| Adherents...................3 | |
| see it. Even though many people may be adherents of that church, there are many more who | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| are not. And many of those who are adherents are so in a half-hearted way, or in | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| this error and thus brought confusion to its adherents. Nothing can be further from the truth than | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| Adhering....................11 | |
| of religion that people can discover also by adhering to a religious sect. Then the minor errors | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| now -- who binds himself to God through adhering to the teachings of Jesus that Peter was | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the outer morals are rigid and senseless. By adhering to them, you may inflict more harm on | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| results from adopting a particular attitude and rigidly adhering to it. This happens when the personality unconsciously | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| for your own sake, insecure, frightened. Only by adhering to certain rules do you have a chance | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in an individual way and not merely by adhering to dogma. Under whatever guise dogma appears, it | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| is liberated, there can be no question of adhering to theories or creeds. God becomes a personal | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| no formula. You cannot come into selfhood by adhering to unexamined values, but by examining, feeling, and | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| are, as you know, extremely demanding and rigid. Adhering to them stems not from an overdose of | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Carrying over a tradition in an unthinking attitude, adhering to a blind habit that does not make | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| it mean to you, and why are you adhering to it or rejecting it? When you examine | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Adjust......................23 | |
| and it may take a little time to adjust to new outlooks. Do not bar your vision | 21 THE FALL |
| question of your inner attitude. In order to adjust your emotions from the wrong kind of shame | 31 SHAME |
| the surface at different times. Be watchful and adjust your prayer accordingly, to keep it forever new | 36 PRAYER |
| occasionally when you make a major recognition. To adjust your prayer to the phases of your development | 36 PRAYER |
| of your being. It could not change and adjust and learn. For only what is out in | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| Where you have your image, you do not adjust. You demand, and you throw a temper-tantrum inside | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| because you have finally recognized their unpurified nature. Adjust yourself to the necessity that, for a while | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| maturity or not. If the grown person can adjust to authority maturely and freely, another milestone has | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| fully recognized in your world. The less you adjust to the world around you, to conditions that | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| depend largely on the ability and willingness to adjust to any undesired condition by finding out what | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the answer in yourself but still do not adjust in the right way. You seek within yourself | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| like: Realize that your emotions need time to adjust, while doing everything in your power to give | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| never affect you. You will then learn to adjust to the world. Happy or unhappy incidents in | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| hopeless. If you only knew why, you could adjust to it if it is something in you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| can see and experience each situation anew and adjust to its particular requirements. Since self-seeking will not | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| may be the best answer for you to adjust your concept to a more truthful one. Compare | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| any other topic, for that matter -- I adjust my words to the level you have reached | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| learn the ability to relinquish it, to flexibly adjust. The fine balance between steering one's ship through | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| help in the process; reason and intelligence will adjust imbalances and deviation from reality. But when reason | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| of the healthy spirit. You then try to adjust to an unhealthy condition, in the assumption that | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| challenge their concepts, who seek the truth and adjust their ideas and aims to it, and who | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| as preparation in the realm I live to adjust the terminology to human understanding. This was not | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| show you your misconceptions and your perception will adjust to reality. Thus you will no longer be | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Adjusted....................13 | |
| people had also brought the same teachings. He adjusted them according to His times and in consideration | 22 SALVATION |
| are out of your control and cannot be adjusted to reality. Thus they are inflexible and rigid | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| mass image changes, the individual plans will be adjusted to it, so that the more humanity develops | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| every child when it is born as well adjusted as any other? ANSWER: No, absolutely not. You | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| of the experience because it is made and adjusted to the limited dimension in which a separation | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| for and seen, the soul movements can be adjusted, and contact with the life force becomes possible | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| into the organism must be metabolized, distributed, and adjusted. Otherwise, the force would be too strong. If | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| out of the boil and the attitudes are adjusted, self-revelation brings peace; understanding brings new energy and | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| face of which you have given up and adjusted to unnecessary deprivation and frustration. There is still | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| modified way, in a symbolic way, in an adjusted way that fits the circumstances on this level | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| organism, balances need to be constantly reexamined and adjusted in order to establish inner and outer harmony | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| principles of creation are perfect and can be adjusted to many different situations and conditions. Let us | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| not become too great, it can easily be adjusted. No crisis will accrue from this imbalance. It | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Adjusting...................8 | |
| life follow their wishes, but following life by adjusting to it. Where you have your image, you | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| be your central focus, you are safe in adjusting to any given situation, person, or unforeseen requirement | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| your spontaneity and intuition and prevents you from adjusting to what is possible. And, this, incidentally, is | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| discovery of where your willpower has no jurisdiction, adjusting to that which is, while gathering your strength | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| may change. QUESTION: Isn't the greatest and best adjusting factor in a marital relationship the ability to | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| then. Such over-malleable soul-stuff makes you incapable of adjusting to ever-changing circumstances. You cannot see and evaluate | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| expect being favored, at the expense of flexibly adjusting to new circumstances? In these circumstances you could | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| moment, present some difficulties in the process of adjusting to new modalities, but they also know that | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Adjustment..................4 | |
| outer space, as we know it today, this adjustment via movement through time and space takes place | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| expression; the needs for self-assertion and for flexible adjustment; the needs for ego-gratification and for unselfishness. These | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| you with the ideal fulfillment without necessitating change, adjustment, and relinquishing on your part? This prevalent attitude | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the need to seek the wrong kind of adjustment. Whenever there is lack of commitment, negative intentionality | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| Administered................3 | |
| effect of causes set in motion, and partly administered by spirit helpers. This is extremely difficult to | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| react negatively toward authority, even if it were administered in a perfect way. But since people are | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| since people are imperfect, authority too is often administered in a very imperfect way. Thus a barrier | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| Admirable...................4 | |
| about them and feels them to be something admirable, although intellectually she knows that this is not | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| perfect in order to be better, outstanding, more admirable than other people? If you are honest with | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| as either good or bad, strong or weak, admirable or despicable. But even if the experience is | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| must prove to the world that I am admirable and better than others; I must outdo others | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Admiration..................43 | |
| spirit world. Ego, power, vanity, pride, craving for admiration can be just as great hindrances. So, you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| satisfy its own vanity. It will not demand admiration for itself. It will be a humble servant | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| to show your best side. You all crave admiration, acceptance, and love. You think that showing your | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| what you have set out to gain: love, admiration. You will receive love because you have first | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you want to gain. You have given up admiration, which means you have given up making an | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| creature, the less it will want honor and admiration. That is due only to the Creator, without | 21 THE FALL |
| success in a profession whereby they might gain admiration, appreciation, and some degree of power. However, if | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| will just name a few: compassion, pity, respect, admiration, tenderness, protectiveness, helpfulness, kindness, truth. Yes, my friends | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| your ego in the first row. You want admiration -- I am not speaking personally now -- | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| mainly in order to conform and to gain admiration. The other alternative is to rationalize, justify, and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a great amount of love and respect and admiration from others this would feel like the same | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| of hating and creating this entire circle. The admiration and respect from others would also be the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| that this can be accomplished by receiving attention, admiration, and approval. Many of you have found out | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| following: If I receive attention or approval or admiration, all my worth is established not only in | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| rebel just as frequently as you plead for admiration and approval. Both exist simultaneously in many a | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| Therefore, the outer manifestation varies too. People seek admiration in various ways. One person may believe that | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| someone else, other values serve to gain that admiration and approval. I might say the majority of | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| With most the means to get approval and admiration is a composite of many attributes, supposed to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| this statement is the demand for absolute approval, admiration, and love by everybody. The moment anyone seems | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| through which one may get some power and admiration -- or so one hopes. Whereas in kleptomania | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| need not be love, it may be respect, admiration, acceptance. Then this person takes on the role | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| temporarily in getting what you fight for -- admiration, approval, whatever it may be - - it | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| Even if you actually obtain the love or admiration you wish, you fail to perceive it in | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| am, so that you will give me the admiration I want. The dramatization can take many forms | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| having to possess his or her love and admiration. This is a decisive step, my friends, and | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| inadequacy. You use it to gain respect, power, admiration, unconsciously believing that thereby you also gain love | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| soul experiences any rejection -- withholding of love, admiration, and approval -- not only as unsafe, but | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| In self-centeredness, you need to be given love, admiration, approval. You have to get. This need necessitates | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| very facade will simultaneously bring you so much admiration that your quest for love will be fulfilled | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| on being successful, on impressing others, on receiving admiration -- which all fall under the category of | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| In this stage, prayer takes the form of admiration of the marvel of the universe and nature | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| Your motives may be desire for approval and admiration or love, but not for loving. These, of | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| then I will receive the necessary approval, love, admiration, agreement that I need in order to live | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| on an emotional level. To obtain approval or admiration from others, one sells out on a truth | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| when you let go of the need for admiration, the need to be singled out in some | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| untrue to the self out of greed for admiration and approval by others. I do not need | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| without total approval, unconditional acceptance and love, uncritical admiration, or whatever else it may be. As you | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| ego which wants to tower above others, needing admiration; needing to compare and compete and subdue others | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| pride, the need to show off and gain admiration from others; the need to look better than | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| You seem centered when you receive praise and admiration because you feel gratified at the moment. You | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| is built on a shaky ground. When that admiration and approval is withheld, or perhaps even reversed | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| best in truth whether or not you get admiration, whether or not it is recognized. Do it | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| whatever you think would earn you praise and admiration. Therefore, when you operate with appearance values, you | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |