| Maintains...................8 | |
| you receive the strength and the light that maintains you, that guides you into the right direction | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| pious, self-righteous and cruel. The person who unconsciously maintains the distorted God-image rightly fears this deity and | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| direction and frequency. In contrast, the inner will maintains a slow and even flow, always rounded. This | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| child only deserves such benign care if it maintains its goodness. By the same token, if you | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| direction. It is the inner being that builds, maintains and re-institutes health. Ignoring its presence and its | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| it creates a vicious circle by itself that maintains the destructiveness. The guiltier you feel, the more | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| always distorts truth and reality. Thus the ego maintains itself with pride. It maintains its separateness by | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Thus the ego maintains itself with pride. It maintains its separateness by creating an artificial conflict between | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Majority....................47 | |
| not mere chance that at the beginning the majority of people coming to you are not of | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| fulfill the purpose of that guidance. The great majority of humankind, however, is not yet ready to | 21 THE FALL |
| some ruthless people who are completely selfish. The majority of the people follow some cause, some idea | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has found its conclusion. QUESTION: What is the majority at present? The pure spirits or the fallen | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| possibly make a rule on that. In the majority of cases, there are karmic bonds in the | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| capable of happiness? Very few, my friends. The majority of people are actually as scared of happiness | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| for all of you, my friends. Since the majority of human beings have in some basic way | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| ask you, do not think that because the majority of the people around you believe this is | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| of every emotional attitude a decision holds. The majority of human beings are incapable of making clear-cut | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| of the masses, to the opinion of the majority, be it right or wrong. Public opinion may | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| us say, forty-five years of age. And the majority did die at that age. Of course, you | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| new. Beware of this danger, my friends. The majority of your findings will deal with trends and | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| an opinion on a subject on which the majority seems to have an opinion? ANSWER: That does | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| that admiration and approval. I might say the majority of my friends fall into the latter category | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| and it spread, but as I said, the majority of humanity was still too immature to use | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| not understand what myth really means. For the majority, myth means invention, fantasy, imagination, fairy tale, or | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| As long as this state prevails among the majority of people responsible for achieving unification, their inner | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| psychological distortion, even minority groups, rebelling against the majority, can serve individuals as means to identify with | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| from the past cannot be stressed enough. The majority of human beings go through life never knowing | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this sphere, but to the sphere where the majority of beings also express your stage of development | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| sufficiently understood and is often overlooked by the majority of my friends. Whenever you acknowledge the truth | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| find their negative desires. On the surface the majority of people cannot imagine how they might harbor | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| are no longer quite so far removed. The majority of my friends have already found this deliberate | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| the point of the chain reaction where the majority of you now stand -- or will shortly | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| consciousness: the dualistic and the unified plane. The majority of human beings live predominantly on the dualistic | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| increasingly urgent to comprehend this point, for the majority of my friends who find themselves successfully working | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| of personal integrity occurs. This does not mean majority opinion is wrong. The observations apply equally to | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| bears the responsibility for the inability of the majority of humanity to perceive the cosmic force? Is | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| of experiencing pleasure supreme, intense joy, though the majority of individuals do not experience it at all | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| that such people -- and they comprise the majority of human beings -- become tremendously frightened and | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| of such a conflict, for the very great majority of people have similar conflicts but are not | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| off from inner reality is indeed lost. The majority of humans are almost totally cut off from | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| off their further expansion into blissful being. The majority of people, however, fear happiness much more than | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| of course, the most important thing. For the majority of human beings experience their difficulties as if | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| be clear, by the way, that the overwhelming majority of people live in an abnormal state: their | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| initiating negativity has been wiped out. The vast majority of the human race are still in the | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| must. And that is the fate of the majority of human relationships -- especially the intimate one | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| In the intervening years, and particularly lately, the majority of my friends have indeed contacted the negative | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| greed, envy, malice, cruelty, spite, and selfishness. The majority of human beings find themselves approximately ninety percent | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| any path of self-knowledge, self-confrontation, and purification. The majority of humankind is totally unaware of what is | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| say to you, first of all, that the majority of you have learned to be aware of | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| life in these terms is comparatively low. The majority of human beings still tend to say, This | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| format is good, the other bad. The general majority of human beings, especially in political life, still | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| divine guidance. Since the leaders prevailed on the majority, only a few courageous ones turned to Christ | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| This only holds true as long as the majority of human beings refuse to grow up and | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| I mean that when this still happens, the majority considers it a horrible crime, rather than condoning | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the inner event. In the same way, a majority of humans have, for the longest time, looked | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Make-believe................5 | |
| for them. Thus they prefer living in a make-believe world of future fulfillment, expecting that today's fantasy | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| want if you spent your energies, not on make-believe, but on truly obtaining it. This may be | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| that therefore you must pretend and live in make-believe, you can then start to make the change | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| all goals and fulfillments are, in a sense, make-believe. The great human struggle for life or death | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| you go from a limited existence of robotlike make-believe to real living, in which you are increasingly | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| Makeup......................18 | |
| which will complement previous ones about the psychological makeup of the human soul. It would also be | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| light also on other aspects of your inner makeup. Thus it can be very useful for your | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| animals are different aspects of the human inner makeup. Perhaps one horse -- though this is but | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| bodies which live on. And whatever your personality makeup is now, it will be after death. So | 18 FREE WILL |
| after you have first thoroughly understood your inner makeup and rearranged your inner currents. In this way | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| one or two respects to their own inner makeup. This applies even to people who have discovered | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| clue concerning what is wrong in your inner makeup, but you will at least see some repetition | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| and gradually it will affect the entire inner makeup of the person. Any person on the path | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| self-destructiveness are very strong factors in the human makeup. If you add what I have told you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| a sign of some mismanagement in your inner makeup. Every person needs an occasional rest during which | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| in one way or another. According to individual makeup and the physical resistance of the various organs | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| plays a role in your mental and emotional makeup. You will see how you strive to reproduce | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| not prevent the negative emotions in the inner makeup, such as rage, fear, anger, from arising. These | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| and stagnation, immobility? Observe them in your mental makeup, in your emotions, as well as in your | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| negative. Whenever there is some negation in one's makeup, tension and conflict must exist, and so must | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| aims to help you understand that your psychological makeup has a much deeper origin than usually assumed | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| as a byproduct of knowing your own inner makeup, it is natural and cannot be abused in | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| this process when you look at your inner makeup, your reactions and the creations of your mind | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |