| Opponent....................5 | |
| use the same means of force as his opponent, even though his purpose might be a good | 21 THE FALL |
| have to be reckoned with as a powerful opponent. You have to face that part of yourself | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| as wrong as you feared. Neither is your opponent. You soon discover aspects of the matter you | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the creative principle of all universes, as the opponent against whom all his efforts and warfare are | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| and clarification if you desire it. Satan's real opponent is Jesus Christ who came to open a | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Opportunism.................10 | |
| of negative motives, such as cowardice, fear, indifference, opportunism, resignation. This would then be a negative lesson | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| of motivations one cannot help realizing that simple opportunism plays a dominant role on an emotional level | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| courageously defiant, may be tainted with cowardice and opportunism. The laziness of not thinking through an issue | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| compliance and conformity, self-negation and denial of truth, opportunism and betrayal of cosmic reality, results from pride | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| out. You will then find that a cowardly opportunism exists wherever you shy away from your truth | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| your truth in relation to universal truth. This opportunism based on fear may easily be covered up | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| happens out of fear and greed, cowardice and opportunism. Thus outer morality is not necessarily a sign | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| process that develops as you face the self-serving opportunism and vanity of your little ego. You grew | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| overcoming personal pride, power drives, self-interest and self-serving opportunism. If this had happened, no such conflict as | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| give up your personal pride, self- interest, small opportunism -- which all amounts to lack of faith | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Opportunistic...............3 | |
| the person is aware of this -- an opportunistic violation of personal integrity occurs. This does not | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| every bit as unnatural, dishonest, and superimposed, as opportunistic and conformist, as false religion used to be | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| as the need for companionship were polluted by opportunistic, materialistic, and exploitative ends. Even worse, this pollution | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Opportunities...............27 | |
| can exercise your free will to seize the opportunities offered to you in this direction. The decision | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| Each single day brings you a number of opportunities to observe your feelings in exactly this way | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| this way. Unfortunately, you bypass most of these opportunities for self-knowledge and purification. You let them slip | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| through one's own mistakes, is postponed for later opportunities or, perhaps, incorporated into other details of the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| of the plan you now fulfill determines what opportunities will be afforded you, in your next life | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| but you forget it again and again when opportunities come up to examine yourself. Again, if you | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| do so, you must find the many little opportunities to unite with your fellow human beings, to | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| and interesting to find out when, at what opportunities, in what instances and situations, or with what | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| an individual is and, if both, at what opportunities one facet predominates and why. It will take | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you leave your earthly body. You have daily opportunities. Whether you can now believe in a life | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| do so, you will become aware of many opportunities for happiness that you ignored in the past | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| First you need to see your possibilities and opportunities and independent ability to choose, instead of being | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| yourself and from the apparent risk of living. Opportunities will come your way. You will see them | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| intuitively choose the right people and the right opportunities and the right manner. Occasional misjudgments will never | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| all concerned. Let these discussions also serve as opportunities to probe yourselves. What is the motive for | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| life which could be improved. Somehow, you let opportunities slip by. I do not speak of outer | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| slip by. I do not speak of outer opportunities and fulfillments, although they may often be a | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| often be a final result of missed inner opportunities for growth and unfoldment of the soul -- | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| disappointment, you will be able to see other opportunities. The disappointment will not paralyze your faculties and | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| within yourself. When you overlook tell-tale reactions and opportunities for clarification and liberation, you fail to use | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| always areas one resists looking at that offer opportunities for self-deception. It is essential to say to | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| it particularly difficult to remember to use such opportunities of both crisis and happiness so as to | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to enlist these same powers at all relevant opportunities, for many of my friends, who have reached | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| for your state onto others. Most days offer opportunities to do this. Your many reactions of discomfort | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| to heighten your blissful life. Dark spots become opportunities for further light and no longer need to | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| opportunity. So you create the necessity for such opportunities to inevitably repeat themselves. They must come, no | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| give you tonight. There will be many more opportunities where you can all come and ask your | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Oppose......................24 | |
| they have set certain forms in motion that oppose their life plan. When the life plan is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| throwing away what they most desire. They violently oppose each other, because to each one the other | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| their work exactly why and how two trends oppose one another through seeing the cause and effect | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the state of being in awareness, yet they oppose the organic growth into it by artificially holding | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| That is their sole outlet. Objects do not oppose. They do not require the complicated mechanism of | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to obey because they might demand that you oppose public opinion. But the strictness may lie in | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| disharmony with the universal laws, the three factors oppose one another. So it is with this triad | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of overall, harmonious development and certainly does not oppose it, the development of the soul has even | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| your life instinct will no longer have to oppose the death instinct; they will be one and | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| all other forces in your life that may oppose you. Opposing you means that you lose, and | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| side of a pair of opposites, you must oppose the other side. In that opposition your soul | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| Still, in this area you still fear and oppose the undesirable alternative. Even when you try to | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| inevitably find that, on a deeper level, you oppose what you consciously cling to and embrace what | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| consciously cling to and embrace what you consciously oppose. This opposition must exist whenever fear of one | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| discover your particular untruth. With this untruth you oppose life and secretly wish for death. Only when | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| moment. When you find where and how you oppose something because you tightly cling to its opposite | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| force within you, you will not want to oppose truth in any form, and you will want | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| distort the cosmic stream within you. Since you oppose and distrust the cosmic force, and since the | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| and your destiny. Even though you block and oppose the pull, you nevertheless cannot avoid it. It | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| Could you explain this further? ANSWER: When people oppose their cosmic pull and struggle against it, conflict | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| will always find that fear and denial really oppose the life of the instincts. The instincts are | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| rebirth signifies the identical principle. People tend to oppose going on to other ways of operating and | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| would be disadvantaged by them and thus would oppose them. Your personal irrational reactions to the truth | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| bitterness about what seems insane to resist and oppose -- is in a state of tension and | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Opposes.....................17 | |
| terms; in spiritual terms, that reality on earth opposes the divine principle of bliss. This puts you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| all the negative aspects of life, everything that opposes your pleasure drive. In that sense death also | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| weakness will come to the conclusion that one opposes the other. In fact, if these two lectures | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| The life of the flesh is sinful. It opposes the spirit. It represents the devil and therefore | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you enjoy living in a way that exactly opposes your deep-rooted feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. You | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| and therefore dispensing with all guards. Hence, nothing opposes the cosmic movements of the soul forces. Love | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| It comes from and increases duality; it always opposes the good to the bad. Ungenuine love is | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| opposites as the salvation. As long as one opposes one side and clings to the other, self- | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| and, at the same time, peaceful. Individual consciousness opposes this force, however, out of the erroneous idea | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| variation on the struggle that ensues when one opposes life with one's own nature. Part of you | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| because ultimately it will become unbearable. Nothing that opposes the life principle can be maintained forever. After | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| irrationally deny; what your inner being expresses that opposes the conscious wish. Then state further, very exactly | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| and then express in what way this intent opposes reality, fairness, and truth, then whatever the negativity | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| but the manifest consciousness clings to it and opposes the purifying movement. These obsolete attitudes may have | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| your clear consciousness. What your outer self often opposes most vigorously, your inner self longs for most | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| no matter how much good also exists. Light opposes darkness, night opposes day, where there is health | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| much good also exists. Light opposes darkness, night opposes day, where there is health there is also | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |