| Termed......................3 | |
| vast difference between intellectual knowledge and what is termed enlightenment. You may not attain a deep and | 18 FREE WILL |
| worth nothing. The second conscience, as I once termed it, continues whipping and whipping you, holding up | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of letting go -- they might well be termed as the prototypes of masculine and feminine aspects | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| Terminate...................5 | |
| That, of course, happens. It is better to terminate a mistake than to remain indefinitely in it | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| reason to assume that the chain would suddenly terminate. Your possibility to extend your range of consciousness | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of domicile. People invariably experience depression when they terminate one phase of existence, although they may even | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| there is no more waste material. After you terminate this life cycle, the conditions, circumstances, and environment | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| you knew. My most beloved friends, let us terminate this lecture now. You can surely imagine that | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Terminated..................4 | |
| many purposes, not only when the training is terminated, but also while it is still going on | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| again and again. Such fair testing cannot be terminated the day after tomorrow because too many misconceptions | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| same life span. The life that would be terminated earlier can be extended, and the new seedplan | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| life has been completed before physical life is terminated. Encountering additional tasks which you were not certain | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Terminology.................25 | |
| is up to you. To agree on the terminology so as not to invite any misunderstandings: self-will | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| what we think of as love, in our terminology on earth, actually amounts to hatred. ANSWER: In | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| of course. This is always a question of terminology. There is a healthy kind of shame that | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| more than one planet? ANSWER: Yes. Only the terminology may be debatable, for life on other planets | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it would have been clearer if a different terminology had been used, however. Let us distinguish between | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understand? QUESTION: Yes, thank you. Was the same terminology used in both cases only to simplify matters | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| consider it useful to change an expression or terminology. When it is too often repeated, you cease | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such thing as subjective truth. I know such terminology may be used when finding a distortion or | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of this lecture. These teachers used their own terminology, fitting their time, but the basic meaning remains | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| in what is called, in your present-day human terminology, a neurotic situation. All neurosis is built around | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| one's unconscious mind has solved it.... ANSWER: Whatever terminology we use, there is really only one thing | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| might wish something destructive. People often stumble over terminology. There may be a certain group of people | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| But there is so much misunderstanding due to terminology and interpretation. As you know, in many religious | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| or the Christ within, is a question of terminology. It all amounts to the same, the words | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| see, my dear, here we are dealing with terminology. Some terms have a different meaning for different | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Fall of the Angels. In psychology, a different terminology is used to describe the identical process. Integration | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| aspects. I have discussed this previously using different terminology. I wish to show you right here how | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| in new forms, clad perhaps in a new terminology, fitting to the present society. There is a | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| resistance is used again and again in psychological terminology. Usually people even forget the real meaning. The | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| This is why I deliberately and frequently change terminology -- to give new impact to your understanding | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| or whatever it may be called in religious terminology. Let me now give you a new version | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| in the realm I live to adjust the terminology to human understanding. This was not an easy | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| of two essential principles that you, in human terminology may best be called the masculine and feminine | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| to be squeezed into human terms, human concepts, terminology and language. That is not an easy task | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| by no means a religious fanatic's whim. The terminology may possibly offend you because you associate it | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Terrible....................30 | |
| so bad. I cannot overcome my sins. How terrible that I have this fault! And whenever they | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| you look closer, you will realize that the terrible upset, the exaggerated guilt feelings about faults and | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| order, how can it be that so many terrible things happen on earth? You all know, you | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| so dearly that a little pain becomes too terrible for you to bear. Only by accepting this | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| not war, it will be something else equally terrible. In the case of an individual, it is | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| would but realize the significance of this, the terrible God-image people generally have would automatically vanish. Whenever | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| few, doesn't it? It seems that crime and terrible things go on more than ever. ANSWER: This | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that moment, however, would I not experience a terrible fear and shock, even if right now I'm | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to show humanity that suffering is not so terrible, that it can be gone through and can | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| illusion to believe that pain and suffering are terrible in themselves. Please, try to understand what I | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| any questions at this point? QUESTION: If something terrible happens, let's say the death of a dear | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| and shame, and the belief that one is terrible because of it. The second applies to those | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| people do not have to go through the terrible struggle they suffer in their isolation, wanting to | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| yet fearing and battling them. The conflict is terrible and tragic. It can be resolved only when | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| underneath, half-conscious or completely unconscious. It creates a terrible conflict. When you examine dispassionately the irrationality of | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| obtaining your advantages, you must be in a terrible conflict. You will be free from conflict only | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| harbor it. Since loving is equated with the terrible danger of being totally impoverished, even robbed of | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| he feels as yet unable to relinquish this terrible game he plays with life. But he feels | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| total personality. This limitation is, of course, a terrible loss. Not being aware of that within which | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| so unacceptable. You will endure it without the terrible cramp you inflict upon yourself. Then the second | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| to cease to exist, and, I am so terrible, so bad, so despicable, that I have no | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| So you often make yourself believe in a terrible, senseless universe. Or, if this is not the | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and even act in yet another way. This terrible fragmentation is the most painful and confusing state | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| behavior, then you also put yourself in a terrible predicament: you again feel there is something wrong | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| demands, you not only unhook yourself from this terrible double-bind, you also help unhook the other person | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| is unjustified. The feelings in themselves are not terrible or unbearable. However, your beliefs and attitudes can | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| you fail to see may not be something terrible at all, but because you unconsciously believe that | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| Not having what you want is not a terrible thing. You can perhaps allow in your mind | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| you are undeserving or that there is something terrible that you need to fear. It may mean | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| admitting a sin impossible. The punishment is too terrible. Therefore the truth, or even the possibility that | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Terrified...................16 | |
| eternal life, but many who desire it are terrified of not attaining it. Therefore they rush right | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of giving. Those who are starved and therefore terrified by refusal are blind to others. All they | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| intimacy. As you already know, human beings are terrified of themselves. They do everything possible to avoid | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| This brings us back to why you are terrified to relinquish the ego state, hence the dualistic | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| door remains closed. You discover that you are terrified that you won't attain the fulfillment, despite experiencing | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| not being frightened of this. For people are terrified of the thought that their feelings are fake | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| vacillating. On the one hand, you will be terrified of letting go of the ego. On the | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| feelings, especially overwhelming feelings of love. I am terrified of expressing these enormous feelings in certain instances | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| terror is winning possible: The one who is terrified of losing is never truly open to win | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| inside the self? Only because you are so terrified of your destructiveness and do not know how | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| degree, have found indeed that they are often terrified of pleasure. Perhaps they fear it even more | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| that secretly the whole personality feels fraudulent and terrified of exposure. It is a significant sign of | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| your hearts to some degree if you are terrified that worthlessness is the ultimate truth of your | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| is also true of the feelings you are terrified of: once you traverse them you will experience | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| lifted to the surface, many of you were terrified; some friends left the path. The same thing | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| work on any personal problem and find yourself terrified because your friends and helpers confront you, when | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |