| Advantageous................23 | |
| know better than God what is good or advantageous for you -- while in reality this is | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| and place vary. As a rule, regularity is advantageous. Human beings have difficulty concentrating. Time and again | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| some time to learn what is necessary and advantageous for the chosen task. They learn the Plan | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| are capable of ascertaining and planning the most advantageous circumstances and conditions for the next life on | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| here for the first time, it might be advantageous to read my last lecture, so that this | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| spiritual as well as human. For what seems advantageous to him, he likes to get. Now we | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| each alternative thoroughly; to face not only the advantageous sides of all alternatives in making your choice | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| not because of a possible wrong or less advantageous decision, but because you go into the decision | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| because it is thought to be protective and advantageous. In truth it is not. For nothing can | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| selfishness are completely confused. They assume that something advantageous for them is automatically wrong. Yet it may | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| another cannot possibly be wise and be truly advantageous for you. But it is no contradiction. Both | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| actual selfishness that seems, consciously or unconsciously, so advantageous and desirable: In reality selfishness cannot offer any | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| seem to warrant the view that selfishness is advantageous. But if you follow through the chain reactions | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| new vista, showing you that selfishness is not advantageous, either now or in the long run. It | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| then dawn on you that selfishness is not advantageous and is definitely not in your interest. Or | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| will be that you think it is more advantageous or more pleasant for you. By that time | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you would like to be so, thinking it advantageous. Thus you are compulsively unselfish. On the other | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of what is true, what is really more advantageous and what is not, will finally enable you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| that still doubts that this is good or advantageous or safe or whatever. There must be a | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| will you see how much more constructive and advantageous honesty is. Whenever you are on the defensive | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| your life is the unconscious. Everything favorable, pleasurable, advantageous, as well as your hardships, suffering, disappointments, unfulfillments | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| and reality were not all good, happy, and advantageous, many of my friends would not have experienced | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| was destructive for others, even if it seemed advantageous to the self. In those earlier periods, people | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Advantages..................40 | |
| a self-created world may yield them certain momentary advantages in freeing them of responsibilities for others, affording | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| and not take its vanity, pride, and personal advantages so seriously. Such an emotional current comes from | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| and immature souls would insist on having the advantages of both the opposing alternatives and none of | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| insist simultaneously on two impossibilities, desiring only the advantages and not accepting any of the drawbacks of | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| to God's will and not claim any personal advantages, either material or spiritual. Even a person who | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| this life or what one has acquired -- advantages or disadvantages, positive or negative factors looking at | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| is necessary to have self-knowledge. What are its advantages? How costly is it to attain? What are | 21 THE FALL |
| a beautiful being, offering Christ all the worldly advantages He might desire and instant release from all | 22 SALVATION |
| you were. The rulers simply had their own advantages as their goals -- to get more land | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| very obvious way to serve his immediate seeming advantages, disregarding all laws -- spiritual as well as | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| important than the other person's, that you desire advantages for yourself, and that you have vanity. If | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| say greedy, I mean you want to amass advantages without shouldering the responsibility of paying the price | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| karmic debt may be paid off. Difficulties and advantages in the life to follow are considered from | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| -- whatever it may be -- for its advantages, but you ignore -- as the child ignored | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| this may be true to some degree. The advantages of friendship, companionship, mutual respect, and a pleasant | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| Yet at the same time you desire the advantages of the opposite desire. The motives in the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the sake of the crime nor for the advantages the crime may bring. The deep, underlying root | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| in some areas of life while you have advantages that others may lack. You would not have | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| means that you consider your own hurt vanities, advantages, goals no differently from those of other people | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| But backward would certainly apply to earthly human advantages. Spiritually speaking, it is hard to generalize. There | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| overly modest and never to take credit or advantages for themselves, are bound to become resentful of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| spoils things for you, rather than bringing you advantages. The more you observe and understand this, the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| an excessive demand on your part: wanting the advantages of close relationships without giving in the real | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| mature, while at the same time desiring the advantages of childhood. The desire to be a child | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| selfhood means concern for others, fairness in evaluating advantages and disadvantages of others and self. It does | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| as a necessity, for without it power and advantages could not be gained, and then, eventually, as | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| disadvantages, competing with the other sex for its advantages. Hence men secretly envy women for their privileged | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| without forever giving up all your rights and advantages. It is indeed possible to say yes to | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the less conflict will there be between the advantages of the self and those of others. The | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| to choose between being good or obtaining your advantages, you must be in a terrible conflict. You | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| ultimately deprive others, that by obtaining your real advantages -- not the short-sighted, childish ones -- you | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| truth, love and fairness more than the apparent advantages of the fearful, holding, vain little ego, your | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| a negative way with little ego interests, puny advantages, and unwillingness to give to life. Thus you | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| constantly on the lookout for its own little advantages. These personal gains may be material; they may | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| of it wants the glory of it, the advantages, in a selfish, vain way. QUESTION: I can't | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| divine will, to truth and love, more profound advantages on all levels will accrue. Of course, you | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| thought, that attitude, will actually bring you many advantages. It will give you the self-esteem and also | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| yet grab for leadership because you like its advantages, the power and prestige, then again you defeat | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| of those who risk themselves and their personal advantages by aggressive goodness and positive assertion. What happens | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| personality functions and lower motives. Financial and social advantages were of primary importance. Even more significant was | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Adventure...................17 | |
| it, you will find that it is the adventure, the search for the knowledge of the other | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and make of marriage the marvelous journey of adventure it is supposed to be, forever finding new | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| be an unwillingness to risk the journey and adventure of revealing yourself. An integral part of life | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| unwilling to take the risk of this great adventure cannot succeed in the greatest venture humanity knows | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| be an unwillingness to risk the journey and adventure of revealing yourself. An integral part of life | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| woman who is earnestly willing to undertake the adventure of true marriage will have the mature and | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and self-centeredness which makes loving an unprofitable, disadvantageous adventure. There is, on the other hand, the shame | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| a certain courage is presupposed, a spirit of adventure, so to speak. Pleasure presupposes the willingness to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| up for, strength that makes life a meaningful adventure. Water represents the emotions: the flow, the state | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the reality of the now, will then yield adventure, peaceful, harmonious excitement, worthwhile vital living. But this | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| this path and who have the excitement and adventure ahead of them: the path of discovering a | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| love, experience and pleasure, movement and unfoldment, new adventure and new horizons of being. Life means increasing | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| in that may lie a special fascination and adventure. Then the creation begins to take on a | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| Once you choose this power freely, growth becomes adventure and joy. Many people increase their physical and | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| peace, coupled with excitement, of serenity coupled with adventure, through which life becomes a string of beauty | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| follow it through. You can give yourself this adventure of discovery. In the preliminary stages of this | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| awareness that experiences school as the most exciting adventure imaginable. The classroom will be where life unfolds | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |