| Deserved....................10 | |
| forbidden from manifesting because the medium has not deserved it. It is that they are incapable of | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to assume that you human beings have already deserved to be given the answers to the greatest | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| the spirit world. He had, through previous incarnations, deserved certain merits and even though he was still | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| faith. Say to yourself: I have not yet deserved this grace. I am not the judge of | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| shame; you would not feel that such behavior deserved shame if you encountered it in others. Once | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| he played himself up as the patriarch who deserved all the grace of God -- in other | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| may or may not be good, healthy, and deserved -- it depends how you look at so- | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| conflict frustrates your inner will and prohibits the deserved fulfillment of your desire. The idea that selfishness | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| not only in the sense of retribution, of deserved fate, but in the sense of the inner | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| have more abundance that is well earned, honestly deserved, and can thus be guiltlessly enjoyed. The abundance | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Deserves....................18 | |
| you have the trust and faith the Creator deserves, you will not think that this was unjust | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| important part of your returning to God, he deserves your personal gratefulness and some contact from you | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| very act of giving as a weakness that deserves contempt. The betrayal is subtle, but it is | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| care of the child. And the child only deserves such benign care if it maintains its goodness | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and superimposition of feelings and needs. This topic deserves careful scrutiny and understanding, particularly at this time | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| most important and valuable person on earth, who deserves very special privileges. To ascertain such a belief | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| and feel falsely guilty for that which truly deserves no guilt. You must overcome a number of | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| are vastly underrated by humanity. Living consciousness therefore deserves a respect that can hardly be put into | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| for having been a good child who now deserves it, but because you begin to perceive its | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| to me! Your not complying with my demands deserves the punishment of my annihilation. And the blind | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| act of revealing all parts of the self deserves your greatest self-respect, which you can pay when | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| for it and claim it, know that it deserves what it wants and will not misuse it | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| The very fact of facing this lower self deserves the mercy, forgiveness, and love that human beings | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| would justify my appreciating and loving myself, that deserves esteem and fulfillment? Such questions are also often | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| any single issue in the full scope it deserves, you will have to conclude that hatred is | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| now; you will be able to value what deserves to be valued from the past, but you | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| you do not know which part of you deserves to be trusted. Only too often you want | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| to Him in the total trust that He deserves. Your human fears can never be assuaged otherwise | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Deserving...................28 | |
| of being punished and the fear of not deserving happiness create a further and more complicated reaction | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| feels guilty for keeping it, while not actually deserving it, he later feels shame for receiving a | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| fulfillment. It may be a feeling of not deserving this happiness. It may be any number of | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| rigid, heavy, untruthful one. When misconceptions of not deserving all that happiness are found, they are often | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the strong, clear, unbroken consciousness of wanting and deserving the desired experience. The misconception that striving for | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| also investigate the areas in which you feel deserving, where you are willing to pay the price | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| without guilt. It happens because you feel deeply deserving. You will know that no one is deprived | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| of your truth and trust it; you feel deserving and hence do not cringe away from fulfillment | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| getting it, or have a sense of not deserving it, or are afraid of life's demands when | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| and distorted self-blame and a sense of not deserving the best of life on the other. Knowing | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| integrity gives the person a sense of not deserving happiness and love. The vague feeling of being | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| respect, a new sense of self and of deserving will ultimately remove the lack of fulfillment. Misconception-Split-Vicious | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| you can ask yourself: Am I hopeless about deserving happiness because I, possibly quite justifiably, dislike certain | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| sense of your intrinsic beautiful aliveness, and of deserving your own esteem. This inner state will be | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| potentials, you will indeed know that you are deserving of your own esteem and acceptance. You will | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| look away from it, then you cannot feel deserving, and hence you must block the contact with | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| peace, joy, fulfillment, self-esteem, the deep sense of deserving the best that life has to offer. The | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| remain poor, for only the honest can feel deserving of riches. The energetic form of the forcing | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| with the right kind of selfishness feel deeply deserving of happiness because they never want it at | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| able ever to attain all this, not really deserving it. You fear that if you did acquire | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| enjoy the fruits of your efforts and feel deserving of them. QUESTION: All my life, it seems | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| you the self-esteem and also the feeling of deserving and claiming the abundance you desperately grope for | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| will find it not so difficult to feel deserving, to know that only better can come. You | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| courageous, some are better equipped for and more deserving of the privileged position of leading a country | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| having the power to create a safe life, deserving happiness. Being wrong means being bad, unacceptable, having | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| having no power to create safety and not deserving happiness. This applies to the self and, by | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the lower self fosters an attitude of not deserving salvation, that is, not deserving eternal life, goodness | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| attitude of not deserving salvation, that is, not deserving eternal life, goodness, joy, total justice. When you | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Design......................7 | |
| life it is going to lead, its basic design, and also the duration of this life -- | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| construct, containing meaning and consciousness, containing a purposeful design. Each fragmentary second is that. If you string | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| of the pure spirit of service but by design. You always wanted this authority to do something | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| useful here also: the three circles, the mandala-shaped design. In this figure the higher self is surrounded | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| planets. It is energizing force and it is design. So much is contained in the word. It | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| is for naught, that there is a magnificent design at work whose purpose is to bring everything | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| ineffable peace. You can no longer doubt the design behind events when you explore your microcosm painstakingly | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Designate...................7 | |
| aloneness must first be experienced. The great mystics designate it as the dark night of the soul | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| English language you actually have another term to designate the negative aspect of compassion, and that is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| much more than you realize. Often what you designate as progress is not necessarily real, and what | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| disconnected aspects. There are many different terms that designate this process. It is often called the divine | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| into your ordinary surroundings, your outer life, you designate that as the real life. Nothing could be | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| feared unknown, be it a feeling that you designate as negative, or an expanded new state of | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| desire are only the most common denominators that designate a host of other feelings and attitudes. In | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Designates..................3 | |
| you use -- we have different terms -- designates a special type of being in the divine | 21 THE FALL |
| person and something else to another. A word designates an idea, and you all know that each | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| small child believes that it is omnipotent. Psychology designates this very obvious expression of the infant's claim | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Desirable...................173 | |
| high regard, would you say that it is desirable for Westerners to meditate on the drop and | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| effort you could give to other necessary of desirable things. Consider rather this path as the foundation | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| farther out of reach it is, the more desirable it seems to you; whereas if once in | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| course it is self-evident that it is neither desirable nor necessary to have ambition in all respects | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| getting wounded; it thinks remaining aloof is a desirable state. In other words, you want to cheat | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| and conclude that the law-breaking stance is the desirable one, simply because the other wrong extreme is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| selfishness and self-serving aims do not bring many desirable results. If you were to serve only the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| Whether you consider these emotions and unconscious wishes desirable or undesirable is not the issue here. But | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| that seems, consciously or unconsciously, so advantageous and desirable: In reality selfishness cannot offer any advantage to | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you that the selfish act would be more desirable, contemplate the following: An isolated event, with all | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| acceptance from this particular parent becomes the most desirable aim, all the more so because love and | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| mind of the child, the rejecter now becomes desirable, taking the place of that which was originally | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| rejecter seems unloving. The mother or father is desirable also because that which is wanted from him | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| which is wanted from him or her is desirable. Therefore, to be unloving is a desirable state | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| is desirable. Therefore, to be unloving is a desirable state. The child's psyche says: If I am | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| says: If I am unloving, I will be desirable, my love will be sought. Just as I | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| behavior pattern -- imagined or real -- becomes desirable and something to be emulated. When you consider | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| that to love is humiliating. Since the most desirable person for the child has withheld the love | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| desire is to be as strong as the desirable parent, and certainly not as weak as the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| be strong. He or she may have many desirable qualities worthy of emulation, but certainly not the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the strong one. Each parent may then have desirable qualities, but they often conflict with one another | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| parent. You would rather be accepted by the desirable rejecter than be identified with the weak, needy | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| is to find out why that which is desirable cannot be produced naturally by the personality itself | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the way of producing the happier or more desirable state that is otherwise produced by suggestion. But | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| explain it, it sounds as though it were desirable to become a hypnotic subject. ANSWER: I do | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| said that in many instances it is not desirable. But the inability ever to be hypnotized is | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| that what you really wanted is no longer desirable. This is not merely pride, but it is | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| to belong in the world that seems most desirable to you produces impatience. It causes you to | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| assume artificial attitudes and emotions. Since neither this desirable world, nor the way you go about obtaining | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Blessed is this hour. The highest and most desirable state in the whole plan of evolution is | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| another facet of the badness that seems so desirable to you. In this lecture I mentioned, among | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and without meeting obstructions. Thus fantasy seems more desirable than life. But the more you live in | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| has to be removed. Even things that seem desirable have to be questioned, whether it be faith | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| do not believe that it is possible, even desirable, to establish a borderline. It is not necessary | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| it well, so that it will not seem desirable to strain away from it. This is being | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| my friends. For the child, positive identification is desirable. For an adult, a positive identification is often | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| them, the new way of life will become desirable and offer new vistas, experience and challenge. The | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| any force, even if this force is most desirable. Even though you and everyone else go through | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| not understand why such a change is truly desirable. Therefore, the path can roughly be divided into | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| understood; when the subtle shrinking away from a desirable goal is observed and finally changed into, I | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| or at best only a limited amount of desirable forms of self-expression and fulfillment can be had | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| countercurrent must exist. Truly and relaxedly wanting the desirable result can only happen when you find and | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| must be done in order to obtain a desirable result, to lead a meaningful existence. Where activity | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| called upon to have that which is most desirable. Giving up control -- the little selfwill -- | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| into a new freedom, into something positive and desirable, so there is no longer any need to | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| true overcoming of it, because reality is more desirable and more pleasurable, just as positive circumstances are | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| of yourself, when investigated closely, often proves less desirable than it seems. A flat, unliving quality constricts | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| truth and beauty is distorted. Even the most desirable aspects of life turn sour or hold elements | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| vision. Each situation will offer many possibilities for desirable solutions and for creative growth. You cannot emerge | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| find yourself in a situation that is not desirable, that leaves you unfulfilled in any way, your | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| the key to changing it into a more desirable and fulfilling manifestation. Most of you, my friends | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| cannot be eliminated and changed into a more desirable condition unless you understand that the present situation | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| Therefore, the outcome will be more and more desirable and fulfilling. There is no strain in this | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| outer will, which then becomes possible and actually desirable. The deep longing for the happiness and harmony | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| goes smoothly. You do not have to struggle. Desirable results come by themselves, effortlessly and harmoniously, never | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| can be yours in infinitely better and more desirable ways in a positive situation. In fact, a | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| or momentarily alleviated by occasional success with the desirable alternative of the two opposites. The helplessness and | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| is perceived in opposites -- good or bad, desirable or undesirable, life or death. As long as | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| one position is flatly and unchangeably perceived as desirable and its opposite as undesirable. Thus you cling | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| must recognize that destruction of error can be desirable, and construction of error is undesirable. Now, destruction | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| a painful process, whether or not it is desirable. While the edifices of error are being destroyed | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| and at a loss. Outwardly, even the apparently desirable aspects of your existence have disappeared and no | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| the old state. Stemming against the organic and desirable movement, you prolong the painful, transitional period -- | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| understand that crumbling of the old structure is desirable because the old way only appeared to give | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| that the person feels passivity to be a desirable state. It seems to promise the state of | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| of good versus bad. One facet seems good, desirable; the other bad, undesirable. Activity is often experienced | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| on them. The passive, static state then seems desirable because it does not make any demands; it | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| which seems like relief and consequently becomes the desirable state. But passivity never fulfills you; it always | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| become meaningful and relaxed, and action becomes something desirable in itself. By the same token, passivity will | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| natural. In fact, intensity is viewed as the desirable state, connoting all the spiritual qualities I described | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the outer experience is doubtful and not necessarily desirable. This fearless meeting of it enables you to | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| fear, and often more so, regarding the positive, desirable, and desired experiences in the universe. Utter bliss | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| which the opening, relaxed state is felt as desirable and pleasurable, whereas the closing, tense state is | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| total commitment to growth makes it appear more desirable to be a recalcitrant child. All this is | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| which one half is adjudged as good and desirable, the other as bad and undesirable. This is | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| assumption that the affirmative principle is good and desirable, while the negating principle is sick, bad, undesirable | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| but forever expanding abundance of life. Yet these desirable experiences cannot be stuffed forcibly into a self | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| in your life. They regulate all that happens, desirable or undesirable, important or unimportant, from the smallest | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| eliminate whatever stands between me and the more desirable way. I have the courage to face it | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| unreal and distant from what people consider truly desirable that it remains at best a vague theory | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| undesirable ones. If what you consider as the desirable situation -- and it may actually be desirable | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| desirable situation -- and it may actually be desirable -- does not come to pass, you succumb | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| reveals to you, and change where change is desirable. Unless you tackle your reservations about your involvement | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| meaning of mass occurrences, no matter how apparently desirable or undesirable they may be, can be evaluated | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| and therefore in creating a wholly desired and desirable life experience which makes you more deeply aware | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| feelings for a good cause. The next, more desirable state is achieved when these negative feelings are | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| you have the power to create the most desirable life experience you can think of. You will | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| upheaval for the sake of reaching a more desirable steady state. They want to realize their potential | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| what is worst in them is essentially highly desirable creative power and universal flow and energy. Only | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| dislike most in yourself is essentially a highly desirable, creative power. You dislike it because it is | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| power. You dislike it because it is not desirable in the form it manifests at the moment | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| but the energy current behind this manifestation is desirable in itself, for it is made of the | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| is why some supposedly negative emotions are actually desirable. For instance, anger can further life and be | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| totally irrational, self-destructive will to negate what is desirable does not automatically eliminate it. Even when you | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| emanation and deeds. Such an attitude brings forth desirable experience, fulfillment, pleasure, bliss and abundance in all | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| your own good feelings -- and therefore of desirable life experience -- furthers bitterness, self-pity, accusation, spite | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| exists in so many people for a seemingly desirable inactive life. It is not enough to say | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| misconceptions are eliminated, you can actively create more desirable experiences, better and deeper feeling capacity, more creative | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| you thought it would. This is the most desirable way to create; indeed, the only possible way | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| on them, so that meditation on the outer desirable goal can later be resumed. Whether you use | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| with any aspect of yourself can be either desirable, healthy and fruitful, or the opposite. For example | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| higher self? Or, conversely, How could it be desirable to identify with the lower self? I say | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| token, identification with your lower self can be desirable or undesirable. Perhaps we can best put it | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| out a positive intentionality could be interesting and desirable for you. You could play at first with | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the universe has only a limited supply of desirable things and experiences and that therefore what someone | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| as I am. This ego-trick makes rigidity appear desirable and makes open, flexible movement appear threatening and/or | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| which always blurs and falsifies reality, denying all desirable life experience. Other ego tricks that serve to | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| means overcoming laziness. It means self-discipline: the more desirable a new aspect of life is, the more | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Ego means effort; spiritual self means effortlessness. This desirable effortlessness is not given by magic, however, for | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| your key to create a different and more desirable life. But when you are disconnected from the | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| have to protect this pretense, which may seem desirable in order to whitewash yourself of guilt, you | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| are in a state of truth, movement is desirable, and non-movement is avoided. Let us take the | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| others. Neither one of these two alternatives is desirable or can bring any solution. Your spiritual self | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| never either right or wrong, good or bad, desirable or undesirable. It all depends on its expression | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| state in which what you want and consider desirable you can also readily give up? How can | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| yes and no can be healthy or sick, desirable or undesirable, good or bad. Desire is determined | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| what it constructs is often more painful than desirable. In the example we have chosen this would | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| to create new thought forms and therefore new, desirable experiences. A second important aspect about re-creation is | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| releases new creative substance with which to create desirable life experiences and worlds. In this way more | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| time make one utterly blind to the really desirable aspects of a possible exemplary figure, because the | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| There are of course those who have these desirable qualities only in outer expression. In that case | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| be dedicated and selfless, in order to collect desirable rewards of glowing health and fulfilled living. But | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| too welcome? If the voice says something so desirable that you do not dare believe it, it | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| of enriching life, enriching others, and setting a desirable example. For how can the poor enrich? Nor | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that where you have made room for a desirable new possibility, it has indeed come into your | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| claim that a specific attitude to life is desirable, while its opposite is supposed to be undesirable | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| that trusts change as a completely natural and desirable phenomenon. If you examine your consciousness you will | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| and consciously to conceive of change as a desirable and joyful movement in which you can further | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| experience the universe and life as intensely trustworthy, desirable, beautiful, and secure. What you feared in the | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| changing; you visualize change as the most positive, desirable state possible. You may not even know exactly | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| new and different way that is forever more desirable, more alive, more fascinating. And, as the threat | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| in which you trust change as the most desirable, positive, brilliant, and joyful phenomenon, which you want | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| whether group or individual, and when change is desirable and creative and furthers your own self in | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| by their elders. This is hardly possible or desirable for adults, but we shall not go into | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| later -- all the things that I find desirable -- and I choose so freely, they have | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| you have disoriented yourself. Something may indeed be desirable, and you do not know if it is | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| You fear that if you did acquire these desirable assets, it would only be by stealing, and | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| undivided reality in which what is good and desirable for one must also be so for all | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| work of becoming, and wanting to attain the desirable result without paying the price. This, in turn | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| or being. You daydream that this or that desirable fulfillment will magically and gratuitously come your way | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| that something will happen to you that is desirable and that does not require you to remove | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| to remove the very block that prevents the desirable event or state. The less you invest in | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| you invest in the effort that could make desirable events or states a reality, the less you | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| you justify the superstition of pessimism, the less desirable your life becomes. Increasingly you wish to escape | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| in a continuum of creation, is the most desirable state imaginable. Whether you know it or not | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| The wisdom to comprehend that the highest, most desirable, most unified state of consciousness, the ultimate of | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| that includes and encompasses and transcends all other desirable states and attainments, cannot come quickly, cheaply, easily | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| and truthful thoughts, attitudes and actions have corresponding desirable effects. If you are unaware of the relationship | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| never fully opening your heart, but making yourself desirable, playing into other people's misconceptions and neurotic needs | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of your life, and there the effects are desirable and joyous. The cause creates commensurate effects. But | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| undesirable and bad, while anything new is totally desirable and good. I hardly need to point out | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| are often confused with dignity, pride in the desirable sense, character, self-value, and so on. Look at | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| kind of suffering is neither more nor less desirable than suffering through direct infliction of pain. It | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| another. This is at times inevitable, sometimes even desirable, provided the swings are limited. But when the | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| when the swings are greater than necessary or desirable, fanaticism and blindness develop exactly as they did | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| experienced as freer, more liberated, and infinitely more desirable than the uncommitted free-floating exchange of partners. The | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| was looked upon as if it were morally desirable. Whenever one soul current is put secretly into | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| as a freely chosen gift, the greatest, most desirable state imaginable, the keenest pleasure and fulfillment for | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| those with whom you seek to establish a desirable relationship. Try to visualize what life is like | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| beneficial in many areas of your life. This desirable result, however, is totally ignored by the personality | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| another effect that is not immediately experienced as desirable. It is a grieving pain about the destruction | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| undesirable and strain away from it toward the desirable. This very straining is extremely painful and anxiety- | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| an almost similar spirit and attitude as the desirable. This may appear very strange to you now | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| thoughts and attitudes as you experience either a desirable or an undesirable state. If the desirable occurs | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| a desirable or an undesirable state. If the desirable occurs, you are most likely to feel faith | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| some way connected with whether or not the desirable goal is attained? The Christed person does not | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| degree, does not the deliberate negation of the desirable lead to a similar state of duality, only | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| not much different from one who denies the desirable and does not permit himself to rejoice in | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| to abdicate all material existence and deny its desirable aspects because you know that there exists a | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| will know that all that could ever be desirable is right here, attainable right now, ever-present at | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| are what your deeper self knows is intensely desirable, much better than what you think you want | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| intensely healing and soothing, as encouraging and incredibly desirable. But to those who are still deeply submerged | 254 SURRENDER |
| whatever you want, whether or not it is desirable for your real self or for others. You | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |