| Sustaining..................14 | |
| person may go from one partnership to another, sustaining feelings only as long as eros is at | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| right in itself, was done without your feelings sustaining it. You have actually done the right thing | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| must go in the direction of maintaining and sustaining a pathwork such as this, which increases the | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| be intensified. You will be more capable of sustaining the feelings of pleasure supreme, ecstasy, bliss, love | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| third stage are the people relatively capable of sustaining actual mutuality -- not in fantasy, not in | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| part. This key will make you capable of sustaining the bliss of the real world, which constantly | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| feeling your pain, you become commensurately capable of sustaining pleasure. By humbly and honestly admitting your hate | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| soul are not even capable of accepting and sustaining intense pleasure at this time. Pleasure exists on | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| once and for all, and then commit to sustaining the order. Awareness is dealing with and focusing | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| sexual experience as complete, fulfilling, rich, joyous, nourishing, sustaining, furthering and reminiscent of spiritual reality as any | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| immobile upholds the illusion of stopping time and sustaining the status quo. This is one of the | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| Your own development will make you capable of sustaining the highest energies of joy and fulfillment. What | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| from life's abundance. You encounter the difficulty of sustaining happiness and pleasure so many times. You have | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| beginning, to have scholarships until they become self- sustaining. This lecture goes, of course, way beyond the | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Sustenance..................13 | |
| of a healthy conviction and inner freedom, gaining sustenance from your inner resources, and using worthy causes | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| estranged from yourself. You will not derive this sustenance from other sources. As long as you remain | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| fulfilled and it is not given the proper sustenance, so the human soul becomes thwarted when its | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| are not fulfilled and it is deprived of sustenance on which it thrives -- love, affection, warmth | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| unsupported by anything that can give it real sustenance. This, too, is very important to grasp in | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the security you once looked for in the sustenance given you by others. Anxiety will disappear to | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| of you. Extend love to each other, give sustenance to each other, even when you seem to | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| that I am only a shell that needs sustenance from without. This self-deception is obviously futile. It | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| only way, my friends, to find your inner sustenance, to find your divinity, and become a receptacle | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| dearest ones. The blessings will give you the sustenance you need to go all the way with | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| -- parents or groups -- give you the sustenance that only the divine self can give. People | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| forces and currents indispensable to physical growth and sustenance of life. I am not speaking here of | 228 BALANCE |
| which you can always rest and find new sustenance for your life task. All doubt is evil | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Swamp.......................4 | |
| lazy self that likes to wallow in the swamp of self-indulgence. So the why of the trouble | 21 THE FALL |
| behind the barricade, and they are bound to swamp you one day when you cannot control what | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| the barricade. One day certain outer events will swamp you with all the despair of helplessness and | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| down will render you helpless. The feelings will swamp you and you will not understand their meaning | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| Sway........................5 | |
| willpower. However, where the passive forces should hold sway, and where they are unfortunately often replaced by | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| needle represents your thought movements. Watch the needle sway back and forth. The more background thoughts come | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| not control them, the more the needle will sway from one direction to the other. The more | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| realms where your personal, specific inner problems hold sway. When you consider these problems in the light | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| been established. As long as appearance values hold sway underneath the surface, you constantly eat away at | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Sweep.......................13 | |
| recipe, supposed to dissolve your difficulty with one sweep. But, unfortunately, it can never be done that | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by little. It will happen not in one sweep, but first just in a small measure, occasionally | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| develop faster, to overstep many levels in one sweep. But as a rule you can be sure | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| you -- but it cannot come in one sweep. You can reap the fruits only after having | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| water in its purity and freshness will finally sweep the river free of the debris. Is this | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| of growth problems do not vanish in one sweep. Remnants are left that continue to act up | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| to the outer mechanics where the negative processes sweep you into a vortex. You have to rediscover | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| healing forces will gather an ever-increasing power to sweep you forward. The further removed you are in | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| Such a transition cannot be made in one sweep. There is the old, childish, fearful self, geared | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| major transition can never be accomplished in one sweep. Speeding up the process to connect with the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that an immense new cosmic force that will sweep the planet earth has been released into the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| new value system that has already begun to sweep the planet. This clashes, of course, with the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| ways within you that come with a powerful sweep. They show you that life is good. You | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Sweeping....................5 | |
| in the human personality. Yet the cosmic current sweeping the earth plane, which always tries to harmonize | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| this attention. You will be carried by a sweeping, marvelous strength. Instead of covering up the vulnerable | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| together. You did not plan to create the sweeping love that moved you toward each other, opening | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| to be receptive to the great new force sweeping the inner universe of all consciousness. But let | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the movement of the Christ consciousness which is sweeping through the inner levels of reality from realms | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Sweeps......................10 | |
| the cohesive fulfillment of the total movement that sweeps your world. In other words, more is at | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| beings as possible for the great event that sweeps your universe. This requires strong and guilt-free souls | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| perceiving the importance of the Christ consciousness that sweeps your planet and to serve it. As such | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Consciously giving yourself to a greater cause that sweeps the entire planet is in itself a cleansing | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| tremendous surge of the new golden light that sweeps the earth, unbearable only to those who refuse | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| any means. It has tremendous power. Its strength sweeps your earth sphere, and those of you who | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| and assimilation. A great blessing and energy influx sweeps through your community, through the earth, through all | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| through. The new influx of the Christ consciousness sweeps through your world with tremendous force, yet its | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| oneness, to alignment with the Christ spirit that sweeps with great force through your world. The resistance | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| a direct expression of the Christ consciousness that sweeps through the inner and outer planes of this | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Sweet.......................7 | |
| the colors of the mask self are sickeningly sweet. If you are an artist or are artistically | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| Your innermost being and your outer limbs feel sweet and fulfilled when you love. But when you | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the ensuing peace will be all the more sweet. The tackling of these problems will give you | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| the movement of no must become open and sweet. Even if the movement is firm, it can | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| the movement is firm, it can still feel sweet. It can be an expression of your trust | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| listen to the other part, let's say the sweet part of myself, the child's voice that was | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| not have experienced the emotional reality of Christ's sweet and loving presence. You may wait for this | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Swell.......................3 | |
| in order to have more ego-gratification and to swell its head, to be admired. All of you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| be avoided if crisis were not allowed to swell to an eruptive boil, but dissolved voluntarily with | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| holding the force of all these feelings down swell and become increasingly more powerful, creating crisis upon | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| Swelling....................4 | |
| existence, it rises up behind the dam, like swelling waters. As long as the dam holds, you | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| it soft and gentle good feelings will arise, swelling stronger and rooting more securely, carrying the self | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| one's consciousness so chooses, the end of continually swelling negative self-perpetuation. When eruption comes, the choices of | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| little crises in a way that makes the swelling of the boil impossible. Hence no painful eruption | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |