| your real feelings, this is how you experience life as long as you are still in the | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| individual spirit entity. At some time, in one life or another, the transition has to come. When | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| self-centeredness. You will feel a deep purpose in life, your life, all life! You will understand the | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| will feel a deep purpose in life, your life, all life! You will understand the purpose of | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| a deep purpose in life, your life, all life! You will understand the purpose of all your | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| like hairsplitting, but it is not. To perceive life from the new outlook is an essentially different | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| of separateness decreases. The fullness and richness of life will increase to the extent that you leave | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| Your purpose, your aim, and your concept of life are bound to change. This change will not | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you have nothing to fear. Much of your life and your opinions may remain the same while | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| and natural way because the call of your life is to grow to the maximum. However, it | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| your capacities, and then the great stream of life, of health, and of strength will flow through | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| flow through you. When your ultimate outlook on life is distorted or not clearly formulated, your creative | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| the wrong perspective on the real meaning of life. With the proper outlook, you are bound to | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| threshold. The cultivation of this new approach to life will eventually reveal to you an understanding not | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| expressed in innumerable little ways in your everyday life. Find it, and you will have found a | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| how you are struggling to maintain the isolated life, in which, at best, you want to share | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| which, at best, you want to share your life with a few chosen individuals. If you can | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| should undertake a drastic change in your outer life. The transition is much more subtle than that | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| symptoms of your old, self-centered, isolated way of life, you are bound to see how every impulse | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| it. You will accept it as part of life, instead of shrinking away from it. So you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| your personality, character, and your general outlook on life. Your health or lack of it, your constructive | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| to go through it. It means acceptance of life as a whole, including the necessary manifestations due | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| about. He has demonstrated it in symbols. For life itself is a symbol, much more so than | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| An emotionally mature person is one who understands life as it is, namely that it brings not | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| but emotionally many people do not. They say life has its rainy days, but emotionally they cringe | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is a sign of emotional immaturity, not facing life and reality as they are, and lacking the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| any effect. Selfish prayer indicates a misunderstanding of life and is therefore an untruth, even though you | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| this spirit can best fulfill his or her life. The karma influences the plan and the plan | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| and which ones remain hidden for a future life. Some may be in accordance with the parents | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to counteract the desire of the spirit. When life approaches its end, it is as though the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| can be gone through and can even enrich life, provided the right spiritual and psychological attitude is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| spiritual leaders and teachers had a perfectly easy life, people would say, This way it is easy | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| people might think somebody who has an easy life can therefore, in peace, turn to spiritual matters | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| no matter what. In one case an easy life will be used as a rationale, while the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| away because a spiritual leader has a difficult life lends itself less to rationalization. You see, your | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| and drink of His blood, He has no life in you? ANSWER: Of course, you realize, my | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| around the unwillingness to accept the difficulties of life with all its obstacles. You reject matter, you | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| You reject matter, you reject the difficulty of life, you try to escape these difficulties by various | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| man, means to say yes to this earth life and all it stands for, good and bad | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| a good mediation exercise to think what earth life includes and what should be accepted. Many people | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| it. Accept it as a necessary byproduct of life and your own temporary state of imperfection. Accept | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| when we get to the beyond, after this life, do we then have the memory of previous | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the case. They may also see the past life plan and how this is connected with previous | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| and the cause and effect going from one life to the next. Thus, the personality will see | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| and the memory is only taken away during life on earth. When the spirit comes back the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the spirit given the whole chain, its entire life from the time of its creation and the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Each creates a different sphere. According to the life you lead, the occupation of your mind and | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the foreground at a different period of your life. It is very difficult to make you understand | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| from a spiritual experience will eventually affect your life, your endeavors, your attitudes. But often it is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| self can take the reins and govern your life. Thus it is easy to see that your | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| It is based on a fundamental misunderstanding about life. In order to get a comprehensive view of | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| that getting your will is a matter of life or death. Not to get it represents the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| calls for your pushing ahead, trying to force life, people, and circumstances to succumb to your will | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| is why you often have much less than life would actually grant you, creating the preposterous situation | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| why, whenever your intuitive nature manifested in your life and you experienced a deep and peaceful certainty | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| real feelings are the same as creation, God, life, fate, the cosmic life force, the stream of | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| same as creation, God, life, fate, the cosmic life force, the stream of life, or reality. In | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| fate, the cosmic life force, the stream of life, or reality. In reality you are not unhappy | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| you can never be loved and respected, that life and the world is hostile to you and | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| withdraw so as to avoid the danger of life. You do not have to beg, cry, submit | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| you are in harmony with the stream of life, giving yourself up to it, whatever comes your | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| lies in the eternal, flexible truth of the life stream, which is eternally independent of small wish-fulfillments | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot trust life, the world, or God. So, my friends, once | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| are bound to trust yourself, and therefore the life stream. Only then will you realize how this | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| what you need at each stage of your life. You will give yourself up to it, since | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| may apply only to certain aspects of your life, while in a larger part of your personality | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| pretending they do not want anything from others, life, or the world. They withdraw into isolation, never | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| what a poor bargain they have made with life. They may protect themselves from disappointments and failures | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| miss, whereas now they vegetate without any real life experience. Although a person with this predominant attitude | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| and carry you safely through the stream of life. Instead you artificially cramp, prohibit, and squash your | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| is in harmony with your nature and your life. Therefore, whatever happens is organic and right. If | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| Since they are one with the stream of life, they will carry you in the right direction | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| You will be poised within yourself and in life. You will not need to exaggerate. You will | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| of its importance. Emotionally, it seems that your life depends on it, while you know perfectly well | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| you believe, guide you in the stream of life. All people on this earth who have found | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| God was given to Moses: Thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| given to Moses: Thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| gain the key to a change in your life. Most of you have begun this self-search in | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| lifting the veil, to be seen and understood. Life: If you heal yourself of your conflicts, if | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your deadness was lifted from you. You vibrate life. You are life. And therefore you give life | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| lifted from you. You vibrate life. You are life. And therefore you give life to others. The | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life. You are life. And therefore you give life to others. The life force penetrates through you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| And therefore you give life to others. The life force penetrates through you and finds you an | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| when you are alive, when you are the life force. You have a life-giving effect on others | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| force. You have a life-giving effect on others. Life can only coexist with truth. Where the truth | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your fear, cowardice and the erroneous belief that life can be dealt with by evasion, deadness results | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of an instrument of assimilation. As you assimilate life, the incidents which could truly become an experience | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so often puzzled by certain situations in your life. You cannot assimilate this situation because you have | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will you be able properly to assimilate your life. Whenever you are puzzled, it means that you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| This, and this alone, is proper assimilation of life and its experiences. You often suffer because others | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| because in some way you have not assimilated life as it could be possible for you. Some | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Resisting evil, translated into terms of your personal life and reactions, means your cringing from the consequences | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or indirectly responsible for, therefore not learning from life. It is the attitude in which you blame | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| attitude in which you blame others, God, fate, life, rather than finding your own causes. It is | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| finding your own causes. It is withdrawal from life, or antagonism against it, due to failure to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| long as you resent certain happenings in your life, as long as you disclaim responsibility for such | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| they show an underlying principle and concept of life. In different words, the actions of the hand | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or person. In psychological terms, applied to your life, the movement of your feet symbolizes major changes | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your feet symbolizes major changes, decisions, attitudes. All life is differentiated between these two kinds of actions | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your basic attitude toward all major issues of life. I need hardly emphasize again that one's conscious | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reactions. The major activity establishes your place in life, your major events. With it you build your | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| For the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. ANSWER: Yes, that is it. You will all | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| two currents, you cannot come to terms with life. As long as you try to struggle out | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is sort of evenly split. Your outer life, what you have and what you lack, and | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a sense of hopelessness, impatience and disgust with life, the feeling of What is the use? Yes | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is the real reason. In this disgust with life, this feeling of pointlessness, you must hurt yourself | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are rather static, dead, and an imitation of life, depicting pseudo-reality. It may be very artful, but | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| By that, I mean more than just physical life. I mean all that the essence of vibrant | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I mean all that the essence of vibrant life, meeting it fully, implies. There is the conflict | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| insight and understanding you gain about your entire life and yourself. But do not forget that the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| differently and healthily in some areas of one's life, while a part of one's emotional reactions still | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| investigation of the self. But wherever problems in life exist, as you well know, inner problems must | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I won't even get to it in this life. Certainly, for our friend here who asked this | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| impatient, and he can't conquer it in this life. ANSWER: The outer, physical deformity is no graver | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| retrospective, overall view. There are moments in your life when you gain glimpses of how far you | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| no matter how hard or how short the life span, that something cannot be gained in this | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the commandment, Thou shalt not kill in everyday life, in different emotions, for instance. Has the destructiveness | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sense they are acts of killing. The terms life and death do not merely mean the physical | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| killing -- others, but also to your own life force, how you darken and deaden life itself | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| own life force, how you darken and deaden life itself. The more you advance in this work | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| negatively affect your surroundings, yourself -- and therefore life as such. Take the current example of the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| things, be it in something important in your life -- will bring you to the desired goal | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this subway problem similar to other aspects of life. Then you will see that the subway problem | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| every human being is a hidden font of life. Like a spring beneath the earth's crust, without | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| upon layer accumulated during the earth's span of life just as we have accumulated our layers of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It is in being, and ready to transfer life, refreshment and cleansing to everything it reaches; giving | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| because it helps to liberate the spring of life much faster. We are all of us well-diggers | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cooperation and communication, the better will the community's life function on the most basic material level. This | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| a one-sided childish demand as though your very life were at stake. It is so forceful that | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| Once it ceases to be a question of life or death to satisfy the child's craving, you | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| human beings. Whether it happens in your professional life or in your personal relationships, like marriage or | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| also talked about how you artificially overdramatize your life, your emotions, and everything pertaining to your person | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| when you feel the need you believe your life is at stake. You may not consciously think | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| of need that is simply a withdrawing from life, love, and communication due to fear. That, too | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| formed into rigid generalizations about different aspects of life. We call these rigid forms in the soul | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| yet they are important enough to distort your life. We have penetrated into the world of duality | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| The battle creates a tremendous confusion in your life. This confusion concerns the big issues as well | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the seemingly lesser ones. The great opposites are life and death, happiness and unhappiness, love and selfishness | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| confusion comes about because a certain attitude toward life, that is supposed to lead to the desired | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| recognized the same fundamental problem, calling it the life instinct versus the death instinct, or the pleasure | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| The original longing is for happiness supreme, but life on earth prohibits such fulfillment. This prohibition creates | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| world of duality created the prohibition. It created life conditions on earth which made reality something that | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| creation of duality out of a single core. Life on earth necessarily involves physical death. Even if | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| is in crass opposition to the longing for life. And life, in essence, means bliss. All the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| crass opposition to the longing for life. And life, in essence, means bliss. All the religious explanations | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| most deeply. Humanity longs for bliss and eternal life, but many who desire it are terrified of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| in your attitude toward less significant aspects of life, but is basically your way of coping with | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| more it has to face the realities of life; therefore the struggle becomes more intense. But the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| in your spirit the vague memory of a life in another state of consciousness, when you knew | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| I refer to all the negative aspects of life, everything that opposes your pleasure drive. In that | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| healthier your attitude toward death, the more the life force can flow through you, and therefore the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |