| Persuade....................4 | |
| start, the easier it will be. Do not persuade yourself that what I say may not be | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| do not wish to give them up. They persuade themselves that they can help with what they | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| inadequacy when not being able to reach or persuade another person. These are the most important underlying | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| directed to this all- important purpose. You often persuade yourself that you lack the energy and the | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| Persuasion..................4 | |
| lasting. Example is always more convincing than words, persuasion, or forcing one's will upon the other, no | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| arrangements that serve their interests. Every instrument of persuasion is used to brainwash the multitudes that one | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| refusal to cooperate, forceful outer aggression, intimidation, and persuasion through false strength and assumption of an authority | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| with overriding others either by sheer force, clever persuasion, or dishonest manipulation. In that case, you use | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Pertain.....................6 | |
| fixed and yet eternally moving spiritual laws, which pertain to every possibility or modality of outer or | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| really want to. But aside from answers that pertain to personal development, to self-knowledge, to one's own | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| will out from the start. Whether your desires pertain to earthly things which do not deviate from | 18 FREE WILL |
| Law in all its psychological aspects as they pertain to you personally. You have to get to | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| have a personal question which might very well pertain to this topic. It includes two things that | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| fixed and unchangeable is secure. The laws that pertain to this new venture into your inner creativity | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Pervades....................4 | |
| important, but other circumstances are important. Whenever truth pervades you about a previous incarnation -- and this | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| greatest deed without which you would be lost pervades you, then you will be able to give | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| important or unimportant, big and small issues. It pervades everything when it is allowed to do so | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| because the hidden motive to hurt others so pervades your energies and affects your actions and words | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Pervasive...................6 | |
| activity of holding on so frantically generates a pervasive climate of holding on in general. This is | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| with any religion. It is a subtle and pervasive poison. QUESTION: I have noticed that when I | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of a momentary hostility; I mean an overall, pervasive, essential, lingering destructiveness that has been dormant all | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| allow happiness into your soul or eliminate the pervasive guilt you seek to explain away by false | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| The game of making others guilty is so pervasive that it constantly passes unnoticed. One human being | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| Let us take for example the common and pervasive attitude of wishing to punish your parents. You | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| Perverse....................4 | |
| periods. But such feelings are labeled sinful and perverse. The child soon absorbs these ideas, even when | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| somehow wrong, you still are captivated by the perverse pleasure of your own negative production. This acknowledgment | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| this and more can never be worth the perverse pleasure you derive from your negative creation. See | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| circumstances of an infant. This would be incongruous, perverse and confining, to say the least. But this | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| Perversion..................12 | |
| be dangerous and is therefore not attempted. The perversion of the instinct of self-preservation brings in its | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| will no longer be myself. Is that a perversion of the self-preservation instinct? ANSWER: You are quite | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| self-preservation instinct? ANSWER: You are quite right. The perversion of the self-preservation instinct is resistant to any | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| halts the growing individual's natural development. Fears of perversion, homosexuality and incest play a role. But the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| she reaches out to the other sex. Overt perversion is avoided not by the inhibiting fear of | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| out of itself. Fear of the sin of perversion tends only to drive undeveloped instincts inward, as | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| is then that one may truly speak of perversion, because the pleasure principle is used for something | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| pain in the conflicted psyche may be called perversion or masochism, it is still a blessing. The | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| power, for it will be free from pollution, perversion, and distortion. You can then claim your birthright | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the sickness of the ego state and the perversion of it -- to cling to the very | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| it functions in what is referred to as perversion -- pleasure in giving pain, pleasure in denying | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| conformity. The halting of the movement creates a perversion of what group consciousness would create. This is | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Perverted...................8 | |
| here. You cannot force it. Anything can be perverted, especially when it is forced. So beware of | 36 PRAYER |
| Fall every divine aspect in creation has been perverted into its opposite extreme. This is easy to | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| make self-responsible decisions. In that way, truth is perverted. This has happened since the beginning of time | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| give vent to it. In such cases the perverted instinct of self-preservation is stronger. But that does | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the role of the creative feminine principle is perverted. By the same token, a woman who surrenders | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| there are other ways to eliminate the distorted, perverted, natural forces, ways that need not deny life | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| you, the discriminating mind is being used and perverted. If the feelings are open in honesty, the | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| healthy, truthful expression, or both can have a perverted, distorted expression. So it is of utmost importance | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Pessimism...................16 | |
| is not being pessimistic, my friends, nor negative. Pessimism and negativity would say: All I can expect | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| Superficially one may say that this simply displays pessimism. But by going to the core of your | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| not being able to realize it, in a pessimism or even hopelessness about it. Such pessimism makes | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| a pessimism or even hopelessness about it. Such pessimism makes you fluctuate between two damaging extremes: either | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| be at first merely a general sense of pessimism, nihilism and vague fears, along with a total | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| her energy and love. 236. THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM Greetings and blessings, my very beloved friends. You | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| attitude that I will call the superstition of pessimism. Once it is conscious, it will aid you | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| word you speak into yourself. The superstition of pessimism begins as a superstitious destructive playfulness, but then | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| counter the habitual trickery of the superstition of pessimism, where it may exist in you, you challenge | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| thinking -- you revert into the superstition of pessimism. Let us be very clear about the difference | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| manifestation. The more you justify the superstition of pessimism, the less desirable your life becomes. Increasingly you | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| just the other side of the superstition of pessimism. So you see, my friends, the superstition of | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| So you see, my friends, the superstition of pessimism and the daydreaming are very closely interrelated and | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| the daydream, your disappointment reinforces the superstition of pessimism. What was begun as a game then reinforces | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| the imaginary safety measure of the superstition of pessimism and, simultaneously, to wishful daydreaming. The very thing | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| yet strive for results through the superstition of pessimism and wishful daydreaming. You ignore the inexhaustible wells | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Pessimistic.................10 | |
| Divine Law of accepting life's adversities without becoming pessimistic and negative. There is a great deal of | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| It is equally against Divine Law to be pessimistic and negative. Your lower nature, abetted by the | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| of darkness, likes to believe that to be pessimistic and negative means to accept life's hardships. On | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| and disadvantages? A searching inquiry is not being pessimistic, my friends, nor negative. Pessimism and negativity would | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| People often think that by being negative and pessimistic they can prove that they are accepting life's | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| healthy medicine. However, it does not mean being pessimistic or looking forward to negative happenings if they | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| optimistic attitude brings a good result and a pessimistic outlook a bad one. As long as you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of your self-will without being either optimistic or pessimistic. Just wish to learn from anything that happens | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you happen to be a more fearful and pessimistic character, you will not admit their existence at | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| state of division and self-denial, you must feel pessimistic and fearful about the world and see it | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Pet.........................4 | |
| go into the same sphere as a deceased pet? ANSWER: It does not make any difference for | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| at work even in the animal world. A pet has no freedom but it is not responsible | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| steal something from him -- each has a pet idea. Become clear about yours. Do not go | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the inner being as well as giving up pet attitudes and ideas must be cultivated. Then the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |