| Sacrificed..................6 | |
| and from unreality into reality. Once you have sacrificed your self-will and therefore God has become a | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| on others to reward the self for the sacrificed happiness. Since the loser does not go out | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| contradict goodness and unselfishness and must therefore be sacrificed. The opposite facet of this same duality is | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| self with its lower aims must often be sacrificed. But is this really a sacrifice? It only | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| before you can realize that nothing is being sacrificed by growing up, because your real interest cannot | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| has come to an end. Those who have sacrificed for the good of all, for the sake | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Sacrifices..................6 | |
| truly succeed. The more happiness results from their sacrifices, the worse their guilt becomes until true inner | 38 IMAGES |
| humility, thus false pride, to the person who sacrifices. It makes an exploiter out of the person | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| bliss and unfoldment for either the one who sacrifices or the one who blindly accepts it? Even | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| fear. Your insistence on remaining as you are sacrifices happiness, pleasure, wholeness, love and expansion, yet it | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| incurs the worst suffering, guilt, and loneliness. He sacrifices pleasure, fulfillment, love, growth, and the realization of | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| and the realization of his potentials; he literally sacrifices and wastes his life out of sheer hatred | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Sacrificial.................7 | |
| yourself will you know whether or not your sacrificial acts are truly free. QUESTION: Will you tell | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| is impossible. Letting go does not mean self-defeating, sacrificial self-deprivation. It means merely that wherever you recognize | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| fear loving; it is represented as a pleasureless, sacrificial, and depriving act that impoverishes the self for | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| is unselfish. Unselfishness is selfishness, and vice versa. Sacrificial unselfishness always implies an inner bargaining, a secret | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the underlying emotions. The greater the outer, assumed, sacrificial unselfishness becomes, the more the ensuing rage and | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| go in a sense of fearful, resigned, obedient, sacrificial deprivation, you remain in duality. The untightening movement | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| untrue that acceptance of pain implies a masochistic, sacrificial weakness and submission, but quite the contrary. True | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| Sacrificing.................14 | |
| sacrifice, my friends. If you are capable of sacrificing something for God, you will have that experience | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you do not know how to go about sacrificing or even what it is you should sacrifice | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| them, by giving up some selfishness, and by sacrificing something in order to help those who may | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| you do the utmost in developing spiritually, in sacrificing for others. And only when this well-founded self- | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| called for on your part. The act of sacrificing for God and overcoming your self-will is the | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| be a compulsive burden one unconsciously struggles against, sacrificing one's happiness, in the belief that it constitutes | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all the accompanying self-effacement, appeasement, self-denial, and masochistic sacrificing, the underlying core may be a ruthless selfishness | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Being a loser means to be unselfish, self- sacrificing, good, kind, and considerate. Some people adopt one | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| grasp unless one contemplates its ramifications very carefully. Sacrificing pleasure includes everything. Since life is pleasure, life | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| price you now pay for negative creation and sacrificing your very life -- which is no exaggeration | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| use it. By withdrawing from this challenge and sacrificing the fulfillment of intimate contact, many inner problems | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| self withdraws from the challenge of relationship, thereby sacrificing personal fulfillment, pleasure, love, and joy. When you | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| in order to help you become unselfish without sacrificing personal fulfillment. The lower self with its lower | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| being against the self. Therefore when you are sacrificing from a dualistic consciousness, you often do so | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Sad.........................36 | |
| fate you suffered on earth made you very sad then, but since from the spiritual point of | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| say that I recognize in this room a sad heart. Oh, there are a few people here | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have nothing to fear and nothing to be sad about. Angels of God are forever near every | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| refuses to hear the cry. When you are sad or depressed, when you are dissatisfied with your | 31 SHAME |
| reasons explained here. As long as you feel sad, bitter, defiant, or disharmonious in any way when | 31 SHAME |
| humanity, we of the spirit world often become sad. We see so many struggling men and women | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| suffers vaguely in a continuous, gnawing pain. How sad it is to observe this, particularly because it | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| of you. Do not despair when you are sad and discouraged, there is no reason. For life | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| if they so choose. That may make you sad, but it will never make you tense, or | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| is not forthcoming, you may be a little sad, but your life will not depend on it | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| is an illusion that the lack of love, sad as that may have been when you were | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| anger and without feeling hostile. You may feel sad, but feeling sad seems to many people so | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| feeling hostile. You may feel sad, but feeling sad seems to many people so humiliating that they | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to be angry and hostile than to be sad, so you suppress the real hurt. But the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| Certainly you will at times be frustrated, uncertain, sad. In fact, if you were never sad, you | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| uncertain, sad. In fact, if you were never sad, you would not be your real self. Sadness | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| earth. Of course, you will be insecure, afraid, sad and unhappy at times, but you will not | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| your power to change. When you are truly sad, without depression, you not only feel it as | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| growing pain free of hopelessness, but you are sad due to an outer circumstance, knowing it is | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| beloved person through death. If you are truly sad -- and nothing else -- your feeling is | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| you feel depressed. When you believe you are sad due to a good outer reason, test your | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| are yours for the asking. It is often sad for us to notice how people turn in | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| humanity from our vantage point, it is indeed sad that people so rarely react to and perceive | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| with the greatest of difficulties. This is the sad irony. They are so blind that what is | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| itself which human beings erroneously assume to be sad or horrible. This is no more true of | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| believing that this destructive self is the ultimate, sad reality. For a complete perspective on the revelation | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| something in you says, I must not be sad, I should not be sad, you rebel against | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| must not be sad, I should not be sad, you rebel against a feeling that exists in | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| soon creates the misconception in you that being sad is catastrophic and that, if this catastrophe befalls | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| I will perish if I have to be sad. You build mental concepts that sustain the belief | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| and thus you justify your refusal to feel sad. You may do this by building cases against | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| by building cases against people who make you sad. Your mind attempts to justify why you should | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| the denied anger and rage for being made sad by life and by others. Now let us | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| flexible and can easily decide to be angry, sad, or be in whatever emotional state they wish | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| happens with each individual. It may make you sad at first, but how can true purification take | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| the pain of untruth and confusion! This is sad because it is unnecessary. If God, the creative | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Sadism......................12 | |
| latent -- a certain amount of masochism and sadism must always exist. Masochism arises out of the | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to get something, such as love or approval. Sadism is the consequence of detesting one's submissiveness and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| masochism. It is the very same resentment: in sadism it reaches out to the other self, whereas | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Along with it comes the opposite term of sadism. Modern schools of psychology rather use the word | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| use the word algolagnia to refer to both sadism and masochism, calling one positive, the other negative | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| that masochism indicates a better character trend than sadism. I bless each and every one of you | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| topic? QUESTION: Can this compulsive over-giving lead to sadism? And, on the other hand, is it typical | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| incorrect to say that this would lead to sadism. No. But since everything in the human psyche | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| token, it may be connected with masochism. Both sadism and masochism, which, as you know, are only | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| or hostility. This is then called masochism or sadism. Do you understand now? ANSWER: Yes, I think | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| path the necessity of contacting hidden cruelty, brutality, sadism, vindictiveness, and malice. As you learn to see | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| impotence, frigidity, or with negative expression as in sadism, masochism, fetishism. To a degree, it may be | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |