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| be capable of living in the now fully, meaningfully, and dynamically, deriving all the many joys from | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| These approaches are interdependent. In order to live meaningfully and dynamically, an interrelationship between them is necessary | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| live center can be utilized most constructively and meaningfully in the realization that the live center must | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| whole. These involuntary processes are just as perfectly, meaningfully regulated -- according to lawful procedures -- as | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| other of these three movements occurs regularly and meaningfully. The spiritual significance of the transition is always | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of growth. I shall explain how to react meaningfully and adequately to a negative experience in a | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| painlessly, perhaps a bit more safely and more meaningfully. As to the third level, what could exist | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| the same direction. At least now you are meaningfully engaged in ascertaining this fact about yourself. The | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| others increases your power to direct your life meaningfully. The law of personal responsibility is the guiding | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| you to use this activity more effectively and meaningfully. To really understand the dynamics, the meaning, and | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| a new tool that can now be used meaningfully and that could not have been used this | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| visualizing yourself in a productive vocation, joyfully and meaningfully contributing to life, or visualizing your success and | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| embracing your self-created boundaries you transcend them most meaningfully. Soon your frustration will become a new doorway | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| monarch principle within your soul is acting harmoniously, meaningfully and appropriately toward the responsible citizen principle within | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| truth, security, and peace can be undertaken systematically, meaningfully and intelligently. Obviously, it is exactly this process | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| continue your traditions and make them new most meaningfully. If you have the right attitude, you will | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Meaningfulness..............20 | |
| some momentary recognition, people experience freedom, renewal and meaningfulness in their lives in greater measure. From our | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| feel dead inside and robs you of the meaningfulness of life, so does the solution to submit | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| and those in touch with you with a meaningfulness you could not experience in non-involvement or in | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| not it is, no waste exists. There is meaningfulness even for those who stay behind. QUESTION: Would | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| their ability to relate, and the depth and meaningfulness of their relationships. It is also true that | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| not necessarily an indication of its health and meaningfulness. Close examination of the ties and their significance | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| Then life becomes vibrant in joy, peace and meaningfulness, in newness and richness. This subject is of | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| help but be benign, bringing happiness, fulfillment, and meaningfulness. Distrusting this stream and therefore holding on to | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| will become discernible and its wise guidance and meaningfulness will become a powerful presence in your life | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| yet become personally experienced truth for you. The meaningfulness and fulfillment of one's life depend, in the | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| dissolve more easily. It will transform itself into meaningfulness and sense. It is a growing pain, not | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| endowed with a new luminosity and a deeper meaningfulness. Beliefs change, or they feel different. The scope | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| you deep feelings of bliss, security, reality, and meaningfulness. The desired result will be truly your own | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| burdensome. When you begin to perceive the incredible meaningfulness, the much wider wisdom and purpose of every | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| experiences, your community, your sense of well-being and meaningfulness in life. You are often startled by this | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| your joys and your deep awareness of the meaningfulness of your life and your task will increase | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| and therefore feel a deep security in the meaningfulness of it all. Happiness that appears to be | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| afraid of it, much more confident of its meaningfulness for you and much less resistant to repeat | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| in its great joyous truth and aliveness and meaningfulness and purposefulness lives in everything that is, that | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| boundaries: the first in recognition of their intrinsic meaningfulness, the second in recognition of your own limitations | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Meaningless.................50 | |
| has not yet been established. Therefore everything seems meaningless -- their sorrows, their trials, their loneliness. But | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| be a testing ground, and it would be meaningless to strive for the attainment of a higher | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| spiritual childhood and such a call would be meaningless for them. They have not yet attained the | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| appear entirely unconnected and isolated; they will be meaningless for you. Later on you will begin to | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| will be merely words for you, perhaps even meaningless words. However, you can experience the difference if | 18 FREE WILL |
| you will never feel your life to be meaningless if for some reason you lose a human | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to you -- will become more than just meaningless happenings coming from the outside! You all know | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| lose their validity. They become dead, rigid, and meaningless. No truth is exempt from this fate if | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| eternal life is no life and therefore a meaningless contradiction. The life force contains all divine attributes | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| conflict that arises in the psyche is utterly meaningless, although the emotions can be very limited and | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| cannot happen. Many people feel that life is meaningless, whether or not such thoughts are conscious. In | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| goodwill. Then nothing happens. Life continues to be meaningless. Real living is then constantly postponed. When this | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| Without the love-capacity your life will be empty, meaningless, shallow. You all know, and some of you | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| in the old sense becomes more and more meaningless, contradictory. His prayer is the action of self-awareness | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| Nothing happens in the entire universe, that is meaningless, that cannot be productive. There is no waste | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| Hostility has become too vague a term, almost meaningless in its repeated use. Let us deliberately be | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| faraway God outside of you is a completely meaningless command, that becomes an impossible demand. The trustworthiness | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| person that make the holding of a grudge meaningless; it sees no shame or humiliation in giving | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| of you. May these words be more than meaningless phrases. May you be able to feel into | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| of feelings is not a bottomless well of meaningless bleakness, unknown terror, reasonless violence, and selfishness. This | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| that life passes them by, that it is meaningless, that they somehow miss out on it. Their | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| tendency to prove your independence by blind and meaningless rebellion. Rebellion no more leads to selfhood than | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| very disturbing. ANSWER: Outer action or change is meaningless unless it arises out of a harmonious desire | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| lose contact with its dynamic reality. Words become meaningless when they are used blindly and unfeelingly. This | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| humankind in such a mechanical, distorted, and often meaningless way that many individuals have become practically allergic | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| ego sees and experiences only finiteness: the disconnected, meaningless universe in which it is senselessly suffering and | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| often makes your life unbearably lonely, fearful, and meaningless. Unfathomable death is terrifying, and although it is | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the former any more. The former is indeed meaningless. It cannot enrich you because you extracted it | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| sense than to an animal. They would be meaningless to them. There are other human beings whose | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| events as isolated haphazard happenings, life must appear meaningless, frightening, confusing and burdensome. When you begin to | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| with; thus life is being fragmented into a meaningless pattern. In the new civilization that you are | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| measurements to the outer mind. This often becomes meaningless, stilted and self-defeating. It breaks the real balance | 228 BALANCE |
| fog of the superficial word that is merely meaningless noise and has no substance in your consciousness | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| the word would be impossible, it would be meaningless, it could not exist. So the thought is | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| not. You will create conditions that make the meaningless restrictions unnecessary, and you will tenderly and lovingly | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| to you, fear of untimely death, chaos, disruption, meaningless suffering. Again, not only my instrument had to | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Being good in and by itself is almost meaningless. The deeper you go in your work of | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| the universe is a world of chaos and meaningless arbitrariness. When a human being dies in that | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| As you experience the fear of a fragmented, meaningless, disconnected world in which you exist without rhyme | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| to the inevitable vicious circle: If life is meaningless, all you can do is to push selfishly | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| And the greater this separation is, the more meaningless all life will appear. Thus the vicious circle | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| you live in hell because your life appears meaningless, boring, frightening, at loose ends, separate from all | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| do not enjoy your work, or find it meaningless, if you do not earn enough to experience | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| its distorted sense means a dead weight, a meaningless carryover. This does not necessarily mean that a | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| intensely meaningful reality, or it can be a meaningless, dead repetition of the past that no longer | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| rebel against all tradition; they rebel against its meaningless, dead manifestation, just as much as against its | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| The pain of injustice connotes fear of a meaningless universe, of chaos. It distinctly results from -- | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| is based on this existential fear of a meaningless universe, the passage of time, and the pain | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| self is the pain of an unjust, chaotic, meaningless creation. Or, to put it a bit more | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| natural course. Doubt, rebellion, anger, belief in a meaningless universe that makes you suffer -- these are | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |