| Linking.....................5 | |
| that. Now education is compartmentalized. The unifying principle, linking all branches of knowledge, is completely disregarded or | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| immediate microcosm. If you use great truths without linking them to your work on the Path, you | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| attune to the meaning of this meeting, or linking. A mutual giving and exchanging and learning can | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| among other things, an age of connecting and linking in many ways, in many areas, and on | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| to comprehend this lecture. Complete this understanding by linking it up with the preceding lectures of this | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Links.......................41 | |
| but they still do not perceive the connecting links within themselves. They still look for God and | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| be able to really give and truly become links in the chain. Such self-healing requires at the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| made your connections, your ties, and your karmic links. QUESTION: This does not correspond to astrology? ANSWER | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the one that manifests outwardly, while the previous links are hidden from sight -- has to be | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you consider it in the light of the links unrolled in this talk, the meaning will become | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| and then only, will you slowly discover the links between your unhappiness and your idealized self-image. You | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| yoke. So you see how the basic helplessness links the God-image and the idealized self-image, creating the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self-understanding, I can show you a few more links between these various tendencies that, in the past | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| it, and why. You still miss the main links of cause and effect. Before such understanding can | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| not really benefit from this awareness without the links I have now shown you. You need the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| do that, you need to see the connecting links in your personal inner history. If anything is | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| and depth, their significance and their causes, effects, links, and connections. The second phase is change. The | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| clearly recognize this fact and to put the links together requires the active work of sincere self-search | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| of the original feeling. Due to certain missing links, you may be unable to feel differently, yet | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| this as a principle, but actually connects the links, he will no longer fear it. He will | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| broader knowledge used without the proper understanding. The links between new knowledge in certain eras and the | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| art, philosophy, or any realm of experience. The links are not immediately visible, but they are there | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| the recognitions, widens and deepens their perception. It links them with other aspects of the personality. All | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| twice or ten times removed, but direct, visible links of cause and effect, that is, visible if | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| must be clearly recognized before the more remote links can be seen. When cause and effect cannot | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| effect remain obscure. The instant the more remote links surface, the effect is the same as with | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| is the same as with the obviously direct links of cause and effect: the negative result dissolves | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| accessible. The more you establish and experience the links between cause and effect, the more secure you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| life. All my friends still overlook very immediate links of cause and effect: how you forfeit the | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| long as there is a veil over these links between cause and effect, it is impossible to | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| transformation right away, because there are still missing links which have to be understood. Let this be | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| its distortion. In its positive, natural version, the links of this chain are the following: life's basic | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| to the issue, the self, the moment. The links in the negative chain reaction are: life's limitation | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| prove independence of spirit. Every one of these links has been amply discussed by us and, in | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| we have never seen the importance of these links as a continuum. It is therefore necessary that | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| you do it in depth, and feel the links, you will have a key to understanding your | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| life wherever it is possible to re-establish the links of memory. If all the feelings of this | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| there comes a deep insight and the connecting links will bring more light and more hope. But | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| greater will be your ability to draw connecting links between cause and effect that are less obvious | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| absolutely necessary that you trace all the connecting links between cause and effect, and be totally aware | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| as a result of your having established the links in the previous stages. Whatever causes those inner | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| to trust, you must first establish certain intermediate links, which cannot be skipped. Those links form the | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| certain intermediate links, which cannot be skipped. Those links form the bridge to a state of genuinely | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| this point. It remains unaware of the connecting links between the self and others. In the age | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| although at times you can intuitively sense some links. To understand that main connections exist needs faith | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| process moves toward an increasing uncovering of connecting links. This movement allays the fear of the pain | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Lip.........................17 | |
| personally experienced truth. It cannot happen by paying lip service to the principle behind them, even if | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| friends, many people know this and pay it lip service frequently. But to understand this theoretically and | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| a moral issue as such. You may pay lip service to the feelings and rights of others | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| with the real self, no matter how much lip service they may pay it, they must fear | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| or what one thinks one believes and pays lip service to, and what one believes deep down | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| this theoretically a long, long time, and paid lip service to it. But there is a world | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| who ignores these principles, or who pays only lip service to them, is emotionally not ready to | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| of consciousness that contradict what you may pay lip service to on the conscious level. This is | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| are far from being perfect, and you pay lip service to this truth. But do you really | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| of your own part, even if you pay lip service to the idea that you also contributed | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| out with a positive goal. Many may pay lip service to the positive goal of total self-purification | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| the already manifest higher self. You may pay lip service to the fact that you must be | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| real experience. It is much more like paying lip service to a philosophy you believe in on | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you want to be. No matter how much lip service you may pay to the theory of | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| could really exist, in spite of having given lip service to the words you have been hearing | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| coincidence. Even though you may no longer pay lip service to coincidence, your emotional reactions are still | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| worthy this will not work. You constantly pay lip service to many truths in your mind and | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| List........................25 | |
| with and until now not acknowledged. Make a list of these faults so as to keep them | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| will help you very much. Then take the list to your personal spiritual friends -- whether in | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| what way. You have to know your faults. List all your faults, so that you remember them | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| personal question. This applies to everybody. Make a list of your faults. If you can think of | 21 THE FALL |
| qualities and all your faults. Write down a list, as I have often advised, because this writing | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| some divine law? Compare these patterns with your list of faults which you have already discovered. Ask | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| person, as I have often suggested. Compile a list, not only of your faults, your qualities and | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| in all honesty. As you go through your list, you will see that there are some faults | 31 SHAME |
| it would, indeed, be cheap if a mere list of faults and attempts to overcome them were | 38 IMAGES |
| single common denominator. Once you have made this list, you will probably be puzzled to find that | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| most in the world, and then make a list of their good qualities and of their faults | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| general ideas, concepts, and principles, and make a list of all those that are important in a | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| outside the self. Needless to say that I list just a few aspects in each category. You | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| useful for you, once again, to make a list of your desires. Then listen deep into yourself | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| ANSWER: I would suggest that you prepare a list of them. I said last time that this | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| or a week, you will have a whole list of key words. Out of this a clear | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| of you would be surprised to see a list of all the things you still take for | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| about this later. The next fear on the list would be fear of life. You have heard | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| automatically in its wake. The next on the list might be fear of pleasure. For those of | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the next very much related fear on the list, and that is the fear of letting go | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| ways of avoiding unnecessary feared events. Make a list of fears. I said this years ago, but | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| much more of your innermost self such a list will be more profound. Look at your fears | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| expansion, for yourself and others around you. The list of negative traits could be extended, but that | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| shortcuts may be. Several are possible. Let me list a few. Sexual activity can be such a | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| in many areas of life, too numerous to list. Be aware of this possibility! An incomplete opening | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |