| Wrongdoing..................9 | |
| disharmonious you have violated a divine law. No wrongdoing or error of another human being can give | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| The unhappier you become because of other people's wrongdoing, the less you accept that which you cannot | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| feel unjustly treated because you cannot find any wrongdoing on your part, search in this direction. Bring | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| that damage can come to you by the wrongdoing of others is a basic misunderstanding of life | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| inner errors. You cannot be affected by any wrongdoing or action of other people if you do | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| are helpless in the face of the other's wrongdoing, and omnipotence, in the illusion that others are | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| remorse is the deeply felt pain of your wrongdoing, yet without losing sight of your divinity. You | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| self-esteem. The true, guilt-free awareness of other people's wrongdoing, clearly seen as separate from your own inner | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| clearly seen as separate from your own inner wrongdoing, will come when you dispense with the false | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Wrongdoings.................3 | |
| have to fear other people, their judgement, their wrongdoings. In this part of your being, you like | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| say here on the one hand that the wrongdoings of another person cannot harm you. I say | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| still ascribe the undesirable suffering to other people's wrongdoings, coincidence, bad luck, or even some unfathomable problem | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| Wronged.....................5 | |
| and masochistic way, wanting to be tortured or wronged just to satisfy your guilt feelings. Accept another's | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| up the slight satisfaction in being hurt and wronged -- yes, there is a satisfaction in it | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| take place, for example, by talking to the wronged person in candor. This in itself may take | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| a person other than the one you have wronged. But the wronged one will benefit from that | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| than the one you have wronged. But the wronged one will benefit from that as much as | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| Wrongness...................5 | |
| concerned with your inner conflicts and with the wrongness of the conclusions as such. You will review | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| wrong the other people may be. But their wrongness cannot affect you. This would become clear to | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| and others wrong and bad. The sense of wrongness about the free development of human faculties to | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| appears when you pleasurably indulge in the other's wrongness, and this blinds you. What you first noticed | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| experiences and seems to justify your sense of wrongness and danger. Here is truly a kind of | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| Wrongs......................14 | |
| Such a person may commit all sorts of wrongs, have all sorts of wrong reactions, while he | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the blaming of others for real or imagined wrongs that forced you to react that way; or | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| vicious circle. The guiltier you feel about possible wrongs you may have to face, the more do | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| that you can collect unhappy incidents, injustices, injuries, wrongs, and hurts. Once you recognize how you have | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| important than the little, inner, subtle rights or wrongs in your private lives. But you ignore that | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on the path make us blind to the wrongs in the social organism of which we are | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| face -- be they hurts, resentments, envies, or wrongs committed by you or someone else. You are | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| you may remain in despair, falsely believing that wrongs cannot be made good, that you cannot atone | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| infinite varieties. Restitution is comparatively easy for obvious wrongs one has inflicted, but it is not so | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| still find ways to make up for the wrongs committed. You can inflict pain by not daring | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| showing a way to truly absolve yourself from wrongs you have committed. The freer you are of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| fear includes conflicting, and apparently conflicting, rights and wrongs as well as apparently right and wrong emotions | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| stuck, and how I therefore overconcentrate on the wrongs of others. This is one direction for meditation | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| temptation to concentrate on the real or apparent wrongs of others so as to avoid the self | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Wrought.....................4 | |
| -- for real damage has begun to be wrought -- you are now faced with the alternatives | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| as concisely as you can, you will have wrought a tremendous change in your entire personality, regardless | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| activity may be so intense that the change wrought in the personality is more meaningful than any | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| soon; the spiritual influxes of today have already wrought the beginning of a new era. In former | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Yardstick...................14 | |
| about your own happiness is a simple little yardstick or barometer on which you can measure how | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| you must be happy. That should be your yardstick and indication of where you stand and how | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| and the apparent injustice? That will be the yardstick, my friends. In that way you will honor | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the power to upset you disproportionately. Your only yardstick for progress is your reaction and not whether | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| what you really feel can ever be the yardstick. Outer confirmation cannot be the determining factor. If | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| what the values are? We use the wrong yardstick. Instead of measuring and discriminating, we are either | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| appreciated by others will no longer be the yardstick for your self-value. Validation by others assumes such | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| accepted fully. QUESTION: Isn't lasting improvement also a yardstick? ANSWER: Yes. What I said before leads to | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| God determine the inner attitude? Is that a yardstick for one's nearness to God? In the course | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| you may use the peaceful experience as a yardstick. Whenever a self-confrontation does not, in the end | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| entire shame was an illusion. This is your yardstick of liberation. I advise all of you to | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| constantly glossed over. Nothing could be a better yardstick of your real concepts, attitudes, and feelings than | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| and fulfillment in relationship is a much neglected yardstick for one's own development. Relationship with others is | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| for you to understand and use as a yardstick. When you are clear within yourself, you will | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Yearn.......................30 | |
| mean about giving happiness is this: When you yearn for happiness and love, fill yourselves with thoughts | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| aggravated because you abandon the very thing you yearn for. You betray the best in you because | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| for your not getting the love that you yearn for. But you do not yet know that | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| it impossible to receive the mature love you yearn for by resorting to the false remedy of | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| they block you from receiving that which you yearn for. By recognizing your hidden subjectivity, you automatically | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the conflicts of your soul that you yearn for such love and at the same time | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| more people whose souls are evolved enough to yearn for it. You will see that the truth | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| bliss, light, and the pleasure principle makes you yearn for that. Whether you know it or not | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and others. How can you receive what you yearn for -- love, belonging, communication -- if you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| will not give up something rich which you yearn for, it only seems so as you give | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| tragic human conflicts is that human beings desperately yearn for their fulfillment as men and women through | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| to any simple human fulfillment that you deeply yearn for. You are supposed to experience it, but | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| heard of such a philosophy deeply sense and yearn for this final reality, this potential of life | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| a state where hardship does not exist. You yearn more for this state than you know. You | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| to love means possession, submission and martyrdom. You yearn for love, yet you are afraid of it | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| life experience than the one they know. They yearn for the freedom, blissfulness and mastery of life | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the extent you have disconnected yourself, you must yearn for this way of living. A few years | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| your own rich feelings. You know of and yearn for these pleasurable feelings, but you do not | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| pleasure, no matter how much they strain and yearn for it on the conscious level. It must | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| unnatural processes are sought. This is why people yearn for the sensations drugs give, why a person | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| puzzled and hopeless about attaining what you deeply yearn for will dissolve. This burden is subtle and | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| to each other, we might say that they yearn to know each other, to reveal themselves to | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| room to unfold and to be. You also yearn passionately to be given these aspects of perfect | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| clear, concise commitment to what you most ardently yearn for. Have you ever thought about the meaning | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| but you do not really get what you yearn for. You do not get the real fulfillment | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| and deprive yourself of the inner plenitude you yearn for. Another law of great importance for this | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| a new being evolving within you. Although you yearn for this, you also fear it. The fear | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| words. It is what you constantly look and yearn for, but most of the time you are | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| capacity for loving and finding the fulfillment you yearn for; your fulfilling the spiritual task you have | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| toward the state of mind that you so yearn for. They will open new doors that will | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |