| Gravity.....................11 | |
| reaction, when your pain was commensurate with the gravity of the situation. By wallowing in self-pity you | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| magnet, a physical law, like the law of gravity. Your images influence the universal current entering your | 38 IMAGES |
| surely be continued while establishing the center of gravity within. How can you love if you are | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is the opposite of self-alienation. It finds the gravity centered deep within the self, deriving values, goals | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| this state of consciousness is the law of gravity. It is a special law that pertains only | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| only to your dualistic consciousness. The law of gravity parallels, or expresses on the physical level, the | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| proves this. In outer space there is no gravity. Yours is not the last and only reality | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| not mechanical laws such as the law of gravity. All laws, even impersonal, physical ones have come | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| disunity between its physical powers, the laws of gravity, and the world around it. Once the child | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| then you can create a healthy center of gravity anchored deep within your soul, for that is | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| and your followers. Without that proper center of gravity in God, you will always be confused, live | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Gray........................10 | |
| among them, belong into a world of medium gray. Roughly speaking, this is the difference between Hitler | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| awareness that whenever the world seems dismal and gray it is an indication that you are not | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| leaving you once again separate. Then stagnation and gray hopelessness set in again. But when you move | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| from it, preferring the apparently greater safety of gray life. Once you find this tendency within yourself | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| coming and going, or their dark night is gray. They may not be in a great crisis | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| crisis at any given moment, but life is gray and fluctuates comparatively little. But then there are | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| human being who is still in a very gray state of doubt is apt to believe that | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| accept that life is just this flat, dismal, gray place? Do we not hear over and over | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| golden nuclei that spring up out of the gray, dark matter of untruthful thinking and living. So | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| may then revert back to the old, drab, gray state to feel more secure and less afraid | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Grayness....................5 | |
| have already worked their way out of this grayness. They no longer want to content themselves with | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| fear pleasure, which becomes more frightening than the grayness you still wish for and create, a grayness | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| grayness you still wish for and create, a grayness of neither pleasure nor pain. You often want | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| often want to painstakingly preserve this state of grayness without knowing that you do so. It is | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| knowing that you do so. It is a grayness which gives you comfort, but in the long | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| Greatness...................37 | |
| of feeling forms, can nevertheless manifest their own greatness when coming from a full heart, without self-deception | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| my friends? He is so great that His greatness can never be put into words. Particularly for | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| or temporarily. Nevertheless, as an indication of His greatness, God created beings who could choose freely with | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| and capacity to understand suffice to sense the greatness of the Creator? Every smallest inner deviation and | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| beyond words. In the presence of such unlimited greatness, all beings must be in awe -- but | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| born as any other man. That was the greatness. And when Jesus said of Himself that He | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| presupposes a certain generosity of feeling, a certain greatness in that you can admit defeat without loss | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| original meaning is respect or awe before the greatness of the Creator. God's infinite greatness is such | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| before the greatness of the Creator. God's infinite greatness is such that no human being can even | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| you realize your own limitation in understanding the greatness of Creation and of the Creator. That is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the evolutionary plan. The universal life force embodies greatness, beauty, and purity. It is human impurity that | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| but lack the humility to recognize that their greatness lies in their divine self. The divine self | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| earth, with its conditions, favorable and unfavorable, the greatness and the pettiness, is a direct result of | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| Be blessed, bring forth more and more the greatness and the beauty that you inherently are--God! 170 | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| ongoing life process in its infinite marvel of greatness, wisdom, love and pleasure is an altogether different | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| every possibility for change and for goodness, for greatness and for growth. At any moment, the thinking | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| how tempted to betray your best self; for greatness, regardless of how petty you may now be | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| of self-worth, the better you will perceive the greatness of your innermost being, provided you truly do | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| do have the courage; you do have the greatness; and you do have the possibility within yourself | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| in peace. 212. CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS Greetings, my very dearest, most beloved friends, brothers | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| claiming your full, total, unique self, your hidden greatness. Tonight's topic is about claiming what is truly | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| covertly. But when it comes to your real greatness, you become inhibited, ashamed, afraid -- you hold | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| makes it seem so difficult to claim your greatness? When you become your full self, in the | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| remove your obstructions, when you allow your specific greatness to come forth. Everyone is a genius, for | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Godself makes no such demands. What obstructs real greatness from flowing forth are the claims of the | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| the realization of your own ultimate unique beauty, greatness -- your genius -- is your fear of | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| selfless giving. Why can you not claim your greatness? Because the little self is constantly on the | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| If you lack humility you cannot allow your greatness to come forth. But in humbleness there will | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| there will be no need to restrain your greatness. There will be no pushing, no proving, just | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| you visualize for yourself a new state of greatness in humility, without ego, without needing to prove | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| know that, you will also know your unique greatness, beauty, and wisdom. Love permeates all your undertakings | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| the greater sanity of a higher organization. The greatness of divine law is that disintegration is simply | 228 BALANCE |
| be objective. It is truly a sign of greatness to know that you are, in this or | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| to be objective. A leader must have this greatness. But your stake in explaining and fashioning distorted | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| disqualify yourself is a sign of maturity and greatness that will indeed bring you to an ever-growing | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| to your own resources, to your own inner greatness because you have learned the lessons, you must | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| your true enfoldment begin. Your limitless potentials for greatness, for creativity, for still-hidden talents, for your universality | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Greed.......................82 | |
| on the character. If a person leans toward greed, the right integration needs to proceed differently from | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| evil and envy, hatred and prejudice, war and greed would be cast off and gradually dissolve. Divine | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| what does this amount to? It amounts to greed. On this earth sphere most people are greedy | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| rather than in a healthy, flexible, receptive way; greed; craving, which leads, in crass cases, to addiction | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| to make up for your human laziness and greed, you must be disappointed, whether or not you | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| insight into one's tendency toward childish selfishness or greed or whatever else, but without being depressed about | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| often utterly inadequate. Your blindness encourages the childish greed to reach for immediate fulfillment all along the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| have committed it out of fear, compulsion or greed, to receive love and approval. Then it is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| near you. The so-called neurosis always contains selfishness, greed, pride, cowardice, egocentricity, and ruthlessness in one form | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| appeasement, obedience, and dependency derive from the same greed as childish rebellion and hostility. It is always | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| self-explanatory. The second cardinal sin is COVETOUSNESS -- greed. Again, you know its deeper meaning from past | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| life; you will see the intrinsic selfishness and greed of it. As you calmly do so, you | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| your need, and perhaps also out of childish greed, you disregard the other, cannot sit back, relax | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| cause fear, clinging, helplessness, dependence; when wishful-thinking and greed, unacceptance of reality causes supplication, prayer will be | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| as man does not face his own injustice, greed, selfishness, one- sidedness, pride, fears, all on a | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| selfish and do not even know it, outer greed and selfishness cannot be successfully eliminated. If you | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| hastily, compulsively, due predominantly to reasons of fear, greed, and grasping; due to being unable to genuinely | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| When you find these, and transform the unreasonable greed of your childish expectations, you will become perfectly | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| us now examine a favorable emotion. Gratified vanity, greed, or pride may produce a pleasant emotion. Or | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| a desire to remain a child. It indicates greed and lack of self-responsibility. This may be difficult | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| to remain childishly selfish, so that a one-sided greed exists. The greed may then be superimposed with | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| selfish, so that a one-sided greed exists. The greed may then be superimposed with a false, compulsive | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| that you have not faced an underlying selfish greed, nor have you fully understood that the greed | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| greed, nor have you fully understood that the greed is merely the result of a confusion which | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| person to understand that while the hitherto hidden greed is unfair, the subsequent measure against it -- | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| my childhood, I have in me a childish greed which manifests in a need for special consideration | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| very right. You so completely denied this childish greed until recently that you went way overboard by | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| undeveloped part of yourself in which the childish greed exists, but also about the legitimate, rightful desire | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| force is the same as heedless and headless greed, unreasonableness, and lack of realism. This is not | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| for personal fulfillment is identical with selfishness and greed is another obstacle to a healthy yes-current. When | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| level, such a yes may come out of greed and fear, of too much wanting, and greed | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| greed and fear, of too much wanting, and greed and fear are products of the no-current. If | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| which is devoid of anxiety and doubt and greed. Yes or no, I want to or I | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| desire for magic, to encourage the equally childish greed for everything one wants when one wants it | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| accept an unhappy now, relinquishing self will and greed? COMMENT: Often we don't know what is good | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| self. This is why pride, fear, self will, greed, childish dependency, and refusal to stand on one's | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the wishful thinking has to go, the childish greed be given up. All attitudes which make you | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| and misapplied control consists of selfwill, forcing-current, childish greed, the inability to stand frustration, fearful withdrawal, tension | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| As a compensation, the soul strains in self-willed greed -- from the conviction that fulfillment does not | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| leave the isolated life of egocentricity and of greed. You demand the most from others and simultaneously | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| The traits that impede coping with frustration are greed, self-centeredness, blindness, and fear. The person who believes | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| their inevitable further result: fear, guilt, anger, hate, greed, cruelty, selfishness, destructiveness of self and others -- | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Such submission only happens out of fear and greed, cowardice and opportunism. Thus outer morality is not | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| kind. One must see where selfishness, cruelty, self-centeredness, greed, dishonesty exist, if only in minute form, in | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| falsity, they can not shed the real selfishness, greed and cruelty. The moment you truly understand your | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| Furthermore, there is also a certain amount of greed involved here, in the sense of refusing to | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| infant -- and, at the same time, the greed of the infant that cannot brook denial -- | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| with no apparent way out, induced violence, rage, greed, separateness, and other destructive emotions. This still exists | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| means being untrue to the self out of greed for admiration and approval by others. I do | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| nothing. When the duality of the false, childish greed and false, self-limiting sacrifice give way, fullness of | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| blur your view to your rights. No childish greed must rationalize your self-centeredness. You must see and | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| that way, you transcend dualism, and consequently fear, greed, a sense of deprivation and anger, with all | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| -- without a trace of apprehension, tension, tight greed or separateness. It is the capacity to undefendedly | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| lies. True omnipotence comes not from need, desperation, greed, pride and self-will, but from having met and | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| always a result of pride, selfwill, fear, vanity, greed, separateness, lovelessness, one-upmanship. In this way, you will | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| further negative, limiting aspects, for example, fear and greed. Both fear and greed stem from blindness and | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| for example, fear and greed. Both fear and greed stem from blindness and breed further blindness. Greed | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| greed stem from blindness and breed further blindness. Greed wishes to amass selfishly when this is not | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| it be cruelty, spite, arrogance, contempt, selfishness, indifference, greed, cheating, or something else -- you can bring | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| self-punishment for hatred and spite, for cruelty and greed, for selfishness and one- sided demands upon others | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| with destructive attitudes such as selfwill, pride, fear, greed, envy, malice, cruelty, spite, and selfishness. The majority | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| the little ego, following the dictates of vanity, greed, laziness, and dishonesty, so can you create by | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| and rage, and their byproducts of envy, jealousy, greed, dishonesty, and so on -- their clean and | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| reveal your selfishness, your cruelty, your lovelessness, your greed? Deal with this, my friends. The more you | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| consequently into the awareness of your distrust and greed -- is a tremendous step for you. But | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| aware of the most negative feelings of hate, greed, destructiveness, and true negative intentionality. The more you | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| feelings of hate and rage and attitudes of greed and distrust come out, is that you try | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| in the eyes of others, or out of greed and fear, but to be a true divine | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| consciousness, split off in fear, pride, selfwill, ignorance, greed, and hate. These same aspects can be reversed | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| life. Ignorance becomes awareness, perception, understanding and wisdom; greed a special kind of trust that lets you | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| way. And you will have abundance, so that greed will be ludicrously superfluous. Most significantly, your hate | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| your own hatred, your own enviousness, your own greed and your fear of recognizing it. Now let | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| that split off the self from others. Selfishness, greed, ruthlessness, unconcern, and cruelty are manifestations of this | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| nothing could be less perfect than the inner greed, jealousy, envy, tight ambitiousness and vanity involved here | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| much better state, must not be confused with greed. It is not a greedy, impatient attitude I | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| invest, can abuse the system by justifying their greed and power drive with the actual parasitic nature | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| the illusory wealth acquired through scheming, pretense and greed, and not in the real wealth of God's | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| deficit. When governments practice predominantly injustice, live on greed and power drive, when they scheme and lie | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| who raised men's social image. In other words, greed and pride were glamorized and endowed with righteousness | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| guilts gave energy to lower- self energy. Material greed was fostered; money, power, and social advantage became | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| of the secondary guilt. The mask self claimed greed, calculating self-interest, prideful appearance values, and the mutual | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| nature is being disturbed through humanity's thoughtlessness or greed. The recent growth of awareness in this area | 254 SURRENDER |