| Women's.....................4 | |
| puts all the blame on man. The new women's movement contains a great deal of truth, but | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| token, woman, in order to make the new women's movement truly meaningful, must ascertain within herself the | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| in your times by many drastic changes. The women's liberation movement, the sexual liberation movement, and a | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| should indeed have. As with the sexual revolution, women's liberation, too, had to go to some kind | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Won.........................24 | |
| you have overcome the initial difficulties and have won some mastery over yourself, at least in this | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| choice implies. Selfishness, anxiety, oversensitivity and pride have won out. When as a consequence the longing for | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| Sing Glory Hallelujah, for the first battle is won, the first step toward the unification of your | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| be made by you, the struggle must be won by you, so that you can come to | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| do so. But until this fight is successfully won, once and for all, you will not have | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| But as long as you have not actually won this victory, the decision and its consequences will | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| path to God. But this fight cannot be won in one day. It is sometimes a hard | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| follow the call one hundred percent, you have won the most important and the most difficult of | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| took place and even if the divine forces won and took my power away, I would still | 22 SALVATION |
| on this part of the path, you have won half the battle already, and even more, my | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| shortcomings with your problem, half the battle is won. If you do not as yet clearly realize | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| with one another. This fight can never be won as long as you lack the courage to | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| in darkness. At other times, when you have won a small victory the sun comes out and | 36 PRAYER |
| that you have overcome the initial resistance and won your first victory is, in most cases at | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| that other victories do not have to be won. Although you may never leave this path, you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the positive side, even though the positive has won out in your outer actions. This is according | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| a way as if the selfish side had won out. The outer result must respond to the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| deliberate process. Once you understand this you have won another battle, my friends, for then you will | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| your exact misconceptions and confusions, you have already won, because then you have the tools, and you | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| your facade. Only when this first battle is won can the destructive currents be let out so | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| every one of these steps could have been won only by a tremendous amount of investment on | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Then there comes a point when you have won this particular battle. At this stage you can | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| period in the evolutionary ascent, the struggle is won. The commitment is made to movement, even if | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| it is equally true that love cannot be won without truth. In a deep corner of your | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| Wonder......................85 | |
| soul mature enough to encompass happiness. People often wonder about communication with God's world. Yes, they say | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| those who have experienced guidance can know the wonder of it in the depths of their soul | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| unless there was good reason for it. I wonder how it is possible for you or others | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| about a former incarnation in Egypt and I wonder if I myself was in Egypt in a | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| unhygienic souls are going around. Now you may wonder how this cleansing of the soul or the | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| being, spirits of darkness and higher spirits: I wonder if our calling for them is mainly conscious | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| the fall of the angels. So many people wonder how a god of love could have created | 18 FREE WILL |
| a course in the future. Perhaps you also wonder whether it will at all be possible for | 18 FREE WILL |
| to develop it spiritually. However, human beings often wonder about these fundamental questions, not merely in a | 21 THE FALL |
| and minutely according to law. Now you may wonder about this insofar as you have beautiful mineral | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| also to the development of groups. You may wonder why certain races do not suffer from being | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| are all alone in this spiritual quest, and wonder how to find the proper person to work | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| gave a different explanation on another occasion. I wonder what the connection is. I am sure there | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| into existence because you loved them. You may wonder how to solve the problem which is that | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| don't possess too much of it and sometimes wonder what is the right thing to do, we | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| an integral part of the other. QUESTION: I wonder if you can clarify to some extent the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| understand? QUESTIONER: Well, to a certain extent. I wonder if all that applies intellectually as well as | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| other people's opinions are very important. ANSWER: I wonder whether you realize consciously to what degree this | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| absorbed with your brain. Some of you may wonder how all this ties in with the God-image | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| In accordance with the teachings we receive, I wonder how it is possible that the world is | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to solve your own problems. It is no wonder that marriage is such a difficult venture and | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| means rest, and it also means seven. I wonder if you could tie the two together. ANSWER | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| place again, sometimes so much so that you wonder if the past peace was an illusion. The | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| when its wish is slighted. Is it any wonder then that with this unconscious demand in your | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| God to the wings of the bird. I wonder if you could speak a little about these | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| but never in fear! In coming across such wonder, one cannot help being in awe. It surpasses | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| just to be on the safe side. No wonder your soul is torn in half and that | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| in half and that your strength evaporates. No wonder you are in disharmony, unhappy, and hopeless. You | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| the impression you were no longer loved. No wonder badness associated itself with punishment and unhappiness, goodness | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| manifest in soft, weak helplessness. It is no wonder that a person engulfed in this attitude becomes | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| while still asserting a healthy independence. QUESTION: I wonder, could a distorted attempt at unification masquerade under | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| character structure, will they have power. Whenever you wonder why things happen to you that run counter | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| your own two feet. You may at first wonder how to go about finding this element in | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| have used this maxim many times, but I wonder, my friends, if you ever knew that you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| have shown the same kind of impatience. I wonder if you could tell us how to deal | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| yourself of the only value you possess. No wonder you resist revising your image of your parents | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| they can exist at the same time. I wonder if there is any definite connection, say, between | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the other withdraws. He is constantly torn. I wonder if you could show me some way? ANSWER | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| magnificence of nature's laws. And he begins to wonder. This first wonderment represents the first conscious steps | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the first state of awakening causes man to wonder. In this spontaneous experience of wonder and perception | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| man to wonder. In this spontaneous experience of wonder and perception, he often has a genuine God-experience | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| drawing people out of it. You may rightly wonder why this is so. The answer is that | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| stage, when man begins to ask questions and wonder, and in this spontaneous experience of wondering and | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| inner material from coming up and then you wonder why you are so tired. After having reached | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| level you have reached. Some of you may wonder about the scale of love I have established | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| for abstract ideas and principles. You may also wonder why I did not mention the love for | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and wish to continue having. Offhand, you may wonder what the connection between tonight's two topics is | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| humanity's fate on this planet. You may also wonder why it must necessarily take all that time | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the rightness of divine truth, that is the wonder and beauty of it. When you truly comprehend | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| cease, and you reach understanding. Offhand, you may wonder what the difference is. There is a great | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| generosity, its abundance, its stimulating peace, and you wonder why you had feared it, why you rather | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| means just to be able to experience the wonder and richness of the universe. The most extreme | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| look at the written statements, then begin to wonder. Tell yourself, Maybe I am mistaken, maybe it | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| who was very close to this work. I wonder whether we could be in touch with him | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| years one spends on this planet? Or the wonder of living as one among other existing organisms | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| and life, one's concepts and one's experience, often wonder why their experience varies so much from their | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| issues that developed people begin to question and wonder about. None of you are aware of the | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| I have given you tonight, so that the wonder of the universe -- of this life right | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| approached the threshold of self-realization cannot grasp the wonder and beauty of this part of creation. The | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the great cosmic stream. You will detect the wonder of life and the wonder of your innermost | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| will detect the wonder of life and the wonder of your innermost self. Once you focus your | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| unconscious concept of love is exactly this. No wonder people fear loving; it is represented as a | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| good and of pleasing an authoritarian god. No wonder love is rejected, since the pleasurable feelings it | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| case, the forcing-current, the holding on -- no wonder the system reacts first with fright and alarm | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You will lose what you found and, occasionally, wonder whether it was real. When you regain it | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| of the fact that I distort reality. I wonder how this applies to my job situation, in | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| Nothing is so disquieting and hopeless. If you wonder about your capacity to experience deep, warm feelings | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| be found in this maze of discord. You wonder if you are your best qualities, or if | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the painful struggle I have just described. No wonder human beings have so much resistance. And yet | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| yourself from a vital part in yourself. No wonder that you lose touch with yourself and no | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| self-negating process, however. Some of you may still wonder why so much emphasis on the negative is | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| It does not give you a sense of wonder and awe, nor does it fill you with | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you jealous but that fills you with awe, wonder, and gratitude. You begin to perceive connections of | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| glory. This fullness cannot be described in its wonder; it is a treasure beyond all words. It | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| through, of course, it leaves you empty. No wonder it is a disappointment, even if you do | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| things together economically in my personal life. I wonder if you could help me? ANSWER: This first | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| able to feel love, and you will often wonder why. Sometimes the will to love stimulates the | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| push forward in impatience. You become discouraged and wonder why you do not grow faster, why you | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| your bounty into such a projected universe. No wonder you want to stay in a confined, narrow | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| is enormous. We praise the Lord for this wonder that springs from your personal growth, from your | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| that will surprise you and fill you with wonder and joy. What are the obstacles to releasing | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| without deep knowledge of self or partner. No wonder such marriages could not survive. But this step | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| in the mate and God in yourself. No wonder the power current is too strong to bear | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| of separation between themselves and others and then wonder why they feel so alone and misunderstood. It | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| also about thoughts and feelings. Is it any wonder that marriage does not seem to work very | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |