| Shortcut....................23 | |
| sure way, which I will even call a shortcut, to establish a personal relationship with or a | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you do face it. Coming back to the shortcut to knowing God: If you sense that a | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| spiritual development. But if you can use the shortcut of sacrifice, it will be a wonderful deliverance | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the different new movements that claim that a shortcut is possible to partake of the Life Force | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| some good. I will now explain when such shortcut methods are successful. No human being is in | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| problems lie in uncleared areas. There is no shortcut. I would say that this path is a | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| I would say that this path is a shortcut. It is the shortest cut there is! Time | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| Spirit World must not and cannot be a shortcut to save you from the labor and pain | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of. There is no magic key and no shortcut. All that, if it exists at all, would | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spiritual, absolute reality cannot be found by a shortcut. It can be attained only by changing your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| that perhaps the impatience is in seeking a shortcut, which is unrealistic. The goal is unattainable in | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| gradually bring about this state. There is no shortcut and no formula, no miracle and no easy | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the greater the longing for it. Then a shortcut substitute is looked for in such substances. QUESTION | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| very rare indeed. They do not represent a shortcut. They are not the result of avoiding life | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| experience for the sake of an unconsciously wanted shortcut. You will rather be more determined than ever | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| friends. Cutting out or slaying would be a shortcut, and there is no shortcut to growth and | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| would be a shortcut, and there is no shortcut to growth and genuine spiritual and emotional health | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| refusal to yield to temptation. There is no shortcut, except that it appears easy when the transformation | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| attempt to escape the struggle by finding a shortcut to bliss is an error. The struggle corresponds | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| within the personality, we have found a significant shortcut. One may even discover that there are fewer | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| a few. Sexual activity can be such a shortcut. In sexual experience the blissful Now is most | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| same applies, of course, to alcohol. Such a shortcut is always a combination of two aspects of | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| being negative and destructive. It would be a shortcut. So the topic of this lecture can be | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Shortcuts...................14 | |
| a bit different with spiritual or emotional growth. Shortcuts never have any lasting effect and are therefore | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| lasting effect and are therefore always a farce. Shortcuts and other sudden measures supposed to eliminate the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| can ever be really successful, for seeking such shortcuts violates a spiritual law. All of you are | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| it. Do not seek for miracles, tricks, and shortcuts to happiness. It cannot be. Be blessed, be | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| your unconscious attempts to solve psychological problems by shortcuts and evasions are doomed to fail. Instead of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| an inclination to arrive at the result through shortcuts in order to avoid the unpleasantness of facing | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the heavens -- in a hurry and by shortcuts through material means, is a venture bound to | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| compulsion, suppression, repression, and forceful action -- all shortcuts, all illusions, all measures to strengthen the idealized | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| for you. This will happen -- not through shortcuts, illusions, wishful thinking, panaceas, but through decency and | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| does not understand. It seeks to cheat, using shortcuts, which can never work and which exact a | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| one stage or another. However, you also seek shortcuts. You sometimes want to fulfill the longing without | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| evil. Now let us briefly consider what such shortcuts may be. Several are possible. Let me list | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| not honestly attain this unification and you seek shortcuts, then instead of unifying, you will become even | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| processes of their inner light. These are illusory shortcuts meant to avoid finding the spontaneous functioning of | 228 BALANCE |
| Shorten.....................4 | |
| your growing process and thus proceed further to shorten the interval between the incident and the awareness | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| this and cope with it, you can indeed shorten the process. However, if you shy away from | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| of life this way. For then you will shorten the peregrinations that alienate you from the center | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| very periods will -- and already do -- shorten as your path progresses. They become less fearsome | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Short-lived.................8 | |
| a false need brings a shallow, temporary, and short-lived gratification, often at the expense of another person | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| lacking or is only partial, such periods are short-lived. They alternate with periods of confusion and depression | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| becomes. In the latter alternative, the crisis is short-lived. It lasts only until you summon the strength | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| factors alone? Either the solution is a very short-lived one, only to manifest stronger than ever in | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| when you sacrifice peace of mind for a short-lived pleasure. The pleasure will be deeper, more lasting | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the willingness to sacrifice destructive patterns with their short-lived, expensive satisfactions. Only then can awareness gradually grow | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| and destructiveness. Any success thus achieved is always short-lived and really an illusion, even though some of | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| the temptation. However, the results are not only short-lived, but usually lead to a crash, to a | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| Shortsighted................23 | |
| self-love that everyone has is a sick and shortsighted love, while God's love for you is a | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the fall started. However, this view is so shortsighted and so blind. Happiness can only exist for | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| them -- should be possible. This is very shortsighted and illogical. The laws of nature and the | 22 SALVATION |
| can only answer that this again is very shortsighted; if you are tired or weak, it is | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| also fear to face your images. But how shortsighted this is, my friends! It is this very | 38 IMAGES |
| For that resistance is just as erroneous and shortsighted as the image itself. In fact, the very | 38 IMAGES |
| same will happen in religion. Therefore, it is shortsighted to think that a dreadful occurrence on this | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| homosexuality comes from this or that is very shortsighted. Spiritually speaking, as far as the law of | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| bad or wicked or sinful, they are merely shortsighted and erroneous and of limited logic, as the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| even if it does mean giving up a shortsighted childish advantage, even if it does mean the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by badness, but by ignorance, distorted concepts, and shortsighted defenses -- once you truly see that -- | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| I wish to serve not only my own shortsighted immediate goal but to bring others meaning, help | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| toll eventually on all concerned. It is very shortsighted to believe that masochism indicates a better character | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| into yourself will you see what an unrealistic, shortsighted remedy this is. You will want to change | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| necessarily materially, but emotionally -- that is equally shortsighted and unsatisfactory as a solution. Dependency on others | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| many unpurified emotions, with many childish, selfish, and shortsighted attitudes -- and learn to accept them without | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| disappointment, and complications follow. People are usually so shortsighted that they call the positive energy fields good | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| The call of life disregards outer appearances and shortsighted sentimentality. It surges toward bringing all individuals into | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| have shown how the dualistic either/or is rigid, shortsighted and no longer applicable. However, this polarization was | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| you will always remain attached to your very shortsighted self-will, which brings you pain and confusion. Surrender | 254 SURRENDER |
| you that is most childish, most destructive, most shortsighted, is the self that is autonomous. You want | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| if not more than, those they disregard with shortsighted selfishness. The human family could not exist without | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| based only on expediency and on the most shortsighted goals. It is surely no coincidence that in | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Short-sighted...............4 | |
| aims will represent the entity's unconscious infantile, erroneous, short-sighted and destructive elements. But the more humanity grows | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| by obtaining your real advantages -- not the short-sighted, childish ones -- you ultimately also benefit others | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| see and touch and that is a very short-sighted view. The more you can consider the possibility | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| mask of false service and to expose the short-sighted selfishness of the lower, little self. Then you | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Shoulder....................10 | |
| much that you shirk a little pain, but shoulder it courageously and humbly, not making your own | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| be necessary once you can fearlessly accept and shoulder them. It is a good beginning to review | 38 IMAGES |
| the insight to understand. Have the courage to shoulder your responsibility without the pride of destructive wrong | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| misinterpreted. In its healthy form, acceptance helps to shoulder one's imperfections and their consequences, recognizing that one | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| extreme of your unwillingness when you refuse to shoulder your moral obligations toward yourself. You may acknowledge | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| which one wishes merely to vegetate and not shoulder life at all. Only when you determine this | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| up to now you did not want to shoulder the burden of having failed in this respect | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| neck, the other further down, approximately between the shoulder blades. They both are reflections from one center | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| great as on the physical. How can you shoulder mature self-responsibility? How can you accept the difficulties | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| carries responsibility, and those who are willing to shoulder it can, according to divine eternal law, and | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |