| Surrounds...................9 | |
| grave violation, setting you apart from God. It surrounds you with a dark wall behind which you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| to be the ruler of the world that surrounds you. Offhand, you will undoubtedly say: No, I | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| accept the difficulties of the temporary reality which surrounds you and which is, in effect, the expression | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| a theory for you: The life stuff that surrounds and permeates you is the most potent energy | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| potent love and wisdom. There is nothing that surrounds and permeates you that does not express the | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Be blessed in the world of love that surrounds and permeates you. This is the only unalterable | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| laws of outer life, of physical matter that surrounds you and that you will need to handle | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| you and in which you simultaneously dwell. It surrounds you just as much as it penetrates you | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| certain that you partake of God's grace that surrounds and permeates you, that you are in truth | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Survey......................3 | |
| hurt, the frustrating uselessness of it. You will survey all your actions and reactions with this new | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to turn around occasionally and make an overall survey of the terrain. I say this now with | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| unconscious selfish motives that produce the negative result. Survey your life once again. See exactly where you | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| Survival....................15 | |
| of the mistaken idea that being special means survival for you. When you recognize this trend, you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| harbored a wrong concept, and that your emotional survival does not depend on other people's opinion of | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| they are not yet purified, their instinct for survival would be too weak. They have to have | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| from us, lest it weaken the instinct for survival. It seems to me that the Tree of | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| -- all that you need for your physical survival -- depend on cooperation and communication, although their | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| and no longer work constructively. The instinct of survival -- or self-preservation -- aims at gaining, maintaining | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| find the safety and pleasure you need for survival only by breaking the rules, exercising power, and | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not only because of the struggle for physical survival, but even more so in these times because | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| times because of the struggle for the soul's survival. This world is full of human beings whose | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| upon you. Your fight for physical and psychological survival necessitates alertness, power to make decisions, willingness to | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| acting as though it were a fight for survival; how you distort issues in this unrealistic fight | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| you distort issues in this unrealistic fight for survival; how you spoil the growth of mutuality and | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| of primitive man to find a mode of survival by taming the primitive and self-centered instincts. If | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| to work hard, you have to struggle for survival and subsistence. It was distortion and misconception that | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| people discover relatively quickly that tediousness in daily survival can in truth come to an end. It | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| Survive.....................15 | |
| to nothingness, that the individual personality does not survive? Or does personality and individual consciousness remain in | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| that you need all this in order to survive -- not physically, but emotionally. And, to get | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| be attacked by a murderer and were to survive. In that moment, however, would I not experience | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| or, specifically, the Catholic Church did manage to survive until the present day, while the gnostic religions | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| in order to be happy, or just to survive. Whatever comes from this level does not express | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| Even on the material level humanity could not survive without them. Food, drink, shelter -- all that | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| it would be impossible for the infant to survive without oxygen. But there are additional periods of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| If you do not get it, you cannot survive. So this is a real need. By the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| rampant, you become ill and you fight to survive this. How do you combat the severe reactions | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| being is striving, using intellect and will, to survive in the material world. These faculties are needed | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| became a necessity, for otherwise they could not survive. Thus, primitive people were forced to develop some | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| as the man has to in order to survive. A man feels that his responsibilities are heavier | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| approval or ward off disapproval, or just to survive, creates resentment and fatigue, and thus causes greater | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| emotional experiences realistically, temporary anesthesia is needed to survive. But if it becomes a habit, it is | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| or partner. No wonder such marriages could not survive. But this step was necessary before maturity could | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Susceptible.................3 | |
| serve the Luciferic spirits directly, are nevertheless very susceptible to the enticements of the servants of Lucifer's | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| that you let this happen you will be susceptible to the love and the strength and the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| tension, is the state that makes a personality susceptible to the ever-existing bliss of the universe. This | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Suspect.....................16 | |
| that I am not as worthless as I suspect when I fail to live up to the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| -- is a much more complicated problem. I suspect that the underlying question was -- perhaps not | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| an illusion where none is necessary. You constantly suspect that what actually is does not correspond to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| override your resistance to facing that which you suspect is there but wish that it were not | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| will power? How then, is it possible to suspect, even if only vaguely, that our pathwork is | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| do not know this. You think, fear, and suspect that the foreign substance is the ultimate you | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| self, since the two are identical. If you suspect and fear your innermost self, how can you | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| and positive. When you fear life because you suspect it to be against you, you proceed to | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| the pleasure you so much desire. You vaguely suspect that you may be wrong to even want | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| but at least you begin to sense and suspect, and be apprehensive about, the existence of these | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| and attitudes. It is in itself ungenerous to suspect someone of negative motives when this person is | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| fear existed in you. Or if you did suspect it, you may have explained it away because | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| shared. Therefore no one must be allowed to suspect this flaw in you. But as you went | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| and yourself that the worthlessness you fear and suspect does not exist. Perfection then becomes a superimposed | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| possible and not as unrealistic as you sometimes suspect. Yet you make the fulfillment of this longing | 254 SURRENDER |
| more strident your protestations for independence, the more suspect they are. The more you need to prove | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Suspected...................8 | |
| you with a clean strength you have never suspected to exist. All tiredness, all weakness, all weariness | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| some of its facets that you had not suspected, constitutes a sign of improvement. It strongly implies | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| preponderantly either with or against can safely be suspected of having sickly motives. Why one person chooses | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| and a sort of apology for a deeply suspected inability to love maturely. Children feel the truth | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| and whenever an impulse of this sort is suspected, the aggressive type feels as deeply ashamed as | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| you were praised for some real qualities you suspected you did not possess to the same degree | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| doing this inner work you may not have suspected that such a fear existed in you. Or | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| sooner and better than you may ever have suspected. The point I want to make is that | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Suspects....................3 | |
| not know where it will lead, when one suspects something dangerous in it, such as a serious | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| anxiety about the complexity of what the self suspects to exist and wishes to avoid. Self-hate, and | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| applies to pain and painful experiences. If one suspects pain to be the ultimate reality, there must | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Suspicion...................20 | |
| need much stronger. Besides, there always exists a suspicion that the hate was unjustified -- which it | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the rightfulness of your desire. At times this suspicion may be justified because your desire may actually | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| your fear of them, for the worry and suspicion may remain within you that one day they | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| repression and without self-moralizing. The nagging, mostly unconscious suspicion that you are incapable of being what you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| begin to accept yourself. Needless to say, this suspicion is well founded, only you do not accept | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| impossibility; you still battle against it. As this suspicion and your anger with yourself subside, you automatically | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| subject, this in itself should give rise to suspicion. The predominantly healthy soul will have no particular | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of ever being like this parent, coupled with suspicion that one might be, is an embedded identification | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| fear. Your fear, first of all, is your suspicion that there is no reliable, rich aspect of | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| bit more closely. When a negative conviction exists, suspicion is natural. Suspicion creates ungenerous impulses and attitudes | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| When a negative conviction exists, suspicion is natural. Suspicion creates ungenerous impulses and attitudes. It is in | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| means letting go of fears, distrust, misconceptions, and suspicion. But it also means letting go of the | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| others. Then the tribe would act out enmity, suspicion, and negative aggression, not so much by fighting | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| find that I am filled with distrust and suspicion and fear and it manifests in paralyzing my | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| and they bear the seed of hate, distrust, suspicion, selfish demands, maligning of truth. There will come | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| be: just as rejecting, unloving, ungenerous, over-cautions. The suspicion which you project from your own unmoving, withholding | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| rationalized away. However, thoughts of maligning and unwarranted suspicion, the inner and/or outer acts of factual, psychological | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| has to do with lack of trust, with suspicion, fear, and with the misunderstanding that if you | 254 SURRENDER |
| attempt so frightening. It seems to confirm the suspicion that there is nothing within you, that you | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| not to be trusted, while you view with suspicion those who encourage your autonomy and deserve your | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |