| Departed....................11 | |
| QUESTION: I would like to know about a departed friend of mine. I keep thinking about him | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| simply recognize it without guilt. If you have departed from your infant-desire for rulership, you will be | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| had made no attempt to make contact with departed dear ones and who now would like to | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| see, my dear, a fruitful contact with a departed dear one is very rare, because although it | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and wish to be in touch with the departed one, understandable as this pain of separation is | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| human souls, the strong desire to communicate with departed loved ones almost always has at its root | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| place, one can talk to and help a departed dear one without actual mutual contact. The human | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mutual contact. The human who talks to the departed just sends thoughts that may be constructive and | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| approach to this entire question. Talking to a departed dear one, without receiving proof of his or | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| genuine your love and affection is for the departed. This pain will not leave a scar, because | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| Whether that something is directly connected with the departed one -- guilt, resentment, or what have you | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| Departure...................4 | |
| you use these little clues as points of departure, understanding the harm of inner stunting, you will | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| power to return to the point of your departure from the original level of perfection. You must | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| step by step, back to the point of departure through the self- created chain reaction until you | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| obstruction. Rather take that as the point of departure. Then say into yourself, I would like to | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Depend......................81 | |
| can only be created when you no longer depend on things that are beyond your control. Those | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the same time, they will feel that they depend in many respects entirely on God, yet they | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| of yourself, not be mastered by moods and depend on them for the kind of contact to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| undefinable bad conscience. Why? Because happiness does not depend on outer circumstances or other people, no matter | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| self can display these general trends. Such manifestations depend on various other factors, such as the personal | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| back in his old country, it will again depend on his attitude as to how long he | 18 FREE WILL |
| of the duties and tasks in each life depend on many, many circumstances. As I mentioned before | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| task. Of course, the actual next existence will depend on your development during the rest of this | 38 IMAGES |
| given a guardian. The guardian's strength and power depend on a person's development and responsibility task in | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| weak and selfish motives -- and therefore must depend on other human beings to a certain degree | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the same in essence. Sanity and emotional health depend largely on the ability and willingness to adjust | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the same soul. The image does not only depend on the particular kind of predominant authority experienced | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| concept, and that your emotional survival does not depend on other people's opinion of you, but solely | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to yourself. If you have a tendency to depend too much on other people's opinion, it is | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| in his intellect that his life and happiness depend on what other people think of him. Everyone | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| well as the fearsome abyss of illusion therefore depend upon whether or not you learn to accept | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| results. As I now understand, success and wish-fulfillment depend upon the clarity and strength of the inner | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| lasting and how satisfying the result is will depend on the presence of the inner will. If | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| receive something, the extent of its value will depend largely on your increasing awareness of where you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| a little sad, but your life will not depend on it. You will come to see that | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| that you need for your physical survival -- depend on cooperation and communication, although their form and | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| you are cut off from us. It will depend very much on your endeavors and your outlook | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of every wish, such constant winning, cannot possibly depend on you alone, you are dependent. You invest | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| your efforts, commendable and advisable as they are, depend on your finding your mate again. This is | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| me, your reunion with your mate does not depend on what you do or do not do | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| you are still in the body. Such experiences depend on how you use the faculties which have | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| and inferiority. Consequently you make your damaged self-respect depend upon others. This dependency has a weakening effect | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| reason, common sense, logic, and their opposites. They depend on being supplied with the ideas and principles | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| their capacity to love so they do not depend on love being given to them; by discriminating | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| you cannot help using those on whom you depend. In this hidden using, the distortion of your | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| to use others since your life seems to depend on them. You conclude therefore that you need | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| from within, never from the outside. Learn to depend on this inner strength, which you have the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| and become thereby stronger and wiser. When you depend on your inner resources, your self-confidence and self-respect | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| child is helpless, so is an invalid. Both depend on others. The resisting psyche is therefore not | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| another to restrict and even punish. Those who depend on outer rules to tell them what alternative | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| the fact that you do not have to depend on circumstances outside your control, that you are | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| believe exist regarding control, are entirely arbitrary; they depend on your belief. To the extent that you | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| yourself only as the outer ego-self, you will depend on others. Only when you have realized the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| which embodies unification, does your life cease to depend on others. Hence, a slight quarrel truly becomes | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| a reality -- that your life does not depend on other people's affirmation of your existence; that | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| and with life, and thus self-fulfillment. All three depend on awakening and activating your innermost center, the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| right here, right now. Its attainment does not depend on some complicated feat or on a state | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| your present way of being. It does not depend on outer events or on anything having to | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| you. The meaningfulness and fulfillment of one's life depend, in the last analysis, entirely on the relationship | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| truly you, not pretenses or faculties whose manifestations depend on others or on circumstances outside your control | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| out of the universal field. On this movement depend the strength, the truth, the love feelings, the | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| matter what you call these powers. Their names depend on culture, fashion, interpretation, personal preference and approach | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| and set up your negative defenses. You can depend on yourself much more adequately without withdrawing, without | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| living things, its continuous life and fruitful manifestation depend entirely on the degree to which this enterprise | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| a debilitating frustration for you. You no longer depend on proving your innocence. You see and know | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| experience that your pleasure, peace and fulfillment never depend on others but only on yourself. But sometimes | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| truth. Often the dualistic misunderstanding that either you depend on yourself and therefore must be all alone | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| are in a fulfilling relationship and then utterly depend on the other, prevents you from even wanting | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| is it so, when not? What does it depend on, as far as you are concerned? When | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| possible and in keeping with divine law, will depend on the extent you have faced your own | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| into everyday living. You will then no longer depend on others, but will be your real self | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| the other person. Of course, others should not depend on you; they must fend for themselves and | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| own salvation. You may say, Others should not depend on my overcoming my negativities and problems so | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| constantly dependent on what happens around you. You depend on appreciation and approval from others, on being | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| of life to you, but you do not depend on it. It enriches you and is a | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| the sense of timelessness in the sexual union depend on the unification of the individuals in question | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| to get along with others, who wants to depend on them and not antagonize them. Then there | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| are safe and secure, and this does not depend on the name. It is very, very probable | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| do not trust some of the grownups to depend on? All that may be part of it | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| off by outside circumstances. So you no longer depend on perfection in order not to face your | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| knowing all you know, the uncleansed areas would depend on the cleansed ones and not become whole | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| will dislike yourself and those on whom you depend. Thus you need to rebel. But if you | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you have no identity. You make your identity depend on the opinion of other people, on how | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| noble task. The creative processes of the universe depend on every individualized entity. Every tiniest step of | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| could be less free. In that attitude you depend constantly on something that cannot be, no matter | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| so hardly matters -- it is because you depend on this authority in some tangible or intangible | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| nature of a human authority or person you depend on and need, and his or her motives | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| then mold ever-newly unfolding life. Life's infinite possibilities depend on every single created conscious entity, on each | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Thus, they cannot make a decent livelihood; they depend on others and accumulate debts. However, the inner | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| we could never fulfill our own tasks. We depend on your truth and love, as you depend | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| depend on your truth and love, as you depend on ours. We depend on your giving yourselves | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| and love, as you depend on ours. We depend on your giving yourselves to the Creator, as | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| your giving yourselves to the Creator, as you depend on our giving to Him. Let this beautiful | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| a different category. For example, one species may depend on another to maintain its very life, surviving | 254 SURRENDER |
| come only rarely at first and seem to depend on circumstances outside of yourself. Eventually you will | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| easily noticeable, in which you still want to depend and not be your own self. It is | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |