| Capitalistic................4 | |
| by now popular form of government, which is capitalistic democracy, as you know it in this land | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| categories, of course, have sub-categories. The distortion of capitalistic democracy is again very obvious in that the | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| point of fusion is approached. Democratic capitalism or capitalistic democracy is such an expression, but if the | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| combine monarchy and feudalism, communism and socialism, and capitalistic democracy. You combine them all. When you rebel | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Capitulation................4 | |
| narrow confines of neurotic self-beating, hopelessness, and morbid capitulation, which always cover unexpressed hatred. The conscious ego | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| resources. Observe this habit of self-beating, hopelessness, and capitulation in yourself and counteract it -- not by | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| the child equates giving up the resistance with capitulation, with giving up his individuality. Many of you | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| important aspect of living? How can you avoid capitulation and resignation under the guise of surrender? How | 254 SURRENDER |
| Captain.....................4 | |
| life. One person is a trained, experienced, skillful captain and as such is not afraid of danger | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| Only in this way can you become the captain of your ship. You can recognize the pure | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| your life in consciousness, and thus be the captain of your ship. In this way you will | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| It is the carrier in this life, the captain who determines which way to go. Only then | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| Cardinal....................10 | |
| in peace. Be in God. 102. THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS Greetings. God bless you, my dearest friends | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| psychological explanation of the meaning of the seven cardinal sins. What is called sin is the outer | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| leading to separateness, neurosis, or sin. The first cardinal sin is PRIDE. I have discussed this in | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| must lead to separateness is self-explanatory. The second cardinal sin is COVETOUSNESS -- greed. Again, you know | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| to outer selfishness and to separateness. The third cardinal sin is LUST. Lust is so often misunderstood | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| being right, or for anything else. The fourth cardinal sin is ANGER. What is anger, my friends | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| enable you to distinguish between them. The fifth cardinal sin is GLUTTONY. The deeper meaning of gluttony | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| and responsibility of a personal relationship. The sixth cardinal sin is ENVY. Again, I do not have | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| feeling itself positive, healthy, or productive. The seventh cardinal sin is SLOTH. Sloth is the indifference and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| QUESTION: It seems to me that the seven cardinal sins are a subtler explanation of the Ten | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Care........................81 | |
| a different direction. This part does not really care for the other person -- not emotionally -- | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| people you do not like, or do not care for, toward whom you feel resistance, or with | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| spark or higher self -- whatever name you care to give it -- or is it another | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| my dear ones, where ailing souls are taken care of and healed. There are places of rest | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| sphere. Other specialists among the mission spirits take care of those who have left their bodies in | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| do not love any more or do not care, that you become resigned and indifferent. But this | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| path, the more alive you become. You do care and you do love, but differently, without the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| will all your other needs automatically be taken care of, including your material daily bread. Your spirit's | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| you some idea of how much work and care is involved concerning even the smallest detail. The | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| you completely ignore; it is working with love, care, and wisdom to guide everything to the best | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| that may come up -- have been taken care of. This series will represent a development course | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| In explaining part of this, I will take care of another question on the agenda. Some of | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the stream. They think they have to take care of the future. By this I do not | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be presented to God, because God does not care about their lives. This is so untrue, for | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| entities... ANSWER: Exactly. So I think that takes care of that question. QUESTION: Is it correct that | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| a little different, but all animals are taken care of. There are spirits whose task it is | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| child is helpless; it needs to be taken care of; it cannot stand on its own two | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| receive the child's utopia of perfect love and care. This may happen to various degrees. Sometimes it | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| am unhappy, you see. You have to take care of me. You have to love me. That | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| little thinking through. The resisting emotions do not care whether the proper concept is obvious or not | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| with the right kind of self-love, would you care to elaborate on self-pity and egocentricity? ANSWER: It | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| to make decisions wait for God to take care of their decisions for them, what will happen | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| manifestation with a healthy reaction. I do not care what people say, is rebellion. And where there | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the opposite extreme with a defiant I don't care attitude, then you prove something to yourself. Both | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| given stage of your path. Everything else takes care of itself. Help may be given by strengthening | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that all generalizations should be taken with great care. You should abstain from applying my answer to | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to find and develop oneself, and one does care who is sent, whether it is the personal | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cuddled and pampered, who wants to be taken care of instead of taking care of its own | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| to be taken care of instead of taking care of its own life. By insisting that the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| to others. Sometimes I am allowed to take care of these messages myself and sometimes I have | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| sense, in the sense that a mother will care for her children or a father will provide | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| He is healthy, his daily bread is taken care of. He can devote his time and energy | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| cringe most! Truth has to be handled with care and responsibility. If people are inwardly ignorant, it | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that the laws of the divine world take care of everything. But this certainly does not mean | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| reality, this type of person does not really care whether others are good or bad as long | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and nature and a person who does not care for either? ANSWER: Generalizations, my friends, are very | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| deep distrust for a person who does not care for animals and nature, so I must be | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| human authority -- see the necessity of taking care of the child. And the child only deserves | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| child. And the child only deserves such benign care if it maintains its goodness. By the same | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the inner subjective disappointment of not being taken care of. When you find manifest rebellion and aggressiveness | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| area in which you resent not being taken care of, not being given all you want. Once | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| accounting, and a thinking through. QUESTION: Would you care to elaborate on the distinction between pseudo-euphoric states | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| relief and helps them face themselves. Would you care to comment on this? ANSWER: Yes, this is | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of life, and therefore pretend that you don't care, while you do not pretend in others. This | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| to have been your parents. QUESTION: Would you care to elaborate on the psychological aspect of the | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| simply wanting to understand. The rest will take care of itself. Such understanding may often come much | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| and dependency as a means of having someone care for you -- not necessarily materially, but emotionally | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| by providing yourself with a strong person to care for you. In reality you inflict upon yourself | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| work toward your aims. The ability to take care of all this will come as a natural | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| certain spiritually undeveloped people who simply do not care for others. I refer to those who have | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Simply by insisting that your parents continue to care for you, you believe that the childish state | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| wishful escapism than the hope of being taken care of by another intelligence than one's own. In | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| The ego's task is to choose to take care of the body so as to maintain health | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| lawfulness of their self-regulating nature that just takes care of itself. You will be able to flow | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| him or her responsible, wanting to be taken care of and refusing the consequences of your own | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is the result of insisting to be taken care of. You are beginning to glean some of | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| divine within. It is not equipped to take care of itself and, consequently, life must be fraught | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and every living instant -- I do not care whether it is beautiful or ugly, easy and | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| concerned only with proving that it does not care about others' views and thus blindly rebels, there | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| will say now must be taken with great care, otherwise the subtleties involved will not be communicated | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| beginning to unfold. You have to take great care and deliberately aim to avoid this, without, however | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| specific example. A child needs to be taken care of, needs solely to receive care, nursing, good | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| be taken care of, needs solely to receive care, nursing, good feelings, attention, and appreciation of its | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| do not want to be able to take care of myself, because if I do, I let | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| makes a decision to devote time, effort and care to the smooth running of one's life. The | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| line of least resistance, he or she takes care of chores as they come up even when | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| more you look for parental authority to take care of your life, the more you rebel and | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| you, at least most of the time, take care of tasks as they come. Organize the details | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| brown. Labels are so often supposed to take care of the matter. Often the spiritual message of | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| not so utilitarian after all. You give it care. Your appreciation makes the machine respond, even with | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| I want it for me. I do not care about others. That part of you believes in | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| cope with the elements. People learned to take care of themselves more efficiently. The need then arose | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| assume self-responsibility, where you want to be taken care of by a stronger authority figure. Again, similar | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| of least resistance so she could be taken care of. She wanted an authority figure to make | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| superior position but resents the price of taking care of a parasite. Woman wants the advantage of | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| parasite. Woman wants the advantage of being taken care of, of not standing on her own two | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| or articulate or vocal. So my friends, take care with your words. Make room for clarity in | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| in political life -- and who do not care if their actions and attitudes affect others adversely | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| the lazy, demanding personality wants to be taken care of, be given to without the slightest effort | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| use power and have abundance, and does not care about others? All these expressions exist in the | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| consists of such tenderness, such love, such personal care of the living God, of the eternal presence | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |