| a fallacy to think you can go through life without making decisions. Actually, you make a decision | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| nothing and wait for God to run your life? Is it really devotion to God that forms | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong. It is inevitable in every human being's life to make some wrong decisions, but you should | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| choice is too easy and therefore the coming life would not offer them any chance of growth | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so far away from understanding the purpose of life that they would bring great harm to themselves | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do not like to live, who fight against life, are usually those who did not like to | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a product of the anti-life force; if the life instinct is small, if the will to live | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| matters. On the other hand, with people whose life force is strong, who have a positive outlook | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is strong, who have a positive outlook on life, one can be reasonably certain that they liked | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| finds union and integrates with love and the life force. This applies to all forces, all emotions | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mean? That you have produced circumstances in your life, in your former incarnations as well as in | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your former incarnations as well as in this life, by conscious as well as unconscious deviations from | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| own resurrection will take place. The new, free life will come to you by releasing your inner | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from truth. Thus will flow through you the life force that was turned into a destructive force | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| must experience inwardly. The greater significance of his life and death in the entire Plan of Salvation | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may come to think a little differently about life. But once this different outlook is gained, it | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| point. There is certainly enough friction in your life. And now, dearest friends, may the Light of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from the outer world and lead an inner life, this attitude shows the same distortion. It is | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| in the billions of stars there must be life similar to our own planet. If this is | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| part of it. Whether or not you find life in the same or similar forms on other | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| with it. Even if the outer form of life is similar -- although it is not exactly | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| those millions of planets which have the same life as we here? ANSWER: Not exactly the same | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| dearest friends, blessed is this hour. The creative life force or principle is all around you. It | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| happiness in every possible respect. For the creative life force does not wish you anything but good | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the financial, but another area of the person's life. However, you are not able to trace the | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| in question cannot see it either. The constructive life force has its counterpart in a negative force | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| may be burdened with certain difficulties in your life which you take for granted, although this does | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| avoid further wrong impressions about God, fate, and life. You will give yourself time to grow into | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| medicine if you have the proper attitude toward life and want self-responsibility. Otherwise, hardship will not even | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| and fine difference. Declaring yourself responsible for your life and seeking the remedy for past erroneous attitudes | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| feeling that because you are responsible for your life you are all the more guilty and inferior | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| great universal force in all aspects of your life right away, slowly and gradually, little by little | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| many of you will confirm, you approach the life force and invigoration by the mere fact of | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| how you feel in certain situations of your life, that much passes you by that could be | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| register in the most casual incidents of your life? What is the emotion you register first and | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| a shortcut is possible to partake of the Life Force by simply exchanging a truth for an | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the great Universal Truth, as well as the Life Force have access to your soul. I do | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| know yourself and gain a firm stronghold on life count as very little time indeed. The movements | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| little, you will all enjoy the glory that life can be, even on this earth sphere. Learn | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| your innermost self and to your own inner life plan. Nor can you please all people. But | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| If you observe your reactions in your everyday life and analyze them honestly, you will come to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| now stand on my own feet. My inner life and value is not dependent on others. It | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| whether he believes in his intellect that his life and happiness depend on what other people think | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the person who has this conflict cannot handle life any more. The existence of these two images | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| caught in the mass image, will change your life. Receive our love and blessings, each one of | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| remains with him for the rest of his life. All wrong concepts are distortions and misunderstandings of | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the mature concept of happiness, and therefore of life itself, the fact that one cannot always be | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| cause for utter despair. One truly accepts that life holds both happiness and unhappiness. So when unhappiness | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| often struggles against the tide, trying to force life into the wrong concept. When this proves impossible | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| misunderstood basic principles, and by unrealistic approaches to life. Thus it is lived out in an extremely | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| truly experience these emotions and live them, your life will gradually begin to change in many ways | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you have achieved a more mature outlook on life. To the measure you discover the desire for | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| destroy the picture of your idealized self. Your life seems at stake, for all happiness seems to | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| Hidden, the infant would go on destroying your life, no matter how hard you tried to prevent | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you want happiness according to your idea, and life, or God, denies it, God is to be | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of opposites. You must not expect in this life to reach the point where pain instantly turns | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| Moreover, it would lead to the nonacceptance of life as it is in your reality, namely a | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| positive chain reaction. If your entire attitude and life direction is geared to self-development, knowledge will come | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| come to you at certain periods of your life. But it has to come out of your | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| observed in a great many other aspects of life. Just about all you can do is to | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to lead nations. The greatest evil of earth life is always the individual's overemphasis on outer actions | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrongdoing of others is a basic misunderstanding of life. Yes, passing disadvantages can come to you, that | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| concerned. Our aim is to further light and life. Your determination and judgment should be governed as | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| each one of you for the fullness of life and to help you overcome your inner obstacles | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| flexible and amenable to change. In your daily life you may experience happenings that may change a | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| it must become a tremendous obstacle in your life. If you could but understand that all thoughts | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| this world, which means that you cannot have life and people be according to your very own | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| entire personality, or to every area of your life. By working in this direction and examining your | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| where you hung onto it as though your life were at stake, will you be able to | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| can only vanish from your soul and your life once you have made the plunge into it | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the phantom fear which makes you believe your life is at stake. Otherwise you would not be | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| a benign authority above you who steers your life in all ways as you desire. You wish | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| assume self- responsibility in some areas of your life, often in superficial and outer actions. But in | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| last and deepest and most important attitude toward life as a whole you still refuse self-responsibility, yet | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| human soul, and in the human attitude toward life as such. The infant in you does not | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| constant effort you waste in trying to force life into the mold of your illusion in this | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the various manifestations and reactions of your daily life, and then to jump into it. Otherwise it | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| There is a very important general misconception about life. It constitutes the main result of the unreasonable | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| harm through the arbitrariness of the god-of-your-image, of life, or fate, or through the cruelty, the ignorance | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| indeed independent. You are the master of your life and fate; you -- and no one else | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| times, less strongly at other times of your life. The apparent faults and misdeeds of others will | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the everyday occurrences, irritations, and annoyances in your life. Find out what in yourself responds, or corresponds | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| so conditioned to the habit of going through life concentrating on the apparent wrong of the other | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| afraid of the world. If your fear of life and the inadequacy of others is not to | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| and that you are the master of your life. Therefore you need have no fear. In other | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| of phantom thoughts and soul-forms that make your life miserable. In your intellect you may know all | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| struggle against the abyss of illusion. Your whole life must change in many ways if you discover | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| will free you of your basic fear of life. It will release heretofore wasted forces for constructive | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| and not superimposed knowledge, you will go through life with a completely new attitude: as a free | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| eyes to have it constantly confirmed in your life. You know that the human personality consists of | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| therefore, the entity is ready to start earth life after a shorter period of time in the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Yes. Only the terminology may be debatable, for life on other planets may or may not be | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it for the rest of his or her life. In both cases you mention, some similar trend | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a wrong concept, just as other influences in life constantly seem to do. But this lasts only | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that any outer influence can really harm you, life would be impossible. That would be such a | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| case, they will constantly misinterpret truth; and when life and their own disinclination to face themselves catch | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is greatly influenced for his or her whole life by certain occurrences and conditions in childhood and | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understand this only if you realize that one life is but a small part of a long | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| period of childhood. This is the reason for life, my friends. If a problem does not exist | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| other groups of people seem to influence your life. If you think this through, you must see | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| say, If thus and thus were different, my life would take another form. All measures, laws and | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of course. The child has brought its entire life plan, its cycle of incarnations into this life | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life plan, its cycle of incarnations into this life. Everything is engraved in its soul, what kind | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is engraved in its soul, what kind of life it is going to lead, its basic design | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| basic design, and also the duration of this life -- which can sometimes be altered during a | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that only woman goes through certain cycles in life: the cycles of menstruation and the change of | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| the cycles of menstruation and the change of life. Man goes through similar cycles, only they do | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| cycles has a great significance in a man's life. By the same token, it is not only | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| to share, through mysterious rites, in His divine life? Is this faith plus the sacraments sufficient to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| death and to awaken us to a new life which would mean eternal existence and blessedness? ANSWER | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is a key -- the key to life, the key to the universe. QUESTION: There still | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to selfishness, being responsible only for my own life and well-being? I would look for that which | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of pseudo-protection which are always wrong solutions to life. Once the real person is out, it will | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| out how you caused certain effects in your life and taking the responsibility for them upon yourself | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feeling, willing, endowed with all the qualities of life as such. Some time ago, I gave a | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| For, the spiritual world is the World of Life. Where there is life, there must be creation | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is the World of Life. Where there is life, there must be creation. Spirit is life and | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is life, there must be creation. Spirit is life and life is creation. Only what is dead | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| there must be creation. Spirit is life and life is creation. Only what is dead does not | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| creation. Only what is dead does not create. Life can only create life, it cannot create something | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| dead does not create. Life can only create life, it cannot create something that is not alive | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is basically foreign and opposed to spirit and life. However, this created life will remain in the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| opposed to spirit and life. However, this created life will remain in the flowing state of being | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has found its fulfillment. The newly- created spirit life will not actively affect and participate in the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that you can escape certain unpleasant facets of life by unconsciously choosing to be ill. Or you | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a balance of one's activities. Part of one's life must be devoted to one's duties, one's livelihood | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| responsibilities, whatever they may be. Part of one's life should be devoted to spiritual unfoldment. And part | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to pleasure and relaxation. In other words, your life should be harmonious also in the attempt to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| race today after two billion years of developing life on earth. The other theory, which is still | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and happy person can you have fulfillment in life and be constructive in your environment. In order | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| by which God's power is released onto human life. Perhaps you would be willing to tell us | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| run. You think that because the question of life or death exists in international quarrels, it is | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the universe, doubt in the continuation of life exist in the same measure as the psyche | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the real roots of all your doubts regarding life and death, God and man. This will make | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all other doubts, such as the continuation of life after death, the fear of death, the fear | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| death, the fear of death, the fear of life, the fear of other human beings and yourself | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you the right approach to any facet of life, be it the contact with spiritual forces or | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or beings, or any other area of human life. QUESTION: That is most helpful. But in one | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are a hardship on you, demanding a saintly life that is not to your advantage. That is | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| establish the patterns of the person's subsequent emotional life. The child would like to be loved and | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| bound to color his or her entire emotional life. Deep in the unconscious, he or she feels | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| feelings -- that betrayal darkens your outlook on life. It eliminates your self- assurance, your self-confidence, your | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| further negative consequences in your inner and outer life. This realization and a discriminating attitude toward your | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| is real. This happens in many facets of life. It is most easily found in the love | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| unrealistic if applied as a general truth of life. The same relationship exists between the conclusions and | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the temporary circumstances of certain conditions in this life on the earth plane and the spiritual laws | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| is it forbidden? ANSWER: It refers to your life on earth, of course. It applies, just like | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| They would not undertake the difficulty of earth life; they would be lazy. They might prefer to | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| if people would not hold on to earth life because they have no certainty yet. The prohibition | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| On the contrary, developed beings will then welcome life on earth in another sense, and even more | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| on because they were uncertain. The joy of life on earth in the knowledge that there exists | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |