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be capable of living in the now fully, meaningfully, and dynamically, deriving all the many joys from 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
These approaches are interdependent. In order to live meaningfully and dynamically, an interrelationship between them is necessary 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
live center can be utilized most constructively and meaningfully in the realization that the live center must 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
whole. These involuntary processes are just as perfectly, meaningfully regulated -- according to lawful procedures -- as 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
other of these three movements occurs regularly and meaningfully. The spiritual significance of the transition is always 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
of growth. I shall explain how to react meaningfully and adequately to a negative experience in a 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
painlessly, perhaps a bit more safely and more meaningfully. As to the third level, what could exist 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
the same direction. At least now you are meaningfully engaged in ascertaining this fact about yourself. The 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
others increases your power to direct your life meaningfully. The law of personal responsibility is the guiding 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
you to use this activity more effectively and meaningfully. To really understand the dynamics, the meaning, and 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
a new tool that can now be used meaningfully and that could not have been used this 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
visualizing yourself in a productive vocation, joyfully and meaningfully contributing to life, or visualizing your success and 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
embracing your self-created boundaries you transcend them most meaningfully. Soon your frustration will become a new doorway 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
monarch principle within your soul is acting harmoniously, meaningfully and appropriately toward the responsible citizen principle within 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
truth, security, and peace can be undertaken systematically, meaningfully and intelligently. Obviously, it is exactly this process 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
continue your traditions and make them new most meaningfully. If you have the right attitude, you will 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
 
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some momentary recognition, people experience freedom, renewal and meaningfulness in their lives in greater measure. From our 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
feel dead inside and robs you of the meaningfulness of life, so does the solution to submit 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
and those in touch with you with a meaningfulness you could not experience in non-involvement or in 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
not it is, no waste exists. There is meaningfulness even for those who stay behind. QUESTION: Would 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
their ability to relate, and the depth and meaningfulness of their relationships. It is also true that 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
not necessarily an indication of its health and meaningfulness. Close examination of the ties and their significance 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
Then life becomes vibrant in joy, peace and meaningfulness, in newness and richness. This subject is of 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
help but be benign, bringing happiness, fulfillment, and meaningfulness. Distrusting this stream and therefore holding on to 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
will become discernible and its wise guidance and meaningfulness will become a powerful presence in your life 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
yet become personally experienced truth for you. The meaningfulness and fulfillment of one's life depend, in the 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
dissolve more easily. It will transform itself into meaningfulness and sense. It is a growing pain, not 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
endowed with a new luminosity and a deeper meaningfulness. Beliefs change, or they feel different. The scope 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
you deep feelings of bliss, security, reality, and meaningfulness. The desired result will be truly your own 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
burdensome. When you begin to perceive the incredible meaningfulness, the much wider wisdom and purpose of every 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
experiences, your community, your sense of well-being and meaningfulness in life. You are often startled by this 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
your joys and your deep awareness of the meaningfulness of your life and your task will increase 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
and therefore feel a deep security in the meaningfulness of it all. Happiness that appears to be 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
afraid of it, much more confident of its meaningfulness for you and much less resistant to repeat 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
in its great joyous truth and aliveness and meaningfulness and purposefulness lives in everything that is, that 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
boundaries: the first in recognition of their intrinsic meaningfulness, the second in recognition of your own limitations 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
 
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has not yet been established. Therefore everything seems meaningless -- their sorrows, their trials, their loneliness. But 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS
be a testing ground, and it would be meaningless to strive for the attainment of a higher 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
spiritual childhood and such a call would be meaningless for them. They have not yet attained the 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
appear entirely unconnected and isolated; they will be meaningless for you. Later on you will begin to 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
will be merely words for you, perhaps even meaningless words. However, you can experience the difference if 18 FREE WILL
you will never feel your life to be meaningless if for some reason you lose a human 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
to you -- will become more than just meaningless happenings coming from the outside! You all know 32 DECISION-MAKING
lose their validity. They become dead, rigid, and meaningless. No truth is exempt from this fate if 47 THE WALL WITHIN
eternal life is no life and therefore a meaningless contradiction. The life force contains all divine attributes 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
conflict that arises in the psyche is utterly meaningless, although the emotions can be very limited and 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
cannot happen. Many people feel that life is meaningless, whether or not such thoughts are conscious. In 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
goodwill. Then nothing happens. Life continues to be meaningless. Real living is then constantly postponed. When this 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
Without the love-capacity your life will be empty, meaningless, shallow. You all know, and some of you 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
in the old sense becomes more and more meaningless, contradictory. His prayer is the action of self-awareness 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
Nothing happens in the entire universe, that is meaningless, that cannot be productive. There is no waste 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
Hostility has become too vague a term, almost meaningless in its repeated use. Let us deliberately be 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
faraway God outside of you is a completely meaningless command, that becomes an impossible demand. The trustworthiness 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
person that make the holding of a grudge meaningless; it sees no shame or humiliation in giving 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
of you. May these words be more than meaningless phrases. May you be able to feel into 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
of feelings is not a bottomless well of meaningless bleakness, unknown terror, reasonless violence, and selfishness. This 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
that life passes them by, that it is meaningless, that they somehow miss out on it. Their 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
tendency to prove your independence by blind and meaningless rebellion. Rebellion no more leads to selfhood than 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
very disturbing. ANSWER: Outer action or change is meaningless unless it arises out of a harmonious desire 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
lose contact with its dynamic reality. Words become meaningless when they are used blindly and unfeelingly. This 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
humankind in such a mechanical, distorted, and often meaningless way that many individuals have become practically allergic 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
ego sees and experiences only finiteness: the disconnected, meaningless universe in which it is senselessly suffering and 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
often makes your life unbearably lonely, fearful, and meaningless. Unfathomable death is terrifying, and although it is 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
the former any more. The former is indeed meaningless. It cannot enrich you because you extracted it 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
sense than to an animal. They would be meaningless to them. There are other human beings whose 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
events as isolated haphazard happenings, life must appear meaningless, frightening, confusing and burdensome. When you begin to 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
with; thus life is being fragmented into a meaningless pattern. In the new civilization that you are 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
measurements to the outer mind. This often becomes meaningless, stilted and self-defeating. It breaks the real balance 228 BALANCE
fog of the superficial word that is merely meaningless noise and has no substance in your consciousness 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
the word would be impossible, it would be meaningless, it could not exist. So the thought is 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
not. You will create conditions that make the meaningless restrictions unnecessary, and you will tenderly and lovingly 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
to you, fear of untimely death, chaos, disruption, meaningless suffering. Again, not only my instrument had to 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
Being good in and by itself is almost meaningless. The deeper you go in your work of 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
the universe is a world of chaos and meaningless arbitrariness. When a human being dies in that 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
As you experience the fear of a fragmented, meaningless, disconnected world in which you exist without rhyme 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
to the inevitable vicious circle: If life is meaningless, all you can do is to push selfishly 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
And the greater this separation is, the more meaningless all life will appear. Thus the vicious circle 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
you live in hell because your life appears meaningless, boring, frightening, at loose ends, separate from all 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
do not enjoy your work, or find it meaningless, if you do not earn enough to experience 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
its distorted sense means a dead weight, a meaningless carryover. This does not necessarily mean that a 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
intensely meaningful reality, or it can be a meaningless, dead repetition of the past that no longer 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
rebel against all tradition; they rebel against its meaningless, dead manifestation, just as much as against its 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
The pain of injustice connotes fear of a meaningless universe, of chaos. It distinctly results from -- 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
is based on this existential fear of a meaningless universe, the passage of time, and the pain 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
self is the pain of an unjust, chaotic, meaningless creation. Or, to put it a bit more 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
natural course. Doubt, rebellion, anger, belief in a meaningless universe that makes you suffer -- these are 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION

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