| Springboard.................3 | |
| are in disharmony. This pleasant tension is a springboard from which action flows forth naturally and organically | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| own esteem. This inner state will be the springboard from which change becomes possible. It will not | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| further stages. What I described here is the springboard, the fundamental step on this particular ladder. For | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Springing...................6 | |
| You are pioneers. Other groups of pioneers are springing up in various corners of the earth, each | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| life of the New Age. Community living is springing up increasingly, and although it does not always | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| new living centers of the new consciousness, are springing up on Earth. They will increasingly manifest and | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| exactly that. Some of your creations are undesirable, springing from negative beliefs and distorted notions. If you | 254 SURRENDER |
| of you already see that new values are springing up all over, working their way laboriously through | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| new groups, new communities of all sorts are springing up all over. Many of them are misguided | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Sprout......................3 | |
| until the seed has taken root and can sprout compares to the gardener tending the soil, seeing | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| so that the creative substance can begin to sprout forth for you. You will overcome life's limitations | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| possess, sowing seeds and waiting for plants to sprout, without ever having seen the process work. It | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Spun........................4 | |
| of somber color and texture -- which are spun, knotted, and entangled, until there is such a | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| more of the same kind of yarn is spun, until truth is no longer discernible -- at | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| love is like an immense mantle of finely spun gold, permeating the universe, enveloping everything and everyone | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| joy, peace and excitement. Wishful daydreams are often spun by a diminished ego rather than by the | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Spur........................3 | |
| healthy! Some daydreaming of this sort may even spur you to seek fulfillment in reality. In that | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| which much insight can be gained; it may spur you to live more fully. Also, it can | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| very states are reminders, messages and signposts to spur you on to make a redoubled effort to | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| Squander....................3 | |
| yourself and others. You will be able to squander yourself into life, not in an unhealthy, unreasonable | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| If it is true that human beings must squander themselves as generously as life squanders itself on | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| available only to the degree you wish to squander yourself into life, giving as generously of your | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Squarely....................35 | |
| all things! Therefore, it is imperative to meet squarely what actually still exists in you and face | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| and have the absolute will to look yourself squarely in the face. If you overcome the resistance | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| aware of the problem and looking at it squarely until you recognize either of these two wrong | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| ignorance is justified guilt that you should meet squarely and courageously. There is a world of difference | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the goal itself. By finding and facing them squarely, you will automatically eliminate a certain degree of | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| want or do certain things. When you face squarely that which is in you, imperfect as the | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| reality, in its true sense. By facing yourself squarely and courageously, you must eventually find your causes | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| doomed to fail. Instead of facing the issue squarely, you superimpose ready-made answers which may be true | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| from a healthy, strong acceptance of the inevitable. Squarely facing it, not cringing from it, you will | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| physical, mental and spiritual pain. Jesus met it squarely, without pretense, without self-deception, without deceiving those who | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| can be had only if death is met squarely. In using the word pure I do not | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| person is a machine who faces an issue squarely, and upon discovering that here is something he | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| them, not by pseudo-solutions and defenses, but by squarely facing all that is in you, understanding it | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| choice: they can look at their inner life squarely, without self-deception, or they may have a severe | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| be pain. When you meet your fears and squarely acknowledge them, it is important to understand, and | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| and when you are willing to face it squarely. Becoming integrated with your divine center does not | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| fears, your real desires. Once this is done, squarely and honestly, you can begin to seek an | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| makes the next step possible. Look the fear squarely in the face. Have the integrity and courage | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| split of desire and motivation. Face the fears squarely. Face your pride squarely, which makes you so | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| motivation. Face the fears squarely. Face your pride squarely, which makes you so perfectionistic that you must | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| non-existent, until one catches them and looks them squarely in the face. Then they become quite distinct | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a basic destructiveness will be abandoned through your squarely facing it. Then the divine can be activated | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| for destructiveness. As long as destructiveness is not squarely faced, this conviction is lacking and your holding | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| goes on in you and look at it squarely, the violation is already overcome to a considerable | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| find the key that will enable you to squarely confront the undesirable attitudes, without in the least | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| the worst impulses of cruelty, if honestly and squarely admitted, neither acted out irresponsibly nor repressed and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| vital creative energy, which putrefies in you. By squarely recognizing the evil, you neither act it out | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| what you feel too guilty about to face squarely. Even you, who work so diligently on this | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| jump can be activated by confronting the issue squarely and examining what is at stake. You have | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| will often dissolve fear. You must confront and squarely face these issues. Only thus can the way | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| Life plays out its laws and rules very squarely, fairly and impartially. It waits until you find | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| give up. Look at it, look at it squarely. When you see it, you can confront yourself | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| faults, those areas which you need to face squarely and honestly. The defense against your shortcomings is | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| about accepting the self with its lower-self aspects, squarely facing its negativity, and yet seeing its destructiveness | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| hidden sense of worthlessness that you never face squarely, comprehend, work through in its details and small | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Squash......................3 | |
| of life. Instead you artificially cramp, prohibit, and squash your natural feelings. Maybe your real self would | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| undeserving of such love and respect. When you squash the early impressions of the parents and superimpose | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| without, even though you do your utmost to squash and deny it in its present state. When | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Squashed....................4 | |
| which cannot be denied and should not be squashed. But humanity in its blindness and false modesty | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| because this is natural. If nature is not squashed, if good behavior is not superimposed over a | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| part of myself, the child's voice that was squashed, I am afraid that I will then not | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| important to cultivate this curiosity. Once it is squashed, the learning process becomes a dull must that | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Squeeze.....................9 | |
| that it is not only extremely difficult to squeeze these very subtle concepts into human language, but | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| destructiveness. If need be, it will manage to squeeze it out of a person who has otherwise | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| let alone their urgency, and thus you will squeeze these emotions out of existence -- out of | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| it true that we try not only to squeeze ourselves into our own idealized self-images but we | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and unrecognized way, you try to find and squeeze yourself into the tools given you, rather than | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| it is easy to see. Imagine that you squeeze a growing physical organism into a tight container | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| extremely limited, and it is almost impossible to squeeze this kind of experience into the context of | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| concept of time is illusory anyway. But to squeeze these ideas into your human understanding, where your | 228 BALANCE |
| before in another context. The personality needs to squeeze into a very tight structure, and this is | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Squeezed....................8 | |
| yet in equilibrium. This apparent contradiction cannot be squeezed into your verbal concepts, just as it is | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| you a rough outline. They have to be squeezed into the limitations of human language and understanding | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| lived by the living spirit. Its life is squeezed out if you have to hold yourself back | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| deal with. That is the very reason you squeezed yourself into this narrow, uncomfortable, confining and often | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| topic one comprehensive whole. The human mind is squeezed into a narrow box, as it were -- | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| this they then hold on in a tight, squeezed way that prohibits the influx of the greater | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| not easy, for the topic has to be squeezed into human terms, human concepts, terminology and language | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| observes the suffering part of you that is squeezed into a smaller world in which you sometimes | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |