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| be found. You human beings want to be happy, all of you, and of course we understand | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| inner obstacles, that could never make you really happy. You could not build lasting happiness; it would | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| your life will be emotionally rich, harmonious and happy, completely fulfilling you wherever you are in your | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| just for yourself, then you will not become happy. Most likely you will say, But of course | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| glad to see my fellow human beings also happy. But it makes a great difference whether this | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| cannot fool myself. True, I want to be happy. But also when I obtain this happiness, I | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| through you, and then you will be truly happy, exactly because your own happiness is no longer | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| another. If, for instance, I can make somebody happy with a small gift, but I can give | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| for yourselves alone, because you wanted to be happy. Again, in your emotions, until now you considered | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| you cannot make yourselves desire not to be happy, that would be impossible, but your feelings should | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the flawed roots. If you wish to be happy, you have to go to the flawed roots | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| Think about this when you are not entirely happy; avoiding a task with a person of lower | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| to live in this way, you must become happy, my dear ones, and eventually all problems will | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| being mastered by life. Ask the question: How happy am I? You may be certain that to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| be certain that to the degree you are happy you can also make another one, or several | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| also make another one, or several human beings, happy. And also know that to the degree that | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| lack happiness, you cannot yet make others as happy as one day you will, if you continue | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| are filled with the desire to make others happy, then God will provide the opportunity, and this | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| not suffer at all, they were even very happy. ANSWER: First of all, karma does not always | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| growth, so that you will be ever more happy children of God. 11. SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| fulfillment or a worry eliminated they would be happy. In other words, happiness means for them that | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| wishes came true these people would not be happy. They would still feel a deep-seated unrest, would | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| know that they are capable of creating a happy life, first within themselves but then also, inevitably | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| and thus find God. People could be completely happy, without sickness, worries, or even death as you | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| by viewing your life and your problems. How happy are you? What is lacking in your life | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| laws and His order and have thus remained happy. A great number of other spirits have broken | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| have feared to hear, you will be extremely happy after you have thus established contact. Not only | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| not a theory. This will make you very happy indeed. The way the answer can be received | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| everything goes well on the outside you are happy. Already in these realms of purification -- which | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| you will feel and judge it differently. The happy times on earth may therefore not coincide with | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| say to all of you that we are happy if you progress and persevere on this path | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| and when you are experiencing truth, you feel happy. Truth must always make you happy -- even | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| you feel happy. Truth must always make you happy -- even unpleasant truth. All my friends on | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| confirmation for you and will surely make you happy, though they will not be a condition without | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| thinking is the following: Everybody wants to be happy. This is a most natural wish, which comes | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| love and wants all His children to be happy. But happiness can be achieved only by consciously | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the profound conviction that God's world is a happy world in which you have nothing to fear | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| go your way so that you can feel happy, satisfied, and secure. But when it does not | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| granting of them do not really make you happy; they may give you a moment's satisfaction, but | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| is not. The person who wants to become happy, healthy, and at peace inwardly, needs, in order | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| become a writer, but he will not be happy, because you can only be happy if you | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| not be happy, because you can only be happy if you fulfill the task you have taken | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| this at first, you will, you must become happy, because God knows better than you what is | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| give yourself up to Him, you must become happy. There is simply no other alternative. It is | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| expects this from you. Whoever is not quite happy and harmonious can truthfully declare: I have not | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| I have not quite followed God's call. How happy are you? How well-balanced are you? How harmonious | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| your outer difficulties may be, you must be happy. That should be your yardstick and indication of | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you go home tonight, to ask yourself: How happy am I? How satisfied am I with my | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| according to divine law, and it makes one happy. There are many different kinds of giving, however | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the world. Your goal is to be always happy and to eliminate all problems the easy way | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| of slavery, even if His creatures could be happy in an enforced system. Thus each creature -- | 18 FREE WILL |
| open can achieve this. I will be very happy to give you the ideas and the system | 18 FREE WILL |
| very integrated, and very harmonious person, a very happy person can really give, love, and help. Thus | 18 FREE WILL |
| on his own, he will not be very happy. As far as reincarnation is concerned, it is | 18 FREE WILL |
| law provided for the possibility to regain the happy state of existence these beings had once known | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| blissful effect on you. It will make you happy the way only truth can. It will liberate | 21 THE FALL |
| just as in others. I would be very happy, occasionally, to give advice in a more specific | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the good. It must come out as a happy solution in the long run. For this is | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and follow it. These creatures are obviously not happy, and seek salvation. And as you humans also | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self-will, pride, and fear, you cannot ever be happy. It is impossible. You may fight all you | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| also selfish since this means that we become happy? ANSWER: This is a good question you are | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| the next fellow is you. If you become happy, you must make other people happy. And when | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| you become happy, you must make other people happy. And when I say happy, I do not | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| make other people happy. And when I say happy, I do not mean the happiness that you | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| is starved. Only that person can be truly happy and fulfilled who partakes of this most important | 31 SHAME |
| alive who has not the opportunity to become happy. It is in your hands, my friends. But | 31 SHAME |
| friends, is that if you are not quite happy in spite of occasional outer difficulties, you have | 31 SHAME |
| possibly overcome the fault. I will be very happy to let you present to me any fault | 31 SHAME |
| I am only a servant of the Lord, happy in my task. When you experience enlightenment as | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| I want to make: We would be very happy if you and/or your group would start a | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| perfection of divine harmony is to find the happy medium in everything and to resist extremes which | 36 PRAYER |
| of you, my friends. Blessed is this hour. Happy is the person who has truly declared for | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| those who do not escape unhappiness can become happy. And only those who do not escape unhappiness | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| how God's laws work: Only those who are happy can bring happiness to others. I do not | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| unselfish act, but cannot possibly make another person happy. Therefore, your purification and development should be the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| itself. If selfishness, namely the desire to become happy, enters your motivation a little bit at the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| truth. Only by purifying yourself can you become happy. The person who has a lower degree of | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| nothing selfish. For God wants you to be happy. It is a long tradition of misunderstanding, often | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| do not feel guilty if you also become happy. But do not pray directly for happiness. Pray | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| of people, and not one person is completely happy. There is not one person who would not | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| forever. We in the spirit world are particularly happy about this group, my friends, for most of | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| body, it is awake and free. It is happy. It feels light. And it may live for | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| relationship. They may even believe that they are happy in it, and this may be true to | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| you. We in the spirit world are so happy when we have the opportunity to help human | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| a further reaction sets in. Whenever you are happy and enjoy pleasure, in spite of this being | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| feels that if it were ever to become happy, the punishment, which seems inevitable, would be that | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| I am too guilty. I must not be happy. I do not deserve it. But when the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to give love and happiness and to become happy and be loved. The second conscience is motivated | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| will then learn to adjust to the world. Happy or unhappy incidents in your life, favorable or | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| a medicine for you, and grow strong and happy with whatever comes your way. Be blessed. Be | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| rise to new questions which I will be happy to answer. These days humanity is quite familiar | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| desire -- omnipotent rulership in order to be happy -- is not realized, neither is the second | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| like this: If they allowed me to be happy my way, by loving and approving of me | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in order to be loved and to be happy, and in the other direction: If I could | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of rulership I need in order to be happy, then it would not be difficult for me | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you believe you need in order to be happy. The wrong concept of happiness inevitably causes a | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| wrong concept of happiness: I can only be happy if things go my way. The mature concept | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| regardless of what they are. I can be happy under any circumstances, because even the disadvantageous or | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| times will have the power to make you happy. I grant you that as long as you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| itself, the fact that one cannot always be happy is not cause for utter despair. One truly | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| where you do not want to have a happy experience and so you sabotage it by all | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| these negative attitudes. If you truly wanted a happy outcome, you would display an inner readiness which | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you regardless of how much you desire the happy outcome consciously. Since the happy outcome would still | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you desire the happy outcome consciously. Since the happy outcome would still be a compromise as compared | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| or distortion of truth. In order to be happy, you have first to be in truth. But | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| other Gospel statements. ANSWER: I will be very happy to discuss such statements. QUESTION: All right, I | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| merely because it is something that makes you happy. I do not even refer to giving up | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| want to have. When I have, I am happy. In other words, the rulership principle I discussed | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| denies me, taking it myself, can I become happy. These objects may either be the same as | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unrecognized and unsolved. Forcing will not bring a happy solution. But in your self-development, wherever you stand | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| really a burden and does not make one happy. This is a very common mass image, and | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| belief that it constitutes unselfishness. If you are happy, you will make others happy. In fact, only | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| If you are happy, you will make others happy. In fact, only then can you really bring | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so that you will evolve a free and happy being, capable of giving freedom, happiness and love | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your conscience bothers you every time you are happy, whether you were actually selfish or not. This | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the world for not allowing you to be happy, while in reality it is your wrong conclusion | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| something is selfish merely because it makes you happy. This is very tragic, my friends. It is | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| but alas, you are not allowed to be happy. You wrongly think that should you give in | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| happiness. On the other hand, I cannot be happy if I am not loved and approved of | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| I must become unhappy, in order to be happy. This sounds completely illogical, but the immature unconscious | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| justified in being hopeless if you couldn't be happy without being loved, and you cannot be loved | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| and you cannot be loved when you are happy, for happiness is selfish according to this erroneous | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| your sense of rightness. How can you be happy either in doing something that makes you feel | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the misconception. First, not everything that makes you happy is automatically selfish and damaging to another merely | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| damaging to another merely because it makes you happy. Quite the contrary. As a happy person, you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| makes you happy. Quite the contrary. As a happy person, you are better able to bring happiness | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| another person. Only as a free, strong, and happy person can you have fulfillment in life and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| of the misconception that selfishness could make you happy if you were allowed to indulge in it | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| God, blessed is this hour. I will be happy to answer all your questions to the best | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| because it has the inner will to be happy and does not wish to escape from life | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| hypnosis. They can go through life being perfectly happy and healthy without it. The point is not | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to deal better with difficulties, but also with happy times. The person who is still in darkness | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| That does not mean you have to be happy about it, but face the sadness and it | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| and find God within yourself if you are happy. But happiness at the expense of selfishness is | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| illusion to believe another person as being so happy simply because certain favorable conditions exist. There may | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| were once, even though you were also a happy one. Your happiness may have been valid and | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| all. For it is possible to be both happy and unhappy. You may now be perfectly aware | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| You may now be perfectly aware of the happy aspects of your childhood, but that which hurt | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to giving up your individual right to be happy and important. If the inner error, that you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| what to do with your desire to be happy. The conflict will vanish the moment you train | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| work in this way: Only one who is happy can give happiness to others. I do not | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| single unselfish act, but cannot make another person happy. So if you are afraid of selfishness because | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| because your purification and development would make you happy -- and this should be your main prayer | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Even if selfishness, namely the desire to become happy, enters a little at the beginning in your | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| truth. Only by purifying yourself can you become happy, while the person who has a lower degree | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| happiness and you all desire to make others happy. Yet, you cannot achieve either one without losing | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is certainly nothing selfish. For God wants you happy. It is a long tradition of misunderstanding, an | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Do not feel guilty if you also become happy. That certainly does not mean that you should | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| you have to express in order to be happy, or just to survive. Whatever comes from this | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| conflicts and deviations is your desire to be happy, or to be loved. Being loved is a | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| Being loved is a necessary requirement for being happy and therefore constitutes a major part of your | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| in you imagines that you can only be happy if your will is done. At times, this | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| the rarely conscious conviction: In order to be happy, my will has to be done. As long | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| the misconception that getting your will and being happy is one and the same thing, these unconscious | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| to get your will in order to be happy, will you be free of the I want | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| equally wrong. The one is, I can be happy only if everything happens the way I want | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| never get it, therefore I can never be happy. You operate on a level of illusion, and | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| get what they want in order to be happy. Their way is to reject emotions, affection, and | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| of coping with the basic will to be happy is the attitude I have so often called | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| in the knowledge that reality must make you happy. Be blessed, be in God! 78. QUESTIONS AND | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| idealized self in order to live and be happy. Once you understand that this is not so | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| occur? In depressions one may be calm. In happy incidents, one becomes overstimulated, and, in a way | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| truly, you will ultimately find that if a happy incident makes you feel restless, overstimulated and, in | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| discussed is joy without harmony. It applies to happy incidents, not causing sadness, but rather the opposite | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| without an authority who permits me to be happy. This God has the right to be good | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you experience the good and the bad, the happy and the unhappy, pleasure and pain. Contrary to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of the world as either all good and happy, or completely bad and unhappy. You have not | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| possible and that you can still be quite happy and still have self-respect. This is the ability | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| in a hurry, so as to be perfectly happy. This includes the childish attitude we have discussed | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| without saying that if the compulsion to be happy and perfect is eliminated, you will be much | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the sooner this will happen. And I am happy to observe that some of my friends are | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| from meddling in my affairs, they are most happy, everyone is happy, so it is not the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| my affairs, they are most happy, everyone is happy, so it is not the other person who | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the inevitable byproducts that make you far from happy. And even if others do not seem to | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| own it. At such times, I shall be happy to clarify the confused, split concepts the way | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| is your struggle. If you want to become happy, to lead a fruitful, rich life, you have | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| ANSWER: My dear child, I will be very happy to make contact with your spouse. But let | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| the moment. For the rest, I shall be happy to make contact with your mate and will | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| have resolved my problems already. I cannot be happy as long as my problems are unresolved; therefore | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| child in you feels that if you are happy, you must be selfish, while all unselfishness automatically | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| You cannot fulfill your potentials. You cannot become happy and give happiness. You cannot unfold your creative | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| progressed greatly, even if you do not feel happy at the moment. The summer was a time | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| place, you are isolated. You cannot possibly be happy. We have discussed many aspects which prevent deep | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| asserting yourself, feeling that you deserve to be happy. Whenever you feel undeserving of happiness, you need | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| Beware of labeling, it does not help. Be happy to widen your scope of experience and trust | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| from the experience, whether or not it was happy or unhappy. Where the underlying potential is positive | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| of being given what they need to be happy and secure. They can avoid the effort of | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| to your will so that you may be happy. When this fails you become angry, resentful, and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| are unmarried and unattached and are seeking a happy relationship, how much promiscuity do you advocate? ANSWER | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| not necessarily have anything to do with the happy or unhappy outcome of the situation. If they | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| function harmoniously, the individual is fulfilled and essentially happy, regardless of occasional outer difficulties. In such a | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| that the person's life is meaningful, fulfilling and happy. When the impressions are based on wrong conclusions | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| emotions, and subtle expressions in your healthy, fulfilled, happy life situations and those in which you consistently | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| to express fulfillment in health and in a happy partnership and relationship, but you may feel selfish | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| Thus you will finally allow yourself to be happy, you will no longer cringe from fulfillment. Be | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| divine truth and reality were not all good, happy, and advantageous, many of my friends would not | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| teachings postulate that you are supposed to be happy, and that it is God's will for human | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| being fully aware of the right to be happy and calmly striving toward fulfillment on all levels | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| contradiction that it is your birthright to be happy, while you must be able to accept an | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| in any given field, it may be a happy relationship, being loved and fulfilled on all levels | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| lead to hardship, slavery and suffering, but to happy experience, freedom and pleasure. In the course of | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| in her case. It is, Either I am happy or unhappy. If I am happy, there must | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| I am happy or unhappy. If I am happy, there must be perfection on all counts. Then | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the same also for others around such a happy person. If you manifest your inherent potential, everything | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| of happiness. For in truth you must be happy. When you lose truth it is always because | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| very moment, momentary unhappiness notwithstanding, you must be happy. In other words -- and this may sound | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| now, by understanding this now, you must be happy. Conversely, no matter how favorable circumstances are, and | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| how favorable circumstances are, and no matter how happy you may think you are at this moment | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| in relationship to you, you cannot be fully happy. When I speak of the now and of | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| my friends, are often in confusion regarding this happy interaction, this mutual interplay between expressing and impressing | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| cheats you of your birthright to be a happy, free, unfolding creature who gives and receives in | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| in certain areas. Hence they are fulfilled and happy in these areas, where there is no struggle | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| cannot be used. To do so, a free, happy, uninhibited feeling that cannot arise out of conflict | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| up when things go well and I am happy. My whole body becomes almost incapable of relaxation | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| then feel -- perfectly irrationally -- that, being happy, I would fear death. I feel that death | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| so I do not permit myself to be happy. ANSWER: The moment you can recognize such a | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| you have as much power to make someone happy or unhappy as you had hitherto ascribed only | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| me special, better than others, smart, beautiful, talented, happy, unhappy, or even bad, -- or whatever specialty | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| for instant gratification says, I want to be happy and feel good without having to trust and | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| of stimulation, of all sorts of wondrous and happy possibilities you have a prerogative to achieve in | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| world: It is not possible to be really happy! Human life is very limited. Happiness, pleasure, and | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| You cannot be the real self without being happy, and you cannot be happy unless you are | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| self without being happy, and you cannot be happy unless you are integrated with, and enlivened by | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| attitudes, those that do not leave you peaceful, happy and alive, and try to see how what | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| confusion lasts, in spite of knowing the liberated, happy state after it is cleared up. Although you | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| the more people ignore their birthright to be happy, and overlook the messages of their spirit that | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| They guard a person's inalienable right to be happy and protect their ability to grow, expand, evolve | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| I am, in my healthy, unobstructed state, a happy individual. For only a happy individual can spread | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| unobstructed state, a happy individual. For only a happy individual can spread and give forth happiness. Only | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| his or her potentials and life plan is happy. Thus happiness and the fulfillment of one's destiny | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| your pathwork to ask, What makes me most happy? If you go very deeply, you must see | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| you must see that what makes you really happy must be constructive, growth-bringing, and must make you | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| friends also, with whom I am proud and happy to work. Blessings for you all, for this | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| contribute, and only as a thoroughly fulfilled and happy person can I do so -- not ever | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| your potential and your right to become a happy person. Nor must one shy away from the | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| more it becomes apparent that where they are happy, free, and unafraid, there is fulfillment, and where | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| that, you will become better equipped to bear happy feelings. You will develop a very fine awareness | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| not believe it is possible to be truly happy it becomes indeed impossible. In this case you | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| with your innate superior forces. When you are happy, it is important to become more and more | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| of disappointment, your lack of courage to be happy, hold you back from expanding into that realm | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| beyond its scope. To trust, love and be happy, to let involuntary processes do their part in | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| have done something wonderful. The will to be happy and to unfold in life is the foundation | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| formulations. Express your willingness to grow, to be happy, to be constructive. Do this not by willing | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| of your life where you are fulfilled and happy. You will see that your concept and expectation | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| he destroys himself, to make him well and happy. This is, of course, an impossibility for which | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| you are unwilling to accept the possibility of happy expansion, then this indicates that there are hidden | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| consciousness. Creation is an ongoing process of a happy fusion between energy and consciousness. They interact. Effective | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| ever experience. Nothing could make a person more happy, more fulfilled, and more free. It is a | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| helper. Even if your life is fulfilled and happy, and you see it become increasingly richer -- | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| disturbed individuals completely reverse their painful lives into happy, healthy, unified, fulfilled lives, while individuals with much | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| smooth, enlivening, soft flow? When you feel good, happy, open and alive, the soul movements are very | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| attitude that says, in effect, I can be happy only if so and so does thus and | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| to doubt yourself and your right to be happy. Not letting go can be equated with being | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| an open energy system says, I would be happy to have your love. But, loving you, I | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| problems and eliminate their darkness and thus become happy and fulfilled, then they must die. The way | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| would have happened differently, then I would be happy or, If only this particular person could react | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| this up, to create a faultlessly peaceful and happy life. Being in the human shell of blindness | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| loving God in you wants you to be happy and will make you happy if you learn | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| you to be happy and will make you happy if you learn these lessons and stop thinking | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| and stop thinking that you will not be happy if you do not have it every way | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| that misunderstanding, that you think you cannot be happy unless you have your way at once. Your | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| adult can be truly joyful and creative and happy unless they preserve also their childlikeness. Childlikeness means | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| bad will happen, or you can never be happy again. That is childish. So is the inability | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| joy and brightness, free of anxiety, in a happy state, then in that particular moment you truly | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| service requires you to be a fulfilled and happy person. You are beginning to experience that fulfillment | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| scheme of the whole; how you can become happy only when you are part of the force | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| has not begun to experience this. I am happy to say that quite a number of you | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| comes from the false belief that you are happy only when you are selfish, and unhappy when | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| for love, intimacy, closeness, and warmth to be happy. The greater the individuality, the better your integration | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in an entirely new way. I was very happy to give you this lecture, for everything that | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| life situations that make you feel less than happy; acknowledge the involuntary process that carries you in | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| lose it, the loss -- like the previous happy state -- has no meaning or connection with | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| in this particular way, what will make you happy and whole will happen in another way that | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| selfwill knows better than God what makes you happy. Yet Jesus Christ is here to give you | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |