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 Wills.......................14
the way they want to, but as God wills. And that is always much more wonderful. So 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
create disharmony. All depends on how much one wills one's own development. Do you understand? QUESTIONER: Not 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
it. And have the confidence that what God wills for you must be better than your shortsightedness 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
works deep inside and yet quite consciously; it wills strongly and yet patiently; it leaves you free 18 FREE WILL
of slow growth and organic building. Whenever God wills it so, the fluids may be retracted so 20 GOD: THE CREATION
QUESTION: Does prayer have any effect on the wills of those who are indifferent to spiritual values 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
direct control. The same difference between the two wills exists on a mental and emotional level. It 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
as the so-called ego -- that part which wills and reasons. This was not a wrong turn 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
-- and, lo, something comes into existence. It wills -- and lo, what is willed and thought 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
only of what one consciously desires, wishes, wants, wills, intends, longs for. The person is convinced that 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
neutral and will inevitably follow whatever direction consciousness wills for it. It must be quite clear for 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
in this world, including which of the two wills to follow. You can choose to allow the 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
in their immature mental and emotional states, their wills were not sufficiently developed to make conscious, appropriate 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
can see in your world how two self- wills clashing create war on a small or a 254 SURRENDER
 
 Will-type...................7
proper balance. In the third category is the will-type who is altogether different. Will is supposed to 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
process and the emotional and intuitive faculties. The will-type makes a master of the servant. This brings 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
look down on both of the others. The will-type thinks or feels something to the effect of 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
even less, is even more despicable to the will-type. The judgment is right in both cases, as 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
way and thus will lose it again. The will-type tends to lose sight not only of caution 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
is often unconscious. Emotions are acceptable to the will-type only so long as she or he remains 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
otherwise, emotions might hinder this person's aim. The will-type, like the reason-type, also misses an integral part 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
 
 Win.........................50
temptation. Only those who overcome these difficulties can win and make the best of their lives on 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE
up the insistence on your dignity can you win what you were ready to give up. This 4 WORLD WEARINESS
should meet your difficulties. He who wants to win his life will lose it. He who is 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
who is ready to give it up will win it. What does that mean, my friends? It 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
ego-self which Jesus taught. Only thus will you win your life. So begin by meeting your lower 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
task in their world of darkness when they win out over a person, particularly with the people 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
with your higher self, your will-directing consciousness must win. But do not be superficial about it. Test 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
safely believe. Ask God for the strength to win the battle. All you have to do is 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
to realize the significance of it you cannot win, and your prayer will not have the desired 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
words so that you will know how to win your battle and follow your call. Only then 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
your conscious self will determine which side will win. It cannot win without such a fight. It 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
will determine which side will win. It cannot win without such a fight. It must be a 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
that linger on. In that way you must win. But if every time after having stumbled again 31 SHAME
self-search is exactly that. But in order to win the battle, you also have to learn depth 39 IMAGE-FINDING
benign, friendly. There cannot be death, hate cannot win out. There cannot be chaos and disorder. But 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
in you always creates similar conditions, trying to win out in the end in order to finally 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
as a weapon and a means to finally win and master life. To avoid uncovering this falsity 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
be helpless does not mean that you always win, that you never suffer frustrations, unfulfillments, that things 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
on others and on life. You have to win! Your immediate aim has to be fulfilled. If 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
something other than a power-driven compulsion always to win and never to do without whatever you wish 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
superimposed conscience, because one so desperately tries to win his or her affection. Not only social rules 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
out. Then you will have a chance to win in this tragic battle. You will liberate yourself 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
if it were true that then one could win. But because one never allows oneself to relax 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
winner believes that there is a chance to win at the cost of crippling one's very being 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
and goodness. This demand cannot be fulfilled. This win or lose concept is tragically wrong. It is 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
As long as you feel that you must win because your side is true, while the other's 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
increases, and the more weapons you use to win the fight, the deeper your difficulties, until you 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
you must have everything your way. You must win over life, over others, over circumstances. You must 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
with your real reactions. If, at times, you win over the circumstances is it really enduring peace 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
constantly live in fear that you cannot always win. In this dependency you need life to move 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
smolders underground. In whatever way you try to win, you are dependent on others and on circumstances 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
by letting go of the false need to win, to be separate, to be special, to be 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
inner state makes enjoyment impossible. Such people cannot win. For real pleasure to be felt, a relaxed 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
love you. In this inner battle you cannot win. You do want to hit back at the 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you can lose on the ego-level can you win on the level of the real self, where 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
fair, to let others free, your insistence to win and have your way, and your refusal to 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
the ego-level make it impossible for you to win where it counts and where you would find 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
must shift. If you insist that you must win on the wrong level, you cannot truly win 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
win on the wrong level, you cannot truly win. If you can lose on that ego level 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
can lose on that ego level, you will win. You will then inevitably come into that nucleus 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
is love, but inwardly you merely want to win and have your own way. You claim that 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
terrified of losing is never truly open to win. The Unitive Law It is never true that 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
while you are struggling, and each time you win, such a path brings you bliss in varying 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
instances and relationships, your liberated true strength may win over the weakened negative self of another person 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
lose, what have you lost? But if you win you find the immense joy of discovering that 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
frightening and painful, but I know I will win and I pray for that. So I would 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
thus allowed evil to -- apparently - - win. But, of course, evil can never really win 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
win. But, of course, evil can never really win. The same is true of the mass murders 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
corrected, but a universe in which evil could win cannot be corrected and is an utterly dismal 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
a fair universe. If you can deceive and win with your negativity, your evil, your destructive attitudes 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
 
 Wind........................13
become discouraged eventually because your endeavors will always wind up in a dead-end street. And now I 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
a smugness in that individual, which could possible wind up in passive, or eventually even in active 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
futility. When you cringe away from sadness, you wind up in shallow living with all its byproducts 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
proves, once again, how you cannot help but wind up in the very situation you strive to 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
longer feel like a helpless straw in the wind. As long as you separate yourself from your 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
helpless. You feel like a straw in the wind, having no power over life and circumstances. That 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
between feeling like a helpless straw in the wind, a little forgotten tool in a vast universe 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
without love is very incomplete and must always wind up in a dead-end street. There will always 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
hope: a hope that is not bound to wind up in disappointments and disillusionments. This hope slowly 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
you act, think, and feel so that you wind up feeling deprived. You may have reached this 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
personality, soul movements must flow forth. Like the wind they carry the creative seed. Desire is the 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
interaction of many nuclear points. A gust of wind is a series of psychic nuclear points. So 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
that you are a helpless straw in the wind, living in a world without rhyme or reason 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION

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