| Asks........................12 | |
| of you can acquire willpower. For God never asks for the impossible from anyone, my dear ones | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| in your soul to the higher self. Whoever asks God, Show me the truth and then opens | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| where he has been selfish; next, as he asks more and more to see the truth and | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| affect the feelings. Whoever has this attitude and asks for the will of God, without reservations and | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to their protege only if he or she asks for divine truth and will, and tries to | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| gift of all. And each one of you asks nothing better than to be able to give | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| kind of humility is summoned up when one asks and accepts a favor from someone more powerful | 36 PRAYER |
| but there is also a voice within that asks quite clearly, Is it really pure goodness, pure | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| I become perfect, as the world around me asks me to be, I will get so much | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| barrier that one cannot penetrate. The other person asks for the answer yet doesn't listen, and you | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| progression where you realize that the part which asks the question is already beyond your assumed identity | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| suggestions: When the person who is in crisis asks for the help, then the difficulties will be | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Asleep......................11 | |
| in the spirit world when your body is asleep and your spirit is free; this knowledge remains | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| QUESTION: Yes. Does one have to be sound asleep for relaxation or does a light sleep suffice | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| now. QUESTION: We know that when we are asleep, often the Spirit World teaches us or communicates | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the Spirit World while your body was asleep. You know that often you experience events in | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| endure than if the entire personality were still asleep, so to speak. Once you have reached certain | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| cannot possibly go back and make yourself artificially asleep. You have to follow the rhythm of nature | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| They are like a man who has been asleep for a very long time, and when he | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| of human beings find themselves approximately ninety percent asleep and only ten percent awake to what exists | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| the wise, knowing, enlightened aspects of yourself are asleep, that sleep is necessary to allow the blurred | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| so that you will never have to fall asleep again. Rest will not impair the awareness of | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| greater expression. But if you are still half asleep and therefore fear universal life, or expansion into | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| Aspirants...................3 | |
| do you have to say to those spiritual aspirants who in some way disregard science? They claim | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| confusions in the human mind, particularly among spiritual aspirants. If, as spiritual teachers and seers claim, God's | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| about this many years ago. There are spiritual aspirants who deceive themselves that they can reach the | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Aspirations.................5 | |
| your lower self that tries to stifle the aspirations of your spirit. You may be the loser | 21 THE FALL |
| let us suppose the superior world of your aspirations is actually the way you think it is | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| What would be some of the very highest aspirations for the realization of love in pure flow | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| mentally expose their innermost beings, ideas, beliefs, dreams, aspirations, feelings, fears, goals, yearnings, insecurities, and hopes. The | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Does self-love mean giving free rein to the aspirations of your lower self and your mask self | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Aspire......................3 | |
| this is the goal to which you all aspire: it is the true purification. Those who can | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| the good and the true to which you aspire; how it makes you arrogant and intolerant; how | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| You can never create the wholeness you truly aspire to, whether or not this aim is articulated | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| Assert......................65 | |
| Of course, lacking deeper knowledge, religions had to assert the sinfulness of sex because the raw and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| been really successful. Since then, woman's efforts to assert her equality with man have often actually diminished | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| you in actual danger for actual defense, to assert yourself when your integrity is at stake, or | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the wrong place and yield where they should assert this healthy current. Yet where they should not | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| aloof criticism and contempt for all people who assert themselves, even for healthy assertiveness and not the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| real self has to be denied, for to assert it seems brash and aggressive. This has to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| One must always be in the background, never assert oneself, always give in, never find fault with | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and power drive. The psyche thinks: If I assert myself and my power, my omnipotence, my invulnerability | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| a state of desuetude. You will learn to assert yourself where you previously let yourself be taken | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| repressions. This will give you the ability to assert yourself and, if need be, to adopt a | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to confirm how right you are, when to assert yourself and when not to. You will act | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| were -- if the person is unable to assert his right to live, love, and to have | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| when justice is at stake. It makes you assert yourself. It makes you fight for what is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| but without loving? It is much easier to assert your rights and wishes, whether they are right | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| become confused and do not know when to assert yourself against unjustified demands, and when to give | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| and take advantage of them. Such inability to assert one's self by standing up for one's rights | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| your disposal. You will communicate and relate, and assert your rights without the gnawing feeling that you | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| selfhood of humanity will also enable it to assert its rights, to be aware of its values | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| also be a denial of one's need to assert oneself, or of one's need to develop a | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| temporarily lessened. You now find it harder to assert yourself because the defenses no longer work, while | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the answer and explanation exist in you. You assert this fact, requesting understanding and help to correct | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| attitude. If you take the additional step and assert your desire for the eternal presence of the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you when you fully acknowledge your feelings and assert the fact that some of these feelings are | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you are aware of it, and provided you assert this fact and express your desire for contact | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| will, etc. Instead of pushing against a no-current, assert its presence, assert the fact that it is | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| of pushing against a no-current, assert its presence, assert the fact that it is based on false | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| fact that it is based on false ideas, assert your wish to be helped in understanding the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| do after such a detection is to forcefully assert that you, and you alone, determine your actions | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| and very limiting: it is indeed possible to assert your rights and to reach out for what | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| domination through selfwill. You will know when to assert your rights without hostility against unjustified demands, where | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| by tensing your outer will and trying to assert it over regions where it has no jurisdiction | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| you free to have integrity, to defend and assert your rights, while negation and destructiveness must weaken | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| issue the desire to be constructive and positive, assert that this is where you are. See yourself | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| worthlessness vanish. Yet your destructive past tries to assert its worth by continuing to be destructive. Most | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| in this lecture, where you first of all assert the fact, Here is a negative field. This | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| which makes you feel utterly helpless, unable to assert yourself, and even unable to protect your truth | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| lack self-assertion. Your inability or difficulty to healthily assert yourself is a direct result of having to | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| in which you cannot find the strength to assert yourself, in which you find yourself absolutely caught | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| strength, to that extent you are unable to assert yourself because you are afraid. The more capable | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| views, will pay the price for selfhood, will assert your rights as you fulfill your obligations freely | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| they are wrong. People believe that if they assert themselves in such a way, if they arrogate | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| beautiful human interaction will become. How can you assert your rights and reach into the universe for | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| understanding attitude that enables the conscious ego to assert its benign dominion over violently destructive and stagnant | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| deal with any difficulties and therefore cannot effectively assert your personality. Whatever the reasons may be, the | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| to exploit you and that you should not assert your human rights and your human dignity. This | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| an irrational anger or hate. You may outwardly assert that these reactions are irrational, but a part | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| paralyzed by fear and weakness and unable to assert yourself. You will be equally weak and confused | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| these two phenomena. Hence you often try to assert your rights when you really do not allow | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| self-willed nor spineless and exploited; in which you assert yourself but can let go and give in | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| you can neither feel the true pain, nor assert yourself. Conversely, if you do not fear pain | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| confrontation when you can experience pain. You will assert yourself if your pride permits you to be | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| exchange trust. You thus gain the freedom to assert your own right to be, which you can | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| If you truly give, you can also assert your inner right to receive -- and that | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| you stop the false goodness, the more you assert your right to have the best in life | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| contribute to the group. The more you can assert your rights and your individual needs, the less | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| its opposite is supposed to be undesirable. Others assert the contrary. Each group uses the distortion, exaggeration | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| one way and when in another, when to assert yourself and when to be flexible and give | 228 BALANCE |
| when to be soft and when to strongly assert a position. There is no maudlin sentimentality that | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| unknown land where you believe in the positive. Assert your faith in the ever- benign universe. Express | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| bring you to ever new shores of fulfillment. Assert your courageous faith in the best of your | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| yourself and other people in those terms and assert your goodwill to let others be their best | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| do not want to give unselfishly, you cannot assert your leadership. If you give grudgingly and unwillingly | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| to ask when you should stand up and assert yourself and when you should give in and | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| good cause, to defend a right position, to assert justified claims, is indispensable in any productive, healthy | 254 SURRENDER |
| aggressive aspects to either dispel them or to assert the positive forces within and around you. This | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |