| Playful.....................3 | |
| the fulfillment whenever it approaches. When it is playful fantasy, all may be well. You may detect | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| situations belongs to this category. So do day-dreaming, playful thoughts of conversations as they should or might | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| fantasies, either in your mind or in a playful way within an intimate and established relationship. Often | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Playing.....................14 | |
| nothing. This would be sick; it would be playing the martyr, making a mockery of justice. It | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| as your are capable of, yet feel yourself playing the role of a friend. You may love | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| present circumstances and inner conditions, yet experience yourself playing the role of a lover. If you discover | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| be many who never consciously feel they are playing a role and yet they are self-alienated. For | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| violation of my integrity, all untruthfulness and role playing, all cowardly defenses, all self-centeredness that makes me | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this fear when you abandon the ego attitudes. Playing fair and square with life, without cheating, not | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| dishonesty, the hiding, the projecting, and the game playing that exist on subtle levels in your consciousness | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| let the pain be and feel it without playing games like, it will annihilate me, or it | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| you can then do without defiance and without playing your negative games. This real self- assertion stems | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| self; it devastates you and you exaggerate it, playing a game with yourself. Shame applies to your | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| temporarily. QUESTION: What is the positive origin of playing the victim game? ANSWER: The distortion is self-exoneration | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| and the hours of practice that make his playing finally effortless, so must God-inspired people work on | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the power of such thoughts. There is no playing with such power without grave consequences. There is | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| fully opening your heart, but making yourself desirable, playing into other people's misconceptions and neurotic needs. Submission | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Plaything...................3 | |
| in its development that that person becomes the plaything of the forces of darkness. This does not | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| self-honesty. This alone is sufficient to become the plaything of the forces of darkness. The dark world | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| a different way, again in unawareness, become a plaything of the forces of darkness, your boat will | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| Plead.......................3 | |
| Unconsciously, you rebel just as frequently as you plead for admiration and approval. Both exist simultaneously in | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of a childish, undeveloped state. If such people plead humbly enough, they imagine the wish will be | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| would be unnecessary to keep it secret. To plead righteousness about keeping a secret is therefore absurd | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Pleasant....................64 | |
| confront; on the other you find in such pleasant pain a compensation for the privations of your | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| learned what there was to learn. However, a pleasant time passed in contentment may cause you great | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| your feelings closely, you will find that untruth, pleasant as it may seem at the moment, never | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| of all of your own, no matter how pleasant the mask may appear to be. If your | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| feeling of happiness about us or an occasional pleasant fragrance, does that mean that there are harmonious | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| It is not so important whether everything is pleasant and painless. Only you human beings think that | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| guided more easily and thus live a more pleasant life. If you die, for instance, in a | 18 FREE WILL |
| these things. It would be so much more pleasant to hear what is easy or is impersonal | 21 THE FALL |
| mask. All masks are bad, even the apparently pleasant ones. However, some people, through pride and defiance | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| Again, beware of rash judgment; an easy and pleasant life is not always an indication that your | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| to you. This is true whether it is pleasant or unpleasant. You can measure it and it | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| you want them and because it would be pleasant to have them and for no other reason | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| within yourself. It seems much easier and more pleasant to resist and rather distrust others, and to | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| Another dog may experience fire only as something pleasant. When the fire is lit, he is with | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| measurement. In this period, existence cannot be very pleasant for him. The sphere he has created for | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| forth. None of these possibilities can be too pleasant or easy. And then such an entity may | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| alive even though it may have some very pleasant features. Habit is a great temptress, pulling one | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| advantages of friendship, companionship, mutual respect, and a pleasant life together with a well-established routine outweigh the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the untruth and that, of course, is not pleasant. This leads many people to believe that our | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| pulling it out? This work is not exactly pleasant, for the poison may even affect you temporarily | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| this way. It would be extremely comfortable and pleasant -- many people try it but they cannot | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| touches a mass image which says, Selfishness is pleasant. One must not have it because it is | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unconscious concept that it would actually be very pleasant to be allowed to be selfish. This notion | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you think it is more advantageous or more pleasant for you. By that time you have recognized | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| your original selfish desire would actually be more pleasant. For that matter, you may not even be | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| us and therefore the selfish is regarded as pleasant. I would like to ask what tie or | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| merely for the sake of making life more pleasant for the moment, without trying to find the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| be more joyful, because it is not always pleasant to face your faults, your childish selfishness, and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| cannot be determined merely by what is outwardly pleasant for the person. Yes, there are instances in | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| interest of the person, because the easy and pleasant conditions cause stagnation, while an unpleasant condition may | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and undeveloped persons being loved and living in pleasant surroundings, would that mean that in certain fields | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is so bleak that you create a more pleasant world for yourself. This is true, but there | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| reality because reality is not always perfect or pleasant. Immaturity exaggerates the imperfection so much that you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| on and a feeling that it is more pleasant to wander in the clouds. But, I repeat | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| because you want them merely because they are pleasant and that is all there is to it | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| burdensome. Even if some information is not exactly pleasant, it may be necessary in order to accomplish | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| crass things you encounter are unpleasant? Aren't they pleasant for he who has mastered them? Therefore this | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| truth in you, regardless of whether it is pleasant or flattering, must always be resolved afresh. This | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| it that one is often more restless when pleasant things occur? In depressions one may be calm | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Consciously you may feel you had a very pleasant time. But if you analyze your feelings, you | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| idealized self was actually partly gratified in this pleasant situation. This may very well happen along with | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| use of the vocal chords. It is not pleasant to hear a baby screaming, but this period | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the other hand, the peace is a momentary, pleasant, relaxed feeling, but after it is gone, no | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| infinitely more constructive than looking for a consoling, pleasant message from outside yourself. Your fear of facing | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| but also because you like to hear nice, pleasant things. When you perceive a much more constructive | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| of love that sometimes says momentarily not so pleasant things, you become so blind that you do | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| deep inside you connect love with what is pleasant and easy -- and, unfortunately, that is not | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| inside. But the first reaction will not be pleasant. It cannot be. All the repressed negative emotions | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| may fulfill a superficial function. It may be pleasant and distracting, but somehow shallow. Your true self | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| Gratified vanity, greed, or pride may produce a pleasant emotion. Or, to go a step further, a | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| on subjectivity. In both instances, they may be pleasant or unpleasant. The language is often confused. One | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| indeed, be strengthened. Outside help might be momentarily pleasant, but it will not increase your self-confidence, your | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| continuity will no longer be the subject of pleasant or unpleasant assumptions or theories, but will be | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| into despair. You will soon see that the pleasant or unpleasant result is not as vital as | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| deem something constructive and good because it seems pleasant to you, but you may also say yes | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| shame and which is also connected to both pleasant and unpleasant childhood conditions. The consideration of the | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| feelings, and thoughts. Your tendency to petrify a pleasant outcome because this seems an easy solution, an | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| fullness of experience. This intensity does not feel pleasant at all. It is problematic and leads to | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| when the two forces are in disharmony. This pleasant tension is a springboard from which action flows | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| The childish part in you declares that nothing pleasant should ever change. If you feel good now | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| exist in the life not necessarily coinciding with pleasant and unpleasant. Finding the most fitting environment, parents | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| right now, even though having it might be pleasant. And you can perhaps also have the faith | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| and stamina to explore some of the less pleasant manifestations before you can recognize your hard inner | 254 SURRENDER |
| accompanied by certain manifestations that are not always pleasant, welcome, agreeable or even constructive. Many events on | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |