| Revolve.....................3 | |
| like the sun, around which all other planets revolve while it remains constant and bright, even though | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| in which you expect the whole world to revolve around you. It may be a form of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| it reacts as though the world ought to revolve around you, and prevents you from seeing the | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Revolves....................3 | |
| conscious of it -- that the whole world revolves around their ego, that they are the most | 36 PRAYER |
| to be accepted. The question for humanity always revolves around the unwillingness to accept the difficulties of | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| If self- preoccupation is fruitless, not constructive, and revolves around the same pointless thoughts, complaints, self-pity, self-deceptive | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Revulsion...................3 | |
| to bathe in spite of his strong emotional revulsion. Thus, he will develop certain symptoms in connection | 38 IMAGES |
| for you? At the same time you feel revulsion and fear because you sense that somehow you | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| the underlying beliefs behind any strong resistance or revulsion to go into the dark areas of the | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Reward......................40 | |
| have to fight your negative currents. But the reward is great and truly blissful; the effort is | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| and again. If you do this, the beautiful reward becomes more and more tangible. This will happen | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| overcoming his or her resistance to change. The reward is great, because the security which comes from | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| it, but do not expect to see the reward right after you start. By start I mean | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| that will be given to you as a reward from heaven, but show you plainly and logically | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| protect you from hurt or bring you a reward. If you can detect this basic error in | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| so far -- that selfishness will bring me reward, will protect me from hurt. In what way | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| weak and sick motives -- bargaining for a reward, pacifying a guilt feeling, or nurturing a desire | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| not compulsively, because you want to receive a reward, whether in the form of affection, love, approval | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| others, or because you believe that God will reward you for having been a good child. Your | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| before that performing an unselfish act for a reward turns the act into a selfish one. However | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| out of free choice, you will reap a reward of another sort, namely the good feeling of | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| sadness and it will not harm you. The reward will be tremendous if someone then offers you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| as in any other. The relief and the reward you will get from honest answers to your | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| an arbitrary god who metes out punishment and reward according to his whim. And even if you | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| on a throne above you, arbitrarily handing out reward and punishment, fortune and misfortune. But in your | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| like a person, arbitrarily meting out punishment and reward. That is the result of making an image | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| associated itself with punishment and unhappiness, goodness with reward and happiness. Hence to be good and perfect | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| an obedient little child. Since God does not reward such unhealthy attitudes, you must feel cheated. You | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Only after plowing ahead will you have the reward of good, constructive feelings. About this we shall | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| is not perceived as acting -- punishment or reward, or guidance along certain ways in order to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| if you do not resist this endeavor. The reward for the ensuing liberation is beyond words. As | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| wishful thinking, or the desire for dependency and reward, through rejection of self-responsibility. In fact, the wishful | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| demands upon the world and on others to reward the self for the sacrificed happiness. Since the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| it for him and offer it as a reward for the self-sacrifice and goodness. This demand cannot | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| at first glance, appear like the concept of reward and punishment. I might say that this concept | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| a distortion of the process I have explained. Reward and punishment suppose an outer authority who hands | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| just deserts of the individual's actions and attitudes. Reward or punishment are often supposed to take place | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| very existence of a belief in punishment and reward covers up the deep despair that unselfishness brings | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| you still imagine them coming as a special reward after you have overcome your blindness, disconnectedness, and | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| just does not exist. This is not a reward from outside, or even from your own self | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| to manifest -- not because it decides to reward you for having been a good child who | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| to imply in its misunderstood interpretations -- a reward for having been good. Bliss is the natural | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| then only in an unhealthy way, as a reward to the good child from an authority figure | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| not mean there are magical intercessions from heaven, reward for faith and punishment for doubt. It simply | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| receive the new and better state as a reward. You may try to be a good little | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| figure in order to be rewarded. Since the reward in reality can never come from the outside | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| proceeds, re-creation takes place. It is not a reward for good behavior. It is a simple act | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| for you in a spirit of punishment or reward. That kind of thinking totally misses the point | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| self-discipline means the dullness of laborious effort without reward. Most of you, my friends, begin to see | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Rewarded....................9 | |
| have received, and you will also be richly rewarded, for that is the law. At the same | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to claim that a medium should not be rewarded by earning a living with his or her | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| found out and can confirm, will be well rewarded. Nothing will give you as great a power | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| mean that by being good, you will be rewarded in the hereafter. The effect of right action | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| not be held responsible and I will be rewarded with happiness for being an obedient little child | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| makes him give up the expectation of being rewarded for being obedient to rules. Simultaneously, it frees | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| focus on and where you will feel most rewarded and liberated. The freedom and safety you will | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| a powerful authority figure in order to be rewarded. Since the reward in reality can never come | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| of effort, but this effort will be highly rewarded. What first appears to be embarrassing only seems | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Rewarding...................23 | |
| pattern that will be infinitely more constructive and rewarding for you and for others. You will no | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| shallow, unsatisfactory, and temporary. It will not be rewarding and is bound to be frightening in some | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| -- from everything that makes life rich and rewarding. In addition, the result is that your intuitive | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to unite with others, to communicate in a rewarding and satisfying way with the world around you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| in order to eventually obtain what is more rewarding for you. The ability to relinquish indicates maturity | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the real need is a yearning for a rewarding relationship on a mature basis. With gluttony, the | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| sexes, when it is not reciprocated. A mature, rewarding relationship is mutual. It cannot be one-sided. It | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| could come into being that may be very rewarding. Yet you miss out on it through your | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| not mean this in the sense of a rewarding or punishing God. The cosmic forces with which | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| be more useful, more important, more vital, more rewarding, and none can bring you more to life | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| of creative functions, of the ability to have rewarding and meaningful relationships, and of fulfillment. It is | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| healthy union does not exclude productive activities or rewarding relationships with others. On the contrary, the more | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| also exist, which may still make the relationship rewarding for both. To the degree one recognizes oneself | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| without organized effort. Only it is infinitely more rewarding, more essential for your personal life to know | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| from the false concept of a punishing or rewarding deity up in the sky, and from the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| success you want in a vocation, in a rewarding relationship, in growth and in self-unfoldment. Regardless of | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| abundance of creation will breed, correspondingly, its own rewarding fulfillment. This knowingness is a ray that reaches | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the capacity to build your life in a rewarding, realistic way. Being alienated from yourself, because you | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| let up in this beautiful, deeply meaningful and rewarding undertaking. Do everything possible in this direction. Realize | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| consciousness, the following procedure is indicated and highly rewarding. When anything happens to you that you shrink | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| easy. But nothing can be more beautiful and rewarding. Anyone who comes into the state of enlightenment | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| do will be pleasurable, free from conflict, and rewarding. It will be one-pointed in direction; it will | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| all, and no less, it can only be rewarding and satisfying. But this is comparatively rare. Usually | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |