| Wish-fulfillment............5 | |
| certain that this cannot be, you postpone the wish-fulfillment by setting up blocks. Find these inner, hidden | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| success results. As I now understand, success and wish-fulfillment depend upon the clarity and strength of the | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| present is concerned. If your instinctual drive toward wish-fulfillment interferes with another person's happiness or if for | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| more at stake than the lack of a wish-fulfillment. Your value and worth as a person is | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| there being often a genuine need for outer wish-fulfillment. However, such fulfillment has to become a natural | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Wish-fulfillments...........3 | |
| be difficult for me to be perfect. Both wish-fulfillments are completely thwarted by the world. For this | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you altogether uncertain even about your desires and wish-fulfillments. Even if the desires are quite legitimate and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| life stream, which is eternally independent of small wish-fulfillments. If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot trust | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| Wishfully...................3 | |
| a child, going into them with closed eyes, wishfully thinking that the price can be evaded. Each | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| But unconsciously you battle against this very awareness, wishfully thinking in your unconscious that the disadvantages of | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| follow it through all the way. Most people wishfully think that they may find another way to | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Wishful-thinking............5 | |
| and happiness -- not accepting death with a wishful-thinking spirituality, by avoiding your fears and doubts; not | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| or imaginary makes little difference. It is the wishful-thinking process of running away and looking away from | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| God. This comes predominantly from fear, evasion, escapism, wishful-thinking, denial of self-responsibility. The latter is often a | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| mind has created out of fear, weakness, and wishful-thinking. He no longer acts because he feels God | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| and inadequacy cause fear, clinging, helplessness, dependence; when wishful-thinking and greed, unacceptance of reality causes supplication, prayer | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| Wishing.....................18 | |
| power to penetrate all of the human personality. Wishing or thinking from the spiritual field involves a | 18 FREE WILL |
| become so despondent that you despair of yourself, wishing to give up, and you consider self-acceptance to | 31 SHAME |
| If a person wants to receive love without wishing to invest in the risk of loving on | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| tuning in to what is, rather than by wishing for what might or should be. In other | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to generation. The remedy cannot be found by wishing that things were different and that people would | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| between changing to obtain more fulfillment and simply wishing to accept the status quo because this is | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| by framing your own limited concepts either by wishing this particular success or that specific relationship. Such | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| in full independent freedom, at the stage of wishing to make restitution. In fact, when this stage | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| essence and meaning of the term. Think of wishing in its constructive manifestations, then you will see | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| while at the same time you are calmly wishing to be enlightened. The combination of facing the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| view in order to convince yourself that your wishing and striving for fulfillment is constructive. You must | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| any conflict. You do not feel selfish for wishing to experience beauty, nor do you withhold the | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| being angry or being impatient with one's impatience, wishing that one could react differently and not being | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| for example the common and pervasive attitude of wishing to punish your parents. You do realize that | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| We will discuss the energy movement of wanting, wishing, desiring -- its meaning, its significance in the | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| now deal with the soul movements of wanting, wishing or desiring. Everything that exists in human expression | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| stake in seeing others as bad, and not wishing to make room to even doubt this. Simultaneously | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| make it a friend by courageously and intelligently wishing to explore its meaning and allowing it to | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Withdraw....................77 | |
| two alternatives. For instance, when you decide to withdraw and live a solitary life because you do | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| harmful experiences with people on a lower level, withdraw from contact with them when they should rather | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| is the solution. My dear friends, I now withdraw into my world, and I tell every one | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| for this task. If not, God's spirits will withdraw anyhow. After all, money is only one of | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| is right, when the spirit world does not withdraw, then guidance will come from the outside and | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| this life. And now, my dear ones, I withdraw, giving God's blessings to each one of you | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| build these thought forms. In this way, they withdraw from the reality of life and from the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| respect and love from others, you begin to withdraw from what you really think and feel about | 31 SHAME |
| you do the right thing. But if you withdraw from other people, if you withdraw in fear | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| if you withdraw from other people, if you withdraw in fear from your own feelings while you | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| their feelings, and the unavoidable disappointments, so they withdraw and use desirelessness as a camouflage to fit | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| within you, and this emotion forces you to withdraw your love. But that is not the truth | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| accepts it, and realizes its worth. When you withdraw into seclusion and become egocentric, you thwart not | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Separateness of soul, briefly, comes about when people withdraw inwardly and put an invisible wall around their | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| layers of error and misconception. Yet, you also withdraw behind your shell, or your wall. A part | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| not be awakened. My dearest friends, I will withdraw into my world and leave you again with | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| and manifest. With this, my dearest friends, I withdraw, but I will always be near you. Go | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| two extremes are always close by. You either withdraw completely from allowing yourself to love to your | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| living in this illusory world you will quietly withdraw, without losing your basic respect for the other | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| agreed with. On the other hand, people who withdraw in fear from love -- and therefore from | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| out how your fear of loving makes you withdraw and how guilty you feel, deep down, about | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| with love than the opposite extreme, or you withdraw into a shell in which you find yourself | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| of your higher conscience urges you not to withdraw. But you cannot heed this voice, because your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| are unable to achieve the final goal, you withdraw altogether. This is due not only to the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| If the great drama cannot be, then you withdraw altogether. With growing maturity you will realize that | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| always a manifestation of self-concern and pride. You withdraw your real self in fear of losing something | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| fight; nor do you have to retreat and withdraw so as to avoid the danger of life | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| anything from others, life, or the world. They withdraw into isolation, never experiencing the dreaded defeat, never | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| the balancing forces cause the other person to withdraw from the exaggerated motion of your demand. If | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| against loving. This pseudo- protection causes you to withdraw into isolation; you refuse to communicate. When you | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| instinct of procreation, causes the other person to withdraw, because the movement is too grabbing. On the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| such drastic danger that they will again quickly withdraw either into a false serenity or into a | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| involvement because you have a strong tendency to withdraw, then your desire to be alone springs, again | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| at its fullest. By withdrawing from pain, you withdraw from happiness and, most of all, you withdraw | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| withdraw from happiness and, most of all, you withdraw from experience. At one time or another -- | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| Again, it is not so much that you withdraw because you fear others, but because you cannot | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| in reality fulfillment is impossible, you can completely withdraw from living and no longer try to attain | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| of belief in yourself. As the solution to withdraw makes you feel dead inside and robs you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| a hard knot, or wall within, when you withdraw in fear and close yourself up, meaning to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| is made on you, all your faculties will withdraw from their usual preoccupations and will be directed | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and compassion. Therefore in moments of danger you withdraw into yourself, gathering your forces for counterattack or | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| reaching out to them. The defense makes you withdraw from others and no longer reach out. May | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| is not preoccupied with personal safety will not withdraw, and therefore will not become apathetic. Sloth always | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| of meeting, your current makes that other person withdraw in fear. When you are unaware of your | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| If all your love is not received, you withdraw and it becomes nothing. But if you realize | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| feeling. You feel resentment, rejection, pride, and you withdraw either from that particular person, or from loving | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| constantly involved in a negative way, or you withdraw and live in bitter isolation which, in turn | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| at first quite covered up, in which you withdraw from your organic, natural feelings, stunting them deliberately | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| may frighten you so much that you may withdraw more or less from all meaningful relationships. It | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| clearly you see how you push away, or withdraw from, the very fulfillment you crave -- as | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| of understanding and knowing. As long as you withdraw in fear, not wanting to take the risk | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| discovered that one of my pseudo-solutions is to withdraw. Now, when I do withdraw, I automatically withdraw | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| pseudo-solutions is to withdraw. Now, when I do withdraw, I automatically withdraw my love. Is there guilt | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| withdraw. Now, when I do withdraw, I automatically withdraw my love. Is there guilt involved in this | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| I have explained in this lecture, when you withdraw love, you become numb. Although this numbness during | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| cruelty may prohibit all spontaneity and make you withdraw from and numb all feelings. My dearest friends | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| revenge. I also feel my cruelty when I withdraw and punish others with my isolation. Now, in | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| the one hand, and to hate, reject, and withdraw on the other. It becomes infinitely more complicated | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| other times, both negative currents are out, both withdraw or antagonize one another. At still other times | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| would become so bitter that you would completely withdraw from living. Think of how much more painful | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| there is a brittleness and a need to withdraw, to be fearfully separate, over-controlled, and rigid. When | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| that has produced it, they reject the experience, withdraw and cringe from it. The organism cramps up | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of deprivation and unfulfillment in you, made you withdraw from your feelings and made you turn them | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| make one do and how they make one withdraw from living. One then begins to understand those | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| frustration of my immediate desires, I at once withdraw from life my vital energies, my goodwill, my | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| affected and activated. This is why many individuals withdraw from interaction with others. The illusion can sometimes | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| certain superficial ability to relate but who still withdraw from a more meaningful, open, unmasked mutual revealing | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| stage of union. My dearest friends, when I withdraw and you stay here together for a while | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| use the energy to push others aside or withdraw into failure and passivity. Disconnectedness between cause and | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| then know I say the truth. As I withdraw from this instrument, try again to use the | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| times; many could, but few will. I will withdraw now from this instrument through which I am | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| with the real self. What happens when you withdraw after a lifetime into the inner universe with | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| fluid energy stream of the divine entity will withdraw very gradually. The energy recedes, the life forces | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| byproduct of the purification work. Life can temporarily withdraw itself from the matter it has created and | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| in a part of you, that when you withdraw that life from the matter that you created | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| accelerate the will of the animating consciousness to withdraw from this manifestation and start afresh. When you | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| time will come when life can no longer withdraw, even from plant, mineral and animal life. Vibrations | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |