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| reason: the people might not have believed their leader if he had told them he received answers | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| any given time, whoever is the stronger, the leader, will help in the liberation of the other | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the Holy Ghost is considered as a future leader and messenger to humanity. In our life and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| time and energy to such luxuries. But a leader who sets the example of attaining his goal | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| said, however, that turning away because a spiritual leader has a difficult life lends itself less to | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| already obsolete authority problem. Anyone who is a leader in the truest sense of the word becomes | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| you believe that it is true that the leader is out to punish and deprive you. Since | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| the leaders, you also want to be a leader. Yet in this childish, undeveloped part of yourself | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| still another conflicting attitude here. You want a leader for your own benefit, someone who is so | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| or attitude without facing the consequences. This great leader, more like a personal, biased god, is supposed | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| your own life, you will naturally need a leader who takes on the governing of your life | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| are you perhaps becoming ready to be a leader in your own right? You can start with | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| executing your own capacity to be a true leader. Above anything else, a leader, in the best | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| be a true leader. Above anything else, a leader, in the best sense of the word, has | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| developing the capacity to become a trustworthy, reliable leader. It is the only way to form valid | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| valid assessments of others, to be objective. A leader must have this greatness. But your stake in | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| have the firm foundation necessary for a true leader. Leadership means constant risk. If you do not | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| path. I am not saying that every rightful leader, in the positive sense, has totally transcended frustration | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| must be in one way or another a leader. Leadership does not always take the form of | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| lead, to be an ordinary citizen than the leader of a nation. The follower can afford to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| of fairness and of divine intercession. The true leader, the monarch if you will, who is at | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| every human being some talent to be a leader in one way or another; a talent to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| earth and be, within its own framework, a leader, a monarch, or simply a follower. Both roles | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| -- or her -- talent to become a leader in his own right, wherever his place may | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| How you can be sure with any specific leader is, of course, the question, especially without personal | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| certain areas of your life an authority or leader is necessary, that you have a role to | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| selfhood and your true dignity. By following this leader you can never lose your soul, because your | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| all of yourself and your feelings to a leader, a teacher, a helper, a mate, and to | 254 SURRENDER |
| around you; your ability to be a true leader and to be a follower as well; and | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
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| conditions. They are, each in their own way, leaders of humankind. They are not necessarily famous. Whatever | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such as you cannot imagine. If the world leaders were on such a path, you would surely | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| day will come when at least the world leaders, the people who are in responsible positions, will | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| example. This is very important. If all spiritual leaders and teachers had a perfectly easy life, people | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| yourselves. There are all kinds of teachers and leaders, each working in his or her own way | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| once it is generally understood by all spiritual leaders, individual struggle will be helped considerably. Not knowing | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| connection always were and will be the spiritual leaders of humankind. Every effort on this path is | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| leadership! In this path we are creating new leaders in many fields, in many directions, in many | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| punish and deprive you. Since you envy the leaders, you also want to be a leader. Yet | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| the basic prerequisites. Then you resent the truer leaders for taking it away from you, or for | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Those who fully give to their tasks as leaders of nations and of governments, discharge themselves of | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| of spirit, laziness of courage, laziness of heart. Leaders create a following and, in total devotion to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| more individuals are seriously motivated to choose their leaders according to this consideration, the more such leaders | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| leaders according to this consideration, the more such leaders will actually be chosen. How you can be | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| It is also easier today to choose inspired leaders because the energy and power of the spreading | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| self that was crassly acted out -- by leaders as well as by followers. Nobody bothered to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| is utterly false. So you still find spiritual leaders, ministers and priests who are against psychological depth | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| deny divine truth and divine guidance. Since the leaders prevailed on the majority, only a few courageous | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| This ancient concept confused God with cruel earthly leaders and fathers. But the true meaning of the | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| yourself to trust this process, your helper, your leaders, me. All of this has helped you to | 254 SURRENDER |
| to them. Truly autonomous people can be strong leaders, as well as willing followers, because their vision | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| you will have a healthy relationship with your leaders and your followers. Without that proper center of | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
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| grow out of destructive patterns and take active leadership of your life and development; realize that you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| a position of authority? ANSWER: Distortion of true leadership. True leadership is taking responsibility, paying the price | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| of authority? ANSWER: Distortion of true leadership. True leadership is taking responsibility, paying the price for leadership | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| leadership is taking responsibility, paying the price for leadership. Distortion of it wants the glory of it | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| You are richly blessed, my beloved friends. 237. LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION My most | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| of immense fulfillment and joy -- and of leadership! In this path we are creating new leaders | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| you undergo makes you truly capable of genuine leadership. Now let us discuss the meaning of leadership | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| leadership. Now let us discuss the meaning of leadership in the truest sense. What is your attitude | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| the truest sense. What is your attitude toward leadership -- leadership shown by others as well as | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| sense. What is your attitude toward leadership -- leadership shown by others as well as your own | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| us look at them first. Primarily, you envy leadership in others. You are also competitive, but you | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| want to assume the responsibilities that go with leadership. You have here a very painful conflict and | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| On the one hand, you resent and envy leadership and battle against it in others; on the | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| or for not giving you the prerogatives of leadership. You make no movement toward or commitment to | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| or commitment to assuming the attitudes that constitute leadership. You can perhaps begin to see, my friends | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| you do not fulfill the natural prerequisites for leadership in your own right, in whatever fashion, you | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| you have no right to envy and resent leadership in others. Your cases have no justification. If | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| no justification. If you do not first assume leadership for your own life, you will naturally need | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| of your life. No one can exist without leadership. You are then like a boat without a | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| a neurotic level, you will ask for this leadership in ways that cannot be given to you | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| being a bringer-in of the New Age. Your leadership can take many different forms. but it must | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| reactions still recur? Now let us discuss what leadership means. You envy and resent leadership so much | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| discuss what leadership means. You envy and resent leadership so much because you act as though others | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| though others, who are in a position of leadership, deprived you of something or imposed something on | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| want to give unselfishly, you cannot assert your leadership. If you give grudgingly and unwillingly because you | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| you, for if you want the privileges of leadership -- and there are many -- the price | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| opposite toward your fellow-creatures in subtle little ways. Leadership in its real sense is built on the | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| consist of. Another quality extremely necessary for the leadership that is awaiting many of you is the | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| already attained, in some manner, a position of leadership, you can be toppled by the lack of | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| then guard and defend an unrightful position of leadership. The ability to know your coloration of reality | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| that you are not objective. Another quality of leadership is the willingness to risk exposure and criticism | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| and guard against it, and yet grab for leadership because you like its advantages, the power and | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| conflict in yourself and you create frustration. True leadership cannot exist under these circumstances, for which you | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| at least in some respects, have rightfully attained leadership, whether you want to admit and see this | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| the firm foundation necessary for a true leader. Leadership means constant risk. If you do not wish | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| rebellion toward those who assume the responsibilities of leadership with all that this implies, how can you | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| for yourself? Still another absolutely essential quality of leadership that the infantile personality lacks and is unwilling | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| I will say that to the degree true leadership exists, the attitude toward frustration is fairly mature | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| be in one way or another a leader. Leadership does not always take the form of visible | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| are unwilling to assume the demanding task of leadership are not right to rebel. They will not | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| many hardships, as well as of the privileges. Leadership requires a lot of self-discipline that the self-indulgent | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| expressions and not necessarily manifest in overt outer leadership or statesmanship. You can be a school teacher | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| place may be, and then rebels against the leadership he refuses to assume because he is too | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| life. First of all, this natural talent of leadership or rulership must be assumed toward yourself, as | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| this resistance to a considerable degree does your leadership of others organically evolve -- such as helpership | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| self-rulership has been established, a small sphere of leadership arises naturally, almost without your outer intention, as | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| those who deserve your trust, to follow their leadership, and to surrender your self-will. This surrender of | 254 SURRENDER |
| will that you also surrender to the spiritual leadership he has guided you to. It is God's | 254 SURRENDER |