| Winner......................9 | |
| rejecter is outwardly the superior one, always the winner, while the loving parent is subdued, apparently weaker | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you. Be in peace, be in God! 129. WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| versus losing. According to this concept, being a winner means to be ruthless, selfish, to trample and | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| or she fears and fights in himself. The winner fears impulses of genuine affection as much as | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| let one's guard down, to let go, the winner cannot experience that the sacrifice of human warmth | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| warmth is motivated by a false idea. The winner believes that there is a chance to win | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| both attitudes, guilt and uncertainty are inevitable. The winner makes strenuous demands on the self which are | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| will change into a conviction that being a winner is possible. First, you will understand that being | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| possible. First, you will understand that being a winner is possible; later, that it is inextricably connected | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| Winning.....................8 | |
| trying to find out which is right, never winning the battle because both concepts are false. In | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| Your idealized self-image is created not only for winning love and approval from others -- as you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| Since such fulfillment of every wish, such constant winning, cannot possibly depend on you alone, you are | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| versa. You may be ashamed of not always winning in certain areas of life, and therefore pretend | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you. Observe and pinpoint it. Finding it is winning half the battle. You cannot make a decisive | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| common either/or concepts: the attitude toward life of winning versus losing. According to this concept, being a | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| undesirable choices -- and the resulting hopelessness about winning or obtaining fulfillment -- for granted, you will | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| Only when one can lose without terror is winning possible: The one who is terrified of losing | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| Winter......................3 | |
| In the fall it slowly dies. In the winter it is no more. Only its dormant life | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| final things, the fluid life exists like a winter stream under the snow. It is constant; feelings | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| of this working season I announced that the winter would be dedicated to the beginning of transforming | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Wipe........................6 | |
| can never be fulfilled, continuous frustration and emptiness wipe out hope, blacken vision, and induce resentment, hate | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| of an inappropriate, destructive feeling, you do not wipe it out. What I want to add here | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| not forsake them. No amount of forsaking will wipe out the guilt for avoiding purification of the | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| unite you in the common venture and will wipe out the little uglinesses, the little withholdings and | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| the story of God's presence in your life. Wipe out the superficial differences and find the great | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| see that this is merely a wrong interpretation. Wipe out your misunderstandings, challenge your assumptions, consider that | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Wiped.......................3 | |
| done only after the initiating negativity has been wiped out. The vast majority of the human race | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| doorways to heaven. Yet this guilt cannot be wiped out unless the personality deals directly with the | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| -- that of oneness, unity. The differences are wiped out, and you find that Jesus was never | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Wisdom......................296 | |
| this you can fathom the vastness of divine wisdom in its magnificent lawfulness. Whoever understands this, will | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| cannot be overthrown. God's laws were created in wisdom and love, and those who revolt against them | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| according to their proper function and nature, as wisdom and lawfulness require. The purpose is the harmonious | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| themselves. For happiness can lie only in the wisdom of God's laws. All spirits who have at | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| back to recognize this law as the only wisdom, the only right course, stand outside this order | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| God will return; return to the enlightenment and wisdom, to the happiness and freedom that can be | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you build your happiness, you gain knowledge and wisdom, you fulfill your life and so contribute to | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| believe and accept truth. This again is profound wisdom and divine law. Now I wish to talk | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| happenings or experiences, but by the strength and wisdom you have developed within, and you will find | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| ever break, because these laws are perfection, love, wisdom and justice. This very same person is also | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| belief in a higher intelligence, in a superior wisdom that created this universe. Yet very few people | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| unimaginable that creatures of higher intelligence, of greater wisdom, endowed with more love than human beings should | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| their various incarnations, where they gather experience and wisdom, and, step by step, develop spiritually. But at | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| laws entails happiness, love, harmony, light, and supreme wisdom, because God, who is perfect, cannot create anything | 18 FREE WILL |
| will and its application in Creation. Beauty, harmony, wisdom, bliss, and love cannot be if the experience | 18 FREE WILL |
| or against the individual's own recognition of the wisdom and perfection of the laws. Then God would | 18 FREE WILL |
| perfect and His laws are of such supreme wisdom and love that whatever individuals do -- even | 18 FREE WILL |
| themselves up to search for more and deeper wisdom, truth, and fulfillment. They do nothing to further | 18 FREE WILL |
| is to some extent free in everyone, lies wisdom, truth, and love to a very large degree | 18 FREE WILL |
| such bliss, such rejoicing, such happiness and such wisdom coming from this light! For wisdom and light | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| and such wisdom coming from this light! For wisdom and light are one. In your human language | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| man, a sage, a great teacher with great wisdom, not unlike a few others who have lived | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| is true? God is truth, as well as wisdom and love. If you deny truth for any | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| ignore; it is working with love, care, and wisdom to guide everything to the best advantage of | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| the highest spirits cannot fully grasp the love, wisdom, and perfection of God and the infinite variety | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| power given them. They either would have the wisdom of not abusing their power and thus living | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| abstaining from abuse of power lies divinity, love, wisdom, and a number of further divine attributes. It | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| to disharmony, beauty to ugliness, light to darkness, wisdom to blindness, love to hatred, fear, or egotism | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| of God brought with them light, love, and wisdom. They fulfilled a great mission with their incarnation | 21 THE FALL |
| merely requires a little bit of courage and wisdom. Everybody has some courage and wisdom within, and | 21 THE FALL |
| courage and wisdom. Everybody has some courage and wisdom within, and it is only a question of | 21 THE FALL |
| take it, who have the courage and the wisdom to do so. I know, my friends, that | 21 THE FALL |
| and feel harmony, as well as love, patience, wisdom, and humility -- or the opposite of all | 22 SALVATION |
| in this category. Not only did they bring wisdom, love and purity with them to leave their | 22 SALVATION |
| one being was perfect in love, another in wisdom, and so forth. The aim was to use | 22 SALVATION |
| had a great deal of spiritual strength and wisdom. However, there would be no purpose to life | 22 SALVATION |
| no means stupid, even though he certainly lacks wisdom and insight. Nor is he without great resources | 22 SALVATION |
| heart. Be in peace. Be in God! The Wisdom of the Savior, a second-century Gnostic document. 24 | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| meet them in a spirit of courage and wisdom. When you can do all this, the transition | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| this fact is not only disrespectful of God's wisdom and justice, but also foolish. As far as | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| what could be rightfully yours. So have enough wisdom to see through your resistance and to evaluate | 38 IMAGES |
| psychic powers aside for a while, in the wisdom that this is dangerous material unless self-awareness is | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| planning. This selecting process is the beginning of wisdom. The emotion-type also uses will, of course, for | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| which, joined with the emotional nature, leads to wisdom. Without such wisdom, people either cannot accomplish what | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| the emotional nature, leads to wisdom. Without such wisdom, people either cannot accomplish what they set out | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| of the reason-personality would be the Angel of Wisdom. The perfection of the emotion-personality would be the | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| the divine part within oneself that contains all wisdom. Which is right and how would either one | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| never be known utterly. If people had the wisdom, they would realize that and make of marriage | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| always easy to muster. Much more patience and wisdom is needed to change an outlook or attitude | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| it is all according to the perfection and wisdom of divine law. QUESTION: Are all guardians organized | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and independent. The human soul contains all the wisdom, all the truth deep down. But all the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the goal of unfolding your inner voice of wisdom that guides you according to the divine conscience | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| have spoken about tonight. It contains all the wisdom, all the truth, and all the love, but | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| arbitrarily or forcefully. They are created in infinite wisdom and farsightedness; not only the individual entity in | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not fear, my dear friend. Trust in the wisdom of God, in the wisdom of nature, and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Trust in the wisdom of God, in the wisdom of nature, and everything falls into place. Go | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| evaluate them clearly. Have the further honesty and wisdom to realize that growth occurs slowly. Use and | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| who have and have had access to divine wisdom. You should question rather whether the sayings are | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| possess an inner storehouse of faith, love, truth, wisdom, but these are locked away by the obstructions | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will real faith, real love, real truth, real wisdom, and whatever all the other divine attributes are | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| no better than the adverse ones. Both need wisdom, maturity, and the spiritual knowledge that gives the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| by studying and reading. Even studying the greatest wisdom of the ages will give you only theoretical | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And also, in the Zohar (Book of Splendor | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| respect. The respect paid to the highest intelligence, wisdom and love is beyond words. In the presence | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| The awareness of God is the beginning of wisdom. ANSWER: Yes, that is very true. Is there | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| a person to choose this path with the wisdom and conviction that a hidden conflict, in the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you realize the glory of God's love and wisdom. The better you understand your own causes and | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a wonderfully just law that is mercy, grace, wisdom and love. COMMENT: May I add something too | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| deeper and wider significance. It contains the deepest wisdom and truth, but in symbolic form. This symbolism | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| could as well come out of a true wisdom that knows that the laws of the divine | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the fullest possible extent so that the greater wisdom will become a part of you. QUESTION: From | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the feeling is fully experienced and expressed, will wisdom, and perhaps even intellectual insight -- as a | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you. May you all gain further strength, further wisdom to conduct your life and your inner growth | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to make a mistake, if necessary. It takes wisdom, because you know that the mistake itself is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| situation. In this way, no matter how much wisdom and truth you hear and try to absorb | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and pure love. You might also call it wisdom. One is not thinkable without the other. There | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| without the other. There cannot be reason, or wisdom, without love, and vice versa. So we all | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| in the life force, in God, in the wisdom and love that Creation is. But your lack | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| are the same, just as love, truth and wisdom, as well as any other divine manifestations, are | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| be capable of harboring thoughts of truth and wisdom, except those that deal with the danger of | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| other possibilities, may be gluttony. Why would ancient wisdom refer to this as sinful? Not merely because | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Have we properly understood the fear? Have we | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the awe or respect that comes out of wisdom. The wisdom, however, lies not in the unhealthy | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| or respect that comes out of wisdom. The wisdom, however, lies not in the unhealthy attitude of | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| grasp the universal mind: God. Knowing that is wisdom. As you grow, sometimes, perhaps in a few | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| have to offer love or salvation, it takes wisdom to accept that one's own will and ideas | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| the other person. It takes more maturity and wisdom than most people have, and, most of all | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| mechanically. What I am saying here is old wisdom, and much of it I have said before | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| there must be someone of such infinite superiority, wisdom, intelligence, he feels he must relate to this | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| body through human mediums, have passed on great wisdom, yet their teachings actually seem to encourage one | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| takes quite a bit of growth, maturity, and wisdom to realize that one may be right sometimes | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| Within each individual there exists a well of wisdom and love. It is a treasure deep within | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| the inner noise that covers the well of wisdom and love makes itself precisely known to you | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| then, are the barriers to your well of wisdom, love, and intuition -- the source of your | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| May this love also give you strength and wisdom, as well as the inner willingness to really | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| glimpse of reality, to experience its beauty and wisdom, but the fetters of your habits in thinking | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| contain within yourselves all the knowledge, all the wisdom, and all the powers you can possibly need | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| within your soul you harbor a wealth of wisdom, knowledge, power, love -- the solution to all | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| core -- with the treasure of divine love, wisdom, and strength that lies embedded in all of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| same, their climate is very different. Love, truth, wisdom, courage -- what is good and constructive in | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| solar plexus, gives you the most enlightening guidance, wisdom, understanding and creative outlet. Your inner conscience conveys | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| discipline and letting go of oneself occur through wisdom, truth, strength, freedom, and love, the result is | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| the conflict. It makes possible to use cautious wisdom while not having to hold on to yourself | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| stand the possible frustration of your will, then wisdom and perception of truth will forever be your | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| stream. This consciousness furnishes you with all the wisdom, truth, and rightness you need for your everyday | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| emotions due to unresolved problems, but also utter wisdom, divine truth, and the most constructive elements in | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| open new ways for you. It is unlimited wisdom and power, infinite love. If you use this | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| of the life force, with its much greater wisdom to take over, you can never again be | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the life force to fill you with vision, wisdom, and strength. Does anyone here have an idea | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you to be in possession of the immeasurable wisdom, energy, and peace of the life force. To | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| forever expand into more blissful experience, into greater wisdom and power, into wider scopes and depths of | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| answers from the deepest source of truth and wisdom within, from the cosmic forces inside yourself. When | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| how far you can go in expressing beauty, wisdom, happiness, fulfillment, productivity -- for yourself and for | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |