| Supplied....................3 | |
| the need. And only if this food is supplied, taken and digested, will all your other needs | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| the more do these conditions have to be supplied by added factors that convene. Whenever such a | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| logic, and their opposites. They depend on being supplied with the ideas and principles that serve as | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| Supply......................15 | |
| the wrong kind of food that does not supply the essential factors the body needs in order | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| this path of perfection for which a continuous supply of spiritual food is necessary. It is also | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| or more in order to get the proper supply of oxygen into your lungs? No. You breathe | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| The creation of the idealized self-image serves to supply the missing self-confidence and to thereby gain pleasure | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| feel a vague fear that others do not supply you with what you need and expect of | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| Harmony with the universal forces is established; continuous supply of the life force regenerates and unifies all | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| others give you what you yourself can effectively supply, the more you are driven to betray your | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| last but not least, for the very necessary supply of pleasure. A human being cannot live without | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| dependent on them, you diminish your available energy supply. If energy is used in its natural, correct | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you stop wanting from others what you must supply for yourself. Verbalize concisely to yourself whatever you | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| the great universal power that is in infinite supply -- outside and inside of you. This is | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| assumption that the universe has only a limited supply of desirable things and experiences and that therefore | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| within yourself a new creative power that can supply you with any fulfillment, any self-expression, any joy | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| divine ground within you so that it can supply the knowledge your intellect cannot find. I recapitulate | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| second step you allow the divine self to supply the answer. If you take this step sincerely | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Support.....................15 | |
| happiest. You will then become a light, a support and an example to others. You will be | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| is not possible -- will receive the greatest support and guidance and everything will develop in the | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| will be vague, unreal, doubtful, and will not support them. The more such thoughts take possession of | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| to endure. To be left alone without the support of God's spirit world on this earth sphere | 22 SALVATION |
| hands lifted; you will not even have to support them in your lap any more. They will | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| you can do it better and have more support from the spirit world and receive more guidance | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| knowledge you may gain through spiritual teachings may support this very image and can be used as | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| Scripture. I submit but a few verses which support this. Acts 4:32-34-35: And the multitude of | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| against a wall. It seems like a strong support while, as you will perceive a little later | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| not by using religion as a crutch to support you in the face of fear and aloneness | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| other great teachers, you will find words in support of this lecture. These teachers used their own | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| and constructiveness. The ego must lend its wholehearted support, its one-pointed effort, its most constructive attitude and | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| safe. The water will control you, rather than support you. You must move in a rhythmic, relaxed | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| that it is smart and that many people support it. This perpetuates the further illusion that by | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| passivity -- in a negative sense -- always support indifference, selfishness, nonparticipation, promoting stagnation and hindering growth | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Supported...................6 | |
| your surroundings. Yet when the action is not supported by a corresponding feeling, it becomes a lie | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| and thoughts -- really mean? Are my actions supported by my feelings or do I have motives | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| really a good deed if it is not supported by purified feelings. And purified feelings are your | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| meant as they may be, unless they are supported by the right spiritual attitudes. The cure has | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| a way that the image will be constantly supported and strengthened in later life. Your image-conclusions conflict | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the supreme power, and you will not be supported and strengthened by this truth. Let us say | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Supports....................4 | |
| aspect. One reason plays into the other, one supports the other, and all three make a whole | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| add a thought that is related and which supports what you have said. In the Cabbalistic teachings | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| In the healthy psyche, one type of self-expression supports and strengthens the other, rather than causing conflict | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| against the true interests of others. Indeed, it supports the true growth and unfoldment of those whose | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| Supposedly..................15 | |
| not be for the good; later on these supposedly best things might create difficulties and tests that | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| was it that we were told by a supposedly developed spirit to fall into this habit-pattern? ANSWER | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| of time. The truth is that all these supposedly male or female trends exist in each person | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| not use aggression, hostility, and rebellion as the supposedly male qualities she wants to further. The differences | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| to speak. The same holds true of other supposedly male and female aspects. I will touch upon | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| be said about the necessity of welding the supposedly male and female qualities. One without the other | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| you are not clear about an idea, a supposedly right reaction, about a principle of general conduct | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| come into existence. The original insecurity which was supposedly whisked away by the establishment of the idealized | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| for you; how you belittle others who are supposedly responsible for your defeat to save face. All | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| second, fear of having to shed attitudes that supposedly protect one from hurts; and, third, insistence on | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| issues; this super-intelligence deigns to express itself on supposedly unimportant issues if it is called upon. It | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| There is no fear of fulfillment because it supposedly becomes stale. That happens only when you keep | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| by making a general rule that life is, supposedly, bad. The personal experience must be unearthed. Therefore | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| a negation of life. This is why some supposedly negative emotions are actually desirable. For instance, anger | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| is constantly atoned for by self-deprivations which are supposedly doorways to heaven. Yet this guilt cannot be | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Suppress....................26 | |
| primitive form of hypocrisy, is distasteful, therefore you suppress your true emotions, because of the wrong conclusion | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| pride. He used his desire for good to suppress basic instincts rather than facing them with courage | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| same person. On the one hand you may suppress your predominant nature, on the other you may | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| twofold. In the first place, men and women suppress their opposite trends, feeling guilty and inadequate about | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| this earth plane. Woman was long forced to suppress her intelligence and creativity that could be all | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| of intelligence and creativity, she was quick to suppress them out of guilt. She was also thereby | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| himself. On the other hand, the woman may suppress and hide her aggression, hostility, and resentment for | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| wrong to be selfish, you feel you must suppress your selfish desire. You fail to distinguish whether | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| are actually selfish or not, and you indiscriminately suppress all desires. In the belief that all desires | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| happiness and wanting happiness is selfish, I must suppress all desires. You do not realize that as | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| and wrong way to handle this is to suppress it and superimpose a compulsive unselfishness that is | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| about the continuance of your doubts, and therefore suppress them more and more. Doubt in God, doubt | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You may think it makes no sense to suppress positive aspects since only the negative is unpleasant | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| is not so. Just as frequently as you suppress the more unpleasant, you also suppress the most | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| as you suppress the more unpleasant, you also suppress the most creative, the most constructive aspects in | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| damage yourself just as much as when you suppress any other manifestation of the life force. Although | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of which you recognize what causes you to suppress your individuality with all its manifestations. The expression | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| guilty and ashamed of it. That you did suppress it so is, of course, due to negative | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| often quite shrewd in deceiving even themselves. They suppress the real reaction, while on the surface pseudo-calm | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| and hostile than to be sad, so you suppress the real hurt. But the hostility has to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| if you understand it, but not if you suppress it. And understanding can be gained only by | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| yourself and of your own rightness that you suppress, and ultimately repress, your wish capacity, your willpower | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| give of herself completely, she has to artificially suppress her activity in order to falsely create the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| good reasons to do so. Or one will suppress and repress the hostility and turn it against | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| used to the latter, hence you repress and suppress the combination of pleasurable feelings and negative events | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| up; I do not let go. Instead, I suppress it. Can you suggest what my positive response | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |