| Thrive......................7 | |
| and therefore shallowness. Even if you seem to thrive on emotionalism, this is not the real experience | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| baby knows no such boundaries. Its sexual instincts thrive without these concepts and ideas. If guilt and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| aridness and impoverishment of the souls who cannot thrive in a climate of self-rejection. People also ignore | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| tension. Guardedness is tension. Pleasure and creativity can thrive only in a state of relaxation. You cannot | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| the painful state of duality. Such duality can thrive only in a state of avoidance, a state | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| you long for, without which your personality cannot thrive. Step number three: commit yourself totally to working | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| great creative beneficial forces that could make you thrive in an entirely new way, you put yourself | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Throes......................3 | |
| all, even though you are now in the throes of destructive, painful emotions? You have conditioned yourself | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| or when you constantly find yourself in the throes of depression and rebellion, investigate, my dearest friends | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| problems for those who are still in the throes of their own inner conflicts. The unfulfilled longing | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| Throw.......................15 | |
| By rebelling against something you cannot change, you throw your life into disharmony. On the contrary, it | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| unbiased, that they have freed themselves. But they throw the immutable, eternally moving, absolute, divine truth into | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| this fault! And whenever they encounter it, they throw themselves into the same unproductive current, thus increasing | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| against it. Nothing can touch you then and throw you off. I realize that this is difficult | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| where nothing evil can ever touch you or throw you off balance. The price is: no self-pity | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you do not adjust. You demand, and you throw a temper-tantrum inside when your demands are not | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| clouds will no longer have the power to throw you, to upset you unduly, to make you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you fall short of your ideals will not throw you into depression, anxiety, and guilt, but will | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| of your real self, from the blame you throw into the world for not allowing you to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to give up the need to control everything, throw away the blueprints, and live spontaneously. All this | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| yourself and even a negative outcome will not throw you into despair. You will soon see that | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| first an apparent abyss into which you trustingly throw yourself, only to find that all risk is | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| every last fearful individual will stand up and throw off the shackles. History has always borne this | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| the presence and with the help of friends. Throw it all in, let go of everything that | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| to mean they must become Christian rebels who throw out the beautiful truth of Jesus Christ along | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Throws......................4 | |
| live up to this ideal self. Such failure throws the person into fits of depression and self- | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| opposition to the cosmic pull creates blocks and throws the cosmic stream off course, negative and painful | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| The healthy soul also experiences early unhappiness but throws off the effects without deeply imprinting negative patterns | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| other. The latter is like a wall that throws off any incoming flow. Thus, the two flows | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| Thrust......................8 | |
| this potent momentum of eros as the initial thrust it is, and then find through it the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| outer projection into which your real self is thrust in order to fulfill a task. Give the | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| of the nucleus, until it is ready to thrust itself forward anew, billowing further into the void | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| the shell of matter. Too often, when the thrust of spirit should be strong and cause a | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| of life surges on. Each pulsation is another thrust of the life forces, penetrating matter and gradually | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| this shell. Each further incarnation represents a further thrust into the inanimate. Very gradually the pulse beat | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| therefore have a greater staying power. The forward thrust of the pulse beat can penetrate deeper. Everything | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| way that life no longer pulls back. The thrust will have become so strong that all is | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Thwart......................7 | |
| the emotions. They are afraid of emotions. They thwart and cripple them, and in doing so they | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| you withdraw into seclusion and become egocentric, you thwart not only others but yourself. Emotional maturity also | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| in the self we discussed before. If you thwart your instincts, due to the deviations under discussion | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| life. At the other extreme, guilt and fear thwart the unfoldment of the pleasure principle, and the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| begin to function. Thus, you will no longer thwart yourself. You will no longer inflict frustration and | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| physical organism into a tight container. This would thwart the growth and cripple the organism. It is | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| rather than from hostility and a desire to thwart you? Aside from your childhood experiences, or your | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Thwarted....................13 | |
| facing what is involved in them, and then thwarted when things naturally do not turn out to | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| me to be perfect. Both wish-fulfillments are completely thwarted by the world. For this, you blame the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the maximum growth of your personality is gravely thwarted. Just as people often ignore the difference between | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| is nothing. The more the striving soul is thwarted in its healthy instincts, the stronger will it | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| needs. Last, but not least, they are always thwarted by the opposite trends of other pseudo-solutions which | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| further disturbances are bound to set in. The thwarted instinct of self-preservation tries to compromise; you will | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and frustrated for a long period, that is thwarted again and again, will seek outlets. Such an | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| to grow in the sunlight of awareness remain thwarted and, in their current form, are actually destructive | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Thus the faculties for experiencing maximum pleasure are thwarted. Human beings are meant to experience maximum pleasure | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| given to this. Just as the body becomes thwarted when its needs are not fulfilled and it | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the proper sustenance, so the human soul becomes thwarted when its needs are not fulfilled and it | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| generally are overgrown and whose emotional life is thwarted, union with the divine kernel is as difficult | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| is completely denied, the total personality is being thwarted and the tension is so powerfully accumulated that | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Thwarting...................6 | |
| his intellect, his resourcefulness, his physical strength, but thwarting his emotional and intuitive nature. Since the latter | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| the need to grow out of separateness. By thwarting this creative instinct, not only is emotional fulfillment | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the most vital aspects of this question. In thwarting natural instincts, man so often thwarts his manhood | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| force, which is better than the alternative of thwarting the pleasure drive altogether. In most instances, the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| should not have -- while actually suffering from thwarting that need and resenting the necessity to do | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| stand the state of overloading the faculties and thwarting the inner, non-volitional self which is infinitely better | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| Thwarts.....................6 | |
| human affection and respect for the person who thwarts your will. You refrain from constructing unreal situations | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| question. In thwarting natural instincts, man so often thwarts his manhood. He is frightened of independence because | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| In all these confusions of unconscious ideas, he thwarts his masculinity in its natural and healthy form | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Disharmonious interaction, with over-or under-emphasis on one force, thwarts life and produces displeasure, frustration, and restriction. When | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| be something at work within the person that thwarts fulfillment. Even when this hidden agenda is glimpsed | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| to be self-forgetful, but that your little ego thwarts this natural state. Maybe you hold onto misconceptions | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Thy.........................26 | |
| you find the eternal, living God. HALLOWED BE THY NAME. You hallow the name of the Father | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| appropriate spiritual law. When you say, Hallowed be thy name, ask the question within: Where are my | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| and open, life will bring you the answer. THY KINGDOM COME. When you hallow God's name by | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| to know and to apply the spiritual laws. THY WILL BE DONE. I do not need to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| Which is true? I am ready to receive Thy answer. I promise you the answer will come | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| fulfillment of one's own will ties in with Thy will be done? ANSWER: There is no problem | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| should first of all ask God, Is it Thy will, Father? I will be open to receive | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| will, Father? I will be open to receive Thy answer. And if you are open, if you | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| willpower I have, I use it according to Thy will -- this resolution is the beginning of | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| be receptive to it. Pray: Father, is this thy truth? Is this thy will for me? I | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| Pray: Father, is this thy truth? Is this thy will for me? I am open to receive | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| will for me? I am open to receive thy answer. Nothing more is asked when you are | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| we always have to ask God, Is this Thy will? Or do you have to see whether | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| that which I otherwise know. Let me see Thy truth in this situation, not as it appears | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| spirit of humility with the attitude of Father, Thy will be done is the right thing. But | 38 IMAGES |
| self-will and can say, and mean it: Father, Thy will be done, let me be Thy instrument | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| Father, Thy will be done, let me be Thy instrument in any way Thou choosest, not the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| that in order to be an instrument for Thy world, I have to go on this path | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| not evil; but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the last words of Christ was, Father, Thy will be done. Taken as an example, this | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of the soul. The saying you just mentioned, Thy will be done, means, rightly understood, I let | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| cease to be rigid. The false meaning of Thy will be done makes humanity seem weak and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| authority claiming to act on behalf of God. Thy will be done does not mean obedience; it | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| comment on the Lord's Prayer, particularly the words, Thy will be done on earth as it is | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| deep conviction. It says in Scripture, According to thy belief it will be done unto thee. This | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| real meaning of the scriptural saying, According to thy belief it shall be done unto thee. It | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |