| Complain....................10 | |
| cause and effect. The physically undernourished person will complain about tiredness, weakness, or other physical symptoms, without | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| and connect these instances with the injustices you complain about. If you cannot do so right away | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| what your expectations really are, how you inwardly complain. You will find what you yourself could do | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and total significance of their predicament, such people complain that the world leaves them unfulfilled. Their complaints | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| unaware of your unwillingness to love and then complain about the results and feel yourself victimized. As | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| kind of suffering the person may most bitterly complain about. Once you have ascertained that you actually | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| to grow from my difficulties rather than childishly complain about them, as if someone else had given | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| problematic when you deny your negative desire, but complain about not getting the wished for result. The | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| you deal yourself out of life and then complain. So I say to you, my dear ones | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| higher cause, then you have no right to complain when others do this job. And I emphasize | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Complaining.................12 | |
| yourself in a destructive way filled with self-pity, complaining about your fate, and brooding unproductively about things | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| at yourself calmly without moralizing, without justifying, without complaining or resenting, then you do not discipline yourself | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| discontent and tense struggle, in a mood of complaining, resentment, and self-pity. Meanwhile, you ignore: a) the | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| do so partly because you derive pleasure from complaining and unhappiness. Partly you truly fear these powers | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| As long as you waste your energies on complaining and feeling victimized you are in a vicious | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| choose to react negatively, destructively, making myself hopeless, complaining and feeling angry about it? This choice is | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| often strong temptation to indulge in self-pity, resentment, complaining, and accusing -- overtly or covertly -- in | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| and choose rather to suffer, with a vaguely complaining attitude, thereby destroying the forces of creation at | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| make the transition from the false pain of complaining bitterness to the real pain that is soft | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| that way. Do not waste your time in complaining about injustice. If someone else seems to get | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| At times, my friends, you still go around complaining about this or that unhappiness or unfulfillment, choosing | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| place. You chafe against the old structures while complaining that you cannot arrive at the new place | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| Complaints..................9 | |
| cruelty and injustice, suffering and pain. Such general complaints are often motivated by the inner subjective disappointment | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| luxury of facing your desires, unfulfillments, longings, your complaints against life or fate or others or yourself | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| constructive, and revolves around the same pointless thoughts, complaints, self-pity, self-deceptive ideas and subterfuges, it will, of | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| complain that the world leaves them unfulfilled. Their complaints and resentments may take as many forms as | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| state of consciousness that is responsible for their complaints against life. This is their main predicament. Finally | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| it? This choice is yours. Your anger and complaints against the world are wasted, for all that | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| one's personal case against life, with all its complaints, accusations, and sense of victimization. Being true to | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| a decision about a new approach to your complaints: I want to seek the cause in me | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| situation is painful and you defend with rage, complaints, and other defenses against cleanly experiencing this pain | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Complementary...............10 | |
| pass over this threshold, all contradictions become a complementary whole, which you not only understand, but know | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| the unitive state and separating them from their complementary fragments. In the dualistic mode of experiencing life | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| longer seen as good versus bad, but as complementary facets, both fulfilling their own function, equal in | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| are many more dualities which are seen as complementary and mutually fulfilling rather than mutually exclusive -- | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| Everyone will consider night and day as mutually complementary manifestations of nature, both having their value, beauty | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the same problems, but they interact on a complementary rather than on an identical level. No self-realization | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| and desirelessness will not be irreconcilable paradoxes, but complementary attitudes. Similarly, it seems paradoxical to postulate that | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| as in woman, since the differences make a complementary whole. But the differences are not qualitative; they | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| abilities, not like the woman, but in a complementary way. The two can form the new-age marriage | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| that can be passed on to others. The complementary merging of these two divine aspects -- the | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Complementing...............11 | |
| is more. QUESTION: Is this a process of complementing, of bringing together the opposites? ANSWER: Just so | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| endowed with would have served the purpose of complementing the perfection in other ways as well, so | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| state, these energies and forces work together perfectly, complementing one another rather than hindering one another. Hence | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| as contradictions. For every divine law contains two complementing principles -- the masculine and the feminine principles | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| process without the active and passive forces harmonizing, complementing, and furthering one another is unthinkable. This applies | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| stop and use the other of these two complementing forces. You must see yourself using the wrong | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| case they are distorted and misunderstood. Instead of complementing one another, they interfere with one another. Instead | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| movement that combines faith and doubt as one complementing whole in the service of truth and love | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| equally productive human beings in the new universe, complementing and aiding one another, loving one another, respecting | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| created in full consciousness of the process. The complementing approach is learning from outside, without which such | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| every one of these systems in positive manifestation, complementing one another, it cannot maintain the balance required | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Completeness................3 | |
| round, as everything spiritual must move in circular completeness. All creatures are in search of this powerful | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| impurity of the soul somehow influences also the completeness of faith. Perfect faith would mean no disharmony | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| lose it and fall into its opposite. The completeness, the wholeness, of the unitive pleasure may also | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| Completing..................3 | |
| relinquishing your separateness. You thus bar yourself from completing your spiritual destiny. You prevent yourself from making | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| at any point and go on from there, completing the cycle from wherever the starting point was | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| ever need for living your life and for completing the task you came to fulfill through your | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Completion..................15 | |
| often allowed to bring the past incarnation to completion in the spirit state, to finish tasks already | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| entities' developmental stage. Receptivity for happiness, harmony, and completion depends entirely on the developmental state. There are | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| to rest in the spiritual world after the completion of a great task. These beings need rest | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| between Judaism and Christianity, one wholeness and one completion. Since Christ represents such an important part of | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| special means. But until the plan reaches its completion, the pure beings use their efforts to help | 21 THE FALL |
| of them are not created until after the completion of the Plan of Salvation. And it is | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not as a substitute for, but as a completion of life. My dearest friends, on this very | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| without oxygen. But there are additional periods of completion before birth, as well as afterward. But these | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| again in different civilizations and races for the completion of their evolution. It is not necessary to | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| transition is always in the service of growth, completion, perfection, additional creation, pleasure supreme. For growth and | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of mutuality applies to all endeavors, all successful completion, and all meaningful self-expression. Such a synthesis of | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| This lecture is also an organic sequence, a completion of a cycle in which new material can | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| long as the universe has not found its completion by filling the void with spiritual light, orgasm | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| inner and outer being strives organically toward further completion of the great plan, in which every aspect | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| peace, joy and security. The gauge that measures completion of the task is inner peace, fearlessness and | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Complex.....................36 | |
| for the indefinable longing. Its background is more complex, and this is what I want to talk | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| hand, if you were affected by some guilt complex, you might choose to give it to a | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| How do images and complexes combine? ANSWER: A complex is a symptom, or an outcome of an | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| symptom, or an outcome of an image. A complex in its manifest form is a camouflage of | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| content. For instance, someone may have an inferiority complex about his intelligence. This is manifest. This he | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| wants to be more than he is. A complex, of course, is connected to an image. It | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| is an image. You can easily recognize a complex, in others as in yourself. The image in | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| whereas every fault is a twisted strength. A complex too is a twisted strength, but twisted in | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| What is shyness anyway? What is an inferiority complex for that matter? It is nothing else but | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| thing. Shyness is one manifestation of an inferiority complex. Brashness is another. It is a question of | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| and self-will would not be gratified. No inferiority complex would exist if this were not the case | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| and you could not be shy. An inferiority complex is not determined by one's actual worth and | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| what you have just said about the inferiority complex, you gave a different explanation on another occasion | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| must be one. That was that an inferiority complex is really a guilt complex, which is the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| that an inferiority complex is really a guilt complex, which is the wrong reaction to one's faults | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| desire, action, or attitude may be, the inferiority complex must cease to the degree that you gain | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| desire wealth so as to alleviate an inferiority complex, then you want wealth to fulfill something that | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| arises in the human soul out of the complex and universal basic phenomenon of misunderstood happiness. As | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| How is all this related to the Oedipus complex? ANSWER: In the condition called the Oedipus complex | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| complex? ANSWER: In the condition called the Oedipus complex the connection between it and the conflict I | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| few times, but can see how this entire complex of feelings constantly operates in you, you can | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| from this fact. The real self is a complex of everything you are at the moment. Of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| some of these factors may contribute to the complex, in themselves they do not clear up anything | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or big? Do you experience people as many-faceted complex beings with their own vulnerabilities, their own struggles | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| also what you were talking about -- my complex of perfectionism -- I finally accepted my mistakes | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| ANSWER: The human entity is a deep, involved, complex being. Therefore, in order to be undivided and | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| what goes on in the deep, involved, and complex levels of their soul, in order to attain | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| of nature you find it. In the very complex physical, mental, emotional organism of the human creature | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| Or is it the clinging to the entire complex, out of fear of having to do without | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| found in the simplest creations and the most complex systems imaginable. The variables are indeed infinite. There | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| the cyclic movement intact. Every leaf is a complex interaction of many nuclear points. A gust of | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| for oneself and struggling with the often more complex issues of inner morality. Blind obedience to rules | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| inner law. But then we also encounter more complex situations, where the inner law is not that | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| no desire to do so. In the more complex matters of personal relationships to self and others | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| that I do not see it as so complex. (Laughter.) What seems to you humans so complicated | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| What seems to you humans so complicated and complex is often nothing but the necessary outpicturing of | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |