| Futility....................23 | |
| he or she is deeply convinced of the futility of one's own life, and that the available | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| another way out. Your conscious feeling only knows futility and this gives you a sense of hopelessness | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you will realize the pretense and its complete futility, and you will shed it as the burden | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| negation of life. There is a feeling of futility about life, of hopelessness, a fear of coping | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| emotions, as well as of positive goals, a futility, lack of self-confidence, and therefore the fear of | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| tiredness is a result of it. Also, the futility is a result of the tiredness, the tiredness | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| tiredness, the tiredness is a result of the futility -- and both are a result of repression | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| But beware of believing that your self-pity, bitterness, futility due to shallow living -- no emotional depth | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| entirely contrary feelings: sadness, and self-pity mixed with futility. When you cringe away from sadness, you wind | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| repeated disappointments. The hopelessness, depression, and sense of futility are still absent. If you continue to live | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| you in the face. Only then can their futility be comprehended so blatantly that the personality will | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| and emotional level. It is an exercise in futility to force yourself to harbor certain emotions, but | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| come from within to help you realize the futility, the unnecessary waste of resisting this growth. May | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| turn, produce resentments, bitterness, anger. The sense of futility inherent in all conflict arising out of misconception | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| discontent with life, hopeless longing, a sense of futility and frustration from which you see no way | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| way. While you are torn by the apparent futility of equally undesirable alternatives which make life itself | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| anxiety, inability to concentrate, absent-mindedness, a sense of futility about one's life, depression, lack of energy, and | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| state. The truth is that a sense of futility and confusion about life and your role in | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| then busily deny your sense of hopelessness and futility, and thus you go on ignoring that there | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| for this discovery. Uncover your vague sense of futility which makes you fear that your life is | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| really are. So despair and a sense of futility and hopelessness about life arise. You say to | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| being stopped. This results in a sense of futility and fear of missing out on life. When | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| misunderstood and mistranslated message of this sense of futility creates on the conscious level the fear of | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| Gain........................326 | |
| storm of life -- and thus does not gain anything. You are aware, of course, that the | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| here vanity is an insurmountable obstacle -- can gain true perspective of another human being or of | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| about what obstacles are in you, and to gain clarity you need inner search and also true | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| and of short duration in comparison to the gain. This should give you food for thought. I | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| I fulfill the conditions to receive teachings, to gain insights, and thus to help my still weak | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| summarize: To obtain willpower you have to, first, gain understanding and, second, make the decision that follows | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| are quite aware of the fact that you gain nothing when you close your eyes to what | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| to give up and what you stand to gain as you decide for one of them. In | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| they are the necessary medicine. You will increasingly gain mastery over yourself and consequently mastery over life | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| in no way would it lead to personal gain. But I will add this: A medium should | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| you bring together knowledge and feeling will you gain insights by reading inspired literature and philosophy. QUESTION | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| to one's own faults, it is necessary to gain knowledge from without. For example, take the knowledge | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| love. With it you build your happiness, you gain knowledge and wisdom, you fulfill your life and | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| what I will tell you now, you will gain a powerful weapon to cure yourself of the | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| way exactly what you have set out to gain: love, admiration. You will receive love because you | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| have to give up what you want to gain. You have given up admiration, which means you | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to learn and keep the divine laws will gain the faith that may still be lacking at | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| and wishes, and most important of all, to gain self-knowledge, you definitely need some willpower already to | 21 THE FALL |
| you can make the proper decision. You will gain clear understanding if you set out to think | 21 THE FALL |
| not a pure spirit. If you want to gain self-knowledge, you have to reconcile yourself first to | 21 THE FALL |
| remember that, all of you. In order to gain self-knowledge, you might, for instance, sit down and | 21 THE FALL |
| to do it for you, you would not gain purification. You would not receive the strength through | 22 SALVATION |
| Hell will not prevail -- and will thus gain the Kingdom of Heaven. But that is the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not answered so far and thus begin to gain greater self-knowledge, you may occasionally come to feel | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have to give up what you want to gain. How can we be certain that we are | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| giving up so completely that the idea of gain is not somewhere hidden as a subconscious motive | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do I do it because I hope to gain something? In other words, see if the truth | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| still not giving up what you want to gain, even though a part of you desires it | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| other means on earth or in heaven to gain harmony, love, happiness, and complete inner security where | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| these trends, examine what is behind them and gain further understanding about yourself. If you follow this | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| least make it more difficult for you to gain the necessary self- understanding. So this is one | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| times and meditate on them so that you gain enlightenment and deeper understanding. Do not just read | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| structure in mind. You all know that to gain self-knowledge is of imperative importance. Now, how can | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| so deadly seriously in this respect, you will gain another step up on the ladder. But I | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| outstanding success in a profession whereby they might gain admiration, appreciation, and some degree of power. However | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| everyone of you? Why do you hope to gain the greatest and most precious treasure of all | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the certainty, and the reality which you will gain from the experience of making a sacrifice will | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| it would be extremely difficult, perhaps impossible, to gain the self-knowledge which is the essence of and | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| meditate on these words, my friends, you will gain a great deal more insight into your soul | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| a whole decision; you had somehow hoped to gain the advantage without accepting the disadvantage. And often | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| through clearly -- to at the same time gain the advantage of both alternatives and to be | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| laziness, which means constant fight, constant trying. The gain is that you come out of the webs | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| some way. It means that you want to gain the harmony that can only be reached by | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| the right way toward your findings, you will gain a great new peace by this change of | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| grace -- complete faith. Each individual has to gain this major experience and fundamental change in soul | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| courage. Those who listen, advise, and deliberate will gain strength not only from what they themselves are | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| start again. Each time you start again, you gain a slightly profounder understanding of the various highlights | 36 PRAYER |
| and learn what they mean, so that they gain clearer form in your mind and help you | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| merely listen to these words. Perhaps they will gain a little more understanding of the Pathwork principles | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| first place, and without reexperiencing them you cannot gain the necessary understanding. When you come across known | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| that when you go inward and downward, you gain an understanding of the shadows in your soul | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to love. The outer intellectual knowledge you may gain through spiritual teachings may support this very image | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| of which you seemed the victim, you will gain the certainty that you are not a drifting | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| I cannot possibly enumerate them all. You will gain more understanding about these things by continuing the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| up. By all means continue, and you will gain the strength of love and understanding that can | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| of life that are essential in order to gain truth for the self, for others, as well | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| willing to learn love for one another and gain maturity together. Even where an immature choice was | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| rebels against authority, then you should meditate to gain the right concept. Strive for an awareness of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| your rebellion will diminish to the extent you gain insight and understanding, to the extent you understand | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| That is why it is so important to gain the right concept by thinking this through. Once | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| confusing problem for many human beings. You can gain clarity only if you become aware of your | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| performs mainly in order to conform and to gain admiration. The other alternative is to rationalize, justify | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| direction to look within yourselves, so as to gain further victories and penetrate deeper into your souls | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| For divine law is inner freedom. You can gain inner freedom only by liberating yourself from errors | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| their origin, their reason. Only then can you gain real control over them, rather than the false | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| or anything else in your life. Until you gain the right understanding, the recommended attitude is neutrality | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| and expect to shortchange life -- you will gain a well-founded self-respect. From then on you will | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| through this life in one way or another. Gain this distance from yourself, smile at it; do | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| life. Do that, my friends, and you will gain peace; you will see light at the end | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in with all the rest, so that you gain one overall, comprehensive picture. This has to be | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| complex must cease to the degree that you gain objective clarity about yourself. You will then no | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| you need to learn to know yourself and gain a firm stronghold on life count as very | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| with what you do, believe, and think, you gain in worth in your own eyes. Of course | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| you unconsciously believe that your pride serves to gain something for you or to save you from | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| One person may believe that material wealth will gain him greater stature in the eyes of the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| world. With someone else, other values serve to gain that admiration and approval. I might say the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| people who use misfortune as a means to gain sympathy -- and, of course, sympathy stands for | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to make painful efforts in an attempt to gain something that is not your salvation. Also, in | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| person you desire to be loyal to. To gain this special place of approval, you feel tempted | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| must not be taken. The privilege you can gain, however, provided the contact is a divine one | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| calling forth an opposite extreme, you will never gain true insight. This applies to general world conditions | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Just about all you can do is to gain a true outlook and understanding. This will help | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unconscious. The next step must inevitably be to gain the insight of no longer putting the blame | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is the only healthy and good way to gain access to understanding other people, to bridge the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Not only do you doubt that you can gain what you wish, but you also doubt the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| through the chain reactions, you are bound to gain a different perspective. The different view will give | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| acts, thus being at one with yourself, you gain the self-respect which reduces the very inadequacy and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| comprehend the thought I present here, you will gain a great deal of insight and understanding. In | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| other approaches. Find the similarity, then you will gain the insight and understanding that it is all | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be of less importance than that which you gain from it. That, my dear ones, should be | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this fear, you will see the way and gain the understanding of how and why you need | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| you see clearly, and with each observation you gain a deeper understanding of why you react immaturely | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| life inevitably brings, and also by what you gain each time, how much you grow after each | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| would otherwise have are totally wrong. When you gain clarity on this subject, you will no longer | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| know that there are certain phases when you gain an overall view of where you stand now | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| certain times on this path in which you gain an overall view, or try to gain it | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you gain an overall view, or try to gain it as best as you can. Of course | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| restful in which, to a smaller extent, you gain an overall view. The puzzle begins to fit | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all the negative aspects of the child, you gain in stature, in certainty, in clear-cut, realistic concepts | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| be half as despairing as before. You will gain true insight and therefore the freedom that only | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| Try to make it so, and you will gain freedom. God's blessings, my dearest ones, for each | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the last few months have helped you to gain insight into yourselves, proving again how contrary your | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| may be to your conscious ones. When you gain a little more overall understanding about these recognitions | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to put the pieces together, so as to gain a more overall view with regard to love | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| your work on the path, so as to gain deeper insight into yourself. By the same token | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| through which you lift the fog. You cannot gain this consciousness by concentrating on things you learn | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| has to spend waiting will be used to gain the necessary but still lacking insight, ability, or | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| emotions to come to the fore, you will gain much further insight. But it will be necessary | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| become one. Once this happens, the insight you gain, the experience you feel exactly as I say | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| instructions to give them a new outlook, and gain further clarification beyond the point at which they | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| realize that you initiated the provocation. As you gain a different view on your own hurt, understanding | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| own hurt, understanding its real origin, you will gain the same detachment from the reaction of the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| turn not be provoked by others. As you gain a certain detachment from yourself in a very | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| accept them with a realistic outlook. You will gain further insight from them, knowing that they are | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| inner motivations? You cannot do so unless you gain a certain detachment from yourself and an awareness | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| a very subtle inner way -- you will gain deep insights that will not only give you | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the teacher can do, above all, is to gain awareness of these things. Even while the conditions | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| a part of a whole. The moment you gain even a momentary glimpse of the truth, you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| may help create new perspectives. It may help gain new understanding from a different angle so as | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| cause your hardships, and by so doing you gain the key to a change in your life | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| follow this through in your observations, you will gain an entire understanding of this meaning. You are | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| amplification, an extension. With the understanding that you gain on this path, you are bound to see | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| If you grasp this deeper meaning you will gain an entirely different understanding of Scripture. QUESTION: Another | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Without recognizing their own negative tendencies people would gain an acute perception of other people's negative tendencies | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your feelings of inadequacy. You use it to gain respect, power, admiration, unconsciously believing that thereby you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| power, admiration, unconsciously believing that thereby you also gain love. In reality the aggressive force, in its | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| abbreviated form, so to speak. But as you gain deeper insight into yourself, you begin to see | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| victory due to the insight and understanding you gain about your entire life and yourself. But do | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of your being reacting the old way, you gain additional insight and understanding. You broaden the view | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| deal. This you can evaluate only when you gain a retrospective, overall view. There are moments in | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| There are moments in your life when you gain glimpses of how far you have come, how | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the laws of communication and balance, you will gain even deeper insights. They will guard you from | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| You hope by all these measures either to gain what you want, or to protect yourself against | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| and you forfeit that which you wish to gain. So it is not in acceptance itself that | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| within the series of lectures to help you gain further insight into yourself and therefore into life | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| to supply the missing self-confidence and to thereby gain pleasure supreme. At least this is the unconscious | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| of others, of life, of fate. You will gain an objective view of yourself in this respect | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| function, its causes and effects. Then you will gain the great freedom of giving yourself to life | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| curtailing their outer freedom, while helping them to gain their inner freedom through treatment. This would feel | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| more and more self-effacing characteristics in order to gain the love and protection which alone seem to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |