| Obtainable..................4 | |
| others. I do not mean cheap and easily obtainable happiness, but the real thing that comes only | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| I do not mean a cheap and easily obtainable happiness, but the real thing that comes only | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| say here that in mundane psychotherapy, the highest obtainable goal is usually the level of reality of | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| It appears to be something totally disembodied and obtainable only eons later. This kind of bliss appears | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Obtaining...................21 | |
| no freedom but it is not responsible for obtaining its own food and shelter. A wild animal | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| unconscious feeling that your possible selfishness will jeopardize obtaining what you want, because you don't deserve it | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| automatic growth process by cultivating certain thoughts, by obtaining spiritual nourishment, and by using this lecture as | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| desirable world, nor the way you go about obtaining it is based on reality or truth, your | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in abeyance. The whole personality is geared toward obtaining safety, so it undermines another legitimate need. The | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Developing your own resources and strengths instead of obtaining them from a being outside of yourself is | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and secure. They can avoid the effort of obtaining it themselves. The illusion is very tempting: to | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| your energies, not on make-believe, but on truly obtaining it. This may be success in any given | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| -- and the resulting hopelessness about winning or obtaining fulfillment -- for granted, you will clearly understand | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| opposite desires. If you are afraid of not obtaining the desired result, you must somewhere in your | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| way we can come a step closer to obtaining the greatest of all keys to the true | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| best while refusing to give the best. Moreover, obtaining the best is a burden one fears when | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| an unselfconscious way. Everything is always geared to obtaining this reassurance. I live in order to be | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| begun to remove are either your ways of obtaining what you consider to be the apparently vital | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| own negative feelings because they would spoil your obtaining from others everything which you must in fact | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| drug addiction, and all the artificial ways of obtaining relief from an overtense ego that is deprived | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| at the same time you rebel against not obtaining the former. You must bring all these confusions | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| you have to choose between being good or obtaining your advantages, you must be in a terrible | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| depriving yourself you ultimately deprive others, that by obtaining your real advantages -- not the short-sighted, childish | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| seek substitute fulfillment in fantasy -- or in obtaining approval and being envied from others. In both | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| may sometimes last for many lifetimes. To risk obtaining a perhaps undesirable answer, you need to muster | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| Occult......................10 | |
| take place. QUESTION: May I ask a very occult question? It has preoccupied me for long. Yes | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| about the difference between the mystic and the occult and black and white magic, but there was | 18 FREE WILL |
| would become available. QUESTION: What about occultism? ANSWER: Occult means hidden. The word merely refers to things | 18 FREE WILL |
| and ours. Twenty years ago atomic energy was occult. QUESTION: What is the state of ecstasy? ANSWER | 18 FREE WILL |
| laws of love. QUESTION: Are some of the occult teachings true that there is an Antichrist incarnated | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| here. There is enough written about it in occult and esoteric literature. Besides, it is really not | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| smaller, or less decisive. You all know from occult science that there is not just one subtle | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| channel. They just have a different rhythm. In occult literature, the expression the third eye is often | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| and effect is observable without mystical faith in occult matters. You often just say, I have a | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| of being manifestations of consciousness, although not as occult or mysterious psychic phenomena. No creation of any | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| Occupation..................10 | |
| again by slowly withdrawing from the medium the occupation that was necessary until then. And those who | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| be around you and eager to help. 33. OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH Greetings | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| to think more about other people. They say, occupation with the self leads to selfishness. Of course | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| Of course, it depends entirely on how the occupation with the self is done or in what | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| but should also learn to channel the self- occupation into a different direction, namely a productive one | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| around, for others as well as for yourself. Occupation with others can also be practiced the wrong | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| are holding on to the second-hand opinion that occupation with the self is harmful. They misuse this | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| attitude. An unproductive and weakening kind of self- occupation also does exist and is often hidden under | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| effort are not utilized in constructive thoughts or occupation, your mind should be allowed to relax. The | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| sphere. According to the life you lead, the occupation of your mind and heart, you reside -- | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Occupy......................5 | |
| about the daily bread it is impossible to occupy oneself with such questions. It also happens that | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to accomplish this, it is imperative that you occupy yourself with self-probing and testing, severe self-criticism and | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| cannot be changed by constantly forcing yourself to occupy your thoughts and mind with things that do | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| into a narrow space it should no longer occupy, a space it has literally outgrown, as if | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| to imply cruelty and meaninglessness? This question may occupy you over years of serious and beautiful struggle | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Occurrences.................26 | |
| this was coincidence. So you see, when outer occurrences are not substantiated within, the greatest outer effect | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| Now God is not sending you these unpleasant occurrences willfully. Due to your deviation from divine law | 18 FREE WILL |
| know what the implication of tests and unhappy occurrences are. But the work is not for nothing | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a clue to your own soul. These repeated occurrences, along with your reactions toward them, may vary | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the obvious. You still keep assuming that certain occurrences are due to coincidence or that some arbitrary | 38 IMAGES |
| the desires in your present reactions to daily occurrences. They will form one whole picture. When you | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| they really want to. Investigate sincerely the everyday occurrences, irritations, and annoyances in your life. Find out | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| for his or her whole life by certain occurrences and conditions in childhood and youth. Hence, it | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the duration of a lifetime and for certain occurrences outside your control in your present existence. It | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not see the quality of people or of occurrences in reality. Last, but not least, you are | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| attitudes of your own were responsible for such occurrences. This came to you as a wonderful revelation | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| ponder over them. Look at the first rare occurrences of such experiences so as to attain the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| have found the key to the apparently fateful occurrences governing your life. Unfathomable fate seems to control | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| instead of correcting, healing, improving and preventing negative occurrences in the future. When one feels one is | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| painful it must be when one ascribes these occurrences to false reasons, and how much more constructive | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| very personalized look at your reactions to daily occurrences can you make these words a personally experienced | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| what is seen and touched exists, while all occurrences outside one's control seem like coincidence or luck | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| If you can assume responsibility for the undesirable occurrences in your life, no matter what they may | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| every aspect of human fate. It forms all occurrences. It is the sum of all manifesting consciousness | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| things, you will no longer use the mass occurrences, which seemingly affect all people indiscriminately, to rationalize | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| being. Almost always, the deeper meaning of mass occurrences, no matter how apparently desirable or undesirable they | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| but concepts as well. You generalize from single occurrences and hold on to the resulting false beliefs | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| overlook it and fail to comprehend that certain occurrences or reactions are indeed the answer you now | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| the spiral configuration, you experience life as disconnected. Occurrences seem to have no meaning. Everything seems arbitrary | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| see that there is meaning in the daily occurrences. You find connections that give an intrinsic sense | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| test. All gifts are tests, just as painful occurrences are tests. The test was to recognize Jesus | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Occurring...................4 | |
| guidance will no longer come in unconnected glimpses occurring here and there along the way even before | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| funeral. You all know these childish reactions, often occurring even in quite adult people. But even if | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| an indication that a positive transitory phase is occurring. QUESTION: How does that tie in with a | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| yet find no great inner or outer change occurring in your life. Some of you may be | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |