| Assimilating................9 | |
| behind; inward movement -- searching for the self, assimilating all that has been absorbed by the outward | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| develop without both outgoing and ingoing movement and assimilating the two. To speak practically, you cannot develop | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| will be to grow from coping with problems, assimilating them and the experience they give, instead of | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| condition of the soul that is incapable of assimilating the experience and holds on to it instead | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| misconceptions. To the degree you are capable of assimilating experience according to reality, according to truth, to | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| understanding contained in these blessings aid you in assimilating this lecture, not only with your outer, but | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| self-development and permanent values, together with collecting and assimilating knowledge. All these form separate magnetic energy fields | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| more specific and personal you can be in assimilating what I outline here, and the more you | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| two movements within the soul, simultaneously digesting and assimilating the former period and preparing the following one | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Assimilation................17 | |
| the whole. Without the other part, the inner assimilation, there can be no harmony in your progress | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| So the principle of restriction also stands for assimilation. Unassimilated growth must, eventually, turn harmful. Only assimilated | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| a tooth is that of an instrument of assimilation. As you assimilate life, the incidents which could | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which could truly become an experience by proper assimilation, you are bound to exert a similar effect | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| others. On the other hand, your lack of assimilation causes blindness. Your blindness in turn must create | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| incorrect attitude. This, and this alone, is proper assimilation of life and its experiences. You often suffer | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| exists and to what degree. The restriction prevents assimilation of new ideas and attitudes. It also creates | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| thing is to help you toward an emotional assimilation. Others who have the experience perhaps through having | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| discussion may show how to arrive at this assimilation. However, if here or there something is not | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| it weighs on you and makes you restless. Assimilation and digestion in such a case is so | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| has already been answered by this lecture. The assimilation of any input from outside depends on the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| how it continues to impede proper interpretation and assimilation of new experiences. You will understand how the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| guilt and fear, by misconception, and the faulty assimilation of experience. This negative fixation of the pleasure | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| gathering into the organism; the static movement means assimilation of both and the transition from one to | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| static movements indirectly further organic growth -- through assimilation, digestion, utilization of what was gained, and rest | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of the energy centers -- and therefore proper assimilation of the life force? It depends entirely on | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| in its marvelous apparatus of digestion, elimination and assimilation. A great blessing and energy influx sweeps through | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Assist......................3 | |
| my spirit helpers who are also waiting to assist me in case I fulfill the conditions to | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| still reaching sufficient development after their fall, to assist others. I will talk more about this the | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| finally the time of birth arrives, many spirits assist, so that the fluidal bodies that have been | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Assistance..................10 | |
| abandoned by God, that one finds oneself without assistance from the higher spheres just when one goes | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| to God, asking for help, is of great assistance to us? ANSWER: The psychological approach is actually | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| but only indirectly, by self-search, and with further assistance. Suddenly the point of relinquishing will come into | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| to all of you. The blessings and the assistance is accorded to each one of you who | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| you who are helping with inner and outer assistance feel the reality of these blessings. Everyone has | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| you can discover the negativity without such outside assistance, you will know the way automatically. You can | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| new working season to give you all the assistance and guidance you could possibly require. Your growth | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| the second point. Only by praying for divine assistance and intervention, by turning to Jesus Christ and | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| doing that. Invite Christ to come to your assistance in this endeavor. Then claim with all the | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| not see. (3) Without God, without the personal assistance of the personal aspect of God, the undertaking | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Associate...................6 | |
| friend, a husband, a wife, a relative, an associate; someone who is near and dear and important | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| yourself. When I say psychological law, you automatically associate it with yourself, as you should. The latter | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| see that love and freedom are one. You associate love with lack of freedom. Even if you | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| vanishes. This statement is confusing only when you associate intensity with depth, involvement, delight and ecstasy. I | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| all three aspects. Yet in your consciousness you associate the expanding principle with the creative movement, while | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| The terminology may possibly offend you because you associate it with a religion you have outgrown. But | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Associates..................5 | |
| he is reminded of in Europe, what he associates with his surroundings here, or other factors. But | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| weapons against the femininity that she fears and associates with a state of humiliating helplessness. She erroneously | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Conversely, giving one's best is impossible when one associates it with sacrifice and disadvantage. The very existence | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| your relationships with your family, your partners, your associates, your friends, your business acquaintances. Look at any | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| may be, whether your parents, your peers, your associates, or life as a whole, then you do | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Associating.................4 | |
| case of self-responsibility, such distortion can happen by associating this concept with unhealthy self-blame, guilt, and inferiority | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| further down the scale. You are used to associating the word relationship with human beings around you | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| perhaps appear to be lost because of not associating it with Egypt, but that does not mean | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| The immature person refuses discipline in any form, associating it with parental authority against which he continues | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Association.................7 | |
| involved, even indirectly. Since the person has this association, he or she reacts accordingly. The incident may | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| a whole lecture recently. This kind of emotional association with the concept of law is completely opposed | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| or in some way remind the person by association of, objects the baby wanted to play with | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mind of the person. It may be an association, an emotional climate which subtly affects the personality | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the divine bliss that spirits enjoy, your automatic association produces something that is usually quite different from | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| It can be an emotional climate, a symbolic association that lodges exclusively in the subconscious. As you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| different from the neurotic pain, the pain by association, the pain of masochistic self-punishment that identifies with | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Associations................7 | |
| a few words the occasions, your reactions and associations. If you follow this practice through for some | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| or America, but rather to the entirely unconscious associations he has toward certain manifestations in nature. One | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Beware of it. Always use the personal, subjective associations -- what you think, feel, and experience in | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| to the topic of demands. Look at your associations and relationships from this particular viewpoint. When you | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| must try not to allow prejudices and word associations to create a wall that would prevent you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| to naming the thing; to creating often false associations to the thing; and to partial and therefore | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| was Jesus when he incarnated. Similarly, you have associations with the words sin, hell, evil, devil. All | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Assuage.....................13 | |
| now: craving for affection, respect, and love to assuage their own lack of self-respect, absent because they | 31 SHAME |
| it may help for a while. It may assuage unreasonable fear. But in the long run, it | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and realize in what ways you try to assuage them. See how you run away from yourself | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of the same basic fear. In order to assuage these fears, humanity has created philosophical, spiritual, religious | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| old way, you might have responded submissively to assuage your guilt, or with hostile aggression to assuage | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| assuage your guilt, or with hostile aggression to assuage your self-contempt for your uncertainty. Whatever you did | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| of view, the apparent salvation and guarantee to assuage your existential fears. The ego thinks, If everyone | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the greater your need to receive approval to assuage self-doubts. The greater your attempt to have others | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| very clear. It will not do if you assuage your guilt for your negative creation by telling | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| You will, on the one hand, attempt to assuage your self-doubts by strenuously building cases; on the | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you hoped for some idealized parental figure to assuage your doubts, to come forth and tell you | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| the longing, do not push it away and assuage it busily with substitute problems, pains and fears | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| you foster love and unity. How can you assuage your loneliness unless you establish bridges with others | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |