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| spiritual laws can, and should, be made a living reality on three different levels -- and the | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| of it -- break the cycle of the living flow of energy which is the basis of | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| love penetrates the entire creation. It is a living force, a beam that meets itself in an | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| one meets the tests, more so than just living an average life. Those who are marked especially | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| working is much reduced there. For instance, a living person can influence another especially effectively by overcoming | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| the right decision, so that their lives become living religion and not just a theory. Do you | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| remove all the obstacles that prevent you from living in harmony with God, you can satisfy your | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| receiving has been violated. If you are a living link in the chain, every one of your | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| you know that you are referring to the living spirit. Therefore whatever is good and noble in | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| through their bondage to matter they suffocate the living spirit. I would like to mention here that | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| with material progress, will history move in a living and positive cycle instead of the negative, which | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| of faith. The conditions for the grace of living faith were not fulfilled; therefore such people will | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| For only thus can you find the eternal, living God. HALLOWED BE THY NAME. You hallow the | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| very personally in your life. This then is living prayer, when the meaning of each word expands | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| all right for a medium to make a living through her task? There are different views about | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| clear that a medium has to earn a living just as any other person -- and, if | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| knew that he or she could make a living also through this task, that is, if such | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| to five years before beginning to make a living through this task. During the years of training | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| course, some people don't need to earn their living through mediumship because they have enough without it | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| medium should not be rewarded by earning a living with his or her channeling is of course | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| expertise that enables him to earn a decent living as a physician. Then, when he has earned | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| a sideline, not being supposed to earn a living that way, and therefore would have to take | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| wish to enable the medium to earn her living -- everyone according to their means. This would | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| us assume you do not know that the living being reflected in the mirror is warm and | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| person; therefore, God is within each person. Each living creature has a part of God within. The | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| become also a carrier of peace. Indirectly, by living spiritually, people can do more for or against | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| in the high and highest spheres. The beings living there have to fulfill their tasks in the | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| The experience of absolute truth is like a living organism; it has to be nursed, cared for | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| again to determine whether you are worthy of living in truth constantly. In short, you have to | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| accustomed to accepting objectively, almost coldly, the imperfection living in your lower nature without feeling too disturbed | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the aura of the respective subtle body. Each living being has a higher self or divine spark | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| untrue to their nature, violating their reality and living a lie. I am by no means suggesting | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| been created. They do not realize they are living a lie. They have built a layer of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| may be the most important task for the living conditions and surroundings of that particular person; and | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| it is possible that you get accustomed to living without it for a long time, just like | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| guardian spirits than a person who is just living into the day without desiring any spiritual progress | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| spiritual development. Granted, there are many, many people living on earth who have not experienced such a | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you will unfold the love in you. Each living individual has the understandable tendency to want to | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| grow organically by self-development. It will grow by living these laws, even though it may be difficult | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the thought is true and that truth is living within the soul at this moment. Faith can | 18 FREE WILL |
| there; and at this period when the beings living in the world of darkness encounter the light | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| wisdom of not abusing their power and thus living within the perfection of divine law in a | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| it is simply the divine substance that every living creature possesses to some degree whether freed to | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| reflect the state of mind of the creatures living there; these spheres came into existence as a | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| higher. The world in which you are now living is the product of the desire to strive | 21 THE FALL |
| This meant fewer beings of the divine world living on earth, because their strength always outweighs and | 21 THE FALL |
| general and individual development then proceeded. Merely by living on the earth sphere, they came, for the | 22 SALVATION |
| just. You must know, my friends, that every living being has at all times guardian spirits from | 22 SALVATION |
| the teachings was not His full reason for living as a man. Beautiful as the teachings are | 22 SALVATION |
| distributed them in such a way that all living spirits can use this power in free choice | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| incarnation. If he would be the only man living on earth, there would be no point to | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and meeting them can only be done by living completely in this moment. It also says: you | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with the truth, and rather believe you are living and feeling and thinking in this or that | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you blessings, my dear friends, as usual. Every living creature is seeking God; every human being is | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| along with the basic evolutionary drive in all living creatures to strive upward to God. Though your | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the enlightening realization that He who is the living God and the greatest reality of all, truly | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| will be something vaguely abstract and not a living reality in your everyday life. Therefore, I say | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| so often overlooked by human beings is not living in truth. You all imagine that I mean | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| power upon themselves to prevent other people from living as God wants them to live, and if | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| often the last resort. And even the people living in the aggressor nation are often convinced that | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| too, for love and respect are due every living creature. In the distorted view you suffer loneliness | 31 SHAME |
| you do not know this. You are still living under the delusion that this is a world | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| life in general? As long as you are living in this sphere of matter, every decision offers | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| and again so that they may become a living reality and do not remain mere words. My | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| people. In this way, you will not be living a lie. Try it and ask God to | 36 PRAYER |
| course, emotionally you are not yet capable of living according to the right reactions. But if you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| you will not be surprised to find, still living within you, the child that has not assimilated | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| unconscious. It is the reasoning of the child living in you. This is the way you reasoned | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| to as animalistic. Pure sex exists in all living creatures: animals, plants, and minerals. Eros begins with | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of your mixed motives requires humility. It means living in a healthy state of truth, even though | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| course, you can say that improved medicine and living conditions are responsible for the longer life span | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the law of affinity. The emanation of each living creature, which is often referred to as the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| they become rigid and no longer carry the living life-force. Any truth must do just that. If | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| or world, all inanimate objects, abstract ideas and living human beings. Nothing can exist without it. I | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| around you and within you. A human being living in complete and utter harmony with the life | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| is tackled. These rare moments should be a living proof to you that what I say is | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| work has to be done. That of the living flow which you at one time or another | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| means being unafraid to pay the price of living. And the price of living includes an occasional | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the price of living. And the price of living includes an occasional hurt or disappointment. The mature | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to love and honor. It is this guilt, living on and on in the subconscious, which in | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| or antisocial people display. It does not mean living in a fortress of separation, sometimes by one's | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| personality. Your own higher self, the divine being living within yourself, registers, feels, and sees, but as | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| analyzed, a monster out of God. This god, living in your unconscious mind, is really more of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of God exists in you and you are living in distortion and illusion since all images are | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| you, maybe deeply hidden, which wishes to escape living. It hopes to get a return from life | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| her way of life, with her manner of living. This is subtle, and is easily confused with | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| with the feeling of gratefulness and joy of living, which are purely positive. The borderline between the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| you would only stifle the rightful joy in living. Find rather where you lack self-love in the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| Yet making decisions is a prerequisite to healthy living. The distortion in the mind and soul contributes | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| distance you should have toward the childishness still living in your soul. All human beings carry the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| seems to entail a risk: the risk of living and loving. To the measure that this risk | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| is interpreted as the divine spark in every living being -- and all three interpretations are right | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to live by misunderstood dogma -- they are living in error. Something is wrong. For the only | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to get out of paying the price for living. This is healthy. It is unhealthy if you | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is to recognize the sex force as a living reality that cannot be torn out without grave | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| two. To speak practically, you cannot develop by living alone, without the world bringing out in you | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| desire. The wish for happiness exists in every living being. However, the concept of happiness varies according | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| truth, perfection, and without error, since you are living on this imperfect earth plane and dealing at | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a facsimile or imprint of their other halves living somewhere in the universe. However, this imprint is | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| not merely a picture reproduction; it is a living and real part of the nature of each | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| this question is not easily understood for anyone living in such fear. Whatever can be said will | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| it and turn against the person in question. Living in the illusion that the other rejects you | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are reluctant to love because they are still living in this illusory world you will quietly withdraw | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| very selfish and undeveloped persons being loved and living in pleasant surroundings, would that mean that in | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| value. You must understand, at least theoretically, how living in reality depends on maturity, and how maturity | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| a facet of time. The wrong way of living in the now comes from the child in | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| not see the truth. I said earlier that living in the now can be done in the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| of life such as you cannot possibly imagine. Living in the now, in the right way, means | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| quite clearly that this is another approach to living in the now. I told you various methods | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| This is part of the growing pains every living organism goes through. As this general growth and | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| experience all the emotions we mention here as living within your soul. When you do so, then | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| have a clear-cut aim. Check your reason for living. What is your purpose in life? What do | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| Become clear about yours. Do not go on living with all these emotions without clarifying them. Once | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is that you prohibit the growth of a living organism, for feelings are that. Any living organism | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| a living organism, for feelings are that. Any living organism not left alone, but constantly manipulated, will | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| a fate outside their control. People understanding and living according to this truth will take any event | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that spark, that burning spark contained in all living organisms. If you let this spark free to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cooperation, and, at a higher level, communication. No living creature can exist without cooperation and communication. Even | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| question of mind reading, this eliminates the spirit-being's living and existing. The spirit's aliveness and its bond | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| the other aspects of death that comprise daily living. If you do not know how to die | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of the inner duality, necessitate a struggle for living. This encourages ambitiousness, drives, and compulsions. In addition | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| will be smoothed toward that real strength of living which lies in the strength of dying. Are | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| with all its meanings, deadens its faculties for living. It is much better for the development and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| externalization of your anger at yourself for not living up to the standards of your false self | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| then only will you know the beauty of living. You cannot approach this most important part of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| Second, they exist because one is incapable of living up to the dictates of one's particular idealized | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the pain of such self-castigation. The inability of living up to the idealized self-image always has this | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |