Quotes Pathwork Lectures E2024

Week 1: Lecture 74: “You should investigate what your main problems in life are. Put these down concisely, describing in clear-cut words whatever area of your life they may deal with. See exactly where you have problems, either manifest, or inner feelings of anxiety or disharmony. Then check what your motives really are.”

Week 2: Lecture 120: “As the individual grows capable of dissolving his destructive, childish trends through his reason, his power to understand, so will mankind. Hence, mankind is now on the threshold of greater maturity and is therefore in a state of crisis. Do you think that this world you live in would have wars, upheavals, crime, starvation, and all sorts of other difficulties if humanity’s organism would not be similarly split and partly operating on unconsciously false premises just as you as an individual do?”

Week 3: Lecture 73: “No matter how true and understandable your present pain is, it is nevertheless the same childhood pain. You will see how you contributed in bringing about the present pain because of your desire to correct the childhood hurt. But at first, you only have to feel the similarity of the pain.”

Week 4: QA 245: “When you are in a state of joyousness and peace, you are fully following your destiny, your path, as you should and are capable of doing. Old age, and the state of mind that accompanies it, is a likewise indication. Old people who have inner peace, joy and a deep sense of having fulfilled themselves in this life, have truly done just that.”

Week 5: Lecture 169: “No obstruction can be removed, no unhappiness eliminated unless you use the activating power. It is necessary to “get up,” as it were, and claim your possibilities, your rights to become a happy person. Nor must you shy away from the effort involved to find the cause of the unhappiness within yourself.”

Week 6: Lecture 201: “The new thought process might be: ‘I do not want to stay in this position. There are powers within me that make it possible for me to change and feel good and secure about the change. I do deserve it. This change is my birthright.”

Week 7: Lecture 130: “Let me assure you that the trauma of being born is an infinitely greater one than the one of dying. Yet, a peculiar mass image exists about the frightening element of dying. This mass image is deeply impressed on all those souls who come, again and again, to this earth sphere.”

Week 8: Lecture 49: “Emotional maturity knows no selfishness (of course this is relative on earth; it cannot be absolute yet on your sphere of existence). The more selfish you are, the more immature you are.”

Week 9: Lecture 189: “What a dignity it lends to you when you consider that you undertake an important task for the sake of evolution. This dignity is so much more important than the momentary suffering that accrues from not knowing who you are.”

Week 10: Lecture 220: “The voice of God has always spoken to you, as it continues always to speak to you, always in a new way, always in a way adapted exactly to what you need most at any given moment in your life.”

Week 11: Lecture 37: “All misunderstandings, all hurts are merely imaginary. They are the by-product on this earth sphere, in which you live partly, at least, in darkness. You think so many times you have reason to be hurt. But you have not!”

Week 12: Lecture 107: “It is much easier to assert your rights and wishes, whether they be right or wrong, selfish or unselfish, if you love. When you do not love, this self-assertion is very hard because your gnawing guilt either paralyzes you; or, if you manage to voice your objections, they will come out in a very hurting way. You cannot really hurt another because you refuse, provided you love.”

Week 13: QA 222: “I say yes to the universe, to its beauty, to abundance, to love and fulfillment on all levels. I deserve it. I can have it. I want to give all of myself, the best of myself, to life and want to be guided in this endeavor by my innermost God. And I reach out receptively to all that is around me and within me. As a happy fulfilled individual, I can be an instrument of God and only as such—and help and give to others. I do not need my cases. I do not need my blame. I do not need my no. I say yes.”

Week 14: Lecture 248: “When the Christ manifested God as man and was thus both divine and human, He accomplished the greatest feat imaginable. He proved that it is possible to remain true to God, true to truth, and not succumb to the strongest of influences that the personification of evil could unleash. Through this tremendous act of steadfastness, the man who was God and the God who was man opened the doors in the souls of all created beings.”

Week 15: Lecture 254: “You have no idea about the strength of your own spirit. You constantly underestimate it and believe yourself to be much weaker and much more ineffectual than you actually are. Since you must experience according to your belief, it is difficult to find out how strong you really are. You can create anything, for you contain all divine creative tools. And of course you do exactly that.”

Week 16: Lecture 226: “You are the source. Even your present personality, your thinking and feeling, your being and experiencing, your capacity to will and decide — all that is the source. Nonlife cannot do any of these things. Even if much of your manifest personality will modify itself, change and expand, all that you know and feel yourself to be is source, not manifestation. Therein lies the confusion that creates fear of not being.”

Week 17: Lectsure 193: “You must discern in what areas to momentarily accept your limitations of will and let go of the forcing current of an overactive will. Reestablishing of will currents cannot be done by the outer will.  If this is being recognized and the pressure of the outer will relaxed,  the inner will can come to the fore and begin its functioning.”

Week 18: Lecture 240: “To feel the emotion of love is not possible without the will moving toward being in a loving state. If you do not wish to love, if you do not purposely express the desire to love, if you do not have the intention to love, you will not love.”

Week 19: Lecture 233: “Now go into your words. Observe the shallow ones, observe the words of untruth, consider in what way are they untruth. And then have the courage to speak the word of truth. For example, ‘I am God. I am worthy of the best. I can give the best. I will give the best. I will let God give through me in sincerity, in strength, in truth, in wisdom, in beauty.”

Week 20: Lecture 235: “The path is a spiral movement. Each round of the spiral is a new layer, and at the entrance of each round a new and deeper commitment needs to be made. The circles are not closed, they have openings. As you discover this new opening, you need to make a new commitment on a yet deeper level: to let go and to let God; to give all of yourself to the truth, to the truth of being, to no longer hide from your truth.”

Week 21: Lecture 108: “The feeling of not daring to love may apply only to certain areas of your life, not to all relationships. Then, when you verify this point, you will ascertain the real guilt that produces the unjustified guilts as well as the perfectionism.”

Week 22: Pathwork AM 11: “If you decide with your mind, with your thought, with your commitment, with your intentionality right now to express the truth and the love of God in every individual situation, you will manifest God on the conscious level and you will always know what to do. You are then the New Age person.”

Week 23: Lecture 102: “Healthy anger will never make you tense and guilty and ill at ease. It does not compel you to justify yourself. Healthy anger will never weaken you. Any healthy feeling will give you strength and freedom even if the feeling outwardly appears to be negative.”

Week 24: Lecture 213: “Where you feel rich, you will always be rich because you must also have a giving and honest attitude. But where you feel poor, you will continue to be poor until you establish richness within through giving and honesty.”

Week 25: Lecture 77: “The first requirement to give up the forcing current is to feel its existence. Just verify it. And then ask yourself specific questions. What is it that I want? Why? The clear and precise answer to these questions is of utmost importance — what you specifically want in any given moment, and why. Moreover, why does the attainment seem so important?”

Week 26: Lecture 167: “When you discover your fear of moving, your distaste of doing so, your reluctance or resistance — physically as well as mentally and emotionally — you have then discovered the cause of living in a sphere of consciousness where death is inevitable. You hasten death to the degree you refute movement on all levels of your being.”

Week 27: Lecture 190: “By freely admitting your fear, you are more in touch with yourself than when you deny the fear. By confronting the validity of the fear, you may often find that the real reason behind the fear is shame and its concomitant: pride. Denied pride and shame often create fear.”

Week 28: Lecture 20: “A person who is on the path and has gained a certain degree of spiritual knowledge and perception will understand cause and effect in his own life. A person who is not on the path will not understand it anyway, and therefore it does not matter whether the consequences occur in this life or the next because the cause will not be traced back anyway, as a person on the path will learn to do.”

Week 29: Lecture 213: “He who is outwardly dominant will find it difficult to deal with the inner hopelessness. He who is outwardly negative, dependent, weak, and submissive will find it difficult to deal with his covert dominant, manipulative traits. They are inevitably two sides of the same coin.”

Week 30: Lecture 118: “Observing the earth sphere and humanity from our vantage point, it is indeed sad because so rarely do people react to, and in, reality. This is the confusion and chaos that brings so much needless suffering to mankind. If you would perceive and react to the real person, to the real situation, a lot of pain would be avoided.”

Week 31: Lecture 153: “As the body always responds favorably when it is treated constructively, so does the level where feelings and intuition create conditions and experiences of life. When the self-regulating nature is experienced, the involuntary processes integrate with the ego functions. Then can life be truly fulfilling and rich. A new freedom exists to receive what comes from within. One is being lived from within. This is self-realization.”

Week 32: Lecture 114: “If you stop stemming and struggling against the fear, if you can say, “I, a human being like many others, am now in fear,” you will finally float with the wave, you will rise on the wave rather than being immersed in the wave of fear. You will swim in the fear. Very often, the first layer to be found underneath the fear are strong hostilities that are particularly taboo.”

Week 33: Lecture 33: “What you often think is cruel is the most beneficial thing in the world. Because if karmic law would not work in such a way that your own evasions finally lead you into such a situation that you cannot evade it any longer, you could not ever come out of the vicious cycle. So karmic law is the most merciful there is”

Week 34: Lecture 69: “You will learn to make the generous inner act of giving freedom to others not only to be wrong, or to disagree with you, or to have their weaknesses which you may not approve of, but also not to love you.“

Week 35: Lecture 71: “To live in the comparative reality accessible to you as long as you are an incarnated human being depends on your maturity, mental as well as emotional. Maturity, in turn, depends on your capacity and willingness to love. The more the personality is afraid of love, unwilling and thus incapable of loving, the more he lives in unreality, or illusion.”

Week 36: Lecture 21: “Why it is necessary to have self-knowledge, what are its advantages, how costly is it to attain, what are the disadvantages of not having it? Self-development cannot be done without self-knowledge. This self-knowledge is the only thing that really counts, the only thing,”

Week 37: Lecture 33: “The more serene you remain in the face of other people’s faults, the more you have accepted yourself as you are and thus have a healthy basis in your soul, no matter how many imperfections there still are in you. But the more you fight inwardly against other people as they happen to be presently, the more you are not really accepting yourself.”

Week 38: Lecture 234: “By accepting humbly your limitations, your imperfect state and looking at it creatively, constructively, and specifically so as to understand and make connections, it is already a manifestation of the Godhead within.”

Week 39: Lecture 124: “Ask yourself these questions. (1) Which is the goal I want now? Where am I dissatisfied? What would I want to be different? (2) How much do I want it? (3) To what extent is there something in me that does not want it? or fears it? or, for one reason or another, says no to it? (4) If this no-current exists regarding the very thing I wish, it must also exist in the pathwork itself. In what way does it manifest there? (5) How can I detect the various forms and manifestations of the no-current in my daily life?”

Week 40: Lecture 13: “Everything has to go your way so that you can feel happy, satisfied, and secure. But when it does not, you are lost and in the grip of forces within you that you cannot control. You are controlled by them, and you lose your serenity, or what you think is serenity when things go well. While being detached means you are independent.”

Week 41: Lecture 26: “Jesus said: “The meek shall inherit the earth.” By the “meek” is meant he who has no hatred, no resentment, no self-will, who has no fear because he lacks all these attributes. Then he will be able to be understanding, to be loving, and to be humble enough not to have to prove to be right all the time.”

Week 42: Lecture 145: “Honestly question yourself: do you truly wish to understand the call of life to you? What does it require of you? And are you wholeheartedly responsive?”

Week 43: Lecture 116: “Question yourself first, not as to the actual nature of your lower self, or what you consider as such; but rather begin by looking at your attitude toward its existence. Are you shocked about certain of its manifestations? Are you impatient with yourself because of it? Do you feel it should already be gone, thus rejecting your state of being a human being?”

Week 44: Lecture 16: “Will power comes from the higher self. It will remain a pure current of light and clean strength as long as it is used for a spiritual purpose, for spiritual growth, for God, with God, and in God.”

Week 45: Lecture 97: “You cannot give joy if you are not a joyful person. How can this happen since man does live in a very imperfect world? Man’s conscious or unconscious concept of a joyful life is always connected with a perfect life.”

Week 46: Lecture 21: “Accept your temporary reality for two reasons: (1) You have to be unemotional and undisturbed about what you are before you can change yourself; and this needs the new habit of seeing yourself clearly for a while without any false motives and excuses and blindness; (2) this will also teach you the necessary humiliation that is a major requirement of spiritual development and true detachment.”

Week 47: Lecture 103: “Both sadism and masochism, which are only two sides of the same coin, as you know, are conditioned and brought forth not by one, but by many facets in the human soul.”

Week 48: Lecture 23: “There is hardly a person in whom a war is not going on inside, a war that is not recognized as yet, where one trend of the subconscious wants to go this way, and the other that way. And your consciousness does not know it. This creates wars on this earth – your unrecognized hatred, your unrecognized selfishness, your unrecognized lack of love, and so on.”

Week 49: Lecture 254: “You have no idea about the strength of your own spirit. You constantly underestimate it and believe yourself to be much weaker and much more ineffectual than you actually are.”

Week 50: QA 144: “In order to give voice to an intellectual intuition, a certain quality is required, and that is courage. In that courage must also be contained a letting-go process, a committing yourself to the thought that springs up in you; the courage of committing yourself to a thought that springs up out of nowhere.”

Week 51: Lecture 200: “There is the divine kernel in every one of you. The aim of living is to realize this, to know who you really are, not to forget any longer. Once you know of your true identity, your real self which is a direct divine heritage, there is no longer any fear or any suffering.”

Week 52: Lecture 239: “The Christ in you is your true identity which knows all and fears nothing and lives forever. It is that you that is always bathed in light, that is a light body, an energy body, truly indestructible.”