| itself may be healthy. It may be completely light, without any darkness, without any shadow, so that | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the surface and view them in the proper light, just as you have learned to do with | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| Let us examine this topic and shed some light on the confusion. It is important for all | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you will emerge from the shadow into the light a stronger and freer person, a happier and | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| as it cannot be dealt with in the light of reason and reality, it functions abortively and | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you you see the good in disproportionately stronger light than their shortcomings. You may be aware of | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which you will then comprehend in a different light. I might put it this way: the natural | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| natural process of your work will bring to light the very factors I have described here, and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| your search proceeds organically, it will bring to light all that should be tackled at each phase | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| sense. But if you consider it in the light of the links unrolled in this talk, the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| might be helpful for us now, in the light of the last lecture. It seems to me | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| must be flexible. So people fear truth and light and life. The belief that flexibility is unsafe | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| they had their own conflicts and immaturities. The light of conscious reasoning has to be applied to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| current problems and see them in their true light. Now, how can you manage to reexperience the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you further. The deep-rooted emotional reactions brought to light always show the child operating in you. And | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| will now understand my words in a different light and make better use of them. Now they | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| overcome your obstacles, and to struggle successfully toward light and union and wholeness within yourselves. Be in | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| of the tunnel you will find the clear light of peace, harmony, beauty and joy that must | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| clearly and reasonably about your findings in the light of what you now know, although temporarily this | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| means are sought unconsciously rather than in the light of awareness, and since they are sought under | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| self- destructiveness in the past, but in the light of our new knowledge I would be glad | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| I will extend it a little in the light of the new knowledge you have gained. Of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of hiding and view them in the clear light of consciousness. Unfortunately, humanity is made up of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| let go. Could you give me a little light? ANSWER: Yes. I will try. The reason for | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the surface where, finally, it can reflect the light and warmth of the sun. But, one day | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| faster will it come forth and reach the light of freedom and fulfillment. This might appear in | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| show them to you now in a new light. One such measure is the submissiveness -- sometimes | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| and death, happiness and unhappiness, love and selfishness, light and darkness. Your confusion comes about because a | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of the great battle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness which human beings | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you are told that God is happiness, bliss, light, and the pleasure principle makes you yearn for | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| underlying core is your longing for complete happiness, light, love, bliss, peace. The original longing is for | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of it and find your way into the light of truth is the relevant question. In the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| whole process and sees it entire, in the light. Nevertheless, even if this hate is unloaded upon | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| friends, begin to see your emotions in this light. You will then find what impossible demands your | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| May you thus gain a further step toward light and freedom: the light and freedom which can | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| a further step toward light and freedom: the light and freedom which can be yours, if the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the first step, and then see them in light of this discussion. This will help to dissolve | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| friends, let us consider this subject in the light of spirituality. You all have come originally with | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| quite a degree, will take on a different light in your own eyes. You will look upon | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| relation to the world around you in the light of truth. The connection between disproportionate emotional reactions | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| lecture something that will bring a little more light and help in your work, a little further | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| your struggle to come through and see the light results from the following confusion: Since everyone has | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| out of the thick shrubbery and see the light again. The light will come. It is bound | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| thick shrubbery and see the light again. The light will come. It is bound to come. Receive | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you must continue bringing further hidden errors to light. Asking Why do I feel that way? will | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| self will you understand them in their true light. But, as you know, the growing into selfhood | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| We will look at this phenomenon in the light of self-alienation to understand why this seemingly harmless | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you had never before evaluated in a true light. Perhaps you will remember certain aspects of their | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| closed door within yourself, so as to gain light, safety, freedom, and a productive life. It is | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| pain is a healthy growing pain, and the light is in sight when you overcome your resistance | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| it, the momentary glimpse of strength, love, and light will come again, until it finally becomes a | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the only way God can come into being. Light, love, joy -- all these are the outcome | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to examine and understand them in their true light. As long as you are ready with an | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| high places, is this a fault? Does the light on the path make us blind to the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| every one of you from a world of light and freedom, from a world of harmony and | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| but also shows you causality in its true light. You then know that the same law of | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| hearts where it will fill you with a light, a strength, a hope. Be in peace, be | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| road. May it give you a glimmer of light if you are hopeless and a new influx | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| you can all feel it. You feel the light and the strength. Rejoice on this path. There | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| relapse or a stagnation. If you persevere, the light will become steadier and stronger. If you are | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| available. Thoughts of truth have the power of light, the clarity of crystal-clear water, and therefore penetrate | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| important for understanding the occurrence in its full light are absent. Such a limited, subjective evaluation is | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| aspects were allowed to stand in the full light, the understanding would be much more objective. But | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| and unhealthy reactions of the soul-substance in this light. The recognition of the two kinds of rigidity | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| to investigate your previous findings in this particular light. You will find that an imbalance does exist | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| again, yet forever discovering new connections, shedding new light on the same disturbances, deliberating on them in | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| This is noticeable by its obvious response to light, water, darkness or dryness. Therefore its movement is | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| now begin to glimpse an occasional shaft of light that suggests a more profound comprehension of your | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| feeling of liberation and strength, of hope and light, is such a profound experience that its effect | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| unless you use such answers as a guiding light to start an inner search, deep within yourself | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| sway. When you consider these problems in the light of this specific struggle, you will understand how | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| bring you a further step toward the inner light which is the source of all life. Be | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the personality. Now I would like to shed light on the exact opposite. Apparently favorable and positive | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| almost there. With asking this question, and the light that flickered in now sic, you are almost | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| must be reexperienced and seen in its proper light, my friends. Many of you are approaching the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| go your way in peace. Keep the inner light burning so that further growth, further individuation, can | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| at your present activities and relationships in this light. Ascertain any possible overreaction, lingering or frequently recurring | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| when you understand and see it in this light, understanding will eliminate an inner current of anxiety | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the soul substance -- this time a flexible, light, truthful one which finally erases the old, rigid | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| have learned to review your life in the light of progress already made, and to determine not | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| of confinement and darkness into the freedom and light of truth. Anyone who claims that he or | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| look at all your past discoveries in that light, you can determine the vast difference between giving | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| actually is. The either/or choices shed a dismal light on life. Both are poor and between the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| tending the soil, seeing that it has sufficient light, moisture, and nourishment. The gardener thus fulfills his | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| in, you open up to the liberation and light that the infusion of truth always brings about | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| your spirit and bring you nearer to the light of truth, to the reality of love, to | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| The human struggle is a continuous striving toward light, whether or not you know it. When I | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| or not you know it. When I say light, I mean the light of truth -- the | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| it. When I say light, I mean the light of truth -- the truth of happiness. For | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| Let us try to shed a little more light on this subject. From our past endeavors you | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| express before, will increasingly guide you toward the light you seek. You will continue to grow, to | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| is false? Perhaps this lecture will shed some light on this important question. Even if such conflicting | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| and thus a blessing. May these words shed light and clarification into your groping search for liberation | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| as the process remains unconscious. Seen in this light, it will be clear that numbness in its | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| May you feel, every one of you, the light of truth and love that life could be | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| is so near, with all its truth and light and relief and happiness, but it just never | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| insight, or a glimpse, a hope and a light. This light shows that you are not dependent | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| a glimpse, a hope and a light. This light shows that you are not dependent on any | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the power, the life, the peace, and the light within. All struggle and pain must then, sooner | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| possibilities. It will change darkness and isolation into light, union, companionship, intimacy, and the knowledge that you | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| of the reality of being, of vibrant aliveness, light and truth. To achieve this seems so difficult | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| you can live without fear, a world of light in which you need not be isolated. Now | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| need the cruelty, you will be relaxed and light, because the world will no longer be your | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| way back to reality, hence to truth and light, into a world which is wonderful, not frightening | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| direction of the universal creative forces is toward light, life, growth, unfoldment, affirmation, beauty, love, inclusion, union | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| there must always be the pull toward the light, toward wholeness, toward loving, inclusion and constructiveness, toward | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| constructive forces. Do this in a relaxed and light way, enlisting the subliminal force within yourself to | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| important to always see this in a new light, from different angles. This path is not supposed | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| urge you to look at yourselves in this light. You will find that you have not yet | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| often discussed pseudo-solutions. If you restudy them in light of this lecture, you will understand on a | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| and already partly in a new land where light is never threatened by darkness. You have constructed | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| These instincts will prove themselves as bearers of light when they are not misjudged, denied, and split | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| self that need to be explored in the light of consciousness. It also applies to those who | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| of letting go of the intensity and becoming light where heaviness once prevailed. You do not have | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| to talk to you and help you shed light on this path from a different angle, with | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| easier. May you find a new shaft of light through these words by truly opening up to | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| will be a summary and will also shed light on the next step you need to take | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Some of the foregoing sheds a little more light on the process of fearing oneself. The fear | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the extent life begins to open up with light and hope and fullness and a sense of | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to realize now. They would often find new light, new strength, new insight, and therefore new hope | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I listed before and consider them in the light of this information. As I said, these fears | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| you see your fear of happiness in this light, you will not find your way out of | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| it cannot be dissolved. The pain obstructs the light and must therefore be dug out. The identical | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| of death itself should appear in a new light for you when you look at it from | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| what a situation or incident means in the light of your assumption; what your reactions and the | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| are called evil. They blur out the spiritual light of oneness. The existence of evil is the | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| utter relief and liberation, of being energized and light? If so, you can be absolutely sure that | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| matter how many times you hear these words. Light, bliss, vital inner movement can come only when | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| and again in new terms, with a new light and a different angle, so that finally an | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| there is no way out. Seen in this light, it is actually a blessing to arrive at | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| at any given moment of your road toward light, truth, love and fulfillment you take this sentence | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| and contemplate its meaning, where there is darkness light will come. Each second of your life contains | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| to convey. Let us try to shed more light on the all-important question of why people say | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| a separation from the center, so that its light can no longer shine upon the personality and | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| forces you to see things in their true light and, uncomfortable as this may first seem, it | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| give a sense of joy, liberation, hope, strength, light. They infuse new energy into your system. The | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| can expand in a harmonious way. In this light, unintense, undefended, relaxed state of body, mind and | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| changing into a state of realistic hopefulness and light, into the essence of life itself, is your | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| so that life circumstances appear in their true light as the creation of the self. This awareness | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |