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| she must be a fraud. If you are looking for an argument to disbelieve, you will always | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| -- advantages or disadvantages, positive or negative factors looking at it from the human point of view | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| get over it or understand it. Yet try looking at the issue from another point of view | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| no means high spheres -- the experience of looking at the unfolding pictures of your last life | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| gives you now, as you experience it again, looking at the film, a feeling of endless peace | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| receive it. You prepare your spiritual food by looking for the right source for you, by going | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| daily cleansing of the soul. Before you start looking at yourself in this way, you are often | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| light is by tearing down the wall and looking at what is behind it, even if what | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| light of what I have just told you. Looking at it from this point of view, you | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| is often determined by the spiritualized way of looking at life. So, last-minute changes can be made | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| is the proper basis for finding the Lord. Looking upon humanity, we of the spirit world often | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| the person pay attention to it instead of looking away. If the image is ignored, circumstances will | 38 IMAGES |
| significant factor of your emotional state that needs looking into. If you cannot pray from your heart | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| do so, although that may help, but by looking into your psychological reactions and evaluating them in | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| development, that is a subterfuge. The personality is looking for the right partner. Either the person is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| this, the one with an adventurous personality is looking and looking, always finding another part of a | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| one with an adventurous personality is looking and looking, always finding another part of a being, always | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| partly so. However, there is no harm in looking at it. If that is the entire answer | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| established by becoming aware of the problem and looking at it squarely until you recognize either of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| However, it does not mean being pessimistic or looking forward to negative happenings if they are unnecessary | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| solved only when you overcome your resistance to looking into yourself -- when you let down your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| succeed in a conscious and legitimate desire, and looking at your life you find the pattern that | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| seek self-justification, and you go too far in looking for an answer. The real answer is much | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| broad for you to really comprehend. Incidentally, by looking at and knowing another human being you may | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may be. You can only get it by looking at and into yourself. And I hardly need | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| a wrong attitude away, so to speak, by looking away from it. Thus the following vicious circle | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| approaches so very much the unhealthy attitude of looking for pain that is in you anyway. Moreover | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| big house. You can tell certain facts by looking at the stone: the quality and material, as | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you cannot put your finger on it by looking at your outer actions only. No overt deeds | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| both sides. For anyone who is not first looking into himself or herself to find how they | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| there. The only satisfactory way can be by looking within, no matter how remote the connection may | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| know that the childishness does not disappear by looking away from it. By becoming aware of your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the next step is much easier. Then, by looking over the repetitious pattern in your various difficulties | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| other may respond with unfaithfulness, because she is looking for that very free self- expression, needing it | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| time one automatically attracts negative currents. I am looking for help during this time, because, as you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| the real self that you are so ardently looking for in your work. First become aware of | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| you may believe it does, simply by avoiding looking for what you feel guilty about. If you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| is a matter of focusing your attention. By looking at your various moods, emotions, fears, apprehensions, and | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| life. If you very truthfully question yourself, in looking back you can admit that the experience is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| forms will give you a healthy detachment when looking at yourself so that you will truly become | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the underlying core may be the helpless child, looking for love and protection; craving pleasure and happiness | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| each one of you. Blessed is this hour. Looking back at the past working season, we recognize | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| becoming aware of what is already in you. Looking away from what is does not cause it | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| my destructive impulses and hope that by my looking away they disappear. Do you now understand a | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the latter, you now know the procedure of looking beyond it. Where do you hold a misconception | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| arbitrariness rather than your own error. You are looking in the wrong direction. It does not occur | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| may take some time yet before people stop looking down on others because they are troubled, sick | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| find this message is infinitely more constructive than looking for a consoling, pleasant message from outside yourself | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| find resistance accompanied by the desire to avoid looking at it. That is the very point, the | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| is the wishful-thinking process of running away and looking away from something that is or was, thus | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| psyche is distorted and put out of balance. Looking now at the spiritual side of your nature | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| was that of purification, contemplation, a time of looking within the self and preparing for a new | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| letting go, of receiving, examining, discriminating, and objectively looking at an issue without defending yourselves. May you | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| or not the emotion is healthy anger by looking only at the issue itself. Healthy anger feels | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| outlook, all of which are the result of looking away from yourself. To manipulate your will according | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| in order to take on the habit of looking, seeing, and trying to understand while staying completely | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| is often the best prayer! He meditates by looking at his real motivations; by allowing his actual | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| prayer is the action of self-awareness and of looking at himself in truth. His prayer is his | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| yourself. Bring peace into your own heart by looking at yourself as you are now. There is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| away what you feel, but by first calmly looking at it with the aim of understanding it | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| relationship means involvement. That does not merely mean looking at the negative aspects and currents. Involvement means | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| own need. They have no room for calmly looking at the other person and sensing the other's | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| a word as purification; we were concerned with looking at the self without the thought of right | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| is a typical symptom of self-alienation. Another is looking for and finding blame in others to cover | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| whenever you do not shirk the effort of looking deep into yourselves until you discover the origin | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| applies to your soul-currents. By fearing and not looking at the debris of your past hurts and | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| liberation was always preceded by a resistance to looking into yourself. No matter what form the resistance | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| you. Observe how you make excuses for not looking at these disturbances, and how everything else seems | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| word introverted may mean to some people introspection, looking within. To others it may mean withdrawal from | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| conscious. Another form of outside search may be looking for theories and answers in philosophy, religion, science | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| what you consider as such. Rather, begin by looking at your attitude toward its existence. Are you | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| interrelationships. You can find the entanglements only by looking deeply into your hidden primitive feelings in connection | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| conditions in childhood, which will help you in looking at your own childhood. As I mentioned before | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| to direct the solution of its problems by looking inward, behind the effect, into the inner causes | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| explain and which can only be detected by looking very closely, it is of the greatest importance | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| The No seems to eliminate the necessity of looking closer. You may not be able to feel | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| and peaceful experience. You will taste real security, looking forward to every moment, knowing joy through fearlessness | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| be construed to mean that you should be looking for negative, painful experiences. When you open your | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| lecture than a vague, abstract principle, is by looking at yourself from the following point of view | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| negative events. Instead of repressing it, denying it, looking away from it, you must face it. As | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| change it, or as long as you avoid looking at it closely, in detail. It is always | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| of themselves. They do everything possible to avoid looking at themselves. When you have overcome a specific | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| is a great difference between that and really looking into yourself. Those who have begun to do | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| my words as such; however, this way of looking at your basic human struggle may help you | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| feel they are dealing with unrelated phenomena when looking at their personality, their concepts, their feelings or | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| destructive power. When you feel envy, or -- looking at the other side of the same coin | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| exhilaration, wisdom and eternal good. Vagueness and not looking at your pride and cowardice prevent you from | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| an entity is ready to look where the looking will yield real answers, help must come. But | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| truthful state. There are always areas one resists looking at that offer opportunities for self-deception. It is | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| for your real self? This immediately connects with looking at the various layers of your consciousness. The | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| loving and wanting love, as well as for looking at the self and finding out what is | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| from life. They have a great resistance to looking within themselves for the cause of their suffering | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| discovered it. I don't have to go on looking for what makes me feel really bad about | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| way out of negative creations and confining structuring. Looking beyond the structure and into the chaos, comprehending | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| when you begin truly to assume self-responsibility by looking at your own problem in the relationship and | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| at the start. Crisis can be avoided by looking at the inner truth when the first inklings | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| self becomes predominant in the personality. True inner looking and deep concern with the inner being as | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| in to resistance and fear. It cannot mean looking away from yourself. This lecture, my friends, will | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| fully assume responsibility for your own suffering by looking for your own distortions and destructive tendencies, you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| Hence, unconscious misconceptions can only be unearthed by looking at your life, your suffering, your frustration, and | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| longings. All levels must be dealt with by looking at the conscious mind and searching in the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| that you do not fear death by not looking at it, but your fear will manifest in | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| and honest, but not at the price of looking at, exposing or admitting anything that is too | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| finally forgotten that it is there. Sustained, deliberate looking away from something eventually results in really not | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| state of contraction. You can verify this by looking around you. The people who do the least | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of your unhappiness. The moment you can risk looking at your negative intentions and begin to really | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| the existing image can be deduced infallibly by looking at the life manifestation. Life reveals what one's | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| every one of your needs. And instead of looking for where the needs can never be fulfilled | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| an excuse to stay in their own or looking for a new way of responding to life | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| mind by opening it to new ways of looking at things. This is an essential task. Your | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| by you through the courage and honesty of looking at yourself as you now are, even at | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| be right or wrong. The very act of looking for a deeper way of truth concerning even | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| you can learn what this means. It means looking out for your younger friends and helping them | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| paradoxical, but accepting humbly your imperfect state and looking at it creatively, constructively, and specifically so as | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| him or her travel all over the earth, looking for a new place outwardly. Now, my dearest | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |