| Abandoning..................8 | |
| the work process of realizing, observing, and finally abandoning the wrong way in order to clear the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| help when you come to true religion after abandoning the crutch, but in a completely different sense | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| who is running away from the self by abandoning all discipline. The cohesive factor that makes all | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| for new unfoldment. Sometimes this may mean entirely abandoning a desire because you find that it is | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| itself the moment you allow this to happen, abandoning negativity becomes a relief from a heavy burden | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| bliss awaits you just as a result of abandoning these pseudo- satisfactions and pleasures, these poor substitutes | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| and creativity flow through it by identifying and abandoning the ego's tricks. Whether it takes shape as | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| life from taking its natural course. So, by abandoning temporarily the outer theory of immortality and accepting | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Abandonment.................15 | |
| you should fear happiness. You may fear the abandonment to it, or that bliss will make you | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| it seems that in the cycle of life, abandonment plays a big role. You are abandoned by | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| when you die. I am very involved with abandonment. ANSWER: Wherever the inner shock reaction has frozen | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| be experienced. With you, the emphasis is on abandonment. Each human being has a specific point that | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| the personal, specific way varies. In your case, abandonment is the key, as it were. Therefore, you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| what I mean. You have been threatened by abandonment every day since your childhood. Until recently you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| through it. When you see the phantom of abandonment, you must observe your inner reactions to it | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| direct way. Something does it in you when abandonment threatens you, and it cramps up in you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| cramping up, numbing yourself, denying the experience of abandonment. As you see yourself doing this, you know | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you will first truly experience the pain of abandonment, even if only the threat of it is | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you will suddenly see different ways of avoiding abandonment. A new initiative will reveal itself to you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| thing one fears most -- in your case, abandonment. My friends, to make the deadness alive, you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| prerequisite for spiritual and worldly fulfillment. It makes abandonment to involuntary processes safe. The self-disciplined person can | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| attitude: It mirrors the inner sense of false abandonment, of wishful thinking and avoidance. It reflects your | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| either hold on against the blankness, pain, and abandonment you fear will be your fate if you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Abdicate....................7 | |
| a healthy and relaxed way. You must not abdicate, or negate, the participation of the ego in | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| through making myself feel so unselfish because I abdicate my rights. You cannot assimilate this realization deeply | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| fearful, dependent self, the part that wants to abdicate self-responsibility. Healthy self-interest can, however, be against the | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| promised Messiah, because they did not wish to abdicate their negative self-serving power. Once the separation became | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| has given you? Does it seem right to abdicate all material existence and deny its desirable aspects | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| as more perfect because you still wish to abdicate self-responsibility, or whether you want to be always | 254 SURRENDER |
| the birthing process into matter begins, to temporarily abdicate full consciousness and to await it to slowly | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Abdication..................3 | |
| substitute for his own conscience or authority. The abdication of responsibility may happen in a different area | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| of security within a narrow circumference is an abdication of your universal destiny. It denies pleasure, wasting | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| to it will only temporarily appear as an abdication of your selfhood. Soon you will discover that | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Aberration..................4 | |
| self is faultless and harmonious. It requires mental aberration to claim for too long that problems in | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| characteristic of distorted energy flow in its evil aberration is condensation. Condensed energy is the dualistic, disunified | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| eternal, while the bad is only a temporary aberration and not the final you. You must make | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| state that can be attained -- is an aberration. It expresses the childish desire to gain omnipotence | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Abeyance....................5 | |
| extent at least, be squelched and held in abeyance. The whole personality is geared toward obtaining safety | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| learns to keep the urge to destroy in abeyance. Through many life experiences, through millennia of living | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| answer, you prefer to keep it constantly in abeyance. You vacillate, theorize, stay on the edge before | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| circumstances does exist, it is always there in abeyance, waiting for the next occasion. In other words | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| this is impossible. It is only held in abeyance and momentarily prevented from manifesting, but it gathers | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| Abide.......................16 | |
| strength, with every single current of feeling, to abide by the spiritual laws. It wants to forget | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| an entity belonging to God's world. For both abide by the spiritual laws and fulfill God's will | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| You may say that it is difficult to abide by the divine laws, and indeed it is | 18 FREE WILL |
| left divine law indeed finds it difficult to abide by it again. But for those who have | 18 FREE WILL |
| this path, you must also prepare yourself to abide by another of the spiritual laws, which says | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| not see the whole picture. They have to abide by the laws of their society. Otherwise they | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| God means naturally, among many other things, to abide by these various laws -- and not only | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| these various laws -- and not only to abide by them, but also to accept them willingly | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| subtly and vaguely felt. When others do not abide by these rules and expectations, the hoped-for and | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the constant fear that others may, perhaps, not abide by your rules undermines inner peace. You build | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| up to the spiritual standards one wants to abide by: one should be angry and unforgiving; one | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| that is destructive, and if you would all abide by the rigid rule that nothing must be | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and honest with yourself -- any untruth you abide by in your beliefs must affect your inner | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| to discover the subtle way in which you abide by such general concepts, no matter what you | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| from so many conflicts when you do not abide by truth and love. They tear you apart | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| reaction should not be your inflexible rule to abide by but should make you thoughtful and truly | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Abides......................4 | |
| When a person finally makes this decision and abides by it -- a decision that is not | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| end. In line with your answer, this creativity abides with the spiritual perception of your remark about | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| them that you know of. But inwardly, there abides a strength which you may not see or | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| it makes a world of difference whether one abides by standards of conscience in the free spirit | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| Abiding.....................3 | |
| severe a fault, it could never create an abiding disturbance if the person were completely aware of | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| in total harmony with reality and thus have abiding trust in certain areas of life, resulting in | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| near you, His concern for you, His deep, abiding interest in every smallest detail of your life | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Abilities...................19 | |
| load still to be carried, the merits, the abilities, what has been completed and what still remains | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| within yourself. It will also heighten your creative abilities. Humanity's fundamental longing is to actually participate in | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| or lack of it, your constructive and creative abilities or lack of them, your sense of being | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| that is not always according to your creative abilities and inclinations, and therefore not according to your | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| pleasure on all levels, the unfoldment of creative abilities, and the inner knowledge of spiritual truth all | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| pleasure, and the more will its inherent creative abilities be paralyzed. The fact that some people are | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and give happiness. You cannot unfold your creative abilities. You cannot contribute, be it in ever so | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| some illustrative examples. An overconcern with one's creative abilities hardly leaves room for other needs to be | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| not yet in a position to express your abilities and talents without conflict and uncertainty. It takes | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| enrich life not merely by using their vocational abilities but also through their ability to relate to | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| for every one of you. Blessed be your abilities to understand, absorb, assimilate and utilize what you | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| experienced as pleasurable. Finding out one's strength, resources, abilities, resiliency, and any asset you can name, is | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| with it to the best of your present abilities will help you attain the lower stages perhaps | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| to greedily insisting on receiving. All these increased abilities will fill the emptiness created by the child's | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| how real it may initially be. These creative abilities will wither because that person wants to cheat | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| connections you can and should use your mental abilities to whatever degree you can in a spirit | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| increasingly discovering new strength, new creative power, new abilities, new intuitive faculties that you never thought possible | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| her own. As the child grows older, more abilities emerge to make more new experience accessible. The | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| his softness, his gentleness with his strength and abilities, not like the woman, but in a complementary | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |