 PRAYER
to jump, my friends -- your fears of life as it actually presents itself, your fears of 36 PRAYER
fears of pain and disappointment. To master your life you have to jump into the unknown; to 36 PRAYER
place if you were to understand and take life as it is. After you jump you find 36 PRAYER
ability to concentrate you cannot achieve anything in life. You need to be able to concentrate when 36 PRAYER
unable to concentrate on the mainstream of your life, specifically your spiritual development? You learn to concentrate 36 PRAYER
course, the ultimate aim is that your whole life will become a prayer. But that is a 36 PRAYER
their emotional currents and their entire outlook on life. People who feel their ego to be the 36 PRAYER
your path, whatever way you deviate from your life plan, will create new repercussions in your life 36 PRAYER
life plan, will create new repercussions in your life. The person who has already made prayer a 36 PRAYER
you move around your personal vicious circle. And life will bring challenges and experiences for you -- 36 PRAYER
and recognize how the daily events in your life and your reactions to them relate to your 36 PRAYER
pedantically. This depends on the person's way of life, on his or her character; on many circumstances 36 PRAYER
an opinion, a desire, perhaps a way of life. Yet in reality you do not give up 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
is sufficient; and you go on with your life as though God and His call did not 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
and the other in your old way of life. The old way has brought you nothing but 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
and particularly among you, my friends. Acceptance of life is the divine way; to accept everything life 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
life is the divine way; to accept everything life brings, both good and bad -- and to 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
The true and right course is: I expect life to bring me unhappiness as well as happiness 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
need of this medicine. This is acceptance of life. Your unwillingness to accept life, or your inner 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
is acceptance of life. Your unwillingness to accept life, or your inner struggle with acceptance, may manifest 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
be unhappy. By defiance, self-pity, wanting to flee life or escape your trouble in one way or 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
that emotionally you have not accepted all that life stands for. Any disharmonious feeling you have in 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
in connection with the adversities in your personal life will prove to you that within yourself you 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
I reject through pride and self-will the lesson life has to teach me? Am I afraid of 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
pride mistaking pride for dignity, which has no life apart from complete humility. The individual whose ego 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
something unfortunate, one of the unavoidable hardships of life, and you then make generalizations from them. These 38 IMAGES
rather they are emotional reactions, general attitudes toward life. They are not completely devoid of a certain 38 IMAGES
into the unconscious. From there, they mold the life of every person to some extent. We call 38 IMAGES
puzzlement over many apparently inexplicable things in your life. For instance, your inability to change what you 38 IMAGES
is the repetition of certain incidents in one's life. An image always forms some sort of pattern 38 IMAGES
do not notice the repetitive pattern in your life, my friends. You pass over the obvious. You 38 IMAGES
realize is that images seldom form in this life, no matter how early they began. Most of 38 IMAGES
soul who has brought that conflict into this life. Although it is essential to find the image 38 IMAGES
the image and its origin in the present life to adequately dissolve it, there are still cases 38 IMAGES
the knowledge of its origin in a previous life. But there are cases where the knowledge of 38 IMAGES
I explained how an entity is prepared for life on earth; how plans for what should be 38 IMAGES
is the basis on which families and other life circumstances are chosen. When an image carries over 38 IMAGES
will be much more difficult in the following life on earth until the conflicts become so overwhelming 38 IMAGES
the images in your soul -- for your life is not without problems -- then pray to 38 IMAGES
through untold and quite unnecessary misery. In later life other conflicts will come up. Either the person 38 IMAGES
reactions will protect you against the hurts of life. Now how can you find your personal images 38 IMAGES
lack of control over certain patterns in your life; and fears and resistances on specific occasions. The 38 IMAGES
for the image by thinking back on your life and finding all the problems. Write them down 38 IMAGES
a difficulty cannot occur only once in your life, independent of any inner image. That is possible 38 IMAGES
that there are no unconnected happenings in your life. All unpleasant experiences are probably connected with your 38 IMAGES
from final judgments about the events in your life. In meditation, in serious self-probing, in checking your 38 IMAGES
says: I do not want the risk of life; I do not want the pain of life 38 IMAGES
life; I do not want the pain of life; therefore, I draw this conclusion which seems to 38 IMAGES
trouble you are trying to escape from, since life cannot be cheated. This is the merciful law 38 IMAGES
conclusions and fears and are ready to accept life for what it is will you be able 38 IMAGES
some of the self-will that wishes to deny life in its present form. Only then will you 38 IMAGES
for protection from the risks and hardships of life. Your difficulties will cease to be necessary once 38 IMAGES
It is a good beginning to review your life, concisely enumerating all your troubles. And then go 38 IMAGES
that will make you fully understand your whole life. In order to get to the image itself 38 IMAGES
This image is the one factor in your life responsible for every unhappiness. No one but you 38 IMAGES
images influence the universal current entering your personal life sphere so that certain effects must follow. If 38 IMAGES
yourself, you will never be free in this life. You will always be chained and bound. The 38 IMAGES
the image you do not dissolve in this life will have to be dissolved in a future 38 IMAGES
your images keep acquiring new twists so that life is becoming too much for you -- the 38 IMAGES
too much for you -- the easier your life will become. That you may safely believe. You 38 IMAGES
may be speculation. There may not be another life after all. Why should I go through all 38 IMAGES
undertake this work for the sake of this life, for it is never too late and always 38 IMAGES
remaining years will mean a different kind of life: you will be free instead of chained. Even 38 IMAGES
have yet to fulfill and what your next life may be. Consider what conditions you require to 38 IMAGES
resolve your conflicts in order to fulfill your life task. Of course, the actual next existence will 38 IMAGES
on your development during the rest of this life, too. Do not forget that the law of 38 IMAGES
and willpower are mustered in easy circumstances, the life that follows must necessarily be a little more 38 IMAGES
courage, humility, and willpower are not mustered, the life afterward will be more difficult still. Ultimately, when 38 IMAGES
controversial subject among people interested in the spiritual life. People are uncertain and confused about how to 38 IMAGES
form that controls all the events in your life. It also consists of the faults you may 39 IMAGE-FINDING
prejudices, your tight emotions in certain domains of life. Think how you react emotionally to certain things 39 IMAGE-FINDING
and how these reactions repeat themselves throughout your life. Review the disappointments that apparently have nothing to 39 IMAGE-FINDING
only because you ignore some facts of the life of the soul. People nowadays talk about depth 39 IMAGE-FINDING
a rationalization for the pseudo-solution of withdrawal from life because the negative unconscious is constantly on the 39 IMAGE-FINDING
meaning of desirelessness and renunciation. Wherever fear of life is embedded in an image -- and many 39 IMAGE-FINDING
be attained is by facing the fear of life and love. To risk the hurt and bear 39 IMAGE-FINDING
wrong. Those who know that the purpose of life is not the gratification of self-will and that 39 IMAGE-FINDING
of self-will and that the sole purpose of life is not happiness, but that life is given 39 IMAGE-FINDING
purpose of life is not happiness, but that life is given to you to learn both from 39 IMAGE-FINDING
renunciation to rationalize away your inner fears of life, of love, and of being hurt. Is that 39 IMAGE-FINDING
effect. A selfish prayer indicates a misunderstanding of life and is therefore made in untruth, even though 39 IMAGE-FINDING
to recognize how these emotions have influenced your life. Many of you constantly doubt God's justice because 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
eventually they also control and direct your outer life. This happens even though -- and because -- 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
friends, is the only way to control your life to some extent. Some people -- often those 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
power to change whatever mishap occurs in your life. You have the power to alter your life 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
life. You have the power to alter your life completely, but not if you merely change superficially 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
alter only your actions. You can change your life only if you search first for the inner 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
do not expect that God will change your life for you. God has given you free will 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
of all the repetitive patterns running through your life -- you have to anticipate coming across inner 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
to understand certain things about yourself and your life. But even this is not sufficient. You have 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
on all levels of your being, what your life and your conflicts mean and how you have 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
on how these wrong conclusions have influenced your life. For you know that nothing is so powerful 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
was and is responsible for your problems in life. It goes without saying that you should keep 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
you have recognized how it has influenced your life, start to reverse the circle and the conclusion 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
attitude they will avoid what they fear in life: pain, suffering, disappointment. The error, the wrong conclusion 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
work out in reality? And how would my life work if I did not have this false 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
for warding off pain. You cannot go through life without it. You all know this. Since no 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
to some degree, unavoidable. But if you accept life with its pain, always trying to understand what 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
choose what seemed like an easier way of life. The reactions to taking responsibility for one's life 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
life. The reactions to taking responsibility for one's life vary with each individual. Everyone is made up 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY

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